Todd Rowland, M.D.
Dr. Rowland works effectively with physicians and healthcare communities working toward advancing their development and implementation of electronic solutions. He has demonstrated leadership in national medical informatics arenas and stays current on issues being addressed across the country in regard to medical informatics.
With over 15 years experience as a practicing physician, Dr. Rowland brings a practical understanding of health care and combines it with his knowledge of and enthusiasm for electronic solutions to health care problems. He has provided expert advise to clients regarding IT enterprise planning, health care community planning, physician-hospital strategy development, and electronic health record implementation.
Dr. Rowland has demonstrated fundraising capacity for large scale IT projects. He currently serves as the network director for 3 active HIT/HIE grant projects with HRSA and HHS. He completed a post doctoral fellowship in Medical Informatics at Harvard/MIT, Division of Health Sciences and Technology. Dr. Rowland is the president of E- Health Consulting, Inc.
Kathy Church, BSN, PMP
Kathy is the Ambulatory Project Manager for Bloomington Hospital. Her role at Bloomington Hospital involves development and implementation of health information technology and exchange to improve patient care and safety. She focuses on the greater medical community, workflow, and technology to assist with healthcare reform, partnering with Dr. Todd Rowland. Her leadership role with HealthLINC as Clinical Operations continues to evolve with the ongoing development of this community HIE.
Kathy has a wide array of experience including the implementation of an EHR; her extensive nursing background including inpatient from intensive care to OB and outpatient from emergency department to academic residency aids her function in the role as the Ambulatory Project Lead. Kathy received a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Evansville and her Project Management Certification from PMI.
Kathy has previously worked at Michigan State University Kalamazoo Center for Medical Studies in Michigan as Manager of Nursing Services, and Promptcare Physicians Clinic in Bloomington, Indiana as the Quality Assurance Director and Staff Educator, and Bedford Regional Medical Center, in Bedford, Indiana as the supervisor of Emergency Services.
Candice Crandall
Candice Crandall is the Executive Assistant for healthLINC. She is responsible for providing full administrative support to the Executive Director and team, maintenance of the HealthLINC website, and managing budget and document reporting.
Candice possesses an extensive background in administrative office support of senior level executives. Prior to working with HealthLINC, Candice spent 18-years as an administrative assistant at a prominent non-profit international education organization.
Sharon Edwards
Sharon Edwards serves as an instructor for Clinical Messaging. Her primary responsibility is to contact local medical practices and explain the benefits of using Clinical Messaging and offer demonstrations and training on its use. She has a long history with the Bloomington medical community, including almost nine years with Bloomington Hospital. She also spent time working with a large group of local physicians. She joined HealthLINC in 2008.
J. Michael Sullivan, M.D., FACMPE
Michael Sullivan graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a degree in biophysics and then served as a teacher in the Peace Corps in Borneo for two years. Upon returning from Asia, he graduated from medical school at the University of Kansas and did additional training in internal medicine at the University of Hawaii. Dr. Sullivan practiced emergency medicine, and in 1984 he co-founded the PromptCare Clinics in Bloomington, Indiana. He later served as PromptCare’s CEO and directed its growth into a 10-physician group with two clinics. He was elected a Fellow in the American College of Medical Practice Executives in 1997. Dr. Sullivan founded Xylor Corporation in 1984 to develop and support a practice management system for urgent care clinics. He functioned as chief architect of the system, directing its development, installation, and support in twenty clinics nationwide. He has led the development of several technologies, including a medication management system, a fee schedule manager, and a protocol proxy to accelerate the secure transport of medical image data. He currently serves as a consultant and technical advisor for the healthLINC Health Information Exchange and the Indiana University Health Center. Most recently, Dr. Sullivan became a member of the Technical and Security Workgroup of the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) Trial Implementation contracted by the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) in HHS.
