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Connectivity Summit 2006
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Presentations Available for Download
David Bauer, MD - Director of the Memorial Family Medicine Residency, Memorial Hermann Healthcare System
Kirsten Jensen - Web Specialist, Public Relations & Communications, MeritCare Health System
Chuck Parker - VP and Chief Technology Officer, MassPro
Presenter's Biographies
Sami Aita, MD - Chairman and CEO, MedcomSoft
Dr. Sami Aita, founder and CEO of MedcomSoft Inc., began to demonstrate his entrepreneurial spirit shortly after graduating from the Montpellier School of Medicine in France in 1975. Practicing emergency medicine in Paris, Dr. Aita soon realized a business opportunity to provide emergency house call services to the elderly, indigent, homeless and those unsatisfied with the service levels of an overburdened healthcare system. Within a few years SOS92, his first company, grew to become one of the largest of its kind in France, a distinction it still enjoys to this day.
In 1980, Dr. Aita sold his interest in SOS92 and relocated to Toronto, where he immediately set up Advanced Health Services to provide similar services. Seeing the need for more efficient communications within the healthcare industry, he founded AMCS in 1986 and began developing leading edge software solutions; the most noteworthy being the Health Transaction Network (HTN), which permitted Ontario physicians, for the first time in the spring of 1990, to use PDAs and to submit claims electronically to the Ministry of Health. In 1994, Dr. Aita formed MedcomSoft for the purpose of developing software solutions to assist physicians in recording clinical data more easily and more accurately. By 1997, MedcomSoft MedWorks was introduced. Today, the MedcomSoft program is regarded as one of, if not the most advanced electronic medical record systems in the world.
Under Dr. Aita’s guidance, MedcomSoft became the first medical software provider in the world to enable the electronic, real-time collection, analysis and distribution of structured, codified, clinical information. Using the Medcin point of care terminology, MedcomSoft is able to achieve Level 4 Interoperability: the implication of which is enormous for all sectors of the healthcare community. Today, MedcomSoft is a leading international healthcare efficiency company operating both in Canada and the United States.
Dr. Aita is considered an industry expert who currently sits on several national committees working towards improving and standardizing healthcare information systems and EMRs.
Jill Arena, FACMPE - COO, GreenField Health
Ms. Arena began her professional career as an auditor, and in 1992 she transitioned into healthcare to work in clinic operations and management across a variety of settings. In the early 90s she was involved in one of the first efforts to implement EMR products. She now serves as one of the founders and the Chief Operations Officer for GreenField Health, an innovative primary care organization that is striving to revitalize the delivery of healthcare in the physician office setting, and The GreenField Group, a consulting company serving healthcare organizations and technology companies focused on quality of care and performance excellence. GreenField continues to push the use of technology for information storage, retrieval and dissemination in the patient care realm.
Ms. Arena speaks frequently on the topic of EMR implementation and physician adoption of technology, and has served on local and state panels, including the Oregon Health Policy Commission’s Subcommittee on EMR Implementation. She is a Fellow in the American College of Medical Practice Executives, and an active volunteer within the College and with several Portland area not-for-profit agencies.
David Bauer, MD - Director of the Memorial Family Medicine Residency, Memorial Hermann Healthcare System
Dr. David Bauer is the director of the Memorial Family Medicine Residency in Houston, TX. He received his BA from the University of Michigan, his PhD from the University of California at San Diego, his MD from Rutgers Medical School, and is board-certified in family medicine. Dr. Bauer has worked in the field of human factors engineering and user-computer interfaces prior to starting his medical career. He has a strong interest in the role that technology must play in transforming healthcare.
Kirsten Jensen - Web Specialist, Public Relations & Communications, MeritCare Health System
Ms. Kirsten Jensen has a BA in English Literature and Philosophy from Concordia College, Moorhead, MN. She has worked on meritcare.com since 1999, first as a consultant at Sundog Interactive and then as a member of the meritcare.com team since 2000. Ms. Jensen has implemented a variety of successful interactive features on meritcare.com, including an online Job Application, E-mail a Patient, Walk-In Clinic Wait Times, and an eNewsletter program that has grown to over 11,000 subscribers.
