HIT Summit West Features Regional Health Information Organization (RHIO) Leaders from Around the Nation

• A Leading Forum on the Electronic Health Records and Rapidly Emerging Health Information Technology Policy...both Globally and Nationally
• March 6 - 8, 2005
• San Francisco Hyatt Regency, San Francisco, CA
• www.HITSummit.com

WASHINGTON DC USA -- JANUARY 24, 2005: The Health Information Technology Summit West, sponsored by the eHealth Initiative, www.eHealthInitiative.org, March 6 - 8, 2005, in San Francisco, CA today announced that it will feature Regional Health Information Organization (RHIO) leaders from around the nation.

On Monday, March 7, the HIT Summit West will feature the following two hour special session on the development, organization and operation of a RHIO, featuring the following faculty:

• Academic Medical Center: Robert E. Chason, EdD, Chief Executive Officer, University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA
• Consumer/Patient: David Lansky, Ph.D., Director, Health Program, The Markle Foundation and Former President, Foundation for Accountability (FACCT), New York, NY
• Employer:, Arnold Milstein, MD, MPH, Mercer Human Resource Consulting, Medical Director, Pacific Business Group on Health and Co-Founder, Leapfrog Group, San Francisco, CA
• Government/Medicaid: Elinor Hall, Health Policy and Management Consultant, Former Oregon Health Commissioner, Portland, OR
• Government/Medicare: Jeff Flick, Regional Administrator, San Francisco Regional Office, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, San Francisco, CA
• Health Plan (Commercial): Sam W. Ho, MD, Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, PacifiCare Health Systems, Cypress, CA
• IPA: Steve McDermott, Chief Executive Officer, Hill Physicians Medical Group, San Ramon, CA
• Medical Group: Robert J. Margolis, MD, Managing Partner and Chief Executive Officer, Healthcare Partners Medical Group, Torrance, CA
• Solo and Small Group Practice: Nileen Verbeten, MBA, MSW, Vice President, Economic Services, California Medical Association, San Francisco, CA
• Technology Company: Jeff Rideout, MD, MA, Vice President, Internet Business Solutions Group, Healthcare Practice, Cisco Systems and Former Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President, Blue Shield of California, San Jose, CA
• Facilitator: Molly Joel Coye, MD, MPH, Founder and President, Health Technology Center, Former Director, California Department of Health Services and Former New Jersey Commissioner of Health, San Francisco, CA (Co chair/Session Facilitator)
• RHIO Project Staff: Jeffrey W. Rose, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, HealthAlliant, Former Founder and President and Chief Operating Officer, NovaCare, Inc., Piedmont, CA
• Academic Advisor: Alain C. Enthoven, Ph.D., Marriner S. Eccles Professor of Public and Private Management, Emeritus, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
• Consultant: Kevin Fickenscher, MD, National Director for Clinical Transformation & Partner, Clinical Transformation, CSC Global Healthcare Group, San Francisco, CA
• Legal Counsel: Paul T. Smith, Esq., Partner and Co-chair, HIT/HIPAA Task Force, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, San Francisco, CA

• RHIO Case Studies: Principles for Moving Forward, featuring Mark Frisse, MD, MBA, MSc, Director, Regional Health Initiatives, Vanderbilt Center for Better Health; David W. Kaplan, MD, MPH, Professor Pediatrics and Head, Adolescent Medicine, and University Colorado School of Medicine Chief Medical Information Officer, The Children's Hospital; Matt Madison, Project Manager, Colorado Health Information Exchange; and J. Marc Overhage, MD, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer, Indiana Health Information Exchange.
• Lessons Learned from State and Regional Health Information Organizations: Organizational, Technical and Financial Aspects featuring Sam Karp, Chief Information Officer, California HealthCare Foundation
• NHIN and RHIOs: Getting Started - Organizing Models for Regional Health Information Organizations featuring William Bernstein, Esq., Manatt, Phelps & Phillips
• Implementing RHIOs: Roadmap and Methodology for Maximizing Benefits of Interoperability featuring Bruno Nardone, Solutions Manager, IBM and George Eisenberger, Manager Solutions Architecture, IBM
• Leveraging Payer-Owned Data to Jumpstart Fledgling LHII/RHIO Ventures featuring David St. Clair, Founder and CIO, MEDecision, Inc.
• RHIO Legal Issues: Legal Structure and Tax Status featuring Gerald M. Hinkley, Esq., Partner, Davis Wright Tremaine
• How to Build Local Coalitions to Implement the National Health Information Infrastructure featuring W. Holt Anderson, Executive Director, North Carolina Healthcare Information and Communications Alliance, Inc. and Victor Plavner, MD, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Maryland/DC Collaborative for Healthcare Information Technology
• Building a Regional Clinical Data Repository: Lessons Learned featuring Don Crane, Chief Executive Officer, California Association of Physician Groups and Neil A. Solomon, MD, President, NAS Consulting
• Strategic Information Technologies for RHIOs featuring Lorraine Fernandes, RHIA, Senior Vice President of Healthcare Practice, Initiate Systems, Inc. and Deborah Kohn, MPH, RHIA, CHE, CPHIMS, FHIMSS, Principal, Dak Systems Consulting
• Regional Health Information Organization Case Study: Santa Barbara Country Care Data Exchange featuring Mike Skinner, Board of Directors, Santa Barbara Regional Health Authority
• Connecting Healthcare Stakeholders through HIT and Health Information Exchange: the Inland Health Story featuring Jac C. Davies, Director of Program Development, Inland Health Northwest Health Services

For sponsorship and exhibit information contact Joni Lipson, Exhibit Manager, 215-599-6626 phone, 215-545-8107 fax, joni.lipson@rmpinc.com.

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