SUSAN STUARD, MBA

Stuard is executive director of the Taconic Health Information Network and Community (THINC), the not-for-profit convening organization that establishes research-based criteria to enhance health care quality and value in the Hudson Valley.  The organization uses its active leadership board and market leverage to advance accountable, patient-centered delivery models. She works with a multi-stakeholder board, research teams and more than 60 community leaders to champion and implement a pay-for-performance program, quality improvement and health system transformation.  THINC also sponsors the Hudson Valley Health Information Exchange and an EHR adoption program, the patient-centered medical home program and the community pay-for-performance program. Stuard serves as the primary liaison with THINC's constituent organizations, its board of directors and its committees.  The organization is actively engaged in evaluation of physician and consumer attitudes and opinions of the patient centered medical home and health IT.

Stuard is an expert voice serving on the National Committee for Quality Assurance's Accountable Care Organization Task Force, which is working to develop a consensus for ACOs qualifying and monitoring criteria.