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Monday, December 8, 2008
7:00 am -
8:00 am
Pre-Congress Workshop Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:00 am -
11:00 am
Pre-Congress Workshops (Choose One)
WHIT v.4.0 workshops provide an exclusive opportunity for solution provider senior executives and thought leaders to explore their cutting-edge technologies that matter and the innovations that fuel change to improve lives.
11:00 am -
12:00 pm
Workshop Attendees Lunch on Your Own
11:00 am
Main Congress Registration
12:00 pm -
12:15 pm
Co-Chairman's Welcome and Opening Remarks
Mohan Nair - Speaker Photo Mohan Nair
Executive Vice President, Chief Marketing Executive The Regence Group

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John C. Wade - Speaker Photo John C. Wade
Executive Director Kansas City Regional Electronic Exchange (KCREE);
President, JCWade and Associates, LLC;
Retired Vice President and former Chief Information Officer, St. Luke’s Health System

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12:15 pm -
1:15 pm
Opening Keynote Address – Changing the Shape of Healthcare: Groundbreaking Innovations and their Impact on Healthcare Delivery
Keynote Moderator:
Alan F. Dowling - Speaker Photo Alan F. Dowling, PhD
Adjunct Professor, Weatherhead School of Management,
Case Western Reserve University;
President,
Global Health Associates
Keynote Presenters:
George C. Halvorson - Speaker Photo George C. Halvorson
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc. and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals;
Partners in Care Foundation 2008 Mathies Award Recipient

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Jeong H. Kim - Speaker Photo Jeong H. Kim, PhD
President
Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs

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1:15 pm -
2:15 pm
Keynote Address Reactor Panel
Panelists:
Crystal Hayling - Speaker Photo Crystal Hayling
President and Chief Executive Officer
Blue Shield of California Foundation

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Hon Pak - Speaker Photo Hon Pak, MD
Director, Advanced Information Technology Group (AITG) U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command; Telemedicine & Advanced Research Center (TATRC)
President, American Telemedicine Association (ATA)
Tony Trenkle - Speaker Photo Tony Trenkle
Director, Office of e-Health Standards and Services
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

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Douglas Wood - Speaker Photo Douglas Wood, MD
Vice Chair, Department of Medicine;
Chair, Health Care Policy Group
Mayo Clinic

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2:20 pm -
3:00 pm
Funding and Its Impact on Innovation: Examining the Evolving Role of Private Equity in Healthcare
Presenters:
Frederick Frank - Speaker Photo Frederick Frank
Vice Chairman and Director
Lehman Brothers Inc.

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Frank Panaccio - Speaker Photo Frank Panaccio
Vice President
Fidelity Ventures

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Additional Presenter: TBD
3:00 pm -
3:30 pm
Refreshment Break in the Executive Networking Lounge
3:30 pm -
4:30 pm
Moving Connectivity Across the Healthcare Spectrum: Contemporary Approaches to Collaboration Management and Web 2.0 Technologies
Moderator:
Timothy McNamara - Speaker Photo Timothy McNamara, MD, MPH
Medical Director, Center for Healthcare Informatics
University of Kansas School of Medicine

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Presenters:
John Kontor - Speaker Photo John Kontor, MD
Chief Medical Officer and Chief Informatics Leader
Bon Secours Health System, Inc.

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MaryAnn Stump - Speaker Photo MaryAnn Stump, RN
President, Consumer Aware;
Senior Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota

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Brian Yount - Speaker Photo Brian Yount, MD, FAAP
Assistant Professor, Program Director, Internal Medicine/Pediatric
University of Oklahoma – Tulsa

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4:35 pm -
5:15 pm
Afternoon Keynote Address – Innovation, Technology and Competition: Transitioning to a 21st Century Intelligent Health System
Keynote Presenter:
Newt Gingrich - Speaker Photo Newt Gingrich
former Speaker, U.S. House of Representatives;
Founder, Center for Health Transformation

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5:15 pm -
6:15 pm
Keynote Address Roundtable Discussion
Moderator:
John C. Goodman - Speaker Photo John C. Goodman, PhD
President
National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA)

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Panelists:
Lawton R. Burns - Speaker Photo Lawton R. Burns, PhD
James Joo-Kin Kim Professor; Professor of Health Care Systems and Management; Chairperson, Health Care Systems Department; Director, Wharton Center for Health Management and Economics, University of Pennsylvania;
Co-author, The Business of Healthcare Innovation: How New Products Come to Market

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Bruce Mehlman - Speaker Photo Bruce Mehlman
Co-Chairman
Internet Innovation Alliance (IIA)

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

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6:15 pm -
6:45 pm
Reception Keynote
Colin Angle - Speaker Photo Colin Angle
Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder
iRobot

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6:45 pm -
7:45 pm
Networking Cocktail Reception in the Executive Networking Lounge
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