HIMSS Organizational Services
Advisory Board

Allana Cummings
Board Member

Allana Cummings is Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Children's Hospital and Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska, where she oversees the information technology, health information management and business process improvement departments. Allana has served as Chief Information Officer at Children?s since 2005. Prior to joining the Children?s team, she served as the Director of Information Systems and Technologies at Children?s Healthcare of Atlanta, where she was responsible for a variety of areas, including technical services, health information services, and development and data services. In addition, she oversaw the implementation of several new technological systems.

During Allana's tenure, Children's Hospital and Medical Center has received national recognition for its efforts in implementing electronic medial records and other technologies to advance the safety of patient care including: Information Week 500 award (2009), ECRI Health Devices Safety Award (2008), InfoWorld 100 award (2007), and Most Wired (2009, 2006 & 2005).

Allana holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Organization Leadership from Mercer University in Atlanta and an Executive MBA from the Ken Blanchard College of Business at Grand Canyon University. In addition, Allana is a certified professional in healthcare information and management systems (CPHIMS) and has also earned her project management professional (PMP) certification.

Dave Garets
HIMSS Analytics President and CEO
Board Member

Mr. Garets is President and CEO of HIMSS Analytics and Executive Vice President of HIMSS.
 
Mr. Garets has 31 years of experience in information technology. He joined HIMSS Analytics in 2004 from Healthlink where he was Executive Vice President. Before that, he was Group Vice President, Healthcare Industry Research and Advisory Services at Gartner, Inc. Prior leadership roles included Senior Manager in Emerging Practices with the First Consulting Group and CIO of Magic Valley Regional Medical Center in Twin Falls, ID. Before coming to the health care industry, Mr. Garets spent thirteen years in various management capacities for AT&T.
 
He was a course director and served on the faculties of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) Information Management Executive Courses for 11 years. He serves on the editorial advisory boards of four health care information technology journals and magazines and the board of directors of HIMSS Analytics. He is an affiliate professor at the Medical College of Virginia at Virginia Commonwealth University.
 
Mr. Garets is a HIMSS Fellow, and was chair of the HIMSS Board for 2003-2004. He is an internationally known author and speaker on information technologies, strategies, benchmarking, and the future of healthcare.
 
Mr. Garets graduated with a bachelor's of business administration in marketing from Texas Tech University.

R. Scott Holbrook
Board Member

R. Scott Holbrook has over 35 years experience in healthcare IT. He has been with both vendor and healthcare provider organizations and is best known for a stream of successful operations, dedicated employees, sterling customer relationships, and do-it-together leadership. As the Executive Vice President of Medicity, he is responsible for all customer experiences in a company that provides health care web products to RHIOs, IDNS, large laboratories, payers, hospitals and clinics.

Mr. Holbrook built a multiple hospital system at Intermountain Health Care called MedSeries and was the thought leader and a key executive at Sunquest during the 1990’s. He is one of the founders and owners of KLAS and founded a consulting and web services/integration firm. Mr. Holbrook is currently a member of the HIMSS Enterprise Solution Committee and the HIMSS Analytics Board.

Prior to Medicity, Mr. Holbrook was a cofounder of Park City Solutions (1998-2004), Inc. which was a healthcare IT consulting firm. He led the company’s overall business development, sales, and marketing efforts and managed the acquisition of the web portal division by Medicity in early 2006. In a turnaround experience, Mr. Holbrook was the Executive Vice President/COO of Integrated Medical Networks (IMN) – an Oracle-based Hospital Information System company. In 18 months it went from nearly no revenue to $15M and was sold to Quadramed in 1998.

Donald Kooy
Board Member

Donald C. Kooy has served as President and CEO of McLaren Regional Medical Center (MRMC) in Flint, Michigan since July of 2003. Prior to that, Mr. Kooy served as President and CEO of Lapeer Regional Hospital, a 222-bed community hospital affiliated with McLaren Health Care. He also served a concurrent role as Chief Information Officer for McLaren Health Care from 1997-2006.

Before joining Lapeer Regional Hospital, Mr. Kooy was the President of Mid-Michigan Regional Medical Center in Gladwin from 1989-1993 and Vice President at Providence Hospital in Southfield, Michigan, from 1985-89. He received the 1992 American College of Healthcare Executives’ Emerging Healthcare Executive of the Year Award for the State of Michigan. Mr. Kooy is also a Fellow with the American College of Healthcare Executives.

In his current professional and community involvement, Mr. Kooy is on the Board of Directors of the Greater Flint Health Coalition, as well as the Advisory Board of the Genesee County Free Medical Clinic. He recently served on the Board of Directors of the Michigan Health and Hospital Association. Additionally, Mr. Kooy is a member of the Hundred Club of Flint and is active on the Regional Leadership Council with the Genesee Regional Chamber of Commerce. He holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration and a master’s degree in hospital administration from the University of Michigan.

H. Stephen Lieber, CAE
HIMSS President/CEO
Board Member

A seasoned healthcare management executive, Steve Lieber brings to the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) over 27 years of experience in healthcare, nearly 25 of them in healthcare association management.

Since 2000, Mr. Lieber has served as President and CEO of HIMSS. Mr. Lieber not only serves on the Board of Directors of HIMSS and its two related corporations, but he also serves on numerous other corporate, non-profit and coalition boards and groups. He is one of the founders of the Certification Commission for HIT and the Health Information Technology Standards Panel, two US federally funded initiatives at the foundation of the US interoperability effort.

As a nationally-recognized commentator on health policy in healthcare IT trends and issues, Mr. Lieber is a regular speaker and contributor to corporate strategic planning efforts, government-sponsored policy efforts, private sector initiatives and other non-profit organizations. He has been recognized as one of the Top 100 most influential people in US healthcare in 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007.

Mr. Lieber holds an MA from the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago, a BA in Psychology from the University of Arkansas, and has completed additional course work at the graduate schools of business at both universities and at the Keller Graduate School of Management. He has been a Certified Association Executive (CAE) since 1994, is a member of the American Society of Association Executives and Association Forum of Chicagoland and has been awarded honorary life memberships at the American Hospital Association and the American Society of Healthcare Risk Management.

Richard (Rick) Skinner
Board Member

Mr. Skinner is the Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Cancer Care Ontario. Cancer Care Ontario is the provincial agency responsible for improving cancer and other chronic disease services. Mr. Skinner is a healthcare IT Executive with over 25 years’ experience in healthcare information systems, including positions as the CIO for hospitals and health systems, an insurance company, a medical research laboratory, and has worked as a consultant and as project manager for the development and implementation of the Department of Defense’s global medical information system.

Mr. Skinner is a former Director at Navigant Consulting, a global professional services firm specializing in healthcare and litigation support. Previously, he was Vice President – IS and CIO for the Providence Health System, a multi-state health system operating hospitals, physician practices, a health insurance company, home health and other healthcare businesses. Mr. Skinner formed a new company to  consolidate and standardize IT infrastructure, implemented advanced clinical systems, and standardized the organization’s  business systems, all contributing to Providence’s excellent financial performance and clinical quality reputation.

Mr. Skinner was also an Army officer, retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel, after leading the Army’s healthcare IT initiatives as a program manager as well as in different Army CIO roles. He is an author and frequent speaker on healthcare information technology and has been a leader in US national organizations such as the College for Healthcare Information Management Executives and the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology.

He was the recipient in 1994 of the Healthcare Information Executives Forum, Crystal Award for Excellence.  Most recently, he received the John Gall Award for Healthcare CIO of the Year at the 2002 HIMSS Conference.