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Part Twelve: Author's Biography

Soloman I. Appavu is the President of the Center for Healthcare Automation Ltd.,
Chicago, Illinois. He has 17 years of healthcare experience. He has served as the
Director of Hospital Information Systems and Director of Clinical Information
Systems in large metropolitan hospitals. He is currently serving as the Director
Financial Control at Cook County Hospital, Chicago, Illinois. He serves as a faculty in
national educational programs and conferences. He is active in national healthcare
standards and informatics initiatives and holds leadership in technical committees and
standards organizations:

1. Chairman, ANSI-HISB Publicity, Education & Information Standing Committee
2. Board Member of American National Standards Institute - Healthcare Informatics Standards Board (ANSI-HISB)
3. Leader, Unique Health Identifier Task Force, ANSI-HISB
4. Track Chair, Unique Patient Identifier, Toward Electronic Patient Record ?97.
5. Co-chair, CPRI Work Group on Unique Patient Identifier
6. Member, Education Steering Committee, Healthcare Information and Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS).
7. Technical Committee Member in multiple Standard Developing Organizations (SDOs)
8. Speaker at national conferences and educational programs

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