Leadership Biographies
Ken Rubin
Senior Advisor, Standards and Interoperability, Dept of Veterans Affairs (VHA CIDMO)
Ken Rubin is a Research Associate with the University of Utah Department of Biomedical Informatics, where his focus is on areas of health IT strategy, architecture, systems interoperability, business process management, and standards. He serves as the Executive Director of BPM+ Health and was the Director of Standards and Interoperability for the US Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration. With over 20 years' HIT experience as an enterprise and solution architect in industry both domestically and abroad, his focus has been health IT strategic planning, architecture, open systems, and interoperability of data, knowledge, and processes. Passionate about standards, he has held leadership roles in the Object Management Group and Logica Health and is an HL7 Fellow.
Shane McNamee, MD
Chief Health Information Officer, BPM+ Health; Smile CDR
Shane McNamee M.D. is a Clinical Solutions Architect and board-certified Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (PM&R) Physician with demonstrated success as a healthcare leader, practitioner, and technology and process innovator. As Chief Health Information Officer (CHIO) at BPM+ Health, he is responsible for establishing the unique clinical value proposition for the BPM+ Health community and assessing and driving community-wide healthcare automation priorities.
Dr. McNamee is a tireless advocate and driver for a nationwide Public Health Utility for Health IT to rationalize healthcare delivery. He serves as CMIO in Perspecta's Health Business Group. He graduated as a Presidential Scholar from the Medical College of Ohio and completed residency in PM&R at the Virginia Commonwealth University.
Pawan Goyal, MD, MHA, PMP, MS, FHIMSS, CPHIMS
Co-chair, Authoring Working Group, BPM+ Health; Associate Executive Director, Quality, American College of Emergency Physicians
With more than 30 years of experience in healthcare delivery and management for large federal, state and local government contexts, Pawan Goyal is currently leading the Quality line of business for ACEP. The quality portfolio includes Clinical Emergency Data Registry (CEDR), Emergency Quality Network (E-QUAL), Quality Policy, Health Information Technology, Emergency Medicine Informatics, Patient Safety, and Performance Measures.
An Otolaryngologist by training, Pawan had 14 years of surgical practice in India prior to moving to the United States in 1998. As a recognized leader and subject matter expert on process re-engineering for healthcare and electronic health records interoperability, Pawan often serves as an author, panelist and public speaker in areas such as quality, patient safety, informatics, patient medical records, and effective EHR institutionalization and utilization.
An active member and contributor to the healthcare industry standards community, Pawan co-chairs the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Project Management Special Interest Group and serves on Davies Enterprise Steering Committee for Quality, Outcomes, and Value Realization. Goyal also serves on the Board of Examiners for Texas Quality Forum, American Council of Technology – Industry Advisory Council (ACT-IAC) and The Society of Medical Consultants to the Armed Forces (SMCAF).
Cary Paul
Facilitator, Authoring Working Group, BPM+ Health; Principal, Forge Forward
Cary Paul is a Principal at Forge Forward, where he leads the Rate of Change practice area. He manages multiple efforts with the US Navy and US Department of Veterans Affairs. These efforts include facilitation, leadership advisory, training, project management, communications, strategy and culture. Throughout his 15+ years of consulting experience, Cary has helped dozens of commercial and government clients not only plan for the future, but also love the journey. Cary is well known as an expert in creating and delivering facilitated sessions that are energetic, innovative and experiential. Prior to Forge Forward, Cary owned and operated a small consultancy focused on strategic planning and experiential facilitation. He has an MBA in Organizational Behavior and Information Technology from George Washington University and a BS in Industrial Engineering from Penn State. Cary is recognized by Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) as a recommended speaker.
Ken Allgood
Implementer Working Group, BPM+ Health; Co-chair, Co-founder and CEO, HealthFlow.io
Ken Allgood is the founder and chief executive officer of HealthFlow.io and brings a 20+ year track record of successfully leading enterprise innovation and information technology transformation to address the challenges of patient-centered healthcare delivery and health information management. Prior to starting HealthFlow.io, Ken most recently led several initiatives with the DoD Defense Health Agency and Veteran's Health Administration to design and implement clinically-driven interoperable solutions that have improved patient care coordination and care outcomes for veterans and active duty members alike. Ken's passion for innovating and improving the patient experience, coupled with his experience building and leading agile transformation across the world's largest combined health system, is at the core of the HealthFlow.io platform and its team, driving the company's partner engagement approach and ethos: Democratizing better health care, for everyone.
Lee Wise
Co-chair, Academic & Professional Education Working Group, BPM+ Health; Health Information Management Director, Clinch Valley Medical Center
Lee Wise is the health information director at Clinch Valley Medical Center. She has over 12 years of HIM experience in acute care, skilled nursing, rehabilitation, nonprofit clinic, and hospice settings.
Lee is a Registered Health Information Administrator (RHIA) and a Certified HIPAA Compliance Officer (CHCO). She attended The College of St. Scholastica in Duluth, MN, where she received her Master of Science in Health Information Management and Master of Arts in Information Technology Leadership.
Currently, Lee serves on the AHIMA Professional Ethics Committee and AHIMA HIE Practice Council., President of the SWVHIMA, and HIMD counsel chair for LifePoint Health. Her passion is HIT standardization and improving the quality of care by improving documentation at patient points of transitions in care.
She has presented at the AHIMA Convention in 2015, 2017, 2018 and 2019 and has co-authored several Journal of AHIMA articles and two white papers.
Nicole Miller
Co-chair, Academic & Professional Education Working Group, BPM+ Health CEO & Consultant, Miller And Miller Associates USA, LLC
Nicole is the CEO and consultant for Miller And Miller Associates USA, LLC and has over 15 years' experience in different areas of the HIM industry including areas such as information governance, clinical documentation integrity, strategic planning, and project management for system implementations. Presently Nicole holds a master's degree in HIM as well as IT Leadership and a certificate in Healthcare Informatics from The College of St. Scholastica. She has worked in various healthcare organizations from hospitals to ambulatory care but now focuses on ambulatory care and physician practices. She has participated in the AHIMA Standards Task Force and participated in various AHIMA Practice Councils and served on the AHIMA House of Delegates. She has presented at several AHIMA conventions as well as NYHIMA conventions and has co-authored many articles and papers related to HIM. She is also an active member of HIMSS. Nicole enjoys the field of HIM as there is a great challenge in the changes that are occurring so wants to learn as much as possible and assist with her expertise whenever possible.