Janet Marchibroda, M.B.A., is the CEO of the eHealth Initiative and its Foundation, both Washington, D.C.—based independent, national non-profit organizations whose missions are to improve the quality, safety, and efficiency of healthcare through information and information technology (IT). The eHealth Initiative is a multi-stakeholder member organization representing clinicians, employers, health plans, health care IT suppliers, hospitals and other health care providers, consumer groups, pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers, public health organizations, standards bodies, and academic institutions. It develops consensus among multiple and diverse stakeholders on strategies that drive better health care for patients through the use of information technology. Through the eHealth Initiative's Connecting Communities for Better Health Program, the organization provides financial and technical support to state, regional and community-based multi-stakeholder collaboratives across the Nation that are mobilizing health information electronically to support patient care.

Ms. Marchibroda also serves as the Executive Director of Connecting for Health, a public-private sector initiative funded and led by the Markle Foundation and supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that is designed to catalyze actions on a national basis to drive electronic connectivity and create an interconnected, electronic health information infrastructure.

Prior to the eHealth Initiative, Ms. Marchibroda co-founded and served as Chief Operating Officer for two health care information organizations, one that focused on providing patient safety and compliance information to physicians and the other a Bertelsmann AG subsidiary that focused on providing electronic publishing services to the payer community to support member information needs. She also served as the interim Chief Operating Officer for the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship. Ms. Marchibroda also served as the Chief Operating Officer of the National Committee for Quality Assurance, an organization devoted to evaluating and improving the quality of health care for Americans, where she was responsible for accreditation of health care organizations, education programs, the national HEDIS database, electronic information products, strategic planning, human resources, finance, and administration. She holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Commerce from the University of Virginia and a Master of Business Administration Degree with a concentration in Organization Development from George Washington University.