Deborah Bass

Ms. Deborah Bass is the Chief Executive Officer and active board member of the Nebraska Health Information Initiative (NeHII). NeHII, Inc. is the statewide health information exchange in the State of Nebraska. Ms. Bass directed the creation of this 501 (c) (3) non-profit corporation and currently oversees and manages the continued efforts in the development of Nebraska’s statewide Health Information Exchange (HIE). Her duties have included creating and developing stakeholder relationships, building consensus and support for the organization, communications and implementing Board of Directors recommendations, managing vendor relationships, recruiting and building the management team, developing and implementing the consumer educational campaigns, leading the committee effort to develop the privacy, security and operational policies, writing the business plan, planning and leading the organization’s public events and a multitude of other activities associated with implementing HIE. She is a regular public speaker for national conferences on a number of topics surrounding the development and future of HIE.