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38 healthcare IT News ■ May 2008 www.HealthcareITNews.com LOOKaHEaD May 15-18: SIIM 2008, Seattle. 17-24: TEPR 2008 Conference & Exhibition, Fort Lauderdale, Fla. 19-22: WEDI National Conference, Baltimore, Md. 29-31: AMIA Spring Congress, Phoenix. QUOTED Kenny Adler Arizona Community Physicians 16 Henry Albrecht Limeade 30 Susan Andrews Family Practice Partners 34 Sanjeev Arora Project ECHO 17 Bonnie Barnes DAISY Foundation 31 Justin Barnes Greenway Medical Technologies 4 Jill Becher Wellpoint 29 Sheri Poe Bernard American Academy Prof. Coders 5 Lew Borman BCBSNC 29 David Boucher BCBSSC 29 Julie Chicoine University Medical Center 5 R. Kerry Clark Cardinal Health 12 Charles Cutler Aetna 29 Patricia Darnley Centene Corp. 28 Lynette Dickson N.D. Rural Health Program 12 Carl Doty Forrester Research 28, 29 Lynn Dunbrack Health Industry Insights 28 Chad Eckes Cancer Treatment Centers 14 Robert Edsall Family Practice Management 16 Melissa Elder Kalorama Information 32 Lori English M.D. Anderson Cancer Center 11 Lorraine Fernandes Initiate Systems 28 Nathan Funk BCBS, Minnesota 28 Lisa Gallagher HIMSS 14 John Halamka HITSP 5 Klaus Hambuchen Siemens Medical Solutions 37 Leslie Hayes primary care physician 17 Robin Helm Medical College of Wisconsin 33 Marc Holland Health Industry Insights 6 Jamie Husher Lutheran Good Samaritan Society 13 Dan Icenogle physician, lawyer 11 Lisa Johnson Blue Cross Blue Shield Assn. 29 Nancy Johnson Health IT Now! 3 Julia Kendrick Ardent Health Services 11 Timothy Krupp Medford Medical Clinic 16 Brian Lapidus Kroll Fraud Solutions 14 Michael Leavitt HHS Secretary 4 Anne LeGrand Philips Healthcare 36 Mike Lubitz Humana 27 Wendy Mangin AHIMA 13 Jeff Margolis TriZetto 32 Bob Mau Medical Mutual 27 Rishabh Mehrotra SHPS 32 Marlene Miller Univ. of N.orth Dakota 12 Michael Miscoe professional coder 1 Sandy Olsen Medical College of Wsconsin 33 Michael O’Neil GetWellNetwork 30 Chad Peterson Deaconess Health Center 12 Jared Peterson KLAS Enterprises 34 Claude S. Poliakoff Medical IT Consulting 9 Chris Ryan SHPS 32 Marilyn Schaffner Medical Univ. of South Carolina 31 Donald G. Schoen MediNotes 36 Simeon Schwartz Westchester Medical Group 34 Nicole Sheffield Sheffield Pediatrics 35 Ethan Slavin Aetna 29 Mark Slitt Cigna 29 Gregory Spencer Crystal Run Healthcare 34 Barbara Spivak Mount Auburn Cambridge IPA 35 Arvind Subramanian Wolters Kluwer 19,33 L. Rinehart-Thompson Ohio State University 13 Praveen Toteja George Washington MFA 34 Janie Tremlett Concordant 33 Gary Tschautscher Nonin Medical 37 Glen Tullman Allscripts 9 Jack Varga EDS Electronic Health Record Ctr. 9 Henry A. Waxman U.S. Rep. (D-Calif) 3 Ken Whittemore SureScripts 8 Steve Wigginton Health Integrated 27 Adam Wright Partners HealthCare 4 David Wu U.S. Rep. (D-Oregon) 3 Gregory Young Pediatrics Physicians’ Org. 16 Donna Zimmerman Health Partners 27 JUNE 9-10 HIMSS Summit08 - Advancing Healthcare Leaadership through IT, Washington, D.C. 9-13 National Health IT Week, Washington, D.C. 11-12 HIT, EMR, PHR - Transforming Patient Care, Arlington, Va. 14-18 American Medical Association Annual Meeting, Chicago. 18-20 AHIP Institute 2008, San Francisco. 23-26 HFMA Annual National Institute, Las Vegas. 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 27 and April 22. For a list of the companies on the William Blair index, visit www.williamblair.com/WBHCIT. ●Connect: graphs 0508 e HealthcareITNews.com e ●Connect: lookahead 0508 HEaLTHcarE iT NEwsMONiTOr ONTHEMOVE MEDecision, a provider of collaborative health care management solutions, has named Tim Wallace interim president and chief operating officer and Andrew P. Schuyler, MD, executive vice president and chief medical officer. Austin, Texas-based eMDs has appointed Mark Delp chief information officer and senior vice president. Charlene Underwood, director of government and industry affairs for Siemens Medical Solutions Health Services, has been elected to serve on the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) board. dbMotion appointed healthcare veteran Peter A. McClennen as president, North America. He will oversee the company’s North American business and drive its continued growth. Trinity Health of Novi, Mich., has named Terry O’Rourke, MD, executive vice president and chief medical officer, effective June 2. John Danahy has joined the Medsphere Systems Corp., a commercial provider of Open Source electronic health record systems and serPeter A. vices. He will serve as vice president of sales. The Eliza Corporation has added McClennen Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan Management Review Distinguished Professor Michael A. Cusumano to the company’s board of directors. Despatch Industries, a global provider of thermal processing equipment to the energy, healthcare, electronics and materials markets, has hired Matthew J. Abbott as director of global sales operations. Robert Pritchard, former vice president of sales at RSA, has joined Venafi, a provider of systems management for encryption. He will serve as vice president of worldwide sales. Matthew J. Heart Health, Inc. has appointed Hyman Reisler, an experienced cardiologist, Abbott to its advisory board. The Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium has elected Edward Helton to the board of directors of the Health Information Technology Standards Panel. He is chief scientist in the Health and Life Sciences Practice at the SAS Institute and chairman of the board of directors of CDISC, which is the standards development organization that is represented on the HITSP Board. Jay Brummett, formerly a Microsoft Office Communications Server executive, has joined the M3 Technology Group as a senior consultant with M3TG’s unified communications team. Kelly A. Feist has joined Sunquest Information Systems as the company’s vice president of marketing. The GTESS Corp., a provider of software-as-a-service technology for the healthcare industry, has appointed James P. Bradley chairman and chief executive officer. He succeeds Deborah Gage. Herb Kuhn, a former hospital lobbyist and current CMS deputy administrator, has been named acting director of the Medicaid program. He replaces Dennis Smith, who is leaving CMS after seven years. Roger Schenke, founding executive vice president of the American College of Physician Executives, will retire, effective July 1. Terry Beck has joined Burlington, Mass.-based HealthEdge as senior vice president of sales. Joe D’Antonio, a senior manager for Soarian at Siemens, and Denise Dunyak, marketing manager for Soarian, were named members of the American Health Information Management Association’s (AHIMA) Action Community for e-HIM Excellence (ACE). Q Is the allscripts-Misys deal a good one for each company and for the market? 80% 60% 40% 20% 0% yEs NO To take future surveys, please subscribe to our e-newsletter, HealtHcareItNewsweek, or visit us daily on the Web at HealthcareITNews. com. e ● Connect: graphs 0508 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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