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=Provider Directories Statement of Commitment Tracker=

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 * **Organization** || **Participant Name(s)** || **Statement of Commitment** || **Committed Deliverables** || **Workgroup Commitment** ||
 * 3M Health Information Systems || Ron Sawdey || I will participate in the S&I Framework Initiative for Provider Directories on behalf of 3M Health Information Systems and offer my expertise in helping to develop practical and robust specifications for the implementation of Provider Directories. || Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars, review and comment on work group products, and calls for consensus; review and provide comments on the various requirements and specifications developed by the Sprint Team as needed. ||  ||
 * ABILITY Network Inc. || Brett Peterson,W. McLain Causey || ABILITY will participate in the S&I Framework Provider Directories initiative from the perspective of an in-production Direct Project HISP. || Weekly participation in calls. Help draft specifications. || TBD ||
 * Allscripts || Derrick Evans || I on the behalf of the organization commit to participate in the S&I Frameworks initiatives and provide advice from our experts at Allscripts with the goal being to be a part of the health community in creating a robust and scalable healthcare system. || Weekly participation in teleconferences, webinars, meetings, review and comment on work products and participate as needed. ||  ||
 * BCBSA/X12 || Margaret Weiker, Don Bechtel, Gail Kocher || ASC X12 commits to participation in the S&I Framework Provider Directories initiative to provide subject matter expertise regarding existing standards and data content of provider directories along with harmonizing X12 provider directory work products for any identified gaps. || Weekly participation in all meetings along with review and comment on all WG products. || All ||
 * Cal eConnect || Aaron Seib, Robert Cothren || I will participate in S&I Framework Initiatives on behalf of Cal eConnect, offer my technical and subject matter expertise to help engineer specifications and solutions, and represent the interests and concerns of California stakeholders to Initiative workgroups. || Regular participation in teleconferences, webinars, and other meetings, review and comment on work products, and other participation as needed. || Certificate Discovery for Direct Project, Electronic Service Information Discovery ||
 * Cequs Inc. || Peter Bachman || Cequs Inc. commits to participation in the S&I Framework Provider Directories initiatives to support broad scale interoperability, provide expertise on existing standards and needs of current NwHIN projects that require secure, scalable, and accessible directory attributes || Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars, review and comment on workgroup products, calls for consensus; review and provide comments for various documents and specifications as needed. Liason with other stakeholders. ||  ||
 * CMS || Daniel Kalwa || I commit to participate in the Provider Directories initiative. || Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars, calls for consensus, review and comment of workgroup products as needed. ||  ||
 * Covisint || Peter Greaves, Peter Gilbert || Covisint commits to participation in the S&I Framework Provider Directories initiative, bringing expertise in standards, architecture and identity management. || Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars, review and comment on workgroup products, calls for consensus; review and provide comments for various documents and specifications as needed. ||  ||
 * dbMotion || Ophir Lotan || I will participate on behalf of dbMotion. || Participating in meetings, reviewing artifacts and technical input. || Certificate Discovery for Direct Project, Electronic Service Information Discovery ||
 * Discoverture Health Solutions || Srini Krishnamoorthy || •Supporting providers in real-world pilot implementations

•Writing code for production or test implementation || Supporting providers in real-world pilot implementations ||  ||
 * eClinicalWorks || Ananya Gupta || I will participate in the initiative on behalf of eClinicalWorks and will contribute towards Provider Directory and CDA Implementation Consolidation project initiative. || Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars, review and comment of workgroup products as needed. || All ||
 * EHR Doctors. Inc. || Richard Braman || EHR Doctors is committed to attend the S&I Provider Directory workgroup meetings, and contribute technical expertise to this initiative. || Public reference implementation of HPD at ldap://nhin.medibridge.net:389 || Certificate Discovery for Direct Project, Electronic Service Information Discovery ||
 * Enablecare || Robert Dieterle || Contribute ideas and information based on over 30 years of industry experience from provider and vendor organizations. || Work other committee members to define and create the deliverables as required by the work group || Electronic Service Information Discovery ||
