2017 Coordinating Committee Candidate Bios
Health Information Exchange Organization (HIO) Seat – Choose One (1)
Gina Bianco
President & CEO- Contractor
Representing Reliance Health Information Exchange (Formerly Jefferson HIE)
Gina Bianco has dedicated the over 13 years to developing and implementing sustainable health information exchanges (HIE) across the country. Gina is a HIE strategist with a passion for leveraging community assets to create an environment where patients receive seamless and coordinated health care. Gina’s experience has made her a leader in the HIE field.
In 2004, she founded Advances in Management, Inc. (AIM), which has been engaged by 11 statewide and regional HIEs in 9 states to develop their business plans, governance structures, policies and procedures, sustainability models as well as to support their technology procurements, contract negotiations and full system implementations. AIM’s other capabilities include supporting public health programs, project management, grant writing, budgeting, strategic planning, staffing and technical writing.
Gina also has served in Executive Director roles for start-up HIEs in Oregon (Reliance eHealth Collaborative) and Delaware (Delaware Health Information Network) leading both to become robust and sustainable HIEs. With a background in business, public administration and public health, she is skilled at supporting diverse health care communities with public and private stakeholders to develop and enhance their transformation goals. In the evolving accountable care market, she has helped health care organizations define and execute a vision for long-term approaches that support value-based care models.
Ms. Bianco holds a Master’s Degree in Public Administration with a certificate in Health Care Administration and Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration and Marketing. Her career experience spans three decades in both private and public sectors in healthcare and business management.
Craig Dalton
President
Strategic Health Intelligence
Founder of Strategic Health Intelligence, Craig Dalton created SHI to serve as the organized neutral brokering body to act on behalf of the Pensacola healthcare community to promote collaboration and innovation. Currently, SHI is now the oldest and largest HIE in Florida. As President, he pioneered the utility business model as a way to promote cost sharing as well as the ability to quickly implement new innovations that promote collective cost efficiencies and improved community health, which includes advanced applications that provide direct and indirect ROI to the providers. He has consistently engaged multiple stakeholder groups in discussions on the use of HIT, information exchange, data analytics, and electronic messaging to address Florida health issues while establishing a profound case for their return on investment.
Formally, Mr. Dalton served as Vice President, Armed Services for the Greater Pensacola Chamber. He was charged with developing innovative programs to ensure the successful enhancement of the region’s military activities and mission performance, as well as the development of the Defense industry in the Pensacola Bay Area. In this role, he helped the Chamber implement several new initiatives to promote strategic partnerships, including: the Military Innovations
Project; Pensacola Innovation Network, LLC (100 gig high-speed network) and created the Cyber Battle Laboratory to support and enhance the missions of the Navy’s Center for Information Dominance at Corry Station.
Before arriving in Pensacola, he served as public relations counsel and business development for a firm in Champaign, IL. While in Illinois, he ran a successful campaign and was elected to a four year term in public office as a village trustee, and later served as President of the Chamber of Commerce. He received an official appointment to the East Central Illinois Economic Development Board to promote Agri-Business by developing regional partnerships that maximized University research and industry innovations. He is a former Naval Officer and a graduate of the University of Illinois.
John KanskyPresident & CEO
Indiana Health Information Exchange
John P. Kansky, MSE, MBA, CPHIMS, FHIMSS is the President and CEO of the Indiana Health Information Exchange. During his 10 years at IHIE, John has held roles in Strategy and Planning, Product Management, and Business Development. Prior to joining IHIE, John’s career includes experience as a Healthcare IT Consultant with Health Evolutions, CIO of the Health and Hospital Corporation of Marion County (Indiana), Director of Clinical Engineering at the Indiana University Medical Center, and biomedical engineering researcher at the University of Washington School of Medicine. He is a co-inventor on three U.S. patents for diagnostic imaging technology.
John has spoken nationally on health information exchange (HIE) and healthcare IT. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of:
•• HIMSS North America
•• The Regenstrief Institute
•• The Sequoia Project
•• Strategic HIE Collaborative (SHIEC)
•• Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise USA (IHE USA)
•• Gennesaret Free Clinic
John is a member of the Coordinating Committee of the eHealthExchange. He has chaired the HIMSS HIE Committee and served as an adjunct professor at Indiana University in the schools of Informatics and Public Health. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University, an MS in Bio-Engineering from the University of Washington, and an MBA from Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business.
Anne Marie Robertson
Director of Operations
Coastal Connect Health Information Exchange
Anne Marie Robertson has served as the Director of Operations for Coastal Connect HIE for over six years. In this role, Robertson is responsible for providing strategic direction and coordination of organization activities to ensure continued growth in participants and service lines. Her collaborative efforts have helped CCHIE realize significant value for their provider stakeholders and participants in the support of care transition for their patient populations.
Coastal Connect HIE is a nonprofit regional health information exchange that has connected independent hospitals and physicians in southeastern North Carolina for secure electronic exchange of care documents and completed the first HIE to HIE connection in the state with Carolinas Healthcare System to further support patient trading patterns. CCHIE has a 71 county footprint, with over 110 data contributors, and has successfully on boarded to the eHealth Exchange.
Robertson received her MPA from the University of North Carolina Wilmington and a bachelor’s degree from Louisiana Tech University. Prior to her current position, she managed the international distributor sales and marketing for a medical device company.
IDN/Health System / Academic Institution / Provider Collaborative - (Vote for2)
ChrisAkeroydVice President and Chief Technology Officer
Children’s Health System of Texas
Chris Akeroyd currently serves as Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for Children’s Health System of Texas. In this role, he has responsibility for overseeing technical strategy and standards for the health system’s infrastructure. Prior to his role with Children’s, he directed technology operations, strategy and architecture for UMC Health System in Lubbock, Texas.
