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Jon Mertz

Jon Mertz

My experience consists of a unique industry mix of healthcare software, IT infrastructure, sales & marketing consulting, and government. I have led several marketing organizations, conducting market research, developing customer programs, and working with partners to deliver complete customer solutions. Past companies and organizations include Deloitte, IBM, BMC Software, US Senate, and US Department of Commerce. I currently serve as the Vice President of Marketing at Corepoint Health.

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Chad Johnson

Chad Johnson

Chad Johnson is a proud graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and has managed several health care publications, including NurseWeek and Radiologic Technology. He currently is the marketing communications manager at Corepoint Health.

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Rob Brull

Rob Brull

Rob Brull is the product manager for Corepoint Health. He has worked with software products for over 15 years as both a product manager and sales engineer. Past companies and organizations include Tyco Electronics, Deloitte Consulting, and various distributors of software monitoring and control products. His main focus is to ensure his solutions enable customers to simplify healthcare integration complexities with user-friendly yet powerful software capabilities. This includes meeting applicable Meaningful Use requirements as well as fully supporting related healthcare standards such as CCD, CCR, and greenCDA. Rob is also a Certified HL7 CDA Specialist.

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Sonal Patel

Sonal Patel

Sonal N. Patel, MBA, BS, MT(ASCP) has extensive experience working in healthcare from both the provider and vendor perspective. Prior to Corepoint Health, she served as a Medical Technologist and Laboratory Supervisor at Roche Diagnostic/Golden Triangle Regional Medical Center/Baptist Memorial Hospital and also operated in several client services, support and training roles at Antrim/Sunquest/Misys Healthcare Systems.

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Jennifer Thew, RN, MSJ

Jennifer Thew, RN, MSJ

Jennifer Thew, RN, MSJ, is a registered nurse and journalist who has covered healthcare issues and how they relate to the nursing profession. She began her nursing career as a neuroscience nurse at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago and then transitioned to journalism after receiving a degree from Roosevelt University in Chicago. She has edited and written numerous articles on a wide range of nursing and healthcare topics like Accountable Care Organizations, evidence-based practice and telehealth.

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Angela Dunn

Angela Dunn

Angela Dunn is a Content Strategist who blogs monthly for HL7standards.com on mobile news and trends. She works as a writer, blogger and analyst for the healthcare and pharmaceutical industry. Dunn assists brands and research organizations by forecasting trends in social, mobile and digital technologies. Some published reports include: Digital Marketing Talent: Who is Pharma Hiring? and Keys for Pharma Success: Integrating Social.

Dunn is a global speaker and thought leader on Content Curation, Building Thought Leadership Through Your Digital Brand and Innovation Through Conversation She is the founder of #ideachat, a monthly Twitter Chat and global conversation on ideas and creativity.

Currently, Dunn is in the pre-launch signup phase of a resource site for content curators at CurationZen.com. You can follow her on Twitter @blogbrevity and on Google+.

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Leonard Kish

Leonard Kish

Leonard Kish is an independent strategy consultant working with health care technology companies in areas that span business model design, social media strategy and collaboration, analytics, community development and user experience design. He is Chair of the Marketing and Communications Group for the Collaborative Health Consortium and has served as Vice President of Operations at Capitis Healthcare International as well as executive positions with several startups. He holds the degrees of MBA, Master’s of Science in Information Systems and a Master’s in Biomedical Sciences (Neuroscience) from the University of Colorado at Denver. He’s interested in how systems evolve, and how to help them evolve, in a variety of contexts.

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