 * EnableCare || Robert Dieterle || I commit to participation in the S&I Framework Provider Directories initiatives to support broad scale interoperability, provide expertise, and share our experience in developing user cases, functionality specifications and design of provider directories to support diverse healthcare organizations. || Participate in weekly teleconferences/webinars, F2F meetings, review and comment of workgroup products. || All ||
 * GE Healthcare || John Moehrke || Provide subject matter expertise, standards development involvement, and guidance on implementation. http://healthcaresecprivacy.blogspot.com/ || Documentation || Electronic Service Information Discovery ||
 * Health Market Science || Michael L. Nelson || I will participate in the S&I Framework Initiative for Provider Directories on behalf of Health Market Science and offer my subject matter expertise on provider matching and minimizing false positive and false negative matches || Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars, review and comment of workgroup products as needed. || Use Case ||
 * Holon Solutions || Sandra Schafer || Holon Solutions commits to participation in the S&I Framework initiatives to help ensure interoperability and will provide input and expertise into the technical descriptions and guides for use of provider directories to provide access to digital certificates, electronic endpoint address, Internet addresses, Direct Project secure e-mail address etc. I will participate on behalf of Holon Solutions. || Weekly participation in teleconferences, webinars, meetings, review and comment on work products and participate as needed. ||  ||
 * Iatric Systems || Mary Moewe || Commits to participation in S & I Framework Provider Directories, and Transition of care as it relates to harmonization of CCR with CDA and CCD. || Participation in teleconferences/webinars, review and comment on work products as requested, weekly participation in calls as available. || Use Case ||
 * IBM || Karen Witting, Nitin Jain, Deanna Nole, Mary-Sara Jones || IBM commits to participation in the S&I Framework Provider Directories initiatives to support broad scale interoperability, provide expertise on existing standards and needs of current NwHIN exchange and direct projects. || Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars, review and comment of workgroup products. Acting as a liaison to standards bodies. || All ||
 * Independent || Dr Michael Brody || I am a doctor in private practice. I have been involved in a number of initiatives in the area of Health Information Technology. The input of doctors in private practice who are primary users of Health Information Technology is essential to the sucessful implementation of HIT in the ambulatory setting. The standards that are developed need to be able to support the doctors who are providing care to patients in the ambulatory environment. I commit to participate in this work group to help insure that the final deliverables developed by this project are compatible with the goal of providing quality care to patients in the ambulatory clinical setting. || Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars,participation in the F2F meeting June 15. Participation in the WIKI discussions and providing input and insight from a physician in the ambulatory environment. ||  ||
 * Independent || Warren Melnick || I am a IT Consultant in the Medical Technology and Security area and with EMR software authors. I have a Juris Doctor and used to be a practicing attorney. The input of technology consultants who works with solo practitioners and small practices who are primary users of Health Information Technology is essential to the successful implementation of HIT in the ambulatory setting. The standards that are developed need to be able to support the independent doctors and small practices who are providing care to patients in the ambulatory environment. I commit to participate in this work group to help insure that the final deliverables developed by this project are compatible with the goal of providing quality care to patients in the ambulatory clinical setting. || Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars,participation in the F2F meetings. Participation in the WIKI discussions and providing input and insight from a medical IT consultant with 25+ years of technical knowledge and legal knowledge. || Certificate Discovery for Direct Project ||
 * Indiana Health Information Exchange || John B. Sanchez || I will participate in the S&I Framework Initiative for Provider Directories on behalf of Indiana Health Information and offer my technical expertise on architecting and engineering a Provider Directory specification and solution. || Weekly participating in teleconferences/webinars, review and comment on workgroup materials/products, work towards develop a working example of the specification derived. || Use Case ||
 * Informatics Corporation of America (ICA) || Tim Dunnington || We will participate in the S&I Framework Provider Directories Initiative on behalf of Informatics Corporation of America (ICA) and assist in possible reference implementation of Provider Directory components. || We expect participation in conference calls, calls for consensus/voting and other activities as needed. || Use Case, Reference Implementation, Pilot ||
