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SPEAKER PROFILES |
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KEITH W. BOONE
Keith is the Co-editor of the following IHE profiles: Cross Enterprise Document Sharing (XDS), Notification of Document Availability (NAV), Medical Summaries (XDS-MS), Exchange of PHR Content (XPHR) Basic Patient Privacy Consents (BPPC), and Query for Existing Data (QED) profiles. At HL7 he is Co-chair of the Structured Documents Technical Committee and participates in the Patient Care Technical Committee, and the Claims Attachments Special Interest Group. He contributed to the development of CDA Release 2.0, and was an editor for the HL7 Care Record Summary (CRS), the ASTM/HL7 Continuity of Care Document (CCD), and the current release of the HL7 Claims Attachments Specifications (AIS). Keith is also a member of the ASTM E31 Healthcare Informatics Committee, and the ANSI/HITSP Consumer Empowerment and Care Delivery Technical committees |
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CHRIS CARR
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FLOYD P. EISENBERG, M.D., MPH
For over nine years Dr. Eisenberg has served as a Senior Physician Consultant with Siemens Medical Solutions Health Services. His activities have included value on investment strategies for clinical information systems especially in the areas of physician order entry, the incorporation of clinical content in clinical information systems, and repurposing of data for use in population health, outcome reporting, research and surveillance activities. Dr. Eisenberg represents Siemens Medical Solutions at the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) where he is a member of the Strategic Planning Task Force. Other industry activities include Co-chairmanship of three industry quality-related groups: (1) the Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP) Population Health Technical Committee of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), (2) the Performance Measure and Integration and Reporting Workgroup of the Collaborative for Performance Measure Integration with Electronic Health Record Systems, and (3) the IHE Quality Domain Technical Committee. He also represents Siemens USA on a CDC Foundation Roundtable on Global Health Threats and advises on health issues for business continuity at Siemens USA. |
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ALAIN GAUVIN, ACS/RIS Manager
Alain has trained as a medical physicist, and is certified by the
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BETH GOODHEW
Beth graduated from the
With her clinical knowledge and IT background Beth has been working since 2003 as an independent consultant in the strategic planning and implementation of PACS. She has been involved in several Canada Health Infoway sponsored projects including Thames Valley Hospital Planning Partnership (TVHPP), Cooperative for Diagnostic Imaging, South Western Ontario (SWO) DI Network Project, Toronto East Network (T.E.N.) DI PACS Project, and Saskatchewan RIS/PACS Project. Beth was also the Clinical Lead involved with the Canada Health Infoway National PACS Procurement Process. As Clinical Lead of the TVHPP implementation Beth was responsible for the workflow design and technical implementation of the IHE radiology profiles required as a Canada Health Infoway sponsored project. Beth completed a white paper entitled IHE: From Theory to Reality that is now available as part of the Canada Health Infoway Toolkit. Beth also presented a position paper IHE: Where is the value? at RSNA 2005. |
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ALLIE GRASSIE Alexis "Allie" Grassie is the Enterprise Data Warehouse Team Lead for SIMS, the Shared Information Management Services partnership that encompasses University Health Network's three hospitals (Toronto General, Toronto Western and Princess Margaret), as well as a number of other ambulatory care hospitals, rehabilitation hospitals and community care access centres in the Toronto area. Her team supports not only medical research using clinical data, but performance measurement and decision support. The team provides the technical expertise for accurate reporting on a number of fronts, from wait times to colonscopy and transplant data. Currently, Allie and her team are working to implement a business intelligence solution for UHN which will bring the UHN balanced scorecard to the next level. Allie has a strong background in health informatics, gleaned in her roles as an e-Strategy Representative at the Canadian Institute for Health Information, and continued in her role as the HL7 Canada Secretariat. She has been the HL7 Inc. Publishing Facilitator for
