Rick Cnossen

President and Chair of the Board of Directors,
Continua Health Alliance

Director of Personal Health Enabling,
Intel Corporation Digital Health Group

Rick Cnossen is the director of Personal Health Enabling for Intel in its Digital Health Group with a focus on medical device interoperability standards. He is currently leading a large, international, cross-industry consortium, the Continua Health Alliance, focused on the establishment of an eco-system of interoperable, personal telehealth systems.

Mr. Cnossen serves on the HITSP Board of Directors and as a chairperson for the ISO/IEEE 11073 Medical Device Communications WG. He is a participating member of the ISO/IEEE 11073 Personal Health Data WG, the HITSP Consumer Perspectives Technical Committee, the Health Level Seven (HL7) Structured Document Technical Committee, the USB Personal Health Device WG, and the Bluetooth Medical Device Profile WG.

Mr. Cnossen holds a MSCS degree from the University of Southern California (USC). He worked at McDonnell Douglas (Boeing) for 15 years as a Software Engineering Manager on a variety of Aerospace and Defense projects and at Intel Corporation for 9 years as an Engineer Manager and Director. During this time, he has been involved in many industry technology and standards development efforts including Advanced Telecommunications Architecture (ATCA) Manageability Specification, Tactical Defense data collection / analysis, Hierarchical Data Assimilation and Storage, and High Performance Computing.