National Association of Health Data Organizations
Executive Director
448 East 400 South # 301
Salt Lake City,
UT
USA
84111
dlove@nahdo.org
Biographical Sketch:
Denise Love is the Executive Director of the National Association of Health Data Organizations (NAHDO), a national nonprofit membership and educational organization, established in 1986 and dedicated to improving the collection and use of health care data for market, consumer, policy, and research purposes. Since 2000, Ms. Love has provided technical assistance to and advocacy for statewide health care data reporting programs and has most recently been involved in expanding All Payer All Claims database (APCD) legislation and implementation across states as a founding member of the APCD council. Prior to joining NAHDO, Ms. Love was the Director of the Utah Office of Health Data Analysis where she oversaw the establishment of the statewide hospital and HMO reporting programs. She serves on advisory and steering committees including Board Member of the Joint Public Health Informatics Taskforce (JPHIT), Past Vice-chair of the National Quality Forum’s (NQF) Public/Community Health Agency Council, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Technical Advisory Panels, the Utah Department of Health’s Institutional Review Board, HealthInsight of Nevada and Utah Council, and the Utah Partnership for Value Exchange Steering Committee (Utah’s Chartered Value Exchange), where she chaired the Outpatient Data Task Force.