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Faces of eHi

Wanneh Dixon

Director, Strategy and Programs

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Wanneh previously worked as the Corporate Engagement Manager for FHI 360, an international development firm focused on global health, education and economic empowerment. At FHI 360 she managed the private sector engagement strategy to cultivate relationships with corporations, foundations, donors and membership organizations. Her global health portfolio focused on maternal mortality, non-communicable diseases, and health systems strengthening. 

Wanneh holds a BSc in Information Technology from Herzing College and a M.A. in Global Development and Social Justice from St. John’s University. She lives in Maryland and serves on the Human Services Advisory Commission for the City of Rockville. 

Wanneh will direct our social determinants of health (SDOH) and data analytics programs. Interested in our SDOH work? Contact her at Wanneh@ehidc.org.Read more..

Jennifer Covich Bordenick

Chief Executive Officer

eHealth Initiative & Foundation

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For over twenty years, Jennifer has focused on quality and technology solutions for healthcare. Jennifer has served as Chief Executive Officer since 2009, providing leadership for all the research, education, and advocacy components. Working closely with executives from across the spectrum of healthcare, she has helped refine the organization’s strategic focus to concentrate on interoperability; cybersecurity, value-based care, data use and access; and patient/provider technology adoption. She has led the development of national surveys and published groundbreaking reports on data exchange, mhealth, social media, accountable care, data and analytics, telemedicine, and chronic care technology. In 2017, Health Data Management recognized her as one of  the "Most Powerful Women in Healthcare IT Thought Leaders." As part of her work with the eHealth Initiative Foundation, she has led projects for the California Health Care Foundation and Commonwealth Fund. Jennifer is co-chair of the Federal HIT Policy Committee’s Strategy and Innovation Workgroup; a member of the HL7 Advisory Council and a member of the Diabetes Collaborative Stakeholder Panel.  Jennifer joined eHealth Initiative in 2002 supporting the then emerging electronic prescribing efforts, privacy, and health information exchange. Prior to joining the eHealth Initiative, Jennifer headed healthcare industry relations at MicroStrategy, Inc., and OpenNetworks, focusing on security and data-mining solutions for the pharmaceutical and healthcare industry. She spent four years at the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) as Director of Policy and Product Development, helping develop national quality standards for health plans. Jennifer began her career at the George Washington University, Medical Center and HealthRead more..

Drew Schiller

Drew Schiller

Chief Executive Officer

Validic

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Mr. Schiller co-founded Validic, and serves as the CEO and a Board Director. Prior to Validic, Mr. Schiller started and managed an award-winning web development firm for eight years. He currently serves as a Board Member of the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) and a member of the CTA Board of Industry Leaders. He also serves on the Board for eHealth Initiative (eHI) and sits on eHI's Policy Steering Committee. Drew is on the Board for the Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED) in North Carolina. He previously served on the Federal Advisory Committee joint HITPC/HITSC API Task Force on Meaningful Use 3, and as a Team Member for the Clinical Trials Transformation Institute (CTTI) project Advancing the Use of Mobile Technologies for Data Capture & Improved Clinical Trials.  

As a patented technologist, Drew speaks and writes on a variety of topics, including advancements in consumer health data and standards, the future of digital health technology, overcoming barriers to interoperability and data access, as well as the ROI and opportunities in remote monitoring. Mr. Schiller also founded a website for patients with celiac disease, and served as an Adjunct Instructor at the University of Iowa, teaching graduate courses in web development and usability. Read more..

Mario Hyland

Mario Hyland

Senior Vice President & Founder

AEGIS.net, Inc.

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What is the most pressing challenge facing data exchange? How is Health IT related to that challenge?

The greatest challenge facing data exchange today is ensuring a consistent standards-based implementation that allows organizations to share and be interoperable. The standards are evolving. That means we need to work to adopt the latest standards while also ensuring backward compatibility until everyone catches up.

What does AEGIS.net, Inc. do to impact or help this challenge?

AEGIS offers the Developers Integration Lab (DIL), an automated, open source, cloud-based, always available, Testing as a Service (TaaS) solution for health information exchange standards conformance and interoperability testing.

Finish the sentence: eHI is important to me because...

…it provides direction to an industry badly in need of it. eHI is in the process of supporting the industry in developing a number of roadmaps for 2020. One of those is around interoperability.Read more..