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38 healthcare IT News ■ June 2008 www.HealthcareITNews.com lOOKAHEAD JUNE 9-10 HIMSS Summit08 - Advancing Healthcare Leadership 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. QUOTED Scot Adelman Kaiser Permanente 34 Tammy Arnold Aetna 27 Graham Barnes Concerro 32 Karen M. Bell ONC 6 Kim Belshe California HHS Agency 13 Mary Helen Bowen St. Dominic Hospital 14 Mark Boxer WellPoint 27 William Bria Shriners Hospitals for Children 9 Ben Brown KLAS 34 Jennifer Brull Prairie Star Family Practice 18 James Burgess Dairyland 13 Dawn Burris TriZetto 35 Ed Cantwell InnerWireless 15 Frank Clark Medical Univ. of South Carolina 15 Jane Coates St. Dominic Hospital 14 Tim Cromwell Veterans Health Affairs 3 Kate Cros Universal Health Services 9 David C. Dale American College of Physicians 17 Mike Danielson Indian Health Service 3 Amelia Davis CrossRodge Community Hospital 8 Paul DeBeasi Birton Group 27 Mary Jo Deering National Cancer Institute 3 Jocelyn DeWitt Univ. of Michigan Health System 13 Joan R. Duke HIMSS Fellow 9 Lynn Dunbrack Health Industry Insights 28 Craig Fleishman Arnold Palmer Medical Center 34 Jeffrey Goddard The Doctors Clinic 17, 19 Reed Gelzer Advocates for Documentation Integrity and Compliance 9 Matthew Haddad Medservant 32 Elizabeth Hart Pegasystems 35 Brenda Harvey Maine Depart of HHS 28 Tom Herrin St. Dominic Hospital 14 Barry Hieb Gartner Inc. 4 Michael Hodgkins NaviMedix 28 Howard Hoffman MedQuist 31 Jane Horowitz National Alliance for HIT 6 Karen Ignagni AHIP 1 Chris Kolber Hospira 31 Michael Leavitt HHS 1 Twila Lee Heart Specialists of Ohio 34 Joel S. Levine ACP Board of Regents 18 Gregg Malkary Spyglass Consulting 27 Kevin J. Martin FCC 19 Dave Mason RelayHealth 31 Marissa Mayer Google Inc. 3 Jan McCoy Cape Canaveral Hospital 32 George McCulloch Vanderbilt Univ. Medical Center 15 Jane Metzger First Consulting Group 14 Michael Miscoe Amer. Academy Professional Coders.. 35 Tom Morrison NaviMedix 27 Kelly Neal The Washington Hospital 35 James Oakes HIMSS Fellow 9 Maggie O’Hara IVANS 35 William Phillips Univ. Health System, San Antonio 13 Rich Pollack Va. Commonwealth Univ. Health 15 Marty Prahl Social Security Administration 3 Melissa Reffel Qwest Communications 19 Vish Sankaran ONC 3 Mary Scanlon WellPoint 27 Eric Schmidt Google Inc. 3 Ray Shealy HTP 31 Salil Shinde Pegasystems 35 Kim Slocum KDS Consulting 8 Steve Steffenson AITG 3 Chris Tilden Kansas Office of Rural Health 18 Tevi Troy U.S. Dept of HHS 19 Fran Turisco First Consulting Group 14 Kate Watson Kansas Diabetes Program 18 Albert Waxman Psilos Grooup 27 Jamie Welch Louisiana Rural Hospital Coalition 13 JUly 13-17 23rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Chicago 16-19 18th Annual Summer Institute for Nursing Informatics, Baltimore 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 April 22 and May 23. For a list of the companies on the William Blair index, visit www.williamblair.com/WBHCIT. ●Connect: graphs 0608 e HealthcareITNews.com e ●Connect: lookahead 0608 HEAlTHcArE iT NEwsMONiTOr ONTHEMOVE Center for Diagnostic Imaging appointed Timothy Heady to its board of directors.Simtrol, Inc., a developer of device management software, named Oliver M. Cooper III, president and chief executive officer. He is also expected to be appointed to the Simtrol board of directors.Tenon Consulting Solutions, Inc. announced that Craig L. Urbauer has joined Tenon Consulting as a director. Urbauer will lead Tenon’s growing efforts in forming and implementing healthcare-oriented public/private emergency management solutions. Mark Strauss has joined WorkflowOne as vice president of business development for SAP. THINK FIRST, a healthcare solutions provider, appointed Brenda Falls as vice president, professional services. Falls assumes responsibility for the on-time and on-budget delivery of products and services for THINK FIRST clients Mark Strauss nationwide. TriZetto Group Inc. Chief Financial Officer Bob Barbieri has left the company for personal reasons. TriZetto named Carl Long to the post of corporate controller, to the principal accounting officer post. The Patient Centered Primary Care Collaborative has named John Agwunobi, MD, senior vice president and president of health and wellness for Wal-Mart, and David Nace, MD, vice president and chief medical officer at McKesson Health Craig L. Urbauer Solutions, as co-chairmen of its Center for eHealth Information Adoption and Exchange. In that capacity, Agwunobi and Nace will lead more than 30 center members representing business, insurers, consumers and primary care organizations in the effort to promote the broad adoption of health information technology in private practice and among community practitioners. MRO Corp. has appointed Stephen Hynes to the position of interim CEO. He succeeds Jerry Baker, who is leaving MRO. Fletcher Allen Health Care named Charles Podesta as CIO. Podesta will oversee the implementation of an electronic health records systems from Epic Systems Corp. John Bennett Jr., MD, will become president and chief executive officer of Capital District Physicians’ Health Plan, Albany, N.Y., a physician-founded health plan with more than 400,000 members. Long Term Care Group has hired Paul Kay as senior vice president of information technology and CIO. Brian Nairn, CEO of Elsevier Health Sciences, is retiring from the company. Michael Hansen, the former CEO of Harcourt Assessment Inc., has been appointed to succeed Nairn. MediVoice has appointed Edward J. Zecchini as its chief operating officer and chief technology officer. Eclipsys named John T. Casey, chairman, Medcath Corp., and Craig Macnab, chief Brenda Falls executive officer and a member of the board of directors of National Retail Properties, to the Eclipsys board of directors. ikaSystems, a provider of Web-based software solutions for the managed care enterprise, appointed Robert S. London, MD, to the position of general manager. Q Will information technology help your organization prepare for the upcoming Medicare review? 80% 60% 40% 20% 0% 71% 29% yEs NO See full story on page 8. To take future surveys, please subscribe to our e-newsletter, HealtHcareItNewsweek, or visit us daily on the Web at HealthcareITNews.com. 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. Nonqualified subscribers in the U.S. are charged $72/ year. Canadian subscriptions $96/year. Foreign subscriptions $150/year, includes airmail delivery. Single copy, $8. POSTMASTER: Please send address changes to HEALTHCARE IT NEWS, P.O. Box 9369, Lowell, MA 01853. ©2008 by MedTech Publishing Company. 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. www.HealthcareITNews.com HealthcareITNews.com www.williamblair.com/WBHCIT HealthcareITNews.com

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