Mass Gov Hosting Nat’l Conference On Health IT April 29-30: Boston

Health IT: Creating Jobs, Reducing Costs and Improving Quality
A National Conference Hosted by Gov. Deval Patrick

According to Massachusetts Health Data Consortium, who’s supporting the conference, streaming video will be shown for parts of the conference on April 29 and 30:
Conference Blog with Video
: http://mahit.us
http://www.livestream.com/publicintellect

Agenda
1:30  Welcome by Deval L. Patrick, Governor of Massachusetts
Thomas M. Menino, Mayor of Boston
Intro by Mitchell Adams, Exec Direc, Mass Technology Collaborative
Keynote Schedule revised; started with David Blumenthal
2:00 Keynote by David Blumenthal, MD, MPP
Nat’l Coordinator for Health IT
The State and National Vision for Health IT and HIE
Intro by JudyAnn Bigby, MD, Sec’y Mass Exec Office of HHS
3:00 Consumer-Centric: The Role of the Patient in Health IT and HIE
John Moore, Managing Director, Chilmark Research
Daniel Nigrin, MD, CIO, Children’s Hospital of Boston
Barbra Rabson, Exec Dir, Mass Health Quality Partners
David Szabo, Partner, Edwards, Angell Palmer & Dodge
Moderator: Paula Griswold, Exec Dir, Mass Coalition  for the   Prevention of Medical Errors.
This is a deep-dive into real vision of consumer/patient-centric healthcare. Challenges and opportunities, privacy and security challenges, patient control of PHI.
4:15 Regional Collaboration Meetings
State Officials in attendance, and others who wish to observe, will meet in breakout rooms, with states grouped by the 10 CMS regions.

Conference Blog with Video: http://mahit.us/
Agenda
Follow conference on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23mahit

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