About

Denny Brennan  is the Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Massachusetts Health Data Consortium (MHDC).  Denny has over 30 years of experience as a consultant and entrepreneur working with the country’s leading healthcare organizations on strategy, organizational effectiveness, and information and technology management. He brings specialized expertise in assisting organizations in aligning healthcare information and business strategies for success under increased market competition and health reform. His areas of emphasis include strategic and financial planning, organization structure and development, formation and management of Accountable Care Organizations, payment and reimbursement reform, and information technology strategy, including health information governance, security, and exchange. Denny has an MA in Education from Harvard University and MBA from Yale University.

John Budaj  is the Vice President of Information Technology at Fallon Health. John is responsible for the overall IT vision, strategy, operations, and technology at Fallon Health. John has been with Fallon Health for over 9 years. In addition to his current role, John has led Information Management & Analytics as well as Medical Economics, Data Management & Reporting. Prior to joining Fallon Health, John spent 16 years at ConnectiCare, Inc. responsible for Data Management and Infrastructure and 7 years at United Healthcare. John is a graduate of the University of Connecticut and is an AHIP, Managed Healthcare Professional.

Peter Coakley is the Executive Vice President of Operations at Logix Health, one of the largest medical coding and billing companies nationwide, providing services for both physicians and hospitals in over 40 states. Peter has been in the senior leadership of LogixHealth for almost 20 years, overseeing both revenue cycle management and technology. Previously, he spent seventeen years with the Massachusetts Department of Health and Hospitals in several roles including in the Patient Accounts department for the Long-Term Care Division. Peter has spent his entire career in the administrative aspects of healthcare. He has over 30 years of experience in revenue cycle management where he has successfully integrated continuously evolving technology solutions into operational processes.

David Colarusso is the Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Steward Health Care System. David has over 25 years of Healthcare Information Technology (HIT) experience, holding leadership roles for both the HIT vendor industry and large integrated healthcare provider organizations. Mr. Colarusso joined Steward in 2012 and has held numerous leadership roles, most recently serving as Steward’s Deputy Chief Information Officer. He has led Steward’s initiative to standardize the EMR platform, successfully transitioning all Steward’s acute care facilities to one platform in 2020. He has been a leading executive in the acquisitions and onboarding of new hospitals to the Steward system. Prior to joining Steward, Mr. Colarusso spent 17 years on the EMR vendor side implementing, developing, and updating hospital software. He has also served as the CIO Forum Co-Chair for the Massachusetts Health Data Consortium. David is an industry thought leader who has been the keynote speaker at many HIT industry and EMR vendor conferences such as HIMSS, Microsoft, and others. David has a BS in Biology from Stonehill College.

Lee Green is the Chief Architect for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts (BCBSMA). BCBSMA is the largest insurer in Massachusetts with approximately 2.8 million members and policyholders. Lee is also an active member of the Blue Cross Blue Shield National Network of Architects and Innovation. Prior to his move to Boston and joining Blue Cross of MA in 2016, Lee led Architecture and Information Management for NASCO, an organization providing core Back Office Payer platforms and capabilities to multiple BCBS plans. He also spent over a decade consulting for both Deloitte and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) in areas of Data and Technology. Lee has a degree in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology (1997). With a background focused on Enterprise Information Management and Enterprise Architecture, Lee has a passion for the power of information, insights and their combined ability to influence consumer-centered actions and their capacity to transform the healthcare and payer industry.

Arthur Harvey, MS, is the Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Boston Medical Center Health System. In his position, Arthur, helps come up with a road map to implement technologies and makes sure the health IT group is aligned with the rest of the academic medical center. A graduate of Boston College and Brandeis University, Arthur is considered a “lifer” in healthcare. Prior to joining BMC, he served as program chair of health and medical informatics at Brandeis University.

