Newt Gingrich former Speaker, U.S. House of Representatives; Founder, Center for Health Transformation

David J. Brailer, MD, PhD Founder, Health Evolution Partners Former and First National Coordinator for Health Information Technology

The 5th Annual World Healthcare Innovation and Technology Congress (WHIT v.5.0) Highlights Include

• One event with four co-located Leadership Summits and one pre-Congress workshop…Three days convening over 500 Chief Information Officer, Chief Technology Officer, Chief Medical Information Officer, Chief Medical Officer, VPs and Directors of IT, Systems, Clinical Informatics, Emerging Technology, Patient Services, Patient Safety, Error Reduction, Quality, Revenue Cycle Management, Payer Relations, Disease Management & Telemedicine Directors
• An elite speaker faculty of over 100 health care information technology thought leaders
• Newt Gingrich, former Speaker, U.S. House of Representatives; Founder, Center for Health Transformation, on what IT in 2010 will look like
• A open forming detailing the changing landscape of HIT funding as proposed by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act through a pre-Congress workshop

Topics at WHIT v.5.0 include:

• Wireless Health: Best Practices for Deploying mHealth and Remote Monitoring
• Interoperability and Standards
• Clinical Informatics: Enhancing the Ability to Use HIT to Provide Efficient Patient Care
• American Recovery and Reinvestment Act – How Will This Impact Cost, Quality and Access?
• Military Health Innovations - What Can the Private Sector Adopt to Improve the Delivery and Quality of Care?
• Health 2.0 - Consumer Engagement through Social Networking

Bloggers' Corner

Keep in tune with WHIT 5.0, pre, during and post-program with blogs from our speakers and attendees.

Bill Crounse, Senior Director, Worldwide Health, Microsoft Corporation, HealthBlog

Joe Ingemi, Health care technology politics blogger, HealthITPolitics

Carlos Leyva, Esq., The Digital Business Law Group, P.A., LawTechTV

Deborah Leyva, RN, BSN, Freelance Blogger, Co-Chair, Ambulatory Sub-Committee, The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT), My Health Tech Blog

Adam Bosworth, Founder, President and CEO, Keas, Inc., Adam Bosworth's Web Log

Lori Beer
Executive Vice President, Chief Information Officer
WellPoint, Inc.

Bill Beighe
Chief Information Officer
Physicians Medical Group of Santa Cruz

Jim Borland
Special Advisor for Health IT
Social Security Administration SSA

Adam Bosworth
Chief Executive Officer, Keas, Inc.;
Former Vice President, Google, Inc.

David J. Brailer, MD, PhD
Founder, Health Evolution Partners
Former and First National Coordinator for Health Information Technology

Bill Crounse, MD
Senior Director, Worldwide Health
Microsoft Corporation

Theresa Cullen, MD, MS, RADM
U.S. Public Health Service, Chief Information Officer
Indian Health Service

Cynthia Esser, BSN, MHA, MBA
Director of Emerging Technologies
Butler Memorial Hospital

Stan Kachnowski
Chair, Healthcare Innovation Technology Lab, Columbia University
Fellow, Royal Society of Medicine, England
Visiting Professor, IIT Delhi, India

Brian LeClaire
Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
Humana

Janet Marchibroda
Chief Healthcare Officer
IBM

Deven McGraw
Director, Health Privacy Project
Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT)

Marc Probst
Chief Information Officer
Intermountain Healthcare

Wayne Smith, BSHS, MS (MIS), PMP
Senior Director, Information Services
Johns Hopkins University

Bill Spooner
Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer
Sharp HealthCare

Jay Srini, MS, MBA, FHIMSS
Chief Innovation Officer, Insurance Services Division
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

Paul C. Tang, MD, MS
Vice President and Chief Medical Information Officer
Palo Alto Medical Foundation

Paul Tibbits, MD
Deputy Chief Information Officer for the Office of Enterprise Development
Department of Veterans Affairs