2010 The Evelyn Casillas Person of the Year Award

Awarded at the 8th HIMSS Medical Banking Institute in Atlanta, GA

March 1-2 , 2010

*Medical Banking Project Person of the Year Award has been changed to;

The Evelyn Casillas Person of the Year Award

A great idea that is well executed can transform the world. A key person who helped to execute the idea of medical banking, and became the heart and soul of The Medical Banking Project in the process, was Evelyn Casillas (1958-2008). Members characterize her work as energetic and joyful. Many identify with the mission of MBProject through her. In Evelyn's memory, and to emphasize the reason why we offer the Person of the Year Award-service to others and outstanding support of MBProject- we perpetually dedicate the Person of the Year Award to the memory of her service.

The 2010 Evelyn Award recipients are;

Sheila Schweitzer Chairperson & CEO Ingenix/CareMedic

Sheila H. Schweitzer was elected CareMedic's chairperson and chief executive officer in September 2004, after serving as its president and chief operating officer since March 2003. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of First Service Administrators Inc., and the President's Council of The Medical Banking Project, for which she chairs the Dispute Resolution Initiative Committee. She is involved with the organization's workgroup Healthcare Network of the Future. Previously, Schweitzer was executive vice president and chief operating officer of MedUnite Inc. MedUnite was a consortium of seven health plans--Aetna, Cigna, Wellpoint, Anthem, Oxford, Healthnet and PacifiCare--that developed a network for connecting physicians with payers to communicate health data such as eligibility, claim status, referrals, authorizations and claim submission. MedUnite was sold to ProxyMed, Inc. in December 2002. Prior to working for MedUnite, Schweitzer was chief executive officer of Presideo, Inc., a healthcare Internet security company. Prior to that, she was senior vice president of operations with ENVOY Corporation, the nation's largest healthcare transactions service company. Schweitzer holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from Western Kentucky University.

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Ed Dodds Collaboration Strategist

Ed Dodds anticipates a medical banking grid (connecting Healthcare Savings Accounts, smartphone-based Electronic Medical Records, real-time adjudication, integrated charity care eligibility) where medical data is expressed via cell phones, web tablets, and IPTV set top boxes facilitating remote disease management (interactive home healthcare servers to be extended with sensors and other devices) as well as ATMs, kiosks, and web portals ("health-wealth portals").

As a standards advisor he is liaising on behalf of Code for America, the Eclipse Open Healthcare Framework, the Healthcare Ontology Community of Practice (the National Center for Biomedical Ontology, the Open Group Universal Data Element Framework, US GSA Office of Citizens Service and Communications Office of Intergovernmental Solutions), the HIMSS Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) initiative, the HIMSS Medical Banking Project cooperative open-source medical banking and technology healthcare reference model initiative (C.O.M.B.A.T.) , the OASIS and HL7 e-Health focus area, the Object Management Group (OMG) Healthcare Domain and Health Level 7 Healthcare Services Specification Project (HSSP) workgroup (including the SOA for HL7 initiative), Open eHealth Foundation, Open Health Tools, Open Source for America, and the Open Source EHR Community of Practice (including OpenEHR, OpenVistA and WorldVistA). He was a proposer of the OASIS International Health Continuum Technical Committee and an observer to the ebXML Business Process Technical Committee focusing on ebBP's possible applications in the healthcare and nonprofit sectors.

Dodds has administered, edited and | or contributed to ADRIS.org, Blogposium, the ebxmlforum.net eHealthcare industry area, healthcare.xml.org (now defunct), the HIMSS Medical Banking Project Point and Click Expedition blog, the International Journal of Medical Banking, MBlog-the Medical Banking blog, MobileHealthWatch.com Mobility Blog, and the World Convention blog and site. He has been involved with the International Free and Open Source Software Foundation, the Nonprofit Open Source Initiative and Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network, and the Technology Affinity Group of the Council on Foundations. He administers LinkedIn groups mainly focused on open source and open standards with combined memberships of approximately 10,000 members. His undergraduate and graduate work focused on religious communication.