Board Chair - Donald T. Mon, PhD
Donald T. Mon, PhD, serves as the chair of the HL7 Board of Directors and leads the Standards and Interoperability practice in the Center for the Advancement of Health Information Technology at RTI International. He has 30+ years of experience in the areas of health information management/technology (HIM/HIT) and informatics practice, research, and advocacy. He is a national and international leader in the development of health/HIT policy and functional, data, and interoperability standards for electronic health records (EHRs), personal health records (PHRs) and health information exchange (HIE).
Prior to joining RTI, Don led the American Health Information Management Association's (AHIMA) professional practice initiatives. There, he was instrumental in transitioning the Secretariat and Administrator functions of ISO Technical Committee 215-Health Informatics (ISO/TC 215) and the US Technical Advisory Group (US TAG) over to AHIMA, helped establish the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT), and worked on a number of federal HIT projects. As chief information officer and assistant dean in the Biological Sciences Division/Pritzker School of Medicine at the University of Chicago, he implemented HIPAA initiatives and enhanced its computing capacity through a $1.6 million Center of Excellence award. He has also developed IT strategic and business process re-engineering plans, and helped design, develop, and maintain large scale databases and information systems for Catholic Healthcare West; University of Illinois at Chicago; Premier, Inc.; the Oracle Corporation; Rush University Medical Center, and Schwab Rehabilitation Hospital.
In addition to being the chair of Health Level Seven (HL7) International, he is also co-chair of the HL7 EHR Work Group, President of the Public Health Data Standards Consortium (PHDSC), Vice Convener of Work Group 1-Data Standards in ISO/TC 215, a Subject Matter Expert in the US TAG, and has served on numerous EHR, PHR, quality measurement, and secondary data use, and healthcare transformation expert panels.
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