Ingenix Health Care Technology Leadership Forum

MAY 12-13, 2008 | GAYLORD PALMS^™ RESORT & CONVENTION CENTER

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Keynote Speakers

		TOM DASCHLE Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Following his 18-year Congressional career, Tom Daschle continued his work in public policy with a strong interest in national health coverage and the economic complexities behind today’s skyrocketing costs—both subjects of his new book, Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis. He is a distinguished senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and advises the prestigious law firm Alston & Bird on health care, climate change, and energy. In 2007, he and former Senate majority leaders George Mitchell, Bob Dole, and Howard Baker created the Bipartisan Policy Center to find common ground on pressing public policy issues. Sen. Daschle also co-chairs the ONE Vote ’08 campaign with another former Senate majority leader, Bill Frist, to more successfully address health and poverty in the developing world. Click here to view the video presentation.

		KAREN IGNAGNI President and Chief Executive Officer, America's Health Insurance Plans Karen Ignagni has led the country’s most prominent health insurance trade organizations for 15 years, including three years at AHIP and 10 at the American Association of Health Plans, one of AHIP’s predecessor organizations. As AHIP’s president and CEO, Ms. Ignagni represents members that provide health care, long-term care, dental, and disability benefits to more than 200 million Americans. In this role, she is the voice of health insurance plans when she testifies before Congress, publishes articles, and speaks to media on health care policy issues. Click here to view the video presentation. Click here to download the PowerPoint presentation.

		DAVID CLASSEN Chief Medical Officer, First Consulting Group David Classen leads First Consulting Group’s safety and quality of health care initiatives and consulting practice in this area. Dr. Classen also is an associate professor of medicine at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City and a consultant in infectious diseases at the university’s School of Medicine. Among his many contributions toward improving health care is his development, implementation, and evaluation of a computerized physician order entry program at one of Utah’s largest hospitals. The system significantly improved the safety of medication use. He has lectured and consulted in the United States and abroad on patient safety, health care quality, clinical process improvement, computer-assisted decision support, and information technology in health care. Click here to view the video presentation. Click here to view the Q&A. Click here to download the PowerPoint presentation.

		DAVID OSTLER Leader, Ingenix Business Solutions; Executive Vice President, Ingenix David Ostler joined Ingenix in 2001 as a senior-level executive with proven leadership experience in general management, marketing, product management, finance, and technology within health care technology growth and startup environments. With more than 25 years of health care technology management experience, Mr. Ostler has led organizations and groups that have designed, developed, implemented, and operated systems for physician practices, hospitals, and managed care organizations. He is a published author in clinical outcomes studies, and participated in pioneering research around physician practice patterns and clinical outcomes. He has extensive experience in design and implementation of clinical systems, including electronic medical records and computerized physician order entry. Click here to view the video presentation. Click here to view the Q&A. Click here to download the PowerPoint presentation.

		SCOTT GOTTLIEB Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute Former Deputy Commissioner for Medical and Scientific Affairs, U.S. Food and Drug Administration Scott Gottlieb is an attending physician at Stamford Hospital in Connecticut and resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he focuses on providing insights into the economic, regulatory, and technological forces driving the transformation of health care. Dr. Gottlieb was a senior advisor on implementation of the new Medicare Drug Benefit and served as FDA deputy commissioner from 2005 to 2007. He has authored hundreds of articles in leading medical journals and newspapers and testified as an expert witness on health and regulatory matters before the U.S. Congress and members of the Japanese Diet. Dr. Gottlieb also worked as a health care analyst for the investment bank Alex. Brown & Sons and authored the Forbes-Gottlieb Medical Technology Letter and the Gilder Biotech Report. Currently, he is a director on the boards of Molecular Insight Pharmaceuticals and MedAvante, as well as a venture partner at New Enterprise Associates. Click here to view the video presentation.
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		DAVID MERRITT Project Director, Center for Health Transformation and the Gingrich Group David Merritt leads the Center for Health Transformation’s projects on health information technology and expanding coverage to the uninsured, with additional work in Medicare, consumerism, and transparency. He also advises former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who heads both the Center and the Gingrich Group, a consulting firm specializing in transformational change. Mr. Merritt is the editor of Paper Kills: Transforming Health and Healthcare with Information Technology.

		TONY MILLER Chief Executive Officer Tony Miller leads the vision of Carol, The Care Marketplace. His commitment to improving health care has been the mainstay of his career. In 2006, Miller co-founded Lemhi Ventures to build a capital base and create a value-added approach to forming and helping companies advance marketization of the health care industry. Previously, Miller was co-founder and chief executive officer of Definity Health, the national market leader in consumer-driven health benefit programs, which was sold to UnitedHealth Group in 2004. Prior to founding Definity Health, Miller was a consultant at Deloitte Consulting; where he focused on strategic business development in the managed care industry — including mergers and acquisitions, market development and performance turnarounds.

		GUY CLIFTON, M.D., Nancy, Clive, and Pierce Runnells Distinguished Chair in Neurosurgery; Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Guy Clifton 's work at the New America Foundation focuses on reform of the health care delivery system and on efforts to expand insurance coverage. His forthcoming book, Flatlined: Resuscitating American Medicine (December 2008), presents a workable method to reduce waste in American medicine, as well as a thesis that the health care system is bloated with enough waste to cover the uninsured seven times over. Dr. Clifton is a professor of neurosurgery at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston. He is internationally recognized for clinical research in the treatment of severe brain injury and is the principal investigator of a multi-national study of hypothermia in treatment of severe brain injury.
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