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62 healthcare IT News ■ October 2007 www.HealthcareITNews.com LOOKAHEAD OcTObEr 06 - 11: American Health Information Management Association, 79th Convention and Exhibit, Philadelphia. 08 - 10: 6th Annual Information Therapy Conference, Center for Information Therapy, Park City, Utah. 09 - 12: Fall CIO Forum, College of Healthcare Information Management Executives, San Antonio, Texas. 28 - 31: Medical Group Management Association Annual Conference, Philadelphia. QUOTED 2800 2700 Steven Anderman Bronx-Lebanon Health System 19 Ronnie Ali South Mississippi Urgent Care 30 Rob Ashe Cognos 51 Justin Barnes EHRVA 4 Charles J. Barnett Seton Family of Hospitals 50 Jack Beaudoin MedTech Publishing Company 5 Tom Bernatavitz Aetna 43 Gregg Bieri Oce Business Services 56 Michael R. Bloomberg New York City Mayor 3 Richard L. Boals BCBS Arizona 20 Emily Bonham RemedyMD 49 Steven M. Borowitz Univ. of Va. Children’s Hospital 19 David Boucher BCBS of South Carolina 46 David Brailer Health Evolution Partners 49 Bill Brikiatis eCopy 56 Joseph Britto Isabel Healthcare 19 Camilla Hull Brown CCHIE 55 Bob Bucey Beth Israel Deaconess Med. Ctr. 19 Fred Buenrostro CalPERS 52 Bob Bulow The Breakaway Group 15 Jim Chadwick Amarillo, Texas resident 8 Christine Chang Datamonitor 6 Jean Cherry Commonwealth Health Corporation 19 Ted Chien Ingenix 49 Richard L. Clarke HFMA 24 Andrew Clayton Triveris 60 Jamie Coffin Dell 50 Bill Conroy Initiate Systems 59 David Corbett Applix 51 Rob Cronin SureScripts 57 John Crudo Intermountain Medical Center 20 Lynne Dunbrack Health Industry Insights 45 John Edwards Democratic presidential candidate .16 Matthew Escher Lt. Colonel, U.S. Air Force 15 Mike Etue Misys Healthcare 32 James Ferguson Kaiser Permanente 5 Melissa Findley Natchez Regional Medical Center 22 Arthur Frazzano Brown University 28 Charles Fred The Breakaway Group 15 Brett Furst Compuware Covisint 49 John Glaser Partners HealthCare System 10 Matthew Grob CPHIMS 15 John D. Halamka HITSP 5 Ed Hammond HL7 4 Thomas Handler Gartner 29 John Harnett Pearson 59 Keith Hepp HealthBridge 14,55 George Hickman Albany Medical Center 15 Sharon Hicks UPMC Health Plan 43 John Hopkins Rocky Mountain Health Plans 43 Brad Hunter American Hospital Association 61 Tina Ingram Hamilton Cty. Public Health Dept. ..14 Charles Jaffee HL7 3 Tom Janda West Michigan Physicians Network .32 Rob Jensen MITRE Corp. 12 William Jessee MGMA 27 Sam Karp California HealthCare Foundation 12 Gary Kennedy RemedyMD 27 Charles Kolodgy IDC 61 Robert Kolodner Dept. of Health/Human Services 3 Ajit Kumar Henry Schein Medical Systems 60 Mike Kwok VFA 22 Dennis Leavitt Intermountain Medical Center 20 Mark Leavitt CCHIT 12 Mike Leavitt Dept. of Health/Human Services 55 Peter Lee Pacific Business Group on Health 52 Richard T. Lopes Sisters/Charity Leavenworth H.S. 30 Melissa Lopez Sharp Healthcare 56 Luis Machuca Kryptiq 59 Michael Malone RemedyMD 27 Ed McAllister UPMC Health Plan 45 John McMichael Dimensional Dosing Systems 51 Ed McQuiston Hyland Software 56 David Miller Compuware Covisint 52 Rushabh Modi Brown University 28 Donald Mon AHIMA 5 Girish Kumar Navani eClinicalWorks 30 Mike Neuenschwander The Burton Group 52 Randall Oates SOAPware, Inc. 3 Jared Peterson KLAS Enterprises 54 Rick Ratliff SureScripts 57 John Regan AT&T 3 Mary Anne Rizzolo National League for Nursing 24 Mark Roisen Lac qui Parle Health Network 21 Paul Roscoe Sentillion 49 Todd Rowland Bloomington Hospital 55 Louis Saccoccio NHCAA 44 Loris Sartor Sedara Software 58 Ray Scott Axolotl 45 Neel Shah Brown University 28 Ameeta Soni VFA 22 Bob Teague PracticeIt 30 Mesfin Tegenu PerformRx 43 Robert Tennant MGMA 29 Dick Thompson Quality Health Network 43 Derek van Amerongen Humana Health Plans of Ohio 24 Robert A. Vinti HealthCare Systems 12 Beverly Wheeler Initiate Systems 46 Jennifer Witham N.D. Dept. of Human Services 43 Aaron Zornes CDI Institute 46 27 28 29 30 31 10 11 12 13 9/ 9/ 9/ 8/ 8/ 8/ 8/ 8/ 9/ 9/ 9/ 9/ 9/ 9/ 14 4 5 6 7 NOVEMbEr 05 - 07: National Conference on Health Information Capture, Medical Records Institute, Fort Lauderdale, Fla. 10 - 14: Annual Symposium, American Medical Informatics Association, Chicago. 