PHAT Conference Schedule – May 1

The Public Health & Technology on May 1, 2009 schedule is below. It’s not too late to register: www.hsph.harvard.edu/phat. I will post all the video on this blog as soon as it is available.

10:00 am, Kresge Ground Floor

Registration Begins

10:30 am, Kresge G-2

Introduction – Health Information Technology: Where are we in 2009? Ashish Jha, MD, MPH, Professor, Health Policy & Management, Harvard School of Public Health

11:00 am, Kresge G-2

Panel – Health Information Exchange Moderator – Blackford Middleton, MD, MPH, MSc; Director of Clinical Informatics Research & Development; Chairman of the Center for Information Technology Leadership (CITL); Partners Healthcare System Ray Campbell; Executive Director & CEO, Massachusetts Health Data Consortium David Cerino, MBA; General Manager, Consumer Health Solutions Group, Microsoft Corporation John Loonsk, MD; Vice President, CGI Federal, Inc. John Moore; Founder and Managing Director, Chilmark Research

12:30 pm, Kresge G-1

Keynote – Connecting Patients, Providers, and Payers John Halamka, MD, MS; Chief Information Officer, CareGroup Health System; Dean for Technology, Harvard Medical School; Chairman, New England Health Electronic Data Interchange Network; CEO, MA-SHARE; Chair, US Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP)

1:30 pm, FXB Atrium

Networking Lunch with Speakers and Invited Guests

2:30 pm, Kresge G-1

Panel – Health Information Technology & the Stimulus Bill Moderator – Karen Bell, MD, MMS; Sr. Vice President, Health Information Technology Services Jonathan Bush, MBA; CEO, President, & Chairman, AthenaHealth Sharona Hoffman, JD, LLM; Professor of Law and Senior Associate Dean, Case Western School of Law; Co-Director, Law-Medicine Center Isaac Kohane, MD, PhD; Director, Boston Children’s Hospital Informatics Program; Professor, Pediatrics and Health Sciences & Technology, Harvard Medical School

Public Health & Technology Conference, May 1, Harvard School of Public Health

The HSPH Public Health & Technology Forum is hosting the 1st annual Public Health & Technology Conference on Friday, May 1 featuring keynote John Halamka, CIO of Boston Beth Israel Deaconness Hospital and Harvard Medical, and panelists Karen Bell (ONC), Blackford Middleton (Clinical Informatics Research & Development, Partners HealthCare), John Loonsk (ONC), John Moore (Chilmark Research), Ashish Jha (HSPH), Isaac Kohane (Boston Children’s Medical Informatics Program), Jonathan Bush (AthenaHealth), Sharona Hoffman (Case Western Law School).

Despite health IT’s promise of better, faster, and cheaper health care, adoption of electronic health records in the US remains low. This conference brings together many of the leaders in the field to explore the potential to use health IT to improve health delivery, the challenges of health information exchange and the impact of the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act on health IT.

Registration is free and all are welcome (www.hsph.harvard.edu/phat).