Healthcare IT Transition Group, Inc. was originally formed in 1993 as Computer Quality Associates, Inc., and, from its first day, worked almost exclusively in healthcare information technology. Ten years later, its HIPAA Transition Weblog became a respected independent voice amidst the difficulties of implementing the HIPAA standards. HITTG now publishes the HIT Transition Weblog and HITSync eMagazine, devotes substantial resources to healthcare IT standards development on the national level, and serves clients in varied capacities within healthcare IT.

Our mission:

Healthcare IT Transition Group works with healthcare organizations to reduce cost and improve quality of healthcare through the development and implementation of robust IT standards.

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Chief Operating Officer,
Chief Analyst
martinjensen@hittransition.com
Martin Jensen brings two decades of experience in information technology, web publishing and software development. For Frontline Group he served as Healthcare IT Policy Analyst, serving St. John Health System headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma. From the seminal days of health IT he worked with St. John to establish its first local area network and its first electronic medical record system. In his capacity as a consultant, for five years he turned his focus to software development in the electronic document storage and nonprofit industry segments. He returned to St. John in 1997 where he co-developed the health system’s nationally recognized Virtual Project Office intranet, contributing to the organization’s ranking among “Healthcare’s Most Wired Organizations” by Hospitals and Health Networks. In 2002, Mr. Jensen was appointed to lead St. John’s enterprise-wide HIPAA Transactions and Code Sets compliance effort. Within WEDI (Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange), a national electronic healthcare records standards body, he has become an advocate for phased implementation, provider participation and pragmatic interpretation of standards. Mr. Jensen currently serves as co-chair of the WEDI Business Issues subworkgroup, co-chair of the WEDI Health ID Card subworkgroup, and is active in the X12N claims workgroup. He is a parent, a poet, and an active volunteer in the community.
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Chief Technology Officer,
Senior Development Analyst
mchristopher@hittransition.com
Michael Christopher brings twenty years' experience in executive management and capital development with an emphasis in the implementation of information systems, following five years in accountancy. Michael has held executive positions in the healthcare and human services sectors in IT capital development, finance and marketing. Michael has led the business case and grant writing process for numerous successful capital projects seeking private, state and federal funding. For a technology vendor, Michael served as the chief architect of a suite of financial applications targeting healthcare and human services administration. He is the lead investigator in the 2007 Survey of Regional Health Information Organization Finance, and also conducted the 2006 survey and served as principal author on the RHIO finance study reports. In addition to a cabinet-level career in capital development, Michael describes himself as a "nose-down programmer," experienced at both systems and applications software development, currently focusing on open source web-based systems. As an adminstrator, he served "in the trenches" throughout a provider's first JCAHO accreditation process, and in numerous organization automation initiatives across the U.S. Michael led or participated in first-of-class projects during the early period of the Web, and has presented and facilitated widely on finance, privacy, ethics, and mission accountability topics, and provides fundraising, capital development and marketing counsel to commercial and nonprofit clients. He is an artist and musician, and served a term as a guest lecturer at the University of Tulsa in the field of contemporary opera.
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