12 - 15: WEDI 2007 Fall Conference, Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange, ChampionsGate, Fla. 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 Aug. 27 and Sept. 14. For a list of the companies on the William Blair index, visit www.williamblair.com/WBHCIT. ●Connect: graphs 1007 e HealthcareITNews.com e ●Connect: lookahead 1007 ONTHEMOVE Steven Joachims has joined the Acceleware Corp. as vice president of business development. Allen Woolf, MD, has been appointed chief medical officer of CIGNA Group Insurance. Kerry Weems has been named by President Bush as deputy chief of staff for HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt, as acting CMS administrator. Weems will immediately assume the responsibilities of the position, which has remained vacant since acting agency administrator Leslie Norwalk stepped down in July. Brian Bremer, Jerry K. Myers and Robert B. Rothermel have been appointed to Pharmacy OneSource, Inc.’s board of directors, expanding the board from seven directors to 10. Pete Martinez, a former IBM executive, has joined the Quantum Group as chief technology and innovations officer. Ray Moss has been appointed vice president and chief information officer of Valley Presbyterian Hospital, effective September 10. Bonnie J. Coffey has been named president of the Association of Health Information Outsourcing Services. Scott Burkey has joined Boston Software Systems as a member of the business development team. Thomas Kelly Mann has been named chief executive officer for Mediware Information Systems, Inc. He replaces James Burgess who revealed his resignation on July 2, 2007. John D. Quinlivan, now chief executive officer of the North Florida Regional Medical Center in Gainesville, Fla., has been named the new CEO at the Emory Johns Creek Hospital in Georgia. He replaces Tom Gilbert, who left in mid-July. Alabama-based DocuSys has named Robert E. Watson president and chief executive officer and Joseph E. Heins executive vice president and chief operating officer, while former president and CEO Robert Hanson will become vice chairman of the company’s board. Matthew J. Perry has been named president and CEO of the Genesis HealthCare System. He replaces Tom Sieber. James G. Coller has been named chief executive officer of both St. Vincent Hospital and St. Mary’s Hospital Medical Center in Green Bay, Wis. He had been the chief executive officer at St. Mary’s. Brian C. Smith has been named executive vice president of business development for HealthCare.com. David Zieve, MD, has been appointed medical director of A.D.A.M., Inc., an Atlanta-based provider of health information services and benefits management solutions. Kenneth Strople has been named president and chief executive officer of Downey Regional Medical Center in Downey, Calif. He has served as executive vice president and chief administrative officer since April 2006 and had been named interim president and CEO last June. Rand Ballard, chief operating officer of MedAssets, Inc., has been elected chairman of the Meals on Wheels Association of America Foundation Board. The Tenet Healthcare Corporation has announced that Marsha D. Powers has been named a senior vice president, leading the company’s Florida region. Until recently, she had served as a division president of Triad Hospitals, Inc. Lance Hill has been named the CEO of Cleveland-based Within3, a new company that has created an online platform for physicians, researchers and medical organizations. Mediware Information Systems of Lenexa, Kan. has appointed Richard Greco Jr. to its board of directors and announced that long-term director Jonathan Churchill has resigned. Greco, a former Assistant Secretary of the Navy, is president of Filangieri Capital Partners in New York City. HEALTHcArE iT NEwsMONiTOr Q 80% 60% 40% 20% 0% Will the new the Center for Improving Medication Management help increase the number of physician practices that adopt electronic prescribing? 55% 45% See the full story on page 8. 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