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38 healthcare IT News ■ March 2008 www.HealthcareITNews.com LOOKAHEAD MARCH 19 - 21: 7th Annual Forum for Improving Children’s Health Care, Miami QUOTED Meredith Abreu Manhattan Research 19 John Aforismo RJ Health Systems International 30 Tom Ague St. Clair Hospital 35 Stan Ahalt Ohio Supercomputer Center 12 Richard Atkin Misys Healthcare 33 Jennifer Bailey Westshore Health Network 17 Jon Blasingame Philips Healthcare 5 Frank J. Brady Medical Missions for Children 11 Alan Bryden Int’l Org. for Standardization 4 Leigh Burchell Ctr. Community Health Leadership 31 Jeff Cash Mercy Medical Center 34 Dawn Cole Westshore Health Network 20 Delos Cosgrove Cleveland Clinic 13 Rob Cronin SureScripts 19 Josh Cutler Maine Quality Forum 18 Gary R. Davidson Hospital of Saint Raphael 33 Marcey DeLozier ENT of Georgia 34 Audrey Dickerson HIMSS - standards initiatives 4 Martha Dolan Philips Healthcare 31 John Driscoll Medco 17 R. Andrew Eckert Eclipsys 32 Daniel Fitzpatrick Partners HealthCare 32 John Fortney Adena Health System 12 William H. Frist former Senate Majority Leader 9 Sam Gibbs eHealth 28 Steven D. Grant United Physicians 20 Matthew Guldin Frost & Sullivan 29 John Halamka HITSP 4 C. Martin Harris Cleveland Clinic 13 Marc Holland Health Industry Insights 5 Sally Howell Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare 8 John Kerry U.S. Senator (D-Mass.) 3 Edward Kennedy U.S. Senator (D-Mass.) 3 Kate Kohn-Parrott Chrysler 20 Michael Krouse Ohio Health 34 CJ Kunnappilly San Mateo Medical Center 18 Michael Leavitt HHS 18 H. Stephen Lieber HIMSS 6 Bill McDonald St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital 13 Robert McGinley Plan Data Management 28 G. C. McMurray Community Health Network 5 Robert Mandel BCBSMA 30 Edward Markey U.S. Rep. (D-Mass.) 3 Michael Marks Indian River Consulting Group 35 Marissa Mayer Google Inc. 13 Oran Muduroglu Philips Healthcare 33 Ivo Nelson IBM 31 Sean Nolan Microsoft 31 Sean O’Mahoney Norton Healthcare 11 Robin Pajot Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta 3 Dan Pelino IBM Global Healthcare 33 Paul Ponstein Westshore Health Network 20 Jon Porter U.S. Rep. (R-Nev.) 8 Raul Ribeiro St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital13Lori Lori Roark Westshore Health Network 20 James Rakshys Wyoming Valley Healthcare 34 Kim Rucker Kaiser Permanente 28 Russ Rudish Deloitte, LLP 19 Susan Rust Columbus Regional Hospital 14 Tim Rutledge EPSi 32 John J. Ryan IADMD 29 Steve Shihadeh Microsoft Health Solutions Grpup 33 Joseph H. Schneider American Academy of Pediatrics 5 Tom Shubnell HIMSS Fellow 9 Dennis Sponer ScripNet 30 Erwin Schwarz OHSU 11 Don Trigg Cerner Corporation 6 Tevi Troy HHS 17, 18 Hub Vandervoort Progress Software 32 Steven Waldren AAFP Center for Health IT 5 Kerry Weems CMS 8 Philip Wells EMH 14 Steven Welty Nationwide Children’s Hospital 12 Sean W. Wieland Piper Jaffray 6 Andrew Widenthal Kaiser Permanente 11 Haley Wilson QualChoice of Arkansas 28 Bill Winsley Ohio Pharmacy Board 1, 19 Bruce Wray Computype 35 Janice Young Health Industry Insights 28 Bob Zink Socket Mobile 35 APRIL 06 - 08: ATA 2008, Atlanta 13 - 16: Compliance Institute, New Orleans 15 - 16: National Health Information Technology Summit, Houston 17 - 19: Nursing Informatics: Monuments and Milestones for the Future, Washington 21- 23: World Health Congress, Washington D.C. 28- 29: HITRUST Common Security Framework Summit, Irving, Texas. MAy 05- 06: 6th Transforming Healthcare Through Health Information Technology, Washington D.C. 15- 18: SIMM 2008, Seattle 17- 24: TEPR 2008 Conferene & Exhibition, Fort Lauderdale, Fla. More at Healthcare IT stocks The William Blair Health Care IT Index (WBHCIT), an equal-weighted basket comprising 31 HCIT stocks, has been created to capitalize on trends in the industry that include a heightened demand for clinical information systems. The index aims to capture the aggregate stock performance of the majority of industry participants focused on healthcare IT. The chart above shows healthcare IT stocks compared