Upcoming Guest on This Just In: Jitin Asnaani

TJI-Commonwell-200Tune in the week of November 30th at 2:30 pm ET to hear Justin Barnes interview Jitin Asnaani on his radio show, This Just In. Jitin Asaanit (@Jitin) is the Executive Director of the CommonWell Health Alliance (@CommonWell). In this show Justin and Jitin discuss interoperability strategy and opportunity. The show will air Monday through Friday at 2:30 pm ET and rebroadcast at 6:30 am and 10:30 pm ET.

About the CommonWell Health Alliance and Jitin Asnaani
CommonWell Health Alliance is a not-for-profit trade association with the simple vision that health data should be available to individuals and providers regardless of where care occurs and provider access to this data must be built-in health IT at a reasonable cost for use by a broad range of health care providers and the people they serve. CommonWell is open to members of the health IT community and others who share their vision for interoperability. Two types of memberships are available for organizations, including Contributing and General Members.

Jitin Asnaani is the first Executive Director of CommonWell Health Alliance and is charged with stewarding CommonWell as it pursues its mission of building a scalable infrastructure that enables health data to follow the patient, regardless of where care occurs. Previously, Jitin was appointed to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC), where he helped incubate and launch the S&I Framework, growing the program to 1,100+ individuals representing 350+ public and private sector organizations. He also lead several specific S&I Framework initiatives, notably the S&I Lab Results Interfaces (LRI) initiative, the S&I Provider Directories (PD) initiative, and The Direct Project.

About This Just In and Justin Barnes
This Just In is a 30-minute, informative program, where Justin and his guests shed light on the latest trends, strategy and innovations impacting healthcare, technology and even entrepreneurialism in America. Whether it’s healthcare, health IT, strategy, or the “next big thing”, if a topic is trending, Justin is sure to be talking about it with his broad circle of peers.

Justin Barnes, aka the @HITAdvisor is the host of the show. As a healthcare innovation executive and strategist, Justin is a corporate, board and policy advisor who also serves as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence with the Georgia Tech’s Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC). In addition, he is Chairman Emeritus of the HIMSS Electronic Health Record (EHR) Association as well as Co-Chairman of the Accountable Care Community of Practice where he assists both organizations with industry strategy and leadership.