PRESS RELEASE:
LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER AT ADVANCED RATES FOR THE WEDI 2004 FALL CONFERENCE: BRIDGING ADMINISTRATIVE SIMPLIFICATION AND CLINICAL INTEGRATION, NOVEMBER 15-18, 2004, IN ATLANTA, GA

PRESS RELEASE
Contact: Kristin Becker Fetterman
Director of SNIP, WEDI
Phone: (703) 391-2714 phone
Email: kbecker@wedi.org
Website: www.wedi.org/wedi_fall04.html

RESTON VA USA -- HEALTHCARE UPDATE NEWS SERVICE(TM) -- NOVEMBER 4, 2004: The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI), www.WEDI.org, announced today that individuals must register Sunday, November 7, 2004 to take advantage of the Advanced Registration Rate for the WEDI Fall Conference.

PLENARY SESSION TOPICS:
  • Public Health Information Network (PHIN) Preparedness
  • Overview of the NHII/CHI/PITAC Initiatives
  • Medical Banking: The Future is Here
  • Clinical/Business Integration & Interoperability
  • Lessons Learned While Building a Digital Hospital: From Design to Implementation
  • Reporting: Unlocking Electronic Adoption
  • Security and the National Health Information Initiative
  • The State of Electronic Prescribing
  • What Can HIT Learn from TCS?
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
  • Nathan Colodney, Director, Office of HIPAA Standards, CMS
  • Lori Evans, Senior Advisor to David J. Brailer, MD, PhD, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, U.S. Department of Health and Human
  • John Loonsk, Associate Director for Informatics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Bill Braithwaite, Health Information Policy Consultant
  • Bob Beckley, Senior Vice President, Partner Relations & Product Strategy, SureScripts
  • Barbara Mayerick, Director of Business Development in the Chief Business Office, Veterans Health Administration
  • David Veillette, President and Chief Executive Officer, The Indiana Heart Hospital
  • Peter Basch, Medical Director, e-Health Initiatives, MedStar Health, and Physicians EHR Coalition
FEATURED FACULTY:
  • Margret Amatayakul, President, Margret\A Consulting
  • Holt Anderson, Executive Director, North Carolina Healthcare Information & Communications Alliance, Inc.
  • Don Bechtel, Privacy and HIPAA Compliance Officer, HDX
  • Joseph Belczyk, Manager, Electronic Commerce, Client Implementations, PNC Bank
  • Lesley Berkeyheiser, Principal and Founder, The Clayton Group, LLC
  • Joan Boyle, Privacy Officer and HIPAA Compliance Manager, The TriZetto Group, Inc
  • Mary Lynn Bushman, Project Coordinator, Empire Medicare Services, and Co-chair, X12 Claims Attachments Work group
  • Walt Culbertson, Principal, HealthTransactions
  • Andrea Danes, Senior Project Manager, Edifecs, Inc.
  • Georgia Dodds Foley, Vice President, Chief Compliance Officer, and Deputy General Counsel for Legal Affairs, Keystone Mercy Health Plan and AmeriHealth Mercy Health Plan
  • Larry Eighmy, Founder and President, The Halo Group, Inc.
  • Sheila Frank, External Standards Workgroups Liaison, Delta Dental Plans Association
  • Alan Goldberg, Attorney, Goulston & Storrs
  • Ed Hammond, Professor Emeritus Duke University
  • Carolyn Hartley, President & CEO Physicians HER, LLC
  • Barry Herrin, Partner, Smith Moore, LLP
  • Jeff James, Christie Clinic
  • Martin Jensen, Project Manager, St. John Health System
  • Ed Jones, FisaCure
  • Patrice Kuppe, HIPAA Project Manager, Allina Hospitals and Clinics
  • Rich Landen, Director of the National Electronic Standards Unit, Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association
  • Steve Lazarus, President and Co-Founder, Boundary Information Group
  • Janet Marchibroda, e-Health Initiative
  • Mark McLaughlin, Regulatory Policy Analyst, McKesson
  • Mark Norby, Associate Chair-Finance, Mayo Clinic
  • John Prince, J.P. Morgan Chase
  • John Reynolds, Wells Fargo
  • Sue Ryder, Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield
  • Gloria Steinberg, Senior Provider Relations Representative/eLearning Design & Development Specialist, Florida's Medicare Contractor
  • Debra Strickland, ERA Product Manager and Project Team Lead, Aetna
  • Jeffrey Troutman, PNC Bank
  • Mike Ubl, Director, HIPAA Program Office, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota
  • Maria Ward, Senior Associate, PWC's Healthcare Consulting Practice
  • Jim Whicker, Corporate Director of Electronic Commerce/EDI for the Accounts Receivables Division, Intermountain Health Care
  • Patricia Wise, HIMSS
  • Kepa Zubeldia, President and Chief Executive Officer, Claredi Corporation
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UPCOMING WEDI EVENTS:
  • WEDI 2004 Fall Conference, November 15-18, 2004, Renaissance Waverly Hotel, Atlanta, GA
  • 14th Annual WEDI National Conference, May 23-26, 2005, Hyatt Regency Baltimore on the Inner Harbor, Baltimore, MD
  • WEDI 2005 Fall Conference, November 14-17, 2005, Grand Hyatt Tampa, Tampa, FL