Cheyenne Thomas has been with Inland Northwest Health Services for 7 years and is currently in the role of Regional Accounts Manager. In this capacity a large part of her duties involve regulatory research and education for 20+ sites in the Northwest. Her most recent role has been focused on helping these facilities understand and achieve meaningful use. As part of the INHS meaningful use task force, she has attended most of the ONC workgroup meetings, been responsible to read and educate the group on all related regulations, hold educational sessions for all INHS associated facilities, create gap analysis and monthly report card documents, and work with facilities in regular meetings to monitor their progress towards meeting meaningful use and help to adjust strategies where necessary. Cheyenne has also been a regular contributor to Meaningful Use web sites, magazine articles and conferences.

Mrs. Thomas has previously managed business office staff and functions for both large urban and small rural facilities. She has been in healthcare for 17+ years.