John Kelly provides strategic consulting the health care sector, specializing in digital transformation and the democratization of patient care delivery and administration data. John is a nationally recognized health information exchange expert. His wide-ranging experience includes serving as Principal Business Advisor for Edifecs, CIO of healthcare network provider NaviNet, director of eBusiness Architecture at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, and managing director of his own health IT consulting firm. He also served as the architect and technical lead for the development of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’ statewide HIE project.

Craig Monsen currently serves as Atrius Health’s Chief Medical Informatics Officer and Center Director for the Academic Institute’s Center for Informatics at Atrius Health. Craig is on a mission to leverage health information systems to enable the joyful practice of reliable, high-quality care. Craig  began his journey into informatics studying biomedical engineering and computer science as an undergraduate at Harvard. During medical school at Johns Hopkins, Craig co-founded his first startup, a data-driven symptom checker called Symcat that was regarded in a BMJ study as the most accurate symptom checker. He completed his combined internal medicine residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Atrius Health primary care and went on to complete a clinical informatics fellowship at the University of Washington. During this training, Craig co-founded a second startup connecting streams of FHIR-enabled patient data to clinical care workflows that he later successfully sold. Craig’s research has included generating predictive models to promote population health, measuring the impact of electronic health records on provider work, and developing cost transparency tools that help nudge providers towards high value care. He writes and has been an invited, national speaker on topics of consumer engagement, applied predictive analytics, health information interoperability, and value-based care.

Paul Pecoraro is the Senior Vice President, Revenue Cycle at Boston Children's Hospital. Paul often says, I “professionally grew up in healthcare.” With best intentions, he pursued an undergrad in Psychology to land a career as an MD. Struggling to decide whether to be a psychiatrist or neurologist, his path led him to co-op experiences for both, delivering hands-on care to disabled adults, as well as working as an administrative assistant for the Director of Patient Access. It didn’t take him long to realize a career in health care management allowed him more impact, with slightly different credentials. His early jobs included registration and bed placement, system analysis, and revenue cycle training. Driven to influence healthcare at the intersection of clinical, financial, and technical pillars, Paul’s path to various Revenue Cycle roles is a web that involves streamlining front-to-back revenue cycle models, implementing various revenue cycle systems from registration to bed management to billing and about everything in between. Having spent years in academic medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and Partners Healthcare, at entity and corporate roles, he spent recent years working for CVS Health, overseeing strategic planning and revenue cycle for close to 1100 Minute Clinics, and creating digital strategy for functions such as registration, coding, enrollment and credentialing. Having augmented his leadership skills at a Fortune 7 for-profit company, his passion for academic medicine led him to Boston Children’s Hospital. With an aspirational slogan of “until every child is well,” currently leading Financial Clearance and Hospital AR, overseeing risk of approximately $1.8B between the Hospital and Professionals and collecting over $1.2B in cash for the Hospital, his colleagues and team wake up every day working for the #1 children’s hospital in the United States focused on administrative excellence. He has an undergraduate degree from Northeastern University and a master’s degree from the University of Massachusetts Boston. He currently lives on the South Shore of Boston with his wife and two sons.

Anu Puri is the Senior Director of Health Care Finance and Research for the Massachusetts Health and Hospital Association. Anu has over fifteen years of experience in the health care finance and policy arena including in legislative, regulatory, financial and policy analysis. Her areas of specialization include payment and delivery system reform; healthcare cost and performance trends; impact modeling of reimbursement policy and Medicare quality-based payment reform initiatives. She assists MHA and its members in strategy development on a variety of health policy issues. Anu earned her M. from King George’s Medical College in Lucknow, India, and her MPH from Harvard University.

David Querusio is the Chief Technology Officer at Point32Health, the combined Tufts Health Plan and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care organizations. David is responsible for the IT strategy and technology used at Harvard Pilgrim and oversees a blended team of NTT Data and Harvard Pilgrim resources to deliver complex solutions at scale. David is the co-chair for MHDC's Executive Forum, participated on the Boards of NEHEN, MAeHC, and NHHIO, and is the 2015 recipient of the Dolores L. Mitchell Investing in Information Award. Prior to joining Harvard Pilgrim, David was an enterprise architect at BCBSMA, and the Integration Manager for Perot Systems on the Harvard Pilgrim Account, where he was responsible for designing and delivering service components of the IT strategy. David is a graduate of UMass Lowell, and an AHIP ELP Certified Health Insurance Executive.

