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Friday, November 11, 2005
7:15 am
Continental Breakfast
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8:00 am
Keynote Address: A Revolution in Health Care
Steve Case - Speaker Photo Steve Case
Co-Founder
America Online (AOL)
Chairman & CEO
Revolution Health
8:00 am
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Scott Shuster - Speaker Photo Scott Shuster
Facilitator;
former ABC News foreign correspondent, Producer of NPR's All Things Considered, Consulting Editor, The McGraw-Hill Companies and BusinessWeek
9:00 am
Keynote Addresses: Promoting a Culture of Safety: How Do We Encourage Reporting of Medical Errors So Future Errors Can Be Prevented
Margaret E. O'Kane - Speaker Photo Margaret E. O'Kane
President
National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA)

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Steven J. Spear - Speaker Photo Steven J. Spear
Assistant Professor
Department of Technology and Operations Management
Harvard Business School

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Gail R. Wilensky - Speaker Photo Gail R. Wilensky, PhD
Economist and Senior Fellow
Project Hope

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9:45 am
Opportunities to Solve Public Health Problems and the Role of Technology
Mauro Ferrari - Speaker Photo Mauro Ferrari, PhD
Edgar Hendrickson Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Professor of Internal Medicine, Division of Oncology, and Professor of Mechanical Engineering,
Ohio State University; Special Expert in nanotechnology,
National Cancer Institute
John W. Loonsk - Speaker Photo John W. Loonsk, MD
Director, Office of Interoperability and Standards
Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
Department of Health and Human Services


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Janet Woodcock - Speaker Photo Janet Woodcock, MD
Acting Deputy Commissioner
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
10:45 am
Refreshment Break
11:00 am
Industry Voice! (an interactive forum): Clinical Data Integration and Interoperability
Introduction:
Robin Portman - Speaker Photo Robin Portman
Vice President
Booz Allen Hamilton
Moderator:
Panelists
Kenneth H. Buetow - Speaker Photo Kenneth H. Buetow, PhD
Director
National Cancer Institute Center for Bioinformatics

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Marc Probst - Speaker Photo Marc Probst
Vice President and Chief Information Officer
Intermountain Healthcare

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Bill Spooner
Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer
Sharp HealthCare

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12:00 pm
Keynote Panel: Health Care’s Future - The Interoperability Mandate
Interview of Key Health Care Technology Leaders
Ivo Nelson - Speaker Photo Ivo Nelson
Healthcare Industry Leader
Global and Americas, IBM
William D. O'Leary - Speaker Photo William D. O'Leary
Director of Health and Human Services
Microsoft Corporation, U.S. Public Sector
Jeffrey Rideout - Speaker Photo Jeffrey Rideout, MD, MA, FACP
Vice President, Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG)
Healthcare Practice, Medical Director, Health Policy and Benefits
Cisco Systems
Vishal Wanchoo - Speaker Photo Vishal Wanchoo
President and CEO
Information Technologies, GE Healthcare
1:00 pm
Luncheon and Keynote Panel: Individuals Championing Cures
Keynote Address — How A Personal Mission Can Lead to Health Solutions
Hamilton Jordan - Speaker Photo Hamilton Jordan
White House Chief-of-Staff to President Carter;
3-time cancer survivor, patient advocate and best-selling author, Founder, $1 billion Georgia Cancer Coalition; and founder of numerous for profit start-ups, largely in health sector, and non-profits.
Abstract Presenters:
Audrey Gordon - Speaker Photo Audrey Gordon, Esq.
President, Executive Director
The Progeria Research Foundation
Greg Simon - Speaker Photo Greg Simon
CEO
FasterCures / The Center for Accelerating Medical Solutions

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Sharon Terry - Speaker Photo Sharon Terry
President and CEO
Genetic Alliance
Expert Discussants:
Kathy Hudson
Director, Genetics and Public Policy Center
Johns Hopkins University
Debra Y. Lewis - Speaker Photo Debra Y. Lewis
Director, Orphan Products Grants Program
ice of Orphan Products Development, Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
John Reher - Speaker Photo John Reher
President and Executive Director
ABC2 (Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure)
2:15 pm
Keynote Address: In Light of the Chaoulli Judgment in Canada, What is the Constitutionality of U.S. Medicare?
Jacques Chaoulli - Speaker Photo Dr. Jacques Chaoulli
General Practitioner, Senior Fellow
Montreal Economic Institute

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2:30 pm -
2:45 pm
Closing Remarks and Conference Adjourns
Scott Shuster - Speaker Photo Scott Shuster
Facilitator;
former ABC News foreign correspondent, Producer of NPR's All Things Considered, Consulting Editor, The McGraw-Hill Companies and BusinessWeek
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