[IEEE-bhpjobs] Health IT Summit Sept 7-9; Wired for Health Care Quality Act (S 1418 bill) to authorize $275 million

[Esther L.]

The Second HIT Summit, www.HITSummit.com, September 7–9, 2005, 
collocated with Eleventh National HIPAA Summit, www.HIPAASummit.com, in 
Washington, DC featuring:

     * National HIT Coordinator David Brailer, MD, PhD (Invited)
     * Bill Braithwaite, MD, PhD, Senior VP and CMO, eHealth Initiative
     * Senator Tom Carper (D/DE)
     * AHRQ Director Carolyn M. Clancy, MD
     * Francois de Brantes, GE Corporate Health Care
     * John Glaser, PhD,VP and CIO, Partners Healthcare System
     * Richard Granger, UK IT Director General
     * HHS Secretary Michael O. Leavitt (Invited)
     * Janet Marchibroda, CEO, eHealth Initiative
     * and CMS Administrator Mark McClellan, MD, PhD

The Summit features tracks on Integrating HIT into Pay for Performance, 
State Policy for HIT, Navigating Medicare IT Policies, and Health 
Information Sharing: Legal Issues and Strategies, and Certified 
Information Privacy Professional (CIPP), Certified Professional in 
Electronic Health Records (CPEHR) and Certified Professional in Health 
Information Technology (CPHIT) training and certification examinations.

For more information, go to www.HITSummit.com, call 800-684-4549 or 
e-mail registration at hcconferences.com.



POLICY

Senate leaders Bill Frist, MD; Michael Enzi; Edward Kennedy; and Hillary 
Clinton proposed the Wired for Health Care Quality Act (S 1418) to 
authorize $275 million over two years to help providers adopt 
interoperable IT. Currently on the Senate floor, the bill would 
establish a grant program to help with IT purchases, a second grant to 
help states create loan programs to help providers, and a third grant 
program to help fund regional and local health information networks.

The legislation also would organize a federal advisory committee that 
would review and recommend data standards that support interoperability. 
The bill would mandate that the federal government adopt the standards 
and the private sector could adopt the standards on a voluntary basis.

Go to thomas.loc.gov. for the full text of the bill.

from Electronic Health Records Briefing, 
http://www.hcmarketplace.com/Prod.cfm?id=3224&S=EEHRC


-- 
--  Esther L.,  esther-L at mailsnare.net or esther-L at alumni.virginia.edu
Speaking only for myself