Landen Bain
Landen Bain explores emerging technologies
and transformative business models in healthcare.
In addition to the Single Source project, Mr.
Bain’s current portfolio of investigations
includes patient safety, mobile technologies,
natural language processing, use of clinical
data for research purposes, application of HL7’s
Clinical Document Architecture, standard clinical
vocabularies, clinical genomics, space-based
data, and community networks of patient care
data.
Mr. Bain serves on the board of the Clinical
Data Interchange Consortium, a non-profit organization
that is developing data standards for clinical
trials. He also serves as Co-chair of HL7’s
board-appointed Marketing Committee.
Mr. Bain served for ten years as Chief Information
Officer of Duke University Health System and
Medical Center, in Durham, North Carolina. As
Chief Information Officer, Mr. Bain was responsible
for the strategic use of information technology
across all entities within the health system
and medical center. During his tenure, Duke
was instrumental in developing and promulgating
the Clinical Context Object Workgroup (CCOW),
ushering CCOW forward as a national standard
and widely-used enabling technology.
Mr. Bain earlier served as the Chief Information
Officer at Ohio State University Hospitals in
Columbus, Ohio. He is a charter member of the
College of Healthcare Information Executives.
Mr. Bain received his Bachelor of Science degree
in Industrial and Systems Engineering from The
Ohio State University.
Liora
Alschuler
Liora Alschuler is a developer of XML-based
standards for electronic healthcare information
and a consultant in their application for providers
and system vendors.
She is Co-chair, HL7 Structured Documents Technical
Committee responsible for HL7’s Clinical
Document Architecture (CDA), the first national
standard for healthcare based on XML. As a project
manager in 1997, she brought together and worked
with the group that produced the Kona Architecture,
adopted by HL7 as the basis for the CDA. She
designed and managed the HL7 HIMSS Interoperability
Demo 1999-2004 and the healthcare track for
the ebXML Proof of Concept in 2001.
Liora wrote ABCD... SGML: A User's Guide to
Structured Information, in 1995, and since that
time has written and presented worldwide on
SGML, XML and healthcare information exchange.
Together with her consulting partner, John Spinosa,
MD, Ph.D., she has developed product strategies
for healthcare vendors and providers based on
an XML document architecture. She is one of
three principal investigators in the development
of the “Single Source” approach
to re-use of clinical data for clinical trials.
Single Source is a project of CDISC, the Clinical
Data Interchange Standards Consortium.
She lives in East Thetford, Vermont, and can
be reached at liora@the-word-electric.com.
Rebecca
D. Kush, Ph.D.
Rebecca Daniels Kush, Ph.D. is a Founder and
the President of the Clinical Data Interchange
Standards Consortium (CDISC), a non-profit organization
dedicated to the development of global data
interchange standards to facilitate and support
the acquisition, exchange, submission and archive
of clinical trial data.
Prior to dedicating full-time as President
of CDISC, Dr. Kush founded a consulting company,
Catalysis, Inc.. Focus areas for this consulting
are strategy, process analysis and redesign,
particularly associated with ‘electronic
clinical trials’; project management infrastructure
and training; implementation of enabling technologies;
and clinical trial metrics. Dr. Kush is the
lead author of the book, eClinical Trials: Planning
and Implementation.
Dr. Kush has over 25 years of experience in
clinical research and activities related to
drug development. Dr. Kush earned a Ph.D. in
Physiology and Pharmacology from the University
of California (UCSD) School of Medicine in La
Jolla, CA. She conducted basic clinical research
at the NIH facility in Phoenix, Arizona and
later for Baxter-Travenol in Japan. In addition,
she worked for the Product Planning Department
for Eisai, Co. in Tokyo and later as a consultant
for this pharmaceutical company while in France
and back in the U.S. After her employment abroad,
she spent 9 years at Pharmaco, an international
contract research organization; there she served
in a variety of positions, the latest of which
was to coordinate a corporate process analysis
and redesign effort for the organization.
She currently serves on the Board of the Drug
Information Association (DIA) and founded the
eClinical Special Interest Area Community (SIAC)
within DIA. |
