HIMSS Analytics
Board of Directors

Charles E. Christian, FCHIME, FHIMSS
HIMSS Analytics Board Member

Mr. Christian is the Director of Information Systems and CIO of Good Samaritan Hospital, a 100-year old free-standing, acute care, community hospital in southwest Indiana. He is responsible for all information technology activities throughout the enterprise and is serving his 19th year in this role – his 37th year in healthcare.

Mr. Christian is a Fellow of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and currently serves as the Chair-Elect of their Board of Directors. Recently appointed to the Indiana Health Informatics Corporation Board of Directors by Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels, Mr. Christian also serves as the board liaison for the Membership, HIE, and Advocacy & Public Policy Steering Committees. He is a Fellow and charter member of CHIME and served on the CHIME Board of Directors from 2003 through 2004. He is a member of the advisory board for Advance for Health Information Executives magazine, the Technology Advisory Committee for the Vincennes City Schools, and the Curriculum Advisory Committee for Vincennes University.

Prior to joining Good Samaritan Hospital, Mr. Christian worked in healthcare IT for Compucare and Baxter Travenol, in both management and implementation roles. He started his career in healthcare as a Radiologic Technologist, serving in various radiology roles for 14 years. He studied natural sciences at the University of Alabama in Birmingham, and holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Lacrosse University. Mr. Christian has presented at the SHS Management Engineering Forum, HIMSS Annual Conference, and HIMSS Summer Conference.

Dave Garets
HIMSS Analytics President and CEO, Board Member

Mr. Garets has 30 years of experience in information technology. He is an internationally known author and speaker on information technologies, strategies, benchmarking, and the future of healthcare. He joined HIMSS Analytics in 2004 from Healthlink where he was Executive Vice President. Prior to that, he was Group Vice President, Healthcare Industry Research and Advisory Services at Gartner, Inc. Before joining Gartner in 1998, he held a variety of management positions for leading organizations like First Consulting Group, Magic Valley Regional Medical Center and AT&T. He was a course director and on the faculty 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 healthcare IT journals and magazines and the board of directors of HIMSS Analytics and is currently 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. Mr. Garets graduated with a bachelor's of business administration in marketing from Texas Tech University.

R. Scott Holbrook
HIMSS Analytics 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
HIMSS Analytics 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
HIMSS Analytics 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
HIMSS Analytics Board Member

Mr. Skinner is a director with Navigant Consulting’s healthcare team. He has worked as a healthcare executive for over 20 years in a variety of provider, payer, life science and professional service organizations. He is experienced at formulating and executing IT strategy in all manner of healthcare organizations, operating IT in large enterprises, using IT to support revenue cycle and  supply chain management, and implementing and operating IT in support of clinical operations in inpatient and outpatient settings. He is a creative leader of high performance teams and mentor of successful IT professionals. He educates on and demonstrates the value of IT.