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Arthur Kapoor, Founder & Chief Executive Officer:
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Arthur Kapoor, a well traveled healthcare industry pioneer, was instrumental in successfully leading Medlink (a part of Emdeon today) -- as the largest and fastest growing clearing house of the northeast region in the early 1990s. Today, under his leadership, IGI continues to focus strongly on global winning solutions in the areas of healthcare transactions and consumer driven health benefits.
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Arthur Kapoor has over 17 years of experience in software development, EDI and healthcare transaction processing. He also founded Dimensions Consulting Inc., which developed a client-server model for capturing digitized facilities management floor plans. He has negotiated various mergers, acquisitions and reorganizations in the healthcare industry and is currently an advisor on HIPAA regulations, HL-7 reforms and ANSI implementations. He has a B.S. in Computer Science and an MBA in Marketing from Rutgers University, New Jersey.
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Sita Mehta
Kapoor, Chief Information Officer |
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Sita Kapoor is a well-known
industry speaker on transaction implementation
providing leadership and guidance to business
and technical teams. She has presented her work
at Annual WEDI shows. She is also a steering
committee member at the NJ Shore, a regional
SNIP affiliate for promoting HIPAA standards.
Sita is actively involved in HIPAA workgroups
for defining transaction standards and has
participated in multiple ANSI
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In her 20 years of information
technology and healthcare experience, she has
managed the deployment of systems to support
healthcare transaction processing, business
intelligence and payer adjudication. She has
consulted for numerous multi-national healthcare
companies including United Healthcare, Siemens
Medical System, Johnson & Johnson healthcare
and GE. She has been an advisor for the EDI
Coalition of New York and the Mass Health Data
Consortium.
Sita built the Med-Link
clearinghouse system that started with 2
providers and grew to a 2 million-transaction
hub in 3 years. The Clearinghouse provided Batch
Claims, On-Line Claims, Claim Status/ERA,
Eligibility and Referrals in 1995 to it clients.
The clearinghouse solution provided connectivity
to Hospitals, Physicians and Dentist to send
transaction to other gateways, direct payer and
print paper.
Prior to IGI, she was the Chief
Information Officer at Med-Link. Sita has a B.S.
in Computer Science from Rutgers College, New
Jersey and an MS in Computer Science from the
Stevens Institute of Technology, New
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| Mike Relli,
Vice President of Business Development |
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Mike Relli has more than 16 years experience in EDI and Information Technology in the healthcare and financial industries. He has over 9 years experience educating organizations about the Who, What's and Why's of HIPAA? He regularly speaks at industry tradeshows and workgroups with respect to HIPAA & EDI implementation topics. Currently he is on the Steering Committee of NJSHORE, which is the New Jersey regional WEDI affiliate as well as being involved in the recently formed Committee on Operating Rules for Information Exchange (CORE), operated by CAQH.
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Mike presented a series of some of the first HIPAA informational seminars to the ENVOY-NEIC (now Emdeon) network of payers throughout the United States. While at ENVOY-NEIC, he was one of only 4 individuals to serve on the ANSI X12n sub-committee that defined the final HIPAA transaction set for the 278 - Referral Certification and Authorization.
Prior to IGI, Mr. Relli was with ENVOY-NEIC (now Emdeon), Med-Link (now Emdeon/WebMD), MicroHealth (now McKesson).
Mike has a B.A. in Economics from Rutgers University.
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Samit Pandya,
Vice-President of IT Projects |
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Samit Pandya has over 20 years of IT and
management experience. His professional and
business expertise includes Technical Project
Management, Team Management, Design &
Implementation, Customer Training and more. He
has developed standards and procedures that span
life cycle phases. |
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Samit's expertise lies in the
creation and deployment of "Object Models" that
can eventually be deployed in the Provider and
Employer portals. The models are designed for
Eligibility & Benefits and Claims Reporting
modules using Rational XDE Modeler, UML and
HIPAA guidelines. As an X12 and EDI
implementation and issue subject matter expert,
he has consulted with many leading Healthcare
Companies, including UHC.
Besides the healthcare
industry, Samit's experience includes developing
complete ERP solution for the manufacturing
industry, managing and implementing a talent
recruiting application for one of the biggest
management consulting firms in New York as well
as creating custom built applications for
various industries. He also worked as an EDI
expert in implementing ERP (SAP) solution for a
paper manufacturing organization.
Samit has a B.S. in Physics and
a Post-Graduate Diploma in Computer Science
Applications. He is also certified as an ABAP/4
programmer from the SAP Partner Academy, Boston. | |
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Dr. Vikas Budhiraja, Vice
President |
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Dr. Budhiraja is an
accomplished Senior Manager with more than 10
years experience in different facets of SDLC. He
has comprehensive knowledge in Business Process
analysis & design, Requirement gathering,
Process & Procedures documentation, Gap
Analysis, Use Case Analysis and UML. He has
extensive experience in Healthcare (HIPAA,
Billing, Payer & Providers), Designed and
developed HIPAA compliant Claims, Eligibility
& Authorization modules. He has served as a
'HIPAA' and 'Healthcare Claims' Subject Matter
Expert (SME) for various healthcare
clients. |
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Dr. Budhiraja has experience in
managing medium to large teams (20-200 in size)
with both onsite and offshore resources and is
experienced in System and Business Process
re-engineering, and providing strategic
direction to various projects. His experience
includes extensive experience in defining ISO
9000/CMM based processes and procedures to
improve quality of project delivery. He has
written several 'Standard Operating Procedures'
(SOPs) for entire Software Development Lifecycle
(SDLC). He conceived, designed and developed a
web (J2EE) based Project Management tool that is
a task-based system that allows geographically
dispersed teams to collaborate during various
phases of SDLC. He is a member of PMI and
Healthcare SIG.
Dr Budhiraja has a Ph.D. in
Chemical / Biomedical Engineering from Rice
University, Houston, TX and a Bachelor of
Technology, Chemical Engineering, Indian
Institute of Technology (IIT), New Delhi,
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Karen
Scherma, Director of Healthcare Solutions
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Karen Scherma with her 25 years of experience is an expert at EDI transactions. Her major work includes Workflow/Data analysis and documentation, Business Modeling and Business Process Reengineering, Project Planning, Design and development of internal and user procedures/forms and manuals, X12 Syntax Training, including hands-on mapping exercises, X12 and HIPAA Transaction Set mapping, Documentation proofing, editing and writing.
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Prior to joining IGI, Karen was the Director of NEIC (National Electronic Information Corporation). She has been a Technical liaison between CareInsite and Empire, GHI, HIP and Horizon. She is a former member of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI X12), WEDI and AFHECT. She authored an AFEHCT White Paper used as input to the HIPAA process.
She has been an active member, since 1990, of the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) technical work group responsible for creating the National Standard Format (NSF) for the physician claim and remittance formats. Karen has been an active speaker at two national health care conferences: HIAA & California Managed Care Forum. She has a B.S., Psychology - Brooklyn College and M.A., Counseling and Guidance - New York University, NY. She also has a Certificate, Data Communications - New York University, NY.
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