Accreditation Helper is run by industry veterans who know how to combine computers and people to create exceptional systems.
Jack Anderson, CEO, has been an executive in healthcare IT for over 30 years. He was a founder of Cost Containment Systems in 1978, which developed the first operating room management system and negotiated the merger with Serving Software in 1989. He served as director from 1989 to 1994. Serving Software went public in 1992 and was acquired by HBO & Co in 1994. He has been on the forefront of web services development since 1994 when he was the founder, CEO and Chairman of Velocity.com. In 2001 he joined Validare and served as VP Business Development until 2004 when he became President. Validare developed a web services model for helping office based surgery facilities prepare for accreditation. He is a co-founder of Accreditation Helper.
Catherine Clinehens is Vice President of Accreditation Services for Accreditation Helper LLC. Catherine has worked in the home medical equipment industry for the past twenty years with a focus on organizational development. She has a wealth of knowledge in reimbursement, regulatory, and quality processes, and works with suppliers to achieve or retain their accreditation status. She has been Director of Compliance for a national healthcare company, Senior Vice President for The MED Group, and an independent consultant for Quality Resources.
Jill Martin, RRT is an accreditation Helper and has worked in the healthcare industry for the past 23 years as a respiratory therapist, physical therapist assistant and a custom mobility specialist. For the past 8 years she has worked as the regulatory compliance officer and the Performance Improvement Director of a home medical equipment company and has helped it through three successful Joint Commission surveys.
Patty Harmon is an Accreditation Helper and has worked in the home medical equipment industry for over 25 years. She has worked for independent HME companies and national HME organizations. She has been a Branch Manager, Reimbursement Manager, Director of Compliance, Director of Education & Training and an independent consultant. She has worked through 6 successful surveys and is knowledgeable about JCAHO, CHAP and HQAA standards.
Peg Anderson is the Vice President of Client Services for Accreditation Helper LLC. Peg has more than 20 years experience in client services, technical sales, and sales management for large technology companies (including Xerox and Digital Equipment Corp.) as well as for smaller companies. Additionally, she worked for many years as a human resources consultant to firms in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Most recently she spent five years at Validare, Inc., a company specializing in accreditation consulting for Office Based Surgery organizations. There she developed and managed the Client Services department. She also participated in the design, implementation and ongoing enhancement of accreditation services software and processes.
Michael Slater is the lead developer for Accreditation Helper LLC. He is an entrepreneur and software developer with 30 years of experience creating innovative products. He is the President of Collective Knowledge Works, Inc., which publishes the BuildingWebApps.com portal for Ruby on Rails Developers.
Michael was previously Director of Technology Strategy at Adobe Systems. He joined Adobe when it acquired Fotiva, a venture-funded startup he cofounded to create a better user experience for consumers moving to digital photography. Prior to Fotiva, he was President of MicroDesign Resources, where he created the Microprocessor Report newsletter and the Microprocessor Forum conference. He began his career as an R&D engineer at Hewlett-Packard.
Joseph M. DeLuca, MA, FACHE serves as Secretary for Accreditation Helper LLC. He is a health care information technology futurist with 22 years of experience working with health care entrepreneurs, technology innovators, and provider and payer systems, to realize their strategic and market goals. He collaborates with health care information technology suppliers at the concept, startup, market entry, growth, and multi-billion dollar development stages. Known for his ability to transform high-level business strategy into executable results, Mr. DeLuca works on the forefront of new generation technology-to-market alignment.
He is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives, a member of the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society and recently received the Certificate of Director Education qualification from the Corporate Directors Institute.
David Haselwood, MBA, MPH serves as CFO/COO for Accreditation Helper LLC. Mr. Haselwood is also a Principal at Health Care Investment Visions. Previously he was with the venture capital group at Burrill & Company, a health care merchant bank based in San Francisco. David also held positions in business development and marketing at Roche Molecular Diagnostics. In addition, Mr. Haselwood worked in the health care investment banking departments at Volpe Brown Whelan & Prudential Securities.