Healthvision Announces Get Connected Knowledge Forum Conference; Exclusive Event Networks Healthcare Systems with Connected Community Advocates; Sponsors Include VHA and eHealth Initiative.IRVING, Texas Irving (pronounced 'er-ving') is a city located in the U.S. state of Texas within Dallas County. According to the 2000 U.S. Census, the city population was 191,615; the 2006 estimate was 201,927 according to the North Central Texas Council of Governments, and 196,084 according to -- Healthvision, a leading healthcare Internet company, today announced their Get Connected Knowledge Forum Conference. The Get Connected 2005 Knowledge Forum, sponsored by Healthvision, VHA VHA Veterans Health Administration VHA Variable Housing Allowance VHA Villages Homeowners Association VHA Voluntary Hospitals Association VHA Virtual Home Agent VHA Very High Altitude VHA Vapor Hazard Area VHA Vermont Holstein-Friesian Association and eHealth Initiative (eHi) is the premier event that will bring together attendees seeking information on how to build a Connected Healthcare Community (CHC CHC Chicago Cubs CHC Community Health Center CHC Chestnut Hill College (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) CHC Congressional Hispanic Caucus CHC Community Health Council (UK National Health Service) ) or Regional Health Information Organization (RHIO's) and visionary leaders that are either executing today or have a dream for transforming our healthcare system. The event will be held from June 27-29, 2005 at the Gaylord Texan Resort and Convention Center in Grapevine, Texas Grapevine is a city in Tarrant County, Texas, United States. As of the 2000 census the city population was 42,059, though the 2006 U.S. Census Bureau estimate puts the city's population at 48,583. . This venue is nationally renowned as one of newest premier resort properties in the country; with conventions booked well into 2013. "This unique event will be the first of its kind to bring together those who are doing it with those communities that need answers, inspiration and leadership," said Scott Decker, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Healthvision. "Attendees will learn how to collaborate with healthcare systems and CHC's will better understand the role of this critical stakeholder stakeholder n. a person having in his/her possession (holding) money or property in which he/she has no interest, right or title, awaiting the outcome of a dispute between two or more claimants to the money or property. in building a true connected community. The Get Connected conference is a how-to guide to help facilitate this dialogue with real examples of solutions that exist in many of our communities today." VHA and eHealth Initiative (eHi) will be sponsoring the event along with Healthvision. VHA is a member-owned and member-driven health care cooperative. They help their members become the local provider of choice by developing products and services that improve their clinical and operational performance. "We are very excited about aligning with Healthvision to sponsor this key conference," stated Curt Nonomaque, president and chief executive officer, VHA Inc. "Bringing together health care leaders of this caliber crystallizes the connected healthcare community concept and pushes it further toward adoption by the entire health care community." "The eHealth Initiative is proud to be a sponsor of the 2005 Get Connected Knowledge Forum Conference along with Healthvision and VHA," said Janet M. Marchibroda CEO, eHealth Initiative and Foundation, and executive director, Connecting for Health, Washington, DC. "We are focused on engaging multiple and diverse stakeholders Stakeholders All parties that have an interest, financial or otherwise, in a firm-stockholders, creditors, bondholders, employees, customers, management, the community, and the government. to define and then implement specific actions that will address the quality, safety and efficiency challenges of our health care system through the use of interoperable information technology. This conference is an ideal way to accomplish this mission." Healthvision has organized some of the best leaders to share their vision on how to transform health care. Attendees will leave this event with a better understanding of the role their organizations can play as a catalyst for this change. Whether they want to connect physicians using clinical access or introduce their centers of excellence to their community, they will find the sessions they need at the 2005 Get Connected Knowledge Forum. "Each year, as many as 98,000 deaths are caused by avoidable medical errors and in 2003 alone, approximately $510 million was spent on ineffective care. At the same time, costs continue to rise -- in 2003 and 2004, the average insurance premium rose 15 percent and 12 percent, respectively," stated Decker. "Clearly, something has to change." At the root of these problems is the lack of coordinated care. Seventy-five percent of all healthcare spending is spent on people with one or more chronic diseases, and these patients typically see more than four physicians each year for care. If the patient population that drives 75 percent of the cost is seeing multiple care providers, a collaborative model In psycholinguistics, the collaborative model(or conversational model) is a theory for explaining how speaking and understanding work in conversation, specifically how people in conversation coordinate to determine definite references. becomes imperative. Without a system of collaborative care in place, quality of care will be driven down as medical errors; duplicate testing duplicate testing Lab medicine The inappropriate repeating of lab or other diagnostic evaluations–eg, CBC, U/A, CK-MB, BMP, more often than allowed by Medicare or third party payers and costs continue to increase. Guests of the Gaylord Texan Resort will experience the best of the Lone Star Lone Star (or Lonestar) may refer to:
v. so·cial·ized, so·cial·iz·ing, so·cial·iz·es v.tr. 1. To place under government or group ownership or control. 2. To make fit for companionship with others; make sociable. , and be entertained among four-and-a-half acres of lush indoor gardens. Guests can stroll around and experience the festive atmosphere of Riverwalk, explore the vast canyons of Texas Hill Country, view the Alamo Alamo Eighteenth-century mission in San Antonio, Texas, site of a historic siege of a small group of Texans by a Mexican army (1836) during the Texas war for independence from Mexico. and taste the Nuevo Latino creations of award-winning Texas chef Stephan Pyles Stephan Pyles is one of the founding fathers of Southwestern Cuisine, after more than 25 years in Dallas’ restaurant circuit, and was the creator of New Texas Cuisine. . About VHA VHA, founded in 1977, is an alliance of not-for-profit hospitals, health systems and their affiliates. Member organizations range from single 50-bed facilities to large, integrated health care integrated health care, n healthcare services combining the best of conventional and complementary health care. systems made up of multiple hospitals, physician clinics and support care sites. About eHealth Initiative The eHealth Initiative and the Foundation for eHealth Initiative are independent, non-profit affiliated organizations whose missions are the same: to drive improvement in the quality, safety, and efficiency of healthcare through information and information technology. About Healthvision Healthvision creates Connected Healthcare Communities by helping market leaders quickly and cost-effectively plan for and deliver patient-centric information via shared information exchanges. Healthvision's capabilities cover the spectrum of needs ranging from a suite of strategic consulting services to web-based infrastructure and applications -- all designed to enhance decision making and effectiveness. The Healthvision e-Health Interoperability Platform and applications improve access to clinical information and enhance coordination and collaboration of care. The company's Web-based infrastructure, e-healthSOURCE, is the most widely used in the industry, hosting more than 7.5 million unique patient records. Additionally, more than 350 healthcare organizations use the company's solutions to make health care easier for their key audiences - a number that represents more than 23,000 clinicians (including 11,000 physicians), thousands of patients and millions of consumers. A privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. , based in Irving, Texas, Healthvision was formed in July 1999. For more information, visit www.healthvision.com. |
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