Walt Culbertson is President and founder of Connecting Healthcare®, host and producer of the Medical Update Show in Jacksonville FL, and a seasoned facilitator experienced in helping orchestrate the development and execution of collective goals and objectives among diverse stakeholders. Culbertson is a recognized healthcare technologist, futurist, lecturer, and privacy, security and HIPAA authority, with a successful track record of helping health care providers, pharmacists, health plans and state, national and public/private initiatives with e-capabilities and migration of business practices, functions, and policies toward secure digital healthcare and consumer engaged interactions.
Culbertson started his healthcare career in 1975 as a Navy Corpsman and in the early 80s was a pioneer in the development and implementation of networked desktop practice management solutions for physicians, dentists, and health clinics. Culbertson’s 43-year career in health care and information systems includes significant software development, management, and leadership spanning all major facets of the health care industry.

Relevant Industry Experiences for this Speaking Engagement:

 Technical and Operations Lead and HIE Project Manager for the State of Florida Health Information Exchange (FL-HIE)
 Interim Program Director for the Center for the Advancement of Health IT (AHIT), Florida’s largest Regional Extension Center (REC]
 Represented Florida as it’s technical and HIE SME on the State Health Policy Consortium, Southeast Regional HIT-HIE Collaboration (SERCH) sponsored by ONC, working to facilitate common regional solutions and solve interstate HIE opportunities including disaster preparedness and response
 President of ePrescribe America and the founding Executive Director of ePrescribe Florida
 Chief Technology, Security and Privacy Officer of Webify Solutions, a subsidiary of IBM
 Founding Chief Technology, Security and Privacy Officer for Availity, a leading health care clearinghouse started by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida and Humana
 Vice President of HIPAA Solutions for the TriZetto Group
 Senior healthcare consultant for PriceWaterhouseCoopers, LLP, and in the role as a Director within the PwC Healthcare Consulting Practice, helped launch the PwC HIPAA Practice
 Co-Chair of a CMS-sponsored Insurance Commissioner Task Force, which covered the thirteen Southern States
 Founding Chair of the Southern Healthcare/HIPAA Administrative Regional Process (SHARP), a public and private collaboration of private health care organizations and HHS, CMS and HRSA
 Founding Security and Privacy Co-Chairs for the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDi) Strategic National Implementation Process (SNIP)
 HIPAA advisor, lecturer and faculty for the Florida Medical Association (FMA) since 2002