Judy: I actually thought that was going to be lots different than my role at Aurora. Judy: When I had the opportunity to apply for the deputy national coordinator position under First Admiral, I snurfed that up and applied for that job and did get it and stayed at ONC for three years. So I got to know the Office of the National Coordinator and what they were doing and got really interested in getting out of my little world, if you will, and doing something more on a nationwide scale. Some of you may recall who are listening to this, I was one of the nurses that was on the Health IT Advisory Committee, the Federal Health IT Advisory Committee. But one of the things toward the end of my time at Aurora that I was involved with was The Meaningful Use Program. Again, you can imagine all the different kinds of transitions that happened in the 80s, the 90s and into the 2000s, et cetera. I stayed in the IT department at Aurora for about 25 years and by the time I left, there were 750 people in the department. And I will tell you there were only 27 people in the IT department at that time. Although he didn't hire me on the spot, he hired me about six months later.
The role of CIO and some of the infrastructure kinds of things that we have now actually didn't exist. And got real interested in the computerization part of it and pitched the job to the director of IT at that time. And through that, I got involved in computers because I was responsible for doing some of the training of the new mainframe applications that we had at the time, which was the 1980s. Worked as a staff nurse, worked in administration of nursing and then, moved into the inservice education department. I grew up, if you will, at Aurora Health Care in Wisconsin. So it's probably helpful to trace just a bit of that history.
Can you tell us a little bit about your background and what you're currently doing at IBM as a nurse? Judy: Yeah. Dan: So Judy, you've worked in a number of places from healthcare policy to informatics to IT, and now you're at IBM.