C. Peter Waegemann, President 

Professional

C. Peter Waegemann is President of mHealth Initiative Inc., a Boston-based not-for-profit organization promoting mHealth applications nationally and internationally. Since the 1980s, he has been a visionary and promoter of electronic medical record systems (EMRs), including founding the Medical Records Institute (MRI), a Boston-based organization involved in applied research and functioning as an educational clearinghouse, where he served as CEO and was also the Executive Director of its Center for Cell Phone Applications in HealthCare (C-PAHC). Twenty-five years ago, he created MRI’s annual conference Toward an Electronic Patient Record (TEPR), which drew up to 3000 registrants. Waegemann defined EMRs, PHRs, and EHRs long before, consistent with, those promulgated subsequently by national task forces. Seven years ago, Waegemann became convinced that cell phones would be a major tool in healthcare, and he served two years as chair of MoHCA, the Mobile Healthcare Alliance, the predecessor to mHealth Initiative. Considered an international leader in health informatics with a special interest in electronic patient record systems, standards, networking, mHealth, and the creation of the national information infrastructure, he is the most sought-after speaker these topics. In 2007, his quest for innovations in healthcare and his courage in challenging the status quo led to Waegemann’s being cited as one of 20 outstanding people "who make healthcare better" (HealthLeaders 2007).

Founder or initiator of

• ISO TC 215 on Health Informatics (Co-initiator) (link)
• CORBAmed (link to OMG)
• C-PAHC
• CCR: Father of the term "Continuity of Care Record"

Speaking and Publication Topics

• EHR/EMR Progress
• What is the Best Strategy for EHR implementation?
• Analysis of eHealth
• New ways of Confidentiality and Security Protection
• The mHealth Revolution
• The Future of Healthcare
• Understanding Where Our Society is Going
• The Consumer Movement in Healthcare
• eHealth and mHealth: Which will win?
• mHealth Strategy for Undeveloped Countries
• Leapfrogging IT with mHealth
• Overcoming Legacy HIT Systems with mHealth
• The New Paradigm of Healthcare: Participatory Health
• Cost Savings with Information Technology

Publications

• Regular contributor to multiple HIT publications; 100+ published articles
• Editor of 18 proceedings books
• Past Editor-in-Chief of "Health IT Advisory Report" newsletter
• Handbook of Record Storage and Space Management, Greenwood Press, 1987
• Strategy for Information and Image Management for the 1990s, Optical Disk Institute, 1991
• Handbook of Optical Memory Systems, Medical Records Institute (4th Edition)

Health Informatics Leadership

• 2008-present Board Member VUHID (voluntary university health ID)
• 1985-2009 Chair, TEPR Conference
• 2004-2005 Chair, MoHCA (Mobile Healthcare Alliance)
• 2001-2005 Chair, ASTM International, Chair of Committee E31
• 2005-2007 Chair, National Conference on Health Information Capture
• 2004: Board Member of SNOMED INTERNATIONAL
• 2000-2001 Chair of ASTM Subcommittee E 31.26 on Personal (Consumer) Health Records
• 1995-2002 Chairman, Centre for the Advancement of Electronic Health Records, Ltd. (London, England)
• 2001-2002 Co-Chair of Consensus Group on Information Capture and Report Generation
• 1995-2001 Chair, American National Standards Institute’s Healthcare Informatics Standards Board (ANSI HISB), the predecessor of HITSP
• 1995- Sept.1998 Co-chair of CORBAmed (Healthcare Domain Task Force of the world’s largest software consortium on interoperability)
• 1997 National Coordinator for the United States: GIS Theme Two (Health Care, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Education, and other services to the public)
• 1994-1995 Chair of Subcommittee ASTM E31.20 on Authentication of Healthcare Information (Electronic Signatures)
• 1991-1995 Chair, International Patient Card Standards Council
• Past Member of the Board of Advisors, Illinois Institute of Technology
• Past Member of the Chairman’s Advisory Committee for Business Planning, ISO TC 215
• Former Member of the Executive Committee American National Standards Institute’s Healthcare Informatics Standards Board (ANSI HISB, after 8 years of being Chair – HISB was the predecessor of HITSP)
• Past Chair, US Technical Advisory Group (TAG) for ISO Technical Committee TC 215 for Health Informatics
• Past Chair, Task Group on Consumer Interests, ISO TC 215 on Health Informatics
• Past Chair, Task Group on Web Activity Standards, ISO TC 215 on Health Informatics
• Past Chair, ASTM E31 Standards Committee on Health Informatics
• Past Chair, Subcommittee ASTM E31.26 on Personal (Consumer) Health Records
• Past Chair, HISB Taskforce on USHIK

