WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- The Health Information Technology Summit (HIT Summit), October 20 - 23, 2004, in Washington, DC, http://www.hitsummit.com/ , is sponsored by the eHealth Initiative, http://www.ehealthinitiative.org/ , and a variety of co-sponsors, including AHRQ, CDC, HRSA and the Office of the National Health Information Technology Coordinator, and co chaired by David Brailer, MD, Ph.D., National HIT Coordinator and Richard Granger, Director General, Information Technology, UK National Health Service. The HIT Summit is the leading forum on the electronic health record and rapidly emerging health information technology policy ... both nationally and globally.
The Summit features a faculty of 150 national experts and regulators and over 50 sessions in the following tracks: Physicians & Physician Organizations; Hospitals & Health Systems; Health Plans; Employers & Business Coalitions; Community-Based Collaborations; Public Health; and Pharma, Biotech & Devices. Plenary sessions focus on the role of health information technology in transforming Medicare and Medicaid, improving healthcare quality and patient safety, and responding to bioterrorism. A special session will focus on a global view: the experiences of other nations in implementing an electronic health record and developing a national health information infrastructure.
NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL KEYNOTE FACULTY:
Keynote faculty include Carolyn Clancy, MD, Director, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; Carol Diamond, MD, MPH, Managing Director of the Health Program, The Markle Foundation; John Glaser, Ph.D., Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Partners Healthcare System; Jeff Goldsmith, Ph.D., President of Health Futures; Jonathan C. Javitt, MD, MPH Chair, Health Subcommittee, President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee; John Lumpkin, MD, MPH, Chair, National Committee for Vital and Health Statistics; Janet Marchibroda, Chief Executive Officer eHealth Initiative; Mark B. McClellan, MD, PhD, Administrator, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; Peggy O’Kane, President, National Committee for Quality Assurance; Herbert Pardes, MD, Chief Executive Officer, New York Presbyterian Hospitals and, Chairman, eHealth Initiative; Leonard D. Schaeffer, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, WellPoint Health Networks and John Tooker, MD, MBA, Chief Executive Officer, American College of Physicians.
The HIT Summit exhibit hall will feature poster board presentations by many of the leading community-based experiments in health information technology in the United
States and will cover practical issues in hit implementation and funding. Special preconference sessions will analyze HIT legal issues and HIT capital, reimbursement and payment Incentives, ROI and a view from Wall Street.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION:
For sponsorship and exhibit information contact Joni Lipson, Exhibit Manager, 215-599-6626 phone, 215-545-8107 fax, joni.lipson@rmpinc.com . For registration information, go to http://www.hitsummit.com/ , call 800-684-4549, or email registration@hcconferences.com.
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CONTACT: Joni Lipson, Exhibit Manager of HC Conferences,+1-215-599-6626, or fax, +1-215-545-8107, or joni.lipson@rmpinc.com
