Digital Healthcare Conference 2006

The Digital Healthcare Conference 2006 was a great success. WTN Media thanks all our sponsors, advisors, speakers and attendees for their support.

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Attend the one forum for healthcare executives and technology professionals that will better prepare you to maximize the value of your technology investments.

The Digital Healthcare Conference presented by the Wisconsin Technology Network will bring together experts in healthcare delivery, technology and the law to improve your grasp of the complex issues driving the adoption of information technology. You can deliver better information and knowledge to help predict, prevent and treat patients while improving the overall quality of healthcare delivery.

Save yourself time and money by spending the day with healthcare leaders and your peers who will share insights and experiences into how to optimize the value of innovative new healthcare technologies and how to develop best practices for the deployment of new systems, workflow and processes.

Healthcare is changing

The deployment of clinical information technology continues at a torrid pace in acute care settings, clinics and physicians offices. The penetration of these systems into the healthcare environment brings with it additional pressures related to interoperability, intra-operability, privacy, data accuracy, governance, staffing and information storage.

Similar to other industries that experienced huge expansion in the use of information technology, healthcare executives are re-evaluating their original IT strategies in face of shortages of software professionals, limited investment resources and the challenges of real-time patient care.

You can deliver better information and knowledge to help predict, prevent and treat patients while improving the overall quality of healthcare delivery.

Speakers include:

• Jeff Grossman, MD, President and CEO, UW Medical Foundation
• William A. Yasnoff, MD, PhD, FACMI, Managing Partner, NHII Advisors
• Charles Safran, MD, Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Past Chairman, American Medical Informatics Association
• Donna Sollenberger, President and CEO, University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics
• Barry P. Chaiken, MD, MPH, Conference Chair; Associate CMO, BearingPoint

Conference topics:

• CEO Perspective: The Role of IT in Improving Healthcare Delivery
• CIO Spotlight: The Current and Future Issues Impacting Healthcare IT
• Data Overload: The Quest to Deliver Healthcare Knowledge
• Interoperability: Building the Network and Paying for it
• RFID/Wireless Convergence: Asset and Location Tracking
• Lost, stolen, and damaged medical records: Managing the nightmare and liability
• Pandemic Flu: Will Information Technology Help?

Who should attend DHC:

• IT focused health care professionals: CEOs, COOs, CIOs, CMOs, CNOs, IT vendors, life science organizations and investors
• Providers: Physicians, nurses, pharmacists; medical, pharmacy and nurse managers; patient safety/quality directors; risk managers; administrators
• Consumers: Patient advocates and advocacy organizations
• Purchasers: Employers, insurers, health plans, government
• Health care researchers, educators, policy makers, and students

What DHC brings you:

Since its inception, the Digital Healthcare Conference has been a forum for healthcare knowledge and experiences. Share your concerns, learn what your peers are doing, and get a better handle on some of the latest technology available today.

Attend the Digital Healthcare Conference

Save yourself time and money by spending the day among peers in positions of healthcare leadership. Share insights and experiences into how to optimize the value of innovative new healthcare technologies and how to develop best practices for the deployment of new systems, workflow and processes.