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John D. Cochrane is a 30 year veteran in the healthcare industry. Until January 1993 Mr. Cochrane was the Executive Vice President for UniMed America, the physician services and medical group-networking arm of UniHealth America, a $3.0 billion diversified health care system in Southern California. During the period 1981 through 1992, Mr. Cochrane was a chief research & development executive for HealthWest and then was Senior Vice President for Development and Operations for UniHealth America Ventures following the 1988 merger with LHS Corp to form UniHealth. As Executive Vice President for UniMed America, Mr. Cochrane developed the UniMed physician networking business plan for the company and was instrumental in completing several Foundation, MSO and group formation prqiects for UniHealth, including the acquisitions of Harriman Jones Medical Group in Long Beach, CA. and the Facey Medical Group in Mission Hills.

In January 1993, Mr. Cochrane left UniHealth to form three successful new companies. He is the editor and founder of the Integrated Healthcare Report, a monthly journal that tracks significant physician, hospital, insurer and managed care developments around the country. Mr. Cochrane also founded and developed the popular Annual Symposium on Integrated Healthcare conducted in Aspen, CO, and other locations. Mr. Cochrane also formed the Integrated Healthcare Development Group, a specialized consulting firm with a focus of assisting insurers, physicians and healthcare systems with business planning and project coordination for integration projects. Finally, in August 1999 Mr Cochrane was the founder and editor-in-chief of E-Healthcare Connections, a monthly journal for healthcare leaders that tracks the most innovative health-related developments on the Internet.

Prior to joining HealthWest (UniHealth) in 1981, Mr. Cochrane was Vice President for Management Services of the California Hospital Association. In this capacity he managed the statewide consulting and educational arm of the association. Before that Mr. Cochrane held executive positions with several California hospitals and ambulatory clinic organizations.

Mr. Cochrane has a masters degree in healthcare administration from the University of Minnesota and attended Yale University and Carleton College for his undergraduate work. He is a frequent author and guest speaker. His presentations have included board retreats for associations; non-profit health systems; presentations to physician leadership in both hospitals and medical groups; special conferences for vendors, pharmaceutical executives, and; workshops & retreats for investor groups and Blue Cross/Blue Shield organizations.

Ted Cooper, M.D. is the National Director of Confidentiality and Security at Kaiser Permanente. Previously he served as the Associate Director for Medical Information Systems for Kaiser Permanente Northern California. He is the Immediate Past Chairperson of the board of directors of the Computer-based Patient Record Institute and chairs its Content Committee for the "CPRI Toolkit: Managing Information Security in Health Care". In addition Dr. Cooper leads Work Group 4 on security of the U.S. Technical Advisory Group to the International Standards Organization Technical Committee 215.

Dr. Cooper practices ophthalmology at the Kaiser Permanente medical Center in Redwood city, California and is an Associate Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology at the Stanford University Medical School.

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 opthalmologist 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.

Dr. Gibson attended medical school at Case Western Reserve University. After family practice residency he practiced family medicine, then emergency medicine, for seven years in Washington State. With Board Certification in both Family Practice and Emergency Medicine, he continues to practice in Portland. He completed a Ph.D. in Medical Informatics at LDS Hospital and the University of Utah in Salt Lake City in 1995. He came to Providence Health System in 1996.

Providence Health System, Oregon Region, is a group of eight hospitals, a 300,000-member capitated health plan, a 300,000-member preferred provider plan, and 165 employed primary care physicians and 45 residents. As Medical Director of Information Services for Providence, Dr. Gibson is responsible for planning and implementing clinical information systems in both the hospital and office arenas. Although PHS does not develop systems in-house, Dr. Gibson serves as a development partner with McKessonHBOC and with MedicaLogic, Inc., vendor of Logician, an office electronic medical record.

Current tasks include enhancing Logician in the offices of the employed physicians, improving the patient results review applications, building a physician Intranet, analyzing physician practice patterns using administrative and clinical data, and electronically connecting Providence to physician offices using telephone lines, wide area networks, and the Internet.

Goals include facilitating physician communication electronically and gradually improving health care with information system feedback to the physician at the time that physicians make clinical decisions. His challenges include providing information services in Oregon's highly managed care environment for 1500 largely private practice-based physicians, many of whom have no clinical computers in their office.

