Quality

The Quality Resource Group has been tasked with recommending required and optional criteria and test scripts to the other certification categories to address higher levels of health care quality and safety measurement and improvement than is already available in current certification programs.

Co-Chair:

• Michael Mirro, MD
  Medical Director : Clinical Research Center
  Parkview Health System

• Ferdinand Velasco, MD
  Vice President and Chief Medical Information Officer
  Texas Health Resources

Members:

• Louis Civitarese, DO
  Chair of IT, Co Chair of Quality Improvement
  Preferred Primary Care Physicians (PPCP)

• John Cooper, MD
  Medical Officer
  Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)

• James Couch, MD, JD
  Chief Medical Officer
  Patient Safety Solutions, LLC

• Patricia Craig, MS MIS
  Associate Project Director, Center for Data Management and Analysis; Division of Quality Measurement and Research
  The Joint Commission

• John Cuddeback, MD, PhD
  CMIO
  Anceta

• Floyd Eisenberg, MD, MPH
  Senior Vice President, Health Information Technology
  National Quality Forum

• Jacquelyn Hunt, R.Ph, PharmD, MS
  Vice President
  Clinical Support & Information Services
  Bellin Health Systems

• Donald Lighter, MD, MBA
  VP Quality
  WellCare Health Plans

• Denise Magnani
  Senior Health Informatics Program Manager
  Buccaneer Comptuer Systems & Services Inc.

• Robert Marshall, MD MPH MISM
  Director of Clinical Informatics/CMIO
  Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

• Thurman Allen Merritt, M.D., MPA: HA
  Professor of Pediatrics, Neonatology
  Loma Linda University Children's Hospital

• Eric Peterson, MD, MPH
  Professor of Medicine / Vice Chair for Quality
  Duke University Medical Center

• Robin Raiford, BSN, RN-BC, CPHIMS, FHIMSS
  Director, Government Initiatives
  Eclipsys Corporation

• Sean Thomas, MD
  Clinical Informatics – Physician Lead for Quality Reporting
  Epic Systems Corporation