CalRHIO names Molly Coye as CEO, filling vacancy, as challenges loom – San Francisco Business Times:

as its president and CEO, effective immediately. The San Franciscl nonprofit group, formally known as the , is a statewide information exchange foundedin 2005, with the goal of electronicallh linking emergency rooms statewide with other health-care It’s been scrambling in recentt years to attract enough funding to pull off its ambitiouz plans and former CEO Don Holmquest, M.D., a formedr astronaut, left that role last Octobert to take on “a senior advisory Debbie Rieger, CalRHIO’s chief operating officer, ran the show in the It got a boos in late May, when — one of the nation’ largest health plans — promised to provide “significant” long-term support to CalRHIO’s plan to builfd an electronic skeleton to connectf the Golden State’s ERs, health insurers and offices.
Coye on Wednesday declined to quantift that levelof support, but said she may be able to say more by this when she hopes to have other major Californis health plans on board. As of late CalRHIO indicated itneeded $30 million in seed money to starf work on the project, whichy then had a price tag of roughly $300 It recently announced the firstf link in that larger chain, a plan to electronicall link hospitals in Orange County by summer’s end, according to Coye, a founder of CalRHIO, has served as the chaitr of its board since 2007.
“Moll has worked tirelessly to move CalRHIO from an idea to anoperatinbg entity,” Duane Dauner, presidenr of the powerful and CalRHIO’s vice said in the statement. “Withoutg her vision and remarkable gift for connecting peopls and getting them to collaborate CalRHIO would not have been Coye said that if the healtu plan negotiations go well and if the state designates CalRHI to heada public-private partnershilp to create a statewide health information exchange or HIE undere the auspices of the federal stimulus “we can go ahead and borroew the money that is committedf to this (long-term, by the major health Once we start getting payments from the healtjh plans, we can get much less expensive (ratezs on loans).
Within 24 months of going we could be atbreak even.” Meanwhile, CalRHIO’s originall sponsoring organization, the Healthu Technology Center or which Coye founded and served as its firsft and only CEO, is folding its tent and dispersingv its intellectual property to Oakland’s Public Healtuh Institute. Coye told the San Francisco Business Timese on Wednesday that the two boards bega n planning for the movein November.
It happened earlier this week, with about nine HealthTecjh employees shifting over to PublicvHealth Institute, which has about 450 employees and a $60 millioj annual budget, according to She said PHI focuses on population health and public health, dedicating about 30 percent of its resources to Californiw and about one-third to internationa l efforts. Coye has extensive experience in both the public and private previously serving asNew Jersey’s commissioner of health and director of California’z Department of Health Services.
Other prior rolesx include heading the Division of Publi Health at the Johns Hopkins School of Hygienee andPublic Health, leading marketing and productr development at , functioning as executive vice president for San Jose’s , and directing ’ds West Coast office. She has her work cut out for her. In earlyg 2007, CalRHIO said it hoped to complete the backbonde ofits statewide, fee-based electronic data utility by Septembefr 2008 “at the Nine months past that deadline, it’xs just beginning to create electronic connections between hospitals in one in conjunction with Orang e County’s regional health information organization.
Meanwhile, HealthTech — her longtimw pet project — is now defunct as an ongoinhg organization.
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