Appendix A
Committee and Staff
COMMITTEE ON DATA STANDARDS FOR PATIENT SAFETY
PAUL C.TANG (Chair), Chief Medical Information Officer, Palo Alto Medical Foundation
MOLLY JOEL COYE (Vice Chair), Chief Executive Officer, Health Technology Center
SUZANNE BAKKEN, Alumni Professor of Nursing and Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University
E.ANDREW BALAS, Dean, School of Public Health, Saint Louis University
DAVID W.BATES, Chief, Division of General Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
JOHN R.CLARKE, Professor of Surgery, Drexel University
DAVID C.CLASSEN, Associate Professor of Medicine, Vice President, University of Utah, First Consulting Group
SIMON P.COHN, National Director of Health Information Policy, Kaiser Permanente
CAROL CRONIN, Consultant
JONATHAN S.EINBINDER, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School and Corporate Manager, Partners Health Care Information Systems
LARRY D.GRANDIA, Chief Technology Officer, Executive Vice President, Premier, Inc.
W.ED HAMMOND, Professor, Division of Medical Informatics, Duke University
BRENT C.JAMES, Executive Director, Intermountain Health Care Institute for Health Care Delivery Research, and Vice President for Medical Research, Intermountain Health Care
KEVIN JOHNSON, Associate Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Biomedical Informatics and Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University
JILL ROSENTHAL, Program Manager, National Academy for State Health Policy
TJERK W.van der SCHAAF, Associate Professor of Human Factors in Risk Control, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven Safety Management Group, Department of Technology Management
Special Consultant
J.MARC OVERHAGE, Associate Professor of Medicine and Investigator, Regenstrief
Institute for Health Care, Indiana University School of Medicine
Study Staff
JANET M.CORRIGAN, Director, Board on Health Care Services
PHILIP ASPDEN, Study Director
JULIE WOLCOTT, Program Officer
SHARI ERICKSON, Research Associate
REBECCA LOEFFLER, Senior Project Assistant
ANTHONY BURTON, Administrative Assistant
The committee wishes to thank the co-chairs of the Health Level Seven (HL7) Special Interest Group (SIG), Linda Fischetti (U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs), Gary L. Dickinson (Misys Healthcare), and Sam Herd (Ocean Informatics, Australia), for the briefing and background materials they provided to the committee at its June 2003 meeting. The committee would also like to thank Gary Christopherson of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, William C.Rollow of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and Scott Young of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality for their helpful contributions to the report.