Open Health Tools, Inc.

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Skip McGaughey Executive Director As Co-Founder and Executive Director of OHT, Skip McGaughey helped implement a widely replicated world wide governance, an open transparent process for the development of hundreds of millions of dollars of free software, and a collaborative environment that enables competitors to collaborate. He is helping form a robust eco-system that enables vendors to generate billions of dollars of service and product revenue. He is forming teams to bring technology to rural physicians, the underserved and economically developing countries. Prior to forming Open Health Tools, Skip McGaughey was the original Chairperson of the Eclipse Foundation. He focused on open-source technology and worldwide deployment of software development tools. Eclipse is a multi language, multi vendor, open platform for tool integration. As founding participant of Eclipse, he designed and managed the implementation of an egalitarian, open organization that enabled companies to use the Eclipse Technology to build products for profit. Following a teaching career at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Skip McGaughey introduced advanced data processing technology as a management tool to the State of North Carolina. He also introduced distributed data processing for North Carolina’s Department of Public Education and human services where he was responsible for federal and state programs. Skip McGaughey’s career at IBM was as an agent for change and technical innovation. He pioneered object oriented programming at IBM, served as chairman of the IBM Architecture Review Board that collaborated with Microsoft to design and bring advanced graphical user interfaces to market, and guided the creation of the IBM Visual Age family of products and helped design and introduced embedded programming tools. Dr. Robert Kolodner Chief Health Informatics Officer In September 2009, Dr. Robert Kolodner transitioned from the federal to the private sector to continue his work to improve the health and well-being of individuals and communities worldwide by advancing the proliferation and rapid, collaborative evolution of health information technology (IT) tools and solutions. Upon leaving the federal sector, Robert M. Kolodner, MD, co-founded and became President of Collaborative Transformations, LLC, where he consults with organizations regarding their health IT strategies and plans. Additionally in October 2009, Dr. Kolodner was hired as Chief Health Informatics Officer for the non-profit organization Open Health Tools, Incorporated (OHT). His plans in the private sector build on his prior track record of success in two large federal Departments. From 2006 to April 2009, Robert M. Kolodner MD served as the President’s designated lead for the United States eHealth initiative as the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (IT) in Office of the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

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