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2. Laura Craft
Laura Craft is a director in the healthcare
industry research group. Her research focuses
on big data and analytics around population
health and patient engagement. She has more
than 20 years of experience in healthcare
and higher education and is highly skilled in
developing, planning and executing strategies
that address business needs and improve
information delivery, access and use.
Constance Sjoquist
Constance Sjoquist is a director in the
healthcare payer research group and is
responsible for covering technologies that
address payer administrative transformation,
including core administrative applications;
fraud, waste and abuse issues; and ICD-10
transition. She also explores issues related
to exchanges and key capabilities needed
for payers to succeed as they modernize
their front-office and distribution environments.
Anurag Gupta
Anurag Gupta, M.D., is a director specializing
in healthcare and government markets for
Europe, the Middle East and Africa. His focus
areas are industry go-to-market strategies
for business service and software firms
(megasuite and small local/niche providers)
in areas like EHR, clinical information systems,
health information systems, shared services,
mobility, cloud computing, outsourcing and
vertical-specific solutions.
Jennifer Mazzucca
Jennifer Mazzucca is a senior analyst in
the technology & service provider group,
specializing in the healthcare vertical market.
She provides key insights to clients about
IT market trends, technology demand,
competitive landscapes and forecasting trends
in the payer and provider markets. Her key
business issues are ACOs, working with EHR
vendors to automate physician workflow and
changes to managed care.
David Friday
David Friday is an executive partner with
Gartner Executive Programs. He has more
than 20 years of information technology
and operational experience in the healthcare
delivery market segment, having served in the
Office of the CIO for a large academic medical
center consisting of a 1,100-bed hospital and
a large multidisciplinary faculty practice.
Steve Lefebure
Steve Lefebure is the managing vice
president of the healthcare industry research
group, focusing on healthcare and life
sciences verticals. He helps healthcare
clients address supply chain management,
business intelligence and performance
management, IT strategic planning, EHR
and care delivery technologies and healthcare
payer transformation.
Vi Shaffer
Vi Shaffer is a vice president and global
industry services director for healthcare
providers. She covers the office of the CIO
and CMIO, including IT governance, strategic
planning, and changing strategies and
structures. She also evaluates healthcare
megasuite vendors and major innovations
and changes in healthcare business/clinical
applications and business/clinical analytics.
Tom Handler
Tom Handler, M.D., is a director in the
healthcare provider analyst group. He focuses
on clinical applications, specifically CPR,
EMR, HER and PHR systems, and their
supporting functionality, governance and
implementation issues. He also covers patient-
focused IT, some aspects of telemedicine and
social media in the healthcare environment.
Barry Runyon
Barry Runyon focuses on healthcare provider
research, including underlying and emerging
technologies/initiatives such as mobility,
patient experience, vendor-neutral archives,
enterprise content management, legacy
decommissioning and enterprise awareness
as it relates to the real-time healthcare system.
He also covers organization, governance and
compliance issues associated with these areas.
Zafar Chaudry
Zafar Chaudry, M.D., is a director on the
healthcare providers research team. He
covers ICT strategy, business transformation,
clinical and patient engagement, technology
infrastructure, telemedicine, data architecture,
business intelligence, implementation of
healthcare information systems, EHR, CPOE,
PAS systems, ISO standards, enterprise
content management systems, HIE,
e-prescribing, HIPAA and NHSLA compliance.
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