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Wes Rishel
VP Distinguished Analyst
Mckinleyville, CA USA
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Years of Experience
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14 years at Gartner
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47 years IT industry
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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.
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Wes Rishel Consulting, Principal, 7 years
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Bell Atlantic Healthcare Systems, Vice President, Product Development, 7 years
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Libra Technology, Vice President, R&D, 7 years
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Industry Awards/Accolades
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WEDI Louis M. Sullivan Award for Technical Leadership
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HL7 Ed Hammond Volunteer of the Year Awards
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Education
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Mathematics, Dartmouth College
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Electrical Engineering, University of Michigan
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Publish Date
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Author(s)
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Cool Vendors in Healthcare Providers, 2013
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22-Apr-2013
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Wes Rishel, Zafar Chaudry, M.D., Thomas J. Handler, M.D., Barry Runyon, Vi Shaffer
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Top Actions for Healthcare Delivery Organization CIOs, 2013: Support Provider-Led Care Management
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19-Feb-2013
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Wes Rishel
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Top Actions for Healthcare Delivery Organization CIOs: Get Realistic About HIPAA Security
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13-Feb-2013
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Wes Rishel
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For Healthcare Delivery Organizations, Application Integration Does Not Produce Truly Integrated Applications
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12-Feb-2013
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Wes Rishel
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IBM's Patient Care and Insights: A Promising Approach to Healthcare Big Data
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27-Nov-2012
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Wes Rishel, Jeff Cribbs
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