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Dogu Celebi:
Chief medical officer, payer and government solutions at OptumInsight
Formerly developed disease and care management programs for CIGNA
George C. Halvorson:
Chairman, CEO of Kaiser Permanente
Convened the Care Connectivity Consortium
Member of the Institute of Medicine Roundtable on Value & Science-Driven Health Care
Jiajie Zhang:
Co-director, National Center for Cognitive Informatics and Decision Making in Healthcare at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Associate dean for research, professor, UT Health School of Biomedical Informatics
Principal investigator, ONC’s SHARP program for patient-centered cognitive support
Aneesh Chopra:
Chief Technology Office of the United States
Served as Virginia’s fourth Secretary of Technology, January 2008-April 2009
Previously served as managing director with the Advisory Board Company, a publicly traded healthcare think tank
Charles Christian
Charles Christian:
CIO of Good Samaritan Hospital, a 232-bed hospital in Vincennes, Ind.
2010 John E. Gall CIO of the Year Award
Fellow of both CHIME and HIMSS
Formerly served on the CHIME Board of Trustees and is a past chairman of the HIMSS Board of Directors
In October, Healthcare IT News reported that American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) would recognize clinical informatics (CI) as a subspecialty, with exams beginning in 2012 and certification to begin in early 2013.
With the conversion to ICD-10 disease and treatment coding expected by the government-set deadline of Oct. 1 2013, and all that entails, a new career path is emerging in healthcare – the chief knowledge officer, or CKO.
Sixty-five hospitals have earned the Leapfrog Group's annual "Top Hospital" designation, equaling 2010's record-setting total. The designation, which Leapfrog bills as the most competitive national hospital quality award in the country, recognizes quality of care.
In August, Healthcare IT News showed how Montefiore Medical Center, in the Bronx, has been providing quality care for decades, thanks to a clinical analytics system that could serve as a model for other healthcare systems across the country.
“There has never been a better time to be innovating in health and wellness,” said Steve Krein, CEO of StartUp Health, when the company was announced at the Health Data Initiative Forum held in New York this past summer.