Michelle L. Holmes - President
Ms. Holmes is a manager in ECG Management Consultants, Inc. Healthcare Information Technology (IT) practice. Prior to joining ECG, Ms. Holmes was an internal consultant in the Health Informatics division of Group Health Cooperative. Her focus was on curriculum design and implementation of the EpicCare ambulatory clinical information system, as well as the development of population management and decision support tools in EpicCare to enable heart disease and diabetes care, cancer screening, and childhood immunization tracking.
At ECG, Ms. Holmes focuses on assessing the requirements and offerings of systems designed specifically to improve the care of patients. Her primary interest is the integration of quality initiatives into clinical information systems to improve patient outcomes, as well as the healthcare of patients with chronic diseases.
Contact Information:
ECG Management Consultants, Inc.
1111 Third Avenue, Suite 2700
Seattle, WA 98101
mholmes@ecgmc.com
Becky Hood - Past President
Becky Hood is Chief Information Officer for The Everett Clinic. Becky has been in Healthcare IT for 25 years. Prior to The Everett Clinic, she was the Associate CIO for CliniTech Information Resources. Her career includes a circle of experience - from the payer, software vendor, and provider perspectives.
Becky has overseen the development of an in-house EMR as well as the implementation of EpicCare. She has also helped facilitate interfaces and data/application sharing with other physician practices and hospitals in the Everett community, and participated as a beta partner with AMGA and Anceta in the development of a clinical data warehouse.
Becky holds an MBA from Seattle University and a Bachelor's Degree in Written Communications from Mills College, and is a Certified Professional in Healthcare Information and Management Systems (CPHIMS).
Contact Information:
Becky Hood, MBA, CPHIMS
Chief Information Officer, Everett Clinic
bhood@clinitech.net
Drexel Deford - President-Elect
Drexel is currently Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Seattle Children's Hospital and Research Institute. In the information services business on the provider side for more than 20 years, he has served as Corporate Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Scripps Health in San Diego, and is retired from the U.S. Air Force (Lieutenant Colonel)where he held various roles, including medical center CIO, CIO at the Air Force's largest healthcare region, and Chief Technology Officer for USAF Healthcare System's worldwide healthcare operations.
Drexel has several publications and presentations to his credit. He is a past member of the HIMSS National Board of Directors, the Virginia HIMSS Board, and a past Chair of the Microsoft Healthcare User Group. A Fellow in both CHIME and HIMSS, Drex has a Masters in Health Informatics from UAB, and a Masters in Public Administration from Oklahoma.
Contact Information:
Drexel Deford, MHI,MPA
Senior Vice President, Chief Information Officer - Seattle Children's Hospital and Research Institute
drexel.deford@seattlechildrens.org
Jody Albright - Secretary/Treasurer
Jody Albright is the Vice President - Chief Information Officer at Overlake Hospital Medical Center. Jody has been in Information Services for 22 years and the Health Care Industry for six years. Prior to Overlake Hospital Medical Center, she was the Western Washington Chief Information Officer at Providence Health and Services. In the past, she has held positions as a business consultant/Project Manager, multiple management positions in Information Systems and Finance in the Aerospace Industry and was a geophysicist in the Oil Industry. At Providence, she led the team in implementing best practice application infrastructures, developing a strategic plan for the Acute Care facilities to achieve the corporate quality goals, chartered an IT Governance team of C level executives to oversee the implementation of the strategic plan, and implemented an Electronic Medical Record and Bar Coded Medication Administration across the acute care facilities of Western Washington.
Jody holds an MBA in from the University of Washington and a Bachelor's Degree in Geophysics from Western Washington University.
Contact information:
Jody Albright, MBA
Vice President, Chief Information Officer - Overlake Hospital Medical Center
jodyalbright@overlakehospital.org
Chris Deiner-Karr - Programs 1st Year Vice Chair
Chris has over 35 years of experience in Information Technology. She has worked in many aspects of IT; Operations, Programming, Planning and Project Management to Management. She has worked for Group Health for almost 20 years where she currently works in the Quality & Informatics department as a Sr. Planner. She has worked on planning for many system implementations such as Epic Ambulatory.
Contact information:
Chris Deiner-Karr
Group Health Cooperative
12501 East Marginal Way So.
Tukwila, Wa 98168
deinerkarr.c@ghc.org
Peter McComas - Programs 2nd Year Vice Chair
Peter McComas is a founding partner of Peer Consulting, a healthcare information technology consulting firm located in Seattle and serving clients nationwide.
As partner, Peter contributes to the direction and growth of Peer Consulting's service lines, including Management Consulting; Project Management; Implementation and Upgrade Services (with practices specializing in Cerner, Epic, GE Centricity - RIS-IC; and Technical Development.
