2006 Person of the Year

Awarded at the 4th National Medical Banking Institute in Nashville, TN

February 23, 2005

David Harris, National Healthcare Revenue Cycle Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC, New York, New York, was awarded MBProject's Person of the Year Award at the 4th National Medical Banking Institute for his leadership in bringing critical path HSA infrastructure issues to the forefront of national debate.

Dave is a Partner with the Healthcare Advisory Practice in PricewaterhouseCoopers' New York office. He has twenty years industry experience in the healthcare and information systems field. David is the National Partner for PwC's revenue cycle practice that specializes in, payer, hospital and physician revenue cycle operations improvement, operation turnarounds/workouts, process redesign and business office integration, as well as denial management. He is responsible for the thought leadership, products and methodologies used by PwC's more than 100 revenue cycle professionals with in-depth knowledge of patient access, clinical documentation, health information management, inpatient and ambulatory coding, billing, claim adjudication, collections, A/R management and information systems.

David also leads the Medical Banking Project's HSA Workgroup as part of the consumer directed healthcare initiative and also writes columns as MBProject's Dr. HSA. Prior to becoming a consultant, David worked for IBM and Electronic Data Systems (EDS) where he assisted in the design, testing and implementation of the first national claims processing system dubbed BMCS, which later became the NASCO system.

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John Hardin, (1966-2007) B2B Product Manager, SOA/Business Integration, Sun Microsystems, Inc., Monrovia, California, was also awarded MBProject's Person of the Year Award at the 4th National Medical Banking Institute for his work to implement an open-source reference architecture for the medical banking industry. John was the chair of the C.O.M.B.A.T. Planning & Design Subcommittee. He has led internet app and B2B projects and directed corporate e-business strategy for various companies for over 12 years. In his last capacity, he was Product Manager over B2B Platforms for Sun Microsystems. Prior to this he served as Chief Architect of e-business for General Motors, as CTO pf MAPHIN.Net, and also has led OASIS Technical committees on SOA. See Memorial for John Hardin.