Dr. Henry ("Hank") Golembesky is a nationally-known physician executive, frequent speaker and author. In addition to his duties as Medical Editor of E-Healthcare Connections, Dr. Golembesky is President of KinexCare California, an integrated provider network company servicing musculoskeletal injuries and disorders. Hank started his career as a practicing pediatrician in Southern California at the Rees-Stealy Medical Group which led to his active role in administrative medicine as the Chairman of the Board of that group. During his tenure, the group grew from 35,000 managed care enrollees to over 120,000 and was integrated with the SHARP Healthcare System to form SHARP Rees-Stealy Medical group. He has served as an executive of UniHealth America, a mutli-billion dollar integrated system responsible for the system's physician Division. And, further, he served as a Partner with APM Management Consultants/CSC Healthcare, directing their physician practice management division. Dr. Golembesky's particular expertise is in developing and implementing new physician organizational models for hospital and physician integration. He holds a Medical Degree from the University of New Mexico School of Medicine and is Board Certified by both the American Board of Pediatrics and the American Board of Medical Management.

Peter N. Grant is a partner in the San Francisco and Seattle offices of Davis Wright Tremaine and is co-chair of the firm's Health Law Group. His national practice emphasizes medical group and independent practice association organizations, hostpital-physician joint ventures, HMO and insurance regulation, reimbusement and antitrust.

Mr. Grant received a B.A. with special honors from the University of Texas at Austin in 1971; attended the Sorbonne and Free University of West Berlin; received a law degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 1979; and was granted a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1988. Mr. Grant's dissertation was entitled "The Struggle for the Control of California's Health Care Marketplace." At Harvard, Mr. Grant received an Honorary Faculty Fellowship. He was a Pew Memorial Trust Fellow at the Institute for Health Policy Studies of the School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, and a Sierra Foundation Fellow. Mr. Grant is an instructor at both the School of Public Health at the University of California at Berkeley and at the Harvard School of Public Health.

Mr. Grant has lectured before numerous organizations, including the Advisory Board, AMA, AHA, AMGA, MGMA, ACHE, the Harvard Business and Law Schools, and the University of California's Institute for Health Policy Studies. He is a contributing editor to California Medicine, a member of the national advisory board of the Integrated Healthcare Report and the BNA Health Law Reporter and on the editorial board of Health Affairs. He is listed in the 1996-97 and 1997-1998 editions of The Best Lawyers in America.

Mr. Grant is general counsel to the IPA Association of America and the California Integrated Healthcare Association and special counsel to the American Medical Group Association.

Mr. Grant is Past President of both the California Society of Healthcare Attorneys and the Northern California Chapter of the Healthcare Financial Management Association. He is a member of the American Health Lawyers Association, the American Academy of HealthCare Attorneys and the Health Law Section of the American Bar Association.

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.

Mr. Hackett has 20 years of business experience in the technology and healthcare industries and was employed in senior management of two computer industry startup companies that successfully completed IPOs. Mr. Hackett successfully implemented the first provider-centric, computer based, pay-per-view pharmaceutical and reference-laboratory network. He also initiated direct ED transactions between payors, laboratories and hospitals with physician management systems.

Mr. Hackett holds an undergraduate degree in Marketing from the University of Cincinnati and is an active participant with various healthcare organizations, such as HIMSS, CHIME and MGMA. Mr. Hackett has held various sales marketing and operations positions with firms such as Physician Computer Network, Inc., Computer Depot and IBM.

ClinEffect Systems, Inc. has developed an industry leading platform dedicated to providing physicians with a variety of value-added transaction related services via hand held digital devices used at the point of care. Automated charge capture and verification, the cornerstone of the system, has proven to deliver powerful financial benefits by sharply reducing lost and denied charges and by accelerating reimbursement from third party payers.

Overall, ClinEffect Systems Inc. offers solutions that significantly shrink red tape and expand productivity while allowing medical professionals to do more of what they do best: care for patients.

ClinEffect was founded in 1995 by Dr. Lloyd Hey, Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Duke. Dr. Hey's primary patient care concentration is in spinal surgery. Within ClinEffect, he functions as the visionary "bridge" between the "real world" of physicians and the strategic direction taken by the ClinEffect team. Dr. Hey holds a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from MIT, an MD from the Harvard Medical School, and an MS of Clinical Epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health.

A native of Florida, Dr. Lundberg holds earned and honorary degrees from North Park College, Baylor University, the University of Alabama (Birmingham and Tuscaloosa), the State University of New York, Syracuse, Thomas Jefferson University and the Medical College of Ohio. He completed a clinical internship in Hawaii and a pathology residency in San Antonio. He served during the Vietnam War in San Francisco and El Paso to complete an 11 year military tour. Dr. Lundberg was Professor of Pathology and Associate Director of Laboratories at the Los Angeles County/USC Medical Center for 10 years. In 1977, he became Professor and Chair of Pathology at the University of California-Davis.

