Tracy Rue
Chairman & Founder
Tracy is the Chairman and founder of Skywriter MD, leveraging 30 years of clinical, administrative and technical experience and success in healthcare.
Prior to Skywriter MD, Tracy was the Director of Business Development for a national healthcare interoperability/analytics company and consulted with several HIEs across the country and with Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital for their EHR implementation. He was instrumental in moving physicians from paper charts to EHRs, assisting practices with EHR selection, leading contract negotiations, directing implementation and workflow redesign, and interfacing.
Tracy is a nationally recognized Health Information Technology expert focused on physician adoption and implementation of EHRs, EHR-to-HIE and HIE-to-HIE interoperability, streamlining discrete and clinically relevant document exchange, and developing the analytics capabilities necessary for improved health outcomes and payment reform initiatives. He developed solutions for moving health data between physician offices, HIEs and the Colorado Beacon Community, in conjunction with the Regional Extension Center. On a national level, Tracy worked with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s Beacon Community, EHR Community of Practice Work Group, which broke ground for HIE/EMR discrete data exchange for use cases including population health management tools, risk stratification, robust data analytics and clinical exchange.
