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Sunday, February 6, 2000 |
9:00 am
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Optional Session: Legal and Ethical Issues in the Healthcare Internet and E-Commerce |
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Keith Korenchuk, Esq.
Partner, Davis Wright Tremaine
Washington, D.C. and Charlotte, North Carolina
Gerry Hinkley, JD
Partner, Davis Wright Tremaine
San Francisco, CA
Reece Hirsch, JD
Partner, Davis Wright Tremaine
San Francisco, CA
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Monday, February 7, 2000 |
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7:00 am |
Continental Breakfast |
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8:15 am |
21st Century Technology Solutions for Physicians, Hospitals, & Integrated Delivery Systems |
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Russell J. Ricci, MD
General Manager Global Healthcare, IBM Corporation
Atlanta, GA |
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IBM is a global leader in technology and has committed its
substantial resources to encouraging the advancement of Web-enabled
healthcare. Dr. Ricci is a well known authority and
frequent speaker on the impact of 21st century technology on the
shape of the healthcare delivery systems in America. Russell J.
Ricci, M.D. General Manager, IBM Healthcare Industry, leads
the IBM team whose mission is to deliver information technology
solutions to healthcare payors, providers, pharmaceutical
companies and other related orgniazations that will use
information to help improve the delivery of healthcare to
populations worldwide. |
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9:00 am |
Dilemmas & Opportunities in the Internet
Transforamation of American Healthcare |
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Donald Hackett
President and CEO
drkoop.com, Inc. |
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Mr. Hackett is replacing C. Everett Koop, MD, ScD as speaker for this Discussion Topic, as was originally printed in the Symposium brochure.
Don Hackett is the founder, president and CEO of drkoop.com, Inc., a consistent market leader in the growing Internet healthcare industry. Mr. Hackett is also one of the founding rnembers of the Hi-Ethics Alliance, an alliance of competing Internet healthcare companies pledged to developing standards for on line health Information. Mr. Hackett is currently chairman of the Hi-Ethics Alliance Advertising Committee which develops editorial and advertising guidelines for health Web sites. He also serves on Texas Lieutenant Governor Rick Perry's Technology Advisory Council, a group of two dozen leaders from the slate's technology industry that advises Perry on issues such as privacy and consumer protection on the Internet, high-tech work force development and improving math and science education. |
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9:45 am |
Coffee Break & Exhibits |
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10:15 am |
Building Physician & Hospital Success Strategies for the
Emerging E-Health Environment |
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Graham Pallett
Principal, Deloitte Consulting Health Care Practice
Boston, MA
Thaddeus Grimes-Gruczka, EVP
Cyber Dialogue
New York, NY |
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Research compiled by Deloitte and Cyber Dialogue, a leading
Internet market research company, reveal the five key forces
accelerating the evolution of a new e-health consumer. Based on
the findings they predict that only those companies acknowledging
the new demands for information, customization and convenience
will emerge as winners. Their report on this and subsequent
research will help physicians and hospitals to better understand
the new breed of e-healthcare consumer. This will provide a
knowledge base for building success strategies for the emerging
e-health environment. |
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11:00 am |
Case Study: What Happens When Patients Have
Online Access to their Health Records? |
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Richard Gibson, MD
Chief Medical Information Officer,
Providence Health System
Portland, OR
Richard Skinner
Chief Information Officer, Providence Health System
Portland, OR
Mark Leavitt, MD, Ph.D.
President & CEO, Medicalogic
Hillsborough, OR |
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MedicaLogic and the Providence Health Systems have a pilot
project underway that allows patients to access their medical
records and provide input in Portland, OR. This remarkable
program dovetails with a practice EMR program offered by the
company. Mark Leavitt founded MedicaLogic in 1985. He holds a
doctorate from Stanford University in electrical engineering and a
doctor of medicine from the University of Miami. Board-certified in
internal medicine and geriatrics, Dr. Leavitt practiced full-time for
10 years, then served as medical director of information systems at
Providence Health System for two years. |
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12:15 pm |
Lunch (Provided)
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Luncheon Speaker:
What Do Internet-Savvy Consumers Expect of Hospitals & Physicians? |
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Dean Edell, MD
Syndicated Radio Talk Show Host |
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Dr. Dean Edell is a physician broadcaster, author, and host of the
nationally syndicated radio talk show, "The Dr. Dean Edell
Show." He is also the anchor of "Medical Minutes" and host of the
daily "Medical Report." Dr. Edell has been active in the media
since 1978. Prior to his career as a media doctor, he was an
ophthalmologist and surgeon in private practice, as well as an
instructor at the Department of Surgery for the University of
California, San Diego, School of Medicine. He earned his M.D. at
Cornell University Medical School. |
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1:15 pm |
Why Should Physicians & Hospitals be Concerned
About the Quality of Health Information on the Net?