Dr. Lundberg has worked in tropical medicine in Central America and Forensic Medicine in New York, Sweden and England. His major professional inter ests are toxicology, violence, communication, physician behavior, strategic management and health system reform. He is past President of the American Society of Clinical Pathologists. From 1982 to 1999, Dr. Lundberg was at the American Medical Association as Editor in Chief, Scientific Information and Multimedia with editorial responsibility for its 39 medical journals, American Medical News, and various Internet products, and the Editor of JAMA. On February 15, 1999 Dr. Lundberg became Editor in Chief of Medscape, the world 92s leading site for health and medical information on the Internet and on April 9, 1999 the founding Editor of Medscape General Medicine. A frequent lecturer, radio and television host and guest, and a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, Dr. Lundberg holds academic appointments as a professor at Northwestern and Harvard.

Hill Physicians is the largest Independent Practice Association in the country and the largest capitated medical group in California. The group includes 2,500 participating physicians and 20 affiliated hospitals serving 360,000 enrollees throughout Northern California. Hill Physicians was recently named the top medical group in California by the Pacific Business Group on Health. Steve and Hill Physicians also recently received the Strategic Leadership Award by Arthur Andersen. Steve organized Hill Physicians Medical Group in 1984 through an exclusive management contract with PriMed, a management company specializing in organizing and managing medical groups.

Prior to organizing Hill Physicians, Steve organized and managed emergency departments in six states, serving 50 hospitals and treating one million patients annually. From 1973 to 1976 Steve was the Executive Director of the San Francisco Bay Area Emergency Medical System, responsible for establishing regional emergency medical systems in each of the nine Bay Area counties. He obtained his master's degree in Business and Health Care Administration from George Washington University in 1971 and his undergraduate degree in Business from Providence College in 1969.

Mr. Pallett is the Director of Deloitte Consulting's Health Care Strategy and Customer Dynamics Practices and a Partner in the Health Care Group of the Management Consulting Division of the Boston Office of the firm. He has been a consultant to Health Plans, Hospitals and Physician groups for the last 10 years. Since joining the firm in 1987, he has focused primarily on engagements to improve the competitive position of our clients. These projects have included strategic planning, market planning, product planning and development, customer segmentation studies, operational improvement, utilization management, systems implementation, merger and acquisition, and turnaround efforts.

Mr. Pallett's clients include academic medical centers, physician groups, health maintenance organizations, national network management companies, and health insurers. In addition to his leadership responsibilities in the health care strategy and customer dynamics arena, he is leading the health care industry's consumer research project.

Prior to joining the Deloitte & Touche Consulting Group, he was with Shell Oil in London, and a consultant to the World Bank in Pakistan. He is a frequent speaker at professional society meetings and conferences on a wide variety of health care related topics.

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 healthcare 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.

Dr. Helga E. Rippen is the Director of Medical Informatics at Pfizer Health Solutions, Inc which she joined in December, 1999. Her primary responsibility is the development of effective health applications that support the healthcare provider. Prior to this she was the Director of the Health Information Technology Institute of Mitretek Systems, which she co-founded in June of 1996. Her primary interest is in the development and application of information technology to improve health.

Dr. Rippen is co-chair of the eHealth Ethics Initiative organized by the Internet Healthcare Coalition, of which she is Chairperson. She has lead the effort to develop an Internet-based tool to help consumers assess the quality of health information on the Internet (see http://hitiweb.mitretek.org/hswg). As Chair of IEEE-USA Medical Technology Policy Committee she helped develop principles of privacy, security and confidentiality for health information. She is a faculty member of Johns Hopkins University where she has taught health informatics and provided residency training in medical informatics. She serves on several non-profit boards and is active in many organizations.

Dr. Rippen 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 where she also completed her residency in preventive medicine. She is board certified in public health and general preventive medicine.

Dr. Bowman founded WellMed in 1993 with the mission to simplify the way people access the information they need to better manage and improve their overall health. A pioneer in the rapidly evolving health media industry, WellMed has created proprietary software tools - WellQuotient, WellRecord, and WellTIPs - which are components of its Personal Health Manager. These tools identify personal health status, outline steps that can be taken to prevent serious medical problems, store individual and family medical history on-line and facilitate the delivery of personalized health information and tutorials.

David D. Dawson became President and CEO of V-ONE Corporation in December 1997 and Chairman of the Board of Directors in July 1998. Mr. Dawson has over 25 years experience in the data communications and networking field.

