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HIMSS Oregon Celebrates National Health IT Week With a Free Event - Ignite Health

September 11, 2013

 

September 11, 2013 - Health information technology improves the quality of healthcare delivery, increases patient safety, decreases medical errors, and strengthens the interaction between patients and healthcare providers.

To mark the important role health information technology plays in improving healthcare delivery in America, HIMSS Oregon and others across the U.S. have joined together to celebrate National Health Information Technology (NHIT) Week, September 16-20, 2013.

With the NHIT Week theme: One Voice, One Vision: Transforming Health and Care, HIMSS Oregon, in partnership with Technology Association of Oregon (TAO), will hold - Ignite Health - from 5:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at Oregon Health & Science University’s Old Auditorium and Grand Hall in Portland.

Healthcare and technology enthusiasts, as well as media, are encouraged to attend to learn about emerging, innovative, unconventional, inspiring, locally-sourced concepts and tools and connect with a diverse and passionate crowd of like-minded health innovation enthusiasts. There is no cost for attendance but registration is required. Visit http://bit.ly/1dX4JuW to register today.

The event on September 19th, 2013 will bring together more than 200 local Healthcare IT Leaders to at Ignite Health to listen to 15 local presenters with big ideas on innovation in healthcare technology – each presenting their ideas in just five minutes.

Ignite Health is an event where local people who have a burning idea and the guts to get onstage are able to share their personal and professional passions, in this case, regarding healthcare and wellness. Each speaker is limited to just 300 seconds to get their idea across, and each presentation will offer a quick, fun, thought-provoking, social, local or global perspective on the true value that American healthcare can realize through an integrated information management system. 

  • MELISSA BOOKER (Systems Analyst, Cambia Health): How Sparky Anderson & Baseball Can Help Healthcare Organizations Make Better Decisions   • DAWN BONDER (President, CEO, Health Republic): Consumer-Operated & Oriented Plans: Offering Solutions to Healthcare Conundrums    • Cale Bruckner, (Principle, Emergent Health Care Solutions): Using Mobile Technology to Improve Patient Engagement & Outcomes   • RAY CONSTANTITI (CoFounder, BrightMD): Emcee   • DOUG COOKE (President, Tinder): ACA: The Big “A” or the Little “a”?   • MILES ELLENBY (Associate Professor, Pediatric Critical Care, OHSU): Like Skype On Steroids: Telemedicine   • ART FLETCHER (CNA, Filius Bonacci): Actionable Clinical Quality Intelligence   • STEVE GEHLEN (Director of Marketing, HealthSparq): How come I can shop for a $25-60 t-shirt, but not    a $2500-$6000 Gallbladder Removal?   • JEFFERY GOLD (Associate Professor, Pulmonary & Critical Care, OHSU): Stimulation to Improve Health & Safety of Electronic Health Records   • WILLIAM HERSH (Professor, Chair Dept of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology at OHSU):    The OHSU Informatics Discover Lab   • AL LEE (Engineer, Author): Transform Your Life: One Breath at a Time   • MOLLY LINDQUIST (Founder, CEO, Consano): Bringing “the crowd” to medical research    • MITCHELL LUSHENKO (3rd Year Master’s Student, OHSU-PSU): HAL   • TONY McCOMICK (CTO, Medical Information Integration, LLC): Changing the Health Care IT Model    with Open Source   • MOHAN NAIR (CIO, Cambia Health Solutions): Journey of Innovation for Military Health   • KEVIN RENNER (President, BrandNew): A Next-Generation Approach to Health Cost Containment   • MARK STEEVES (CIO, WiserCare): Engineering Challenges of Shared Decision Making   • KATIE VAHLE (CoFounder, CoPatient): Empowering Patients to Bend their Own Cost-Curve with Technology-Enabled Advocacy   • VIOLET V (MBA, Stanford): Psychedelic-Assisted Chemotherapy & Other Defenses Against Homicidal Breasts   “Our participation in National Health IT Week highlights our organization’s commitment to ensure health information technology is integrated, interactive, interoperable, and intelligent to provide the best patient outcomes”, said Mark Fromuth, HIMSS Oregon Chapter President. “By working together we can leverage the technology to promote for the betterment of our healthcare system.”   ###   About HIMSS Oregon   The Oregon Chapter of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society is a professional organization dedicated to the development of healthcare information technology professionals throughout the state Oregon and southwest Washington. Our mission is to bring healthcare professionals together with their clinical and business partners in educational settings to explore issues of common concern, network with peers, and grow professionally by sharing knowledge and experience and by learning about new tools, methods and technologies. For more information, visit: http://www.himss-oregon.org/   About the Technology Association of Oregon   The Technology Association of Oregon (TAO) is the only Oregon-based trade association dedicated solely to supporting the successes of our state's software and technology industries. The TAO is dedicated to bringing together some of the brightest minds in the technology association, and is comprised of over 350 member companies in Oregon and SW Washington.   About National Health Information Technology Week   Now in its eighth year, National Health IT Week is a collaborative forum assembling key healthcare constituents — vendors, provider organizations, payers, pharmaceutical/biotech companies, government agencies, industry/professional associations, research foundations, and consumer protection groups— working together to elevate national attention to the necessity of advancing health IT.  Log onto www.healthitweek.org for more information.

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