Open Source Medical Software Board

Open Source Medical Software was founded in January, 2005 and had its first board of directors meeting June 6, 2005. Founded by Samuel T. Bowen, MD of Hickory, North Carolina as a North Carolina Corporation. The following are the board of directors:

Chairman: Samuel T. Bowen, MD

Samuel T. Bowen, MD

144 38th Ave NW

Hickory, North Carolina 28601

Dr. Bowen is a medical doctor licensed in 1987. He has been practicing primary care, urgent care, and emergency medicine. He has been working with electronic media for storage of medical information since 1998. He is the owner and manager of a primary care facility with 14 employees.

Dr. Bowen volunteers for Open Source Medical Software and spends about 15 hours per week administrating Open Source Medical Software, administrating the organizations web pages (www.openmedsoftware.org and www.oemr.org), and helping users learn to install and operate OpenEMR in on-line forums.

Vice President: Rod Roark

Rod Roark is the owner and founder of SunsetSystems.

Rod Roark

Sunset Systems

3122 Evergreen Dr

Fairfield, CA 94533

Office and Cell: 707-410-9380

Fax: 707-399-9982

Rod Roark is the owner of Sunset Systems in Fairfield, California. He has worked full time in software development since 1984. He has extensive experience in the development of successful commercial software, including: multiuser operating system development, e-commerce web site offering custom-built computers, web site offering live multi-player backgammon, local area network system administration, awarded for technical excellence by PC Magazine, multiuser graphical client for playing contract bridge over the Internet, stock market analysis and charting system for institutional investors, source library maintenance system and has been a major contributor to OpenEMR, an open source medical records and practice management system.

Mr. Roark is experienced with MS Windows (NT, 95, 98, 2000, XP), Linux, HP-UX, BSDI, Mac OS, Netware, Apache web server, Sybase, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Servlet/JSP engines, TCP/IP, Samba, IBM mainframes and has used the following programming languages: C, C++, Java, HTML, JavaScript/DOM, SQL, XML, JSP, ASP, Perl, PHP, Assembler languages, UML, Bash, JDBC, MFC, STL.

Rod Roark volunteers with Open Source Medical Software. He intermittently assists Dr. Bowen with the organizations web server, and spends 10-15 hours communicating with users on how to install and operate OpenEMR.

Rod Roark develops OpenEMR features professionally when contracted to do so from members of his client list. He spends 40-50 hours a week on this development. These features are released to the project free of charge under the Gnu Public License.

Secretary: Tony McCormick

Tony McCormick is founder of:

Medical Information Integration, LLC

aka MI2 - tony @ mi-squared.com<

11725 SW Springwood Dr

Tigard, Oregon 97223

(503) 564-4670 - www.mi-squared.com

Tony has been involved in HealthCare IT since 1988 where he was part of a team that had started one of the first Preferred Provider Organizations in Texas. Later he developed applications for the HMO market, Independent Practitioners Medical Records and Billing systems and large clinical systems. In Oregon he was a lead analyst on the Oregon Medical Electronic Network which was run by the Oregon Medical Association. He founded MI2 with the desire to help reduce the high cost of medical services by providing efficient, easy to use software based on the Free Open Source Software model. All work on OpenEMR is contributed back into the community.

Treasurer: David Herman, CPA

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Members of the Board at Large

• Michael Brody - CMEOnline.com
• Chris Lucena - EHRLive
• John Williams - Garden State Health Systems LLC
• Sena Pelanasami - Visolve.com
• Jason Morrill - Child & Family Agency of Southeastern Connecticut (Resigned 1/29/2010) --Tony - www.mi-squared.com 01:13, 29 January 2010 (UTC)