Prior to joining V-ONE, Mr. Dawson was general manager for the Network Security Division at Ascend Communications, Inc., which produced wide area networking solutions for telecommunications carriers, Internet service providers, and corporate customers worldwide. Mr. Dawson had profit-and-loss responsibility for the division and was in charge of strategy and product development, marketing, and business relationships with carriers, Internet Service Providers, and other companies.

Mr. Dawson was chief executive officer/chief operating officer of Morning Star Technologies, a communications and security networking company, when he negotiated and executed the successful merger of the company with Ascend in March of 1996. Prior to that, he served as vice president of development for Net Express Systems. He also served as vice president of engineering for EMTEK Healthcare Systems and spent ten years at IBM, where he had P&L responsibility for several key IBM products. Additionally, he contributed to the architecture and development process for IBM’s AIX operating system.

Mr. Dawson served in the U.S. Army, achieving the rank of Major. He received a Bachelors of Science in electrical engineering from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and holds Masters degrees in operations research from the Air Force Institute of Technology in Dayton, OH, and in computer science from Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, New Jersey.

Dr. Denton is a board-certified neurosurgeon who trained in Boston, Minneapolis, Memphis, and, as the VanWagenen Neurosurgical Fellow, Zurich, Switzerland. He practiced in academic and private situations until June 1999 and holds membership in the AMA, AANS, and AMIA professional societies.

Dr. Denton is also President of the HealthDirections group of CapMed Corporation. In that capacity he promotes PHR CapMed's electronic personal health record, as a tool that can advance shared decision making among doctors and patients.

Dr. Gaillour is a consultant who specializes in assisting healthcare technology vendors and e-health companies refine their market and clinical product strategies to better meet the needs of their customers.

Pat Latterell has been a General Partner at Venrock since 1989. He has been active in health care venture capital since 1983, helping form and fund over three dozen new medical ventures over the past sixteen years. Prior to Venrock, Pat was a General Partner at Rothschild Ventures and an executive with Syntex Pharmaceuticals. Based in Menlo Park, he focuses on biopharmaceutical, medical device, health service, and health care internet startups. He previously served on the board or was an active participant with Cardiothoracic Systems, EP Technologies (acquired by Boston Scientific), Geron, Immulogic Pharmaceuticals, Isis Pharmaceuticals, PerSeptive Biosystems (acquired by Perkin Elmer) and Pharmacyclics, among others.

Pat currently serves on the boards of Allergenics, A-Med Systems, EMBOL-X, Eos Biotechnology, MicroHeart, Oratec Interventions, Signal Pharmaceuticals and Vical. He also leads Venrock’s involvement with Argomed and Vital Insite among others.

Pat holds an S.B. in Biological Sciences and an S.B. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

S. HARVEY PRICE is a healthcare industry strategist based in Boca Raton, Florida. He has worked as an independent consultant since 1971.

His clients are community hospitals, hospital systems and major corporations that have products or services for the healthcare industry.

Mr. Price's clients have included: six hospitals in New Jersey, two in Pennsylvania, two in Florida, one each in West Virginia, Texas and New York; Catholic hospitals in Connecticut, Florida, Georgia and Maryland; and a hospital system in Illinois.

In addition to his hospital work, Mr. Price has prepared in-depth marketing studies for Roche Laboratories and Squibb; helped organize AT&T's National Healthcare Marketing Research Department and developed hospital sales strategies for most of the original Bell operating companies; provided marketing services to HSI, the New Haven firm made-up of Yale faculty members who developed DRGs; designed a medical society campaign to modify New Jersey malpractice insurance regulations; and wrote marketing reports on trends in the healthcare field that were published internationally by Frost & Sullivan. Mr. Price was the co-founder of the TrendLeaders Club (TLC), a forum for 44 of the Nation's leading hospital CEOs. He was a "National Healthcare Advisor" to Smith Barney, the Wall Street investment firm.

In addition to his consulting services, he writes a bi-weekly column for Modern Healthcare on the impact of the Internet on healthcare. The column is called "e-musing." He is also a contributing editor to a monthly journal, E-Healthcare Connections. He has served for eight years on a national panel that selects the Modern Healthcare magazine Trustee of the Year. And, he conducts educational "advances" for hospital executives, trustees and physicians.

Mr. Price holds a bachelor's degree from Ohio University. He worked at Case-Western Reserve University Hospital and Medical School in Cleveland; The George Washington University Hospital and Medical School in Washington, DC; and was involved in building Greater Southeast Community Hospital also in the Nation's Capitol. He worked for a Washington consulting firm on studies for NIH; and helped organize the Network for Continuing Medical Education--a video network that grew to over 1,000 hospitals in the United States and Canada.