Janice Reese
Janice Reese is a healthcare interoperability and digital transformation leader with more than two decades of experience at the intersection of technology, cybersecurity, and healthcare innovation. She has been involved in technology for most of her career, with a strong healthcare focus over the last 20 years. Early in her career, she worked at Adobe during the launch of Adobe Acrobat PDF, where she partnered with the industry standards group and led business development efforts around third-party technologies designed to reduce paper-based processes and streamline electronic workflows across industries. During this time, she also contributed to the submission of the first drug application using Acrobat in healthcare, reflecting her early commitment to advancing digital transformation in regulated environments.
Throughout her career, Janice has continued to focus on leveraging technology to solve complex healthcare challenges. She has worked across a range of organizations, including cybersecurity and healthcare innovation initiatives with Health 2047, the innovation arm of the American Medical Association, where she helped develop cybersecurity-focused technology products. She also supported a long-term services organization in the rollout of its platform to major health plans and Medicaid programs in the state of Virginia. Based in Nashville—often referred to as the “Silicon Valley of healthcare”—she has built a career centered on enabling secure, scalable, and interoperable healthcare systems through strategy, partnerships, and standards-based innovation.
Currently, Janice serves as Program Manager for the HL7 FHIR at Scale Taskforce (FAST), where she leads initiatives focused on identity, security, consent, national directory standards, and testing at scale to enable a connected and trusted healthcare ecosystem. Her work aligns closely with industry partners, including major health plans, technology companies, ONC, and CMS, with key regulatory milestones on security frameworks anticipated for implementation beginning January 1, 2027. She also leads cybersecurity and workforce initiatives, including the Women in Cybersecurity Tennessee community and the WiCyS BISO (Business Information Security Officer) group, where she champions the development of the BISO role as a critical bridge between business and security while fostering leadership opportunities for women in cybersecurity.
• Cybersecurity Training and Certification
• Change Management Ambassador
• Learning Security Metrics
• University of Tennessee, Knoxville - BS, Marketing, Education
• Women in Cybersecurity (WiCyS) - Tennessee Chapter Leader
• Women in Cybersecurity BISO Group - President
• HL7 International
• Private Directors Association
• Association of Volleyball Professionals (AVP)
• Nashville Beach Volleyball - Grassroots Development
• AVP America Grassroots Program
• USA Volleyball
• Women in CyberSecurity (WiCyS)
• Shelters to Shutters
• BPM+ Health
• Cloud Security Alliance
• HHS 405(d) – Aligning Health Care Industry Security Approaches
• Private Directors Association®
What values are most important to you in your work and personal life?
I believe in bringing people together through play and breaking down divisiveness. When people come together through play, and they break bread and eat together and interact, they come to realize they're more alike than they are different, and people become more accepting. I think that's critical right now, because we're at a pertinent point in our society where media and other factors have kind of ratcheted up that divisiveness, rather than trying to have conversations where you bring people together in a way that is not confrontational, but creates awareness of who somebody is and why they feel the way they do. I'm not one of those people that wants to just sit around and drink cocktails at a beach somewhere. Right now, there's so many things that are happening in the world, the only thing you can do is make the changes you have an influence to make in a way that you can make them. That's where I feel what I'm doing with the sport and beach volleyball matters - we have an idea of maybe leaving our property in some type of a trust so it could actually live on in perpetuity, so that when people come out here, they have the experience of listening to music and playing with each other in a way that incorporates fun and learning, but also adapting to other people's belief systems.
Locations
HL7 FHIR at Scale Taskforce (FAST)
Joelton, TN 37080