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Advisory Council
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The healthcare industry is diverse. There are a limited number of
elected members on the HL7 Board of Directors, and therefore they
cannot represent all of the areas in healthcare. To address this
situation, the Board has asked specific individuals from the
healthcare industry to participate in the HL7 Advisory Council.

Members of the Advisory Council have been chosen based on their:

personal experience and background

ability to listen to the views of others

ability to provide useful strategic advice to the Board

The input of the Advisory Council will be critical in helping the
Board to make decisions. The Advisory Council positions are two-year,
nonrenewing seats. In the summer of 2004, five industry leaders
committed to serving on this committee. The first meeting of the
Advisory Council was convened on July 28, 2004 at Lake Tahoe, CA.

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Advisory Council Chairs
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Richard Dixon-Hughes

Managing Director,DH4 Pty Limited, Sydney, Australia

Deputy Chairman, Standards Australia

Richard Dixon Hughes has long-standing involvement in both health
informatics and standards development and is actively involved in
developing health informatics standards in Australia and
internationally.

Some 20 years ago, he founded DH4 Pty Limited, a consulting firm which
specializes in ICT strategic planning and management consulting for
health and government clients. Recent DH4 projects have included major
studies for Australian Federal and State Governments relating to
national clinical terminologies, health client identifiers, standards
for sharing of EHR information, the business architecture for a
national EHR system and national health informatics standards.

Prior to forming DH4, Mr Dixon Hughes was head of information systems
within the Health Department in the State of New South Wales (NSW),
Australia. He held this post for close to 8 years and was responsible
for developing and implementing a major program of computerisation
throughout the NSW public health system (involving some 250
hospitals). Subsequently, he also worked under contract at CIO-level
in several health service organizations.

Mr. Dixon Hughes' qualifications at undergraduate and post-graduate
level in electrical engineering, law and information technology and is
both a Chartered Professional Engineer and a Legal Practitioner of the
Supreme Court of NSW. His technical experience has been in line
management, software engineering and health informatics, while his
legal focus is on general commercial law, IT law and corporate law.

He has been a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors
since 1993 and has a range of experience as a non executive director
and as a member of government Advisory Councils at both Federal and
State level. He has been a member of the Board of Directors at
Standards Australia since 1997, where he is currently Chair of both
the Finance and Audit Committee and the Communications, IT and
eCommerce Standards Sector Board.

Mr Dixon Hughes also serves on a Materiel Assurance Board for an
Australian Government agency and is a member the board of the Lincoln
Red Cattle Society (Aust) Ltd and the Council of the National
Association of Testing Authorities (NATA). From 1992 to 1997, he was
an independent member of the board of the NSW Casino Control
Authority, the government regulator for casinos in the State of New
South Wales. He has also been active in Engineers Australia and, in
2005, his contribution to the profession was recognized by elevation
from Fellow to Honorary Fellow.

Email: richard@dh4.com.au

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Robert Dolin, M.D.

Semantically Yours, LLC

Email: BobDolin@gmail.com

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Advisory Council Members
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Sam Brandt, M.D.

Vice President, Chief Medical Informatics Officer
Siemens Medical Solutions Health Services Corporation

Dr. Brandt joined Siemens Medical Solutions in 2000, and is
responsible for the company's Clinical Informatics efforts, including
the incorporation of innovations and clinical content within Siemens
IT solutions. A board-certified, practicing family physician, he has a
passion for leveraging computer technology to help physicians and
clinicians provide the most effective and efficient patient care. This
includes using workflow engine technology to help ensure safe,
reliable, and efficient execution of healthcare processes in a
patient-centric manner in order to anticipate the needs of clinicians
and support their decision-making processes. He is a member of the
Board of Directors at The New England Institute (NEHI).

Formerly, Dr. Brandt was the Vice President of Medical Informatics and
Clinical Processes at Tenet Health Systems, one of the country's
largest healthcare corporations. There he was responsible for clinical
systems strategy, led the development of an enterprise data warehouse,
and served as medical director for Tenet's 1,300-member physician
group.

Prior to that, he spent seven years at Kaiser Permanente, serving as
Director of Design & Development for their National Clinical
Information System Program and participating on the senior management
team of the Kaiser North Carolina region.

