Nashville Technology Council

NAKED HOSPITAL SPEAKERS and PANELISTS

U.S. Senator Bob Corker, R-Tenn.

Bob Corker grew up in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He attended public schools,
played sports, and from an early age learned to love and value hard work. He
took his first job at age 13 picking up trash and spent his teenage years bagging
ice, working at the Western Auto and putting in long hours as a construction laborer.

Bob graduated from the University of Tennessee in 1974 with a degree in Industrial
Management, and after working four years as a construction superintendent, he
started his own construction company with $8,000. The company grew as it quickly
gained a reputation for meeting deadlines on time and under budget and eventually
expanded to operations in 18 states. Over time, Bob’s business interests evolved to
acquiring and developing commercial real estate.

After traveling with his church on a mission trip to Haiti in his late twenties, Bob
began to take a closer look at needs in his own community. He led the creation of
Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise, a non-profit organization that today has
helped over 10,000 families secure decent, fit and affordable housing through
low-interest loans and personal training in home maintenance.

In 1994, Bob was appointed Tennessee Commissioner of Finance and Administration,
where he served for two years in the highest appointed office in state government.
As commissioner, he tightened the state’s budget and helped move almost 40,000
Tennesseans off welfare and into jobs.

In 2001, Bob was elected mayor of Chattanooga. He transformed Chattanooga’s
waterfront – attracting $2.1 billion of investment to revitalize the city, implemented
merit bonus pay for teachers which dramatically raised student achievement in some
of the city’s most challenged schools, and worked with local law enforcement officials
to cut violent crime in half.

On November 7, 2006, Bob Corker was elected to serve the people of Tennessee in
the United States Senate. He is a member of the Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
Committee, the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, the Foreign Relations
Committee and ranking member of the Special Committee on Aging.

Bob and his wife, Elizabeth, have been married for 24 years and have two daughters,
Julia and Emily. The Corker family lives in Chattanooga.

Fletcher Lance, Vice President and Healthcare Leader, North Highland

Fletcher is a Vice President and National Healthcare leader with the North
Highland Company.

He has over 18 years of experience in healthcare.  He has worked in every
segment of the industry: payer, provider, life science sand government.
He has worked with Blue Cross of Florida, American Healthways,
Healthspring, Renal Advantage, American Service Group (Prison Health
Services) and many others.  Prior to joining North Highland he was
COO of a leading application service provider company in the behavioral
health market place.

He worked with Andersen Consulting (Accenture) and KPMG (Bearing Point) prior to forming
the application service provider company.  Fletcher leads the HC Practice for North Highland. 
He has worked with leading providers, payers and carves outs in the country.  He has led strategic
initiatives helping client reach their meaningful use objectives, Accountable Care planning and
strategy and ICD-10 analysis and planning.  Fletcher  has recently been appointed to the Tennessee
Department of Health’s Board of Osteopathic Examination.

Keith Cox, CEO, Health Information Partnership for Tennessee (HIP TN)

Keith Cox is the Chief Executive Officer of the Health Information
Partnership for Tennessee (HIP TN).  HIP TN is a private non-profit
corporation responsible for designing, deploying and maintaining
Tennessee’s state-wide Health Information Exchanges and supporting
services through contracts with the State and Federal government.

Mr. Cox has more than 26 years in the IT industry as an entrepreneur and
corporate executive, bringing technologies to market in a variety of
industries with a primary focus in healthcare.  Mr. Cox’s career began in healthcare technology with
McKesson/HBOC and Gerber Alley where he spent 10 years rising through the technology ranks.
In 1994, Keith left corporate America and co-founded Healthcare.com.  Healthcare.com became a
publicly traded company on the NASDAQ and delivered Internet-based clinical information systems
and integration tools to the healthcare industry.

Read his full bio HERE

Harry L. Reynolds, Jr., Director, Health Plan Transformation Global Healthcare and
Life Sciences Industry, IBM

Harry Reynolds is currently the Director of Health Industry Transformation for
IBM Global Healthcare & Life Sciences Industry. During the past 18 months in this
role, Harry has worked with providers, payers and governments on health policy
transformation and strategy.

Harry recently served as Chair on the National Committee for Vital Health
Statistics (NCVHS). Harry currently serves as Chair on the Council for Affordable
Quality Healthcare (CAQH) CORE Initiative, and Chair of the Finance and Sustainability
committee for Illinois HIE.

Previously, Harry was a Vice President and Information Compliance Officer at Blue
Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina. Harry has 42 years of experience in the
technology and healthcare areas. He started his career with IBM, worked at two large
teaching hospitals (Ohio State and UNC), and worked for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of
North Carolina for 32 years. Harry managed all aspects of information technology at
BCBS of NC, as well as managed a $500 million business unit that served 450,000
customers. He was also responsible for administration and planning for information
systems as well as the coordination of large enterprise-wide compliance projects.