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PRESS RELEASE:
The Foundation for eHealth Initiative Announces the Faculty of National Health Information Technology Experts for its First Annual Connecting Communities for Better Health Learning Forum and Exhibition
- June 24 - 25, 2004
- Omni Shoreham Hotel Washington, DC
- Visit http://www.ehcca.com/CCBH/index.html for more infomation
- Join healthcare leaders from communities across the nation who are interested in information technology (IT) and electronic health information exchange for this first ever forum designed specifically for healthcare stakeholders that want to mobilize information across organizations to support and improve patient care
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PRESS RELEASE
Contact: Paul Tunnecliff
800-684-4549 phone
registration@hcconferences.com
WASHINGTON DC USA -- HEALTHCARE UPDATE NEWS SERVICE(TM) -- MAY 5, 2004: The Foundation for eHealth Initiative announced today the faculty for its First Annual Connecting Communities for Better Health Learning Forum and Exhibition on June 24 - 25, 2004 at the Omni Hotel in Washington, D.C. See http://www.ehcca.com/CCBH/index.html.
To register, go to www.ehcca.com/CCBH/registration.html, call 800-684-4549, or email registration@hcconferences.com.
SPECIAL FEATURES:
- Interactive "how-to" sessions allowing participants to dialogue with other communities and ask experts the tough questions in small-group sessions in the key areas relevant to health information exchange and the EHR
- Displays and demonstrations by organizations with methods, tools, strategies, and systems for successful health information exchange and EHR implementation
- Examples of emerging technology for health information exchange
- Information about funding resources and mechanisms
- Presentations by national experts on health information exchange collaboration, system implementation, and clinician adoption strategies
- Sessions that promote idea sharing and lessons learned among colleagues in similar situations
LEARN ABOUT:
- Collaboration vs. Competition: Gaining key stakeholders buy-in and facilitating ongoing organizational development and program management
- Putting together the planning and implementation teams and designing the rollout plan
- Selecting the right technical architecture and applications for your community and successfully implementing standards
- Building the business case and discussing strategies for a community based sustainable revenue model
- Recovering gracefully from missteps and managing the unexpected
- Formalizing ongoing evaluation, innovation, and change
- Future generations of health information exchange technologies and systems
FACULTY AND EXPERT PARTICIPANTS:
Laura Adams
President and CEO, Rhode Island Quality Institute
Holt Anderson
Executive Director, North Carolina Health Information and Communications Alliance
Diane Archer
Special Counsel, Medicare Rights Center (invited)
Nick Augustinos
Vice President, CareScience
Peter Basch, MD
Medical Director, eHealth Initiatives, MedStar Health
Nick Beard, MD
Principal Investigator, SAGE Project; Vice President, IDX Systems Corporation
Robert Belfort
Partner, Manatt Phelps & Phillips
William S. Bernstein, Esq.
Partner and Co-Chair, Government and Regulatory Division Manatt, Phelps & Phillips
A. John Blair, III, MD
President & CEO, Taconic IPA, Inc.
David Brailer, MD, PhD
Senior Fellow for Information Technology and Quality of Care at the Health Technology Center; Santa Barbara County Care Data Exchange
Claire Broome, MD
Director, Integrated Health Information Systems, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Cam Brown
Consultant
Joe Casper
Chief Technology Officer, Patient Safety Institute
Francois de Brantes
Program Leader, Healthcare Initiatives, General Electric; Bridges to Excellence Program
Carol Diamond, MD, MPH
Managing Director, Information Technologies for Better Health Program, the Markle Foundation; Chair, Connecting for Health
Neil de Crescenzo (invited)
IBM, BCS Healthcare Industry Leader, Global and Americas
Bob Elson, MD, MS
Vice President Medical Affairs, RxHub
Seth Foldy, MD
Commissioner, City of Milwaukee Public Health Department
Bruce Fried, JD
Partner, Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal
Mark Frisse, MD
Vice President, First Consulting Group
John Glaser, PhD
Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Partners Healthcare System
John Halamka, MD
Chief Information Officer, Caregroup Healthcare System
Patricia Hale, MD, PhD
Chair, Medical Informatics Subcommittee, American College of Physicians; Chief Medical Informatics Officer, Glen Falls Hospital
William Hersh, MD
