ADVISORY/eHealth Initiative to Hold First ePolicy Conference On Health Care Technology.Business & Health Editors ADVISORY...For Tuesday (May 22) --(BW HealthWire) Date: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 Time: 9 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. (PST) Location: San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, California eHealth Initiative (eHI Ehi (ē`hī), the same as Ahiram.), a national advocacy and trade organization representing an alliance of stakeholders in the health care health care or healthcare n. The prevention, treatment, and management of illness and the preservation of mental and physical well-being through the services offered by the medical and allied health professions. adj. technology community, will host its first ePolicy conference in San Diego tomorrow. The ePolicy conference will include a discussion of public policies that impact eHealth strategies, plus insight from leaders who will share strategies for driving the rapid adoption of Internet-enabled and other emerging technologies to improve health care. health-care Of or relating to health care. A session on *Driving Improvement in the Quality of Health Care Information on the Internet* will be of particular interest to the media. Presenters will be available to address results of a study to be released next week on the quality of health information on the Internet. Media welcome to all sessions. Speakers and issues to be addressed include: --Overview of the eHealth Policy Agenda-- Bruce Fried, partner and chair of the Health Law Practice, Shaw Pittman --Overview of the Congressional Agenda-- Representative Pete Stark (D-CA) --Using Technology to Improve Health Care: the Purchaser's Perspective-- Tom Weatherup, director e-health care implementation, General Motors Corporation William R. Maloney, national practice leader for technology and e-business for health care and group benefits practices, William M. Mercer David Hopkins, Ph.D., director of health information improvement, Pacific Business Group on Health --Using Technology to Improve Health Care: the Health Plan's Perspective-- Anna-Lisa Silvestre, director, Kaiser Permanente Online John Fessler, president, payor services division, MedUnite --Quality of Health Care Information on the Internet: What Consumers are Telling Us-- Thaddeus Grimes-Gruczka, vice president of health care and Carolyn Gratzer, manager health care strategy, CyberDialogue, Inc. Tom Ferguson, M.D., senior research fellow for the Pew Internet and American Life Project Guy D'Andrea, senior vice president, URAC --Driving Improvement in the U.S. Health Care System Through Technology-- Kenneth W. Kizer, M.D., MPH, president and CEO, the National Quality Forum --Driving Improvement in the Quality of Health Care Information on the Internet-- Donald W. Kemper, MPH, chair and president, Hi-Ethics, Inc. Guy D'Andrea, senior vice president, URAC John Mack, president, Internet Healthcare Coalition |
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