John F. Derr, R.Ph, FASCP is a strategic clinical healthcare global corporate executive with hands on experience and P&L responsibility in the majority of all the facets of healthcare products, services, and organizations.
SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE - High level corporate executive experience in: Large corporations including ER Squibb & Sons, GD Searle, Siemens, National Medical Enterprises International (Tenet), and Golden Living. Start-up experience including International Remote Imaging Systems (IRIS - Clinical Chemistry), Kinamed Orthopedic Implants (Division of Kyocera), Innovative Health Concepts (laser dermatology), and Shared Health Systems (Sun Health Care Group). Not-for‐profit high level Association management experience including American Health Care Association (AHCA), National Center for Assisted Living (NCAL), National Quality Forum (NQF), National Association for the Support of Long Term Care (NASL), and American Society of Consultant Pharmacists (ASCP).
FUNCTIONAL EXPERIENCE IN: Health information technology, transition of care, clinical technology assessment, technology transfer, product launch, federal regulatory, clinical chemistry, pharmaceuticals, diagnostics, devices, lasers, imaging instrumentation, hospital management, long-‐term and post acute care, international, and integrated computer systems. Successful clinical programs in: cardiovascular, diagnostic imaging, orthopedics, dermatology, software applications, medication management, and health information technology.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS (BOD), BOARD OF TRUSTEES (BOT) and BOARD OF ADVISORS (BOA) experience:
DERR’S ROLE IN CLINICAL HIT - In 2004 Derr was the Executive VP (COO) of American Health Care Association (AHCA)/National Center of Assisted Living (NCAL) which represents the majority of skilled nursing facilities (SNF) and assisted living facilities (ALF) in America and attended the Press Conference where HHS Secretary Thompson announced President Bush’s Executive Order. At the meeting, Secretary Thompson asked Derr to coordinate LTPAC HIT. Even though, from the beginning, LTPAC has been third priority to hospitals and physicians Derr has been a positive influence on National HIT policy to include the care of the elderly and disabled in the national program. The first step was to form a collaborative of all the LTPAC stakeholders. This was accomplished in 2005 when Derr as a representative of AHCA met with the other senior living company now called LeadingAge and the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) to form the LTPAC HIT Collaborative
SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE - High level corporate executive experience in: Large corporations including ER Squibb & Sons, GD Searle, Siemens, National Medical Enterprises International (Tenet), and Golden Living. Start-up experience including International Remote Imaging Systems (IRIS - Clinical Chemistry), Kinamed Orthopedic Implants (Division of Kyocera), Innovative Health Concepts (laser dermatology), and Shared Health Systems (Sun Health Care Group). Not-for‐profit high level Association management experience including American Health Care Association (AHCA), National Center for Assisted Living (NCAL), National Quality Forum (NQF), National Association for the Support of Long Term Care (NASL), and American Society of Consultant Pharmacists (ASCP).
FUNCTIONAL EXPERIENCE IN: Health information technology, transition of care, clinical technology assessment, technology transfer, product launch, federal regulatory, clinical chemistry, pharmaceuticals, diagnostics, devices, lasers, imaging instrumentation, hospital management, long-‐term and post acute care, international, and integrated computer systems. Successful clinical programs in: cardiovascular, diagnostic imaging, orthopedics, dermatology, software applications, medication management, and health information technology.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS (BOD), BOARD OF TRUSTEES (BOT) and BOARD OF ADVISORS (BOA) experience:
- Past Experience: IRIS - BOD (Public Corporation in Clinical Chemistry); Indiana University Executive Program - BOA; Veteran Administration Congressional Oversight Committee in Prosthetics - BOA; Veteran Administration Congressional Oversight Committee on Veteran Geriatric Care - BOA; Commission on the Certification of HIT (CCHIT) - BOT; ASCP Foundation - BOA (Medication Management)
- Current Positions: Talyst Corporation BOD (Automated Medication Dispensing); Blue Orange Compliance BOA (HIPAA Audit); CarePort BOA (Patient Portal on Transitions of Care); Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the National Coordinator Federal Advisory Board on HIT Standards and Numerous Workgroups Associated with the 2004 ARRA HITEC Act - BOA; National Quality Forum Health (NQF) Information Technology Advisory Committee (HITAC) - BOA; Home Care Technology Association of America (HCTAA) - BOA; Purdue University School of Pharmacy Dean’s - BOA; Inofile KNO2 Direct Trust Platform - BOA; CMS TEFT Grant S&I Framework Workgroup - BOA; HHS CAH, Rural, Veteran Health Workgroup - Member; HIMSS Patient Center - BOA
