Oct 7, 2014 - Janet Marchibroda of Bipartison Policy Center on Interoperability

During our Oct 7th eHealth call, special guest Janet Marchibroda, Director of the Health Innovation Initiative and the Executive Director of the CEO Council on Health and Innovation at the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC), presented her recent Health Affairs brief on policies and legislation on interoperability and health information exchanges.  Jeff Halbstein-Harris, an advisor for PCPCC's eHealth SIG, facilitated the call.

Access the call agenda here,
Read the Health Affairs policy brief here.
 

Speaker Bio:
Janet Marchibroda serves as the Director of the Health Innovation Initiative and the Executive Director of the CEO Council on Health and Innovation at the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC), following two years serving as the Chair of BPC’s Health Information Technology (IT) Initiative. The BPC initiative conducts research and collaborates with experts and stakeholders across every sector of health care to develop recommendations that promote innovation and the use of IT to support improvements in the cost, quality, and patient experience of care.

Marchibroda previously led stakeholder engagement activities for the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at the Department of Health and Human Services. She also served as the founding CEO for eHealth Initiative (eHI), an independent, non-profit multi-stakeholder organization whose mission is to improve the quality, safety and efficiency of health care through information and IT.