IHE USA Committee

HE USA (www.ihe.org) is a not-for-profit organization founded in 2010 that operates as a national deployment committee of IHE International®. IHE USA serves as a voice for U.S. health IT interests and key partner in national health IT efforts to foster national adoption of a consistent set of information standards to enable interoperability of health IT systems.

The IHE USA Board of Directors

• David Avrin, M.D.,Ph.D., Vice Chairman, Informatics, Professor of Clinical Radiology, Dept. of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco
• Justin Barnes, Vice President, Greenway Medical Technologies, Chairman, HIMSS EHR Association
• Michael S. Barr MD, MBA, FACP, Vice President, Practice Advocacy & Improvement, American College of Physicians
• Steve Drew, Assistant Executive Director, Radiological Society of North America
• Laura Heermann Langford RN, PhD, Director of Nursing Informatics, Intermountain Healthcare
• Scott MacLean, CIO, Newton-Wellesley Hospital, HIMSS Board Elect
• David Mendelson, MD Co-chair, IHE International, Chief of Clinical Informatics, The Mount Sinai Medical Center
• Joyce Sensmeier MS, RN-BC, CPHIMS, FHIMSS, FAAN, Vice President, Informatics, HIMSS
• Elliot Sloane PhD, CCE, FHIMSS Co-chair, IHE International, Health Systems Engineering Program Director, Drexel University, & President, Center for Healthcare Information Research and Policy

IHE USA Activities

• IHE North America Connectathon and Conference 2011
• Response of Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) USA, Incorporated to the request for information (HHS-OS-2010-0030 / FR Doc. 2010–31159) from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the National Coordinator for HIT (ONC) regarding the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) report entitled “Realizing the Full Potential of Health Information Technology to Improve Healthcare for Americans: The Path Forward”