Barbra Rabson, MPH, is the President and CEO of the Massachusetts Health Quality Partners (MHQP). Under Barbra's leadership, MHQP has become a national leader in the measurement and public reporting of health care information, with a particular focus on measuring and improving patients’ experiences of care. She has led MHQP’s most recent work to better understand patient and clinician experiences with telehealth. Barbra directed and has been the principal investigator of numerous federal and private foundation grants (including CMS, AHRQ, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Commonwealth Fund) for MHQP. She is currently a member of the Milbank Advisory Committee for the Health of US Primary Care Scorecard, the MA Executive Office of Health and Human Services Quality Measure Alignment Task Force and Quality Subcommittee, the Massachusetts Health Equity Data Standards Technical Advisory Committee, and co-chair of the Betsey Lehman Center Measurement and Transparency Task Force. She also serves on the Board of the Massachusetts Health Data Consortium. Barbra has an MPH from Yale University and an undergraduate degree from Brandeis University. She enjoys sculling on the Charles River and playing her cello in her free time.

Stephanie Shapiro, MD, is Chief of Medical Informatics and Population health at MIT Medical. She is a graduate of Wesleyan University where she received a BA in Biology and the University of Connecticut where she completed a combined program earning a master’s degree in Medical Anthropology concurrently with her MD degree. She completed her residency in Internal Medicine at the Lahey Clinic in Burlington, MA, joining the Departments of Community Medicine and Internal Medicine upon completion of training. While at Lahey Clinic, Dr. Shapiro practiced both primary care and consultative medicine, served as an attending physician for the Internal Medicine residency program, led the Internal Medicine Morbidity and Mortality Conference and collaborated with nursing leadership to develop a program for patient education.

In 2007, Dr. Shapiro joined the department of Internal Medicine at MIT Medical, a multispecialty group practice serving the students, staff and faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She served as Chief of Internal Medicine from 2013 through 2016, chaired multiple committees including the Patient Care Assessment Committee, Performance Improvement/Risk Management Committee and served a three-year term on MIT’s Committee on the Use of Humans as Experimental Subjects. Since 2017, Dr. Shapiro has been Chief of Medical Informatics and Population Health creating an interdisciplinary department that includes the Health Information Systems, Data Analytics and Clinical Quality teams working collaboratively to support high quality, patient centric health care.

Manu Tandon is the Chief Information Officer for Beth Israel Lahey Health (BILH). Manu provides strategic and operational leadership to guide the future direction and integration of the information technology enterprise for the BILH system and enable high-quality service to clinical and business operations. He also leads BILH's Health Technology Exploration Center.

David Whitham is the Assistant Chef Information Officer for Health and Eligibility for Massachusetts Medicaid (MassHealth) at the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services (EOHHS). David works with Mass Health overseeing the Medicaid Enterprise Systems, including the Massachusetts Medicaid Management Information System. David has also led such efforts as the Massachusetts statewide Health Information Exchange and Health Insurance Exchange. He has partnered with both federal, state, and private entities to advance the process of enabling healthcare data exchange in a manner that is meaningful and efficient to all participants.

William Young is the Chief Information Officer at Berkshire Health Systems (BHS), where he implemented an Information Technology strategy that included a state-of-the-art Electronic Health system for both hospital-employed and community-based physicians across the Berkshires and has successfully led BHS to achieve Healthcare’s “Most-Wired.”

Bill is a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, with a degree in Technical
Management and concentration in Information Systems, Economics, and Business Law. He has been active in numerous professional and civic organizations, including serving on the
Board of the Adams Community Bank and being an active member of the Health
Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and College of Health Information Management Executives (CHIME).