Mario Hyland, Senior Vice President and Founder of AEGIS, has more than 30 years supporting Information Technology having a variety of roles and responsibilities. Mr. Hyland initially served the Pharmaceutical Industry in the capacity of Product Developer/Manager for a Call Reporting system with more than 120 Pharma companies across Canada and the U.S. Mr. Hyland was instrumental in coordinating and forming a Pharmaceutical (Walsh Marketing) industry collaboration and steering committee. Mr. Hyland served as a member of the Litton Systems Guidance Division, where he participated in Testing that served to address numerous Engineering Change Orders (ECO) associated with the performance and accuracy of the U.S. Cruise Missile System in U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) program. Mr. Hyland has taken this experience of driving better testing practices to a number of industry engagements with AEGIS. Mr. Hyland’s duties have included a broad range of Executive Leadership, Board and Advisory services, and Global Operations, including financial, budgeting, and marketing duties. Mr. Hyland has been a board member of industry organizations such as Application Service Providers (ASP) Executive Consortium, the HL7 ARB, and various HIMSS Chapters. Mr. Hyland’s focus on testing was spawned by a desire to ensure "PRODUCTION" systems have the highest data quality as possible. By leveraging this Test-First approach, Mr. Hyland has seen AEGIS engage with MCI/WorldCom (FTS2001 - 65,000 concurrent users), US Army AKO (Army Knowledge Online - 2M concurrent users), and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) My HealtheVet program.
Mr. Hyland’s introduction to Health IT standards first began with the VA, and HL7 V2 (MLLP) with VistA. With Dr. Kolodner’s (formerly VA Executive Director My HealtheVet) appointment to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), Mr. Hyland and AEGIS were engaged to support several IHE Profiles, and the NHIN (predecessor to eHEX) National Exchange. While working with the VA, DoD, ONC and other federal partners in support of VLER, Mr. Hyland advanced the concept of Standards based development to align with cloud testing services with the Developers Integration Lab (DIL). Through the DIL, more than 500 Organizations including vendors, implementers, and exchange participants were able to self-service and test conformance 24x7x365 to ensure continuous interoperability. Mr. Hyland led AEGIS efforts on the DIL and leveraged that program level experience to advance the Touchstone project, a cloud platform designed to support FHIR implementations around the globe. Touchstone is a Test-Driven-Development (TDD) environment which engages the community from the early stages of standards development, through early-adopters, and wide-industry adoption. Touchstone currently supports programs like Da Vinci, CARiN Alliance CARiN BB, Ontario Health, Nictiz, and Medcom (to name a few).
Mr. Hyland was recently recognized as a Federal Health IT Top 100 Executive for 2022, an award issued in collaboration with HHS, the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs. Mr. Hyland continues to speak about the benefits of standards based approaches to Interoperability, including leveraging HL7 Standards such as FHIR and numerous Implementation Guides (IG's).
Mr. Hyland’s desire to support the HL7 FHIR FAST Accelerators in the role of Steering Committee member will be to leverage his experience with the NHIN and other national exchange and information sharing networks to ensure FHIR continues to offer the community a reliable and robust "Continuously Interoperable" platform “At-Scale” for better Patient Care Coordination by accelerating adoption, reducing burden for implementers, and ensuring the highest level of standards compliance across the Integrated Ecosystem.
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