 * Inpriva, Inc. || Don Jorgenson, Pat Pyette || Inpriva commits to participation in the S&I Framework Provider Directories initiatives from the viewpoint of a Direct Project HISP and standards for healthcare security/privacy services. || Participation in calls, review/comment on work products and calls for consensus. Support development of use cases and implementation specifications. ||  ||
 * Louisiana Health Care Quality Forum || Al Manint || I commit to participate in the Provider Directory initiative. || Weekly participation in teleconference/webinars, review and comment of workgroup products. The use case I’m most interested in is certificate management but want to be versed in this whole initiative. ||  ||
 * Massachusetts eHealth Institute || Kris Cyr, Dawn Heisey-Grove || We will participate in the S&I Framework Initiative for Provider Directories on behalf of MeHI and offer insight into MA Provider Directory initiatives as they progress. || Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars, review and comment of workgroup products as needed. ||  ||
 * Mayo Clinic || Michael Woodcock || I will participate in the S&I Provider Directory Initiative. || I will participate in weekly conference calls and workgroup activities; review and comment on various documents and specifications as needed. ||  ||
 * McKesson || Marian Reed || I will participate in the S&I Framework Initiative for Provider Directories on behalf of McKesson Corporation and offer my subject matter expertise on provider matching and minimizing false positive and false negative matches. || Participation in phone calls, review of documents and timely voting on calls for consensus; editing and participating in decisions on Wiki pages; participating in the development of documents, and providing constructive feedback. ||  ||
 * MedAllies, Inc || Vincent Lewis || I will participate in the S&I Framework Initiative for Provider Directories on behalf of MedAllies, Inc. and offer my technical expertise on architecting and engineering a Provider Directory specification and solution. || Weekly participation in teleconference/webinars, review and comment on standards and specifications and assist on a Reference Implementation of Provider Directory features. || All ||
 * Medicity || Eric Heflin, Steve Tripp || Medicity commits to participation in the S&I Framework initiatives to help ensure broad scale interoperability, application of appropriate global and national standards, and to help remediate any identified gaps. || Active participation in weekly calls, helping to draft procedures, documents and specifications. Acting as a liaison to standards bodies and to the Nationwide Health Information Exchange. Assisting the Reference Implementation, Harmonization, Testing and other S&I Framework teams. || Use Case ||
 * MediConnect Global, Inc. || Eric Sharp, Chad Feinauer, Amy Anderson || MediConnect Global is committed to participate fully in the S&I Framework Initiatives which include the esMD Initiatives and the associated workgroups as well as the Provider Directories. || MediConnect Global is committed to participating fully in the esMD Initiatives and the associated workgroups and the Provider Directories workgroup by contributing our industry experience and expertise as we attend the meetings, conference calls, and assist with the development of standards, content, and documentation. || Certificate Discovery for Direct Project, Electronic Service Information Discovery ||
 * MedPlus, a Quest Diagnostics Company || Scott Chapin || MedPlus commits to participation in the S&I Framework Provider Directories initiative, by participating in meetings, conference calls, sharing our expertise, developing and implementing documents and participating in pilots as appropriate. || Participation in calls; review of deliverables and timely voting on calls for consensus; editing and discussion on Wiki pages; participation in development of documents; and constructive feedback; pilot participation as appropriate. ||  ||
 * NaviNet || Laurance Stuntz || NaviNet commits to participation in the S&I Framework Provider Directories initiatives to support broad scale interoperability, bringing the perspective of the thousands of small provider practices that use our network today. || Participation in weekly teleconferences/webinars as available, F2F meetings, review and comment on workgroup products. || Use Case ||
 * NaviNet, Inc || Chris Tremblay || I will participate in the esMD workgroup on behalf of NaviNet, Inc. NaviNet is a certified HIH in the CMS pilot program. As a healthcare IT vendor for both healthcare providers and payers, NaviNet is committed to participating in initiatives that promote interoperability, standards development and adoption, and promoting efficiency and cost-reduction across the spectrum of administrative, financial and clinical healthcare transactions. || Attendance, collaboration and participation in workgroup activities. || Certificate Discovery for Direct Project, Electronic Service Information Discovery ||
