“There are tremendous benefits to our society if we apply openness to health care. A major drawback of our current system is that information is not shared in a prompt way and we do not take advantage of contributions that researchers, medical professionals, and patients can make. This leads, for example, to a tremendous time lag between scientific medical advances and when they are generally used by medical professionals.” Dr. Paul Horn, Chair, Digital Connections Council, Committee for Economic Development (CED) and former Senior Vice President, Research, IBM Corporation

As stated in the CED’s recent report Harnessing Openness to Transform American Healthcare, bringing greater openness in different parts of the healthcare production chain can lead to substantial benefits by facilitating collaboration, speeding research, stimulating innovation, lowering costs, reducing errors, and closing the gap between discovery and treatment delivery. The World Congress Leadership Summit on Transforming Healthcare through Open Source Innovation will bring together members from the open source/open standard communities, providers, payers and policy and academic thought leaders to explore how openness is being or may be usefully employed throughout the healthcare arena and to analyze openness through various health segments.

Co-Located with the 3rd Annual Leadership Summit on the Road to Interoperability! Click here for more details!

Confirmed Keynote Presenters:
Elliot Maxwell Project Director, Digital Connections Council, Committee for Economic Development; Fellow, Communications Program, Johns Hopkins University; Distinguished Research Fellow, eBusiness Research Center, Pennsylvania State University; Chief Strategist, eMaxwell & Associates	Dave Nesvisky Senior Director of Healthcare Red Hat
Confirmed Speakers:
Houtan Aghili, PhD Senior Technical Staff Member, Healthcare & Life Sciences IBM Corporation	Claudine Beron, PMP Chief Operating Officer, Initiate Government Solutions; Chairman, VistA Software Alliance; Chairman, HIMSS Federal EHR Special Interest Group (SIG); former Project Director, Accenture consortia, National Health Information Network (NHIN)
Joe Brisson Vice President, Client Services Browsersoft, Inc.	Neil Cowles President and Chief Executive Officer Tolven, Inc.
Richard Golden Open Source Strategist InterComponentWare AG (ICW)	David Hartzband, DSc Founder and Principal, PostTechnical Research; Research Scholar in Technology and Organizations, Engineering Systems Division, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Tom Landholt, MD Medical Director MassPRO	Marti Macchi, M.Ed. Director, Special Studies Kansas Department of Health and Environment
Rev. Craig Mathews Executive Director Bayou Teche Community Health Network (ByNet)	Joe Panther Executive Vice President, Browsersoft, Inc. Charter Member, OpenHRE™ Community
Steven J. Steindel Director, Standards and Vocabulary The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention	Judah Thornewill Director, Center for Collaborative Communities University of Louisville
Fred Trotter Chief Technical Architect Harris County Health Information Cooperative	Marc Wine Co-Author, Medical Informatics 20/20: Quality and Electronic Health Records through Collaboration, Open Solutions, and Innovation Charter Member, OpenHRE™ Community