LTPAC HEALTH IT COLLABORATIVE - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Senior Director of Data Technology
Alan is the Senior Director of Data Technology and Measurement Services for the National PACE Association (NPA). The Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) is an innovative care program for seniors providing both medical and social services that help older adults remain in their home in the community for as long as possible. Alan has worked on benchmarking services for NPA for 17 years helping improve care outcomes for those served by PACE, as well as growth of the model of care. Alan has a master's Degree in economics.
Arnold Clayman. PD, FASCP, in his role as VP of Pharmacy Practice & Government Affairs, serves as a resource to ASCP members and staff on practice-related issues. He oversees activities relating to professional and clinical affairs, product development, health information technology, as well as managing ASCP's policy and advocacy efforts, including working with regulatory agencies, Congress and the Administration. A graduate of the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, he has worked in hospital, community, home infusion, and long-term care pharmacy practice. Arnie has served on the ASCP Board of Directors and is the recipient of both the George F. Archambault Award and the Richard S. Berman Service Award.
Dan Ciolek is Associate Vice President, Therapy Advocacy at the American Health Care Association/National Center for Assisted Living (AHCA/NCAL). He offers the unique depth and breadth of healthcare policy and data knowledge obtained over a 35+ year career as a formerly board-certified specialist in geriatric physical therapy, as a project management professional and subject matter consultant to the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services in payment and quality policy, provider and beneficiary education, and data systems projects, and most recently as a long-term and post-acute care advocate for AHCA/NCAL.
Former Medical Director, Non-Acute Care Services at Partners HealthCare in Boston and Geriatrician at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Terry was a member of the ONC HITAC and co-chaired the USCDI Taskforce while participating in Gravity, 360X, and the LTPAC HIT Collaborative. He co-chairs the PACIO Project Transitions of Care Workgroup and the Moving Forward Coalition HIT Committee which is developing standards for an individual's goals, preferences, and priorities. He is a board member of the Long Term Quality Alliance (LTQA).
Job Titles:
- Director of Healthcare Solutions at Yardi Systems, Inc
Fil Southerland is the Director of Healthcare Solutions at Yardi Systems, Inc., one of the nation's largest health information technology developers serving long-term and post-acute care (LTPAC)providers . Fil was appointed to the Federal HITAC Committee in 2022 by the Government Accountability Office (GAO and is currently serving a 3-year term to represent health information technology perspectives for the LTPAC sector to the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC). Mr. Southerland co-founded one of the first EMRs in the LTPAC space and is an active participant in Carequality Interoperability Framework and a Kno2 TEFCA QHIN Governance Council member, where he focuses on interoperability advancement for long-term and post-acute health care providers. He also serves as a commissioner for the LeadingAge Center for Aging Services Technologies, is an active HL7 member, a member of Choctaw Nation, and a Sequoyah Fellow of the American Indian Science and Engineering Society. He received his Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from California Polytechnic State University.
Proposed Rule Making Group: Fillipe Southerland is serving on the Proposed Rule Making Group which is focusing on 3 key rules and coordination among federal entities on requirements for interoperability
Dr. Alexander has a broad background in human factors, informatics, gerontology, patient safety and quality measures. Dr. Alexander isa Fulbright Scholar Ambassador. He is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing, American College of Medical Informatics, and International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics. He is currently completing a third national study titled the Impact of Nursing Home Leadership Care Environments and Health Information Technology on Outcomes of Residents with Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementia (ADRD). This study is funded by the National Institute of Aging. Dr. Alexander is currently serving as a co-chair on the national Moving Forward Coalition, which has been established to ensure that the quality of nursing home life improves in the United States.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Federal Advisory Committee
An esteemed asset to the Loran Group, John has a great depth and breadth of expertise in post-acute care management and the development of IT infrastructure for Long Term Post-Acute Care (LTPAC) programs. He has held several executive leadership roles for national networks including skilled nursing, assisted living, mental health and hospice facilities, as well as home care and rehabilitation therapy agencies.
Majd Alwan, Ph.D., is an independent digital health, health IT, and strategy expert and a noted authority on aging-services technologies.
