Alexandra (Alix) Goss

For 30 years, Alix Goss has held leadership roles in developing national health care standards, implementing and complying with federal regulations, and aligning business strategies, systems integration and operations management in both private and public sectors of health care.

Prior to joining Imprado, the managerial consulting division of DynaVet Solutions, Ms. Goss was named the Executive Director of the Pennsylvania eHealth Partnership Authority in January 2014 after serving as the PA Health Information Technology Coordinator and the program director of the statewide health information exchange initiative. In her roles, she guided Pennsylvania’s efforts to improve quality and safety of health care by working with stakeholders to create and build a sustainable, statewide HIE network. Ms. Goss worked on the state’s HIE strategy and related initiatives since 2008, with a focus on governance, stakeholder engagement, privacy and security framework, and interoperability capabilities.

Previously, Ms. Goss served as chair of the ASC X12 Insurance Subcommittee, an accredited-standards development organization of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), where she promoted understanding and consistency in the development of property/casualty and health care standards, and championed initiatives resulting in improved collaborative relationships with affiliated standard-setting and industry organizations and federal regulators.  

Early in her career, Ms. Goss created and chaired the Medicare Part B and DMERC Electronic Data Interchange Functional Work Group (EDI FWG), which consisted of standard system maintainers, Medicare contractors and CMS’s Medicare EDI coordinators.  

Ms. Goss is currently serving her second four-year term as a member of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS). NCVHS is the statutory public advisory body on health data, statistics, privacy, and national health information policy. Ms. Goss is co-chair of its Standards Subcommittee and its Review Committee focused on Administrative Simplification provisions of HIPAA and the Affordable Care Act. She received the 2019 HIT Government Champion Award from the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI), who presents the honor to exceptional government personnel who have supported policy that advances the health IT industry. Ms. Goss also serves as an Executive Steering Committee Member and the Directory, Versioning, and Scale Tiger Team Co-lead of The Office of the National Coordinator’s FHIR at Scale Taskforce (FAST).