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38 healthcare IT News ■ December 2007 www.HealthcareITNews.com LOOKAHEAD DECEMBER 11 - 12: Fourth Nationwide Health Information Network Forum, Department of Health and Human Services Long Beach, Calif. QUOTED Jody Albright Providence Health & Services 12 Raymond Arroyo Aetna 30 Andrew Barbash Holy Cross Hospital 16 James Barr Partners In Care 30 Javon R. Bea Mercy Health System 13 Linda Burnes Bolton American Academy of Nurses 13 Patty Booth Athens Regional Medical Center 6 Barry W. Brasfield Anesthesia Business Management .20 William Bria Shriners Hospitals for Children 15 Ben Brown KLAS Enterprises 36 Evan Carter Booz Allen Hamilton 20,21 Robert Cazacu SecureInfoID.com 35 Pamela Cipriano Univ. of Virginia Health Systems 13 Kara Donoghue Sinai Health Systems 20 Lonnie Dufour Bunkie General Hospital 12 Doug Efferson Homer Memorial Hospital 1 Linda Everly Lompoc Healthcare District 6 Terri Foose MacGregor Medical Center 31 John Glaser Partners HealthCare System .19,20,23 Colleen Goethals Midwest Med. Record Assn., Inc. 6 Sheila Green-Shook Evergreen Healthcare 20 John Haaga National Institute on Aging 3 C. Martin Harris Cleveland Clinic 15 Gail Hinte HIMformatics 17 Heather Howland Ascendent Systems 37 Patrick Hymel Cardinal Health 34 Kevin Hutchinson SureScripts 3 Stuart James University Health Systems 15 David Jarmoluk Healthways 30 Charles Kahn III American Federation of Hospitals 4 Alex Kasten Diffusion Group 1 Robert Kolodner NCHIT 6 John Koski Allen & Co. 31 Jeff Kunst MobileAccess 37 Michael Leavitt Dept. of Health/Human Services 3,4 Tom Leonard McKesson Provider Technologies 35 John Lussier Eisenhower Medical Center 6 Gregg Malkary Spyglass Consulting Group 16 Kevin Martin FCC 1 Joanne McCool Primavera Evolve 9 John McCreedy DestinationRx 31 Cathy Morris HIMformatics 17 Mike Murphy Sharp HealthCare 11 Kevan Nasserzadeh Fair Isaac 19 Peter Neupert Microsoft 21 Michael Nusbaum HIMSS Fellow 9 Kevin O’Brien Partners In Care 30 Frank Opelka Louisiana Health Network 19 Deborah Peel Patient Privacy Rights 19,22 Steven Porter Touchstone Behavioral Health 34 Marc Probst Intermountain Healthcare 11 Alisa Ray CCHIT 4 Dale Renzi Rocky Mountain Health Plans 30 J. James Rohack American Medical Association 38 Tuomo Rutanen Ekahau 37 Andrew Schuyler Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield 30 Karen Scoles Crozer-Keystone Health System..19,20 Scott Serota BCBS Association 6 Gary Sevounts Symantec 33 D. Shaller Commonwealth Fund 12 Robert G. Shea CACI International 6 Wells Shoemaker Calif. Physician Group Association .17 William Spooner Sharp Healthcare 23 Jay Srini Univ. of Pittsburgh Med. Ctr. 19,20 David St. Clair MEDecision 8, 31 Morgan Tackett Blue Cross Blue Shield of N.C. 31 Paul Tang Palo Alto Medical Foundation 23 Glen Tullman Allscripts 21 Jose Vargas HealthCare.com 33 Joseph Verschueren Formotus 37 Vishal Wanchoo GE Healthcare 33 Kerry Weems CMS 38 Jamie Welch La. Rural Hospital Coalition 12 Kenneth Willman Humana 30 Jack Wolf Montefiore Medical Center 11 Rob Zink Socket Mobile 37 HEALTHCARE IT NEWS (ISSN 1547-3139) is published monthly by MedTech Publishing Company, 71 Pineland Drive, Suite 203, New Gloucester, ME 04260. 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JANUARY 25 - 26: National Health Benefits Conference & Expo, Tampa, Fla. 29 - 30: An EMR Seminar: Analyzing the Latest EMR Developments, Medical Records Institute, Boston. 30 - 01: 2nd Annual Women’s Imaging Conference, Long Beach, Calif. fEBRUARY 03 - 06: CHIME Spring CIO Forum, San Antonio, Texas 24 - 28: HIMSS Annual Conference & Exhibition, Orlando, 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 Oct. 22 and Nov. 16. For a list of the companies on the William Blair index, visit www.williamblair.com/WBHCIT. ●Connect: graphs 1207 e HealthcareITNews.com e ●Connect: lookahead 1207 “The high cost of health information technology is still a major roadblock to universal adoption, and accepting or donating an electronic health record system can be an option for many physicians.” – AMA Trustee J. James Rohack, MD “E-prescribing can improve quality of care by reducing errors, and can also help save the Medicare program money and the beneficiary from paying higher out-of-pocket costs.” – CMS Acting Administrator Kerry Weems ONTHEMOVE BridgeHead Software’s new position of director of business development, healthcare sector, will be filled by Charles Mallio, Jr. Connextions Inc. announced new hires Steven E. Russell as CFO and Christopher M. Gates as senior vice president, operations and finance. D2Hawkeye Inc., healthcare data provider, has made Nadine Hays senior vice president of business development. Sage Software Healthcare Inc. has named John Lopiano as division president. e-MDs, a provider and implementer of electronic health records, announced that Michael Stearns, MD, has been promoted to president of the company. Robert Walstra has joined Ecentuate as vice president of sales and marketing. In Motion Technology, a provider of vehicle area networks, has added two veterans in telecommunications and technology to its board of directors: Peter A. Howley, chairman of Success Generation Systems and Western Ventures, and John Malone, president and CEO of The Eastern Management Group. 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