What Can We Do About it? Should Physicians
Exchange E-Mail with Patients? |
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Helga Rippen, MD, Ph.D., MPH
Director of Medical Informatics
Pfizer Health Solutions |
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Dr Rippen is leading an effort to develop an Internet-based tool to
help consumers assess the quality of health information on the
Internet. This tool will be based on the recommendations of the
Health Summit Group whose mission is to develop criteria to
assess the quality of health information on the Internet. Dr Rippen
is Chairperson of the Health Education Subcommittee of IEEE's
Medical Technology Policy Committee, External Liaison to HHS's
Science Panel on Interactive Communications and Health, and
Board chairperson of the Internet Healthcare Coalition. Dr.
Rippen is boarded in Public Health and Preventive Medicine. She
received her Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from Duke
University, a M.D. with honors from the University of Florida,
and a M.P.H. from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and
Public Health. |
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2:00 pm |
Preparing for HIPAA: What You Have to Do to
Assure Privacy of Patient Information |
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Presenting a "HIPAA Tool Kit"
Ted Cooper, MD
National Director of Security & Privacy,
Kaiser Permanente
Oakland, CA
Bruce Patterson
Director of 3Com Healthcare Worldwide
Winston Salem, NC
Jeff Collmann, Ph.D.
Department of Radiology,
Georgetown University Medical Center
Washington, D.C. |
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As healthcare enters a new era with the emergence of eCommerce,
the risk of violating patient privacy has never been greater. The
Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA) is
being heralded at Y2K II. In a recent Healthcare Informatics
survey, nearly 60% of respondents said that they haven't even
began working on HIPAA compliance. Yet, the new privacy rules
impose both requirements and sanctions on hospitals and
physicians. It will be one of the top challenges in 2000 and this
team will present a solution. |
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3:00 pm |
Case Study: View from the Office of a Wired Family
Practitioner in a Saturated Managed Care Market |
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Robert Rowley, MD
Family Practice Physician & Hill Physicians IPA Member
Hayward, CA |
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Dr. Rowley is the other end of the Healtheon/WebMD deal with
Hill Physicians. As a busy 3 physician primary care office in
Hayward, Dr. Rowley addresses the issue of just how "wired" is it
practical to become. Information from a vast array of sources
flows into the practice by phone, paper, fax and Internet. It flows
out of the practice in similar form. What can be done to
electronicize all this? What is Dr. Rowley's future on the Net? |
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3:45 pm |
Case Study: A Day in the Life of a Wired Internist |
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David Litoff, MD
Internist, Harbor Medical Group
Chicago, IL |
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Dr. Litoff is an internist with a concentration on gerontology at
the Harbor Medical Group in Chicago. He first became
interested in computers to help organize his nursing home
practice. Beginning with an old 386 he has graduated to using
palmtops (PDAs) extensively. Whether it's keeping patient
records, writing prescriptions, communicating with patients by e-mail,
keeping track of charges, or looking up information on the
Net, Dr. Litoff is not only "wired" - he is "wired-less." |
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4:30 pm |
The Race to Find and Keep "Cyber-Talent": Can
Hospitals Compete, or Should They Outsource? Where
will Tomorrow's E-Health Technical & Management
Leadership Come From? Should Physicians be Looking
to Hospitals, Medical Groups, IPAs, MSOs or Dot-Com
Companies to Support Their Web Strategies? |
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Heidrick & Struggles Issues Discussion Panel |
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Heidrick & Struggles is an international executive search firm
with heavy involvement in placing e-healthcare executive leaders.
They will be moderating a panel of provider and e-healthcare
executives discussing issues that go to the core of developing
effective e-healthcare strategies. How do you attract and retain
both technical and management talent in this turbulent, high-velocity arena? Major health systems throughout the country are
wrestling with these questions. |
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Tuesday, February 8, 2000 |
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7:00 am |
Continental Breakfast |
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8:15 am |
Health System Case Study: An Advanced Web-Based
Model for Integrated Healthcare |
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Stan Pappelbaum, MD
President & CEO, Scripps Health
La Jolla, CA |
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Stan Pappelbaum, MD is the president and CEO of Scripps
Health in San Diego, a large hospital system with multiple
affiliated physician groups that is in the process of developing an
extensive intranet, extranet, and internet market presence. |
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9:00 am |
IPA/Medical Group Case Study: The Internet is a Survival Strategy In Managed Care Markets |
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Steve McDermott
President/CEO Hill Physicians
San Ramon, CA |
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Steve McDermott leads one of the nation's largest and most successful IPAs in a marketplace that is completely saturated with managed care. They have developed an interesting relationship with Healtheon that employs the web to improve practice efficiency and achieve savings that are essential in a managed care environment. |
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10:00 am |
The Future of Medical Practice on the Internet |
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George D. Lundberg, MD
Editor in Chief, CBS/Medscape.com |
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George D. Lundberg, M.D., Editor in Chief. Prior to joining
Medscape in February 1999, Dr. Lundberg served as Editor of the
Journal of the American Medical Association for 17 years. Dr.
