Chicago - The National Alliance for Health Information Technology has elected four new members to its board of directors. In addition, the Alliance has added new members to its Technology Leadership and Policy Committees.

Joining the Alliance board, as of February 1, 2007, are:

* Ida M. Androwich, PhD, RN, BC, FAAN, Professor and Program Director, Health Systems Management, Loyola University Chicago School of Nursing; member of American Nurses Association's Nursing Information and Data Set Evaluation Center (NIDSEC), and the American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE) representative to the Technology Informatics Guiding Educational Reform (TIGER) Initiative

* Jeffrey H. Hillebrand, Chief Operating Officer, Evanston Northwestern Healthcare
* Mary Beth Lang, President/Vice President, Diagnostix, LLC/Amerinet Enterprise Solutions
* Deward Watts, Vice President, Managing Partner, Global Health Solutions, CSC Consulting Inc.

"Our new directors share the Alliance's dedication to significantly improving health outcomes and the U.S. health system's efficiency by advancing the use of information technology," says Scott Wallace, president and CEO of the Alliance. "We welcome their experience and enthusiasm in helping to shape and achieve our ambitious goals."

"We also want to thank our departing board members-Mike Cummins, Stanley Hupfeld, Kathy Reno and Charles Kennedy, M.D. " says Curt Selquist, Alliance chairman and Company Group Chairman, Worldwide Franchise Chairman, Johnson & Johnson Health Care Systems Inc. "They have contributed valuable perspectives and guidance in setting priorities and strategic direction for the Alliance."

Continuing as board directors are:

* Asif Ahmad, Vice President and CIO, Duke University Health System
* Dennis Barry, CEO Emeritus, Moses Cone Health System
* Michael L. Cowan, MD, VADAM USN - Retired, Chief Medical Officer, BearingPoint, Inc.
* Carmela Coyle, Senior Vice President, Policy, American Hospital Association
* William M. Dwyer, Senior Vice President, Cerner Corporation
* Stacey Empson, Partner, Healthlink, an IBM Company
* Thomas M. Fritz, CEO, Inland Northwest Health Services
* Daniel T. Garrett, consultant to PricewaterhouseCoopers on the national initiative to measure, and then report the level of quality, value and effectiveness of, the U.S. health care system
* Bruce Henderson, Director, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Director of Healthcare, Healthcare Advisory Practice
* Linda Kloss, Executive Vice President and CEO, American Health Information Management Association

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