Margret Amatayakul, RHIA, CHPS, CPHIT, CPEHR, FHIMSS

Margret Amatayakul is president of Margret\A Consulting, LLC and co-founder and member of the board of examiners of Health IT Certification. Margret "A" provides consulting services to hospitals and clinics, newly forming regional health information organizations, and government agencies/contractors. She provides training programs, conducts research, and writes extensively to share lessons learned that will help achieve clinical transformation through adoption of health information technology. She has published several books on EHRs for AHIMA, HC Pro, and MGMA (earning the HIMSS Book of the Year Award 2006), and has written numerous articles and developed tools to support EHR and HIPAA for several medical specialty societies, quality improvement organizations, AHIMA, AMA, BCBSA, HFMA, and HC Pro.

Previous to starting her own business in 1999, Margret helped found and was the executive director of the Computer-based Patient Record Institute (CPRI); held the position of associate executive director of the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA); served as associate professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago; and was director of health information management services at the Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary. She is currently adjunct faculty at the College of St. Scholastica in their and clinical associate professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago in their health informatics masters programs. She is active in standards setting organizations and is currently a member of the HIMSS board of directors.

Margret holds a bachelors of science degree from the University of Illinois at the Medical Center in health information management and a masters in business administration with concentrations in marketing and finance from the University of Illinois at Chicago.