Janet M. Marchibroda Named One of America's Top 25 Women in Healthcare
April 18, 2005 |
Janet M. Marchibroda, CEO and founder of the eHealth Initiative, has been named one of America's top 25 women in healthcare by Modern Healthcare magazine. The honor was announced in the magazine's April 18, 2005 issue which can be accessed by clicking here.
For the past four years, Ms. Marchibroda has served as Founding Chief Executive Officer, eHealth Initiative (eHI) and Executive Director, eHealth Initiative Foundation, both Washington, DC-based national non-profit organizations. The mission of both organizations is the same: driving improvement in healthcare quality, safety and efficiency through information and health information technology (HIT).
Since founding the organization in 2001, Ms. Marchibroda has made eHI one of the nation's premier healthcare advocacy organizations with over 200 members as diverse as healthcare itself. Prior to eHI, Ms. Marchibroda founded and served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for , Inc. (formerly Nation's Health), a $30 million subsidiary of Bertelsmann AG providing electronic publishing, data, and consulting services to the healthcare and financial service industries. In addition to partnering with the other co-founders to research, plan and implement fund start-up and expansion, she worked with the company's Chief Medical Officer to develop and implement BenefitNation's health information services business strategy.
Before BenefitNation, Ms. Marchibroda served as the interim Chief Operating Officer for the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (NCCS), where she facilitated nificant change and improvement by performing an organizational assessment of, and developing and implementing recommendations for improvement in several areas, including strategic and organizational planning, fundraising, technology, finance and operations. Prior to NCCS, Ms. Marchibroda served as Chief
Operating Officer of the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), helping grow the organization from $3.7 million in revenues and 20 employees to one with over $24 million in revenues and over 100 employees.
In addition to her role at eHI, Ms. Marchibroda serves as Executive Director of Connecting for Health, a public-private sector initiative funded by and led by the Markle Foundation and supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and designed to catalyze actions on a national basis to drive electronic connectivity and create an interconnected, electronic health information infrastructure.
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