Monday, April 9, 2007
Will there be massive changes in the nation's health care system by the end of the decade? This is becoming more and more likely. Whether one supports single payer, employer mandates, or something else, everyone agrees that information technology is key to controlling costs and improving services. The change in the healthcare system will lead to vast opportunities for software, information technology, and Internet companies that are innovative and on top of the latest trends.
The April Monthly Meeting explores the status of areas such as Regional Health Information Organizations (RHIOs), the movement toward Electronic Medical Records (EMRs), the status of HIPAA and HL7, and other similar issues. This market is so big; you can't afford to not know what is going on!
Keynoter:
- Raymond G. Falci -- Managing Director, Cain Brothers. Ray, who covers the healthcare IT industry for Cain Brothers, presents an overview of the fast-moving developments in healthcare IT.
Panelists:
- Jesse Argon, CEO, CADIT Inc.,
- Christopher Reed, Director, Strategic Healthcare Projects, InterSystems Corporation,
- Matthew C. Rosenblum, Chief Operations Officer, CPI Directions Inc.,
- Grace Tseng, Director, Business Development & Strategic Alliances, IBM Healthcare & Life Sciences Industry.
Podcasts - coming soon
Profiles
Keynoter:
Raymond G. Falci
Ray joined Cain Brothers in early 2006 as an investment banker covering companies in Healthcare Information Technology (HCIT) and Pharmaceutical Services. As a former sell-side equity research analyst, Ray is viewed as a pioneer in HCIT, having been one of the first on Wall Street to identify and focus on this area, which he has now followed for over 13 years. During his career as an analyst, Ray worked primarily at Bear Stearns, where he was named to Institutional Investor's Top-rated list in 5 of his last 6 years, including two number 1 rankings. In addition to HCIT, Ray's research coverage historically included pharmaceutical outsourcing, pharmaceutical distribution and publicly traded hospital companies.
Ray grew up in Queens, NY, and currently resides with his family in Westchester County. He received a BE from Cooper Union in New York, NY; an MS in Engineering from Columbia University, and an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Panelists:
Jesse Argon
Jesse Argon is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Cadit, Inc. (www.cadithealth.com), a healthcare IT startup which has created an online scheduling system for outpatient medical care. Akin to an Orbitz or OpenTable for healthcare, Cadit allows patients to search for physicians and schedule appointments electronically, in real time, whenever it is convenient for them. Cadit connects patients with physicians, reduces administrative resource utilization, and mitigates health care costs.
Prior to founding Cadit, he worked at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) analyzing factors impacting the macroeconomic healthcare system and determining ways to expedite patient care and control healthcare costs. Jesse is a 2002 graduate of Dartmouth College in Genetics, Cell, and Developmental Biology.
Christopher Reed
Christopher Reed joined InterSystems in January 2007 and is responsible for managing the implementation of major InterSystems projects in the healthcare industry globally. His team's primary focus is on HealthShare implementations.
Before joining InterSystems, Reed was Managing Director, Europe, Healthcare Global Industry for EDS. In this role he was involved in the planning and implementation phases for the French DMP national shared medical record project, as well as initiatives in Italy, Switzerland and Germany. Prior to Reed's European posting he had a similar responsibility for EDS Asia/Pacific.
Before EDS, Reed was a consulting practice leader for IBM, Deloitte & Touche and Sandema, and was twice a CIO. Reed has over 35 years experience in IT consulting, sales and management, 15 of which have been focused on the healthcare industry in Europe, North America and Australia.
Reed has a degree in Financial Management from the University of New England (Australia). He is a past Member of the Australian Computer Society and the Australian Society of CPAs, and a current member of HIMSS.
Matthew C. Rosenblum
Matt Rosenblum is the Chief Operations Officer at CPI Directions, Inc., a NYC-based consulting firm that provides privacy, security, regulatory affairs, quality management, performance improvement, and information technology supports to the full continuum of health care providers, payers, clearinghouses. CPI Directions, Inc. has recently earned Claredi's HIPAA-EDI Seal.
Matt has more than 30 years experience developing, implementing, and assessing the outcomes of health care entities in government, voluntary, and corporate environments. He is currently focusing his consulting efforts on helping healthcare professionals and related organizations meet and greet the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and related NIST guidelines. To this end, he has delivered HIPAA implementation presentations for the NYS DOH, American Bar Association, NYSIA, as well as numerous other state and national associations and Boards, and IT corporations serving healthcare entities.
During the past 4 years, Matt Rosenblum has provided privacy and security remediation supports and work-products related to HIPAA and other regulatory affairs and quality assurance mandates to hospitals, healthcare providers, insurers, clearinghouses, and attorney groups in the NYC and tri-state area. During this same period, he has also contributed clinical content, regulatory affairs, and hospital operations expertise to four separate NY & NJ developers of electronic medical records (EMRs) and secure e-mail systems.
Matt has expert knowledge of state and federal regulations, and the JCAHO standards that govern the operation of health and behavioral health organizations. He continues to provide guidance to DHHS and WEDI that helps to shape the implementation of the HIPAA rules. Matt is an active member of the National Association of Healthcare Quality and the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management, and he participates in the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI).
From 1990-1999, Matt Rosenblum was the Quality Assurance Director for JBFCS, Inc., the largest voluntary provider of behavioral health and family and children's services in the United States. While at JBFCS, he successfully provided the leadership for the agency's 120+ programs through four JCAHO surveys and over 100 state and city audits.
Prior to 1990, he worked for 15 years in increasingly responsible quality management positions for the NYS Department of Health and the NYS Office of Mental Health, including The Bronx Children's Hospital, The Bronx Psychiatric Center, and Creedmoor Psychiatric Center. From 1973-1976, he was a program associate at the Professional Examination Services, Inc., where he coordinated the efforts of clinical subject matter experts to develop state licensing, and national and Board certification examinations in 26 health and health-related fields.
Grace Tseng
Grace Tseng was appointed to the Alliances and Channels Business Partner relationship management for the IBM Healthcare & Life Sciences industry in February 2004. In this position, she is responsible for integrating, leveraging and extending the worldwide Healthcare and Life Sciences ecosystem.
Prior to this position, she was a partner in IBM Business Consulting Services for LifeSciences /Pharmaceuticals where she was responsible for the go-to-market strategy, customer satisfaction and revenue and profit plan for the Americas supporting the pharmaceutical and biotech companies
Grace has spent 7 years on an international assignment with IBM to Asia Pacific where she has established the LifeSciences consulting practice for IBM Asia Pacific and delivered end-to-end solutions and services to clients in the Government and Healthcare industries. She worked with many Japanese and multi-national pharmaceutical clients in their business and IT transformation and supported their efforts in the China market.
