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Camilla Hull Brown, Principal and Founder

Camilla is Principal and Founder of Strategies for Tomorrow. She brings 25 years of experience in strategic planning, change management, and collaboration building to assist community collaborations and state-level entities implement health information exchange and health information technology (HIE/HIT) initiatives. Most recently, she has helped community and state-level HIE and other initiatives respond to the massive changes and opportunities that have arisen as a result of the HITECH Provision of the American Recovery and Reinvestment ACT (ARRA).

In her consulting roles, she has helped groups in areas including value propositions and ROIs, governance, business planning, financial sustainability, physician participation and adoption. Cam has worked in such diverse states as Texas, Delaware, Maryland, New Hampshire, West Virginia, Colorado, Michigan, Pennsylvania, New York, Indiana, and Ohio. She has been engaged with many stakeholder groups including: physicians, health systems, other providers, state agencies, Medicaid, health plans, public health entities, safety net providers, consumer and advocacy groups, and privacy and security entities.

Some of the state-level entities she has worked with include West Virginia Health Information Network, the MiHIN Resource Center in Michigan, and the Colorado Regional Health Information Organization. She works with a major state-level foundation to help refine HIE/HIT funding strategy to align HIE, provider EHR adoption, telehealth, workflow transformation, and quality initiatives. Cam has also worked with many community-level initiatives including, the handful of financially self-sustaining health information exchanges in the country such as Michiana Health Information Network (MHIN) in South Bend, Indiana, and HealthBridge in Cincinnati, Ohio. She has played pivotal roles with other emerging and operational HIEs such as the Capital Area RHIO in Lansing, Michigan and healthLINC in Bloomington, Indiana. She served as the Interim Executive Director of ICareConnect, Inc., a regional health information network in Central Indiana that merged into Indiana Health Information Exchange. Cam was also the Interim Executive Director of Collaborating Communities Health Information Exchange in Springfield, Ohio during its start-up period.

At the national level, Cam has been a Senior Scholar with Summit Health Institute for Research and Education in Maryland and Washington DC where she helped people address health care disparities through HIE/HIT initiatives. She is a founding board member at Better Healthcare for Indiana, a state-wide organization that supports community efforts to transform health care at the local level. She is a member of Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and the HIMSS RHIO Federation having served on the HIE Steering Committee. She is also a member of eHealth Initiative where she has served on the Privacy Committee, the Blueprint Initiative, and the National Progress Report. Most recently, she was on the Faculty at the National Governor’s Association Learning Forum for state-level HIEs in coordination with the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC).

Cam’s diverse background includes consulting for large organizations while at Price WaterhouseCoopers, business start-ups at USA Group, and 20 years of consulting with a wide variety of organizations and alliances serving regional, national and international markets. Camilla received a BA in Anthropology from the University of Illinois and a MBA from the University of New Mexico.