Major Stakeholders Endorse CalRHIO
CalRHIO has received a number of significant endorsements from key stakeholders recently.
CalRHIO Appoints New Chief Operating Officer
Debbie Rieger has joined CalRHIO as Chief Operating Officer. Debbie brings extensive experience in health care, technology, and project management, including more than 20 years in management and operations. For the past eight years she served as Vice President for Information Technology with Catholic Health Initiatives, the second largest Catholic health system in the country. Based in Denver, she directed market-based operations IT services in 14 hospitals and managed 440 employees across the country.
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Holmquest Takes on Senior Advisor Role
Don Holmquest is moving into an advisory role with CalRHIO having completed his goal of successfully overseeing the company’s initial start-up phase. Holmquest was appointed President and CEO in 2006 when the company was six-months old and served for more than two years at the helm. During that period, he established a clear business model and put in place the fundamental technology that CalRHIO will use to deliver critical patient clinical information to emergency departments throughout California.
Holmquest said he believes that now is the right time to transition to a new CEO to oversee deployment and execution and move to a fully operational health information exchange. As a Senior Advisor he will assist with the transition and work on special projects. A search for his replacement will take place in 2009.
Molly Coye, Board Chair said, “On behalf of the Board, I express our thanks to Don for the excellent job he did in leading CalRHIO through its first stages of growth. He has built a solid foundation from which we expect to develop one of the nation’s foremost platforms for the exchange of health care information, and we will continue to seek his guidance in the years to come.”
Safety Net Advances HIE through CalRHIO Grants
Three Safety Net organizations advanced health information exchange projects through a grant provided by CalRHIO and funded through the Blue Shield of California Foundation. View reports on their work.
CalRHIO Releases HIE Tool Kit

Templates, forms, processes, and policies are part of the HIE Tool Kit CalRHIO has developed under a grant from the Blue Shield of California Foundation to assist Safety Net providers in advancing health information exchange. Other types of organizations will find the tools useful as well. The templates can be easily modified and customized to meet the needs of providers, consortia, community clinics, and others. Additional tools are under development. The site will also add tools from other organizations.
Questions? Contact Jennifer Frost, Program Planning and Development Director at 415-537-6938 or
jfrost@calrhio.org.
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