Meaningful Use: What You Need to Know Today to Qualify for Incentives

Kevin Scalia is Executive Vice President of Corporate Development for Netsmart Technologies, a leading provider of software solutions for more than 18,000 health and human services organizations and professionals nationwide. Netsmart provides software as a service (SaaS), self-hosted software solutions and project implementation services to customers in all 50 states, including 350,000 care providers and 40 state-level mental health systems. Netsmart customers include mental health and substance abuse treatment agencies, psychiatric hospitals, private and group mental health practices, public health departments, intellectual and developmental disabilities organizations, vital records offices and managed care organizations. Scalia has executive management responsibility for marketing, business development, strategic planning and mergers and acquisitions. He also manages strategic relationships and new business opportunities, and is responsible for developing alliances with key industry associations. Prior to moving to his current position, he served as Netsmart's vice president of operations. Scalia plays a significant leadership role representing behavioral healthcare's interests in various aspects of the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009, more commonly known as federal stimulus legislation, and other legislative and policy initiatives. Working in conjunction with industry associations, Scalia continues to work with policymakers to encourage the inclusion of behavioral health as eligible for Medicare and Medicaid-related financial incentives related to the "meaningful use" of Electronic Health Records. Before joining Netsmart, Scalia served as president and chief operating officer of a Long Island, N.Y.- based professional services firm that provided enterprise applications to mid-size and Fortune 500 companies, and as chairman and chief executive officer for a manufacturer of supercomputers, security equipment and medical imaging equipment. Scalia was also an advisor to the first President George Bush, representing small business on issues related to defense transformation. Scalia is a founding member of the Long Island Software and Technology Network and a member of the College of Engineering Advisory Board, State University of New York at Stony Brook. Scalia graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and has a Masters Degree in Systems Engineering from Polytechnic University