Officers and Staff

Janice S. Johnson, President
Janice Johnson is the founder and President of New Horizons Solutions, Inc., a healthcare service and consulting company.  Over the past twenty three years, Ms. Johnson has been actively involved in the formation of healthcare public policy and established New Horizons Solutions, Inc. in response to employers’ needs and Medicaid’s need to contain health care costs by focusing on prevention, wellness and disease management.  Ms. Johnson has been actively involved in legislation affecting health, families and communities lobbying over three hundred pieces of legislation since 1986.  She has served on health care public policy workgroups in Washington, D.C. and served on numerous boards and workgroups.  Ms. Johnson earned a B.S. degree in Medical Technology and completed postgraduate study in Comparative Medicine.  She worked nine years in the field of medical technology and served as the supervisor of the State of Illinois’ Tissue Typing lab in Chicago.

Dr. Harry J. Bonnaire, Medical Director  (Bio coming soon)

Mehari Woldekidan, CIO
Mr. Mehari Woldekidan served as a company executive in the capacity of Chief Health Plans Operating Officer for a Managed Care Company overseeing the department of MCIS, Claims, EDI, File Maintenance and PC/LAN Network management.  He managed 5 departments with 2 directors, and 3 managers along with 55 employees overseeing reports of Asthma, EPSDT, Quality control, Financial Reports, and Special projects to improve services efficiency and care for TennCare members while cutting  costs for the Managed Care Organization.

As a Manager of Computer Service/ Billing Operations, Mr. Woldekidan implemented and trained PMSI patient scheduling, registration, billing, EMR and collections systems as well reporting.  His implementation of Encounter reconciliation process has helped capture lost revenue and improve cash flow for the Meharry Medical Group.

Dr. Julie K. French, ND, RN, CNAA, BC, Principal Investigator
Over 25 years of healthcare experience in nursing and hospital administration.  Demonstrated clinical expertise and leadership competence, utilizing skills in management, communication, strategic planning, and data analysis to affect change through system redesign and evidence based decision making. A self-confident visionary who can speak the language at all levels of leadership and lead employees to accomplish mission driven goals.

Shawna Rhynard, Customer Development Director
Shawna is a forensic drug screen collector, phlebotomist, and a medical records specialist. She is fluent and compliant with the strict guidelines for collection practices in accordance with 49 CFR Part 40. She also provides other collectors and breath alcohol technicians with initial and recertification training. Shawna provides quality medical records services to national companies and private doctor's offices and is compliant with all HIPAA regulations. Before transitioning into the medical field, she worked for the state of Arizona in the Maricopa County Regional School District as registrar working within the guidelines of the Family Rights and Privacy Act. She also headed the SIRS user meetings at the district level. She strives to maintain quality services while protecting the privacy and rights of all individuals.

Amy Cate, Sales Assistant
Amy Cate is a sales and marketing professional with over six years experience in the healthcare industry. Amy has sold medical products into physician offices, surgery centers and hospitals across Tennessee. She has also worked as a Sales Manager for a local medical distributor. In addition, Amy has freelanced in editing and graphic design by creating brochures and marketing packages for several medical companies and local non-profit organizations. Amy has a B.A. in Economics and a B.S. in Logistics from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Carolyn Wilkerson, Sales Assistant
Carolyn Wilkerson brings more than 30 years of experience and progressive responsibility in health care office management and administration, primarily group and solo physician practices. She manages daily business operations and handles bookkeeping and administrative support functions.

Lori Jenkins, Executive Assistant
Lori Jenkins is responsible for administrative and project management duties.   She has many years of experience in sales support, information systems and project management.

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Additional Team Members

Yigzaw Belay
Yigsaw Belay has extensive experience in environmental epidemiology and tuberculosis elimination. He has designed, planned, implemented, evaluated, and directed state-wide health promotion, disease prevention and community outreach programs for Medicaid recipients and underinsured.

David Bennett, CPA
David brings a mastery of accounting & finance issues related to the healthcare field. Other finance expertise includes SEC work and bank financing. Among his former employers are the Bureau of TennCare and the US Attorney's Office (healthcare regulation enforcement).

Paul Van Hoeson
Paul Van Hoesen has over 28 years experience in digital networking,  application integration, large scale network deployment, and community networking  which spans a number of vertical markets including government, education, medical, technology, insurance, publishing, entertainment, and manufacturing.  

Paul was also co-founder and CTO of Education Networks of America which provides Internet access and web-based educational content to all public K-12 schools in the State of Tennessee and is the winner of numerous service and excellence awards.   ENA has grown to become the largest private network provider of Internet access to the public K-12 market serving over 1.7 million children a day and ensuring the operation of educational applications to thousands of classroom teachers.

Paul’s foundations include nine years of military experience in building secure data and voice networks. He is the recipient of the National Security Agency’s Innovation Award for cryptography. Paul attended Middle Tennessee State University and lives in Nashville with his song-writing wife Mary.

Perumal Mohan
Mr. Mohan will be responsible for the areas of information integration, database design and coordinate the project resources required to accomplish the objectives of the research.
 
Mr. Mohan has over 18 years experience in the fields of information systems, integration and engineering.  Prior to founding eTransX, he was a vice president with URS Corporation, a $3 billion dollar engineering and systems firm, responsible for developing new clients and managing a team of professionals.  His technical and management experience spans all aspects of system and application integration, information system design and implementation, and project management for various commercial and industrial enterprises. He currently helps many Fortune 1000 companies with technical and strategic IT issues such as enterprise application integration, security, and business intelligence.

