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Peter N. Grant, JD, PhD - Chair Partner and Co-Chair, Health Law Group, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, and Instructor, Harvard University and University of California, Berkeley, Schools of Public Health in Seattle, Washington and San Francisco, California. Peter Grant is President and CEO of Health Care Conference Administrators, L.L.C., a company which sponsors media and educational events, including national conferences, internet-based events, and publications on matters of health care practice and policy. He is an Instructor at both the Harvard and University of California at Berkeley Schools of Public Health. Mr. Grant is a partner and chair of the Health Law Section of Davis Wright Tremaine, L.L.P. (DWT). DWT has fourteen offices with 375 attorneys, including approximately 50 health care attorneys. Mr. Grant is Listed in the 1996-97, 1997-1998, 1998-1999, 1999-2000, 2000-2001 and 2001-2002 editions of The Best Lawyers in America. He is past president of both the California Society of Healthcare Attorneys and the Northern California Chapter of the Healthcare Financial Management Association. Mr. Grant is general counsel to both the IPA Association of America and the California Integrated Healthcare Association. Mr. Grant has a BA in Plan II, with special honors, from the University of Texas at Austin. He attended the Sorbonne and Free University of West Berlin. He received a JD from the University of Texas at Austin and an MA and PhD from Harvard University.
Steve S. Lazarus, PhD - Vice Chair Steven S. Lazarus, PhD, FHIMSS, is president of MSA Corp and managing principal of The Boundary Information Group (BIG) in Denver, CO. Steve is one of the leading contributors to policy development and business solution implementation in healthcare utilizing electronic commerce. Since 1993, he has served on the board of directors and in key leadership positions with the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI). He has been instrumental in building consensus among providers, payers, government, consumers, and vendors on the need to have standardized implementation guides for all electronic commerce transactions. He is actively engaged in developing business models for realizing the benefits of HIPAA regulations, as well as participating in an advisory capacity for the Interoperability Internet Security Pilot Project under co-sponsorship of WEDI and the Association for Electronic Health Care Transactions (AFEHCT). As the former associate executive director of the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA), the Center for Research in Ambulatory Health Care Administration, and the American College of Medical Practice Executives, Steve has had extensive experience in productivity benchmarking for medical group practices. His current consulting activities focus on information systems strategic planning, systems selection, and implementation management for physician groups, integrated delivery systems, and hospitals with significant ambulatory care delivery capabilities. Steve earned his BS degree in industrial engineering from Cornell University and MS degree in industrial engineering and operations research from Polytechnic University. The University of Rochester awarded him a PhD in business administration.
John Iglehart Founding Editor, Health Affairs, Project Hope, and National Correspondent, New England Journal of Medicine, Washington, D.C. Since 1981, John Iglehart has been Editor of Health Affairs, a bimonthly policy journal that he founded under the aegis of Project HOPE. During this same period, Mr. Iglehart also served as national correspondent for the New England Journal of Medicine, for which he wrote more than 100 essays called Health Policy Report.
Kepa Zubeldia, M.D. Claredi's founder, Kepa Zubeldia, is a highly respected leader in the healthcare EDI industry. He has been intimately involved with healthcare EDI for the last 20 years, and has participated in a number of industry bodies. Until October, 2000, Dr. Zubeldia was vice president of Technology for ENVOY Corporation, the largest healthcare EDI clearinghouse, now a part of WebMD. In October of 1999, Dr. Zubeldia was appointed to the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS), the advisory committee to the Secretary of Health and Human Services on HIPAA issues. In addition, he serves as president of the Association For Electronic Health Care Transactions (AFEHCT), and co-chair of the Security Policy Advisory Group of the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI). A leader in establishing healthcare EDI standards, Dr. Zubeldia led the effort within ASC X12 to create standards for both batch and interactive claims. He is a US healthcare designated expert with UN/EDIFACT, and he led the Healthcare Internet Security Interoperability Pilot, sponsored by WEDI and AFEHCT. In November, 2001, Dr. Zubeldia was presented the prestigious Leadership in Technology Award by WEDI. This may be the highest recognition available within the industry. The award was given during the WEDI SNIP HIPAA Implementation Summit in Orlando, to honor Dr. Zubeldia's contributions to the advancement of EDI and eCommerce technology in healthcare. Dr. Zubeldia also has an impressive history with enterprises that provide EDI services to healthcare organizations. In 1982, he founded Micro Consulting, later renamed Claimnet, the first provider-based clearinghouse. In 1988, he founded Medical Electronic Data Exchange, later known as Synaptek, which became a leading national all-payer health care transaction processing clearinghouse. In 1996 the company was merged with NEIC, which was later bought by ENVOY Corporation, the largest healthcare clearinghouse.