Healthcare IT News - April 2009 - (Page 70) 70 healthcare IT News ■ April 2009 www.HealthcareITNews.com lOOKAHeAD April 4-8 – Annual HIMSS Conference and Exhibition, Chicago. 14-16 – 6th Annual World Health Care Congress, Washington. 20-23 – 18th Annual WEDI National Conference, Atlanta. 22-23 – California’s Ninth Annual National Information Management Conference & Exposition, Garden Grove, Calif. 22-23 – Health 2.0 Meets Ix, Boston. 24-28 – 2009 Annual Meeting of American College of Physician Executives, Chicago. 26-28 – 14th Annual American Telemedicine Association Meeting and Exposition, Las Vegas. 1900 1800 1700 1600 1500 12 13 17 18 19 20 23 24 25 26 27 3/ 2 3/ 3 3/ 4 3/ 5 3/ 6 3/ 9 3/ 10 3/ 11 3/ 12 3/ 13 2/ 2/ 2/ 2/ 2/ 2/ 2/ 2/ 2/ 2/ 2/ 1600 1500 1400 1300 HeAltHcAre it newsMOnitOr Q 80% 60% 40% 20% Is the injection of $19 billion for healthcare IT likely to create jobs? 201 Total Responses 1200 79% MAy 10-13 – CIO Healthcare Summit, Scottsdale, Ariz. 12-15 – CardTech/SecureTech Conference and Exhibition, Orlando, Fla. June 2-4 – SOA in Healthcare Conference: Value in a Time of Change, Chicago. 4-7 – 2009 SIIM Annual Meeting, Charlotte, N.C. 14-16 – The X3 Summit ’09, San Francisco. More at 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.Feb. 12 and March.13. For a list of the companies on the William Blair index, visit www.williamblair.com/WBHCIT. ●Connect: graphs 0409 e Healthcare IT stocks 0% yes 21% nO To take future surveys, subscribe to our enewsletter, HealthcareITNewsWeek, or visit us daily on the Web at HealthcareITNews.com. 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All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Diskriter Inc. has appointed Patricia Trela, to fill the newly created position of director, HIM Rehabilitation Services. Catholic Health Initiatives has named Michael O’Rourke, as senior vice president, chief information officer. MedAvant Healthcare Solutions has appointed Jim Brady as executive chairman. Medical Management Michael O’ Professionals, Inc. has hired Joe Degati as its new Rourke chief technology officer. Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council has named executive director Tom Hopcroft as president and CEO. Hopcroft succeeds Joyce Plotkin, who has served as Council president, and as president of the predecessor Massachusetts Software Council, for more than 22 years, overseeing the organization’s emergence as the leading representative of the state’s technology industry. PolyRemedy, Inc., has hired Jeffrey S. Jones to serve as its chief operating officer. IO Informatics, Inc. has added new members to its Working Group on Informatics for Personalized Medicine. Joining the group are Kathy Gibson, Uwe Christians, Herb Fritsche and Dan Crowther. VHA Inc., the national healthcare alliance, has promoted Nik Fincher to Patricia Trela vice president of purchased services and capital asset sales. Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, has welcomed Carolyn Kenny into her new role as executive vice president, Clinical Care. Royal Philips Electronics will appoint Christine A. Susan DeVore On tHe MOVe Poon effective March 27, 2009, and Jeroen van der Veer effective July 1, 2009, and will reappoint James J. Schiro as members of the supervisory board. Wong Ngit Liong has expressed his wish to relinquish his position as a member of the Supervisory Board as per March 27, 2009. CommonHealth has named Chris Andrews as chief information officer. CardioComm Solutions, Inc. has received the unsolicited resignation of Dirk Hagge, one of the company’s non-executive directors. The resignation is effective immediately. Pharmacy OneSource has named Tim Gibbons to serve as chief executive officer and president board of directors. ClaimTrust Inc., has added two executives to its management team: Jay Roche as vice president of sales, and Jeff Bailey as the vice president of client services. Richard C. Howe, has joined Healthcare Informatics Associates, an InfoLogix company, as vice president of Business Development, and Shirley Hughes has been appointed to the post of vice president of Healthcare Consulting. Jeffrey Rideout, MD, has joined Certify Data Systems, Inc., as chief strategy officer.The Premier healthcare alliance board of directors has appointed John Knox, executive vice president and chief Nik Fincher administrative officer at Carolinas HealthCare System to Premier’s Group Purchasing and Member Relations Committee. IMS Health has elected Bradley T. Sheares, as a director of its board effective April 21, 2009. SunTech Medical, Inc., Chris Andews has promoted Rod Thomson to director of Sales, Finished Goods - The Americas, and Kenneth Andersen to director of Marketing. MMR Information Systems, Inc., has selected Gene Barduson, to build the company’s professional healthcare IT customer base. Velos, Inc., a provider of clinical trials management information systems, has appointed William Broucek to the position of senior director, Professional Services. Randall Spratt has joined Green Networks board of directors. Frank Bonsal Jr. has joined New Markets Venture Partners as a special partner. Ruben Jose Joe Degati King-Shaw Jr. has joined the KineMatikTM Group LTD’s board of directors. Premier has appointed Susan DeVore, president and chief executive officer effective July 1, upon the retirement of current president and CEO Rick Norling. Kofax has appointed James Hendrickson, as its vice president of Technical Services. Beacon Partners has made the addition of Russell Branzell, as vice president. Janet Marchibroda, who has served as chief executive of the eHealth Initiative since its founding in 2001, is moving to IBM to take a position as chief Janet healthcare officer. 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