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Monday July 21, 2008
7:15 am -
8:15 am
Registration and Continental Breakfast in the Executive Networking Lounge
8:15 am
Chairman's Welcome and Opening Remarks
Judah Thornewill
Director, Center for Collaborative Communities
University of Louisville

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8:30 am -
9:15 am
Opening Keynote Address:
Harnessing Openness to Transform American Healthcare: How to Assist Collaboration, Speed Research, Stimulate Innovation, Lower Costs and Reduce Errors
American healthcare can be greatly improved by embracing “openness” throughout the healthcare arena. A major drawback of our current system is that information is not shared in a prompt way and we do not take advantage of contributions that researchers, medical professionals, and patients can make. This can lead to a tremendous time lag between scientific medical advances and when they are generally used by medical professionals.

This presentation will take a closer look at how “openness” is being or could be employed throughout the health care production chain and how it can lead to substantial benefits by facilitating collaboration, speeding research, stimulating innovation, lowering costs, reducing errors, and closing the gap between discovery and treatment delivery.
Elliot Maxwell
Project Director, Digital Connections Council, Committee for Economic Development;
Fellow, Communications Program, Johns Hopkins University;
Distinguished Research Fellow, eBusiness Research Center, Pennsylvania State University;
Chief Strategist, eMaxwell & Associates

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9:15 am -
10:15 am
Keynote Reactor Panel
Fred Trotter
Chief Technical Architect
Harris County Health Information Cooperative


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Other Panelists TBD
10:15 am -
10:45 am
Refreshment Break in the Executive Networking Lounge
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10:45 am
Making the Business Case for Openness in Health IT Infrastructure
  • How collaboration on open-infrastructure could create new profitable markets for technology firms
  • Simultaneously advancing the interests of the federal, state and local communities for low-cost workable solutions
Moderator:
Judah Thornewill
Director, Center for Collaborative Communities
University of Louisville

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Panelists:
Neil Cowles
President and Chief Executive Officer
Tolven, Inc.

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Richard Golden
Open Source Strategist
InterComponentWare AG (ICW)

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David Hartzband, DSc
Founder and Principal, PostTechnical Research;
Research Scholar in Technology and Organizations, Engineering Systems Division, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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11:45 am -
11:50 am
Five Minute Transition Break
11:50 am -
12:30 pm
Improving Clinical Care and the Practice of Medicine through Open Access
  • The importance of scheduling in a clinic's business and service plans
  • Clinical value of appropriate scheduling and the rational steps to determining scheduling rules
  • Training keys for a clinical staff
  • The place of EHR in scheduling
Tom Landholt, MD
Medical Director
MassPRO

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12:30 pm -
1:30 pm
Executive Luncheon in the Executive Networking Lounge
1:30 pm -
2:30 pm
Combining Open Source Solutions with Advanced Emerging Technologies
  • Identifying the three core strategies that comprise a roadmap to the nationwide implementation of eHealth for all citizens by 2020; explaining the vision of the consumer-centric eHealth landscape
  • Analyzing marketplace expansion of the rapid growth of Open Solutions eHealth in government and the private sector worldwide
  • Illustrating the future of healthcare’s paradigm shifts by examining scenarios on health and medical technology time lines
  • Assessing next steps for tactics of leadership and open collaboration
Moderator:
Marc Wine
Co-Author, Medical Informatics 20/20: Quality and Electronic Health Records through Collaboration, Open Solutions, and Innovation
Charter Member, OpenHRE™ Community

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Panelists:
Houtan Aghili, PhD
Senior Technical Staff Member, Healthcare & Life Sciences
IBM Corporation

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Claudine Beron, PMP
Chief Operating Officer, Initiate Government Solutions;
Chairman, VistA Software Alliance;
Chairman, HIMSS Federal EHR Special Interest Group (SIG);
former Project Director, Accenture consortia, National Health Information Network (NHIN)

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Steven J. Steindel
Director, Standards and Vocabulary
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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2:30 pm -
3:00 pm
Refreshment Break in the Executive Networking Lounge
3:00 pm -
4:00 pm
Open HRE™ Presentation and Working HIE Demonstration
Health Information Exchange in Action! Collaboration, Open Solutions and Collective Innovation (COSI) Are Not Foreign Concepts
  • Witness the proof that COSI are mandatory attributes to embrace for achieving cost effective, secure, standards-based and sustainable health information exchange
  • See actual quality of care results from a statewide-deployed diabetes tracking and analysis system
  • Experience the clinical processes, use of patient consent documentation, and results displayed to clinicians participating in an active community health records exchange located in southern Louisiana
  • Understand why the value propositions of these two exchange efforts are unique – that there is no “singular model” for health information exchange
  • How to substantially mitigate technology costs and evolving policy concerns by leveraging proven, publicly available open source software (developed for the NHIN), and used by state and local exchanges nationwide
  • How legal, governance and technical costs were substantially mitigated through one simple act – collaboration
Moderator:
Joe Brisson
Vice President, Client Services
Browsersoft, Inc.

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Panelists:
Marti Macchi, M.Ed.
Director, Special Studies
Kansas Department of Health and Environment

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Rev. Craig Mathews
Executive Director
Bayou Teche Community Health Network (ByNet)

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Joe Panther
Executive Vice President, Browsersoft, Inc.
Charter Member, OpenHRE™ Community

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4:00 pm -
4:30 pm
Early Registration for 3rd Annual Leadership Summit on The Road to Interoperability
4:30 pm -
4:35 pm
5 Minute Transition Break
4:35 pm -
5:20 pm
Closing Keynote Address:
Open Source as the Rx for Healthcare IT: Answering the Key HIT Infrastructure Challenges of Reliability, Security, Interoperability and Economy
Dave Nesvisky
Senior Director of Healthcare
Red Hat

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5:20 pm
Chairman's Close of Summit
Judah Thornewill
Director, Center for Collaborative Communities
University of Louisville

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5:30 pm
Cocktail Reception in the Executive Networking Lounge
Early registrants for the Road to Interoperability Summit are welcome to attend
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