Sandy Vance Email & Phone Number

With nearly 20 years of experience integrating the systems and business of healthcare, Sandy is an evangelist and subject matter expert for standards-based Health IT interoperability. Ms. Vance serves the open source HL7 FHIR Community as Connectathon Administrator, convening hundreds of FHIR developers several times a year to advance the FHIR specification and ignite wide scale adoption. She also serves as Co-Chair for the Office of the National Coordinator’s FHIR at Scale Taskforce (FAST) Testing and Certification Tiger Team. In this capacity she has helped the healthcare industry forge a path to scalability of APIs.Ms. Vance previously worked for HIMSS, where her team engaged industry in developing, demonstrating, and certifying standards-based interoperability solutions. Vance served as both program director and technical liaison to health IT stakeholders in the Asia-Pacific, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and North America. Vance also led the team that planned, built, and operated the HIMSS Innovation Center in Cleveland, Ohio which opened in 2013. The center convened stakeholders in collaborative technical initiatives and thought leadership events to perpetuate optimization in areas such as interoperability, privacy and security, and analytics. Before joining HIMSS in 2010, Vance worked as an IT Manager for a large health system where she developed processes and provided oversight for technology transitions as physician practices were acquired by the health system. Her experience at OhioHealth includes work on clinical system implementation in both ambulatory and inpatient settings. Vance’s expertise includes program management, technology standardization, and complex system integration. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration from Mount Vernon Nazarene University and a Master of Health Administration from The Ohio State University.

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