EU-US eHealth Policy Workshop

Registration deadline: 01 May 2007

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EU-US eHealth Policy Workshop Speakers:

• Mike Bainbridge is Clinical Architect for the NHS Connecting for Health programme, UK. He is responsible for the common user interface programme and works in partnership with Microsoft to deliver on the desktop and infrastructure, Windows NHS and Office NHS, a platform independent and standards-based clinical system design guide and a clinical system toolkit. He is also responsible for assistive technology design and support. Mike is a past chairman of the British Computer Society's primary health care specialist group and an editorial board member of the Journal of Informatics in Primary Care. A former practising GP, Mike has been active in healthcare informatics for 24 years since installing a computer into his practice as a junior GP in 1982. He has a unique insight into clinical practice and the design and needs of clinical information systems supporting clinical care.
• Maureen Baker, CBE, has joined NHS Connecting for Health as the new national clinical lead for patient safety, as of 1 March, 2007. Maureen's role will focus on risk management and the running and developing of a new training programme called 'Awareness Training in Human Factors and Risk Assessment'. This training programme will explore the principles of safety and risk within the National Programme for IT. In addition, her role will be to look at the potential of IT to help address known patient safety problems in the NHS. Maureen has worked for NHS Connecting for Health on secondment for the past two years from the National Patient Safety Agency, in her role as national clinical safety officer.
• Martin Bech Uni-C/MEDCOM Denmark, Martin Bech (M.Sc.EE) has been with UNI-C - The Danish IT Centre for Education and Research, since 1986, where he has been a driving force in many pioneering projects: large-scale student computing facilities, firewalls and security, parts of the first commercial internet service in Denmark, nationwide services for schools in Denmark, the Danish Healthcare Network and many other projects. Today, he holds the title of deputy director and is responsible for the commercial IT services offered by UNI-C as well as the operation and development activities of the Danish research network, Forskningsnettet.
• William R. Braithwaite, MD, Ph.D., eHealth Initiative, USA, Vice Chairman of the Health Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP), Health Information Policy Consulting "Doctor HIPAA", Former Senior Advisor on Health Information Policy, Department of Health and Human Services, HIPAA Summit Distinguished Service Award Winner, Washington, DC.
• Frans de Bruine, DG Information Society and Media, Director of Directorate H: ICT addressing societal challenges, Frans de Bruine was previously Director of "Lisbon Strategy and Policies for the Information Society" in the Information Society and Media Directorate General. He joined the DG Information Society in 1990 as Director for Multimedia Content, Tools and Markets. Prior to his work for the Commission, Frans de Bruine worked as a management consultant in the private sector and for the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs as Section Head for new energy sources and deputy director for research and development.
• Debbie Chinn, Director of the National Integration Centre, NHS Connecting for Health
• Fabio Colasanti, Director General, DG Information Society and Media since July 2002. Fabio Colasanti was previously Director General of the European Commission's "Enterprise" Directorate General. Before this appointment he served as Deputy Head of the Office of Commission President Romano Prodi and from 1996 to 06/1999: Director in the European Commission's "Budget" Directorate General, with responsibility for the "Resources" Directorate. 1988-1995: Head of the "Economic Forecasts" and "Macroeconomic policy analysis" units of the Commission's Directorate General for "Economic and Financial Affairs". Meanwhile, he studied local development issues in the USA during a three month trip across 18 states, thanks to an Eisenhower Fellowship in 1992. Fabio Colasanti holds diplomas in economics from the University of Rome and the College of Europe in Bruges. He works regularly in English and French and is fluent in German and Spanish.
• Daniel Forslund, Head of Section-eHealth, Ministry of Health and Social Affairs, Sweden. Responsible for all national and international issues in the field of eHealth in the Swedish Ministry of Health and Social Affairs. Responsible for co-ordinating the work with Swedens first National Strategy for eHealth, which was presented in March 2006. Since Jan 2004 – Head of Section – eHealth Health Care Division Ministry of Health and Social Affairs. Previous positions: Oct 2002 – Dec 2003 Special Adviser – Nordic co-operation Secretariat for International Affairs Ministry of Health and Social Affairs; Jan 2002 – Oct 2002 Assisting Press Officer Ministry of Health and Social Affairs.
• Antoine Geissbuhler, MD, Professor and Director, Division of Medical Informatics, Geneva University Hospitals and School of Medicine. His current research focuses on the development of innovative information systems architectures and computer based tools for improving the quality and efficiency of care processes. The Service of Medical Informatics is responsible for the design, development and evaluation of an advanced clinical information system for Geneva University Hospitals (HUG), a group of primary, secondary, and tertiary care facilities. Dr. Geissbuhler is on the editorial board of the journals "Methods of Information in Medicine" and the "International Journal of Medical Informatics" as well as being associate editor of "Computers in Biology and Medicine".
