Leaders from EHR vendors such as Oracle Cerner and Meditech were named to the Electronic Health Record Association's executive committee for 2023.
The committee members selected in the annual election and who started Jan. 1 are:
— chair David Bucciferro, senior advisor at Foothold Technology-Radicle Health.
— vice chair William Hayes, MD, chief medical officer of CPSI.
New members:
— Leigh Burchell, vice president of government affairs and public policy at Altera Digital Health.
— Kayla Thomas, senior regulatory strategist with Oracle Cerner.
Continuing members:
— Pamela Chapman, director of solutions management at Experity.
— Barbara Hobbs, senior government affairs manager at Meditech.
— Cherie Holmes-Henry, vice president of government and industry affairs at Nextgen Healthcare.
— Stephanie Jamison, director of regulatory affairs at Greenway Health.
Ex-officio members:
— Hans Buitendijk, director of interoperability strategy with Oracle Cerner
— Sasha TerMaat, director at Epic.
"As the healthcare landscape continues to evolve, we remain focused on advancing interoperability and using our collective voice to educate policymakers as to how EHRs and other health IT can best be leveraged to ensure health data is used to improve the patient experience, ease provider burden, achieve health equity, and reduce inefficiency within the healthcare system," Mr. Bucciferro said in a Jan. 3 association news release.