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LeRoy E. Jones, Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Jones founded and developed GSI Health, LLC, a healthcare technology consultancy and solution provider, which is today a nationally recognized leader in health information exchange, system integration, and interoperability. Mr. Jones is an expert in healthcare information exchange, and health IT more broadly, performing strategy development, business analysis, technical architecture and solution design for GSI Health clientele.
Mr. Jones regularly is called to lead and contribute toward significant industry initiatives. These opportunities have included leading the nation's effort to harmonize healthcare data standards as the Program Manager for the Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel. He has assisted several States in the development of architectures and operational models for healthcare information exchange. Mr. Jones also served as Senior Advisor to Dr. David J. Brailer, the original National Coordinator for Health Information Technology and Presidential appointee. In that capacity, Mr. Jones was responsible for managing the strategic technical directions for the national healthcare agenda. He was one of the inaugural members of the ONC (Office of the National Coordinator for Health information Technology) team that launched the HIT renaissance currently experienced by the industry. Mr. Jones previously also led the Federal Health Architecture (FHA) initiative, an e-Government line of business responsible for unifying IT architecture across the Federal government within the health line of business, and the Consolidated Health Informatics (CHI) initiative, a cross-government consensus group that selects standards for various healthcare domains.
As a member of the RHIO (Regional Health Information Organization) Federation Taskforce formed by the Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), Mr. Jones co-authored and edited a guidebook for RHIOs to use as a source of practical advice and direction as they form and mature, titled Guide to Establishing a Regional Health Information Organization. Mr. Jones has several other publications regarding effective deployment of technology for the betterment of healthcare, and has been called to testify before Congressional committees and other government bodies on related subjects.
Among Mr. Jones’ previous professional positions, he was the Chief Technology Officer and Chief Security Officer for Care Science, Inc., where he was a key architect and managed the development and deployment of one of the earliest regional health information exchanges which became the foremost technical reference model in the United States for community sharing of clinical data. Mr. Jones has also served as VP of Advanced Technology Development for a division of Quintiles Transnational, and held other managerial and technical positions with other firms.
Mr. Jones holds an M.S. in Engineering in the Management of Technology jointly from The Wharton School and the Engineering School at the University of Pennsylvania, and a B.S. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University. Mr. Jones has served on the Eastern Technology Council and holds several corporate board seats.
Mr. Jones is a frequent public speaker, having addressed many professional audiences such as National Association of State CIO's (NASCIO), Health Level 7 (HL7), American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA), the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME), and the Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) among others.
Lori Evans Bernstein, President
Ms. Lori Evans Bernstein is the President of GSI Health, a health information solutions provider. Ms. Evans has 18 years experience in healthcare, including: executive roles within health care and health IT corporations; senior federal and state governmental appointments; health care delivery system operations; and health services and policy research. She writes and speaks regularly on health IT across the country and participates in numerous industry and federal and state policy initiatives as a national expert.
Ms. Evans Bernstein has significant experience in the public and private health care sectors. In the private sector, she most recently served as Chief Executive Officer of a provider solutions division of ActiveHealth Management, a health management company owned by Aetna, Inc. She was a founding Managing Director of Manatt Health Solutions, a policy and business advisory division of Manatt, Phelps and Phillips, where she advised corporations on their health information and care improvement strategies. Ms. Evans Bernstein also served for 5 years as Director of the Care Data Exchange division for CareScience, Inc., a care management company and provider of Internet based technologies serving hospitals and provider communities across the US. Prior to joining CareScience, Ms. Evans Bernstein worked for the leadership and strategic operations group of the Kaiser Permanente Medical Group in Northern California on access and operations improvement, and health IT implementation. She began her career as a health policy analyst and researcher respectively at the Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine and the Center for Health Services Research and Policy at the George Washington University.
In the public sector, she served as a Deputy Commissioner of the New York State Department of Health leading an Office of Health Information Technology Transformation. The Office and role of state health IT coordinator was the first of its kind at the state level that served as the model for the State Health Information Exchange Cooperative Agreement Program created by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH). Ms. Evans Bernstein oversaw a near $250 million investment program in New York’s health information to improve the quality and reduce the cost of health care.
At the federal government level, Ms. Evans served as a Senior Advisor to the nation's first National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, Dr. David Brailer, in the United States Department of Health and Human Services. She was one of the inaugural members of the ONC (Office of the National Coordinator for Health information Technology) team that launched the health IT renaissance currently experienced by the industry She was responsible for launching initiatives for the certification of health information tools, modernization of health information standards, nationwide information-sharing architectures, and evaluation of new policies for protecting consumer privacy.
Ms. Evans is a member of the inaugural Board of Directors of the National eHealth Collaborative (NeHC) and the Board of Trustees of the Certification Commission for HealthCare IT (CCHIT). She has received various professional honors – most recently named a 2007 rising star by Modern Healthcare and a 2009 40 under 40 business leader by Crain’s New York Business Publication. Ms. Evans holds a BA from Ohio Wesleyan University and a MPH from the George Washington University.