Professional Experience
Ms. Wallis provides policy analysis, strategic business advice and program management and implementation support to healthcare information, philanthropic, provider and technology organizations. Her services primarily focus on privacy and security, health information exchange, health information technology and health policy.
Prior to joining Manatt Health Solutions, Ms. Wallis served as a Project Coordinator for the California Regional Health Information Organization (CalRHIO), where she organized and managed the organization’s position in the Health Information Security and Privacy Collaboration (HISPC) Project. Ms. Wallis also worked with the Santa Barbara County Care Data Exchange (SBCCDE) to measure consumer privacy and technology concerns regarding electronic medical records.
Education
University of California, Santa Barbara, B.A., Communication and Law & Society, with distinction, 2006.
Luis Leal Social Sciences Award.
Publications
Contributor, “E-Prescribing...Has Its Time Finally Come?: E-Prescribing Heating Up at the National and State Levels,” Healthcare Law Newsletter, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, December 2007.
Co-Author, “Predicting user concerns about online privacy,” Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, 58(5), 2007.
Co-Author, “Technology and health information privacy: Consumers and the adoption of digital medical records technology,” The Internet and health care: Theory, research and practice, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2006.
“Consumers’ Perceptions of Shared Individual Digital Medical Records: Accessibility, Privacy, and New Technology,” Senior Honors Thesis, presented at the 2006 International Communication Association Conference in Dresden, Germany, June 2006.
Speaking Engagements
Co-Presenter, “Stakeholder Solutions to RHIO/HIE Privacy and Security: California’s Experience,” The Fourth HIT Summit, Washington, DC, March 29, 2007.
Co-Presenter, “Reducing Mistrust and Confusion Among Patients,” HISPC National Meeting, Bethesda, MD, March 6, 2007.
Co-Presenter, “Health Information Security and Privacy Collaboration Regional Meeting: State of California,” HISPC Regional Meeting, Chandler, AZ, November 8, 2006.
