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Cornerstones for Electronic Healthcare - NHII Conference July 20 - July 23, 2004

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Agenda and Presentations

* All available presentations have been posted
"pre-meeting" draft papers and other reference materials
Tuesday
July 20, 2004
7 :00 pm - 8 : 30 pm
NHII Tutorial

William A. Yasnoff, MD, PhD, FACMI, Senior Advisor for Health Informatics, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), Department of Health and Human Services

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Wednesday
July 21, 2004
Secretarial Summit on Health Information Technology  
Tommy G. Thompson: Secretary of Health & Human Services 				Opening Session: Decade of Health Information Technology

The Honorable Tommy G. Thompson
Secretary of Health & Human Services 

Press Release

Full Speech

9:25 am – 9:45 am Keynote: Strategic Framework for Widespread Health Information Technology Adoption

David J. Brailer, MD, PhD, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONCHIT), Department of Health & Human Services

 
9:45 am – 10:00 am The Honorable Bill Frist, MD, United States Senate Majority  
10:00 pm - 11:15 pm Reactor Panel – Federal Departments & Agency Heads

Mark McClellan, MD, Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Department of Health & Human Services
Elias A. Zerhouni, MD, Director, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Health & Human Services
Julie L. Gerberding, MD, Director, Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Department of Health & Human Services
Carolyn Clancy, MD, Director, Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ), Department of Health & Human Services
Lester M. Crawford, DVM, PhD, Acting Commissioner, Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Department of Health & Human Services
Elizabeth M. Duke, PhD, Director, Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA), Department of Health & Human Services
Charles G. Curie, MA, ACSW, Administrator, Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Department of Health & Human Services
Elias A. Zerhouni, MD, Director, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Health & Human Services
Charles W. Grim, DDS, MHSA., Assistant Surgeon General, Director, Indian Health Service (IHS), Department of Health & Human Services
William Winkenwerder, Jr., MD, MBA, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, Department of Defense (DoD)
Jonathan B. Perlin, MD, PhD, MSHA, FACP, Acting Under Secretary for Health, Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)
Stephen Benowitz, Associate Director, Division of Human Resources, Products and Services, Office of Personnel Management (OPM)

 
11:30 am - 1:15 pm Speaker (Lunch)

David Koopman, healthcare consumer, “An Insider in HIT Becomes a Patient Without It”
Congresswoman Nancy L. Johnson, Chairwoman of the Ways and Means Health Subcommittee
HRSA – Community Contract Announcements:
Elizabeth M. Duke, PhD, Director, Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA), Department of Health & Human Services
Janet Marchibroda, Chief Executive Officer, eHealth Initiative

 
1:15 pm - 1:30 pm Speaker : Introductory Remarks
John Chambers, President & CEO, Cisco Systems, Inc.
 
1:30 pm – 3:00 pm Reactor Panel – Private Industry

Technology & Innovation: 1:30 pm – 2:00 pm

John H. Hammergren, Chairman & CEO, McKesson Corporation Neal Patterson, Chairman & CEO, Cerner Corporation 
Daniel T. Garrett, Vice President and Managing Partner of Global Health Solutions, Computer Sciences Corporation
Neil de Crescenzo, Partner & Healthcare Industry Leader, Global and Americas, IBM Business Consulting Services (BCS), IBM Don Woodlock, General Manager, Ambulatory and Acute Care Businesses, GE Healthcare Information Technologies

Financing & Shared Investment:

Purchaser Perspective: 2:00 pm – 2:30 pm   
Abby Block, Deputy Associate Director, Center for Employee & Family Support Policy, Office for Personnel Management, U.S. Federal Government
Suzanne Delbanco, PhD, Executive Director, The LeapFrog Group
Arnie Milstein,M.D., Medical Director, Pacific Business Group on Health (PBGH)
Helen Darling, President, National Business Group on Health (NBGH)
Andrew Webber, President & CEO, National Business Coalition on Health (NBCH)

