Health Information Technology Meetings at the 2006 Annual Meeting in Nashville, TN
Innovations in Health Information Technology
NCSL Annual Meeting
Tuesday, August 15th, 2006
Nashville, Tennessee
Session Overview and Presentations
Rapid advances in health information technology can help states address a number of health needs and make health delivery systems more efficient. This session will highlight innovations in the use of information technology and telemedicine related to primary care, rural health, hospital systems and mental health to address a range of health needs, including workforce shortages.
Presiding:
- Joe Flores, Legislative Fiscal Analyst, Senate Finance Committee, Virginia
Speakers:
- Lynn Fleisher, Attorney, Sidley Austin LLP, Chicago, Illinois
- David Levin, M.D., Senior Medical Director, Sentara Healthcare, Norfolk, Virginia
- Toree Malasanos, M.D., Assistant Professor, University of Florida College of Medicine, Pediatrics, Gainesville, Florida [Presentation]
- Wayne Sensor, Chief Executive Officer, Alegent Health, Omaha, Nebraska [Presentation]
- Dena Puskin, Director, Office for the Advancement of Telehealth, HRSA [Presentation]
Can Information Technology Save Our Health Care System?
NCSL Annual Meeting
Wednesday, August 16th, 2006
Nashville, Tennessee
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Session Overview and Presentations
Visionaries believe that information technology is key to creating a health care system that will keep care affordable for all. Information technology can save costs, improve quality, and provide transparency that leads to greater accountability. Experience in New Orleans after Katrina showed the value of an electronic trail for recreating records after a disaster. So why hasn't adoption been rapid and uniform? Obstacles include a mismatch between costs and benefits, concerns about privacy and the need for uniform definitions and data standards. Hear about the problems and the promise.
Presiding:
- Assemblyman Herbert Conaway, New Jersey
Speakers:
- Susan Christensen, Senior Advisor, Agency for Healthcare Reseach and Quality, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Rockville, Maryland [Presentation
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- Mark Frisse, MD, MBA, MSc, Director of the Regional Informatics Programs, Vanderbilt Center for Better Health, Nashville, Tennessee [Presentation ]
- Janlori Goldman, Director of the Health Privacy Project, Research Scholar, Center on Medicine as a Profession, Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York
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