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Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Chairman:
Charles Parker - Speaker Photo Charles Parker
Executive Director
Continua Health Alliance

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12:55 pm -
1:45 pm
The CEO/CIO/CFO Partnership on Strategy and Technology
  • The role the CEO/CIO play in IT implementation and how it might change the future of health care delivery
  • Leadership perspective on Health IT as part of the comprehensive reform agenda
  • Best practices in IT implementation – understanding organizational business strategy and how technology can support it
John Glaser - Speaker Photo John Glaser, PhD
Vice President and CIO
Partners HealthCare

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  • From strategic planning to full implementation: What proof is needed to move the IT process forward.
  • WellPoint identifies key differentiators between EMR, individual health records and PHR
  • Pilots for ePrescribing to drive generics and other cost-effectiveness strategies
Lori Beer
Executive Vice President, Chief Information Officer
WellPoint, Inc.

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1:50 pm -
2:40 pm
eHealth 2.0: The Once and Future Health Care Information Revolution
  • Current and future trends of online patient communities to share health information and change patient behavior
  • How aggregated consumer information created an industry-side business models including clinical trial awareness and insights for pharma research and peer-based disease management for payers
  • Analysis on how patients are using data to improve quality of life
Benjamin Heywood
Co-Founder, President and Director
PatientsLikeMe

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  • Sermo's results to date to aggregate physicians online to accelerate the emergence of trends and new insights on medications, devices and treatments
  • Key insights that have developed through the online physician network and the feedback loop to inform future decisions and clinical guidelines
  • Future opportunities to use the wisdom of the crowds to improve and expedite the adoption of clinical best practice
  • On-Line physician communities – How do physicians communicate with one another in the online space
Adam Sharp, MD
Chief Medical Officer
Sermo, Inc.

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3:10 pm -
4:00 pm
Integrating IT and Medical Devices for Improved Clinical and Financial Outcomes
  • Innovations in patient safety and clinical care through the adoption of "plug-and-play" patient-centric medical device integration solutions
  • Progress toward demands for standardization among medical devices
  • Current progress of a consortium of providers to demand interoperable health IT and medical devices to improve patient safety
Julian M. Goldman, MD
Director, CIMIT Program on Interoperability and the MD PnP Program
Massachusetts General Hospital

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  • Underscoring the clinical need and patient safety risks of fully standardized medical devices
Jim Fackler, MD
Associate Professor, Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

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Dr. Douglas E. Rosendale, DO, FACOS
Director of Joint Interoperability Ventures
Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Office of Health Information (OHI)


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Wednesday, April 15, 2009
10:40 am -
11:30 am
Using IT to Drive Business Model Innovation
Part I. How IT Helped to Build BCBS of TN's System of Care Worthington
  • Competing for the future with innovative business models
  • Disruptive business models changed other industries, why not healthcare?
  • Creating a true "System-of-Care" through IT and a new business model framework
Robert E. Worthington
Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer
BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee

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Part II. Real-time Solutions for a Consumer Directed World
  • Innovative tools to help providers manage patient financial responsibility
  • Highmark's results to date on the benefits of offering real-time solutions and goodwill to the provider network
Augusta L. Kairys
Vice President, Provider Relations
Highmark Inc.

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Moderator:
Kendra Obrist
Vice President of Marketing
NaviNet, Inc.

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11:35 am -
12:20 pm
The Bleeding Edge of PHRs - Launching Portable Personal Health Records for Consumers
  • Microsoft Health Vault's current success in adoption by consumers and the health care community
  • Key challenges and opportunities to be addressed for functionality, interoperability and privacy
  • Software innovation with PHRs and the dramatic effect on improving health outcomes – To liberate health data, empower people - Healthcare professionals and consumers, and connect care
Grad Conn - Speaker Photo Grad Conn
Senior Director, Health Solutions Group
Microsoft Corporation

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Amy Rees Anderson
Chief Executive Officer
MediConnect Global, Inc.

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