Privacy

To ensure patient confidentiality and regulatory concerns are addressed, the Privacy and Compliance Work Group is charged with recommending criteria and test scripts to all work groups for certification of EHRs and health information exchanges.

Co-chairs:

• Michael DeCarlo, JD
  Senior Policy Manager
  Blue Cross Blue Shield Association

• Walter Suarez, MD, MPH
  Director, Health IT Strategy and Policy
  Kaiser Permanente

Members:

• Michelle Blackmer
  Director, Product Management
  Initiate Systems

• Rodney Cain
  Chief Information Officer and Vice President
  Greater Cincinnati HealthBridge, Inc.

• Mark Crockett, MD
  President, Emergency Care Division
  Picis

• Patricia Cunningham, MS, RHIA
  Senior Director Revenue Cycle Operations
  Rush Copley Medical Center

• Margaret Foley, PhD, MBA, RHIA
  Clinical Associate Professor
  Temple University

• Lori Hack, MBA
  CEO
  Object Health, LLC

• Robert Hudock, JD, BS, CISSP, CEH, IAM
  Attorney/ Consultant
  Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.

• Perry Menezes, BE, MS
  Director
  Techumen.com

• Shefali Mookencherry, RHIA, MPH, MSMIS
  Vice President of Medical Reimbursement
  PrimeSource Healthcare Systems, Inc.