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Over the past 20 years, Thomas Morrison has emerged as a strong proponent for health information technology and joins many healthcare experts in advocating for improving healthcare quality, reducing healthcare costs and coordinating a nationwide effort to implement and use the most advanced healthcare information technology to facilitate electronic exchange of health information. Mr. Morrison is a healthcare IT expert and is an active participant in the policy conversations in Washington, D.C. Mr. Morrison's healthcare-specific experience includes senior management roles with both provider- and plan-based healthcare systems vendors. Mr. Morrison is an active member of several healthcare industry groups, including DMAA: The Care Continuum Alliance HIT Committee and Markle Foundation Connecting for Health Steering Committee. He is also a Clinical Groupware Collaborative board member and serves as chair of their Strategic Advisory Board. Mr. Morrison has presented sessions at several industry events, including the World Healthcare Innovation and Technology Congress, the Healthcare Payment Solutions Summit and an America's Health Insurance Plans conference. Mr. Morrison was also named 23rd on HealthSpottr's Future Health 100 List. Mr. Morrison co-founded NaviNet, America's largest healthcare communications network, and is credited as the visionary thinker behind the innovative NaviNet multi-payer portal technology. In his role as chief strategy officer and executive vice president of government affairs at NaviNet, Mr. Morrison provides leadership for product and market strategies and consults with influencers in Washington, D.C. as they work to reshape our healthcare system. Prior to NaviNet, Mr. Morrison was a co-founder and general partner at Firepond Partners, a venture capital group that focused on healthcare IT opportunities. Mr. Morrison held senior business development and marketing positions at Spectrum, a joint venture between IBM and Baxter, and McDonnell Douglas Health Systems and was a partner at Charles J. Singer & Co., where he worked closely with most of the major technology firms on developing healthcare market strategies. Mr. Morrison holds a Bachelor's degree and law degree from Arizona State University.