DERR’S ROLE IN CLINICAL HIT - In 2004 Derr was the Executive VP (COO) of American Health Care Association (AHCA)/National Center of Assisted Living (NCAL) which represents the majority of skilled nursing facilities (SNF) and assisted living facilities (ALF) in America and attended the Press Conference where HHS Secretary Thompson announced President Bush’s Executive Order. At the meeting, Secretary Thompson asked Derr to coordinate LTPAC HIT. Even though, from the beginning, LTPAC has been third priority to hospitals and physicians Derr has been a positive influence on National HIT policy to include the care of the elderly and disabled in the national program. The first step was to form a collaborative of all the LTPAC stakeholders. This was accomplished in 2005 when Derr as a representative of AHCA met with the other senior living company now called LeadingAge and the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) to form the LTPAC HIT Collaborative
The LTPAC HIT Collaborative represents the majority of the Associations in the long term and post acute care (LTPAC) healthcare segment. The Collaborative has held an annual HIT summit for 8 years, written three updates to a LTPAC HIT Roadmap, and represents the elderly and disabled in areas of regulatory proposed rules and with the HHS Office of the HIT Coordinator initiatives. The Collaborative has had a conference call every Friday for 48 of the 52 weeks of the year. The role of the Collaborative is important especially since LTPAC providers were not included in the ARRA HITECH Act and do not receive incentives to upgrade their IT infrastructure like hospitals and professionals. The Collaborative is the “go to” organization for LTPAC providers and services and without the Collaborative there is a good chance that there would be no HIT representation for the providers and vendors of LTPAC care.
Derr in his role as one of the founders of the Collaborative has worked with the four National Coordinators to ensure, as much as possible, the inclusion of LTPAC providers and HIT vendors. Derr has been appointed to numerous top-‐level federal committees where, many times, he is the only pharmacist and elderly LTPAC advocate. He has also been a leader in assisting providers and vendors in their strategic planning to play a major role in the new healthcare environment.
Derr in his role as one of the founders of the Collaborative has worked with the four National Coordinators to ensure, as much as possible, the inclusion of LTPAC providers and HIT vendors. Derr has been appointed to numerous top-‐level federal committees where, many times, he is the only pharmacist and elderly LTPAC advocate. He has also been a leader in assisting providers and vendors in their strategic planning to play a major role in the new healthcare environment.
Derr, with his unique hands-‐on experience and current involvement in HITECH Act implementation at the national level, is one of the strategic leaders for LTPAC clinical technology. Not only does he participate at the national and state level, he has practical hands on experience. He was SVP and CIO for the second largest LTPAC provider corporation in the US. He joined Golden Living, LLC in January 2007. Golden Living has over 300 skilled nursing facilities; assisted living facilities; 7,000 therapists; home and hospice care agencies, and a high technology pharmacy division. Golden Living has over 63,000 patients under their care everyday of the year providing paper based chronic longitudinal care. When he joined as the CIO there had not been a CIO for years, most software applications were proprietary, out of version, or using outdated operating systems. The total HIT infrastructure was so out-‐of-‐date that Derr knew it would never be able to produce an electronic medical or health record. In three years Derr’s strategic planning and leadership proposed, had approved by ownership, and implemented one the most advanced clinical HIT infrastructures in LTPAC. Golden Living’s HIT infrastructure has features required for providing high-‐level electronic clinical care to the patients under their care. The company is positioned for future care and payment models. Through Derr’s network, Golden Living is one of the first LTPAC corporations to be a member of an HIE.
Derr’s major focus at the national level is to assist in programs that will be necessary to include LTPAC providers and services in the new world of integrated, dynamic, person centric electronic longitudinal care coordination through electronic health record technology. These major person centric longitudinal care and healthcare workflow system initiatives are:
• Inclusion of LTPAC in the transitions of care between providers, including Health Information Exchanges, Beacon Communities, and the Medical Home;
• Person centric medication management;
• Harmonization of electronic quality measures across the spectrum of care;
• Consumer engagement in their healthcare;
• Working with providers and vendors to understand the new world and their partnership roles;
• Use of technology in telemedicine and telehealth;
• Care at home after home care agency care;
• Certification requirements; and
• Strategic clinical technology planning required for partnerships.
DERR’S CAREER - Derr is interested in using his experience, knowledge, and involvement in the national HITECH Act program to work with providers and payors in developing and implementing short and long term strategic plans involving providing LTPAC or in partnering with acute care providers to include LTPAC.
