In addition to the recent CCHIT appointments, many Siemens executives have been asked to serve on other industry committees, work groups and panels, including:

Charlene Underwood, M.B.A., director, government and industry affairs, is currently serving as a member on the American Health Information Community's (AHIC) Quality Workgroup and Quality Expert Panel. The workgroup makes recommendations to the AHIC so that healthcare IT can be used to provide the data needed for the development of quality measures that are useful to patients and others in the healthcare industry, automate the measurement of a comprehensive current and future set of quality measures, and accelerate the use of clinical decision support that can improve performance on those quality measures.


Terry Jacobs, director, electronic health records and emerging initiatives, was appointed as a steering committee member to the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Enterprise Information Systems Steering Committee. The Committee strives to lead the profession, the industry and other key stakeholders in solving challenges and affecting change, as related to the aspects of administrative, clinical, financial and technical IT foundations that span the continuum of patient care in the enterprise setting.

Floyd Eisenberg, M.D., M.P.H., senior physician consultant, clinical informatics, was elected as co-chairperson of Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise's (IHE) Quality Domain Technical Committee. This committee focuses on infrastructure necessary to share information relevant to quality improvement in electronic patient care and healthcare records. In addition, Floyd was named to Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel's (HITSP) National Quality Forum Expert Panel on Identifying Core Data Elements for Electronic Healthcare Information Systems.

Susan Matney, R.N., M.S., clinical informatics, was elected to serve a two-year term on the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation (IHTSDO®) Quality Assurance Committee. The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is the U.S. member of the newly-formed IHTSDO. Matney was one of three U.S. nominations to the Quality Assurance Committee selected by NLM, in consultation with the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology and the Chairs of the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics and HITSP. IHTSDO seeks to improve the health of humankind generally by owning, distributing, operating and developing suitable health terminology products, including SNOMED CT®.

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