Peter also directs the firm's multi-disciplinary implementation team and guides clients through major initiatives including computerized physician order entry and enterprise electronic medical record installations. His areas of expertise include strategic planning; systems selection; project management of complex implementations; and the use of healthcare IT to improve patient care and strengthen collaboration among healthcare providers.
Prior to co-founding Peer Consulting in 2001, Peter served in implementation leadership and senior software design roles at IDX Systems Corporation (now GE Healthcare), and also worked in implementation roles involving Cerner, Lawson and McKesson.
Contact information:
Peter McComas, Partner
Peer Consulting LLC
2856 80th Ave. SE, Suite 3
Mercer Island, WA 98040
petermccomas@peerconsulting.net
Les Demme - Communications 1st Year Vice Chair
Les Demme has a long history in healthcare having begun his career in a clinical capacity, moved on to healthcare management and then healthcare information technology. Les has held senior leadership positions in health systems and software development organizations and more recently has worked as an IT consultant focused on systems selections and implementations. He is currently engaged as Project Director at Community Health Plan of Washington, leading the implementation of an enterprise payer system.
Les has developed a broad set of skills in the areas of clinical department management, IT organization leadership, software vendor management, healthcare systems selection, systems implementation program/project management and IT management consulting. His career history includes 20 years of hospital experience evolving to the position of CIO, a stint as Sr. Director of Product Management for PHAMIS, Inc (IDX/GE Healthcare), 5 years as an IDX senior client executive for several high-profile academic medical centers, and the last four years in healthcare IT consulting including two years with Peer Consulting.
Contact information:
Les Demme, MHA, PMP
Project Director
Community Health Plan of Washington
720 Olive Way
Seattle WA, 98101
leslie.demme@chpw.org
Shanna Karr - Communications 2nd Year Vice Chair
Shanna Karr joins the HIMSS WA board, bringing eleven years of healthcare industry experience, much of it in a Health Information Management role. She is currently in the throes of completing her Bachelors Degree in Healthcare Administration with a minor in Health Information Systems. Before re-entering the world of academics, Shanna was employed by Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound for 10 years and contributed to the successful Epic implementation at that site.
Contact information:
Shanna Karr
skarr@cmc.net
Ernie Hood - Membership Chair
Ernie Hood is currently Chief Information Officer at Group Health Cooperative. Ernie has been in Information Services for 25 years and the Health Care Industry for fourteen years. He has played many different roles in his career from programmer to DBA to Analyst, Project Manager and Director. At Group Health he has lead the Data Resources Group, Data Center Operations and various Application Development groups. Ernie has been a key leader on Group Health's efforts to standardize infrastructure, develop a leading edge Data Warehouse and to develop portals. Ernie is dedicated to the concept of supplying information technology to all of Group Health's customers and partners whether they be members, patients, providers, brokers, employers or staff.
Ernie holds an MBA in Management of Information Systems from the University of Houston and a Bachelor's Degree in History from the University of California at Santa Barbara.
Contact information:
Ernie Hood
Chief Information Officer - Group Health Cooperative
Group Health Cooperative
320 Westlake Ave North
Seattle WA 98121
hood.e@ghc.org
Sherry L. Reynolds - Advocacy
Sherry Reynolds is currently the Executive Director of the Alliance 4 Health where she is directing the development of a beta project for an alternative health PHR. She has over 15 years of experience as a project director, consultant and engineer in both software development, implementations and the health care industry. She recently won a 2 million dollar demonstration grant to link the EMS system to PHR's and her recent EMR projects have have included implementations at Stanford Medical Center, Swedish Medical Center and Group Health.
She has extensive experience at the Executive level of Government and the Health Care industry and currently sits on the AHIC Successor (A2) Planning Group for the Office of the National Coordinator, HHS in Washington, DC where she is responsible for the creation of a new board and entity to implement Medical Informatics policy on a National Basis. She was also one of the founding members of the Consumer Advisory Group (CAG) for the Puget Sound Health Alliance, a Nationally recognized regional partnership involving Boeing, Washington Mutual, Starbucks, King County, physicians, hospitals, patients, labor, health plans, and others working together to improve quality and efficiency for over 2 million people in the Puget Sound region. In her spare time she is on the advisory board of the Healthy Washington Alliance where she represents the over 300,000 people in Washington State who purchase individual insurance and recently co-founded Sustainable Wallingford as well.
Sherry double majored in bio-medical engineering and engineering management at USC and has a degree in Finance from OSU as well. She has been a member since 2005, is the first legislative chapter advocate for the Washington chapter and has been a board member since 2007.
Contact information:
Sherry L. Reynolds
Executive Director
Alliance 4 Health
s.reynolds@alliance4health.org
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