Payer Perspective: 2:30 pm – 3:00 pm 
Reed Tuckson, MD, Senior Vice President, Consumer Health & Medical Care Advancement, United Health Group
Cleve Killingsworth, MPH, President &COO, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts
Scott Serota, President and CEO, Blue Cross Blue Shield Association
George Isham, MD, MS, Medical Director and Chief Health Officer, HealthPartners, Inc., Minnesota

 
3:30 pm – 5:15 pm Reactor Panel – Private Industry (continued)

Clinical Leadership: 3:30 pm – 4:00 pm
J. James Rohack, MD, Chair of the Board of Trustees, American Medical Association (AMA)  
John Tooker, M.D., MBA, FACP, Executive Vice President & CEO, American College of Physicians (ACP) 
Douglas E. Henley, MD, Executive Vice President, American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)

Consumer Empowerment: 4:00 pm – 4:30 pm
David Lansky, PhD, President, Foundation for Accountability (FACCT)
William D. Novelli, CEO & John Rother, Director, Policy & Strategy, American Association for Retired Persons (AARP)

Private – Public Collaborative: Connecting for Health – A Roadmap for Achieving Electronic Connection in Healthcare:
4:30 pm – 4:45 pm
Carol C. Diamond, MD, MPH, Managing Director, Healthcare Program, Markle Foundation
John Glaser, PhD, Vice President & CIO, HealthCare Partners System

Unifying the Industry: 4:45 pm – 5:15 pm
Scott Wallace, President & CEO, The National Alliance for Health Information Technology (NAHIT)
Linda Kloss, Executive Vice President and CEO, American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA)
H. Stephen Lieber, CAE, Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)
Charles Safran, MD, President, American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)
Edward D. Jones, III, Chairman, Board of Directors, Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI)

 
5:15 pm – 5:30 pm Speaker :
Newt Gingrich, Founder of The Center for Health Transformation
 
Thursday
July 22, 2004
NHII 04: Cornerstones for Electronic Healthcare
(the agenda included working breakout sessions throughout the day; these working sessions in their time slots are not shown)
 
10:00 am - 11:00 am Plenary I: Community Buy-in & Implementation for Local Health Information Infrastructures and the Business Case for Information Exchange and Interoperability (3 presentations)  
Community Buy-in (a Local Health Information Infrastructure)
Sam Karp, Director, Health Information Technology of the California HealthCare Foundation (CHCF)
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Implementation (a Local Health Information Infrastructure)
Clement J. McDonald, MD, Director, Regenstrief Institute, Regenstrief Professor of Medical Informatics, Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine
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Business Case (Value of Healthcare Information Exchange and Interoperability)
Blackford Middleton, MD, MPH, MSc, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Clinical Informatics Research and Development, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Partners HealthCare System
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1:15 pm – 2:45 pm Plenary II: Stakeholder Breakout Reports (10 presentations  
1 Healthcare Provider Group (combined presentation from 3 groups)
(reporters: Peter Basch, MD, Medical Director, MedStar Health; Carol Bickford, PhD, RN, ANA; Jody Pettit, MD, Medical Director, Arial; InterHospital Physicians Association)
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2 Researcher Group A
(reporter: J. Michael Fitzmaurice, PhD, Senior Science Advisor for IT, AHRQ)
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3 Researcher Group B
(reporter: Patricia Abbott, PhD, RN, Director, WHO/PAHO Collaborating Center for Informatics, Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University)
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4 Healthcare Organizations & Long Term Care
(combined presentation from 3 groups)
(reporters: John D. Halamka, MD, CIO, Harvard Medical School, CIO, CareGroup; Holt Anderson, Executive Director, NCHICA; Suniti Ponkshe, President, Ponkshe Consulting Group)
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5 Public Health
(combined presentation from 2 groups)
(reporters: Martin LaVenture, PhD, MPH, Public Health Informatics Advisor and Manager, Bureau of Health Protection, MN Department of Health; Mary Shaffran, Senior Director, Informatics Policy, ASTHO)
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6 System Developers Group A
(leader/reporter: Daniel Z. Sands, MD, MPH, Director of EPR and Communications, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center)
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7 System Developers Group B
(reporter: Thomas Ricciardi, PhD, Manager, Clinical Data Services, GE Healthcare)
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8 System Developers Group C
(reporters: Thomas M. Leary, Director, Federal Affairs, HIMSS)
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9 Payers, Employers & Health Plans (combined presentation from 2 groups)
(reporters: Ned McCulloch, Governmental Programs Executive, IBM; Francois de Brantes, Program Leader, Healthcare Initiatives, GE)
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10 Consumers (1 group)
(reporter: Linda F. Golodner, President, National Consumers League)
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6:30 pm – 7:00 pm Initial Report of the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC): Revolutionizing Health Care through Information Technology
Jonathan Javitts, MD, MPH, Member, PITAC,  Senior Fellow, Potomac Institute for Policy Studies
 