He completed his family practice residency in Asheville, N.C., in a
program associated with the University of North Carolina, and received
his M.D. from Eastern Virginia Medical School and a bachelor's degree
from Duke University.

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Philip J. Burstein, MD

Vice President Healthcare Data Optimization, Medicines Development,
R&D
GlaxoSmithKline

Phil Burstein is Vice President, Healthcare Data Optimization,
Medicines Development, R&D at GlaxoSmithKline in R&D. He leads a very
talented team dedicated to fully utilizing clinical trial data and
observational data in drug discovery and development. Before joining
R&D in 1999 he spent a year in the former SmithKline Beecham
HealthCare Services Department developing disease management tools for
managed care markets.

Phil received an AB from Princeton University before attending medical
school at the Medical College of Virginia. Following a three year
internal medicine residency at MCV he spent two years in the Air Force
as an internist and flight surgeon. After completing an Endocrinology
Fellowship at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in
Denver, he practiced Endocrinology for ten years and spent another ten
years in hospital administration before joining SB in 1998.

E-mail: philip.j.burstein@gsk.com

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Mark A. Dente, MD

Chief Medical Informatics Officer

Dr. Dente's started his informatics career over 18 years ago after
graduating Boston University School of Medicine, focusing on new
approaches to increase patient safety, drive physician adoption of
technology, and create new methods to implement evidence-based
medicine.

Prior to joining GE Healthcare Dr. Dente served as President of MBS
Service Inc, a consulting company providing international executive
healthcare management services. Earlier in his career, he served as
Vice President and Chief Medical Officer for Wang Healthcare
Information Systems, and led that company's design of an ambulatory
electronic medical record.

As Chief Medical Informatics Officer for GE Healthcare Information
Technology, his global responsibilities include: Applying domain
expertise in informatics to drive Comparative Effectiveness Research,
strategic evaluation of emerging technologies for the healthcare
portfolio, as well as developing and delivering GE's clinical
informatics research direction & messaging globally. Additional
responsibilities include; clinical liaison for GE's standards based
Interoperability Strategies, Knowledge Management / Evidence Based
Medicine, and secondary use of Clinical Data programs

As a physician executive, Dr. Dente continues to maintain close
academic, government and industry contacts as well as drive GE's
"Early Health - Personalized Medicine" initiative at the national and
international level.

E-mail: Mark.Dente@ge.com

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Dr. James T. Dove, M.D.

Dr. Dove graduated from Case-Western Reserve in Cleveland, Ohio. He
completed a residency in Internal Medicine and a fourth year as Chief
Resident at Mt. Sinai Hospital School of Medicine in New York City. He
spent two years in Public Health Service assigned to Washington, D.C.
in Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. VA Hospital and the
National Institutes of Health. Cardiology training was completed at
the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York. In 1973 he began
practice in Springfield, Illinois and has been affiliated with the
Southern Illinois University School of Medicine. Currently he is
Clinical Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, SIU School of
Medicine. He served as Chief of the Division of Cardiology from 1991
until 1999. He is a founding partner of Prairie Cardiovascular
Consultants, Ltd., which is a 44-member group of cardiologists. He has
been actively involved in clinical research and served until 2005 on
the Board of Directors of the Prairie Education and Research
Cooperative (PERC), a practice-funded, non-profit research foundation.
His interests have been in coronary artery disease, quality
initiatives, and more recently in the use of an electronic medical
record to facilitate quality performance. The practice has developed
its own quality tools to interface with the electronic record to
promote adherence to ACC/AHA Guidelines on coronary artery disease,
hyperlipidemia, and congestive heart failure. These tools are not
intrusive and when used result in 100% compliance with all of the
Class 1 elements of care for patients with the above diseases.
Physicians can instantaneously at the point of care evaluate their
adherence to the practice guidelines, compare their compliance on all
patients that they have seen with a given diagnosis, and compare their
performance to their peers. Currently they are working on
incorporating ACC appropriateness criteria for Nuclear Cardiology, CT,
and CMR into the quality tool. The practice has developed HL7
interfaces for exchange of information from five hospitals into the
electronic record.

