Leadership

Skip McGaughey
Executive Director

As Co-Founder and Executive Director of OHT, Skip McGaughey helped implement a widely replicated world wide governance, an open transparent process for the development of hundreds of millions of dollars of free software, and a collaborative environment that enables competitors to collaborate. He is helping form a robust eco-system that enables vendors to generate billions of dollars of service and product revenue. He is forming teams to bring technology to rural physicians, the underserved and economically developing countries.

Prior to forming Open Health Tools, Skip McGaughey was the original Chairperson of the Eclipse Foundation. He focused on open-source technology and worldwide deployment of software development tools. Eclipse is a multi language, multi vendor, open platform for tool integration. As founding participant of Eclipse, he designed and managed the implementation of an egalitarian, open organization that enabled companies to use the Eclipse Technology to build products for profit.

Following a teaching career at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Skip McGaughey introduced advanced data processing technology as a management tool to the State of North Carolina. He also introduced distributed data processing for North Carolina’s Department of Public Education and human services where he was responsible for federal and state programs.

Skip McGaughey’s career at IBM was as an agent for change and technical innovation. He pioneered object oriented programming at IBM, served as chairman of the IBM Architecture Review Board that collaborated with Microsoft to design and bring advanced graphical user interfaces to market, and guided the creation of the IBM Visual Age family of products and helped design and introduced embedded programming tools.

Dr. Robert Kolodner
Chief Health Informatics Officer

In September 2009, Dr. Robert Kolodner transitioned from the federal to the private sector to continue his work to improve the health and well-being of individuals and communities worldwide by advancing the proliferation and rapid, collaborative evolution of health information technology (IT) tools and solutions.

Upon leaving the federal sector, Robert M. Kolodner, MD, co-founded and became President of Collaborative Transformations, LLC, where he consults with organizations regarding their health IT strategies and plans. Additionally in October 2009, Dr. Kolodner was hired as Chief Health Informatics Officer for the non-profit organization Open Health Tools, Inc. (OHT). His plans in the private sector build on his prior track record of success in two large federal Departments.

From 2006 to April 2009, Robert M. Kolodner MD served as the President’s designated lead for the United States eHealth initiative as the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (IT) in Office of the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). His responsibilities included developing, maintaining, and directing the implementation of a health IT strategic plan as well as directing related national activities that were necessary to advance the nationwide adoption of person-centered, interoperable health IT solutions.

For over 28 years prior to transferring to HHS, Dr. Kolodner had been the key clinical champion in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) providing vision, direction, and effective leadership for the development and pervasive use of VA’s award-winning suite of health IT solutions, , including My HealtheVet, a Personal Health Record for veterans, and VistA – the world’s first successful large-scale Electronic Health Record implementation. His VA activities also included research and teaching, with clinical faculty appointments at Emory University, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, and the University of Maryland.

Dr. Kolodner received his undergraduate degree from Harvard College, his medical degree from Yale University School of Medicine, and completed his Psychiatric residency at the Washington University School of Medicine. Dr. Kolodner has medical specialty board certification in psychiatry and is a Fellow in the American College of Medical Informatics.

Dr. Brian Barry
Chief Technology Officer

In addition to serving as CTO for Open Health Tools, Dr. Brian Barry also serves as CEO for Bedarra Research Labs, a boutique software R&D company. From 1991-2002 he served variously as Chief Scientist, CEO, President and CTO at Object Technology International, Inc. Under his leadership OTI developed the Eclipse Platform, the J9 Java VM, IBM VisualAge for Java, and IBM VisualAge MicroEdition for embedded systems. He has over 25 years of experience in the design and implementation of component-based and object-oriented systems. Dr. Barry has published a number of research papers and articles on a wide variety of technical subjects, including simulation, OO applications, systems integration, embedded systems and software engineering, and is a frequent speaker on software technology. He has served on the Program Committees for software conferences such as OOPSLA, ECOOP, AOSD and Agile Development, was a co-author of the ANSI Smalltalk standard, and actively participates in research review boards and committees. He holds a Ph.D. from Queen’s University.