Welcome
Assessing Health Information Technology in Ohio
(Briefing Paper for the 2005 Ohio Health Information Symposium)
Opening Remarks and Overview of the Symposium
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William Hayes, PhD
President, Health Policy Institute of Ohio
William D. Hayes, Ph.D., President of the Health Policy Institute of Ohio, has nearly 20 years of experience in policymaking, research, and teaching about health care issues. He most recently served as Assistant Deputy Director for Policy and Operations in the Office of Ohio Health Plans in the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, where he helped to direct Ohio's Medicaid program.
Prior to that job, he was the Deputy Director for Policy, Planning, and the Ohio Health Care Data Center at the Ohio Department of Health. Dr. Hayes also is adjunct faculty at the Ohio State University School of Public Health, where he teaches courses on health policy. He earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from Northwestern University and has taught at Northwestern University, Marquette University, Franklin University, Columbus State Community College, and the Ohio State University.
Janet Marchibroda
Chief Executive Officer, eHealth Initiative and Foundation
Janet Marchibroda, M.B.A. leads the eHealth Initiative and its Foundation as Chief Executive Officer. Ms. Marchibroda also serves as the Executive Director of Connecting for Health, a public-private sector initiative funded and led by the Markle Foundation and supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation which is designed to catalyze actions on a national basis to create an interconnected, electronic health information infrastructure. Prior to the eHealth Initiative, Ms. Marchibroda co-founded and served as Chief Operating Officer for two health care information organizations, one which focuses on providing patient safety and compliance information to physicians and the other--a Bertelsmann AG subsidiary--which focuses on providing electronic publishing services to the payer community to better meet consumer information needs. She also served as the interim Chief Operating Officer for the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (NCCS).
Prior to NCCS, Ms. Marchibroda served as the Chief Operating Officer of the National Committee for Quality Assurance, an organization devoted to evaluating and improving the quality of health care for Americans--where she was responsible for accreditation of healthcare organizations; certification of healthcare information services; development and delivery of education programs; development of the national healthcare quality measures (HEDIS) database and related report cards and other information products; and administrative functions such as strategic planning, human resources, finance, development and administration. She holds a B.S. in Commerce from the University of Virginia and an MBA with a concentration in organization development from George Washington University.