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DAVID HEANEY
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MICHAEL L. HENDERSON
Systems Architect Consultant/Specialist: Assisted in creating development and testing architectures for national Clinical Information Systems (CIS) product. Produced and executed Perl-based test suites for NEON TDM product implementation. Trained managers, analysts, and developers in use of Health Level Seven (HL7) standard. Advanced KP messaging proposals before HL7 committees. Application Programmer/Analyst: Designed, coded, and tested administrative modules for National Insurance Solution (NIS). Produced TDM production objects, MUMPS routines, and Oracle7 PL/SQL stored procedures in support of benefits display and third party coverage functionality. Senior Programmer: Supported Pharmacy module of integrated MUMPS-based information system. Developed and supported HL7 and MUMPS OSI-based Interactive Voice Response (IVR) application components for pharmacy refill and appointment scheduling. Created HL7 message engine and query engines for MUMPS IS. Trained new programmers in functionality and maintenance of MUMPS IS. Senior Programmer/Analyst: Developed, installed, and maintained HL7 and ASTM 1238 interfaces on client implementations of the ANSWERS™ Laboratory System. Maintained Blood Bank module and upgraded to ISBT 128 labeling standards. Systems Analyst (GS-12): Upgraded Medicine/Procedures package code to conform to latest MUMPS standard. Maintained Oncology Tumor Registry package. Trained programmers and customers of
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WILLIAM ("BILL") KLAVER
For over twenty years Bill has successfully been engaged in all aspects of a product or solution’s development, deployment, and support. His diverse background with various products and industry standard bodies has directly contributed to not only his success but the success of his customers and the organizations he has worked for. He has acted and has been chartered as a technical liaison to all levels of an organization including Boards of Directors, Presidents, CEOs, CTOs, CIOs, users, and IT professionals. During his career, he has consistently been recognized as a leader and an invaluable resource by providing competent, proficient, and effective technical leadership. During the past eleven years, Bill has focussed on the technical architecture, products, and standards of the evolving “New Economy” and “New Healthcare Environment”. His expertise and insight includes a diverse background with web/application server providers, enterprise application integration vendors, content and document management solutions, relational database vendors, development tools and current industry standards such as HL7, Web Services (OMG), XML, ebXML, SOAP, UDDI, and RosettaNet. He has lead, recruited, trained, and mentored individuals as well as entire groups of technology professionals across different industries. On numerous occasions he has also been a keynote speaker/presenter at industry and company user groups, trade shows, and partner events. |
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ANDREI LEONTIEV
After graduating from the Moscow Institute of Electronics and Mathematics, Andrei spent a number of years as a researcher in the field of computer science, with a concentration on computer interfaces. For nearly a decade, he has been involved in the healthcare informatics industry, working for leading RIS and PACS companies. He was an active participant in different standardization efforts during this time. Andrei has applied his technical acumen to improving and modernizing data communication throughout the industry. He is currently a member of the DICOM Standards Committee and DICOM Working Group Six (Base Standard), and from 2001 to 2003 he served as Chairman of that Working Group. Andrei helped develop the first technical framework for the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) initiative and he served as Co-chair of the IHE Radiology Technical Committee. Andrei also Co-chaired the IHE IT Infrastructure Technical Committee. He contributed to the development of many IHE integration profiles, and he helped popularize IHE integration concepts among vendors and users of healthcare informatics systems. Andrei is a current member of the IHE Radiology Planning Committee. He is also a frequent industry speaker and has co-authored several articles on the integration of disparate information systems in the healthcare. |
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ELLIOT MENSCHIK, M.D. Ph.D.
