We’re pleased to announce that William F. Kinsley, an enterprise architect in the NextGen Healthcare Research and Development group, has been appointed to serve as chair of the Electronic Health Record Association (EHRA) Privacy and Security Workgroup. As the leader of the Privacy and Security Workgroup, he will facilitate the EHRA’s response to privacy and security initiatives. With more than 17 years of health IT experience, William is a technology leader at NextGen Healthcare and a well-known expert in the healthcare security community.
“It is essential that the vendor community continue to work together to overcome new information security and privacy challenges that the information technology arena is facing,” William said of his new role. “I look forward to leading this workgroup and furthering collaborative efforts aimed at helping to support and improve the security and privacy of healthcare information systems used industry wide.”