Healthcare IT

Healthcare IT

Dave Kirby : The NC TeleHealth Project

Dave Kirby provides consulting in information security and privacy and emerging IT as part of Kirby Information Management Consulting LLC. He has spent over 30 years in various roles developing innovative uses of health information technology with a variety of public, private, state, national and international organizations. These roles have included being an academic medical center (AMC) information security officer, a director of an AMC-based TeleHealth program, director of an IT innovation center in an AMC, commercial IT product developer and manager, grant writer for health IT initiatives, and a juror for the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology. He has authored a commercial security toolkit for small medical practices and presents regularly at healthcare and IT industry conferences.
The NC TeleHealth Network project is devoted to building and operating a dedicated broadband network for health in North Carolina. The project leverages various funding sources to meet the need of many health care entities to improve the speed and reliability of their broadband connections at an affordable cost. The first two phases of the project focus on public health agencies and non-profit hospitals. The presentation will describe the project's history, the nature of the network, and the uses of the network.

Ben Jorgensen: View from the Lab: Healthcare IT Trends and Meaningful Use

Ben leads the IT product management, business analysis and usability teams at Laboratory Corporation of America (LabCorp). He has accountability for blending market trends and business priorities into application roadmaps, defining business requirements, ensuring application usability and planning/executing product launches.

In this session Ben will provide an overview of business and IT trends driven by Healthcare reform and the markets responses to it. He will take extra time to review the HITECH act and the EHR incentive program (often referred to as "meaningful use") currently driving EHR/EMR adoption.