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Whether the doctor or the patient will be the driving force behind mobile healthcare, remains debatable after a spirited discussion Tuesday at mHealth Summit in the nation's capital.
Lynne Thomas Gordon:
AHIMA CEO
Previously associate vice president for hospital operations and director of the Children’s Hospital at Rush University Medical Center, Chicago
Rush University faculty, health systems management, graduate program
Robert M. Tennant:
Senior policy advisor, MGMA
Focused on federal legislative and regulatory health information technology issues
Mac McMillan:
President and CEO of CynergisTek
Chair of the HIMSS Privacy & Security Steering Committee
Former Chair of the HIMSS Information Systems Security Working Group
Dogu Celebi:
Chief medical officer, payer and government solutions at OptumInsight
Formerly developed disease and care management programs for CIGNA
George C. Halvorson:
Chairman, CEO of Kaiser Permanente
Convened the Care Connectivity Consortium
Member of the Institute of Medicine Roundtable on Value & Science-Driven Health Care
Jiajie Zhang:
Co-director, National Center for Cognitive Informatics and Decision Making in Healthcare at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Associate dean for research, professor, UT Health School of Biomedical Informatics
Principal investigator, ONC’s SHARP program for patient-centered cognitive support
Aneesh Chopra:
Chief Technology Office of the United States
Served as Virginia’s fourth Secretary of Technology, January 2008-April 2009
Previously served as managing director with the Advisory Board Company, a publicly traded healthcare think tank
Charles Christian
Charles Christian:
CIO of Good Samaritan Hospital, a 232-bed hospital in Vincennes, Ind.
2010 John E. Gall CIO of the Year Award
Fellow of both CHIME and HIMSS
Formerly served on the CHIME Board of Trustees and is a past chairman of the HIMSS Board of Directors
In October, Healthcare IT News reported that American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) would recognize clinical informatics (CI) as a subspecialty, with exams beginning in 2012 and certification to begin in early 2013.