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38 healthcare IT News ■ August 2008 www.HealthcareITNews.com LOOKaHeaD august 26 - 27 Microsoft HUG Tech Forum 2008, Redmond, Wash. QuOteD Doug Arent Novo Innovations 32 Hal Baker Wellspan Health 11 Doug Bell IDC 34 Leah Binder The Leapfrog Group 11 William Bria Shriners Hospitals for Children ..13,21 Louis Burns Intel 35 Jeff Cash Mercy Medical Center 13 Christine Chang Datamonitor 20, 21 Carolyn M. Clancy AHRQ 5 Brian Clark Revinetix 35 Chuck Clark Coastal Family Health Center 22 Paul Clark Concord Hospital 18 Joe Costa Aethon 32 Tony Cotterill BridgeHead Software 35 Eric Cowperthwaite Providence health Services 14 Adam Darkins Dept. of Veterans Affairs 23 Joe Dawsey Coastal Family Health Center 20 Jim DeCaires Fujitsu 35 Henry DePhillips Medem 31 Nancy Dickey iHealth Alliance 22 Russell Dietz Hifn 3 John Dingell U.S. Rep., D-Michigan 3 Lynn Dunbrack Health Industry Insights 31 Deb Fraser Dept. of Veterans Affairs 23 Jim Gildea Intronis Technologies 35 Ralph Hale Amer. Coll. of OB/Gyn 22 Kathryn Hayes Hallowell VHA Inc 16 Trent Haywood VHA Inc 16 Rich Head Mercy Medical Center 13 Craig Humphrey FirstCarolinaCare Insurance Co. 30 Shawn Jenkins Benefitfocus 33 Greg Juhn A.D.A.M., Inc 33 David Kibbe Amer. Acad. of Family Physicians 3 Suzie Kidder San Rafael, Calif. 11 James King Amer. Acad. of Family Physicians 4 Tom Lausten Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin 33 Mark Leavitt CCHIT 3 Michael Leavitt Dept. of Health/Human Services 4 Greg LeGrow BCBSMA 31 Jack Lewin Amer. College of Cardiology 20, 22 Josh Liang MessageSolution 35 J.P. Little RxHub 6 Dan Lundy JPI Data Resources 33 John Madigan Carestream Health 35 Robert Mau Medical Mutual of Ohio 1 Christine Maurice Coastal Family Health Center 22 R. Tim McNamar e-certus, Inc 3 Sina Miri PostPath 35 Leslie Morland Nat. Ctr. for PTSD 23 Douglas Murray Peachtree Orthopaedic Clinic 20 Richard Noffsinger SafeMed 31 Peter Orszag Congressional Budget Office 6 Roland Palencia L.A. Care Health Plan 30 Frank Pallone, Jr. U.S. Rep., D-New Jersey 3 Richard Parker Beth Israel Deaconess PO 30 John Peters Dept. of Veterans Affairs 23 Max Phillips Qwest Communications 16 Orlando Portale Palomar Pomerado Health 13 Cameron Powell AirStrip Technologies 35 Mark Probst Intermountain Healthcare 33 Rick Ratliff SureScripts 5 Mary Catherine Rawls Dartmouth Hitchcock Med. Center ..16 Alisa Ray CCHIT 5 Ryan Reith IDC 34 Christine Reno Theapy Partners 34 Angela Roberts AltaMed Health Services Corp. 30 Jehni Robinson Saban Free Clinic 31 Diana Rovira Augusta, Ga. 23 Sean Ryan IDC 34 Rich Sable St. Francis Medical Center 35 Amy Salls DST Health Solutions 30 Mary Schalow Marshfield Clinic 34 Mariah Scott Intel 36 Stuart Segal AllOne Mobile 33 Violet Shaffer Gartner 21 Ryan Smith Intermountain Healthcare 33 Michelle Snyder Epocrates 1 Alden Solovy Hospitals & Health Networks 18 Nina Sossamon-Pogue ..Benefitfocus 32 Wolfgang Spannlang Royal Philips Electronics 37 Vince Vitali BroMenn Healthcare Nien-Ling Wacker Laserfiche 33 J. Peter Waegemann Medical Records Institute 33 Kerry Weems CMS 4 Michael Westcott Alegent Health 35 Winston Wilkinson Dept. of Health/Human Services 1 Lynn Witherspoon Ochsner Health System 13 Aldo Zini Aethon 32 september 07 - 10 NCHICA 14th Annual Conference & Exhibition, Greensboro, N.C. 08 - 10 Chasing Zero Summit: Hospital Acquired Infections, Washington D.C. 09 - 10 HL7 22nd Plenary and Working Group Meeting, Spokane, Wash. 15 - 16 American Telemedicine Association, Tampa, Fla. 17 - 21 AAFP Annual Scientific Assembly, San Diego, Calif. More at HealthcareITNews.com e ●Connect: lookahead 0808 Healthcare IT stocks Quotable “The system just