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Register Now for the Community for Connected Health Summit 2009!

2009 Community for Connected Health Summit
Sunday, April 5, 2009
8:00am – 12:15pm (Continental Breakfast included)
Hyatt Regency McCormick Place - Regency Ballroom A
Chicago, IL

Held in conjunction with the 2009 HIMSS Annual Conference & Exhibition

Last year's Summit sold out!Register now

Join us for the second annual Community for Connected Health Summit. This meeting brings together the power of healthcare innovators and Cisco experts into a single forum of networking, education and best practice sharing unlike any other.

Registering for HIMSS09? Attend the Community for Connected Health Summit at no additional charge**.

**Summit reg fee is waived with full paid HIMSS09 conference registration. Does not apply to COMP or discounted registrations.

Schedule at a Glance

  8:00 am –  9:00 am    Registration, Continental Breakfast & Networking
  9:00 am –10:00 am    Kaveh Safavi, MD, JD, Global Lead of Cisco's Healthcare Practice

10:00 am –10:15 am    Break
10:15 am –11:15 am    Carey Kriz, noted author of "The Patient Will See You Now"
11:15 am –12:15 pm    Dave Garets, President & CEO, HIMSS Analytics / Executive VP, HIMSS

9:00 – 10:00 am

Opening Session: Emerging Trends in Healthcare Services 2009

Kaveh Safavi, MD, JD, Global Lead of Cisco's Healthcare Practice

What is the reality of healthcare services today? Do earlier forecasts hold true?  What do we know about successful organizations? How will technology impact care delivery?

Join Dr. Kaveh Safavi, Global Healthcare Practice leader for the Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group, as he examines the impact of demographics, technology, and consumerism on healthcare services.  Learn how to prepare your organization for the future by addressing questions such as “What are the attributes of high-performing organizations? “How are hospitals improving clinical care?” “How is the new retail attitude impacting the healthcare consumer?” Based on information representing the most current global experiences, Safavi will review how key factors, such as demand on resources, medical and information technology, and consumer attitudes are affecting trends in healthcare services, and what these trends mean for healthcare organizations as they adapt to a changing marketplace.

10:15 – 11:15 am

The Patient Will See You Now:  How Advances in Science, Medicine, and Technology Will Lead to a Personalized Health Care System"

Carey Kriz, noted author of "The Patient Will See You Now"

Genomics. Break-throughs in medical technology. Innovations in information technology. Personalized healthcare.  Where is it all taking us? And, more importantly, as a hospital leader what do you need to know to get there ahead of the pack?  In this session noted author Carey Kriz of The Patient Will See You Now, will lead an insightful discussion focused on these critical topics and how the changes in the US economy - along with the movement by the federal government to improve our country's infrastructure - will accelerate these important innovations.

11:15 – 12:15 pm

Closing Keynote: Healthcare IT Trends & Glimmers

Dave Garets, FHIMSS, President & CEO, HIMSS Analytics /Executive Vice President, HIMSS

HIMSS Analytics surveys every non-federal hospital and health system in the U.S. every year in a comprehensive, granular study of healthcare IT presence and use. Dave Garets will discuss the reality of what's planned and what's been done in healthcare IT, based on interviews with 5,171 hospital and health system CIOs and other IT and business executives. He’ll also discuss where the data says healthcare IT is going in 2009.

  • Understand where the industry is headed in technologies and   applications
  • Discover how far American hospitals have come in implementing electronic medical records
  • Find out how prevalent CPOE and closed loop medication administration implementations really are
  • Hear the truth about spending on IT by HCOs

Registering for HIMSS09? Attend the Community for Connected Health Summit at no additional charge. Last year's event sold out! Don't miss it... Register now at www.himssconference.org/registration

This meeting qualifies for 3.6 contact hours toward recertification of the CPHIMS credential.

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