President

A. John Blair, III, M.D., is a health care and technology executive with broad experience across the health care industry including clinical practice, hospital planning and governance, revenue cycle management, managed care, public health and health care informatics.

Blair is the CEO of MedAllies, a health information service provider company, established in 2001 and based in Fishkill, NY. MedAllies facilitates physician adoption of health information technology and integrates the health care community to facilitate care coordination, patient-provider communication, public health and quality reporting. MedAllies built and operates the Hudson Valley Community Health Integration Platform (CHIP), which connects health care stakeholders throughout New York’s Hudson Valley. The Hudson Valley CHIP operates under the direction of the Taconic Health Information Network and Community (THINC), one of the nation’s leading regional health organizations and a Regional Extension Center agent for the Hudson Valley.

Blair currently serves on the Privacy and Security Workgroup and the NHIN Workgroup of the Policy Committee of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. He is a member of the National Committee on Quality Assurance (NCQA) Committee on Performance Measurement, and serves on the Health Information Technology Advisory Committee (HITAC) for the National Quality Forum.

Blair is a board-certified general surgeon who spent 15 years in academic medicine and private practice before becoming president of the Taconic Independent Practice Association.

He received his medical degree from Rush Medical School in Chicago and completed his surgical training at the University of Texas Medical Center in Dallas. He performed a gastrointestinal fellowship at the Middlesex Hospital in London, England.