HIPAA Compliance Hosting Company, OnRamp, Announces Account Exec's Election to Austin HIMSS Board of Directors

HIPAA compliance hosting company, OnRamp, recently announced that Account Executive Craig Parker has been elected to the Board of Directors for the Health Information Management Systems Society's (HIMSS) Austin Chapter. Parker was elected as Secretary for the 2013-2014 term which began on July 1st of this year. Serving as a trusted advisor on the board, Parker will leverage his years of experience in the IT industry and knowledge of the HIPAA compliance, privacy, and security rules to advise and educate member companies dealing with the management of electronic protected health information and the challenges associated with ensuring the confidentiality, availability and integrity of that information. Parker will also act as a business liaison to connect the greater HIMSS community members with his network of peers.

The mission of HIMSS is "to lead change in the healthcare information and management systems field through knowledge sharing, advocacy, collaboration, innovation, and community affiliations." Austin's HIMSS Chapter was established in September of 2004 to promote this mission and unite Austin's leading healthcare professionals from a variety of backgrounds.

Austin HIMSS Board of Directors July 2013 to June 2014

President: Emma Cartmell

VP: Lillian Prince

Advocacy: Phillip LaJoie

Comm./Web: David Fulton

Membership: Anne Foley

Programs: Amanda Comer

Secretary: Craig Parker

Treasurer: Jeff Nordyke

Sponsor Liaison: Shannon Vogel

Past President: Lilly Timon

Austin HIMSS Chapter meetings are held the 2nd Tuesday of each month and include a lunch & learn educational session to promote the improved understanding of the existing principles of healthcare information and management systems. For more information on the Austin HIMSS Chapter or for details on future events, visit: http://www.austinhimss.org/

About OnRamp
OnRamp was founded in 1994 in Austin, TX. As one of Texas' first internet operations companies, OnRamp's history is rooted in providing reliable and secure connectivity that enables distributed computing. Today, OnRamp is a data center operations company that delivers a full suite of colocation, cloud computing, HIPAA compliance hosting, high security hosting, and disaster recovery services backed by Full7Layer Support, to help customers build, deploy and manage data center operations at each and every layer.