Lundberg also served as the Editor in Chief of Scientific
Information and Multimedia, a publication of the American
Medical Association, from 1982 until 1999. Dr. Lundberg holds
an MS degree from Baylor University and BS and MD degrees
from the University of Alabama. Dr. Lundberg holds honorary
degrees from four U.S. universities. |
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11:00 am |
How to Develop a Comprehensive Integrated
Healthcare "Net" Strategy |
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David Pryor, MD
System Vice President & Information Officer
(& Practicing Cardiologist), Allina Health System
Minneapolis, MN |
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David Pryor, MD is the system vice president and information
officer for Allina, a major statewide integrated healthcare system
in Minneapolis, MN. Over the years this $2.6 billion health
system has grown to 19 hospitals, 7 nursing homes, several
thousand physicians and one of the largest health plans in
Minnesota. Dr. Pryor has been the point person in unifying many
disparate, proprietary information systems that could not
communicate with each other. He also has overall responsibility for
the aggressive, consumer-oriented, multi-pronged Internet strategy
the system has adopted. They recently launched a new consumer
portal called MedFormation.com, which has exciting and greatly
expanded options for consumer interaction. Dr. Pryor is also a
practicing Cardiologist. |
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11:45 am |
Morning Faculty Q & A (Audience Participation) |
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12:00 pm |
Lunch (Provided) |
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Luncheon Speaker: |
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Patient Consultation on the Web; Risk and Rewards
Scott Rifkin, MD
President, AmericasDoctors.com |
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AmericasDoctor.com is a consumer health portal that allows anyone
in the world to log on and "talk" with physicians 24 hours a day.
Its founder, Dr. Scott Rifkin, will be demonstrating how it works
and the issues and experience's they have encountered. Who calls
in? What questions do they ask? How do the physicians handle it
without exposting themselves to malpractice? How is privacy
assured? The web site also has affiliated with a large number of
major hospital systems throughout the country. |
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1:00 pm |
Disease Management: Can the Internet Improve
Health Status? |
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David E. Goodman, MD
Founder, Lifemasters
South San Francisco, CA |
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Dr. Goodman founded LifeMasters Supported SelfCare, Inc., in
1994. This company provides both web-based and offline
programs focused on helping patients better control their chronic
health problems while under the supervise of their physicians. He
is the inventor of technology that employs wireless networks and
handheld devices in a unique disease management program. He is
also a Clinical Associate in the Department of Medicine at UC
San Francisco School of Medicine. LifeMaster's has been testing
their monitoring approach in the SF Bay Area. |
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1:45 pm |
Case Study: Practicing Psychiatry & Managing
"Psycho-Babble" on the Net |
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Robert Hsiung, MD
Department of Psychiatry, University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
http://dr-bob.uchicago.edu
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Robert C. Hsiung, MD, aka Dr. Bob, is an Assistant Professor of
Clinical Psychiatry at the University of Chicago and an active
Internet psychiatrist. He develops innovative web resources such
as Psychopharmacology Tips, netcasts the Department of
Psychiatry Grand Rounds, and has a grant to explore the use of
desktop Internet videoconferencing for psychotherapy. He has
presented his work and taught courses at national and regional
meetings. He serves on the editorial boards of Psychiatry On-Line
and CyberPsychology & Behavior. He has been a peer reviewer
for JAMA and Applied & Preventative Psychology. He is a
Founding Member and the current Secretary-Treasurer of the
International Society for Mental Health Online and is on the
steering committee of the Psychiatric Society for Informatics. He is
also a member of the Associate Faculty of the MacLean Center for
Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago. He chaired
the Internet committee and serves on the Ethics Committee of the
Illinois Psychiatric Society. |
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2:45 pm |
Enabling the Mobile Healers:
An Orthopedic Surgeon on the Move |
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Lloyd Hey, MD
Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Duke University
Health System, (President, ClinEffect Systems)
Durham, NC
www.clineffect.com
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Dr. Lloyd Hey is a practicing Orthopedic Surgeon at Duke
University Medical Center. In 1995 Dr. Hey founded ClinEffect
to develop point of care software as a commercial product and to
provide support for large-scale implementations of CSI Stations
(handheld computer terminals) in group practices. CSI Station is
installed at several major group practices across the country, and
in 1998 Duke University Medical Center contracted to take CSI
Station enterprise-wide. Designed to provide ease of use, speed
and portability, CSI automates charge capture using handheld
devices and the Internet. |
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3:30 pm |
Case Study: A Day in the Life of a Wired Gastroenterologist |
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Phillip Grossman, MD
Gastroenterologist
Miami, FL
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Dr. Grossman is a gastroenterologist in Miami who describes
himself as a totally "wired" gastroenterologist. |
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4:15 pm |
Spinning the "Web": What it Means to be Wired? |
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Dr. Pardeep Nijawan, MD
Mayo Clinic
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