Journal Of Healthcare Information Management

Michael S. Victoroff, MD, is President of Recall, Inc., a clinical informatics consulting firm. Dr.

Victoroff is also the Risk Management Consultant for Health Information Technology at COPIC, Inc.;

Chief Medical Officer at Lynx Collaborative Care Network; and Medical Advisor at Amara Healthcare Analytics. He was in the first group of physicians to become board certified in Clinical Informatics; he is also board certified in Family Medicine. In 1989, Dr.

Victoroff developed ChartR®, an electronic medical record system for ambulatory practices, and sold it commercially for 8 years. As Risk Management Consultant for COPIC, he developed A Taxonomy of Medical Error, a coding system for patient safety events that has been used in Federally-funded patient safety research. He was a founding member of the National Patient Safety Foundation, and has worked with COPIC, the ECRI Institute, the Canadian Medical Protective Association, State Volunteer Mutual Insurance Company and other organizations to analyze the safety and effectiveness of health information technology.

Henry L. Mayers, MCP, PMP, FHIMSS, CPHIMS,

Henry Mayers, as President of Relia TechConsulting, LLC, has led strategic planning on, and implementation of, a wide array of business-enhancing information technologies in government, banking, manufacturing and insurance. Fifteen of those years have focused on implementation of health IT in health insurance, in-patient care, hospital ancillaries, and ambulatory settings.

Care coordination and transitions have been, and remain, a professional focus of Mayers’ since the 1970s when he led a number of pilot programs in discharge planning and information and referral. He also co-developed early need assessment models for activities of daily living (ADL) services. Mayers has been engaged in helping physicians better understand the nature and opportunities inherent in health IT. A more recent additional focus for Mayers is the expansion of the health IT workforce. He is the past Program Chair for the Michigan Chapter of HIMSS and recently served as Co-Chair of the HIMSS Care Coordination Task Force.

Antonio P. Linares, MD, FAAFP, is the Regional VP, Medical Director for Anthem Blue Cross. He provides medical leadership in care management, wellness strategies, and population based care including clinical informatics support for National Accounts and large employer groups in the West region. He supports Enterprise initiatives as a clinical thought leader and drives innovative total cost management solutions for the National Account sales team. Prior to joining Anthem Blue Cross, Dr. Linares served as the Vice President for Medical Affairs at Lumetra where he led a national effort to accelerate the adoption of EHRs by physician practices under contract with Medicare. Over the past 25 years he has served in diverse leadership roles which include the founding medical director for California’s Department of Managed Health Care to oversee quality for all HMOs in California. He also served as the VP and medical director for Cigna corporate Medical Action Plans (MAP), the local medical director for Aetna Healthcare in San Diego and the founding CMO for OSF Healthcare System in Illinois.

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