Derr with his unique hands-‐on experience and current involvement in HITECH Act implementation at the national level is one of the strategic leaders for LTPAC clinical technology. He was SVP and CIO for the second largest LTPAC provider where his strategic planning and leadership implemented one of the most advanced clinical technology infrastructures providing the features required to provide a high level of clinical care and the capability for the future care model.
Derr started his healthcare professional career in 1964 after spending five years as an active duty line officer in the US Navy (He Remained in the Active Naval Reserve for additional twenty six years including four years as reserve Commanding Officer of two Naval Reserve Destroyers. He retired in 1989 as a USN Captain). He has almost fifty years of top level domestic, international and government healthcare experience in almost every facet of healthcare.1
Corporate Leadership (Date indicates the year of completion)
1. Pharmaceutical (1974) -‐ E.R. Squibb & Sons Director of Product Development and Strategic Planning;
2. Imaging (1980) -‐ VP and Division Manager of Siemens Ultrasound and Nuclear Medicine;
3. Hospital (1983) -‐ SVP International Business Development National Medical System (Tenet);
4. Clinical Chemistry (1985) -‐ Founder and COO of International Remote Imaging Systems (Start-‐up);
5. Relational Database Marketing (1989) – Founder and CEO Westlake Group (Start-‐up)
6. Dermatology (1991) -‐ Founder and CEO Innovative Health Concepts Radiant Light Laser Centers (Start-‐up);
7. Orthopedics (1996) -‐ General Manager of Kinamed Orthopedic a Division of Kyocera (Start-‐up);
8. Health Information Technology (2001) -‐ COO JB Laughrey’s MediSpan and VP Business Development Sun Health Care IT Div Shared Healthcare Systems (Start-‐up);
9. LTPAC Provider (2012) -‐ SVP CIO Golden Living, LLC.
10. Integrated Software (2012) --BridgeGate International, LLC Advisory Board
11. Automated Medication Dispensing (2016) -- Talyst, Ic. Board of Directors
12. Compliance (Current) -- BlueOrange Compliance Strategic Advisor
13. Interoperability (Current) -- Kno2 Strategic Advisor
14. LTPAC Software Vendor (Current) -- Various Strategic Advisor Boards
15. Pharmacogenomics (Current) -- Genelex Board of Directors
LTPAC Association Leadership (Date indicates the year of completion)
Federal HIT Leadership:
EDUCATION, MILITARY, AWARDS, AND PERSONAL
Education -
Military -
Reserve Commanding Officer of two Reserve Naval Destroyers (USS Deyess (DD880) and USS William R. Rush (DD724) home ported in New York City;
Reserve Commanding Officer Yorktown, VA Naval Weapons Station;
Staff of the DOD Assistant Secretary of Health Affairs, The Pentagon Washington, DC;
Senior Officer Santa Barbara, CA; and
Director Strategic Planning for San Diego, CA Naval Reserve Command 19th Naval District.
Professional Awards -
Derr’s major focus at the national level is to assist in programs that will be necessary to include LTPAC providers and services in the new world of integrated, dynamic, person centric electronic longitudinal care coordination through electronic health record technology. These major person centric longitudinal care and healthcare workflow system initiatives are:
• Inclusion of LTPAC in the transitions of care between providers, including Health Information Exchanges, Beacon Communities, and the Medical Home;
• Person centric medication management;
• Harmonization of electronic quality measures across the spectrum of care;
• Consumer engagement in their healthcare;
• Working with providers and vendors to understand the new world and their partnership roles;
• Use of technology in telemedicine and telehealth;
• Care at home after home care agency care;
• Certification requirements; and
• Strategic clinical technology planning required for partnerships.
DERR’S CAREER - Derr is interested in using his experience, knowledge, and involvement in the national HITECH Act program to work with providers and payors in developing and implementing short and long term strategic plans involving providing LTPAC or in partnering with acute care providers to include LTPAC.
Derr with his unique hands-‐on experience and current involvement in HITECH Act implementation at the national level is one of the strategic leaders for LTPAC clinical technology. He was SVP and CIO for the second largest LTPAC provider where his strategic planning and leadership implemented one of the most advanced clinical technology infrastructures providing the features required to provide a high level of clinical care and the capability for the future care model.
