Kate Berry, Senior Vice President of Business Development
SureScripts
Executive Director of The Center for Improving Medication Management |
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As Senior Vice President of Business Development and Alliances, Ms. Berry is responsible for managing the national roll out of SureScripts’ community adoption and utilization programs, a uniquely collaborative methodology of working closely with a wide range of stakeholders in each community to build awareness and support for improving the prescribing process and adopting electronic prescribing. Ms. Berry is also responsible for managing the relationships with physician technology companies that are connected to SureScripts to accelerate the adoption and optimal use of electronic prescribing including understanding change management, workflow integration, physician deployments, physician-pharmacy communications, and connectivity best practices. In addition, Ms. Berry is responsible for SureScripts’ strategies for working with personal health record companies, hospitals and regional health information organizations, and pharmaceutical benefits management companies and payers to develop new business opportunities around new services that SureScripts is offering in the marketplace.
Ms. Berry joined SureScripts after a career in healthcare management consulting and as a non-profit executive. As a healthcare consultant, Ms. Berry worked with hospitals, health systems, medical groups, medical associations, pharmaceutical companies and others in the industry on strategic and business planning, partnerships and affiliations, governance and management restructuring, clinical service line plans, and growth strategies. At the American Red Cross, Ms. Berry served as Executive Vice President of External Affairs and Chief of Staff. As such, she was responsible for corporate strategy, communications and marketing, government relations, integrated growth and development, international policy and relations, and global safety and security and played a key role in developing a new strategic plan for the biomedical services enterprise.
Ms. Berry holds a Masters degree in public policy from Duke University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and English from Goucher College.
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David W. Bernauer
Retired Chairman
Walgreen Co.
SureScripts Appointee to the Board of Directors
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David W. Bernauer is a former chairman of Walgreen Co., the nation’s largest drugstore chain, from which he retired in 2007 after a 41-year career.
He joined Walgreens in 1966 as a pharmacy intern before graduating the following year from North Dakota State University (NDSU), Fargo, N.D., with a B.S. in pharmacy. He held various store operations positions before being named vice president and treasurer in 1990.
Bernauer was promoted to vice president of purchasing and merchandising in 1992 and vice president and CIO in 1995. He was named a senior vice president in 1996 and president and COO in 1999. In January 2002, Bernauer was named CEO and in January 2003 became chairman and CEO.
In July 2006, Jeffrey A. Rein became CEO while Bernauer continued as chairman. Bernauer is chairman of the National Association of Chain Drug Stores, and serves on the board of directors of Office Depot and Lowe’s. He is also on the board of trustees of Chicago’s Field Museum, the board of directors of Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE), and is a member of the Civic Committee of the Commercial Club of Chicago. Bernauer is founding member and chair emeritus of the American Cancer Society’s CEOs Against Cancer.
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William K. Fleming, PharmD
Vice President, Pharmacy and Clinical Integration
Humana, Inc. |
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Dr. William K. Fleming is Vice President of Pharmacy and Clinical Integration for Humana, Inc., a 11.0 million member health benefits organization. His responsibilities include Leading all aspects of pharmacy management and the management of $12+ billion of drug spend.
Dr. Fleming has lectured on topics ranging from pharmacy industry trends and drug trends to the clinical effects of drugs, presenting to such organizations as various pharmacy trade associations, associations of health underwriters, actuarial societies, and multiple broker/employer symposia. He is an active member of several professional associations, including the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy. Recently, Dr. Fleming testified to the United States Senate Finance Committee concerning Medicare Part D.
Dr. Fleming has developed and launched innovative benefit designs that drive the idea of choice, transparency, and independence into the decision-making process of the consumer. Through this work, he has become an inventor of three patent-pendings. He has led the development and launch of outreach communication/education programs that give the consumer information so they are engaged in the decision-making process. The Humana ePharmacy portal received more than 100 million hits in 2006 for this type of information.
Dr. Fleming received his BS Pharmacy from the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy, where he went on to receive his Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD). He also holds a BS in Biology from Transylvania University.
