2015 Global Identity Summit

Thomas Sullivan
Chief Privacy Officer & Chief Strategy Officer
DrFirst, Inc.


Thomas E. Sullivan, M.D is a Beverly, MA, based, board certified specialist in cardiology and internal medicine with over 44 years of clinical practice. He is a past president of the Massachusetts Medical Society (MMS) 2003-2004. He recently completed his 10 year term as a member of the MMS Committee on Publications (overseeing the New England Journal of Medicine and other publications), and the Committee on Information Technology. Dr. Sullivan has served in past years in a number of hospital medical staff positions and was an associate medical director for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts for 11 years. He was Chair of the Confidentiality and Security Steering Committee at Partners Healthcare System in Boston from 1997 to 2012. He has been the recipient of the Massachusetts Health Data Consortium’s annual “Investing in Information” award. Dr Sullivan was the physician author of the TEPR Clinical Documentation Challenge during its 9 year annual run. In 2004 he was invited to give Congressional testimony on the impact and value of eRx. In addition, he was an invited speaker at the annual Microsoft HealthVault conference. He helped create the Physician EHR Coalition (PEHRC) and served as the AMA representative for several years. He received the “Lifetime Achievement Award” from his local Medical Society in 2012. Twelve years ago, he joined the senior management team at DrFirst; a web based e-Prescribing and Health IT company in Rockville, MD where he is the Chief Privacy Officer and Chief Strategic Officer. Four years ago he helped start the IDESG Committee on the Healthcare Industry promoting the NSTIC principles for trusted identities in cyberspace and has chaired that committee since its inception. He is also an active member of the HIMSS Task force on Identity Management, particularly dealing with guidelines for anonymity and proxy delegation.

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