Board of Directors

Officers

 

Rick Cnossen

President and Chair of the Board of Directors,
Continua Health Alliance

Director of Personal Health Enabling,
Intel Corporation Digital Health Group

Rick Cnossen is the director of Personal Health Enabling for Intel in its Digital Health Group with a focus on medical device interoperability standards. He is currently leading a large, international, cross-industry consortium, the Continua Health Alliance, focused on the establishment of an eco-system of interoperable, personal telehealth systems.

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Horst Merkle

Vice President,
Continua Health Alliance

Director Information Management Sytems Diabetes Care,
Roche Diagnostics Corporation

Director Information Management Systems Diabetes Care since 2003. In this position I am responsible for the proposal and the development of key components for the Roche Diabetes Care information management product portfolio with focus on interoperability/connectivity, tele-health and standardization.

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Hyung Tai Kim, MD, MBA

Secretary,
Continua Health Alliance

Vice President, Research
Managing Partner, Transformational Development

Ascension Health

Hyung Tai Kim, MD, MBA, is the Vice President of Research for Ascension Health. He also serves as Managing Partner for Transformational Development, Ascension Health's internal innovation center, which is building the next platforms for healthcare delivery in the United States by taking non-traditional approaches to traditional problems facing healthcare.

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Bruce Henderson

Treasurer,
Continua Health Alliance

Senior Executive,
Price Waterhouse Coopers

Mr. Henderson is a senior executive with more than 30 years experience in leading, growing and advising health care systems, academic medical centers, payers and managed care organizations, large multi-specialty group practices and diversified health care businesses, as well as advising non-healthcare businesses about their healthcare related operations and costs. He has a clear and articulate vision of the market, the industry and the trends affecting each and is frequently sought as a knowledgeable and insightful speaker and executive coach. He is skilled in business and IT strategy and transformation, customer management, and technology enablers to improve quality, build competitive advantage and financial success. He is very knowledgeable about the Medicare Modernization Act, the development of a National Health Information Infrastructure, and the intended industry transforming implications of each.

     
 

Chuck Parker

Executive Director,
Continua Health Alliance

Chuck Parker is a healthcare professional with more than 20 years of experience in the industry, Charles was most recently the Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of Business Development and Marketing at Masspro, one of the United States' leading performance improvement organizations dedicated to advancing healthcare quality.

     

Board Members

 
 

Tom Boyle

VP Market Development
CA, Inc.

Tom Boyle has an extensive background across all aspects of strategic and tactical marketing. In his current role as vice president market development for the Emerging Technology Group at CA, Inc., Boyle is responsible for identifying emerging market trends that provide opportunity for CA to apply their core technologies in new and innovative ways. 

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Nicholas Augustinos

Global Healthcare Solutions Sr. Director, International Buisiness Solutions
Cisco Systems, Inc.

Nick Augustinos is healthcare senior director for the Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG). He brings 24 years of broad managerial and consulting experience and expertise working in business-to-business and business-to-consumers applications and services. He has worked with a diverse range of leading healthcare customers including healthcare delivery systems, healthcare insurers and government/public organizations. Nick is leading the Global Healthcare Solutions for IBSG working with network architects, engineers and business development managers, providing direction and thought leadership on Connected Healthcare, Telehealth, the HealthPresence Communication and Collaboration platform and other health management and care delivery initiatives.

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Fred Hosea, Ph.D

Program Manager for Clinical Technology
Kaiser Permanente

Fred Hosea, Ph.D. is Program Manager for Clinical Technology at Kaiser Permanente, the largest not-for-profit health plan in the United States, where he is responsible for the management of special projects and initiatives that require cross-functional coordination and support across business divisions and medical areas in Northern California, alignment of inter-regional stakeholders, and liaison with external organizations. He supports the long-term strategic development of clinical technologies working with sixteen Clinical Technology Committees, enterprise technology and process partners, and with capital projects teams to ensure that new technologies are assessed, planned and delivered successfully. He also supports work of Clinical Technology committees as liaison to the Sidney Garfield Healthcare Innovation Center, and works internationally to promote professional collaborations in clinical engineering training and innovative planning methodologies, including the WHO iHTP program.

     
 

Darrell Johnson

Vice President, Patient Management,
Cardiac Rhythm Disease Management (CRDM) Medtronic

Darrell Johnson joined Medtronic in June 2007. As Vice President of Patient Management, he is responsible for the global business strategy, deployment and utilization of technologies that will increase implanted cardiac device follow-up efficiency. 

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Kimio Minami

General Manager of Healthcare Systems Development Office,
Panasonic

Kimio Minami has more than 27 years of experience in consulting and sales in information systems architecture within Matsushita Electric (Panasonic), working predominantly with Japanese Government organizations and large enterprises. Mr. Minami's specialty is reorganizing management operations by making extensive use of IT solutions For the past five years, he has been engaged in the development of Internet service businesses based on consumer platforms such as Digital TV and Digital Video Recorders and the development of network infrastructure including network connectivity, authentication and billing systems.

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Joseph C. Kvedar, M.D.

Director, Center for Connected Health,
Partners HealthCare

Joseph C. Kvedar, M.D., is Founder and Director of the Center for Connected Health, a division of Partners HealthCare that is applying communications technology and online resources to improve access and delivery of quality patient care. Dr. Kvedar is internationally recognized for his leadership in the field of connected health. He is a past President and board member of the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) and co-editor of Home Telehealth: Connecting Care within the Community, the first book to report on the applications of technology to deliver quality healthcare in the home. Dr. Kvedar is also a board-certified dermatologist and Associate Professor of Dermatology at Harvard Medical School.

     

 

Paul Coebergh van den Braak

Philips Intellectual Property and Standards, Senior Director Standardization,
Philips

Paul Coebergh van den Braak has more than 25 years of experience in managing product and technology development in various companies and application fields, with emphasis on software, electronics and ICT systems. He was with Philips for 8 years in the eighties and again since 1998. Over the last 10 years he has frequently been responsible for advanced developments in the Healthcare domain including Home Healthcare.

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 Clint McClellan

Senior Director of Market Development
Qualcomm, Incorporated

Clint McClellan is currently the senior director of Market Development for QUALCOMM Incorporated. McClellan's current responsibilities include establishing opportunities in the Life Sciences market. McClellan joined QUALCOMM in December of 1997 as director of strategic marketing. McClellan brings a wealth of wireless industry analysis experience to QUALCOMM. Since joining QUALCOMM, McClellan has served in business development roles and established the Global Industry Analyst program and Global Market Intelligence program at QUALCOMM.

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Youngsoo Kim

Vice President, Corporate Strategy Planning Team,
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Youngsoo Kim is Vice President of Corporate Strategy Planning Team of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. a position he has held since January, 2004. In this function he is responsible for the areas of strategic alliance, mergers and acquisitions as well as new business development. Prior to current position, he was Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Samsung Corning Micro-optics, Inc. which was a joint venture company between Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. and Corning, Inc. for optical component business.

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Deepak Ayyagari, PhD

Sharp

Dr. Deepak Ayyagari currently serves as Principal Scientist at Sharp Laboratories of America where he leads the Personal Healthcare Technologies project. This project is focused on the research and development of innovative technologies and product concepts for consumer oriented in-home and personal healthcare and wellness applications. Dr. Ayyagari represents Sharp Corporation as a founding member of the Board of Director of the Continua Health Alliance.

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