OEMR Board

OEMR Board of Directors

Executive Committee

Ron Bearden, Chairman

Ron Beardon, a banking executive, is raising money to build a hospital in the Houston area for a cooperative association that provides health care for persons without insurance [1]. This cooperative association is a 501(c)(3) tax exempt organization. Mr. Beardon is on the Executive committee of MRSB Holding LLC [2], a major financial contributor to the ONC Certification project of OpenEMR.

Gregory W. Neuman, Treasurer

Greg Neuman, a Houston, Texas attorney, provides legal services for three Houston-area tax exempt non-profits in addition to running his legal practice. Mr. Neuman successfully applied for the 501(c)(3)status for oemr.org. He serves on the Executive Committee of MRSB Holding LLC, [3], a major financial contributor to the ONC Certification project of OpenEMR.

• Tomorrow's Bread Today http://www.tbt.org
• Patient Physician Cooperatives http://www.patientphysiciancoop.com
• Linked IPAs, LLC

Tony McCormick, Secretary

Tony McCormick is a vendor. He worked tirelessly for two years to achieve the ONC-ATB Ambulatory Meaningful Use Certification and negotiated the donation that helped OEMR pay the certification fee without which federal certification would not have been achieved. He did this without renumeration. His company, Medical Information Integration (MI2) is a small Portland, Oregon based company with four developers. As the Chief Information Officer, Mr. McCormick contributed overall project management for the ONC Certification. Additionally, staff from MI2 contributed significant sections of the clinical rules, clinical quality measures, automated measure calculations, patient reminders, document encryption and integrity modules. MI2 contributed work to the Laboratory Exchange Network and has contributed the OpenEMR User Guides. These combined donated efforts are valued in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Mr. McCormick also helps manage several not-for-profit companies.

Sam Bowen, Executive Director

Sam Bowen, MD is in full time private practice. He has been using the most current development version of OpenEMR daily in his practice and providing constant feedback on usability, user interface, work flow, and problems. Dr. Bowen has averaged fifteen volunteer hours a week on the OpenEMR project average for the last seven years - over 5,000 hours. In the last two years, Dr. Bowen has made substantial financial donations to help initiate the Meaningful Use project and he spends a lot of time traveling to give public presentations about the OpenEMR project. Dr. Bowen has started and helps manage three not-for-profit organizations, two of which have been granted the 501(c)(3) status.

General Members

David Herman, Jr.

David Herman, Jr. is a Certified Public Accountant who has donated his time to all board meetings for the two non-profit organizations supporting the OpenEMR project since 2005, Open Source Medical Software and OEMR. Mr. Herman has completed the taxes for Open Source Medical Software pro bono and is dedicated to helping an organization that greatly impacts health care delivery in the United States.

Sena Palanisami

Sena Palanasami is an open source software vendor. He and his company, ViSolve, have been the main stay of the OpenEMR Meaningful Use Certification Project. ViSolve performed the original “gap analysis” at the start of the project and worked as the formal Quality Assurance group. This group is expert at interpreting the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Health IT testing criteria and working out what needed to be adjusted, fixed or redone to make OpenEMR Meaningful Use certification possible. Their team developed all of the required security modules (password policies, audit logging, client certificates, emergency access, recording disclosures, HIPAA de-identification, and consent management) which allowed OpenEMR to become certified. Mr. Palanasami and Visolve have contributed an estimated $500,000 dollars in development work to the OpenEMR Meaningful Use Certification Project.

Jack Cahn, MD

Jack Cahn, MD is a family practice physician and self-described "Country Doctor." Dr. Cahn lives in Sparta, NC and provides medical care to its 1,764 residents. Dr. Cahn is heavily involved in assuring the local 23 bed hospital's future and providing mental health services for the surrounding area.

Shameem C Hameed

Shameem Hameed is a vendor. He and his company, have invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in the OpenEMR Meaningful Use Certification Project through donations of their time, education, and experience. Mr. Hameed is a law school graduate and resident of Virginia.

Art Eaton

Art Eaton helps run five not-for-profit corporations in the Tampa Bay area and is the IT administrator of a mental health counseling group that employees thirty counselors. This group uses OpenEMR already and is scheduled to perform the alpha testing for the anticipated OpenEMR mental health modules.

Nathan DiNiro

Nathan "Nate" DiNiro is a software developer. He now runs a web site on Open Affairs TV providing visual, open source, health informatics information. Mr. DiNiro spends his time promoting health, open source projects, and does a lot of net-working on the behalf of the OpenEMR project wherever he can.