Health IT Increasingly Essential To Improving Access, Cost and Quality of Healthcare
Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) will release A Call for Action: Enabling Healthcare Reform Using Information Technology, a detailed report outlining specific priorities and recommendations for the 111th Congress and the Obama Administration for cost-effectively integrating health IT into healthcare reform proposals.
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WHO: Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-RI)
Co-Chair, 21st Century Health Care Caucus
H. Stephen Lieber, CAE
President/CEO, HIMSS
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Charles Christian, FCHIME, FHIMSS
Chair, HIMSS Board of Directors
Director of Information Systems and CIO, Good Samaritan Hospital
WHEN: December 17, 2008
10:30 - 11:00 a.m.
WHERE: Russell Senate Office Building, Room 385
First and Constitution Avenue, NE
WHY: To ensure that health IT is appropriately addressed in anticipated healthcare reform policy in 2009, HIMSS convened the Healthcare Transformation through Health IT Workgroup to develop unified recommendations for the new Congress and Administration concerning the role of health IT in healthcare reform. The Workgroup's recommendations represent necessary measures to develop and sustain a robust health IT infrastructure.
CONTACT: Sharolyn R. Hyson
[email protected]
202/421-7767
/PRNewswire-USNewswire -- Dec. 15/
SOURCE Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society
