Sherry Anderson, RN, BSN

Sherry Anderson has practiced nursing for 26 years - 10 years in critical care, and 18 years in Manager/Director roles.  The past 10 years her focus has been in quality improvement initiatives that develop and foster shared accountability across departmental lines. Sherry is currently the Director of Nursing Float Pool and serves as an Internal Quality Improvement Consultant.  Her quality improvement initiatives have provided her with the opportunity to speak at national and international conferences.  Some of her speaking engagements have included the American Society of Healthcare System Pharmacists (ASHP) annual Midyear conference, the National Association of Healthcare Quality (NAHQ) Annual Educational conference, and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Reducing Adverse Drug Events collaborative.

Steven J. Backes

Steve Backes is President and CEO of IZEX Technologies, Inc., a Minneapolis-based company that is developing patented distance rehabilitation solutions. Steve has specialized in emerging technologies in the healthcare and financial services industries for eighteen years. Previous industry experience includes being co-founder and president of Dexma, Inc.,  a leader in Internet-based business transaction services in the financial services industry; as a manager with Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) deploying new technologies at major U.S. healthcare and financial services companies; and as a systems engineer specializing in imaging and workflow systems with Plexus Computers of San Jose, CA. Steve has a B.S. in Quantitative Methods and Information Systems from St. Cloud State University.

Steve F. Fischer

Mr. Fischer has a broad base of industry experience.   In the medical industry, as the CIO for the Center for Diagnostic Imaging (CDI) he has been involved in selection of Radiology Information Systems, voice recognition and PAC's systems for this 20+ centers outpatient imaging company. Prior experience in health care included Director of HMO Systems for Aetna/USHealthcare and ValueRX.  Mr. Fischer's non medical system experience includes,  CIO for Apogee Enterprises' Glass Services Division (Harmon Autoglass, Wassau Window Wall, TruVue, and Lin-Tec companies) and General Manager for a software company. 

Corey Fleek

Corey Fleek is the Mid-West Account Manager for eWebCoding.  He began his career in health care working for a dictation and transcription vendor in 1992.  Over an 8 year period he successfully helped hundreds of hospitals establish productive home based transcription programs.  Today, his focus is the same with a slightly different target- coding.  Over 150 hospitals nationwide utilize eWebCoding with more than 800 coders whose productivity is up by an average of 20%.

Mark Jamieson

As Dictaphone’s Regional Product Sales Director, Mark Jamieson is responsible for implementing speech recognition strategy for Dictaphone’s Health Care Solutions Group in Northern North America.  Mark has been involved with speech recognition and how it fits in the workflow for over 5 years, and has been working with the challenges of medical documentation with Dictaphone since 1990.  Mark has a BA from the University of Arizona and has earned a certificate from the Kellogg School of Business, Northwestern University.

 Russell F. Lewis

Russell Lewis is Sr. Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Bridge Medical Inc. Before joining Bridge he served as Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of McKesson HBOC's Information Technology Business. For the last 20 years, Mr. Lewis has been involved in research and product development for many leading technology companies, including HBOC, Ameritech, Knowledge Data Systems and Texas Instruments. He holds degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics and has over 20 US and international patents. Mr. Lewis has served for three years on the MS-HUG Board of Directors and is on the board of HealthAsyst a healthcare software services company. In addition, Mr. Lewis is the editor of a recent HIMSS book entitled “ The Impact of Information Technology on Patient Safety”.

 Kathy Nielsen

Kathy Nielsen has been the Regions Hospital Transcription Manager for the last 8 years.  She has a total of 30 years experience in hospital transcription.   She has implemented the Dictaphone Voice, Text and Speech Recognition systems at Regions Hospital over the past 6 years. 

 Dennis J. O’Donnell, MHA, PT, SCS, CSCS

Dennis O’Donnell is the Director of the Institute for Athletic Medicine (IAM) in Minneapolis with more than 15 years experience in physical therapy and practice management.  He is also a Executive Director of the Minneapolis Sports Medicine Center, National Level Instructor at the Dogwood Institute (Atlanta, GA), curriculum advisor at the College of St. Catherine (Minneapolis), and a board member of the International Strength Building Council.  Dennis received a B.S. in Physical Therapy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an M.S. in Health Care Administration from the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota.

 John Peterson

John Peterson is a graduate of MIT with a Bachelor's of Science in Computer Science. John spent 13 years with a major minicomputer manufacturer- two of which were on an overseas assignment to Australia. The last 12 years, John has been based in Minnesota in Sales and Marketing positions for software firms. Currently, he is Vice President of Sales and Marketing with VarIT, a firm dedicated and focused on providing business solutions that make use of handheld devices.

 Pam Swanson

Pam is an ichart Sales Specialist with Dictaphone’s Advanced Medical Technologies Group.  She has an extensive background in healthcare operations which includes acute care, clinic, home health and long term care.  This experience gives her a unique understanding and appreciation of the challenges facing health care organizations. 

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