ADVISORY/Quovadx Executive Provides Roadmap to Navigate the Clinical Data Sharing Process.

Dr. Ron Paulus Discusses Strategies for Traversing Technical, Political and Funding Hurdles in Establishing RHIOs at HIMSS 2005 Conference

Who:        Ronald Paulus, M.D., M.B.A., chief healthcare officer,
                Quovadx, Inc.

                Dr. Paulus is actively involved in developing
                technologies that facilitate clinical data sharing and
                care management and he belongs to several
                organizations that support the adoption of
                interoperable healthcare technology. He is a member of
                the Interoperability Workgroup for the Certification
                Commission for Healthcare Information Technology
                (CCHIT), a group formed by the American Health
                Information Management Association (AHIMA), Healthcare
                Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and
                the National Alliance for Health Information
                Technology.

                Dr. Paulus was a co-founder of CareScience, Inc. with
                David Brailer, M.D., Ph.D., where he served as
                president and chief executive officer prior to the
                Quovadx acquisition. Dr. Paulus has published numerous
                articles in the areas of clinical cost-effectiveness
                and clinical performance improvement, and the
                neurological structures used in memory. He has also
                lectured in the Wharton MBA program and speaks
                nationally on topics such as care management, clinical
                performance improvement, clinical data sharing,
                quality measurement, the application of information
                technology to improve health care services and
                physician leadership.

    What:       "The Value of Community-Wide Interoperability for
                Clinical Data Sharing"

                Having worked with clients on their clinical data
                exchange needs for many years, Dr. Paulus will
                outline, through real world examples, including the
                Santa Barbara Community Care Data Exchange(R) project,
                the steps regional communities can take to start to
                overcome the political, technical and funding hurdles
                needed to deliver on this important promise.

                Dr. Paulus' presentation will precede a presentation
                by Mike Skinner, executive director of the Santa
                Barbara County Care Data Exchange project, who will
                offer a community perspective and more detailed
                insight into the development of interoperability
                standards that support RHIOs like the Santa Barbara
                County Care Data Exchange.

    When:       Tuesday, February 15, 2005
                Dr. Ronald Paulus, Quovadx: 4:45 - 5:15PM
                Mike Skinner, Santa Barbara: 5:30 - 6:00PM

    Where:      Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society
                (HIMSS) Annual Conference
                IHE Interoperability Showcase Theater
                Dallas Convention Center
                Dallas, Texas

    Contact:    Abby Aylman Cohen
                [phone]/[phone]
                [e-mail]

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