HIT Symposium at MIT Offers in Depth Executive Education Program on EHR, HIE and RHIOs

The Stata Center at MIT

The Charles River from MIT

The MIT Museum

PRESS RELEASE: Health Information Technology Symposium at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Offers in Depth Executive Education Program on National HIT Policy, Electronic Health Records, Health Information Exchange and Regional Health Information Organizations

The Only in Depth Executive Education Event on Health Information Technology in the United States
Sponsored by Health Affairs in conjunction with the MIT Center for Biomedical Innovation and Center for eBusiness
Features Special Preconference session on Pay for Performance and Health Information Technology
Features Detailed Presentations of Markle Foundation's Connecting for Health Common Framework and eHealth Initiative's Connecting Communities Tool Kit
Tours of MIT Campus, Charles River Sunset Cruise (limited availability) or Play MIT Sloan Business School Beer Game (limited availability)
Symposium Sessions Held at MIT's Stata Center for Computer, Information and Intelligence Sciences
Opening Reception at the MIT Museum
July 17 - 20, 2006, Cambridge Marriott, Cambridge, MA
www.HITSymposium.com

PRESS CONTACT
Phone: 800-684-4549
Email: registration@.com
Website: www.HITSymposium.com

CAMBRIDGE, MA USA -- HEALTHCARE UPDATE NEWS SERVICE(TM) -- APRIL 7, 2006: The Health Information Technology Symposium at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, www.HITSymposium.com, is the only in depth executive education event on health information technology in the United States. The HIT Symposium will bring together leading technologists; federal state and local officials and regulators; academic and foundation experts; employer and health plan representatives, healthcare provider, including hospital leaders and physicians; community leaders; and technology vendors. The HIT Symposium will address a range of issues from national HIT policy to practical approaches to RHIO formation and EHR implementation.

SPONSORED BY

In Association with

of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

FEATURING THE FOLLOWING SPECIAL SESSIONS:

Pay for Performance and Health Information Technology
HIE/RHIO Implementation Tools: The Markle Foundation's Connecting for Health Common Framework
HIE/RHIO Implementation Tools: The eHealth Initiative's Connecting Communities Tool Kit
Electronic Health Records: Overview, Acquisition and Implementation
Roadmap to E-Prescribing and CPOE Implementation
Successful HIT/RHIO Case Studies
The International Perspective: What We can Learn from the Experience of Other Countries

SPECIAL RATE OFFERED FOR GROUP REGISTRATIONS BY REPRESENTATIVES OF INSTITUTES OR COMMUNITIES REGISTERING TOGETHER:

To take advantage of the special group discount the following apply:

Applications must be completed on the Symposium downloadable form
Registration forms must be submitted together either via fax (760-418-8084) or mail to HIT Symposium Office, 7790 Barberry Avenue, Yucca Valley, CA 92284.