7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Special Interest Groups: (3 individual topics)  
1 Community of Practice for Local Health Information Infrastructures (4 presentations)  
William A. Yasnoff, MD, PhD, FACMI, Senior Advisor for Health Informatics PPT
Amy Zimmerman, MPH, Chief, Office of Children's Preventive Services, Rhode Island Department of Health PPT
Karen L. Spencer, EdD, Purposeful Development Associates PPT
Janet M. Marchibroda, Chief Executive Officer, eHealth Initiative, Executive Director, Foundation for eHealth Initiative, Executive Director, Connecting for Health PPT
2 Community of Interest for the Bio-Pharmaceutical Industry  
Community of Interest for Patient Identifiers (2 presentations)  
Soloman I. Appavu, Director Systems Planning and
John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County & Cook County Bureau of Health Services
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3 John D . Halamka, MD, CIO, Harvard Medical School, CIO, CareGroup PPT
Friday
July 23, 2004
8:00 am – 12:00 pm
Combined NCVHS Hearing and NHII 04 Conference (9 presentations)  
1 Personal Health (combined presentation from 2 groups)
(reporters: Marc Boutin, JD, Vice President, Policy Development and Advocacy, National Health Council; Suzanne Bakken, DNSc, RN, Alumni Professor of Nursing & Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University)
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2 Governance
(combined presentation from 2 groups)
(reporters: Laura Adams, MS, President, CEO, Rhode Island Quality Institute; Richard Marks, JD, Patient Command, Inc.)
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3 Incentives (combined presentation from 2 groups)
(reporters: Susan M. Christensen, Director, BearingPoint; Mark Frisse, MD, MBA, MSc, Director, Regional Informatics Programs
Professor Vanderbilt University
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4 Standards and Architecture (combined presentation from 4 groups)
(reporters: Christopher Chute, MD, DrPH, Professor and Chair, Biomedical Informatics, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine; Robert Jenders, M.D., M.S., FACP, Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine, Department of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center & University of California, Los Angeles; Marc Overhage, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Senior Scientist, Regenstrief Institute; Charles Parisot, Manager, Standards and Architecture, Enterprise Systems Solutions, GE Healthcare
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5 Confidentiality, Ethics, Privacy and Access Group A
(reporter: Suniti Ponkshe, President, Ponkshe Consulting Group)
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6 Confidentiality, Ethics, Privacy and Access Group B
(reporter: Paul T. Smith, Partner, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP)
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7 Measuring Progress (aka Metrics) (1 group)
(reporter: Rainu Kaushal, MD, MPH, Cornell University, Harvard Medical School, Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital
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8 Clinical Research (combined presentation from 2 groups)
(reporters: Joyce Niland, PhD, Chair and Professor, Information Sciences, City of Hope National Medical Center; Elaine R. Rubin, PhD, Vice President for Program and Communications, Association of Academic Health Centers
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9 Population Health (1 group)
(reporters: E. Andrew Balas, MD, PhD, Dean and Professor, School of Public Health, Saint Louis University; Martin LaVenture, PhD, MPH, Public Health Informatics Advisor and Manager, Bureau of Health Protection, MN Department of Health
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