Government Health IT 2006  
Jun. 15 - Jun. 16, 2006
Ronald Reagan Building
Washington, DC

Speakers

 Guide to the sessions below by track:
  Track 1: Policy, Applications & Technology   Track 2: Best Practices
  Professional Education Program (Open to all attendees. FREE for Government to attend.)

Alphabetically: A-G H-N O-T U-Z
Speakers Alphabetically
SPEAKER EVENT
George Anderson MD, MPH
Major General, USAF, MC (retired), Executive Director, Association of Military Surgeons of the United States
 
1-6: Transforming Military Health: IT Initiatives and Challenges
Stephen Badger
CEO, George Washington University Medical Faculty Associates
 
1-1: Health Information Technology Certification Update
Karen Bell MD, MMS
Director, Office of Health IT Adoption, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, Dept. of Health and Human Services
 
1-1: Health Information Technology Certification Update
David Blazes, MD, MPH
Director, Emerging Infections Program, Naval Medical Research Center Detachment Lima, Peru
 
1-4: Disease Surveillance and Pandemic Planning Approaches
Joseph Bond
Personal Identity Verification (PIV) Program Manager, Dept. of Veterans Affairs
 
2-4: Credentialing, ID Management and Access Control
Governor Donald Carcieri
Governor, Rhode Island
Exhibition Keynote
Ed Chase
Technology Strategist, Adobe Systems, Inc.
 
PEP 4: Emerging Technology and Standards for Interoperability in Healthcare
Aneesh Chopra
Secretary of Technology, Commonwealth of Virginia
Closing Plenary Lunch: Moving Health IT from Hope to Reality: Update from the NHIN Consortia Projects
Thomas Connell II
Chief Operating Officer, Disaster Management Solutions
 
2-4: Credentialing, ID Management and Access Control
Kathy Conrad
Senior Vice President, Jefferson Consulting
 
2-2: Achieving Value from Health IT: Metrics and Results
Robert Cothren PhD
Chief Scientist, Health Solutions, Northrop Grumman Corporation
Closing Plenary Lunch: Moving Health IT from Hope to Reality: Update from the NHIN Consortia Projects
Dr. Michael L Cowan
Chief Medical Officer, BearingPoint, and former Surgeon General, Dept. of the Navy
Morning Keynote: How Connectivity is Shattering Barriers to Change the Practice of Medicine
Greg DeBor
Partner, Global Health Solutions, Computer Sciences Corporation
Closing Plenary Lunch: Moving Health IT from Hope to Reality: Update from the NHIN Consortia Projects
Daniel Desmond
President, SIMI Group
 
PEP 3: Health Security: Providing Situational Awareness to Enable Conditional Response
Michelle Dougherty RHIA, CHP
Practice Manager, American Health Information Management Association
 
1-3: Governance: Privacy and Protecting the Public Interest
Walter Ekard
Chief Administrative Officer, County of San Diego, CA
 
2-3: Applying Technology to Improve Health Care Effectiveness
Grant Elliott
Vice President, Voxiva
 
PEP 3: Health Security: Providing Situational Awareness to Enable Conditional Response
David Epstein
Director, Public Sector Solutions, IBM Software Group
Closing Plenary Lunch: Moving Health IT from Hope to Reality: Update from the NHIN Consortia Projects
Governor Fletcher
Governor, Kentucky
Luncheon Keynote: State Leadership in the National E-Health Movement
Pete Fratus, MCP
Architect and Senior Software Engineer, eai-architecture.com
 
PEP 1: Healthcare Integration: Using a Standards Based Approach to Exchange EMR Information
Elin Gursky Sc.D.
Principal Deputy for Biodefense, National Strategies Support Directorate, ANSER
 
PEP 3: Health Security: Providing Situational Awareness to Enable Conditional Response