E-Health Network Of Long Island To Host President And CEO Of The Massachusetts E-Health Collaborative

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E-Health Network Of Long Island To Host President And CEO Of The Massachusetts E-Health Collaborative
E-HNLI brings industry leader, Micky Tripathi, to provide national perspective and insight about Health Information Exchange initiatives

STONY BROOK, N.Y
., January 24, 2011—On Wednesday, January 26, 
E-Health Network of Long Island
 welcomes Micky Tripathi, PhD, MPP, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative (MAeHC), a non-profit collaboration of 34 leading non-profit healthcare organizations based in Massachusetts (
http://maehc.blogspot.com/)
. Dr. Tripathi will visit Stony Brook University Medical Center to provide his perspective on the national landscape of health information exchange. The lecture will be held in the Health Sciences Center; Lecture Hall 5, Level 3, from 10:30 am to noon.  
In addition to his role with MAeHC, Dr. Tripathi is Chair of the Health Information Exchange Workgroup of the Federal Health IT Policy Committee, which is charged with making recommendations about health information exchange to the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health Information Technology in the US Department of Health and Human Services. He is also the Co-Chair of the statewide Ad Hoc Regional Extension Center/EHR Workgroup, which has been created by the State of Massachusetts to provide guidance on accelerating adoption of electronic health records statewide. Additionally, Dr. Tripathi is a member of the Board of Directors of the eHealth Initiative, a national organization promoting the improvement of health care through information and information technology.
Prior to joining MAeHC, Dr. Tripathi was a Manager of the Boston Consulting Group, a leading strategy and management consulting firm. While at BCG, he served as the founding President and CEO of the Indiana Health Information Exchange, an Indianapolis-based non-profit company partnered with the Regenstrief Institute to create a state-wide health information infrastructure in the state of Indiana. Additionally, he served a variety of US and international clients in the non-profit sector as well as in ...

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