1. Greg Wolverton, FHIMSS
Biography
Greg is the CIO at ARcare and KentuckyCare and leads a KMS (Knowledge
Management Systems) staff that delivers services to over 60 sites in Arkansas and
Kentucky. Greg and his team journeyed towards lean healthcare and organizational re-
design and has been called upon numerous times to speak on their outcomes and best
practices as a part of HRSA’s fiscal re-design pilot.
In 2008 ARcare received the HIMSS Nicholas Davies Award of Excellence in Healthcare
Technology and in 2014 Greg led his organization to be the first FQHC and one of the
first non-hospital tethered ambulatory practices to achieve the coveted HIMSS Analytics
Stage 7 EMRAM designation, with 37 sites awarded Stage 7. This achievement placed
ARcare in the top 4 % of all ambulatory practices in the country with their advanced use
of EMR.
Greg is currently leading ARcare towards the HIMSS Continuity of Care Maturity Model
with 4 other external partners to improve the continuity of care between key stakeholders.
One of the highlights of his career was being a part of a distinguished panel that
presented the state of healthcare for an audience of senior leaders at the White House. He
has served as a member of the HRSA National Quality Faculty as well as a Senior
Examiner on the Board of Examiners of the Governors Quality Award the Arkansas
Malcolm Baldridge award.
In addition to serving on numerous HIMSS committees he has been chair of the HIMSS
Nicholas Davies Community Health Organization Award Committee and Chair of the
HIMSS Enterprise Information Systems Committee. Greg is a HIMSS Fellow and
member of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and
Board President of the Kentucky Health Center Network, which has 20 FQHC member
organizations in Kentucky.
He is a member of NACHC and serves on the NACHC Health Center Controlled
Network Task Force and has been a part of instructing the Financial Operations
Management classes held throughout the year. In 2016 Greg was selected as Faculty Co-
Chair of the CMS Transforming Clinical Practice Initiative (TCPI) and is representing
CMS as the “national face” of transformation and the TCPI across more than 140,000
providers nationwide.
Greg was recently honored as a Kentucky Colonel by Kentucky Governor Matthew
Bevin for his work with building health center networks in the state.
July 2015