Elliot M. Stone
CEO, MA Health Data Consortium, Inc.
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Post-conference announcement
We regret to have to advise that Elliot Stone died
in April, 2005
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Elliot
Stone has held positions in the private and public sectors since 1967,
which have involved the collection, analysis and dissemination
of large health care databases. Prior to 1974, he worked as a Systems
Analyst for John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co. and then as an Instructor
for the Honeywell Institute for Information Sciences. In 1974, in the
state’s Executive Office of Human Services, he directed a contract
for the National Center for Health Statistics’ (NCHS)
Cooperative Health Statistics System (CHSS)
to create the first databases of the state's fourteen (14) licensed
health professionals. In 1976, the Commissioner
of Public Health appointed Mr. Stone as Director of the Division of
Health Statistics. Mr. Stone oversaw data collection for vital statistics,
hospital inpatient and outpatient departments, home health agencies,
freestanding ambulatory clinics and nursing homes and published the
Health Data Annual and the Annual Report of Vital Statistics.
Mr. Stone has been Executive Director and CEO of the Massachusetts
Health Data Consortium since it was established in 1978 as a private,
non-profit corporation. The Consortium is a politically neutral setting
for the dissemination of large health care databases and also serves
as a convener among its 150+ members for health policy and information
technology issues.
In 1979, he drafted a data sharing agreement recognizing the concerns
of patient advocates and convinced over 100 hospital CEOs to participate
in the state’s first population-based file of 900,000 inpatient
discharges.
The Consortium publishes annual reports on hospital prices, utilization
and communities’ hospital dependency to a broad constituency
of health care organizations and business coalitions.
The Consortium’s staff have provided data for health services
researchers’ 50+ peer-reviewed articles in policy areas such
as: racial inequalities in the use of coronary procedures; hospital
competition within market areas; reducing childhood injuries; and for
monitoring elders at risk.
In 1994, Mr. Stone organized the Affiliated Health Information
Networks of New England project and its CIO
Forum to improve the state's electronic
health care information infrastructure among health plans and providers
through standards required by the Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act (HIPAA).
Mr. Stone has advised other states, federal agencies and foundations
including: the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ),
the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), NCHS,
the Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation, the John A. Hartford
Foundation, the Markle
Foundation, and The Commonwealth Fund.
Mr. Stone is a founding Board member of the Public Health Data Standards
Consortium (PHDSC).
The Institute of Medicine and the Computer
Science and Telecommunications Board of the National
Academy of Sciences (NAS) have appointed him
to Committees which have published: “Protecting Data Privacy
in Health Services Research”, “Health Data in the Information
Age: Use, Disclosure and Privacy”, and “Cryptography’s
Role in Securing the Information Society”. He provided financial
support for the NAS Security Study: "For the Record: Protecting
Electronic Health Information."
Mr. Stone has been an active participant in AcademyHealth and the
National Association of Health Data Organizations (NAHDO). He was a
consultant
to AHRQ's HCUP project to integrate inpatient data from state agencies
and hospital associations.
He is an Adjunct Lecturer in the Department. of Health Policy and
Management., Harvard School of Public Health.
Mr. Stone received his Bachelors and Masters degrees at Boston University,
and completed an Executive Program in health care management at
Yale University. The Massachusetts Public Health Association honored
him
with its Alfred M. Frechette Award for outstanding contributions
to the field of public health.
