The Tennessee eHealth Advisory Council

On June 1, Governor Phil Bredesen appointed members to the eHealth Advisory Council chartered through Executive Order 35.

• Follow this link for the press release
• Follow this link for the press release concerning the Executive Order

Quoting from the press release: "By design, the Council includes sixteen members representing Tennessee’s provider community, employers, regional health care information organizations, payers and consumers. The executive order calls for this Council to create a plan to promote the use of electronic medical records by health care stakeholders across Tennessee and to identify obstacles to the implementation of effective health information infrastructure. The Council will be called upon to advise state government on how to more effectively promote the successful adoption of EMRs. One of the Governor’s primary goals for this Council is to offer constructive paths to minimize and eliminate duplicative efforts while leveraging innovation." Members are:

• Antoine Agassi, Nashville State of Tennessee Chairman of the Governor’s eHealth Advisory Council
• Peter Dudley Greaves, Lebanon HCA Healthcare, Senior Enterprise Architect
• Denise D. Wood, Collierville FedEx Corporation, Corporate Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer
• David H. Sensibaugh, Kingsport Eastman Chemical Company, Director of Integrated Health
• Marlin Clifford Chapman, Smyrna Nissan North America, Director of Human Resources, Compensation and Benefits
• Linda Eskind Rebrovick, Nashville Dell, Vice President Health Care
• Dr. William R. Stead, Nashville Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Associate Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs & Chief Information Officer
• David C. Guth, Nashville Centerstone, Chief Executive Officer & Co-founder
• Dr. David R. Reagan, Mountain Home Carespark RHIO, Chairman of the Board James H. Quillen VA Medical Center, Chief of Staff
• Alan Leon Hill, Knoxville Innovation Valley Health Information Network Executive Director ClearPath Group
• Robert Steven Gordon, Collierville Mid-South eHealth Alliance, Former Chairman of the Board Baptist Memorial Health Care, Executive Vice President & Chief Administrative Officer
• Jana Lynn Skewes, Signal Mountain Shared Health, President & CEO
• Bradley Steven Karro, Nashville Caremark Rx, Inc., Executive Vice President
• Vicky Gregg, Chattanooga BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee, President & CEO
• Dr. Winnie Ruth Toler, Franklin State of Tennessee, Bureau of TennCare, Chief Network Officer
• Dr. Andrea D. Gelzer, Hartford, CT CIGNA HealthCare, Senior Vice President Clinical Public Affairs
• Elisa D. Parker, Franklin Pilkenton Real Estate Co., Affiliated Real Estate Broker