December 30, 2009 (FinancialWire) — MedeFile International, Inc. (OTCBB: MDFI), a leader in portable electronic medical records management, said it has added three new members to its board of Advisors. The new advisory board members are former Healthcare Commissioner (NY State) Barbara DeBuono, Richard Farren, and Louis Hyman.

Barbara A. DeBuono, M.D., M.P.H. is Visiting Professor at The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services in the Departments of Health Services Management and Leadership and Global Health. She is also currently serving as Interim chair of the Department of Prevention and Community Health. Previously, Dr. DeBuono served as Executive director, Public Health and government at Pfizer Inc. and was responsible for creating and managing public-private partnership programs in public health innovation, education, and research. Dr. DeBuono served as Commissioner of Health for the State of New York in the first term of Gov. George Pataki, having previously served as director of Health in Rhode Island in the cabinet of Gov.Bruce Sundlun. In both roles Dr. DeBuono led efforts to develop Medicaid Managed Care and SCHIP programs and crafted HIV, immunization and breast and cervical cancer prevention policies. She has served on many health policy boards, among them the Advisory Committee to the director of the Centers for Disease Control, the Center for Health Policy Development, and the Partnership for Prevention. She is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians. She has been published extensively in numerous peer review journals, including Journal of the American Medical Association, The New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of Public Health Policy, and American Journal of Public Health.

Richard L. Farren has been a member of the New York City law firm McLaughlin & Stern, LLP since 1990. In the health care field, he has represented a number of major New York City hospitals in administrative proceedings, a number of physicians in all aspects of their practice, a Medical HMO, several diagnostic and treatment centers in administrative law matters, a company specializing in electronic medical record billing for physicians in various matters, including antitrust and unfair competition concerns, the organization of an independent practice association for skilled nursing facilities in New York State, and the medical staff of a prominent New York City hospital in connection with its reorganization in a Federal Chapter 11 proceeding. Farren is a 1965 graduate of the Phillips Exeter Academy, a 1968 graduate of Yale University with a cum laude B.A. in history and a 1971 graduate of the Harvard Law School, where he served as editor-in-chief of the Harvard Law School Yearbook for two years.

Louis Hyman is currently executive vice president of SigmaCare, a company whose mission has always been to help administrators and clinicians within long term care organizations provide higher quality of care for residents through innovative technology and professional services. Hyman’s healthcare information technology expertise was developed through his more than 14 years in strategic technology roles. He has developed successful healthcare connectivity solutions, physician practice management systems, electronic prescribing applications and computerized order entry tools for physician practices, payers and nursing homes. Prior to joining SigmaCare, Hyman held executive and senior management positions at iDeal Technologies, Inc., WebMD and LaPook Lear Systems, Inc., after launching his career as a systems engineer with IBM Corp.. Hyman graduated summa cum laude with a BS in computer science from St. John’s University and is regarded as a luminary in the healthcare information technology field. His work has appeared in several healthcare industry publications and is a consistent presenter at a number of the nation’s top healthcare information technology events.

Headquartered in South Florida, MedeFile has developed a proprietary system for gathering and digitizing medical records so that individuals can have a comprehensive record of all of their medical visits.

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