In his previous role at LeadingAge CAST, Dr. Alwan was responsible for creating and leading a network of technology companies, providers and research institutions focused on technology solutions for an aging society. The network advanced the interests of older consumers, caregivers and providers and fostered opportunities for collaboration between provider organizations, technology companies, and research institutions in exploring product development, testing prototypes, evaluating technology and deploying technology-enabled care models.
Prior to joining CAST, Majd served as an Assistant Professor and the Director of the Robotics and Eldercare Technologies Program at the University of Virginia's Medical Automation Research Center. His research interests there included passive functional and health assessment, biomedical instrumentation, medical automation, as well as eldercare and assistive technologies.
A long-time advocate for leveraging technology smartly, she champions policies that improve the clinical experience for providers and patients alike, and promote innovation and competition. In her position as Vice President of Public Policy with the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) she serves as the voice in Washington, DC for chief information officers (CIOs), chief security officers, and other c-suite executives charged with the purchase and secure deployment of healthcare technology. Mari oversees all advocacy and interaction with federal agencies, the White House, and Congress on behalf of CHIME. Mari leads a wide swath of health IT policy priorities including those touching interoperability, cybersecurity, privacy, patient safety, telehealth, connected care, and next generation technologies including machine learning and 5G. She has adeptly led several coalitions, and she thrives working with a variety of stakeholders. Her policy expertise spans numerous federal laws including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA), the 21 st Century Cures Act, and the Substance Use-Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment (SUPPORT) Act. Mari is also a Medicare subject matter expert. Prior to joining CHIME in 2015, she served as Assistant Director of Federal Affairs at the American Medical Association (AMA) for nearly a decade leading their health IT and HIPAA advocacy. She formerly served in the Centers for Medicare& Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC). Mari initially entered the federal government after being selected for the highly competitive Presidential Management Fellows (PMF)program. Mari graduated from the University of Delaware with a Master's in Public Administration and dual bachelor's degrees in political science and Spanish from Ohio Wesleyan University. She is a certified yoga instructor and founder of BlueTruck Wellness.
Michelle Dougherty is an expert in health informatics, health IT, and related policy areas with leadership experience throughout the healthcare standards community. Much of her work focuses on health informatics in long-term care, post-acute care and home- and community-based services for an aging population. She has extensive experience in the use of health information and technology to support the care delivery process, emerging payment models, quality measurement, and standards.
Job Titles:
- Member of the CHIME Policy Steering Committee
Dr. Latz is a member of the CHIME Policy Steering Committee, HIMSS LTPAC Committee, CIO Consortium, and the past President of the APTA Academy of Leadership and Innovation Technology SIG. He is a Board Member of Advion, the next generation of NASL and the Chief Information Officer of Trinity Rehabilitation Services.
Job Titles:
- Vice President of the Center for Aging Services Technologies
- VP, CAST, LeadingAge
Scott Code is the Vice President of the Center for Aging Services Technologies (CAST) at LeadingAge with over 15 years of experience helping aging service providers strategically adopt and implement technology. CAST is leading the charge to expedite the development, evaluation and adoption of emerging technologies that can improve the aging experience. Scott has Master's degree in both Gerontology and Business Administration, providing him with the unique ability to both evaluate and implement new technology across the care continuum.
Job Titles:
- Collaborative Member
- Executive Director of the Pharmacy HIT Collaborative
Shelly Spiro is Executive Director of the Pharmacy HIT Collaborative (PHIT). PHIT is an organization of the major national pharmacy associations and associate members focused on advocating and educating key stakeholders regarding the use of health IT to better enable pharmacists to help optimize person-centered care by the inclusion of pharmacists within a technology-enabled integrated health care system. Spiro is active in national pharmacy associations, standards development organizations (NCPDP and HL7) and is a leader in Pharmacy health IT. She is an American Society of Consultant Pharmacists (ASCP) Past President, 2014 Archambault Award recipient and 2019 Women's Spotlight Award recipient. She was named in 2019 by Becker Hospital Review's 102 women in health IT. She earned her BS Pharm degree in 1976from University of Illinois College of Pharmacy She has authored several articles and is a national speaker on topics relating to various professional pharmacy, health IT systems, terminology, electronic prescribing, digital transformation, and pharmacist eCare plan.