He is the chief architect for an XML-based, application integration tool set, called eTXIntegrator. This technology integrates information from various disparate databases in real-time.

Carolyn Pope
Carolyn Pope is an experienced public health administrator, including her service for the Tennessee Department of Health as Bioterrorism Coordinator.  Her expertise in setting up and running clinics and programs is key to our efforts.

Dr. Heidi Silver
Dr. Heidi Silver has received her BS in Speech and Hearing Science from University of Massachusetts and her MS and PhD in Nutrition and Dietetics from Florida International University. She has conducted over 50 workshops, courses, lectures, and oral presentations on nutrition and health related issues in the community to various age groups Dr. Silver has also conducted introductory nutrition courses to 450 medical school students, conducted core dietetics curriculum courses to 250 bachelor’s level dietetics students, conducted graduate level courses to 125 master’s level dietetics students, and rained several dozen clinical practitioners in dietary assessment and nutrition therapy. In addition to teaching, Dr. Silver has published 15 peer-reviewed original research publications, several invited review papers, as well as many other publications in clinical and community journals.

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Strategic Partners

AARIW (American Association of Refugee and Immigrant Women)
The American Association of Refugee and Immigrant Women is a non-profit organization in Tennessee dedicated to addressing issues of vital concern  to refugees and providing services not available through other social service programs. Emerging leaders are encouraged to share with others from their cultural community and to link newcomers with appropriate resources to ensure early economic and social empowerment.

1. NLHRA is our Next Level Health Risk Assessment System. This system actually makes any HRA effective beyond the point of just mere personal data discovery and population comparison. This system is based on the idea of personal wellness classification through our proprietary fitness score©.

2. CEAP is our CorporateEnvironmental Action Protocol. Through our corporate environmental discovery inspection, we enable the employer to educate us on methods that work best with particular employee motivation and valuing of actions through our credit system.

3. APT is our Action Power Tracker. We take advantage of data entered recognizing the time component to execute the action.

4. RTCU is our Real Time Credit Update which gives the employee the ability to track their personal actions and any value associated at anytime during their wellness initiative.

David Bennett
David Bennett (CPA, CFO).  Mr. Bennett is a top performing global professional providing innovative and strategic leadership in investigations for Fortune 500 caliber and high growth entrepreneurial environments. A strong investigator, interviewer, relationship builder, negotiator, and facilitator able to develop consensus with key internal and external decision makers.

Digital Union LLC
http://digitalunionllc.com
Digital Union is a Los Angeles-based company providing communication technologies enabling industry to revolutionize the way people do business through real time collaboration and on-demand content from multiple locations via the Internet.

EBC (Employee Benefits Consultants)
www.ebctpa.com

Our goal is to provide fully integrated administration services with
the most advanced technology and resources available.

We were one of the first full-service TPAs to implement Trizetto
Company's QuickClaim system for claim administration. In partnership with
Trizetto, we have developed today's leading edge technology solutions
for self funding plans. Our customer-driven solutions include claim auditing
and processing, PPO interfacing, network discount solutions and 24/7
Web access to information through EBC Online.

eTransX

eTransX assists healthcare organizations in sharing the medical data for their patients across various Hospital Information Systems (HIS), Electronic Medical Records (EMR), pharmacy and laboratory systems in real time under stringent security, privacy and other protections using our Total Integration Platform, eTX HEMI (Healthcare Messaging and Integration Engine). eTX HEMI is a quickly deployed software solution comprised of a combination of our three core technologies and pre-built interfaces to many commercially available EMR, HIS and LIS systems that integrates all types of clinical and financial data :             

• eTXIntegrator: - A components and transaction based integration technology that enables the Real Time Enterprise through a drag and drop integration approach
• eTXHL7: Manages multiple versions of HL7 messaging by converting the complicated syntax into XML through a point and click approach, incorporating persistent and traceable transactions
• eTXStream: An innovative and elegant solution that breaks down the boundaries between geographically dispersed business entities and provides real time integration and exchange of HL7 messages and file-based systems via secure Web Services over SSL.

 JVPowers and Associates
www.jvpowers.com

JV Powers and Company offers a combination of plastic card printing
and personalization, project management to facilitate your plastic card
printing project from start to finish, photo identification systems and
services, smart card development including chip implementation and encoding,
magnetic stripe encoding, bar coding services, equipment and supplies,
badge accessories, and custom plastic production products.

We are an authorized reseller for every major manufacturer in the
plastic card world and carry all certified supplies for those manufacturers.
Examples of our offerings I include: Health Insurance ID Cards, Photo ID
Badges,, Membership Cards, Access Cards, VIP and Loyalty Cards, Discount
Cards, Phone Cards, Accessories, Promotional Items and Complete
Turnkey Photo ID Systems.

Tennessee Association of Audiologists and Speech/Language Pathologists
The TAASLP works to meet the needs of persons with hearing, communication, and swallowing disorders and to enhance the professional development of audiologists and speech/language pathologists. This Association is providing hearing and speech development screening for our EPSDT initiative.

Tennessee Nurses Association
The mission of the Tennessee Nurses Association is to promote and protect the registered nurse and to advance the practice of nursing in order to assure a healthier Tennessee. Member nurse practitioners are assisting in our efforts to provide primary care and EPSDT screening services to underserved communities.

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