* Edward Park, Chief Software Architect, athenahealth, Inc.
* Dale Prestipino, Senior Partner, CTO, Global Health Solutions, CSC Global Health Solutions
* Brian Stoner, Healthcare Practice Manager, Burwood Group, Inc.*



The members of the Policy Committee, with new members indicated by an asterisk, are:

* Kristin Bass, Senior Vice President, Healthcare Leadership Council*
* Kim A. Caldwell, Senior Director, Pharmaceutical Outreach/Reimbursement, Abbott Laboratories*
* Chris Carey, Senior Director, Federal Relations, Pfizer Pharmaceuticals
* Barry P. Chaiken, MD, MPH, Associate Chief Medical Officer, BearingPoint Inc.
* Robert J. Delaney, Director, Health Strategies, CSC*
* Howard Isenstein, Vice President, Public Affairs and Quality, Federation of American Hospitals
* Mike Kappel, Senior Vice President, Government Strategy and Relations, McKesson Corporation, and committee chairman
* J. David Liss, Vice President, Government Relations and Strategic Initiatives, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, and former committee chair
* Craig Richardson, Vice President, Johnson & Johnson Health Care Systems, Inc.*
* Dan Rode, Vice President, Policy and Government Relations, American Health Information Management Association*
* Joel Slackman, Managing Director, Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association*
* Chantal Worzala, PhD, Senior Associate Director for Policy, American Hospital Association
* Alan Ying, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Thomson Healthcare


About the Alliance
The National Alliance for Health Information Technology is a diverse partnership of senior executives from all healthcare sectors working to advance the adoption of clinical information technology systems to achieve measurable improvements in patient safety, quality of care and operating performance. The Alliance collaborates with healthcare and government leaders to influence healthcare decision-makers to act effectively in creating an efficient, safe, unified, and inclusive health system possible. Since its founding in 2002, the Chicago-based Alliance has helped forge consensus and accelerate progress on such important initiatives as developing an industry-endorsed interoperability definition, creating a public directory of health IT standards and authoring Rules of Engagement: A proven path for instilling, and then installing a CPOE approach that works. The Alliance is a co-founder of the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT) and its CEO chaired the Commission on Systemic Interoperability (CSI). More information about the Alliance is available at www.nahit.org.

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