Biography

With more than 25 years experience in healthcare, Jean Chenoweth is known nationally and internationally as an industry expert and speaker on leadership in high performing organizations, performance measurement in healthcare organizations, and many other healthcare information issues.

Previously, Chenoweth was senior vice president of HCIA, Inc., president of Healthcare Knowledge Systems (HKS), and president of the Commission on Professional and Hospitals Activities (CPHA) in Ann Arbor, Mich. During her tenure, the companies developed a number of important industry tools including the first desktop medical record abstracting and editing system (PAS+), the first computerized ICD-9-CM encoding system in conjunction with 3M, the first distributed relational medical record databases for state hospital associations, the International Classification of Clinical Services for classifying transactional data (ICCS codes), the first national comparative database of detailed clinical treatment and resource consumption, as well as a series of risk-adjusted tools, including the Risk-Adjusted Mortality, Complications, and Re-Admissions Indices.

Chenoweth is a graduate of Northwestern University and the University of Illinois Medical Center, Chicago.