Speakers
Speakers
Clients
Nursing Administration Coordinator, Pershing General Hospital
Sydney Wemple
Sydney Wemple overseeing nursing operations for the Critical Access Hospital and Nursing Home, focusing on providing leadership to nursing and clinical teams, quality improvement, and the delivery of safe, evidence-based patient care. Her expertise spans acute care nursing, clinical informatics, and education. With over 7 years of experience, she has worked across urban and rural healthcare settings, finding a love for rural healthcare, including Infection Prevention, Labor & Delivery, Postpartum/Nursery, and Emergency Department.
Chief Nursing Officer, Pershing General Hospital
Raylene Stiehl
Raylene oversees the Critical Access Hospital and Nursing Home, providing executive leadership to nursing and clinical departments to ensure safe, evidence-based care and provide optimal patient outcomes. Her expertise spans acute care nursing, nursing leadership, community health, and instructing. With over 19 years of experience, she has devoted herself to improving rural access to healthcare, including community health nursing, nursing instruction, Medical-Surgical, ICU, and Emergency Department.
Rural Health Collaborative
Executive Director of the Health Impact Alliance, The Health Management Academy
Jasmaine McClain
Jasmaine McClain, PhD, serves as Executive Director of the Health Impact Alliance at The Health Management Academy, where she leads a research-backed collaborative of leading health systems focused on advancing efficient, equitable patient care. Previously, she led quality improvement and implementation science initiatives at Avalere Health and research on consumer journey mapping and virtual care adoption at Advisory Board. She holds a PhD in Cancer Biology and an MS in Medicine from Stanford University School of Medicine.
Vice President of Health Policy and Strategy, The Health Management Academy
Stephanie Bernardes
Stephanie Bernardes is Vice President of Health Policy and Strategy at The Health Management Academy, advising health system executives on policy and regulatory strategy to drive growth and competitiveness. Her expertise spans Medicare and Medicaid payment policy, hospital and physician reimbursement reform, value-based care, medical liability, and health information technology. Previously, she served as a federal lobbyist for the American Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons. She holds an MPH in health policy from The George Washington University.
TruBridge Executive Leadership
President and Chief Executive Officer, TruBridge
Chris Fowler
Chris Fowler, will be speaking at the General Session of our National Client Conference! Chris will share valuable insights on the future of our industry and what’s ahead for our clients. Chris Fowler joined TruBridge in 2000 and worked in various roles until 2008, when he became VP of Business Services. In 2013, this division became TruBridge, LLC, where he became President. He was later appointed TruBridge’s COO in 2015. In 2022, Chris became President and CEO, also joining the Board of Directors.
General Manager Patient Care, TruBridge
David Harse
David Harse will be speaking at the General Session of our National Client Conference! David is the General Manager of our Patient Care business unit, joined TruBridge in 2022. Previously, David worked as a senior-level leader at Healthmark and over 20 years in various roles with the EHR business at Cerner. Proficient in healthcare information technology and services industry, he is skilled in healthcare consumerism, performance improvement, business development, and strategy. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical/Medical Engineering from Southern Methodist University.
General Manager Financial Health
Merideth Wilson
Merideth Wilson will be speaking at the General Session of our National Client Conference! Merideth joined the TruBridge team in 2025 as General Manager of our Financial Health business unit. She came to us with over 25 years in healthcare technology leadership experience, most recently serving as Executive Vice President and General Manager at Experian. She is an accomplished healthcare technology and services executive with extensive RCM and global experience. Merideth received her Bachelor of Business Administration from Baylor University and her MBA from Mercer University.
Partners
Principal, McDermott+Consulting
Eric Zimmerman
Eric is a Medicare law and policy professional and registered lobbyist who represents clients before Congress and administrative agencies. His work focuses on Medicare coverage, coding, reimbursement, and compliance. He primarily counsels hospitals and health systems, ambulatory surgery centers, laboratories, pharmaceutical and medical device organizations, and medical trade associations.
TruBridge Speakers
Head of TruBridge Encoder, TruBridge
Amy Larsson
Amy Larsson is a strategic and collaborative executive with deep experience leading healthcare business operations and product management across complex billing and claims payer platforms. With a diverse background across healthcare, Amy serves as trusted advisor to key stakeholders and large healthcare organizations to align cross-functional teams. She joined TruBridge as Vice President of the TruBridge Encoder in July of 2023 and has a Master of Business Administration from Penn State University and a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Rutgers University.