• Lee R. Goldberg, MD, MPH, FACC is Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is also Associate Medical Director of the Heart Failure/Transplant Program, Medical Director of the Heart Failure/Transplant Ambulatory Care Center and Medical Director of the Heart-Lung Transplantation Program at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Goldberg is board certified in internal medicine and cardiovascular disease. He is the Principle Investigator of an AHRQ sponsored RO1 grant evaluating the impact of different technology models on heart failure disease management. He is also the Principle Investigator of a multi-center international clinical trial on the treatment of central sleep apnea using novel technologies in patients with heart failure. Dr. Goldberg earned his medical degree from Boston University School of Medicine. He completed an internal medicine internship and residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Goldberg continued his postgraduate medical education with a fellowship in cardiovascular disease at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University, followed by a fellowship in heart failure and cardiac transplantation at the same facility. He received his Master of Public Health Degree from the Harvard University School of Public Health. The author of numerous journal articles, abstracts and reviews, Dr. Goldberg’s work has been published in Circulation, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, Cardiovascular Drugs and Therapy, American Journal of Cardiology, The Journal of Heart Lung Transplantation and The American Heart Journal.
• Daniel Grandt, Professor of Internal Medicine, Head of Department of Internal Medicine, Klinikum Saarbruecken, Germany. CEO of the Institute for Medication Safety of the University of Essen & Klinikum Saarbrueken. CEO and founding member of the German Coalition for Patient Safety. Member of the board of directors of the Drug Commission of the German Medical Association and head of its working groups "eHealthCard" and "Appropriate drugs in elderly". Member of the expert groups "Pharmacovigilance" and "Medication Safety" of the Federal German Ministry of Health. Organizer and president of the 1st (April 2005) and 2nd (29/30th Nov.2007) German Congress on Medication Safety, held together with the German Ministry of Health. Head of the working group on Medication Safety of the German Association for Internal Medicine. Member of Expert Group "Research on Patient Safety" within the WHO World Alliance for Patient Safety.
• Sir J A Muir Gray is Director of Clinical Knowledge, Process and Safety, NHS. After working as a surgeon, he moved to public health and has worked in all aspects of public health, and thence to Research and Development. His principal responsibilities have included: Secretary of ASH (Action on Smoking and Health); Consultant in Public Health, Oxfordshire Health Authority; Regional Director of Public Health for Oxford; Co-ordinator of the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening Programmes; Setting up of the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine; Regional Director of Research and Development for the Anglia & Oxford Region of the NHS Executive.
• Ilias Iakovidis, Deputy Head of Unit ICT for Health, DG Information Society and Media, European Commission. Ilias Iakovidis received Ph.D. in 1990 (USA) in applied mathematics thesis on inverse problem in electrocardiography. From 1990 to 1993 he was a researcher at University of Montreal and Montreal Heart Institute. In 1993 he joined European Commission where he currently serves duties of deputy Head of ICT for Health, responsible for research activities in eHealth and biomedical informatics as well as contributing to the successful follow up of the eHealth Communication and Action Plan COM (2004) 356 of which he was the main co-author. Beyond the office duties he continues to publish articles and books, teach graduate courses on medical informatics in EU and US, and giving keynote lectures at major international conferences. In 2001 he has been elected fellow of American College of Medical Informatics for his contribution to the field.
• Zoi Kolitsi MSc, PhD, senior advisor for healthcare quality and eHealth General Secretariat for Public Health, Greek Ministry of Health. Before her current placement, Zoi Kolitsi served as senior advisor for ICT & Health in the Social Security Secretariat. She has intensive experience in questions of healthcare quality management, working as consultant and teacher of a post graduate level course on quality management. Her academic background is in medical physics, with a focus on image processing and reconstruction, modelling and simulation. She served as editor of the IOS Press Publication on Health Technology and Informatics.
• Robert M. Kolodner, Interim National Coordinator - On September 20, 2006 Robert M. Kolodner, MD joined HHS as the Interim National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (IT). Dr. Kolodner comes from the Veterans Health Administration in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), where he has been serving as Chief Health Informatics Officer and has been involved with the development and oversight of VistA – VA's electronic health records systems – and My HealtheVet – VA’s Personal Health Record for veterans. Dr. Kolodner's long-standing interest in computers led to his early involvement with VA's efforts to use automation in support of mental health care. In 1993, Dr. Kolodner moved to Washington, DC into a health IT management position as the Director of the Medical Information Resources Management Office, leading all health automation activities in VA. In 1996 Dr. Kolodner was selected as Associate Chief Information Officer for Enterprise Strategy in the newly created Office of Information in the Veterans Health Administration. Dr. Kolodner received his undergraduate degree from Harvard College and his medical degree from Yale University School of Medicine.