Funded by the US Federal Government's National Institutes of Health, Dr. Menschik led the launch of the Philadelphia Health Information Exchange which is the first cross-enterprise medical imaging exchange in that country. He is the chief architect of HxTI's technology platform which provides the infrastructure and operational tools used by the network. He also leads several research efforts exploring and documenting the impact of imaging exchange on the quality and cost of care. Dr. Menschik publishes and lectures widely on the subject of health information exchange and medical imaging. He is a member of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), the Society for Imaging Informatics and Medicine (SIIM), the Health Information Management and Systems Society (HIMSS) and sits on the IT Infrastructure and Radiology Planning and Technical committees of the national Integrating the Healthcare Environment (IHE) Initiative. Prior to founding HxTI, Dr. Menschik was on the faculty of the Bioengineering Department at the University of Pennsylvania , teaching and directing research in computational neuroscience. He was an NIH Fellow in the Medical Scientist Training Program, and received his M.D. and Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine following work on massively parallel, biologically-detailed computer models of memory function and dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease. Earlier in his career, he received joint bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the Johns Hopkins University where his research focused on the design of biologically-inspired microchips simulating the electrical functions of the brain and heart. |
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JOSÉ M. MUSSI
A strong supporter of EHR standards collaboration forums, Mr. Mussi was directly involved in the creation of IHE Canada and has represented
Before joining Infoway, Mr. Mussi was founder and president of Aegis Financial Systems Corporation which provided application systems to insurance companies in
José holds a Master of Applied Sciences degree in Electrical Engineering from the
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DR. RITA NOUMEIR, Professor Rita Noumeir is a professor at the Electrical Engineering Department at the École de Technologie Supérieure (ETS), Université du Québec. She has been actively involved with IHE since its inception. As a member of the radiology IHE Planning Committee, Dr. Noumeir has been involved in establishing the broad direction and scope for the IHE demonstrations and in planning IHE workshops and other activities. She presented IHE at various international conferences and workshops. As a member of the Radiology IHE Technical Committee, Dr. Noumeir has participated in developing the IHE Integration Profiles that are detailed in the actual IHE Technical Framework. Dr. Noumeir holds a Master's and Ph.D. degrees in Biomedical Engineering from École Polytechnique,
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CHARLES R. PARISOT
Charles has fifteen years of experience in healthcare, being one of the primary contributors to the definition of DICOM in the early 1990’s and is actively engaged in HL7, especially with the EHR Technical Committee. Charles has applied his extensive experience at ensuring successful standards implementation in large and complex multi-stakeholder industries through the launching of the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise initiative in the United States of America and later in Europe, Canada and Asia. IHE has overcome the barriers to an effective implementation and use of interoperability standards in a number of healthcare domains to which he has significantly contributed. Charles is currently the Co-chair of the IT Infrastructure Planning Committee and previously, for three years, was the Co-chair of the IHE IT Infrastructure Technical Committee. His major focus his been the development of cross-enterprise interoperability for EHRs and other IT systems with regional and national health information networks. He is also an active member of the HIMSS Interoperability Showcase Planning Committee and has been active in the national healthcare field for the past fifteen years and has gained respect from several physicians and IT professional associations. |
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RON G. PARKER
In his role as a Director of Architecture for the EHR, he was lead architect for the second version of the EHRS Blueprint, which is the enterprise architecture for interoperable EHR solutions across
Ron is active in the area of health IT standards, he is currently a member of HL7 Canada, as well as in the Partnership for Health Information Standards, and he contributes to ISO TC 215 working groups. Ron is based out of Infoway’s office in
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BHAVANA PATEL Bhavana Patel joined Canada Health Infoway in September 2006. In her role as
Prior to joining Infoway, Bhavana practised physiotherapy for nine years in various settings in
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GILA PYKE
For the last two years, Gila has had the opportunity to work with the IHE IT Infrastructure Technical Committee on the security focus of several profiles, including the Digital Signatures profile and is crafting the Risk Management whitepaper to promote better risk identification, prioritization, resolution and documentation both within IHE profiles as well as within the health informatics vendor and client communities. |
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DANIEL C. RUSSLER, M.D., Vice President
Previously, Dr Russler joined McKesson (then HBOC) in late 1995 and becameVice President of Clinical Technology, specializing in clinical data repositories and J2EE portal development in healthcare. During this period, he was Co-chair of the HL7 Patient Care TC, which introduced the HL7 Care Provision Domain along with Care Record Messages and models for problems, allergies, care plans, goals, and CCD documents. While Co-editor of the IHE Patient Care Coordination TC, the first IHE CDA document specifications were introduced, and the CDA templateID model was invented. Prior to McKesson, he focused on primary care including private family medicine, hospice medicine, long-term care medicine and acute care medicine. Dr Russler held various administrative positions ranging from clinical to information systems, including associate administrator of hospital medical clinics and information systems. Dr Russler earned bachelor and medical degrees from the
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KAREN WITTING, Senior Software Engineer
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Keith has been a member of HL7 for the last five years, and has over 25 years of experience in software development, with an extensive background in XML-based standards. He is presently active in Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE), HL7, HITSP, and ASTM standards efforts. He is Co-chair of the IHE Patient Care Coordination (PCC) Technical Committee, and member of the PCC and IT Infrastructure (ITI) planning committees, and the IHE Strategic Development Committee.