He is a past Governor for the American College of Physicians,
Downstate Illinois Chapter and received the Laureate Award from the
Illinois Chapter of the American College of Physicians in 1992. He was
awarded Mastership in the American College of Physicians in April
2002. He was President and Governor of the American College of
Cardiology Illinois Chapter. Nationally, he has served on numerous
committees within ACC including Quality Strategic Direction Committee,
Guidelines Applied to Practice (GAP), and the Informatics Committee.
He was Chair of the Board of Governors, Secretary for the ACC,
Treasurer and Chair of the Budget, Finance & Investment Committee, and
Vice President of the ACC. He is currently President-Elect of the
American College of Cardiology.

He was married to Carol Ann Proctor in 1960 and they have two
children, Laura and Steven, and five grandchildren, Noah, Adam,
Ainsley, Connor, and Sierra.

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J. Michael Fitzmaurice, Ph.D., F.A.C.M.I.

Senior Science Advisor for Information Technology,
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Before joining the Office of the Director, Dr. Fitzmaurice was
Director, Center for Information Technology, Agency for Health Care
Policy and Research until March 1998. He joined the Public Health
Service in 1987 as Director of the National Center for Health Services
Research and Health Care Technology Assessment, coming from the Health
Care Financing Administration where he was Acting Director, Office of
Research. Previously, as branch chief in the Office of Research, he
directed the development of Medicare's Prospective Payment System. Dr.
Fitzmaurice received his Ph.D. in Economics in 1972 from the
University of Maryland. He has separate undergraduate degrees from St.
Joseph's College (Rensselaer, IN) in Mathematics and in Economics. He
was an adjunct Associate Professor in the Howard University Graduate
School of Business, 1972-77, and the University College Graduate
School, University of Maryland at College Park, 1982-87.

He is active nationally and internationally in encouraging the
uniformity and computerization of health care information to improve
the quality of patient care and public health policy decisions. In
2000, he received the Elmer Gabrielli Award from the American Society
for Testing and Materials, Committee E31, for his dedication to and
achievements in national health data standards. In 1999, he received
the Future of Health Technology Award, and was elected a Fellow of the
American College of Medical Informatics.

In 1993, he served on the White House Health Reform Task Force
(Information Systems and Administrative Simplification Working
Groups). The White House Information Infrastructure Task Force
released his paper "Health Care and the National Information
Infrastructure (NII)" in Putting the Information Infrastructure to
Work (May 1994) that presents the vision of how the NII can benefit
the health care sector. From 1996 to 2000, he co-chaired the HHS
Information and Cross-cutting Implementation Team that provided
oversight for developing the health data standards requirements of the
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996
(P.L. 104-191). He was an active member of the HHS Privacy Working
Group that produced the HIPAA Privacy Rule. He was lead staff to the
NCVHS Computerized Patient Record Working Group that produced the
congressionally mandated report on standards needed for patient
medical record information and its electronic transmission. This
report was sent to the Secretary of HHS on July 6, 2000, and is
available at http://ncvhs.hhs.gov/hipaa000706.pdf

Currently, Dr. Fitzmaurice advises the Director of AHRQ on developing
health information technology research programs, and represents AHRQ
on the White House Networking Information Technology Research and
Demonstrations Program and on the National Committee on Vital and
Health Statistics (NCVHS). From 2001-04, Dr. Fitzmaurice was lead
staff on the HHS Secretary's Council on Private Sector Initiatives to
Improve the Security, Safety, and Quality of Health Care. Dr.
Fitzmaurice was also a member of the Office of the National
Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONCHIT) RFI Response
Review Team that in 2005 reviewed and prepared summaries of the 500
public responses. http://www.ahrq.gov/data/hipaa1.htm. He initiated
and managed AHRQ's Data Standards Program, with an annual budget of
$10 million in 2004, 2005, and 2006. He is a member of the American
Medical Association's Ethical Force Oversight Body.

