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38 Healthcare IT News August 2007 ■ www.HealthcareITNews.com LOOKAHEAD AUgUsT 19 - 22: Meeting on Health Care Quality and Medical Errors, Cambridge, Mass. 21 - 22: MS-HUG Tech Forum 2007, Redmond, Wash. 22 - 22: Health Identification Card Forum, Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange, Fairfax, Va. 23 - 24: WEDI Health Savings Account Forum, Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange, Fairfax, Va. QUOTED Peter Andersen Lockheed Martin 7 Scott Blau Datacap 37 Caroline Blaum Michigan geriatrician 20 Bonnie Bordeaux Allscripts 19 Ben Bowling Coffee Health Group 37 John Breaux Health IT Now! 5 Jeneane Brian Misys Healthcare 33 Dawn Burriss The TriZetto Group 37 George W. Bush U.S. President 8 Paul Bzresinski Live Data 15 John Campbell Spaulding Rehab. Hospital 34 Jack Canter BCBSSC 29 John Capobianco MEDecision 11 Arthur Carlos Destiny Health 29 Gene Cattarina LYNX Medical Systems 34 Raimonda Clark Bayshore Community Hospital 15 William Cox Children’s Health Associates 18 Todd Cozzens Picis, Inc. 34 Vern Davenport Misys Healthcare 32 Lynn Dunbrack Health Industry Insights 31 Gregory Farnum Vermont Info. Technology Leaders 29 Rick Ford UCSD Medical Center 32 Mohit Ghose AHIP 1 Malcolm Gladwell The New Yorker 5 Keith Hagen QuadraMed 33 John Halamka HITSP 6,7 Eran Heyman Ericom 19 Joseph Heyman American Medical Association 20 Ryan Howard Practice Fusion 32 Susan Jamback Joslin Diabetes Center 18 Marty Jensen WEDI 17 Barry L. Johnson Healthcare Insight 37 Doug Johnston CITL 8 John Kansky Indiana Health Info. Exchange 11 Ed Lpschka Community Health Network 17 Mary Beth Lang Amerinet 37 Steve Larose VITL 31 Mike Lawrie Misys Healthcare 33 Michael Leavitt U.S. Dept. Health/Human Services 5 Nattie Leger Ochsner Health System 15 Chris Levan BCBS of Tennessee 30 Chris McFadden Goldman, Sachs & Co. 34 Jeremy Meller The Marshfield Clinic 20 Mark Merritt PCMA 20 Blackford Middleton CITL 8 Dennis Moore U.S. Congress, D-Kansas 5 Zach Mortensen MediServe 32 Carlos Numez Picis 17 Mary Oakes OCS, Inc. 33 Eric Paternoster Infosys 30 Anne Phelps Health IT Now! 5 Theodore Praxel The Marshfield Clinic 20 Billy Quarles BCBSSC 29 Wes Rishel Gartner 36 Lindsay Shannon Cerner 6 Jennifer Sharp Parkland Hospital 15 Lindsay Shearer Cigna HealthCare 29 Jean Slutsky AHRQ 6 David Smith PSS World Medical 32 David St. Clair MEDecision 11 John Sternbergh BCBSNC 30 Suzanne Stewart Aurora Healthcare 16 Mike Tressler Healthia Consulting 11 Nick Ulmer Family Healthcare Center 19 Steven Waldren Amer. Acad. of Family Physicians 18 Jamie Welch Louisiana Rural Hospital Colaition 1 Todd Weller Stifel Nicholaus 36 Walter M. Whitehouse Jr .St. Joseph Mercey Hospital 15 Janice Young Health Industry Insights 30 Raymond P. Zambuto Technology in Medicine, Inc 7 sEpTEmbEr 06 - 08: Pediatric Telemedicine Meeting, San Francisco. 13 - 14: Northwest Medical Informatics Symposium, Inland Northwest Health Services, Spokane, Wash. 16 - 21: 21st Plenary and Working Group Meeting, Health Level Seven, Atlanta 23 - 26: NCHICA 13TH Annual Conference, North Carolina Healthcare Information and Communications Alliance, Asheville, N.C. 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 June 18 and July 20. For a list of the companies on the William Blair index, visit www.williamblair.com/WBHCIT. ●Connect: grapHs 0807 e HealthcareITNews.com e ●Connect: lookaHead 0807 ONTHEmOVE Jason Mitchell, MD, has been named by the American Academy of Family Physicians as assistant director of its Center for Health Information Technology. C. Thomas Smith has joined Advanced ICU Care’s board of directors. Gary J. Strong has joined Allina Hospitals & Clinics as chief administrative officer. Andrew Weintraub has been named chief development officer by the Keystone Peer Review Organization, Inc. Scott R. Silverman has resigned as chairman of Applied Digital’s board of directors. Michael E. Krawitz, Applied Digital’s chief executive officer, has assumed Silverman’s place on the company’s board, and Daniel E. Penni, an Applied Digital board member, has become chairman. James Eppel, Jr. was named vice president of network management for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota. Claudia Tessier, the Medical Records Institute’s vice president, has been honored by the AHDI (Association for Health Data Integrity), formerly AAMT (American Association for Medical Transcription), as the recipient of its 2007 Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award. Patrick Hughes, following ClinPhone’s DataLabs acquisition, has been appointed to the position of senior Gary J. Strong vice president of software and marketing. Colleen Colmenares, CIO, HCA Central and West Texas Division, was named by Wayport, Inc. to its Healthcare Advisory Council. Mac McMillan, CISM, co-founder and CEO of CynergisTek, was selected by HIMSS to chair its national Information Systems Security Work Group. Charles Wagner has joined Eclipsys as the company’s senior vice president of professional services. SRSsoft welcomes new hires Michael Delgorio, director of marketing and creative services, and Debra Chapman, director of implementation. The company also promoted Tom Lew to technical support manager and Craig Filippini to director of SRS Professional Services Group. Ronald Mancuso has been hired by Flo Healthcare Michael Regier as its director of client services. Jack Kane has been appointed to athenahealth’s board of directors. Michael Regier has been hired by VHA Inc., the national health care alliance, as its new general counsel and senior vice president of legal and corporate affairs. Rick Burkhard has been named vice president of sales for BioSafe Systems. Gene Marie O’Connell, CEO of San Francisco General Hospital, was named chair of the National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems at its annual conference in Boston. Denise Hammel-Jones has been appointed as a clinical project management consultant for Greencastle Consulting. Jason Baker has joined Healthcare Growth Partners as a managing director. Rose Ungaro Ciullo has been hired as vice president of corporate human resources for the Keystone Peer Review Organization. Billie Waldo has been named chief nursing officer of McKesson Provider Technologies. HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt announced that Michael W. Carleton will become the department’s chief information officer and deputy assistant secretary for information technology within the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Resources and Technology. Shane Pilcher, one of Stoltenberg Consulting, Inc.’s top consultants and a 17-year Navy veteran, has returned from nine months of active duty with the U.S. Navy. HEALTHcArE iT NEwsmONiTOr Q 60% 40% 20% 0% Is converting the american Health Information Community from a federal advisory panel to a private one the way to go? 80% 64% 36% YEs NO See the full story on page 7. 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