FEATURED FACULTY:
Masanori Akiyama, MD Visiting Professor, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Director, Medical Informatics / Internal Medicine, International Medical Center of Japan, Tokyo, Japan Margret Amatayakul, MBA, CPEHR, CPHIT, RHIA, CHPS, FHIMSS President, Margret\A Consulting, LLC, Clinical Associate Professor, University of Illinois, Adjunct Faculty, College of St. Scholastica, Schaumburg, IL Mark R. Anderson, CPHIMS, FHIMSS Healthcare IT Futurist and Chief Executive Officer, AC Group, Inc., Montgomery, TX Geoffrey B. Baker Chief Executive Officer and President, Med-Vantage, Inc., San Francisco, CA Douglas Bell, MD Senior Natural Scientist, RAND, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Santa Monica, CA A. John Blair, MD President and Chief Executive Officer, Taconic IPA, Inc., Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, MedAllies, Wappingers Falls, NY David J. Brailer, MD, Ph.D. (Invited) National HIT Coordinator, Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC William R. Braithwaite, MD, Ph.D. "Doctor HIPAA", Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, eHealth Initiative Former Senior Advisor on Health Information Policy, Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC Paul Browne Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Trinity Health, Novi, MI Molly Joel Coye, MD, MPH Founder and President, Health Technology Center, Former Director, California Department of Health Services, Former New Jersey Commissioner of Health, San Francisco, CA Carol Diamond, MD, MPH Managing Director of the Health Program, The Markle Foundation and Chair, Connecting for Health, New York, NY Jessica DiLorenzo Project Leader, Health Care Initiatives, General Electric, Schenectady, NY Mary Jo Flynn Director, Audit Services, Allina Hospitals & Clinics, Minneapolis, MN Maria Friedman, DBA Senior Adviser, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Baltimore, MD Mark Frisse, MD, MBA, MSc Director, Regional Health Initiatives, Vanderbilt Center for Better Health, Nashville, TN Robert S. Galvin, MD, MBA Director, Global Healthcare, General Electric Company, Founding Member, The Leap Frog Group, Vice Chair, Washington Business Group on Health, Fairfield, CT Daniel T. Garrett Vice President and Managing Partner, Global Health Solutions, Computer Sciences Corporation, Berwyn, PA Newt Gingrich (Invited) Former Speaker, United States House of Representatives, Founder, Center for Health Transformation, Washington, DC John Glaser, Ph.D. Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Partners Healthcare System, Boston, MA Alan S. Goldberg, JD, LLM Partner, Goulston & Storrs, Adjunct Professor of Law, Suffolk University and University of Maryland, Past President and Fellow, American Health Lawyers Association and Moderator, AHLA HIT listserv, Washington, DC Janlori Goldman Director, Health Privacy Project, Research Scholar, Center on Medicine as a Profession, Columbia College of Physicians & Surgeons, New York, NY Richard Granger Director General, Information Technology, National Health Service, London, United Kingdom Peter Grant, JD, Ph.D. Partner and Co-Chair, Health Law Group, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, Seattle, WA Andrew S. Grove (Invited) Senior Advisor to Executive Management and Former Chairman of the Board, Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA Lori L. Hack, MBA Interim Chief Executive Officer, CalRHIO, San Francisco, CA John Halamka Chief Information Officer, CareGroup Healthcare System and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA Amy Helwig, MD Medical Director, Clinical Strategy and Policy, eHealth Initiative and Foundation, Washington, DC Eugene Hill, MBA SV Life Sciences, Board Member, Synarc, Cadent, Interplan Health, Patient Care, Medifacts and US Renal Care, Boston, MA Richard Hillestad, Ph.D. Senior Management Scientist and Head of the Management Sciences Group, RAND, Santa Monica, CA Gerald M. Hinkley, Esq. Partner, Davis Wright Tremaine, San Francisco, CA LeRoy Jones Program Manager, Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP), American National Standards Institute, New York, NY Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) United States House of Representatives , Washington, DC David Kibbe, MD, MBA Director, Center for Health Information Technology, American Academy of Family Physicians, Chapel Hill, NC Charles Kennedy, MD Vice President, Clinical Informatics, WellPoint, Inc., Woodland Hills, CA	Shannah Koss Director, Health Information Technology Practice, Avalere Health, Washington, DC Gilad J. Kuperman MD, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, Director of Quality Informatics, New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY Steven S. Lazarus, Ph.D., CPEHR, CPHIT, FHIMSS President, Boundary Information Group, Past Chair, WEDI, Former Executive, Medical Group Management Association, Denver, CO Mark Leavitt, MD, Ph.D. Chair, Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology, Chicago, IL Janet Marchibroda Chief Executive Officer, eHealth Initiative and Executive Director, Foundation for eHealth Initiative and Connecting for Health Washington, DC Dave Matheson Senior Vice President, Boston Consulting Group, Boston, MA Blackford Middleton, MD, MPH, MSc Director of Clinical Informatics Research & Development, Partners HealthCare and Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA Robert Miller, Ph.D. Professor of Health Economics, Institute for Health and Aging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA Julie Vaughan Murchinson, MBA Co-founder and Principal, Object Health, San Francisco, CA Ivo Nelson Healthcare Industry Leader, Global and Americas, IBM, Former Chief Executive Officer, Healthlink, White Plains, NY William D. O'Leary Director of Health and Human Services, Microsoft Corporation, U.S. Public Sector, Redmond, WA J. Marc Overhage, MD, PhD, FACP, FACMI President and Chief Executive Officer, Indiana Health Information Exchange, Associate Professor of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Senior Investigator, Regenstrief Institute, Indianapolis, IN Herbert Pardes, MD President and Chief Executive Officer, New York-Presbyterian Hospital and Healthcare System, Vice President for Health Sciences for Columbia University and Dean, Faculty of Medicine, Columbia's College of Physicians & Surgeons, Chairman of Columbia's Department of Psychiatry, New York, NY Jonathan B. Perlin, MD, Ph.D., MSHA, FACP Under Secretary for Health, Veterans Health Administration, Washington, DC Eric Poon, MD Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Associate Physician, Division of General Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA Michael E. Porter, MBA, Ph.D. (Invited) Bishop William Lawrence University Professor, Harvard Business School, Cambridge, MA Michael Samuhel, Ph.D. Senior Research Statistician, RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC Daniel Z. Sands, MD, MPH, FACP, FACMI Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Faculty, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Associate in Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA Sarah H. Scholle, Dr. PH Assistant Vice President for Research and Analysis, National Committee on Quality Assurance, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Washington, DC Edward H. Shortliffe, MD, Ph.D. Rolf H. Scholdager Professor and Chair, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Professor of Medicine, Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University, New York, NY Steven R. Simon, MD, MPH Assistant Professor, Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, MA Professor Peter Swire, Esq. John Glenn Scholar in Public Policy Research, Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University, Of Counsel, Morrison & Foerster and Former Chief Counselor, Office of Management & Budget, Office of the President of the United States, Columbus, OH Peter Szolovits, Ph.D. Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Professor of Health Sciences and Technology, Harvard/MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology and Head of the Clinical Decision-Making Group, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA Paul C. Tang, MD Chief Medical Officer, Palo Alto Medical Foundation, Foundation Chair-Elect, AMIA Chair, Committee on Data Standards for Patient Safety, Institute of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA Micky Tripathi, Ph.D. President and Chief Executive Officer, Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative, Boston, MA David Verrill Executive Director, Center for eBusiness, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA C. Peter Waegemann Chief Executive Officer, Medical Records Institute, Boston, MA James Walker, MD Chief Medical Information Officer, Geisinger Health System, Danville, PA Scott Wallace, JD, MBA Chair, Commission on Systemic Interoperability, President and Chief Executive Officer, The National Alliance for Health Information Technology, Chicago, IL Marcy Wilder, Esq. Partner, Hogan & Hartson LLP, Washington, DC Scott Young, MD Director for Health Information Technology, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD Hugh Zettel Director, Government and Industry Relations, GE Healthcare Integrated IT Solutions, Director, EHR-VA Association, Waukesha, WI
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