25 Year Technology Veteran Jack L. Shaffer, Jr. Joins KRM Associates, Inc. As Chief Operations Officer

KRM Associates, Inc., a leader in health information technology development, today announced that Jack L. Shaffer, Jr. has been hired as Chief Operations Officer and will join its executive management team.

Shepherdstown, WV (PRWEB) July 10, 2013

KRM Associates, Inc., a leader in health information technology development, today announced that Jack L. Shaffer, Jr. has been hired as Chief Operations Officer and will join its executive management team. In addition to supporting product development, Mr. Shaffer will lead initiatives that further scale KRM’s business while also building out the company’s growing technology team. Mr. Shaffer brings a 25+ year record of practical business applications in both start-up and Fortune 500 companies and has a deep expertise in enterprise software on cloud, mainframe, mid-range, server, desktop, and mobile systems.

“Jack’s skills as a leader and technology innovator are a perfect fit with KRM’s focus on the use of health information technology to empower patients to become full partners in maintaining and improving their health,” said Keith McCall, President at KRM Associates, Inc. “As the new operations officer, Jack will help take our innovative approach to the next level.”

As former CIO of Community Health Network of West Virginia (CHNWV), Shaffer led the organization to become the first outside of Indian Health Services and the Tribal Sites to implement the Resource Patient and Management System (RPMS). CHNWV began its implementation of the RPMS EHR – a derivative of the Veterans Administration’s VistA - to its member rural health clinics in 2006. In less than four years, the system was deployed in nearly 50 clinical locations and contained more than 190,000 unique patients – over 10% of West Virginia’s total population - making it one of the largest EHRs deployed in the State of West Virginia at that time.

Also in his role as CIO of CHNWV Shaffer concurrently performed the role of IT project manager for two sections of West Virginia’s Medicaid Transformation Grants administered by The West Virginia Bureau of Medicaid Services (WVBMS). Using vision and leadership skills, Shaffer motivated WVBMS to utilize a portion of the MTG grant funds to develop a technology platform that could engage Medicaid patients and provide them with tools to help them better manage their health – a personal health record (PHR). During this project, he lead the KRM development team that created HealtheMe, an open source PHR for WVBMS based upon the highly successful My HealtheVet PHR / Portal developed by the Veteran’s Administration. HealtheMe was successfully piloted in several community health clinics and over 1,000 patients were enrolled in the system. In addition to the creation of the PHR, a proof of concept was developed to technically demonstrate how a PHR and EHR could exchange data through an HIE.

“Joining KRM at this time provides me the opportunity to put my big-picture, future focus to use, leveraging technology innovation to drive change and propel HealtheMe to the next level of functional utility,” said Jack Shaffer, COO of KRM Associates, Inc. “I’m also excited to be part of such an innovative company and to lead the growth of our talented technology team.”

About KRM Associates, Inc.
KRM Associates Inc. is a small, woman-owned business headquartered in Shepherdstown, WV. KRM has been operating for over twenty years specializing in information technology and accompanied by a staff of IT industry professionals. KRM’s knowledge-base, skill-set and longevity in the marketplace is supported by a diverse and comprehensive client base consisting of state and federal governments, large and small commercial businesses, healthcare organizations, and academia. KRM has worked on healthcare initiatives for organizations such as the Department of Veterans Affairs, West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, and Shepherd University.

Additionally, KRM provides networking and security engineering and support services, as well as healthcare information technology consulting.

For more information visit: http://www.krminc.com.