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Save the date! Becker's Hospital Review 6th Annual Meeting — May 7-9, 2015 — Chicago. Please call 800-417-2035 to register. 21 confirmed and sworn into the position in June. During her confirmation hearing, Ms. Burwell called the botched rollout and technical problems with Healthcare.gov, the federal exchange site, "unacceptable" and vowed to repair issues as the head of HHS. She seems to have succeeded in that regard, as Healthcare.gov ran fairly smoothly dur- ing the fall 2014 open enrollment period. Beyond overseeing Healthcare.gov, Ms. Burwell is respon- sible for the full implementation of the PPACA. Before joining HHS, she served as director of the Office of Management and Budget and was presi- dent of the Walmart Foundation prior to joining the Obama administration. Jonathan Bush, MBA. Mr. Bush, nephew of Presi- dent George H.W. Bush and cousin of President George W. Bush, is the co-founder, president, CEO and chairman of athenahealth, one of the nation's top-ranked health IT software vendors. In fact, it was ranked as the top overall software vendor and top overall physician practice vendor in 2013 by KLAS Research. Mr. Bush is a published author, penning "Where Does it Hurt? An Entre- preneur's Guide to Fixing Health Care," which was published in 2014. In it, Mr. Bush advocates for a "revolution" in the industry, through new busi- ness and payment models and new technologies to empower patients. Mr. Bush worked as an EMT in New Orleans and was trained as a medic in the U.S. Army before founding athenahealth. William Carpenter III. LifePoint Hospitals in Brentwood, Tenn., is one of the nation's largest for-profit health systems, operating about 68 hos- pitals in 21 states. Mr. Carpenter has been with LifePoint since it was established in 1999. He has served as CEO of the system since 2006 and added the title of chairman of the board in 2010. Un- der his leadership, the system has pursued an ag- gressive M&A strategy, acquiring three hospitals in the second quarter of 2014 alone. In the third quarter of 2014, the system posted $1.17 billion in revenues from continuing operations, up 29.6 percent from the same quarter in 2013. In addi- tion to leading the constantly expanding LifePoint Hospitals, Mr. Carpenter is also a trustee and past board chair for the Federation of American Hospitals. He has also served as chairman of the Nashville Health Care Council board. John Castellani. Mr. Castellani is president and CEO of Pharmaceutical Research and Manu- facturers of America, representing and advocat- ing for the nation's leading biopharmaceutical research companies from its Washington, D.C., headquarters and 10 other locations in the U.S. and Tokyo. Mr. Castellani leads PhRMA in its mission to advance public policies "that support innovative medical research, yield progress for patients today and provide hope for the treat- ments and cures of tomorrow." PhRMA spent nearly $13 million on lobbying expenses through from January to November 2014, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Before joining PhRMA, Mr. Castellani was president and CEO of Business Roundtable, an association of CEOs from U.S. companies working to promote the na- tion's economy. Mark Chassin, MD, MPH. Dr. Chassin, a board- certified internist who practiced emergency med- icine for 12 years, is president and CEO of The Joint Commission. The nonprofit organization accredits and certifies more than 20,000 health- care organizations and programs in the U.S. Dr. Chassin is also president of the Joint Commis- sion Center for Transforming Healthcare, which was established in 2009 under his leadership. The center helps hospitals address safety and quality issues like healthcare-associated infections, surgi- cal site infections and wrong site surgeries. Before joining the Joint Commission, Dr. Chassin was a professor and founding chairman of the Depart- ment of Health Policy at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City and executive vice president for excellence in patient care at The Mount Sinai Medical Center. Patrick Conway, MD. As deputy administrator for innovation and quality and CMO of CMS, Dr. Conway leads the Center for Clinical Stan- dards and Quality and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation within CMS. CCSQ, which has an annual budget of more than $2 bil- lion, oversees CMS' quality measures, value-based purchasing programs and quality improvement efforts, among other initiatives. The CMMI, es- tablished by the PPACA with a $10 billion budget through 2020, is responsible for testing new pay- ment and delivery models, like ACOs and medical homes. Dr. Conway, a pediatrician, has had work published in numerous academic journals and