Dr. Fitzmaurice, with Karen Adams and John Eisenberg, published AThree
Decades of Research on Computer Applications in Health Care: Medical
Informatics Support at the Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research.
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association,
2002;9:144-160. With Stephen Wagner, he co-authored ACritical
Standards Convergence@ in Person-Centered Health Records: Toward
HealthePeople, eds.:Demetriades, Kolodner, Christopherson. New York:
Springer Science + Business Media, Inc., 2005. His chapter,
"Computer-Based Patient Records," was published in The Biomedical
Engineering Handbook, Third Edition. Boco Raton, FL, 2006.

Email: mfitzmau@ahrq.gov

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Nicholas J. Hilger

JDA eHealth Systems, Inc.

Nick Hilger is the Business Development Partner with JDA eHealth
Systems, a SaaS Revenue Cycle Middleware provider to Hospitals and
Physicians. JDA offers a comprehensive suite of applications for
upstream, midstream, and downstream Revenue Cycle operations. Hilger
spent the majority of his professional life as the CEO of Health
Systems in Minnesota (HealthEast), Colorado (HealthOne), and Illinois
(Columbia/HCA). Following his Health System experiences he helped
launch several start-up health ventures and consulted with major
Health Systems in the area of Hospital / Physician partnerships and
joint ventures. Immediately prior to joining JDA he was a senior
executive at United Health Group working in strategic outreach to
Health Systems.

Email: nhilger@jdaehealth.com

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Debbie Rieger

Chief Operating Officer, CalRHIO

E-mail: riegerdebbie@msn.com

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Helga Rippen MD

Dr. Rippen has been a leader in health informatics and consumer and
clinician use of related technologies for over 15 years. Dr. Rippen
has worked with diverse groups on a variety of topics ranging from EMR
adoption in physician offices, healthcare quality, ethics, a national
health information infrastructure, usability, privacy, and consumer
control. Dr. Rippen was the Chief Health Information Officer and Vice
President of Health Information Technology for HCA where she led the
development of the clinical EHR Program. She served as Senior Advisor
for HIT for the Secretary's office at the US Department of Health and
Human Services where she was involved with the creation of the Office
of the National Coordinator for HIT (ONCHIT). Previously, she was
Director of the Science and Technology Policy Institute for RAND
supporting the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy,
Director of HIT for Pfizer Health Solutions, and Founder of the HIT
Institute for Mitretek Systems, a prominent Washington, DC-based
non-profit group. She has been involved with all aspects of HIT
including system design, implementation and clinician adoption.

Dr. Rippen received her medical degree, with honors, from the
University of Florida, and completed her medical residency training at
Johns Hopkins University where she also received her Masters in Public
Health with a focus on health policy and management, epidemiology and
biostatistics. She obtained her PhD in biomedical engineering from
Duke University. She is Board Certified and has medical licenses in
California, Maryland, and Virginia.

Email: helgarippen@westat.com

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Nina M. Schwenk, M.D.

Vice President Mayo Clinic
Chair, Information Technology Committee
Consultant, General Internal Medicine

Nina M. Schwenk, M.D., is a consultant in Area General Internal
Medicine at Mayo Clinic. She is Assistant Professor of Medicine in the
Mayo Medical School and past chair of the Division of Area General
Internal Medicine. Dr. Schwenk is Vice-President of the Mayo Clinic
Board of Trustees and Chair of the Mayo Clinic Information Technology
Committee.

Dr. Schwenk received her undergraduate degree from Massachusetts
Institute of Technology and graduated from medical school at McGill
University in Montreal Canada. She completed residency and fellowship
training in internal medicine at Mayo Clinic.

Dr. Schwenk is active in professional and academic societies at both
the local and national levels.

Email: nschwenk@mayo.edu

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Jeremy Thorp

Director of Business Requirements
NHS Connecting for Health

Jeremy Thorp is the Director of Business Requirements in the
Technology Office of NHS Connecting for Health. In this role he is
responsible for the Business Architecture of the National Programme
for IT in England, liaising closely with the Department of Health on
policy and strategy issues. He is also the business lead within NHS
Connecting for Health for the Secondary Uses Service (SUS) programme,
supporting reporting and analysis of Care Record information.

Jeremy has previously worked at national, regional and local levels in
the

NHS:

Nationally in the Department of Health Information Policy Unit and
 in the NHS Information Authority

Regionally in the South and West region, and

Locally in the Bristol area where he still lives.

