HTRAC is a leading nationally recognized nonprofit organization of CIO’s/CISO’s/CTO’s dedicated to bridging the gap between the Health IT Community and Silicon Valley, creating a public-private sector technology collaboration fostering thought leadership, executive knowledge exchange, and to drive healthcare technology ideas forward. Our core focus lies in the areas of Security, Big Data, Cloud, Mobile, Infrastructure, Patient Engagement, and IT Services. HTRAC has over 120 Council members, Ambassadors, and Speakers who are senior healthcare officials dedicated to improving their IT community through trends research, executive briefings, roundtables, boardroom meetings, thought leadership think-tanks, strategic knowledge exchange panels, networking receptions and dinners, recognition awards, and bi-annual summits. By becoming a HTRAC Contributor, executives are able to take action with their peers and utilize HTRAC as a platform for improving outcome, access to a vast body of knowledge, innovative thinking, sharing best practices and lessons-learned, and enjoy opportunities to collaborate with like-minded executives. RESEARCH BASED METHODOLOGY: As a research-based organization, the content and curriculum of all HTRAC activities is derived from real-time research conducted with Health IT professionals from health care providers, industry, academia and the government. This approach ensures that HTRAC continually stays on the forefront of mandates, requirements, technologies and the business needs that are most important to the Health IT Community. Research findings are shared at the annual HTRAC Council Meeting.