ACP EVP stays on with National eHealth Collaborative as board member

ACP Executive Vice President and CEO John Tooker, MBA, FACP, continues his commitment to the National eHealth Collaborative (NeHC) as one of nine newly elected members of the Board of Directors.

Dr. Tooker was one of three founding incorporators of NeHC, and served as the founding board chair until December 2009. The NeHC was created as the planned successor to the American Health Information Community (AHIC), a federal advisory committee to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) until 2008. The current objective of the NeHC as a public-private partnership is to improve individual and population health by developing a secure, interoperable, nationwide health information system. Present NeHC Board Chair Laura Adams said new board of director members were elected to better facilitate the level of engagement and collaboration among stakeholders that the organization feels is necessary to achieve its goals. The elected members will be introduced at a stakeholder forum on Feb. 22 in Washington, D.C. More information about the forum and the NeHC is available online.