Jim Hansen
Jim Hansen serves as Vice President and Executive Director of the Dossia Consortium, a not-for-profit association that brings together major employers – including AT&T, Intel & Walmart – representing over five million employees, dependents and retirees to advance the use health information technology to improve the safety, quality and efficiency of health and health care.
Mr. Hansen possesses 30 years of information technology, strategic planning, product development, marketing, operations and finance experience including 20 years within the health care industry. Prior to joining the Dossia Consortium, he was founding President and CEO of CareEntrust, an award-winning not-for-profit employer-sponsored health information exchange (HIE) delivering secure regional health record services for use by both consumer/patients and health care providers. Prior to CareEntrust, he successfully launched the global IDC Health Industry Insights research and analysis business unit.
As a member of the First Consulting Group (now CSC) Emerging Practices team, Mr. Hansen created and published thought leadership points of view on next generation health delivery and health plan models, roadmaps and associated IT infrastructure. In the field, he led and actively participated in a wide variety process redesign and automation, system development, system selection, implementation, product design and eHealth strategy initiatives. Mr. Hansen is actively involved in a number of national health and health care transformation supporting organizations including the Institute of Medicine (multiple groups), Bipartisan Policy Center’s Task Force on Health Delivery Transformation, Markle Foundation, Center for Health Value Innovation, Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative, ONC S&I Framework Transitions of Care workgroup, eHealth Initiative, National eHealth Collaborative and most recently DirectTrust (a group developing a trust framework for Direct). He was previously a long time working member of the Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP).
Mr. Hansen holds BS Business Administration (Information Management emphasis) and MBA degrees from the University of Colorado.
