Dr. Kibbe
is the Director of Health Information Technology for the American
Academy of Family Physicians, the membership organization that
represents over 95,000 U.S. family doctors. In this position,
he is responsible for formulating AAFP strategic direction and
policy affecting a broad range of information and communications
technology initiatives, including HIPAA, electronic health records,
computer security, practice management systems, and quality measurement.
Dr. Kibbe has designed and led the Open Source EHR initiative
for the Academy.
Dr. Kibbe
has impressive credentials in the field of health information
technology and solid accomplishments in the business of e-health.
He began his career as a small-town family physician, and has
practiced medicine in private and academic settings for more than
15 years. Dr. Kibbe has taught at the School of Public Health,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and founded two health
information companies located in North Carolina. He continues
to serve as medical director and board chairman of Canopy Systems,
an innovative and award-winning software firm that provides Web-based
case management software to many of the country's largest academic
health centers and the U.S. Navy hospital system.
Dr. Kibbe
is the President of the North Carolina Healthcare Information
and Communications Alliance, NCHICA, a non-profit corporation
that works to improve health care through collaborative projects
involving IT and secure communications.
Dr. Kibbe
has authored numerous peer-reviewed articles and several book
chapters on e-health, computer security, and HIPAA, and is co-author
if the The AMA's Field Guide to HIPAA Implementation, an American
Medical Association publication. He is a frequent speaker on HIPAA
privacy and security compliance for clinical audiences around
the country.
Dr. Kibbe
received his BA from Harvard University, MD from Case-Western
Reserve University School of Medicine, and his MBA from the University
of Texas at Austin.
