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Wes Rishel
Wes Rishel
VP Distinguished Analyst
Mckinleyville, CA USA
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Years of Experience
14 years at Gartner
47 years IT industry
Areas of Coverage
Healthcare

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Roles and Responsibilities
Wes Rishel covers personal health records, electronic health records, semantic interoperability, health information exchanges, enterprise master patient index, application integration, Health IT standards, natural language processing, vocabulary service providers and voice recognition He has worked in health IT for 35 years. Prior to Gartner he ran product development for healthcare IT vendors and consulted with medical centers on their architecture for application integration. Rishel serves on the Federal advisory Committee on Health IT standards. He served on the board of directors of HL7 for 25 years, spending two years as Chair. He has also served on the boards of HIMSS, WEDI, CCHIT and the eHealth Initiative. Awards: Louis M. Sullivan Award (WEDI), Ed Hammond Award (HL7).
Previous Experience
Mr. Rishel is a member of the Health IT Standards Committee, a federal advisory committee created by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. He was a trustee of the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology and a former commissioner. He has served on the Healthcare Information Technology Advisory Panel of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. He was the founding technical chair of Health Level Seven (HL7) and served as the board chair in 2002 and 2003, and continues on the board. He has served on the boards of directors of the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI), the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society and the eHealth Initiative. Prior to joining Gartner, Mr. Rishel consulted in healthcare integration and clinical systems and developed standards-based architectures for major health systems; designed clinical applications; helped to lead HL7's decision to apply XML, object modeling and software component technologies; and was the author of the HL7 implementation guide for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act claims attachments. Previously, Mr. Rishel was vice president of software development for several independent technology providers.
Professional Background
Wes Rishel Consulting, Principal, 7 years
Bell Atlantic Healthcare Systems, Vice President, Product Development, 7 years
Libra Technology, Vice President, R&D, 7 years
Industry Awards/Accolades
WEDI Louis M. Sullivan Award for Technical Leadership
HL7 Ed Hammond Volunteer of the Year Awards
Education
Mathematics, Dartmouth College
Electrical Engineering, University of Michigan




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Cool Vendors in Healthcare Providers, 2013 22-Apr-2013 Wes Rishel, Zafar Chaudry, M.D., Thomas J. Handler, M.D., Barry Runyon, Vi Shaffer
Top Actions for Healthcare Delivery Organization CIOs, 2013: Support Provider-Led Care Management 19-Feb-2013 Wes Rishel
Top Actions for Healthcare Delivery Organization CIOs: Get Realistic About HIPAA Security 13-Feb-2013 Wes Rishel
For Healthcare Delivery Organizations, Application Integration Does Not Produce Truly Integrated Applications 12-Feb-2013 Wes Rishel
IBM's Patient Care and Insights: A Promising Approach to Healthcare Big Data 27-Nov-2012 Wes Rishel, Jeff Cribbs