David Riley

CONNECT Initiative Lead
Federal Health Architecture (FHA) Program in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONCHIT)

In this role Mr. Riley facilitates consensus across a group of 26 federal agencies and institutes to enhance health information sharing on a nationwide basis. His work resulted in successful demonstrations of health information sharing across multiple agencies and non-governmental health enterprises in the NHIN Forum of December, 2008. He has served as the Chief, Technology Discovery and Insertion directly for the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs. He is an experienced entrepreneur with startup experience in both the private sector and large scale IT projects in the federal sector.  He is recognized for his skill in bringing together diverse groups with competing interests into working collaborations to tackle large scale complex problems producing working solutions in a reasonable timeframe on a budget. Mr. Riley is an Air Force Trained Primary Care Physician Assistant with a Bachelor’s Degree in Allied Health from the University of Nebraska Medical Center, College of Medicine.  He served in the United States Air Force and was deployed during the Persian Gulf War.