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John Showalter, M.D., is a board certified internal medicine physician and is currently the chief medical information officer at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. His interests include quality improvement and intelligent use of technology, and he blogs about innovating health care through clinical knowledge management at CKM Beat.

Sean Benson is Vice President of Innovation at Wolters Kluwer Health Clinical Solutions and the Co-Founder of ProVation Medical, which provides procedure documentation and clinical decision support solutions for hospitals and Ambulatory Surgery Centers.

Denni McColm is Chief Information Officer for Citizens Memorial Healthcare. Denni has been at Citizens Memorial since 1988, serving as Director of Human Resources and Director of Finance before moving into the CIO role in June, 2003. Denni served on the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology as a Commissioner from 2006-2008. She also served on the Davies Awards of Excellence Organizational Selection Committee from 2006 -2008 and again in 2010. Denni is a member of the Board of Directors for MUSE, Medical Users Software Exchange and the Editorial Board for Healthcare IT News, published in partnership with HIMSS. Denni holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia.

Jane M. Orient, M.D., Executive Director of Association of American Physicians\nand Surgeons, has been in solo practice of general internal medicine since 1981\nand is a clinical lecturer in medicine at the University Of Arizona College Of\nMedicine. She is the author of "Sapira's Art and Science of Bedside Diagnosis," published by Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins. She also authored "YOUR Doctor Is Not In: Healthy Skepticism\nabout National Health Care," published by Crown.

Beth Haenke Just (bjust@justassociates.com) is CEO and president of Just Associates, a data integrity consulting firm.

David Linthicum is an SVP with Cloud Technology Partners, a cloud computing consulting and advisory firm. David’s latest book is "Cloud Computing and SOA Convergence in Your Enterprise, a Step-by-Step Approach." His Web site is www.davidlinthicum.com\/