Professor and Chair, Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology, Oregon Health Sciences University
Liesa Jenkins
Executive Director, Tri-Cities TN-VA Health Information Exchange
David W. Kaplan, MD, MPH
Professor, Pediatrics, University Colorado School of Medicine, Chief Medical Information Officer, The Children's Hospital
Sam Karp
Director, Health Information Technology, California HealthCare Foundation
Donald Kemper, MPH
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Healthwise
Linda Kloss
Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer, AHIMA
David Lansky, PhD
President, Foundation for Accountability
Mark Leavitt, MD, PhD, FHIMSS
Medical Director/Director of Ambulatory Care, Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)
Blackford Middleton, MD, MSc
Chairman, Center for Information Technology Leadership Executive Committee; Director, Clinical Informatics Research and Development, Partners HealthCare System
Farzad Mostashari, MD, MSPH
Assistant Commissioner, Division of Epidemiology, New York City Department of Health
Anna Orlova, PhD
Executive Director, Public Health Data Standards Consortium
Eduardo Ortiz, MD, MPH
Associate Chief of Staff for Informatics, VA Medical Center, Department of Veterans Affairs
J. Marc Overhage, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine and Senior Investigator, Regenstrief Institute
Marc Pierson, MD
Vice President of Clinical Information and Special Projects, PeaceHealth, Chairman/Director, Whatcom Community Health Improvement Consortium and Executive Director, Whatcom County's Pursuing Perfection Project
Dena Puskin, ScD
Director Office for the Advancement of Telemedicine, HRSA (invited)
Dale Prestipino
Senior Partner, CSC, CTO Global Health Solutions
Helga Rippen, MD, PhD, MPH
Deputy Senior Advisor, National Health Information Infrastructure (NHII)
Wes Rishel
Board Chair-Emeritus, Health Level Seven; Vice President, Research Director, Gartner Healthcare
William Rollow, MD
Deputy Director, Quality Improvement Group, Office of Clinical Standards and Quality Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (tentative)
David A. Ross, ScD
Director, Public Health Informatics Institute, a program of The Task Force for Child Survival and Development
John Rother
Director, Policy and Strategy, AARP
Joshua Seidman, PhD
Executive Director, Center for Information Therapy
Martin-Jose Sepulveda, MD (invited)
VP, Global Well-being Services & Health Benefits, HR, IBM
Mary Shaffran
Senior Director, Informatics Policy, Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO)
Paul Smith, Esq.
Davis, Wright, Tremaine
Elliot Stone
Executive Director and CEO, Massachusetts Health Data Consortium
Thomas E. Sullivan, MD
Practicing Physician, Women's Health Center Cardiology; President, Massachusetts Medical Society (invited)
Jonathan Teich, MD, PhD
Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, HealthVision; Assistant Professsor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Karen Trudel
Acting Director, Office of HIPAA Standards, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; Program Manager, Consolidated Health Informatics Program
Deryk Van Brunt, DrPh
CEO Healthy Communities
Scott Young, MD
Director, Health Information Technology Research and Programs, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Andrew Webber
Chief Executive Officer, National Business Coalition on Health
Steven Waldren, MD
Assistant, Director of the Center for Health Information Technology, American Academy of Family Physicians
Johnny Walker
Chief Executive Officer/Executive Director, Patient Safety Institute
Dale Whitney
Corporate Health and Welfare Manager, United Parcel Service
SAVE THE DATE:
MAJOR HEALTHCARE IT SUMMIT, OCTOBER 21 - 23, 2004 IN WASHINGTON, DC:
Also mark your calendars for the eHealth Initiative-sponsored first annual Congress on the EHR and Healthcare IT, on October 21-23, 2004 in Washington, D.C. which will focus on breaking policy issues and actions related to an electronic health information infrastructure and electronic health records...both nationally and internationally. Hear from U.S. and international healthcare leaders about policy and practice changes that will impact.
SPONSORSHIP AND EXHIBITOR INFORMATION:
To learn more about sponsorship and exhibitor information, please contact David Dieterich at David.Dieterich@ehealthinitiative.org or by phone at 202.624.3270.
TO REGISTER:
To register, go to www.ehcca.com/CCBH/registration.html, call 800-684-4549, email registration@hcconferences.com, or write:
Conference Office
7790 Barberry Ave.
Yucca Valley, CA USA 92284
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