• Marc Leavitt, Chair, Certification Commission for Healthcare IT, USA Considered one of the pioneers of electronic health records in ambulatory care, Mark Leavitt, M.D., Ph.D., is Chair of the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT). In October 2005, CCHIT was awarded a three-year, $7.5M contract from the Department of Health and Human Services to develop certification criteria and inspection processes for electronic health records and the networks through which they interoperate. While serving as chair of CCHIT, Dr. Leavitt is on leave from his position as Chief Medical Officer at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). Dr. Leavitt practiced internal medicine full-time for ten years in Portland and led the original launch of system-wide electronic records at Providence Health System in Oregon. In 1985 he founded MedicaLogic, a pioneering developer of ambulatory electronic health records, leading the company as its CEO and Chairman for 15 years. In 2002 GE Healthcare acquired MedicaLogic, and Dr. Leavitt served as Vice President of Clinical Initiatives for GE. In addition to his Fellowship at HIMSS, Dr. Leavitt is Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Medical Informatics at the Oregon Health and Science University.
• Johan van der Lei, Medical Informatics, Erasmus University Rotterdam. He received his MD from the Free University in Amsterdam in 1982, and his PhD degree (cum laude) from the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, in 1991. From 1991-2000 he was Postdoctoral Researcher, Assistant Professor and Associate Professor at the Department of Medical Informatics of the Erasmus University in Rotterdam. He was the winner of the Erasmus Research Award (1991) and visiting scholar at the Stanford School of Medicine, USA (1991-1992). In 2000, he was appointed as a Full Professor of Medical Informatics at the Department of Medical Informatics at the Erasmus MC – University Medical Center, in Rotterdam. Johan van der Lei has (co)-authored over 100 publications, abstracts excluded, in the field of medical informatics, of which 70 are in peer-reviewed international journals. He supervised about 10 PhD theses.
• John Loonsk, Director, Office of Interoperability and Standards, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), Department of Health and Human Services, USA. In January 2006, John Loonsk was appointed director of the Office of Interoperability and Standards in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). He had served as acting director since October 2005. Before assuming that position, he was associate Director for Informatics at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In that capacity he was instrumental in architecting the National Electronic Disease Surveillance System (NEDSS), leading the creation of the Public Health Information Network, initiating the BioSense program, and advancing the field of Public Health Informatics at the CDC and nationally. Throughout his time in academic medical centers, public health and government he has advanced internetworked health care, just in time information delivery, surveillance, digital libraries, and decision support.
• Michael Maibach is the President and CEO of the European-American Business Council (EABC), an association of major companies forging policy alliances to enhance Trans-Atlantic competitiveness. Under his leadership, the Council has tripled its membership and opened its first Brussels Office. Mr. Maibach previously held government affairs positions at Intel and Caterpillar. In 1983, he joined Intel as assistant to co-founder and co-inventor of the integrated circuit, Dr. Robert Noyce. He created Intel's Government Affairs Department, and opened its Washington office in 1986. Mr. Maibach was named an Intel Vice President in 1996, and he was involved in numerous policy initiatives, including successful results on the Semiconductor Chip Protection Act, the R&D Tax Credit, the US-Japan Semiconductor Agreement, SEMATECH funding, the GATT Uruguay Round, the 21st Century Patent Reform Act and China WTO membership. Previously, Mr. Maibach worked for Caterpillar Tractor Co. as a Government Affairs Manager in Illinois, California, and Washington DC.
• Damien McCallion, Head of ICT Health Service Executive (HSE), Ireland. Damien McCallion was appointed Head of ICT in December 2006. Prior to this he was Director of Information Systems in the former North Western Health Board with responsibility for ICT across all services. Mr. McCallion has worked in the airline industry with British Airways in several roles through sales, marketing and ICT, where he led out on a major sales force automation change programme. He recently completed an MSC in Change Management that focused on ICT enabled change within a hospital environment.
