Industry Leadership

Since its inception, the Greenway Leadership Team has been committed to actively work towards applying our vision of advanced, integrated health information solutions that support establishment of a smarter, sustainable U.S. healthcare system.

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Our team established a dual leadership pathway of internal and external strategies by recognizing that the future of healthcare was tied not only to best practice technology, but also to the shaping of industry and regulatory standards and initiatives that together with corporate initiatives can improve population health.

This understanding has led Greenway’s Leadership Team to hold chair, co-chair, board, and/or advisory positions within multiple industry organizations, such as:

  • CommonWell Health Alliance (founding member), an independent, not-for-profit organization launched in March 2013 to transform care delivery by enabling data liquidity across IT systems, settings and episodes of care
  • The Accountable Care Community of Practice (ACCoP)
    The National HIMSS Electronic Health Records Association (EHR Association)
  • The eHealth Initiative (EHI)
  • Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) board, a global interoperability standards initiative
  • National Quality Foundation (NQF)
  • Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC)
  • Texas Health Institute (THI)
  • Metro Atlanta Chamber Bioscience Leadership Council
  • Cal eConnect Business Advisory Group
  • Regional Extension Center (REC) Community of Practice
  • Healthcare Leadership Council (HLC) Confidentiality Coalition, steering committee
  • National Science Foundation Body of Knowledge Advisory Board (NSF)
  • Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) Privacy Expert Panel
  • National Health IT Week
  • National Governors Association (NGA) Health Information Protection Task Force, State Alliance for E-Health
  • TAG Health (Technology Association of Georgia)
    Read remarks from the TAG Health/Georgia Senate Panel Jan. 26, 2012 (PDF)

Additionally, Greenway leadership has maintained a strategic advisory capacity with the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and the Office of Civil Rights (OCR). Greenway has also provided guidance and testimony to Congressional bodies and presidential administrations on more than a dozen occasions since 2005, all on matters of health IT now becoming realized through national EHR incentive, quality reporting and care coordination programs.

Greenway’s primary Government Affairs strategy

  • Fostering education in healthcare IT and the impact of Government Affairs on healthcare reform
  • Work with the Executive branch and Congress to improve physician fee schedules and reimbursement rates
  • Further state and federal legislation as well as regulation on creating incentives for healthcare IT and electronic health record (EHR) adoption
  • Advise Congressional offices on healthcare, health IT and related legislation
  • Advise Congress on healthcare reform and America’s healthcare transformation
  • Advise President’s Administration on healthcare, IT and related regulation including necessary Stark/safe harbor modifications
  • Advise and work with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on the implementation of HITECH Act and ARRA health IT incentives and adoption. Support ongoing certification standards for Meaningful Use Stage 2 and 3 reporting criteria
  • Further standards creation and adoption through the Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP)
  • Promote security, privacy and compliance policy advancements through National Governors Association (NGA), Health Information Security and Privacy Collaboration (HISPC) and American Health Information Community (AHIC)
  • Encourage federal leadership to maintain a true, 50/50, public-private collaboration on all HIT Boards created under or by HHS such as AHIC, National eHealth Collaborative, CCHIT, HITSP and HISPC
  • Continue collaboration with the federal HIT Policy Committee on Meaningful Use Stage 2 and 3 requirements as to the evolution of menu-to-core and patient volume expansion criteria on outcomes, patient engagement and bidirectional data exchange toward the merging of Meaningful Use and accountable care models.

CCHITCertification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT)

Greenway partnered with other industry leaders to help create CCHIT.
Our commission members are listed here with their Greenway titles and CCHIT roles.

  • James T. Ingram, MD, FACS – Chief Medical Officer – Member of CCHIT Ambulatory Functionality Workgroup
  • Justin T. Barnes – Vice President of Industry & Government Affairs – Member of the CCHIT Privacy and Compliance Expert Panel
  • Jason Colquitt – Vice President of Data Services – Member of the CCHIT Security Expert Panel

HIMSS Electronic Health Records AssociationElectronic Health Record Association
(EHR Association)

Greenway is one of the founding vendors of this HIMSS association.

  • Justin T. Barnes – Vice President of Industry & Government Affairs – Chairman Emeritus of the Board and Chairman of Membership of the Industry Leadership Association
  • Jason Colquitt – Vice President of Data Services – Vice Chair of the Quality Measurement Workgroup

HIMSSHealthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)

  • Justin T. Barnes – Vice President of Industry & Government Affairs – Board Member of HIMSS Public Policy Steering Committee and Chairman of HIMSS Federal Leadership Awards

National Governors Association State Alliance for e-Health
– NGA Center for Best Practices’ Health Division

  • Justin T. Barnes – Vice President of Marketing, Industry & Government Affairs – Member of the NGA’s Health Information Protection Taskforce

Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP)

  • Johnathan Samples – Executive Vice President, Research and Development – Workgroup Member
  • Justin T. Barnes – Vice President of Industry & Government Affairs – Chair, Subcommittee of Health IT, Metro Atlanta Chamber Biosciences

Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) Patient Care Coordination (PCC)

  • Justin T. Barnes – Vice President of Industry & Government Affairs – Board Member, IHE North America
  • Tone Southerland – Senior Developer – Cochairman
  • Jason Colquitt – Vice President of Data Services – Member of the Technical and Planning Technical Committee
  • Daemon Whittenburg – Senior Developer – Member

Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) Quality, Research and Public Health Domain (QRPH)

  • Jason Colquitt – Vice President of Data Services – Cochairman of Technical Committee, Member of the Planning Committee
  • Daemon Whittenburg – Senior Developer – Member

Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC)

  • Jason Colquitt – Vice President of Data Services – Member of the Clinical Data Acquisition Standards Harmonization (CDASH) and Operational Data Model (ODM) Teams

American Immunization Registry Association (AIRA)

  • Jason Colquitt – Vice President of Data Services – Member of the Messaging Workgroup, Member of the Data Definitions Workgroup
  • Tony Gerena – Director of Provider Services Development – Member

EHR/Clinical Research (EHR/CR)

  • Jason Colquitt – Vice President of Data Services – Member of the CCHIT Planning Committee

Drug Information Association (DIA)

  • Jason Colquitt – Vice President of Data Servicess – Member

National Quality Forum (NQF)

  • Jason Colquitt – Vice President of Data Services – Member

Association of Clinical Research Professionals (ACRP)

  • Jason Colquitt – Vice President of Data Services – Member

Society for Clinical Data Management (SCDM)

  • Jason Colquitt – Vice President of Data Services – Member