has received the HHS Secretary's Award for Dis- tinguished Service, the Secretary's highest distinc- tion for excellence. Tim Cook. Apple, the worldwide technology gi- ant, has taken huge strides into the healthcare industry lately, with Tim Cook leading the way as CEO. In June 2014, Apple introduced Health- Kit, a mobile health-tracking platform included in iOS 8, and the app launched in September. Provider organizations and EHR providers alike then scrambled to include HealthKit in their op- erations. Systems like Stanford (Calif.) Children's Health and Duke Medicine in Durham, N.C., launched pilot programs to incorporate the plat- form into care plans for chronic disease patients, for instance. Cerner announced plans to integrate with the HealthKit platform through its consum- er-focused mobile platform, Cerner Wellness, and app, HealthyNow; and Ochsner Health System in New Orleans became the first Epic user to fully integrate with HealthKit in October 2014. David Cordani, MBA. Mr. Cordani became presi- dent and CEO of health insurer Cigna in 2009 and has since led the company's transformation into a health services company and delivered nearly 15 percent compounded annual growth for revenue and adjusted income from operations from 2009 through 2013. Under his leadership, the payer has invested heavily in accountable care — in July 2014, the company achieved its goal of creating 100 collaborative care arrangements reaching 1 million customers. Mr. Cordani — who has com- pleted more than 125 triathlons — has been with Cigna for more than 25 years. Toby Cosgrove, MD. Dr. Cosgrove has worked with the world-renown, $6.5 billion Cleveland Clinic for roughly 40 years, as he joined the sys- tem in 1975 as a cardiac surgeon. He served in numerous capacities before being appointed CEO in 2004, including helping develop Cleveland Clinic Innovations, the technology transfer and commercialization arm of the system. In 2014, President Barack Obama offered Dr. Cosgrove, a veteran of the U.S. Air Force, the position of Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs. Dr. Cosgrove declined, opting to continue lead- ing Cleveland Clinic and its foray into Abu Dhabi, where the system is building a hospital expected to open in 2015. RoseAnn DeMoro. National Nurses United is the largest union and professional organization of registered nurses in U.S. history, and Ms. DeMoro is its executive director. NNU represents roughly 185,000 RNs in every state. Under her guidance, the union has spearheaded many national nurse- centric campaigns, the most notable of 2014 be- ing the national Ebola day of action. As part of that campaign, tens of thousands of nurses in the U.S. went on strike, picketed or held vigils to call attention to hospitals' inadequate preparedness for fighting the Ebola virus. Eventually, California announced new, stringent Ebola personal protec- tive equipment regulations for its hospitals, which the NNU claimed as a win after pushing for such regulations. Karen DeSalvo, MD, MPH. Dr. DeSalvo, a general internal medicine and geriatrics physician, joined HHS as the National Coordinator for Health IT at the ONC in late 2013. In this role, Dr. DeSalvo is the nation's leader on all things related to health IT, including the meaningful use process. How- ever, in October 2014, Dr. DeSalvo joined HHS' Ebola response team and became the acting as- sistant secretary for health, working directly with HHS Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell. While serving in this capacity, she continues to chair the Health IT Policy and lead the development of the Interoperability Roadmap. Dr. DeSalvo has a background in public health, earning her master's in public health and her medical degree from Tu- lane University. She also earned a master's degree in clinical epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health. Judy Faulkner. Ms. Faulkner founded Epic, one of the largest technology and EHR companies in the nation, in 1979. She is now CEO of the pri- vately held company, which counts healthcare giants like Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Perman- ente, Cleveland Clinic, Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore and UCLA Health in Los Angeles as clients. More than 70 percent of HIMSS Analytics Stage 7 hospitals use EpicCare inpatient EHR sys- tem. Epic's client base is growing, as CVS Health's retail clinics, MinuteClinics, announced plans to switch to Epic EHR in 2014. However, Epic has been targeted for not being interoperable with other EHRs, a claim Ms. Faulkner denies. Epic says 680,000 pieces of patient information were exchanged in September 2014 alone, more than twice as many as were exchanged in June.

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