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Center for HealthTransformation

CHT Member Meeting

June 2009 Member Meeting

Health Reform & Health IT:  Politics, Policy, & Progress


Agenda & Speaker Biographies

Opening Remarks

Nancy Desmond, CEO, Center for Health Transformation 

Health Reform at the Doorstep

Senator Tom Daschle, Former Senate Majority Leader; Author, “CRITICAL: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis”

Newt Gingrich, Founder, Center for Health Transformation

Industry Perspectives on Health Reform
Moderated by: David Merritt, Vice President and National Policy Director, Center for Health Transformation


Health Information Technology and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: Driving Adoption and Interoperability

David Blumenthal, MD, MPP, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, Department of Health and Human Services

Introduction by: Peter Reuschel, CEO, InterComponentWare (ICW)


Adoption, Standards, & Certification:  A Post-Stimulus Update on Health IT Governance
 
Moderated by: Ben Say, Chief Information Officer, WorldDoc
  • Tom Fritz, CEO, Inland Northwest Health Services; Board of Directors, National eHealth Collaborative
  • John Halamka, MD, MS, Chief Information Officer, Harvard Medical School;
    Chair, Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel
  • Mark Leavitt, MD, PhD, Chairman, Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology

Saving Money and Improving Efficiency Through Adminstrative IT

Driving IT and Transparency:  Action in the States

Closing Remarks
Newt Gingrich, Founder, Center for Health Transformation