From the California HealthCare Foundation
http://www.chcf.org/
National Health IT Week: June 5-8
Inaugural Forum Promotes Health IT Adoption
Information technology continues to assume ever-greater importance in the delivery of quality health care.
To mark its growing role, the California HealthCare Foundation is a co-sponsor of the first-ever National Health IT Week, June 5-8 in Washington, D.C.
Among the highlights is a half-day conference on June 7, National Health IT Day, assessing the state of the health IT industry. Speakers include:
Senator Edward Kennedy, Democrat, Massachusetts
Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House of Representatives, founder, Center for Health Transformation
Carolyn Clancy, M.D., director of the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality
Mark McClellan, M.D., Ph.D., Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
The forum will be held Wednesday, June 7, from 8:30 am - 1:00 p.m., at the Renaissance Washington Hotel in Washington, D.C. Admission is $30.
http://www.healthitweek.org/index.html
National Health IT Week is the nation’s first fully collaborative annual forum where public and private sector organizations unite to foster widespread health IT adoption. National Health IT Week brings together key constituents from healthcare under one banner in a unifying call for health IT adoption. Key players from every stakeholder group are invited to participate: payors, providers, clinicians, vendors, consumer organizations, healthcare quality organizations, policy experts and research foundations, as well as representatives from the government to speak about the benefits of health IT and how private industry and the public sector can strengthen their partnerships to achieve the President’s goal of widespread interoperable electronic health records by 2014. This week will be like no other - when all stakeholders come together under one banner to promote this common national goal.
By all of us convening together at the same time in our nation’s capitol, we will send a powerful message of the importance of accelerating broader adoption of health IT in order to improve patient safety and healthcare quality.