with the Nasdaq Index betweenFeb 11 and March 10. For a list of the companies on the William Blair index, visit www.williamblair.com/WBHCIT. ●Connect: graphs 0308 e HealthcareITNews.com e ●Connect: lookahead 0308 HEALTHCARE IT NEwsMONITOR ONTHEMOVE VeriChip Corporation has added Steven R. Foland to its board of directors. Lawson Software has expanded its human capital management leadership team with the appointment of Jennifer Langer as global director of HCM product management. Symbio Solutions, Inc., a provider of staffing for the healthcare industry, has promoted Joe Cole to chief information officer. Cole’s promotion comes on the heels of the retirement of Symbio’s chief technology officer, Bob Campbell. iLink Systems Inc, has hired Anand Gaddum as director of their Healthcare Practice. Medtronic, Inc. announced that its board of directors unanimously voted to elect Victor Dzau, MD., chancellor for Health Affairs at Duke University and president and CEO of the Duke University Health System, to the board as an independent director. PharmaCentra, has added Philip Luby to its leadership team. OneOncology Inc., has promoted Matthew McBride to director of information and technology. Dairyland Healthcare Solutions has appointed healthcare IT veteran Carl Witonsky to its board of directors, effective immediately. Connectyx Technologies, Inc. has added three significant members to its management team. Al Forcella has been added as vice president of business development, Kevin Krumm Larry Fagan has been added as director of sales and Lisa Merkow has been added as director of marketing. Minnetonix Inc. announced that Kevin Krumm has joined the company as chief financial officer. The addition of Krumm will allow Minnetronix co-founder and former CFO, Jon Pierce, to focus solely on his role as chief .operating officer. Simtrol, Inc., a device management software company, announced that Lee D. Wilder has joined its board of directors. Medication Management Systems has appointed Nathan J. Schultz, Pharm.D. Girish T. Hagan to the newly created executive position of president and chief operating officer. Deborah A. Williams has joined the Premier healthcare alliance as senior director of supplier diversity. Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc., announced that Girish T. Hagan has been named vice president, marketing, to increase Toshiba’s marketing capabilities and expertise in the diagnostic imaging marketplace. The board of directors of Magellan Health Services named René Lerer, MD, president and chief executive officer, effective immediately. Lerer succeeds Steven J. Shulman, who will continue to serve as non-executive chairman of the board. Additional executive appointments include Eric S. Reimer who will lead the company’s strategic development and mergers and acquisitions effort, and Tina M. Blasi, who has joined the company as CEO of National Imaging Associates, succeeding Reimer. Aspyra, Inc., announced that Jim Zierick has joined the company as interim chief executive officer. CEO and chairman Roger Girard has left IsoRay. Replacing Girard as chairman and interim CEO is Dwight Babcock, who has been a member of the company’s board of directors. The company also announced that board member Robert Kauffman has accepted a position as vice chairman, and vice president of marketing. Lori Woods will be acting chief operating officer. Q has president Bush and his administration done enough to promote the uptake of healthcare It? 80% 60% 40% 20% 0% 82% 18% yEs NO See full story on Page 5. To take future surveys, please subscribe to our e-newsletter, HealtHcareItNewsweek, or visit us daily on the Web at HealthcareITNews.com. e ● Connect: graphs 0308 HEALTHCARE IT NEWS (ISSN 1547-3139) is published monthly by MedTech Publishing Company, 71 Pineland Drive, Suite 203, New Gloucester, ME 04260. Phone: 207-688-6270; FAX: 207-688-6273. Periodicals postage paid at New Gloucester, ME and additional mailing offices. Qualified subscribers receive HEALTHCARE IT NEWS free of charge. 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