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MONDAY, JANUARY 12, 2009
Healthcare and the Recession:
Economic Uncertainty and the Road Ahead
Scott Lundstrom
Healthcare organizations will all be impacted by changes in the US economic and political landscape. Increased economic pressures, changes in government health programs, and the credit crisis will have a significant impact on current healthcare IT strategies and budgets. Join us for a discussion of the current IDC forecasts and our assessment of the serious market changes that will result from the current economic and political environment.
Mobility and Tele-health Panel
Marc Holland, Moderator
Two recent changes to the Medicare regulations governing reimbursement for telemedicine services are expected to spur growth in the adoption of telemedicine technology. Up until now, telemedicine's greatest adoption challenge has been the limited degree of third-party reimbursement for such services. This discussion will also evolve around technology adoption and trends such as the mobile clinical assistant (MCA) reference architecture.
Health 2.0: Transforming the U.S. Healthcare System
Lynne Dunbrack
The application of Web 2.0 technologies to the healthcare industry is dramatically changing how stakeholders share information, collaborate and interact with the healthcare system. Health 2.0 is clearly poised to have a profound impact as the disruptive technologies of Web 2.0 become more mainstream and are more fully incorporated into the strategies of healthcare stakeholders. This presentation will define a framework for Health 2.0 as defined by Health Industry Insights and discusses the state of the Health 2.0 market and its key players.
Top 10s Payer and Provider Panels
Payer Moderator: Janice Young
Provider Moderator: Judy Hanover
Healthcare Payer Top 10: 2009
The global economic maelstrom, micro-consumerism, a new political administration, new standards initiatives including ICD-10, international opportunities, transparency and web 2.0 - the US healthcare insurance market faces ever new challenges in 2009. This presentation will discuss how the emerging trends will blend with historical challenges, and how the new market environment will reset business and technology priorities and spending patterns. We will also discuss how the technology community is addressing the new challenges and provide an overview of leading vendors and solution evolutionary models.
Healthcare Provider Top 10: 2009
Health Industry Insights' annual predictions offer an important preview of the industry events, user trends, and vendor strategies that promise to define the healthcare IT industry in the year ahead. This session draws on Health Industry Insights' research, end user input and insights from our entire healthcare provider research team. In this presentation, Research Manager Judy Hanover will recap the 2008 Provider Predictions, review results, and discuss the top 10 2009 Provider Predictions.
TUESDAY, JANUARY 13, 2009
Virtualization Panel
Janice Young, Moderator
IT organizations are growing their production environments utilizing virtualization; healthcare executives need to consider re- allocating budgets for best practice management and automation to lower their TCO. Virtualizing the IT infrastructure fully illustrates the idea that less is more for even the largest organizations to maintain their ability to maximize their technology, lower the cost of ownership, and reduce energy usage. The moderator will lead a discussion surrounding this technology.