Health Information Technology Audioconferences: Biographies

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DAVID J. BRAILER, MD, Ph.D. BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Brailer holds doctoral degrees in both medicine and management. While in medical school, he was a Charles A. Dana Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, was the first recipient of the National Library of Medicine Martin Epstein Award for his work with expert systems and was the first medical student to serve on the Board of Trustees of the American Medical Association. Dr. Brailer was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania. He earned his master's degree and Ph.D. in management science at The Wharton School, with an emphasis on management systems for quality of care. Dr. Brailer has written and spoken extensively about quality of care and information technology and is the author of numerous articles about health-care management for publications including the Journal of the American Medical Association, the Harvard Business Review, Medical Care, and Health Affairs, and several books and chapters about health management.

Dr. Brailer founded CareScience, Inc., www.CareScience.com, in 1993, and served as its Chairman and CEO for ten years. Under his leadership, CareScience raised more than $100 million in private and IPO financing, and sold more than $200 million in technology and services to hospitals and integrated delivery systems across the United States. While at CareScience, Dr. Brailer led the company to add more than 150 clients, license groundbreaking research from major research institutions, develop one of the nation's first healthcare ASPs, develop the first clinical data exchange technology and establish the first care management business process outsourcing partnership. He departed the position in 2003.

He also designed and oversaw development of the first peer-to-peer health information exchange technology and led its first implementation in Santa Barbara County, California. Under a grant from the California HealthCare Foundation, www.CHCF.org, Dr. Brailer served as principal investigator for a study of the Santa Barbara County Care Data Exchange(r), a public-private collaboration of health care providers. The Exchange is a unique electronic network that physicians, hospitals, labs, patients, and others in Santa Barbara County can use to securely share patient-specific information via the Internet.

Dr. Brailer is currently the Senior Fellow at the Health Technology Center, www.HealthTech.org, in San Francisco and is advising a variety of regional and national efforts around the United States on information technology and quality of care. He is one of the nation's foremost authorities on health information exchange and the use of peer-to-peer technologies in health care. He is also Adjunct Assistant Professor of Health Care Systems at The Wharton School, Clinical Associate Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Health System, a Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania and a Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the American College of Physicians.

"Dr. Brailer is one of the pioneers in developing community health information exchanges and will now help jumpstart our efforts to improve the quality of care available across America by speeding the nation's progress in implementing these kinds of solutions," Secretary Thompson said.

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JOHN K. IGLEHART BIOGRAPHY

For the last 20 years, John Iglehart has held two key editorial positions in the worlds of health and medical policymaking. He has been editor of Health Affairs, a bimonthly policy journal that he founded in 1981 under the aegis of Project HOPE. During this same period, Iglehart also has served as national correspondent of The New England Journal of Medicine, for which he has written more than 100 essays. Health Affairs, a peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary journal, is the largest circulating health policy periodical published in the United States. It has subscribers in 25 foreign countries as well.

Before 1981, John was a vice president of the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and director of its Washington, D.C. office. During the decade 1969 to 1979, he held a variety of editorial positions, including the editorship of the National Journal, a privately published weekly on federal policymaking. Iglehart was elected to membership in the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in 1977 and served on its Governing Council for six years (1985-1991). He also is an elected member of the National Academy of Social Insurance and serves on the boards of the American Board of Medical Specialties, the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates and Academy Health.

He holds a degree in journalism from the University of Wisconsin and has been a journalist-in-residence at Harvard University.