Leslie Ann Fox, MA, RHIA, FAHIMA is CEO and co-founder of Care Communications, Inc., a national healthcare consulting and staffing company dedicated to advancing best practices in health information management, revenue cycle management and the transition to electronic health records, since 1976. She is a pioneer in the development and application of Systems-Based Leadership™, an approach to leading and consulting in organizations that addresses the challenge of managing anxiety provoked by an unrelenting environment of transformative change.  She provides executive coaching to healthcare leaders and consultants.

She is the co-author of Leading a Business in Anxious Times: A Systems Approach to Becoming More Effective in the Workplace and frequently presents at national and local meetings on a systems-based framework for leading change. She is also the author of numerous articles and publications on best practices in health information management and currently co-authors with Patty Sheridan the “Hands-on Help” column that appears monthly in ADVANCE for Health Information Professionals.

Ms. Fox is on the faculty of the post-graduate training program at the Center for Family Consultation in Wilmette, IL where she lectures on the application of Bowen Family Systems Theory in organizations. She serves on the advisory board of the Health Information Technology program at Oakton Community College in Niles, IL, and she is a former adjunct professor of Health Information Management at the University of Illinois.

Ms. Fox is an active member of the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA), where she has held numerous leadership positions including being a founding member of the AHIMA Practice Council on Personal Health Records. In 2003, she represented AHIMA on the Personal Health Record Working Group, a subcommittee of the Markle Foundation’s Connecting for Health Care, a project that is advancing the National Health Information Infrastructure. Currently Ms. Fox is the Co-Chair of the AHIMA Foundation Campaign, Transforming Health Information. She received AHIMA’s highest honor, the Distinguished Member award, in 2007.

Since 2003, Ms. Fox has served on the board of directors of Save The Patient, a Chicago-Based Patient Advocacy organization whose mission is to educate and empower patients and the public to make effective and informed health care decisions through objective resources.