Director
Northern Kentucky University
Highland Heights, KY
Gary Ozanich is Director of Northern Kentucky University’s Program in Health Informatics. He is the past National Co-Chair of the Interoperability Workgroup and past National Chair of the HIE Committee for HIMSS. He has conducted extensive funded research and consulting projects on health information exchange structure, interoperability, services, and sustainability, as well as projects examining care coordination and transitions in care. He is the co- investigator on two federal projects: The Office of National Coordinator’s Electronic Health Record Reporting Project, and the Assistant Secretary of Program Evaluation (HHS)’s Measuring Interoperability in Value-Based Care.
Gary has a private sector background which includes more than 12 years as a Vice President on Wall Street where he was an analyst of the technology and telecommunications industries. He also worked as a consultant at Booz-Allen & Hamilton. Relative to other academic positions, he was Associate Director of the Institute of Tele-Information at Columbia University, and has been on the faculties of Michigan State University and University at Buffalo. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.