Dr. Fleming and his wife, Nancy, have two children (Hunter and Meredith) and are anxiously awaiting a Chinese adoption. He enjoys spending time with family, friends, golfing and running, where he has completed nine marathons. Dr. Fleming serves on the Board of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, the Louisville Healthcare Fellows, and is active in his church.
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Rick Ratliff
Acting Chief Executive Officer
SureScripts
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As acting chief executive officer for SureScripts, Mr. Ratliff oversees all technology development and advancement, implementation, and customer support efforts, in addition the development of alliances with strategic physician and pharmacy stakeholders.
Prior to joining SureScripts, Mr. Ratliff was co-founder and senior vice president of HEALTHvision Inc. where he created the original business and strategic plan for the company’s clinical messaging business. His responsibilities included managing the company’s sales and marketing organization, developing and implementing business plans for customer relationship management and eHealth consulting services, and creating the eCommerce strategy and business plan.
Previously, Mr. Ratliff served as vice president, healthcare information technologies, for VHA, Inc. While at VHA, he managed the development and rollout of VHAseCURE.net, a nationwide private network designed as a web-based health information utility for the VHA healthcare organizations across the United States.
He began his career two decades ago as a systems engineer at IBM Corporation and advanced through a succession of management positions with increasing responsibility, including leadership positions on IBM’s healthcare team as segment manager and client executive.
Mr. Ratliff graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a degree in Chemical Engineering. He also holds a Master’s in Business Administration from the University of Tulsa.
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William F. Jessee, MD, FACMPE
President and Chief Executive Officer
Medical Group Management Association |
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William F. Jessee, MD, FACMPE is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA), the nation’s leading voice for group medical practice, headquartered in Englewood, Colorado.
He holds academic appointments at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver, and at the University of North Carolina School of Public Health, Chapel Hill.
Dr. Jessee is Board Chair of Exempla Health System (Denver), Board Secretary of National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF), and Board Chair of Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education (CAHME).
He received his undergraduate degree at Stanford University and his medical degree at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine.
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Patricia N. Perry
Vice President, Digital Health Group
INTEL CORPORATION |
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Patricia N. Perry is vice president of the Digital Health Group,
Director of Product Delivery at Intel Corporation. She is responsible
for customer and in-home patient deployment of purpose-built
telehealth solutions, including regulated medical devices. In
addition, she is chartered with product distribution, supply chain
management and manufacturing of Intel’s Digital Health products
and solutions. Prior to Director of Product Delivery, Perry was
General Manager of Healthcare Information Technology. Perry joined
Intel in 1983.
Previously, Perry has served in a variety of management positions in
marketing, eBusiness and business planning. Perry also held several
positions in the Sales and Marking Group, including director of
Customer Business Solutions, manager of Internet Marketing and
eCommerce applications, manager of worldwide training and field
productivity and corporate accounts manager.
Prior to joining Intel, Perry was a product marketing engineer in the
Linear Integrated Circuits division at Fairchild Semiconductor.
Perry received her bachelor's degree in economics from the University
of Wisconsin in 1974. She received her master's degree from Santa
Clara University in 1981.
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Steven Waldren, M.D., M.S.
Director
Center for Health Information Technology
American Academy of Family Physicians |
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Steven E. Waldren, M.D., is director of the American Academy of Family Physicians’ Center for Health Information Technology. Waldren joined the AAFP in May 2004 because of his knowledge of design and management of health information systems, computer science, and medical informatics. Prior to joining the AAFP, Dr. Waldren was a National Library of Medicine Medical Informatics Fellow at the Univ. of Missouri, Columbia. Dr. Waldren is also a residency trained and board-certified family physician. Besides his role as director of the Center for Health-IT, he also participates in many health care informatics initiatives including co-chair of the ASTM International E31.25 Health Information Standards Subcommittee; co-chair of the Ambulatory Functionality Working Group of the Certification Commission for Health-IT; and co-chair of the AQA Alliance’s Data Aggregation and HIT Subcommittee. Dr. Waldren combines his strong technical informatics knowledge and his clinical knowledge to further the adoption of standards-based health-IT by physicians and consumers to improve the quality and safety of health care.
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