Akeroyd has over 20 years of IT leadership experience, with the last decade being focused on Healthcare IT. Prior to the healthcare industry, he had experience as a VP/CIO for a national mortgage company and a global telecommunications organization.
Mr. Akeroyd received his Bachelors in Computer Science from Texas Tech University, and his Health IT certifications include CHCIO and CPHIMS
Steven Albers
Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
Wellmont Health System
No bio provided
Jeff Beneze
Epic Client System Administrator
JPS Health Network
No bio provided
Ray Duncan
Director, Tech R&D, Enterprise Information Services
Cedars Sinai Health System
I have been a strong proponent of HIE in our own organization and have been the executive sponsor of our Epic Care Everywhere implementation and rollout since the beginning. I promoted our go-live of CE auto-query and discrete data filing and other enhancements, facilitated the enterprise approval of Galaxy-Wide Network, and led the integration of Care Everywhere with the VA, SSA, Healtheway Exchange (aka Sequoia), and Carequality. I have had a dual career in information technology and patient care, and have worked as a neonatologist, software developer, vendor of cross-compilers for microprocessors, technical author, embedded systems architect and consultant. My educational background is UC-Riverside (BA, 1970-1973), UCLA School of Medicine (MD, 1973-1977), resident in pediatrics (1977-1980), and fellow in neonatal/perinatal medicine (1980-1982). After working as a faculty neonatologist and managing the network and servers for the departments of pediatrics and medical genetics, I joined the Cedars-Sinai IT department in 1997 and recruited and built technical teams for networking, servers, application development, databases, and the web, among other things, and managed the development of our own clinical data repository and data warehouse among many other applications. I then served as CTO for Cedars-Sinai during the Epic implementation from 2008 to 2014. My current role is director of technology R&D and I am currently working on the introduction of cloud technologies, integration of wearable/personal devices, expansion of our HIE capabilities, and mentoring participants in the Techstars/CSHS Health IT accelerator.
Amy Feaster
Vice President Information Technology
Centura Health
Amy Feaster, CHCIO Eligible, CPHIMS Amy Feaster is the Vice President of Information Technology for Centura Health. Amy and her teams support 17 hospitals, 7 senior living communities, medical clinics, affiliated partner hospitals, FlightForLife Colorado, 13 Colorado Health Neighborhoods and home care and hospice services with first class Information Technology Support. Centura Health, the region’s health care leader, is focused on connecting Colorado and Kansas to affordable, world-class care. All of the Centura hospitals have either achieved HIMSS Stage 7, and Centura has been award the prestigious Davies Award of Excellence for utilizing healthcare IT to achieve significant improvements in patient outcomes. Amy is the board chair for South Metro Health Alliance and serves on the board of the Colorado HIMSS Chapter. Amy also serves on the HIMSS Davies Enterprise Committee. She earned a Degree in Business Administration with a concentration in Information Technology. Amy has been with Centura Health for over thirty years.
John Mattison
Assistant Medical Director, CMIO
Kaiser Permanente
John has dedicated his career to improving the health of all communities through clinical practice, public policy and health information technology. He has had extensive clinical practice in both fee-for-service (Scripps Clinic) and integrated care (Kaiser Permanente), led the largest civilian deployment of an EHR in the US, and co-founded the XML standard for interoperability (CDA, CCDA, CCD). He served on numerous policy committees at state, federal (FACA), and international levels, and is active globally as a keynote speaker and consultant in Health IT Policy. He currently co-chairs the eHealth Workgroup of the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH), and is a senior advisor to the X-Prize for the Tricorder, and for the Rock Health incubator for digital startups. He has published extensively, including “Perspectives” in Nature Medicine, and written book chapters on issues as diverse as ‘Privacy and Genomics’, ‘Innovation and IOT’, and ‘Future Roles in Healthcare’. He has received various national awards for his work and is a vocal advocate for person-centered care and patient engagement.
Sean Turner
Dignity Health
Senior Director, Interoperability / Population Health IT
Sean has over 15 years’ experience in Healthcare IT / Interoperability and is the primary leader at Dignity Health, responsible for enabling interoperability across the enterprise. Over the past decade, Sean’s organization has led the deployment of Dignity Health’s Health Information Exchange program. In 2006, Dignity started with a small HIE pilot with two medical groups and four physicians. Today, Dignity connects with over 10,000 of our community providers and offer a variety of services ranging from results delivery, DIRECT messaging, external access to Radiology Images and Query Based Exchange leveraging the connectivity through the eHealth Exchange.
Sean is well versed in the DURSA worked closely with legal to determine how to address the Participant and Participant User obligations within Dignity Health. He led a workgroup in California to help decompose the key requirements of the DURSA to help other organizations better understand their obligations and was the advocate for Dignity Health to become an anchor participant of the eHealth Exchange and founding member of Carequality.
In addition to leading Dignity Health’s Interoperability Initiatives; Sean also participates in Dignity Health’s Health IT Policy Committee. In this capacity, he helps to shape Dignity Health’s comments to the ONC, CMS or other Federal / State agencies and has participated in developing comments on topics ranging from Meaningful Use Stage’s 1-3,PCAST, the ONC’s Interoperability Roadmap, Information Blocking, MACRA, etc.
Seanhas served on the Board of Directors of the Statewide HIE in Arizona, Health Information Network of Arizona (HINAz), as a member of the Executive Committee and Board Secretary. He was also a founding Board Member for the California Association of HIEs (CAHIE). Sean is currently an active Board Member of AzHeC, CAHIE and a member of the Network Leadership Counsel in Arizona. In addition, he serves as an HIE advisory member for the State of California’s Emergency Medical Services Authority (Cal EMSA) which was awarded an ONC pilot grant to expand Health Information Exchange among Emergency Services throughout the state.
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