• Georges de Moor, President, EuroRec Institute, Head of Department of Health Informatics and Medical Statistics, State University of Ghent, Belgium. Professor Dr. Georges J.E. De Moor studied Medicine and specialised in Clinical Pathology and Nuclear Medicine at the State University of Ghent (Belgium), where he also obtained a PhD in Medical Information Science. Currently, he is head of the Department of Health Informatics and Medical Statistics at the State University of Ghent., where he teaches Medical Informatics, Statistics, Decision Theory and Evidence Based Medicine. He is president of RAMIT (Research in Medical Informatics and Telematics) and has Founding Chairman of CEN/TC251. He is also President of the EuroRec Institute. He has edited several books and published over 200 articles in international peer reviewed scientific journals.
• William B. Munier, MD, is currently serving as Acting Director of the Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety (the Center) at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality within the Department of Health and Human Services. The Center has lead responsibility for implementing the new Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005; production of the annual National Health Quality Report and National Health Disparities Report; and development and maintenance of the widely-used CAHPS surveys that measure patients’ health care experience. The Center also supports a broad array of initiatives designed to further quality improvement and patient safety. Dr. Munier has been in healthcare management most of his career with a particular focus on performance measurement, quality and safety, and clinical software development. Prior to joining AHRQ, Dr. Munier was President and CEO of Wang Healthcare, which produced an electronic health record for physicians’ offices; president of Quality Standards in Medicine, which produced an expert system for measuring quality in hospitals; director of the Department of Defense Civilian Peer Review of Military Care Program (for CPHA, the prime contractor); partner at Ernst & Whinney; and Executive Vice President of the Massachusetts Medical Society, publishers of The New England Journal of Medicine. Dr. Munier received a BA degree from the University of Pennsylvania, an MD from Columbia University, and an MBA from Harvard University.
• J. Marc Overhage, M.D., Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Medicine at the Indiana University School of Medicine, Director of Medical Informatics and Senior Investigator at the Regenstrief Institute, and President and CEO of the Indiana Health Information Exchange. Although he has broad interests in the use of informational interventions to modify physician behaviour, development of rule-based systems to implement guidelines or protocols has been a major focus of Dr. Overhage's research for the last 15 years. Using these tools, he has completed a number of large-scale studies of implementing guidelines in the outpatient and inpatient settings that examine the impact of process measures, costs, and patient outcomes. His other major research area has been implementation of a regional health information exchange for Indiana.
• Alberto Sanna, e-Services for Life Health Manager, Scientific Institute San Raffaele Hospital, Italy. Alberto Sanna is R&D and Business Development Manager of the "e-Services for Life and Health" Unit at the H San Raffaele Scientific Institute in Milan, Italy, a role that sees him responsible for the design and development of innovative and trusted healthcare services, and related business models, based on personalized medicine. His areas of expertise include healthcare process re-engineering and vertical integration in the domains of clinical laboratory analyses and pharmaceutical treatments, with a specific expertise in ICT design for maximizing patient safety and privacy, hospital risk management and supply chain efficiency. Among his other roles, Alberto Sanna has been a professor in "Information technologies for Proactive Patient Safety Management" at CINEAS in Milan since 2004, and has taught "Intelligent and mobile systems for Innovative Services" at the Information Science Department at the University of Insubria since the same year. Sanna originally joined the San Raffaele Scientific Institute in 1991 after graduating in Nuclear Engineering.
• Charles V Scatchard, Vice President for Health Sector, Oracle EMEA, since 2002, based in London and Paris. He joined Oracle from IBM where, for four years, he was Managing Principal and Vice President for IBM's Healthcare and Life Sciences Systems Integration and Consulting (BIS) division for EMEA. Charles began his working career in the UK National Health Service (NHS), as a healthcare economist. He worked for many years in the US healthcare marketplace and also the Far East as well as in Europe. He has held a variety of senior sales, marketing and consulting positions in Digital Equipment, EDS, CSC and IBM for over 22 years in high technology in the healthcare industry. Charles has dedicated the latter part of his career to being involved with the planning, design, implementation and management of health information networks at the leading edge of e-health. An example of which is the NEHIN network in Massachusetts, US.
