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James M. Krauk

Mr. Krauk is a Senior Consultant with Strategies for Tomorrow and has over 25 years of successful management experience in information technology as both an executive and a consultant. Jim is a dynamic leader with superior planning abilities, excellent communication skills, and an extremely high project success rate. He has in depth experience working with major collaborative IT projects across organizations making him well suited for consulting on complex, stakeholder-based, health information exchanges. Jim received a B.S. in engineering from Johns Hopkins University.

Jim’s recent Health Information Exchange (HIE) consulting engagements include:

- Colorado Regional Health Information Organization (CORHIO) to assist with the preparation and documentation of their state-wide HIE business plan.
- Dallas County Medical Society (DCMS) to help develop the North Texas HIE business plan serving the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex (the fourth largest metropolitan area in the United States)
- Delaware Health Information Network (DHIN) to help develop their business plan and associated request for proposal (RFP) to implement the plan. Delaware has the distinction of implementing and operating the first state-wide HIE.
- Maryland Health Care Commission (MHCC) to help them to better understand and evaluate the readiness of healthcare providers and payers to participate in a Maryland HIE. This engagement focused on privacy and security policies and business practices and their impact on electronic HIE.

Jim was the Vice President and Chief Information Officer (VP/CIO) for Helix Health – the largest healthcare provider in Maryland (now MedStar Health). As Helix Health's first CIO, Jim was responsible for all information services across the entire spectrum of organizations and companies. Helix Health was a 2400 bed integrated delivery system consisting of 5 acute care hospitals, 3 nursing homes, a large physician organization, a home health agency, and other healthcare related businesses.

Jim led the Computer Systems Planning Organization for a Fortune 100 company. He was responsible for the corporation's five-year information services plan. He proposed and implemented a nationwide information processing network and management structure that resulted in savings of $11 million and a 100 percent improvement in user satisfaction.

Jim headed AT&T's 1984 Summer Olympic Operations in Los Angeles. He planned, implemented and directed, what at the time was, the largest temporary telecommunications network ever installed. The Olympic Network included 2000 terminals, 15 super-computers and 70,000 users spread throughout 4500 square miles of southern California.