As Director of Informatics at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), Chris Carr works on projects that advance the use of information technology in medical imaging. As RSNA staff liaison to the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) initiative, he has helped organize domain experts and industry leaders to improve the interoperability of healthcare information systems and promote sharing of medical information to enhance patient care. He has been the staff project leader for the Medical Imaging Resource Center (MIRC), a set of software tools for radiologists developed and freely distributed by RSNA that enable sharing of images for education and research. He helped organize a wide network of expert volunteers to develop the RadLex radiology lexicon, which is used to organize and index medical images and radiology-related information for education, research and diagnostic reporting. He works closely with the RSNA Radiology Informatics Committee, a group of leading experts in the field. He speaks and writes frequently on interoperability and other informatics issues.
Floyd Eisenberg is an internal medicine physician with a sub-specialty in infectious diseases and eleven years clinical practice experience followed by serving four years as a Senior Medical Director for Quality at Independence Blue Cross in
Alain Gauvin, M.Sc., is PACS/RIS manager at
Beth has over twenty years of information technology (IT) and twelve years of combined clinical and IT experience implementing over fifteen projects with a variety of hospitals across Canada. Beth has been employed full-time as the Managing Consultant at Peninsula Consulting Group since April 2003.
Since joining McKesson in 1995, David Heaney has been involved with developing the DICOM Standard and later on, the IHE Technical Framework. He has been involved in several DICOM working groups, including acting as the chairperson for the DICOM Ultrasound Working Group (WG12) for several years. In addition, David is a member of both the IHE Radiology and IT Infrastructure Technical committees. He has served as a Project Manager at McKesson, in charge of developing and supporting McKesson's DICOM software library. Currently, he has the position of DICOM and IHE Subject Matter Expert and is closely involved with the development of support for IHE profiles in McKesson products.
Consultancy: Provides medical informatics analysis, engineering, and training to a worldwide client and student list, specializing in the Health Level Seven (HL7) and DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) standards and the IHE (Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise) Technical Frameworks.
Andrei’s focus on standardization and industry protocols has helped make Dynamic Imaging a leader in image and information management. Under his leadership, IntegradWeb continues to set new standards of excellence for interoperability and systems integration.
Dr. Menschik is the Founder and President of HxTI, a technology-based provider of healthcare services to providers and payers. HxTI works with healthcare organizations to "unscatter" health information spread across multiple medical facilities, improving clinical outcomes and cost management. In his role, Dr. Menschik is responsible for the company's ongoing commercialization and R&D efforts.
José Mussi brings to JRS Partners over twenty-five years of experience in designing and delivering innovative information technology (IT) solutions in both the public and private sectors. As a Group Director for Architecture at Canada Health Infoway from 2003 to 2006, he lead the creation and dissemination of the architectural vision for the diagnostic imaging, drugs and laboratory investment programs and was a key contributor to the Infoway EHRS Blueprint.
Charles Parisot is with the Integrated IT Solutions business of GE Healthcare. He is in charge of standardization and IT architecture in the Enterprise Systems group where he coordinates overall GE Healthcare products implementation of health information exchange standards. He represents GE Healthcare in the EHR Vendor Association (EHRVA) where he chairs the Interoperability and Standards Working Group.
Ron brings to Infoway twenty years of experience in the delivery of complex, integrated case management, client registry, and financial information systems in the health and community services sectors. Before starting with Infoway, Ron worked for multinational information systems-consulting firms in the role of Technical and Application Architect, with a particular focus on data architectures and systems integration.
Gila Pyke has been working in Privacy and Security since 1997, when she and a group of ex-hacker friends started an ‘ethical hacker’ consulting firm together. Gila got her start in healthcare informatics in the Pays du Limousin, France, leading a cutting edge demo project leveraging PKI and national smartcards for secure email for healthcare practitioners in 2001. More recently, Gila has been a Senior Risk Analyst for the Ontario Smart Systems for Health Agency (SSHA), managing the Agency’s ground-breaking Certification and Accreditation program, which ensures accountability for the mitigation of privacy, security, business and operational risks and provides a vehicle for the successful planning and execution of mitigation projects.
Daniel C. Russler, M.D., is Vice President of Clinical Informatics for Oracle. His current role at Oracle includes creating strategies for healthcare standards, healthcare training, and new development. Dr Russler also played a key role in the development of the HL7 Reference Information Model for HL7 Version 3 and is a current member of the Board of HL7. He gives frequent tutorials on HL7 requirements definition and modeling and IHE document sharing architecture.
Karen Witting is a senior software engineer at the