• David Stevens, M.D., is the senior medical officer for quality improvement in the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and its Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety. Providing leadership in AHRQ’s mission to translate research into action, Dr Stevens’ work includes several major initiatives: the AHRQ/Robert Wood Foundation sponsored learning collaborative to reduce health disparities in chronic care with ten major national health plans with over 80 million members; a chronic care management improvement project with twelve state Medicaid agencies; a partnership with the CDC to develop interventions for the prevention of type II Diabetes Mellitus; and, an improvement collaborative with End Stage Renal Disease providers. Before coming to AHRQ, Dr. Stevens was a practicing family physician and medical director for over seven years at community health centers in the South Bronx and in Brooklyn, New York. Subsequently, he was the chief medical officer of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Community and Migrant Health Center Program and created and a national initiative on eliminating health disparities in underserved and minority populations. This landmark program, the Health Disparities Collaboratives, now includes over 1,000 health centers and several hundred thousand patients in software registry systems, addressing both chronic and preventive care. With the CDC and the Institute of Healthcare Improvement, he implemented a ground breaking pilot demonstration on translating research for the prevention of diabetes into practice as well as a pilot on cancer prevention with the National Cancer Institute. Dr. Stevens has also served at the Department of Health and Human Services level on strategic plans for asthma, reducing health disparities, and emergency response issues; and, has received numerous awards and recognition for his contributions to improving health care in the United States, especially to underserved populations.

Moderators:

• Gérard Comyn is Head of the Unit "ICT for Health" in Directorate-General Information Society and Media, European Commission. Prior to this, he was head of the unit "Strategies for research in IST". Before joining the Commission he was managing director of ECRC (European Computer Industry Research Centre) in Munich (1989-1994) and Professor in University of Lille (1972-1989). Gérard Comyn holds a Master Degree in applied mathematics and a PhD in Computer Sciences.
• Colin Evans, Director Policy & Standards, Digital Health Group, Intel. Intel Digital Health Group is responsible for development of Intel’s platforms for consumer health, digital hospital, and bio-medical industries. In his role as Director of Policy and Standards, Colin is responsible for Intel’s efforts to cooperate with industry and legislative stakeholders to drive policy development and with industry partners to create platform standards. His group was responsible for creating both the Continua Health Alliance formed to create agreement on consumer health platform and device interoperability worldwide and the Dossia Consortium that brings together major US employers to develop the their shared infrastructure for personal, private, and portable health records. Evans has represented Intel in the leadership of a number of industry standards initiatives. He chaired the Board of Directors of Oasis, an international consortium driving XML interoperability, and played a central role in the creation of RosettaNet, a multi-company initiative focused on building Internet-based supply chains for the information technology, electronic components, and semiconductor manufacturing industries. For several years, Evans served as chair of RosettaNet's Executive Board, was on the board of the Interoperability Consortium, and is currently the President of the Dossia Consortium. Evans obtained his degree in Computer Science at Manchester University in the United Kingdom, and is an alumnus of INSEAD, France.
• Baldur Johnsen, Director, EMEA Healthcare Market Development, HP. Baldur Johnsen has over 20 years of Information Technology experience including systems development, network implementation, IT operations, and computer systems marketing and sales. During the last 10 years he has managed IT hospital operations, first as head of IT for Reykjavik Hospital in Iceland and later became Director of IT for Landspitali–University Hospital after the two hospitals merged. He has been on the Icelandic Healthcare Data Network project board since its conception in 2000. Baldur has recently stepped down as Director of IT for Landspitali to pursue consulting opportunities in the International Healthcare IT domain and is currently on assignment with Hewlett-Packard International. Baldur Johnsen holds a B.S. degree in computer science and a master's degree in business administration, both from the University of Iceland.
• Peter Langkafel is Senior Business Consultant and responsible for the Healthcare within the SAP Business Consulting EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa). He has 10 years experience in planning and realising projects in healthcare.
• Claude Snow is a Vice President in EDS' Global Healthcare Industry. He joined the EDS team in 2002 and has led the development and delivery of strategic consulting, information technology modernization, and business outsourcing services to solve complex healthcare challenges among payers, providers and employers. Globally, he has advised numerous healthcare organizations and governments on health issues and trends including emerging benefit design (such as consumer-defined health plans); pharmaceutical benefit design and delivery; chronic disease detection and prevention; life stage care management; and population health strategies. Formerly, Mr. Snow held leadership positions with IBM Global Services in its Healthcare consulting and Public Sector strategy divisions and at Deloitte & Touche. He also serves as an adjunct professor at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, supporting coursework in healthcare policy and technology.
• Petra Wilson is a Director for the Public Sector Healthcare team of the Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group, focusing on strategies and implementation plans for "Connected Health" information management and technology. Previously, she was deputy director of the European Health Management Association (EHMA), a membership organization committed to improving healthcare in Europe by standards of managerial performance in the health sector. Prior to EHMA, Petra worked for the European Commission on the European eHealth Action Plan, which commits all member states of the European Union to adopt road maps for the implementation of Connected Health solutions. Originally trained in law, Petra spent several years as a lecturer and Senior Research Fellow at Nottingham University, specializing in healthcare law and European law. She has a PhD in public health law from Oxford University.

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