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Dick Thompson is the Executive Director and CEO of Quality Health Network(QHN) a non-profit community collaborative. As one of the first Health Information Exchanges(HIE) in the nation, QHN has been fully operational for almost ten years and is continually expanding its services and footprint throughout the 40,000 square miles of Western Colorado.
QHN’s infrastructure includes data delivery systems, robust data warehousing, risk stratification and predictive modeling analytics, enhanced preventive and chronic care decision support, and provider alert systems. As a key member of the Colorado Beacon Consortium (CBC), QHN helped model best practices for improving quality and reducing costs. In 2003 the CBC received a Healthcare Informatics Innovator Award in recognition of their innovations in leveraging technology to improve the quality of healthcare delivery.
The organization has achieved many significant milestones under Dick’s leadership as the network became an operational HIE in less than eight months and attained positive cash flow within two years of startup. QHN’s significant progress has been noted by industry publications including Healthcare Informatics, Health Leaders Magazine, Most Wired, Managed Healthcare Exec, and many other publications.
QHN is a key player in Colorado’s healthcare reform with Dick serving as a charter Board Member of Colorado’s Center for Improving Value in Healthcare (CIVHC) organization and serves on numerous state and national boards and committees to advance health IT. The organization is nationally recognized and has achieved significant milestones under Dick’s leadership. His extensive business background includes three decades of management experience in software technology and support organizations with special successes in “start up” organizations.
Marc Lassaux is the Chief Technical Officer (CTO) for Quality Health Network. He joined QHN in 2006. Marc currently serves on the Colorado eHealth Commission appointed by Governor Hickenlooper as well as on the Joint Agency Interoperability (JAI) Leadership Council.
As CTO, Marc works on planning for technology infrastructure and architecture, enabling innovation, and understanding the health information technology solutions that create business value. QHN is using advanced technology to facilitate community-based data sharing and community resource networks, enable innovative risk stratification/predictive modeling tools, support new payment models, and many others.
Previously, Marc was the Technical Director for The Colorado Beacon Consortium and has served in chairing roles for an Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) Community of Practice, as well as a Colorado State Innovation Model (SIM) workgroup.
Justin Aubert is the CFO and Director of Operations for Quality Health Network (QHN) based in Grand Junction Colorado, where he has led Finance and Operations for 12 years. Justin was also HIE Operations Director for the Colorado Beacon Consortium. QHN is a non-profit community collaborative and one of the first and most innovative health information exchanges (HIE) in the nation. QHN has been fully operational for almost ten years and self-sustaining since 2006.
Justin has over 23 years of experience in finance and operations. His diverse role at QHN includes the responsibility to oversee all finance and accounting, business operations, budgeting, contract negotiations, risk management, legal and regulatory compliance, human resources, and facility management. In this role, he has created the internal controls and all mechanisms required for the financial reporting to the Board of Directors, federal and state granting sources, and auditing and governmental agencies. The rapid growth QHN has experienced, and the unique emerging and evolving HIE business the organization engages in, has necessitated the establishment and implementation of sophisticated e-commerce, legal, security, compliance, and operational policies and procedures.
Justin managed a QHN program that delivered HITECH funding to QHN Participants, and under Justin’s leadership, QHN has been cash-flow positive every year in operation.
Prior to joining QHN, Justin had more than 12 years of progressive experience in finance and operations management within startups and established organizations. His previous experience demonstrated the ability to develop and streamline business operations that drive growth, increase efficiency, profit margins, and sustainability. Under his leadership organizations saw improved financial, compliance and operational controls, and productivity.
Justin has a Bachelor of Science degree in Business and Administration (Accounting Major) from the University of Colorado at Boulder, Colorado, and is a Certified Professional in Electronic Health Records (CPEHR) and Certified Professional in Health Information Technology (CPHIT).
Justin has been active on numerous local, state, and national boards. Justin currently sits on the CIVHC Board of Directors and Finance Committee as well as the Strive Board of Directors.
Rich Warner joined the QHN team in 2013; his responsibilities include designing and implementing a coordinated project process and educating the QHN staff on project management methodology, process, procedure and documentation. As part of the QHN leadership team Rich brings valued project management methodology, guidance and organization to the significant and innovative initiatives QHN undertakes.
Rich has more than 30 years of IT experience; 20 years have focused on health IT. Prior to joining QHN, Rich was the Information Technology Project Manager at St. Mary’s Hospital and Medical Center, Grand Junction, Colorado. In this leadership role he had direct responsibly to manage all Information Technology (IT) projects and provide project lead guidance including project planning, scope definition, defining project deliverables and milestones, cost/risk analysis with mitigation strategies, and scheduling.
Before assuming the role of Information Technology Project Manager, he worked as a Programmer/Analyst for 15 years successfully completing a series of progressively complex IT implementation and integration projects. These projects included the integration of the nursing documentation, Cardiac Cath Lab and GE MUSE EKG into the hospital’s Meditech HIS system and support for API time and attendance software and hardware and the Infinium human resources and payroll system.
Rich completed his undergraduate work at Colorado Mesa University and has a Master of Applied Science (MAS) from the University of Denver in Technology Management, with a concentration in Project Management.
QHN’s Health Information Exchange Network has received HITRUST certification.
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