GPII Team
Barry Hieb, MD, Chief Scientist
Prior to establishing GPII in 2008, Dr. Hieb was a research director in the Gartner Healthcare Industry Research and Advisory Service for 10 years. He is a physician with over 30 years' experience in medical informatics. Prior to Gartner, Dr. Hieb held the position of product planning manager for the Sunquest clinical data repository and earlier held a similar position with First Data Corporation. He also served as a chief architect of healthcare solutions for seven years in the Healthcare Marketing Group of Digital Equipment Corporation. He also had experience in academic computing for 15 years in one of the teaching hospitals associated with Washington University Medical School in St. Louis, MO.
Dr. Hieb received his BA from Bethel College in Newton, Kansas and his Medical Degree and Master's Degree in Computer Science from Washington University in Saint Louis. Dr. Hieb has performed research on a variety of healthcare and technology subjects that include the following:
- Computer based patient record systems, vendors and applications
- Enterprise master person index systems
- National individual healthcare identifier
- Trends and predictions in the healthcare industry
- Technologies used to support computer based patient records: (speech systems, natural language processing, controlled vocabularies, single sign-on systems)
- Issues relating to physician acceptance and use of CPR systems
- Architectural approaches to computer-based patient record systems and applications (data dictionaries, security systems, boundary managers, user interfaces, clinical decision support)
Dr. Hieb has been a long-term participant in the ASTM E31 standards group where he has focused on requirements for a national healthcare identification system. He recently published an article in the Journal of the ASTM International entitled "The Case for a Voluntary National Healthcare Identifier."
Elizabeth (Liddy) West, CPHIMS, Chief Marketing Officer
With nearly thirty years of experience, Ms. West has contributed to and managed a variety of marketing and product management initiatives for healthcare software companies. With a work focus on healthcare information technologies (HIT), she has held management positions at Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS), Misys Healthcare Systems, Per-Se Technologies, as well as Eclipsys (and its predecessor companies Alltel, TDS Healthcare and Technicon Healthcare Systems).
Ms. West has worked in marketing, product management and business development for the above companies that develop and support both clinical and financial applications for hospital-centered enterprises as well as independent physicians' practices and clinics. She has successfully designed, developed and launched new products, participated in mergers and acquisitions, and worked in both North America and international markets to evaluate market requirements and business opportunities.
Ms. West brings experience in marketing communications, direct marketing, events management, web marketing, channel marketing, company and product branding and positioning, and business strategy. She has managed a variety of business partner relationships including IBM, Oracle and Sun Microsystems. Ms. West holds a Bachelors' Degree in Healthcare Administration from St. Mary's College, Moraga CA.
The GPII Board of Directors
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James F. Kragh
President & CEO, Good Health Network, Inc. -
Rick Peters, MD
Managing Partner, Open Health Consulting
www.openhealthdata.com -
Tom Sullivan, MD
Chief Strategy Officer, Dr. First, Rockville, MD
Womens Health Center Cardiology, Danvers, MA
www.massmed.org -
C. Peter Waegemann
President, Waegemann Associates, LLC
Vice President, mHealth Initiative -
Mike Davis
Managing Director, The Advisory Board Company
www.advisoryboardcompany.com -
Advisory Member
Joseph Schneider, MD
VP and CMIO, Medical Director Clinical Informatics
Baylor Health Care System
www.baylorhealth.edu