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The World Congress 7th Annual World Healthcare Innovation and Technology Congress (WHIT v.7.0)

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Health Affairs is pleased to be a media partner for the World Congress 7th Annual World Healthcare Innovation and Technology Congress (WHIT) on November 7-8 in Vienna, Virginia.

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Webcast access: This Forum was webcasted, so people unable to attend could watch from the comfort of their office. Watch the presentations with the audio and slides now for $495
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Package deal: Receive webcast access, a flash drive and the DVD for $695.!

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Featuring 4 Speakers from InformationWeek's Healthcare CIO 25: Leaders Behind the Healthcare IT Revolution

	Rebecca Armato Executive Director, Physician and Interoperability Services, Huntington Memorial Hospital; Commissioner, Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT)

	Neil Calman President and Chief Executive Officer The Institute for Family Health

	Paul C. Tang, MD Chief Medical Information Officer, Palo Alto Medical Foundation; Vice-Chair, DHHS, Health IT Policy Committee

Marc Probst
Vice President and Chief Information Officer
Intermountain Healthcare

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The 7^th Annual World Healthcare Innovation & Technology Congress

Top Learnings for Providers

Leverage technology for PCMH and ACO success
Implement an effective mHealth strategy to improve outcomes and cost
Gather, access and analyze data for population health
Change behavior with effective consumer engagement tools and tactics
Develop and implement and infrastructure for secure, transparent data exchange

Top Learnings for Payers

Implement a multi-touch, multi-channel approach to consumer engagement
Leverage technology and data analytics to optimize care coordination
Implement an effective mHealth strategy that shows results
Integrate and analyze data for population health
Utilize data to manage costs, improve efficiency and support strategic imperatives

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Health Plans

	Cindy Bjorkquist Director Wellness, Care Management, and Health Promotion Program Development and Consulting Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan

	Donald R. Fischer, MD, MBA Senior Vice President of Health Affairs, Chief Medical Officer Highmark Inc.

	Bruce J. Goodman Senior Vice President, Chief Service and Information Officer Humana

	Craig N. Hankins Consumerism Lead, Product & Innovation UnitedHealthcare

	Jamie P. Kelley Senor Director, Product & Innovation UnitedHealthcare

	Jay Levine Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota

	Don Lewis Vice President and Chief Technology Officer Group Health Cooperative

	Zachary J. Meyer Vice President of Wellness and Prevention Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota; President & CEO, Invitation Health and Wellness, Inc.

	Tena T. Roberson Deputy General Counsel and Chief Privacy Officer, Legal, Governance and Privacy BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee

	Charles E. Saunders, MD President, Strategic Diversification Aetna

	Neal S. Sofian, MSPH Director, Member Engagement Premera Blue Cross

	William G. Stuart Product Specialist Harvard Pilgrim Health Care No. 1 Commercial Health Plan in America for the fifth consecutive year

Hospital/Health System

	Madhulika Agarwal, MD, MPH Deputy Under Secretary for Health for Policy and Services Department of Veterans Affairs

	Rebecca Armato Executive Director, Physician and Interoperability Services, Huntington Memorial Hospital; Commissioner, Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT)

	Peter Basch, MD, FACP Medical Director, Ambulatory EHR and Health IT Policy MedStar Health

	Lyle Berkowitz, MD Medical Director, IT & Innovation Northwestern Memorial Physicians Group; Founder Szollosi Healthcare Innovation Program

	Neil Calman President and Chief Executive Officer, The Institute for Family Health

	Jack Cochran, MD, FACS Executive Director The Permanente Federation, Kaiser Permanente

	Gaurov Dayal, MD Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer Adventist HealthCare, Inc.

	Charles DeShazer, MD Vice President of Medical Informatics and Transformation Dean Health System

	Jamie Ferguson Vice President, Health I.T. Strategy and Policy Kaiser Permanente

	Cynthia Galbincea Executive Director of Marketing Communications Cleveland Clinic

	Indranil Ganguly, CHCIO, FHIMSS Vice President and Chief Information Officer Centrastate Medical Center

	Robert K. Kritzler, MD Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Care Management, Johns Hopkins Healthcare LLC; Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University

	Joseph C. Kvedar, MD Founder and Director Center for Connected Health

	Ken Letkeman Chief Information Officer Marshfield Clinic

	Arumani Manisundaram Director of Connected Health ACES Program / CareEx HIE Adventist HealthCare, Inc.