Since 2001, traffic to meritcare.com has grown from 500,000 to more than 2.2 million visits per year. The site has been awarded two eHealthCare Leadership awards in the Health System category– in 2002 for Best Health Content and in 2004 for Best Recruitment Web Site.
Currently, Ms. Jensen is team leader for the myMeritCare project. The myMeritCare team was instrumental in helping Kryptiq develop the vision for the Enterprise version of CareCatalyst, and MeritCare will be the first to implement a Web site using the APIs.
Tom Landholt, MD - Physician, PatientCare Family ClinicTom Landholt, MD, a practicing family physician in Springfield, MO, has over 10 years experience consulting in the area of medical office process re-engineering. He is the Medical Director at Kryptiq Corporation, lectures extensively, and is an author on the subject of outpatient office management. A native of St. Louis, he completed undergraduate studies at St. Louis University and received his MD from the University of Missouri. Dr. Landholt is board-certified in Family Practice and has practiced in Springfield since 1991.
Off work he enjoys family life, canoeing, backpacking, and rooting for the St. Louis Cardinals.
Mark Leavitt, MD, PhD - Chair, Commission for Healthcare Information Technology
Considered one of the pioneers of electronic health records in ambulatory care, Dr. Mark Leavitt is Chair of the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology. During this appointment, he is on leave from his position as Chief Medical Officer of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) which he joined in December 2003. He is actively engaged in a number of national initiatives to accelerate the adoption of robust, interoperable electronic health records to improve the quality, safety, and efficiency of healthcare.
Dr. Leavitt received his BSEE from the University of Arizona, his PhD from Stanford University, his MD from the University of Miami, and Board Certification in Internal Medicine from the Oregon Health and Sciences University, with subsequent Added Qualifications in Geriatrics. He practiced internal medicine full-time for ten years in Portland, and led a project to launch the implementation of system-wide electronic records at Providence Health System in Oregon. In 1985 he founded MedicaLogic, a pioneering developer of ambulatory electronic health records, leading the company as its CEO and Chairman for 15 years. In 2002 GE Healthcare acquired MedicaLogic, and Dr. Leavitt served as Vice President of Clinical Initiatives for GE.
In addition to being a Fellow in HIMSS, Dr. Leavitt holds a Clinical Assistant Professorship in the Department of Medical Informatics at the Oregon Health and Science University. He is a past president of the Oregon chapters of HIMSS and the Society of Internal Medicine.
Sheila Wood - IS Manager, St. Bernards HealthcareMs. Sheila Wood is the Information Systems Manger / Logician Manager for Doctors Health Group in Jonesboro, AR. A subsidiary of St. Bernards Medical Center, Doctors Health Group is the administrative office for the Medical Center’s family practice clinics.
Ms. Wood became a certified Logician implementation specialist in 1999, as well as completing training in the Encounter Form Editor, Crystal Reporting, and CCC Text File Editor. Sheila has been instrumental in the implementation, ongoing training and customization of multiple family practice and specialty clinics within the Northeast Arkansas/Southeast Missouri area. She has presented at multiple Logician user groups since 1998, and holds annual local user group meetings for her area.
Mike Zaroukian, MD, PhD, FACP - Chief Medical Information Officer, Michigan State UniversityDr. Michael H. Zaroukian is Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO) at Michigan State University. In this role, Dr. Zaroukian is responsible for advancing MSU's EMR and health information technology (HIT)-related research and community outreach agendas.
Dr. Zaroukian became CMIO after serving for three years as President of the Centricity Healthcare User Group and MSU's EMR Medical Director, with responsibility for EMR planning, pilot projects, enterprise-wide EMR and associated HIT implementation, community EMR outreach, and EMR research. His new position focuses on EMR and HIT project-related research, pilot-testing new EMR-related products, and evaluation of new systems. His community outreach efforts will assist other clinicians throughout Michigan and beyond to adopt and effectively use EMR systems to improve care.
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