 * NEHEN || Daniel Kearney || I will participate in the S&I Framework Initiative for Provider Directories on behalf of NEHEN to share our experience in the design and implementation of provider registries. || Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars, review and comment of workgroup products as needed. || Use Case ||
 * NeHII || Joni Bass || I will participate on behalf of NeHII. || Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars, calls for consensus, clinical and technical model development, review and comment of workgroup products as needed. || TBD ||
 * Newborn Coalition || Annamarie Saarinen || Along with the board of advisors and leadership of the Newborn Coalition/Newborn Foundation, and in conjunction with additional organizations that I represent, commit to engage in, provide test bed experience and execute initiatives that will help accelerate interoperability and adoption of standards and health information technology with the aim of improving care and outcomes for patients. || Participation in teleconferences/webinars, calls for consensus, leveraging Direct, testing tools, field and use case experience, editing and discussion on Wiki pages, review and comment of workgroup products as needed, collaboration/liaison with other ONC committees and participants, direct access to neonatal/pediatric health pilots. || Use Case ||
 * Newborn Coalition || Jim Bialick || Along with the board of advisors and leadership of the Newborn Coalition/Newborn Foundation, and in conjunction with additional organizations that I represent, commit to engage in, provide test bed experience and execute initiatives that will help accelerate interoperability and adoption of standards and health information technology with the aim of improving care and outcomes for patients. || Participation in teleconferences/webinars, calls for consensus, leveraging Directories Initiative and the Direct project; testing tools, field and use case experience, editing and discussion on Wiki pages, review and comment of workgroup products as needed, direct pipeline into neonatal/pediatric health pilots, collaboration/liaison with other ONC committees and participants. ||  ||
 * NextGate || Les Marcum || I will participate in the S&I Framework Initiative for Provider Directories on behalf of NextGate and offer to contribute my technical experience in architecting and engineering registry solutions in large institutions both in the US and Commonwealth countries toward the development of a Provider Directory specification and solution. || Weekly participating in teleconferences/webinars, review and comment on workgroup materials/products, work towards develop a working example of the specification derived. || TBD ||
 * Office of e-Health Initiatives, State of Tennessee || Will Rice || I commit to participate in the Provider Directory (PD - Sprint Team) initiative. || Weekly participation in teleconference/webinars, review and comment of workgroup products. ||  ||
 * OZ Systems || Ken Pool || My organization is committed to attend calls, contribute to work item development. || My organization is committed to attend calls, contribute to work item development. || Certificate Discover for Direct Project, Electronic Service Information Discovery ||
 * Secure Exchange Solutions || Dan Kazzaz, Michele Darnell, Boris Shur || SES will participate in the S&I Framework Provider Directories initiative from the perspective of an in-production Direct Project HISP and experience in development of the secure messaging solutions. || Weekly participation in conference calls, calls for consensus and discussion on the wiki pages. With experience working on the Direct Project, will participate in the development of Use cases, reference implementation and pilot activities. ||  ||
 * SHAPE HITECH, LLC || Lester H Keepper, Ernest W. Grove || We commit to participation in the S&I Framework's Provider Directories initiative, and will contribute our experience and knowledge in Trusted Identification interoperability learnings, tools, and reference implementations for use of structured layers of Identification for Privacy needs for the purposes of advancing interoperability and computability of relevant clinical summary health information. || Participation in teleconferences, webinars, experience form privacy research and identification, the editing and discussion on Wiki pages, review and comment on workgroup products as needed. Pilot project participation as appropriate and feasible. ||  ||
 * Siemens Healthcare || David Tao, Dan Huber || I, representing Siemens, commit to participation in the S&I Framework's Provider Directory initiative, and will contribute learnings, samples, use cases, and customer feedback regarding the appropriate use of provider directories to support exchange of health information. || Weekly participation in phone calls; review of deliverables and timely voting on calls for consensus; editing and discussion on Wiki pages; experiences from the field and product development to the extent these are available; pilot testing and constructive feedback (bug reports, etc.) of tools that are produced by the project. || TBD ||
