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Jiajie Zhang: Co-director, National Center for Cognitive Informatics and Decision Making in Healthcare at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Associate dean for research, professor, UT Health School of Biomedical Informatics Principal investigator, ONC’s SHARP program for patient-centered cognitive support

Aneesh Chopra: Chief Technology Office of the United States Served as Virginia’s fourth Secretary of Technology, January 2008-April 2009 Previously served as managing director with the Advisory Board Company, a publicly traded healthcare think tank

Charles Christian Charles Christian: CIO of Good Samaritan Hospital, a 232-bed hospital in Vincennes, Ind. 2010 John E. Gall CIO of the Year Award Fellow of both CHIME and HIMSS Formerly served on the CHIME Board of Trustees and is a past chairman of the HIMSS Board of Directors

In October, Healthcare IT News reported that American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) would recognize clinical informatics (CI) as a subspecialty, with exams beginning in 2012 and certification to begin in early 2013.

With the conversion to ICD-10 disease and treatment coding expected by the government-set deadline of Oct. 1 2013, and all that entails, a new career path is emerging in healthcare – the chief knowledge officer, or CKO.

Sixty-five hospitals have earned the Leapfrog Group's annual "Top Hospital" designation, equaling 2010's record-setting total. The designation, which Leapfrog bills as the most competitive national hospital quality award in the country, recognizes quality of care.

In August, Healthcare IT News showed how Montefiore Medical Center, in the Bronx, has been providing quality care for decades, thanks to a clinical analytics system that could serve as a model for other healthcare systems across the country.

“There has never been a better time to be innovating in health and wellness,” said Steve Krein, CEO of StartUp Health, when the company was announced at the Health Data Initiative Forum held in New York this past summer.

David Riley and Vanessa Manchester, two leaders of the Federal Health Architecture’s open source CONNECT data exchange initiative, announced the formation of the nonprofit Alembic Foundation this past spring.

In what George Halvorson, chairman and CEO of Kaiser Permanente, called a historic announcement, Kaiser Permanente, the Geisinger Health System, Intermountain Healthcare, the Group Health Cooperative and the Mayo Clinic connected on April 6, 2011, to create the Care Connectivity Consortium – a model for health data exchange that officials touted as being easily replicated at healthcare systems and community hospitals across the country.