plain sucks by all known metrics, all known reports and all people knowledgeable of its failure.” – Scott Shreve, blogging on AHLTA, the military’s electronic health record system 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 June24 and July 27. For a list of the companies on the William Blair index, visit www.williamblair.com/WBHCIT. ●Connect: graphs 0808 e ONtHemOVe AdvancedMD Software Inc., a provider of Web-based medical practice management solutions, announced Eric Morgan will join the company effective immediately, Morgan assumed responsibility from John Trzeciak who served as interim-CEO since the acquisition of AdvancedMD by Francisco Partners in January 2008. Trzeciak will continue to serve on the AdvancedMD board of directors and as operating advisor to Francisco Partners. Tony McGraw has joined ADT North America as regional vice president for the western United States. McGraw will be responsible for ADT operations in 23 states. The Eric Morgan American Association of Critical-Care Nurses has announced its new leadership and new members of the board of directors for 2008-2009. Caryl Goodyear-Bruch is the new president. Beth Hammer is the president-elect. Joining the board are Vicki Good, Kathy Stephens Williams, Natalie Correll-Yoder and Kathryn Roberts. CliniComp Intl. named Alan Portela, a healthcare execuTony McGraw tive, strategist and speaker its new chief executive officer. HealthPort has appointed Mike Labedz as president and CEO. Passport Health Communications, Inc., has added four more employees: Vera Payne as human resources analyst, Terence Smith as enrollment coordinator, Brett Walker as QA developer and Ben Worley as technical support analyst in the company’s customer support division. Passport Health has also promoted five employees: Connie Bullard has been promoted to senior accounts receivable coordinator, Kristen Byrd, has been named senior national trainer, Grace Friedberg, has been promoted to senior technical support analyst, Denise Maddox has been promoted to senior director of implementation, and Lisa Wayman has been promoted to senior national trainer. Cerner has appointed Rich Berner to the role of vice president and general manager for Cerner Middle East. The Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine or SIIM named Bradley J. Erickson, MD, Elizabeth A. Krupinski and Richard L. Morin as new members of the College of SIIM Fellows. Wolters Kluwer Health has appointed Susan Driscoll as executive vice president and Caryl general manager of the books division of its professional and Goodyear-Bruch education business unit. Shared Health, Inc., the nation’s largest public/private health information exchange, has named information technology and medical systems veteran Linda A. Matern as its new chief operating officer. Coveo Solutions, Inc., a provider of search-powered information access solutions, announced that J. Alberto Yepez and Howard Gwin have Beth Hammer joined the company as board members. The Pharmagistics Group, a suite of four Publicis Healthcare Communications Group companies, named Tim Stem vice president of IT Strategy and Software Engineering. “Many parts of Mississippi are often the last to afford the benefits of the latest technology. By installing electronic medical record software, local providers and their patients will benefit.” – Rep. Bennie Thompson (D – Miss.) “The message is there has to be more personal involvement. If you have any money at all, you are going to be spending more for healthcare.” – Bill Crounse, MD, Microsoft, speaking about the state of U.S. healthcare 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. 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