 * Social Security Administration || Marty Prahl, Shanks Kande || Social Security Administration (SSA) commits to participation in the S&I Framework Provider Directories initiative. SSA is involved in standards-based exchange of patient health information via the Nationwide Health Information Network to support the SSA disability determination process. || Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars, review and comment on workgroup products, calls for consensus; review and provide comments for various documents and specifications as needed. ||  ||
 * SuccessEHS, Inc. || Adele Allison || SuccessEHS commits to participation for supporting the development of acceptable standards to further broad interoperability adoption and for specific support and strength in positioning for SuccessEHS clients to increase quality and safety for the patients they serve. || Participating in calls, webinars, review/contribution of content, feedback, SEHS stakeholder communication and education, voting and such other participation as deem appropriate and feasible. || Electronic Service Information Discovery ||
 * SYSNET International, Inc. || Odysseas Pentakalos, Ph.D. || I commit to participate in the S&I Framework Provider Directories initiative and to provide expertise, and share our experience in he design and implementation of provider registries. || Participation in calls; review of deliverables, editing and discussion on Wiki pages; participation in development of documents; pilot participation and implementation as needed. ||  ||
 * Techsant Technologies || Sri Koka || I would like to participate and commit to the S&I Frameworks all the three initiatives. || Weekly participation in conference calls, calls for consensus and discussion on the wiki pages. With experience working on the Direct Project and Connect Project partner, I will bring in my knowledge to the table in developing Use cases, reference implementation and pilot activities. || Use Case & Pilot ||
 * Telligen || Stan Rankins || I will participate on behalf of Iowa Foundation for Medical Care (IFMC) || Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars, calls for consensus, clinical and technical model development, review and comment of workgroup products as needed. ||  ||
 * Tennessee Primary Care Association (TPCA) || Mara Robertson || I commit to participate in the S&I Framework initiatives, particularly Transition of Care (ToC) and Provider Directories (PD), contributing my experience and knowledge in HIT, healthcare interoperability and related technologies, particularly as they relate primary care and safety-net healthcare environments. || Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars, calls for consensus, testing tools, experiences from the field to the extent these are available, editing and discussion on Wiki pages, review and comment of workgroup products as needed. ||  ||
 * The Barcenas Group, Inc || Camilo Barcenas || The Barcenas Group will work to support the efforts and work of the S&I Framework, specifically work involved with the provider directory and associated functionalities. || The Barcenas Group will work to determine the deliverables to commit. || PD sprint team, ESID, and CDDP ||
 * The National Council for Community Behavioral Health Care || Michael Lardiere || The National Council is committed to assisting with the development of the interoperability framework for sharing behavioral health and physical health data and has committed resources to assist with the project. I am committed to supporting Providers with real-world pilot implementations as well as Participation in Federal Advisory Committees (FACAs) or their workgroups. || Representing behavioral health providers nationally and having access to many who have implemented EHRs and are working to share information I would be able to bring these organizations to the table to assist with real-world pilots. The National Council will coordinate and solicit input and otherwise represent the interests of behavioral health providers. The Council will also work with selected state HIEs to develop the framework in those selected states || Electronic Service Information Discovery, Certificate Discovery for Direct Project ||
 * Tunitas Group || Bill Pankey || As a contractor to the Veterans Healthcare Administration, I wish to participate in the S&I Framework Initiative for Provider Directories and offer subject matter expertise. || Weekly participation in teleconferences/webinars, review and comment on workgroup products, review and provide comments for various documents and specifications as needed. || TBD ||
 * Waiting Room Solutions || Lawrence Gordon || Waiting Room Solutions will will participate in the S&I Framework Health Query initiative by participating in meetings, conference calls and participating on committees. We will be involved with testing implementation specifications in the ambulatory environment. We are interested in the adoption of standardized data sets for medication and laboratory messaging. || Participation on committees and conference calls related the adoption and implementation of standardized data sets for the purpose of facilitating health information exchange. || Electronic Service Information Discovery ||