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38 healthcare IT News ■ April 2008 www.HealthcareITNews.com LOOKAHEAD APRIL 13 - 16: Compliance Institute, New Orleans 15 - 16: National Health Information Technology Summit, Houston 17 - 19: Nursing Informatics: Monuments and Milestones for the Future, San Francisco 21 - 23: The 5th Annual World Health Congress, Washington D.C. 28 - 29: HITRUST Common Security Framework Summit, Irving, Texas. QUOTED Craig W. Anderson Ohio State Medical Association 17 James Anderson Great Plains Regional Med. Ctr. 12 Joe Anthony IBM 31 Chris Apgar Apgar and Associates 14 Douglas Arnold Middlesex Professional Services 19 Michael Barr American College of Physicians 8 Jay Bernhardt Centers for Disease Control 3 Jean Chenoweth Thomson Healthcare 11 Carolyn M. Clancy AHRQ 11 Richard Cohan Logical Images 20 Louis Cornacchia Doctations 31 Jennifer Cornelius Affiliated Computer Services 28 Daniel Corsetti IDC 34 Bob Curci Panasonic 37 Jeffery Daigrepont Coker Group 20 Nancy Dickey iHealth Alliance 19 Tammy Dills Angel Medical Center 34 Steven Defossez North Shore Magnetic Imaging Ctr .33 Lynne Dunbrack Health Industry Insights 30 Steven Erde NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital 34 Mark French Ochsner Health System 13 Mark Ganz Regence 28 Vito Grasso New York AAFP 18 Harry Greenspun Northrop Grumman 4 Paul Handel Health Care Service Corp. 19 Robert Hardesty Hardesty & Associates 6 Keith Hepp HealthBridge 4 Kent Jeffery physician, Wabasha. Minn. 6 William F. Jessee MGMA 8 Rachel Kim Javelin Strategy and Research 11 John Kitchen Datawatch Corp. 9 Stephen Klasko USF College of Medicine 17 E.K. Koh Encentuate 33 Marianne LaBarbera family practicioner 18 Mike Lawrie Misys Plc 1 Luis Machuca Kryptiq 28 Robert J. Manning Phoneix MedCom 32 Leslie Margolin Blue Cross of California 28 Trudi Matthews HealthBridge 6 Matthew Michela Care Management International 35 Tom Morrison NaviMedix 30 Tara Mondock IVANS 35 Elizabeth Messina BCBSAZ 29 George Oestrich MO HealthNet 28 Daniel Onion Maine Dartmouth Family Medicine..20 Deborah Peel Patient Privacy Rights 3, 8 Jeff Pelot Denver Health 34 Anthony Sanzo Teletracking Technologies 9 Curt Selquist NAHIT 3,5 Sue Shade Brigham & Women’s Hospital 34 Troy Simon Midwest Comm. Health Associates .20 Kim Slocum KDS Consulting 6 Nicholas M. Tarricone Doctations 32 Jonathan M. Teich Brigham & Women’s Hospital 11 Don Thomas SoftLight Development 35 Corey Tobin William Blair & Company 32 John Tooker American College of Physicians 17 Glen Tullmann Allscripts 1 C. Peter Waegemann Medical Records Institute 31 Bryan L. Walser Perlegen Sciences 8 Peter White Dictaphone 33 Tom White Dictaphone 33 Sheldon Whitehouse U.S. Senator (D-R.I.) 3 Sean Wieland Piper Jaffray 32 Janet Woodcock U.S. Food and Drug Administration .19 Mark Woodring Myrtue Medical Center 11 Joyce Young Health Industry Insights 29 MAy 05 - 06: 6th Transforming Healthcare Through Health Information Technology, Atlanta 15 - 18: SIMM 2008, Washington 17 - 24: TEPR 2008 Conferene & Exhibition, Fort Lauderdale, Fla. 19 - 22: AMIA Spring Congress, Baltimore 29 - 31: HIT, EMR, PHR - Transforming Patient Care, Phoenix HealthcareITNews.com e ●Connect: lookahead 0408 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 between March 10 and March 27. For a list of the companies on the William Blair index, visit www.williamblair.com/WBHCIT. ●Connect: graphs 0408 e HEALTHcARE IT NEwsMONITOR ONTHEMOVE Time Domain Corporation, announced that Siemens vetera Paul Reitmeier has joined the company as CEO, Reitmeier will lead the company’s growth in commercial applications for its UWB and dual-mode precision RTLS solutions in the healthcare, manufacturing and retail markets. The Worcester-based Fallon Clinic has appointed family physician Jack M. Dutzar, MD, as its new president and CEO. He takes over for Stephen Pezzella, MD, who has been the practice’s acting president since 2006. Pezzella will continue to serve Fallon as chairman of its board of trustees. URAC announced the appointment of Joann Genovich-Richards, to serve as the organization’s first vice president of research and measurement. NextNine announced that Tomer Bogin has joined the company as chief operations officer and Nimrod Reichenberg as vice president of marketing. Phase Forward a provider of data management solutions for clinical trials and drug safety, has appointed Russell J. Campanello as senior vice president, human resources and administration. Patni Computer Systems, a global IT services provider has appointed former Hewlett-Packard executive, Jennifer Mann Robert Rando as the company’s new vice president of sales in the Product Engineering Services practice. Aethlon Medical, Inc., has appointed Cynthia A. Bond to the new position of director of investor relations. ewCardio, Inc., a cardiac diagnostic and services company, announced that Mark W. Kroll, a pioneer in the field of electrical medical devices, has been elected chairman of NewCardio’s board of directors. SAS has appointed Jennifer Mann to vice president of human resources. CipherLab, which provides automated identification and data capture technology announced that industry Leslie Mesh veteran Leslie Mesh has been promoted to senior vice president of CipherLab Americas and will directly oversee its operations and management. Telemedicus, Inc. has added Russell Wade Hohlt, MD, to its scientific advisory board. Hohlt joins David Mueller as the second member named to the panel. Universal Hospital Services, Inc., has named three healthcare veterans to its board, Mark M. McKenna, Barry P. Schochet and David Crane. Michael House has joined Greencastle Consulting as a senior project manage- Michael House ment consultant. House will be based in the New York Metropolitan area. Unibased Systems Architecture, Inc.’s founder and Chairman Barry M. Rundquist is retiring for personal reasons after 22 years. Rundquist will remain on the board of directors and retain his ownership position. The Breakaway Group has added five healthcare leaders to its advisory board, Howard Block, Greg Brophy, Robert A. Frist Jr., John Markus and William A. Spooner. Northrop Grumman appointed George Peach Taylor Jr., MD, vice president for the Information Technology sector’s Health and Human Services division. Qualis Health has promoted Marci Weis, to the newly established role of chief operating officer. Q does healthcare It play a prominent enough role in the 2008 presidential candidates’ plans for transforming healthcare? 80% 60% 40% 20% 0% 61% 39% NO yEs See full story on Page 6. To take future surveys, please subscribe to our e-newsletter, HealtHcareItNewsweek, or visit us daily on the Web at HealthcareITNews.com. e ● Connect: graphs 0408 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. 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