Email: jeremy.thorp@nhs.net

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John Tooker, MD, MBA, FACP

Executive Vice President/Chief Executive Officer
American College of Physicians

Dr. John Tooker is the Executive Vice President and Chief Executive
Officer of the American College of Physicians (ACP). ACP is the
largest medical specialty society in the U.S., representing 124,000
specialists in internal medicine (internists), internal medicine
subspecialists, and medical students.

ACP's mission is to enhance the quality and effectiveness of health
care by fostering excellence and professionalism in the practice of
medicine. Reinforced by the strength of its membership and guided by a
strong policy portfolio, ACP is leading efforts to unify the internal
medicine community, develop new models of patient care and delivery,
and implement fundamental and comprehensive reforms to repair a
dysfunctional payment system to make internal medicine more attractive
as a career choice.

Dr. Tooker serves on the boards of the National Quality Forum, eHealth
Initiative, the National Committee for Quality Assurance (Chair-Elect,
2008), the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology,
the Electronic Health Record Patient Safety Advisory Board, and the
Council of Medical Specialty Societies. He also represents ACP as a
founding member of the AQA, formerly the Ambulatory Care Quality
Alliance and serves on the Connecting for Health steering committee.

Prior to joining ACP in 1995 as Deputy EVP and Chief Operating
Officer, Dr. Tooker was Vice Chair of the Department of Medicine and
Program Director of the Internal Medicine Residency at the Maine
Medical Center in Portland, Maine, where he practiced internal
medicine and pulmonary and critical care medicine.

Dr. Tooker earned his MD at University of Colorado School of Medicine,
his native state, completed his internal medicine residency at the
Bellevue Hospital Center in New York and the University of Colorado,
and his pulmonary and critical care fellowship at the Maine Medical
Center and the University of Washington. He is a graduate of the Fox
School of Business at Temple University, and an Adjunct Professor of
Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

Email: jTooker@mail.acponline.org

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Charlene S. Underwood, MBA

Director, Government and Industry Affairs
Siemens Medical Solutions

Charlene Underwood is director of Government and Industry Affairs for
Siemens Medical Solutions.

A nationally recognized expert in the field of healthcare informatics,
Underwood directs Siemens outreach and advocacy activities in emerging
market initiatives, specifically those related to government
activities in healthcare information technology (HIT) including: the
U.S. Government's activities on HIT; regional healthcare information
organizations (RHIO); community connectivity; HIT standards across the
healthcare industry; interoperability; transitions of care; Electronic
Health Record (EHR) strategies; quality initiatives; pay for
performance; and grants and government funding.

She is a leader is delivering Siemens solutions message to key
stakeholders throughout the healthcare industry and on Capitol Hill,
while developing programs that enable Siemens leadership in key
government and industry initiatives. She provides valuable input and
direction to healthcare and government leaders on the power of HIT to
transform healthcare through her leadership in high-profile industry
organizations, including her role as Chair of the Healthcare
Information Management and Systems Society (HIMSS) Electronic Health
Record Vendor Association.

Underwood has a long history of researching, managing, and
implementing all aspects of HIT, both within the U.S. and globally.
This experience has qualified her to set strategic direction for
Siemens EHR solutions, as well as participate in outreach efforts to
impact the direction of the industry. She has actively advocated for
industry involvement and has held leadership roles in influential
organizations including HL7, in which she participated in defining the
organization's EHR functional standards and model; the Computerized
Patient Record Institute (CPRI), which awards the Nicholas E. Davies
award for excellence in EHR implementation - of which she was a
founding committee member.

A 32-year employee of Siemens Medical Solutions HIT division, she has
participated in defining business strategies and requirements for many
of its clinical solutions, including INVISION®, the healthcare
industry's most widely installed HIT system, and Soarian®, the only
healthcare information solution built to streamline healthcare
processes through workflow engine technology.

Underwood is a Phi Beta Kappa from Purdue University with a Bachelor
of Science in mathematics. She earned an MBA in marketing from Temple
University.

A native of West Chester, Pennsylvania, she is married with 3 children
and enjoys fitness activities, gardening, travel, and community
outreach.

Email: charlene.underwood@siemens.com

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