Derr started his healthcare professional career in 1964 after spending five years as an active duty line officer in the US Navy (He Remained in the Active Naval Reserve for additional twenty six years including four years as reserve Commanding Officer of two Naval Reserve Destroyers. He retired in 1989 as a USN Captain). He has almost fifty years of top level domestic, international and government healthcare experience in almost every facet of healthcare.1
Corporate Leadership (Date indicates the year of completion)
1. Pharmaceutical (1974) -‐ E.R. Squibb & Sons Director of Product Development and Strategic Planning;
2. Imaging (1980) -‐ VP and Division Manager of Siemens Ultrasound and Nuclear Medicine;
3. Hospital (1983) -‐ SVP International Business Development National Medical System (Tenet);
4. Clinical Chemistry (1985) -‐ Founder and COO of International Remote Imaging Systems (Start-‐up);
5. Relational Database Marketing (1989) – Founder and CEO Westlake Group (Start-‐up)
6. Dermatology (1991) -‐ Founder and CEO Innovative Health Concepts Radiant Light Laser Centers (Start-‐up);
7. Orthopedics (1996) -‐ General Manager of Kinamed Orthopedic a Division of Kyocera (Start-‐up);
8. Health Information Technology (2001) -‐ COO JB Laughrey’s MediSpan and VP Business Development Sun Health Care IT Div Shared Healthcare Systems (Start-‐up);
9. LTPAC Provider (2012) -‐ SVP CIO Golden Living, LLC.
10. Integrated Software (2012) --BridgeGate International, LLC Advisory Board
11. Automated Medication Dispensing (2016) -- Talyst, Ic. Board of Directors
12. Compliance (Current) -- BlueOrange Compliance Strategic Advisor
13. Interoperability (Current) -- Kno2 Strategic Advisor
14. LTPAC Software Vendor (Current) -- Various Strategic Advisor Boards
15. Pharmacogenomics (Current) -- Genelex Board of Directors
LTPAC Association Leadership (Date indicates the year of completion)
- American Health Care Association (AHCA) & National Center for Assisted Living (NCAL) (2006) – EVP (COO) and Executive Director of AHCA Foundation
- National Association for the Support of Long Term Care (NASL) (2005)– Board of Directors
- American Society of Consultant Pharmacists (ASCP) (2013) – Chairman of the ASCP Foundation Board of Trustees
- Home Care Technology Association of America (HCTAA) (Current) – Advisory Board
- Commission for the Certification of Health Information Technology (CCHIT) (2013)– Member Board of Trustees
- LTPAC HIT Collaborative (Current) – Founder in 2005 after HHS Secretary Thompson asked Derr to coordinate LTC IT at the announcement of the Presidential Executive Order to develop the Electronic Health Record technology
- HIMSS Co-Chair LTPAC Roundtable (Current)
- National Quality Forum (NQF) HITAC (Current)
- Minnesota Technology Committee: (Current)
Federal HIT Leadership:
- HHS Federal Advisory Board on HIT Standards (2009 – 2016) - Member representing LTPAC.
- “Meaningful Use” Standards Implementation Workgroup (2011 – 2014)
- Clinical Quality Workgroup (2012 – 2014)
- Patient Engagement Workgroup (2013 – 2014)
- Non incentivize providers certification (2013 – Current)
- ONC Policy & Standards Committee Task Force on Consumer Engagement (2016 - Current)
- Various Committees and Thought Leader Groups on LTPAC
EDUCATION, MILITARY, AWARDS, AND PERSONAL
Education -
- Purdue University School of Pharmacy BS - 1958
- Naval Officer Candidate School - 1959
- Post Graduate Executive Certificate Indiana University School of Business - 1972
- Defense University -
Military -
- Navy Active Duty Service 1958 - 1963
- Served in the Active Naval Reserve 1964 - 1989 as:
Reserve Commanding Officer of two Reserve Naval Destroyers (USS Deyess (DD880) and USS William R. Rush (DD724) home ported in New York City;
Reserve Commanding Officer Yorktown, VA Naval Weapons Station;
Staff of the DOD Assistant Secretary of Health Affairs, The Pentagon Washington, DC;
Senior Officer Santa Barbara, CA; and
Director Strategic Planning for San Diego, CA Naval Reserve Command 19th Naval District.
- Meritorious Service Medal for Contributions to the US Navy Strategic Planning and with the DOD Assistant Secretary of Health Affairs
- Retired Captain USN After 31 years of Service - 1989
- Naval Reserve Association National President’s Award for developing and implementation of the 2000-2010 Strategic Plan - 1999
Professional Awards -
- LTPAC HIT National Collaborative Inaugural Annual Award– Recognition of Leadership, Vision, and Contribution to Advance Health IT in LTPAC - 2012
- Awarded Purdue University School of Pharmacy Distinguished Alumnus for achievements in healthcare - 2006
- Awarded the Tony Way Award for extraordinary efforts to advance the mission of the National Association for the Support of Long Term Care - 2003
- Nominated Outstanding Young Man of America - 1972