LEROY JONES

 

Jones is chief information officer for MedAllies. He and his team deliver products and services that are on the vanguard of the industry's collective agenda of moving information technology deeper into the care delivery process, with a particular emphasis on health care automation and data exchange. He continues to architect and build the Hudson Valley Health Information Exchange (HVHIE), which connects numerous physician practices, hospitals, and public health organizations within New York, allowing for the protected exchange of health care data to improve patient care and protection. He also provides thought leadership to the New York eHealth Collaborative, the statewide initiative to enable widespread secure health information exchange.


Jones is involved  on the national level in a number of broader health information exchange industry initiatives. He serves as the program manager on behalf of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) to manage the Health Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP), a national initiative to harmonize health care technical standards to enable interoperability among disparate health IT systems across the entire health care industry. As a member of the RHIO Federation Taskforce formed by the Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), Jones is the co-editor of a guidebook for RHIOs to use as a source of practical advice and direction as they form and mature, the Guide to Establishing a Regional Health Information Organization. Jones has authored several other publications regarding effective deployment of technology for the betterment of health care.