Martin (Marty) Rice, MS, RN-BC, CPHIMS, is a registered nurse and nurse informaticist. Marty began his nursing career working in geriatric psychiatry, along with chronic and post acute care. Since receiving his Masters in Nursing Informatics from the University of Maryland School of Nursing, Marty has been involved in Electronic Health Record implementation, data modeling/design, enterprise architecture, clinical quality measures, retooling clinical quality measures, and data standards. Marty began his career in nursing informatics at North Arundel Hospital Home Health Care as their director of Information Technology where he implemented electronic charting and billing from a paper based system. In 2004, Marty transitioned to the federal government where he worked at the National Naval Medical Center (NNMC) in Bethesda, MD managing their inpatient clinical information system. In 2007, Marty transferred to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Systems in the Office of Clinical Systems and Quality, Quality Measures and Health Assessment Group. Marty transferred from CMS to HRSA as Deputy Director of the Office of Health IT and Quality in January of 2011. He became a senior advisor in the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy and most recently transitioned to Medicaid as the Director of State Systems. Marty was an adjunct instructor (2001-2007) for a face to face and virtual Nursing Informatics class at the University Of Maryland School Of Nursing and continues as adjunct faculty at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing (2001-current) in the same role.