Product Owner, TruBridge
Chason Hicks
Chason Hicks, Clinical Development Product Owner at TruBridge, is a skilled healthcare technology professional with 12 years of experience across multiple care settings and clinical workflows. He specializes in the CCDA and Notes applications and is dedicated to optimizing these tools to support the highest quality of patient care. Chason partners closely with healthcare teams to align solutions with organizational goals and enhance the overall clinical experience.
Product Development Analyst, TruBridge
Cindy Francis
Cindy Francis, Director in Early Out Services, has over 20 years’ experience in the customer service/patient services arena, driving initiatives and innovations to meet growing needs of customers and clients. Cindy’s focus is on implementation, system development and analysis. She works closely with the Early Out team during implementation to ensure that the patient experience is everything that we promise it will be.
Clinical Technical Training Advocate, TruBridge
David McCune
David McCune has over 14 years of experience at TruBridge and works within the Learning department. His areas of focus include physician applications, TruBridge EHR clinic applications, and electronic forms. He frequently leads customer workshops and supports education initiatives across the organization.
Vice President, TruBridge
Jason Coffin
Jason Coffin, CHFP, CRCE, is the Head of RCM Operations at TruBridge and brings over 25 years of experience in healthcare and financial services. His expertise includes management of hospital business offices, patient collections, systems integration, process improvement, and relationship management. Jason joined TruBridge in 2022 through the acquisition of HRG, where he served as Chief Operating Officer. He is a veteran who served 8 years in the United States Navy.
Director of Education and Training, TruBridge Encoder
Karen Scott
Karen Scott is Director of Education and Training at TruBridge Encoder. She has taught HIM programs at several universities and has served as an HIM director in an acute care hospital. She previously served on the AHIMA Board of Directors and AHIMA Foundation Board of Directors and has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Health Information Management Association. She teaches seminars nationally and has authored multiple coding textbooks.
Product Owner, TruBridge Encoder
Lolita Jones
Lolita Jones is Product Owner for the Professional Coding Encoder at TruBridge. She has over 35 years of experience in the medical coding field as a coder, auditor, trainer, educator, author, technical editor, and entrepreneur. She is the author of the Single Path Coder Upskilling Toolkit, a reference guide for designing in-house training curricula.
Vice President, TruBridge
Nick Widboom
Nick Widboom, MBA, Vice President of the RCM Product Suite at TruBridge , brings over 20 years of experience in healthcare revenue cycle software, including 16 years leading the development and operations of SaaS applications. His expertise spans RCM product development, healthcare financial systems, and compliant web-based software solutions.
Product Owner, TruBridge
NyEela Harney
NyEela Harney is a Product Owner at TruBridge with experience in project management within the rural acute healthcare space. Her background includes value-based care, population health, quality measure management and reporting, and product management. She also has experience in information system implementation and clinical informatics, with a focus on workflows, interoperability, patient safety, regulatory compliance, and continuous improvement.
Group Lead, TruBridge
Stephanie Revering
Stephanie Revering has nearly 30 years of revenue cycle experience spanning home health, DME, and acute hospital environments. She has spent the last 12 years working in clearinghouse operations, including EDI, eligibility, claim scrubbing and submission, claim status, and remittance management. In 2023, she began developing TruBridge RCM’s optimization department to improve software performance and customer use.
Product Owner, TruBridge
Stephanie St. Andrie
Stephanie St. Andrie has clinical experience in nursing at both a Level I trauma center and a community hospital. She has worked at TruBridge for over 25 years with an emphasis on developing clinical applications for clinicians. She currently serves as a Product Owner in Product Development and has experience in clinical support, implementation, management, and sales content services.
Customer and Managed Services Department Lead, TruBridge
Todd Guthrey
Todd Guthrey is a Department Lead at TruBridge, where he focuses on providing healthcare solutions and services that support community hospitals, clinics, and healthcare organizations. His expertise spans business development, EHR support, and managed services. With over 25 years of experience, he has worked across multiple EHR platforms, emphasizing client success, EHR adoption, and value realization.
Product Owner, TruBridge
Tony Johnson
Tony Johnson has 40 years of experience at TruBridge focusing on EHR revenue cycle applications. He currently serves as a Product Owner within the Finance and Administration unit, supporting applications including patient accounting, medical records and HIM, state reporting, registration, and scheduling.
2026 TruBridge National Client Conference
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