	Bruce Metz, PhD Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Lahey Clinic

	James E. Ratliff, MD Virginia Urology

	Molly Reyna Executive Director, Telehealth Services, Videoconferencing Children’s National Medical Center

	Paul C. Tang, MD Chief Medical Information Officer, Palo Alto Medical Foundation; Vice-Chair, DHHS, Health IT Policy Committee

	Gretchen Tegethoff, MSIST, CPHIMS Chief Information Officer The George Washington University Hospital

	Karl J. Ulrich, MD President and Chief Executive Officer Marshfield Clinic

	Karen Van Wagner, PhD Chief Executive Officer North Texas Specialty Physicians

	Brian Wells FHIMSS, Associate Chief Information Officer, University of Pennsylvania Health System

Association/Government/ HIEs

	Scott Afzal Program Director CRISP

	Karen Bell, MD, MMS Chair Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT) (tentative confirmation)

	Kate Berry Chief Executive Officer National eHealth Collaborative (NeHC)

	Aman Bhandari Office of the Chief Technology Officer, Senior Advisor U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

	Jennifer Covich Bordenick Chief Executive Officer eHealth Initiative

	Margaret Gerteis, PhD Senior Researcher Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.

	Tina Olson Grande Senior Vice President, Policy Healthcare Leadership Council

	Maggie Gunter, PhD President and Executive Director LCF Research

	Michael B. Matthews Chief Executive Officer, MedVirginia; Chair, NHIN Coordinating Committee

	Todd Park Chief Technology Officer U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

	Joy Pritts, JD Chief Privacy Officer U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Office of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology

	Karthik Shyam Research Associate American Institutes for Research

	Wil Yu Special Assistant of Innovations and Research Office of the National Coordinator (ONC)

Other Thought Leaders

	Diane Bartoli Vice President, Product Development Elsevier Health Sciences

	Susan Dentzer Editor-in-Chief *Health Affairs*

	Vivian Funkhouser Principal, Global Healthcare Solutions Motorola Solutions, Inc.

	Paul Grundy, MD, MPH, FACOEM, FACPM Global Director of Healthcare Transformation IBM President Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative Member, IBM Industrial Academy

	Mark Hays Chief Technology Officer Commonwealth Medicine

	Matthew Holt Co-Chairman, Health 2.0 Founder and Author, *The Health Care Blog*

	Niraj Katwala Chief Technical Offer Healthline Networks, Inc.

	John Ormond Director, Data Warehouse and Analytic Technology Enterprise Information Technology Group Commonwealth Medicine

	Michael Plumb Director, Strategic Services - Healthcare Kony Solutions; Former Senior Director, Strategy and Capability Development, Consumer Health Solutions Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida

	Todd Rothenhaus, MD, FACEP Chief Medical Information Officer athenahealth

	Roy Schoenberg, MD, MPH President and Chief Executive Officer American Well Systems

	Jennifer M. Sweeney Director, Americans for Quality Health Care National Partnership for Women & Families

	Lauren Thompson, PhD Director, Federal Health Architecture Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology

	Peter Tippett, MD, PhD Vice President, Connected Healthcare Solutions Verizon

	Jim White Vice President, Connected Hospitals Alcatel-Lucent

	Ben C. Wilson Director, Global Healthcare Strategy Intel

	Jon Zimmerman Senior Vice President & General Manager, Clinical Solutions Availity, LLC

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"The WHIT conference is a unique opportunity to meet experts from all over the country who are working to improve healthcare through innovative technology efforts. I definitely plan to attend next year. It's a great opportunity to connect with and learn from the leaders in the field."
Tina Olson Grande, Senior Vice President, Policy, Health Care Leadership Council

"The sessions were valuable to anyone at any level that is trying to get their hands around HIT in the age of Meaningful Use and preparing for health care reform. WHIT brought together a rare combination of stakeholders, experts, vendors and provided exceptional networking opportunities."
Bill Beighe, Chief Information Officer, Physicians Medical Group of Santa Cruz and Santa Cruz Health Information Exchange

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