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46 healthcare IT News ■ December 2008 www.HealthcareITNews.com LOOKaHEaD DEcEMbEr 3-5 - 2008 International Society for Disease Surveillance Seventh Annual Conference, Raleigh, N.C. 4-5 - eHealth Initiative’s Fifth Annual Conference, Washington. 8-10 - The 4th Annual World Healthcare Innovation and Technology Congress (WHIT v.4.0), Washington. 8-10 - 5th NHIN Forum: NHIN Trial Implemenations; A Path to Production, Washington. QUOTED JaNUary 21-22 – World Congress Leadership Summit on Healthcare Supply Chain Management, Las Vegas. 22-23 – Conference on Home Telehealth & Remote Patient Monitoring, Philadelphia. FEbrUary 1-5 – TEPR+ 2009, Palm Springs, Fla. More at HealthcareITNews.com e ●Connect: lookahead 1208 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. 27 and Nov. 28. For a list of the companies on the William Blair index, visit www.williamblair.com/WBHCIT. ●Connect: graphs 1208 e Healthcare IT stocks Quotable “I believe that this notion of selfpublishing, which is what Blogger and blogging are really about, is the next big wave of human communication. The last big wave was Web activity. Before that one it was e-mail. Instant messaging was an extension of e-mail, real-time e-mail.” ~ Eric Schmidt, chairman and CEO of Google “ The purpose of medicine is to prevent significant disease, to decrease pain and to postpone death. Technology has to support these goals – if not, it may even be counterproductive.” ~ Joel J. Nobel, founder and president Emeritus ON THE MOVE The Foresight Corporation has re-elected Ed Hafner, CTO, to the board of directors of the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI). Connextions Inc. has appointed Leslie Pecci to oversee overall management – including strategy development, client services, operations and sales – for ConnextionsHealth, the company’s healthcare unit. Health Net, Inc. has named Juanell Hefner president of its behavioral health subsidiary, MHN (Managed Health Network). Jaime Ojeda has joined Patient Care Technology Systems, a subsidiary of Consulier Engineering, as vice president of sales and business development. TeleHealth Services, Inc., has named Matthew K. Barker to the new position of director of marketing. Barker’s duties will include strategic market planning, market research and analysis. DocuSys, Inc., has appointed David Young, MD, as the medical director for DocuSys’ Presurgical Care Management. Rosemary Kennedy, chief nursing informatics officer for Siemens Healthcare has been selected by the American Michal L. Smith Academy of Nursing as a 2008 Fellow. Connextions Inc. has hired Brian Timmons to serve as senior vice president, managing director, with responsibility for new business development across the company’s commercial and healthcare divisions. Michael L. Smith, former executive vice president and chief financial officer for Anthem, Inc., and its subsidiaries, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, has joined the board of directors for Carestream Health. Card Guard AG , the parent company of LifeWatch Corp. has appointed Mike Fiorito as chief sales and marketing officer of LifeWatch Services. Card Guard also announced two additional changes in the Group Management responsibilities.Brent Atwood, former executive vice-president sales and marketing, was promoted to chief operating officer of LifeWatch Services and Roger Juanell Hefner Richardson, former president and chief operating officer of LifeWatch Services, retires from the Group Management and will serve as an adviser for LifeWatch Services. Spheris, a provider of clinical documentation technology and services, has appointed Daniel J. Kohl as the company’s president and chief executive officer, as well as a member of its board of directors. The Spheris Board of Directors appointed Kohl to these Suzette Sutton new positions after it accepted the resignation of Steven E. Simpson, as the company’s president and chief executive officer. Simpson will continue as a member of the company’s senior management until Jan. 17, 2009, and remain a member of the board of directors. DocSite has appointed Mark Wallin as senior vice president. The Electronic Health Records Association (EHR Association), in partnership with the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), has elected Lynn Hudson, national EMR product manager for HealthPort, to its executive committee. Boston Software Systems has appointed Suzette Sutton as regional sales manager. 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. 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Davidson Maimonides Medical Center 25 Peggy Dennis NaviMedix 35 John Dineen GE Healthcare 3 Mark Diodati Burton Group 13 Martin Doerfler VISICU 45 Lynne Dunbrack Health Industry Insights 35, 36 William Finck Horizon BCBS N.J. 13 David French Lake Pointe Medical Center 19 Randy Fusco Microsoft. 43 Newt Gingrich Center for Health Transformation 6 Deborah Hagar Coalition for Quality Affordable HC .21 Steffan Haithcox AeroScout 43 John Halamka Beth Israel Deaconess 6,18 Tom Harbuck JRMC 14 Tim Hargarten NaviMedix 40 Melissa Harmon CSC 19 Jason Hess KLAS Enterprise 41 Louise Hickman JRMC 14 Ryan Howard Practice Fusion 38 Jeffrey Immelt General Electric 15 Vishu Jhaveri Coventry Health Care 34 Joanna Kestler Lake Pointe Medical Center 19 Vik Kheterpal Care Evolution 35 Robert Kolodner HHS 3 Mike Leavitt HHS 3 H. Stephen Lieber HIMSS 1 Dick Mahoney MedPlus 4 Melody Martin South Carolina DHHS 35 Edward Marx Texas Health Resources 43 Colin McDonald Specialists On Call 19 Eric McLaughlin Mid Rogue I.P.A 9 Gary E. Michael Clinch River Health Services 18 Cynthia Michener Aetna 34 Joseph Miller AmeriHealth Mercy 34 Jim Mingle MyCareTeam 1 Jackie Moen Northern Minnesota Network 18 Martine Mollet C.H. Mack 4 Tom Morrison NaviMedix 38 Tom Nickels American Hospital Association 6 Art Papier Logical Images 40 Herbert Pardes N.Y. Presbyterian Hospital 15 David Patterson S.C. Office of Research and Stats 35 Joe Peterson Specialists On Call 17 Joe Pleasant Premier 43 Ellen Pollack UCLA Healthcare 41 Marc Probst Intermountain Healthcare 1 Lonny Reisman ActiveHealth Management 4 Roy Poses Health Care Renewal Blog 17 Maria Filamor-Robinson Woodland Heights Medical Center .21 Stephen Rosenberg ActiveHeath Management 34 David Selig Community Care Network of VA 17 Michael W. Shannon ToxED 38 Scott R. Silverman R&R Consulting Partners 40 Scot Silverstein Drexel University 17 Steven Simon Harvard University 42 Linda Simmons Memorial Hospital, Sweetwater Co..42 Kim D. Slocum HIMSS 22 Deborah Smith Grand Strand Hospital 22 Jack Smyth Spring Medical Systems 38 Richard Stukey Crescent Bay Communications 9 Chris Sullivan Microsoft 15,35 Ellen Swoger Methodist Medical Center, Ilinois 41 John Toussaint ThedaCare 19 Ferdinand Velasco Texas Health Resources 12 Michael Wallace PrimaryData Corporation 22 Thomas Waller InterComponentWare 34 Harry Wang Parks Associates 4 Bruce Weitzberg Patient Access Solutions 36 Kerry Weems CMS 34, 35 Jack Wolf Montefiore Medical Center 15 Monique D. Wonders Beacon Partners 9 Walt Zwiak CSC 19 http://www.HealthcareITNews.com http://www.HealthcareITNews.com http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=10577 http://www.williamblair.com/WBHCIT http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=10578

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