Awards

• 1994 CPRI (Computer-based Patient Record Institute) Award
• 1995 American Society of Engineers (ASE) for "Outstanding work in standardization in health care." 1999 Elmer Gabrieli Award from ASTM for "Contributions to healthcare standards work"
• 2000 AAMT (American Association for Medical Transcription) Distinguished Service Award
• 2001 American National Standards Institute Award for "Appreciation of work in ANSI HISB"

Claudia Tessier RHIA, CEO

Executive Positions

• 2009-present, CEO, mHealth Initiative, Inc., Boston
• 2006-2009 Vice President, Medical Records Institute Inc., Boston MA
• 2001-present President, Claudia Tessier LLC, Washington DC and Boston MA
• 2001-2006 Executive Director, Mobile Healthcare Alliance (MoHCA), Washington DC
• 1984-2001 CEO, American Association for Medical Transcription, Modesto CA

Other Professional Positions

• 1983-1984 Director of Education, American Association for Medical Transcription, Modesto CA
• 1982 Assistant Professor of Medical Records Administration, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
• 1980-1982 Assistant Professor of Medical Records Administration, University of Illinois Medical Center, Chicago IL
• 1979-1980 Assistant Medical Records Administrator, US Public Health Service Hospital, Nassau Bay TX

Health Informatics Leadership

• 2002-present Co-Chair, ASTM E31.25 Workgroup on Continuity of Care Record
• 2002-2003 Vice Chair, American National Standards Institute, Health Informatics Standards Board, (Board member, 1997-2003)
• 2001-2003 Chair, Consensus Workgroup on Health Information Capture and Report Generation
• 2001-2002 Chair, Ad hoc Task Group on Mobile/Wireless Devices, ISO TC215
• 1999-2002 US Delegate to ISO TC215 Healthcare Informatics Committee
• 1999-2006 Chair, Advisory Board, Medical Records Institute
• 1998-2001Chair, ASTM E31 Committee on Health Informatics (Past Chair, 2002-2004)
• 1997-2001 Founder and Chair, ASTM Subcommittee on Medical Transcription
• 1997-1998 Chair, Transcription Task Group, CORBAmed
• 1994-1998 AAMT Representative, Computer-based Patient Record Institute

Speaking And Publication Topics

• Making Sense of mHealth: Devices, Applications, Trends
• mHealth and Participatory Health
• mHealth and the Electronic Health Records
• Electronic Medical Records (EMRs): Issues, Selection and Implementation
• The Continuity of Care Record: Development, Content, Benefits, Uses, Future
• The Future of Healthcare Documentation
• The Future of Speech Recognition in Healthcare
• Health Information Capture and Report Generation
• The Principles of Healthcare Documentation
• Medical Transcription Style and Practices
• Medical and Surgical Terminology
• Association Leadership and Management

Awards

• 2007 ASTM Appreciation Award for Work on CCR (Continuity of Care Record)
• 2008 Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award AHDI (Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity, formerly AAMT, American Association for Medical Transcription)

Publications

• Management and Security of Health Information on Mobile Devices, AHIMA, 2010.
• The Surgical Word Book, 3rd edition, Elsevier Publishers, St. Louis, MO, 2005 (4th edition in preparation)
• The AAMT Book of Style for Medical Transcription, 1st edition, AAMT, Modesto CA 1995. Contributor to 2nd edition.
• Wide range of articles related to healthcare documentation, medical transcription, electronic medical records, continuity of care record, and mobile health in variety of healthcare periodicals, 1986 to present.

Academic Degrees

• MEd, Allied Health Education, University of Houston, 1981
• BA, Health Education, San Francisco State University, 1971
• AS, Medical Secretarial Science, Fisher Junior College, 1964

Professional Designations

• Registered Healthcare Information Administrator (RHIA), AHIMA, 1979-present
• Certified Association Executive (CAE), ASAE, 1989-2007
• Certified Medical Transcriptionist (CMT), AAMT, 1983 - 2000