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Dr. David Kibbe is the Director of the Center for Health Information Technology for the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), the membership organization that represents over 95,000 U.S. family doctors. In this position, he is responsible for formulating AAFP strategic direction and policy affecting a broad range of information and communications technology initiatives, including HIPAA, electronic health records, computer security, practice management systems, and quality measurement. The Center is the locus of the AAFP’s technical expertise, advocacy, research and member services activities associated with health information technology, and a leading national resource on information and communications technology that supports the family medicine practice of the future.
Dr. Kibbe is known internationally in the field of health information technology and has solid accomplishments in the business of e-health. He began his career as a small-town family physician, and has practiced medicine in private and academic settings for more than 15 years. Dr. Kibbe has taught at the School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and founded two health information companies located in North Carolina, He continues to serve as medical director and board chairman of Canopy Systems, an innovative and award-winning software firm that provides Web-based case management software to many of the country’s largest academic health centers and the U.S. Navy hospital system.
Dr. Kibbe has authored numerous peer-reviewed articles and several book chapters on e-health, computer security, and HIPAA, and is co author if the The AMA's Field Guide to HIPAA Implementation, an American Medical Association publication. He is a frequent speaker on HIPAA privacy and security compliance for clinical audiences around the country. Dr. Kibbe received his BA from Harvard University, MD from Case-Western Reserve University School of Medicine, and his MBA from the University of Texas at Austin.
Dr. Daniel Brewer is a graduate of Bowman-Gray School of Medicine in Winston Salem, North Carolina and completed his family medicine residency at Carolina Medical Center in Charlotte. He practiced two years in Shelby, North Carolina, after which he returned to his home state of Tennessee. Following five years of practice in Maryville, he accepted a position as assistant director of the Family Medicine Residency in Anderson, South Carolina and while there, completed a fellowship in faculty development at Chapel Hill, North Carolina. In July 1996, he joined the Knoxville program. Dr. Brewer is director of postdoctoral education. Special interests include geriatrics, preventive cardiology and clinical epidemiology.
Chris Tipton, LBMC has over twenty years of experience providing fiscal, strategic and operations leadership in the healthcare industry. His experiences include serving as administrator/manager of multiple physician practices both large and small with expertise in areas such as strategy, vision and mission planning; profitability and cost analyses; billing, collections and cash management; finance, budgeting and cost management. Prior to joining LBMC, Chris served as administrator for the Knoxville Dermatology Group.
Chris is also an entrepreneur having founded several medical device companies and participated in several technology joint ventures. He has successfully patented various medical devices and was the recipient of the “Best New Innovative Medical Device” by the American Medical Association. He is currently in the start up process for a not-for-profit organization “Inner City Slickers” designed to help inner city children by utilizing equestrian programs.
Gregory L. Kenny, Mederio Group received his undergraduate degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Tennessee and has been involved in the Information Technology field for over twenty years. Over the course of his career, Mr. Kenny has provided technical and management support to several high profile contracts including NASA’s Space Shuttle and Space Station Programs and the Department of Defense’s Strategic Defense Initiative. For the past 10 years Mr. Kenny has consulted with many organizations in the life sciences and health care industries. He currently serves as a contract CIO for several specialty practices and advises them on their health care IT investments. His primary areas of advisement include EMR adoption, HIPAA Security Rule Compliance, Business Intelligence and Practice Optimization through technology implementation and integration.
Mr. Kenny has taught courses on HIPAA compliance and technology adoption and is a volunteer instructor for the Doctors Management School of Medical Practice Management. He has been a guest writer for East Tennessee Medical News and maintains a blog on EMR adoption and other health care IT initiatives.
Tom Graham, Intervada has experience in the telecommunications business spans over 12 years. INTERVADA was founded from six years with AT&T Business from success in the industries of Healthcare, Retail, Banking and Accounting. Having worked with organizations of all sizes from small to the enterprise level, Tom developed a program offering individual options of giving companies the ability to choose whichever vendor or provider they prefer. With extensive experience in designing ROI (Return on Investment) analysis studies for numerous organizations, Tom has developed a unique formula to assimilate the appropriate technology, coverage, and costs to derive respective results by market and business segment. This idea has resulted in double-digit yearly savings for these companies and has built-in mechanisms to provide cost efficiency, strategy for future deployment schedules, and measured technology upgrades for disaster recovery models. In a market of required cost-savings, such as we have today, this model is of importance in showing that physician practices can sustain profitability for the organization through smart and savvy technology decisions.
Alexander M. Stockdale, MBA, is Chief Executive Officer of Southeastern Retina Associates of Knoxville, TN, a subspecialty ophthalmology practice with 24 offices in four states. Mr. Stockdale has been CEO since 1995. Since 1999 and 2003 respectively, Mr. Stockdale has also served as Chief Operating Officer of the Tennessee Valley Eye Center, an ophthalmology ambulatory surgery center and Chief Financial Officer of Johnson City (TN) Eye Surgery Center. Mr. Stockdale is a graduate of Tennessee Technological University with an MBA in finance and received a BS in business administration from the University of Tennessee. A seasoned medical administrator, Mr. Stockdale particularly enjoys developing solutions to complicated business problems and building ambulatory surgery centers. He lives in Knoxville with his wife and four daughters and enjoys mountain biking, road cycling, trail running, and adventure racing.
Scott Carpenter, Women's Care Group, I have 25 years of experience in the IT profession. The last 10 years have been spent as a CIO and IT Manager in the Health Care Industry. My experience includes developing an in house Electronic Medical Records system from design and development to deployment as the CIO of East Tennessee Heart Consultants (Cardiology). I am currently with Women’s Care Group (OBGYN) where I was responsible for selecting and successfully deploying the digiChart EMR system.
Jessica White is a Senior Trainer with Accelerated Workflow Solutions (AWS),
“The Dragon People”, one of the nation’s largest speech recognition training and implementation companies. AWS is a Gold Certified partner with Nuance Corporation, developer of Dragon NaturallySpeaking and the leading provider of speech recognition products in the world. AWS, “The Dragon People”, has over 10 years experience in training and implementing speech recognition in some of the America’s most prestigious corporations and medical facilities. Jessica and the AWS staff of Nuance-certified trainers are committed to teaching individuals how to utilize speech technology in order to reduce the cost and time involved in transcribing the spoken word. Jessica was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee and received her Bachelor of Science in Electronic Media Production from Middle Tennessee State University. For the past 13 years Jessica has also enjoyed being a professional photographer, focusing primarily on black and white portraits in her own unique style.
Jennifer McAnally, QSource’s Health Information Technology (HIT) Manager.
Her experience consists of more than 20 years of front-line experience with HIT vendors and includes training, development, and support of electronic medical record and physician practice management software systems.
She earned a Bachelors of Business Administration from the University of Memphis and holds dual certifications as a Certified Professional in Electronic Health Records (C.P.E.H.R.), as well as a Certified Professional in Health Information Technology (C.P.H.I.T.). Currently she is enrolled in the University of Tennessee’s Masters of Health Informatics program.