Keynoters Announced at WEDI SNIP HIPAA Implementation Summit! *John W. Loonsk, M.D., Associate Director for Informatics and Director, Information Resources Management Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. John W. Loonsk, M.D., received his medical training at the State University of New York at Buffalo after graduating from the Johns Hopkins University. Through advanced degree work, research and administration he has always pursued a medical career that balanced medicine and information technology. He first became involved in medical informatics activities as early as 1975 when he worked on a project to develop a taxonomy of liver diseases. In August of 1999 he joined the National Center for Infections Diseases at the CDC as Associate Director for Informatics and Chief Information Officer. Since joining the CDC he has become instrumental in the planning and development of the National Electronic Disease Surveillance System (NEDSS) and other activities to support the advancement of the burgeoning field of Public Health Informatics. In February of 2000, he was named CDC Associate Director of Informatics and assumed responsibility for the CDC's central information technology organization, the Information Resources Management Office.
*Don Rucker, Vice President, Chief Medical Officer, Siemens. Mr. Rucker has been involved in work on medical decision making since medical school at the University of Pennsylvania where he studied with the late John Eisenberg, MD (formerly Director of AHRQ). He studied medical computer science at Stanford under Ted Shortliffe, MD, PhD where he was a graduate student in the Knowledge Systems Lab (Stanford's artificial intelligence research lab). He has maintained his focus on the electronic medical record as co-developer of the first Windows based EMR. His role at Siemens as CMO continues his interests in making clinical software faster and easier to use. He also continues to practice medicine in high performance environments. *Randall Spratt, Sr. VP of Development, Technology Services, McKesson. Randy Spratt is senior vice president of Business Process Improvement and Ancillary Systems for McKesson Information Solutions. Spratt is responsible for process improvement within MIS's core software business, including development, support and implementation, and for McKesson's imaging and laboratory products. In his 15-year tenure with McKesson, Spratt participated in a number of architecture and technology definition and planning roles. As vice president of ancillary systems, he developed and deployed the successful Pathways Laboratory system. Spratt also lead the laboratory systems operations through five years of profitability during major product lifecycle transitions. Prior to joining McKesson, Spratt led the end-to-end development of four successful ancillary department clinical information systems. Spratt also brought two companies from concept to market to acquisition. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in biology, with a minor in computer science, from the University of Utah. Register today for the WEDI SNIP HIPAA Implementation Summit: Achieving April Compliance, November 18-21, at the Hyatt Regency Phoenix, Arizona. Interact with your peers in a focused forum and hear nationally renowned keynote speakers' viewpoints on IT and implementation strategies. Share your insights with the nation's thought leaders on HIPAA implementation. Take part in generating important, high impact feedback to leading HIPAA officials. Join us in Phoenix to take part in the nation's leading HIPAA implementation forum. The Second Annual WEDI SNIP HIPAA Implementation Summit: Achieving April Compliance will include multiple tracks, allowing the conference attendee to customize his/her conference experience. Tracks include: Security and Privacy: Solutions You can Use Now Myths & Facts About the Oral Communications Requirement, Security and Privacy Gaps, A HIPAA Implementation Check Up, Stories from the Front: Lessons Learned while Developing Privacy & Security Policies & Procedures (P&P), Down the Home Stretch: Implementing you Privacy and Security P&P's, Small Practice Providers: The Key to Making HIPAA Work Transactions: Solutions You can Use Now Implementation Guide Selection, Direct Data Entry Interpretation Issues, WEDI SNIP Testing White Paper, Final Addenda Update, Data Review - Issues Database, Routing Issues---Solutions to use now! Regional Efforts: Implementing HIPAA at the Ground Level Key Steps to Creating and Organizing Your Regional SNIP Affiliate (RSA), Collaborating with State Efforts, Payer Cooperation? A True Case Study: How Three Commercial Payers are Collaborating for TCS Implementation, HIPAA Resources Available Through Your WEDI SNIP Regional Affiliates Helping You Move Forward: HIPAA Issues, Strategies and Tools Getting Acquainted with HIPAA, Beyond HIPAA 101: Real-World Training Strategies for HIPAA Privacy and Security, Implementer's perspective: Getting there Together, What Keeps Providers Awake at Night?, What Type of Entity am I?, What Keeps Payers Awake at Night?, Strategies for Employers Who also Serve as Health Plans Register today to reserve your spot at the Second Annual WEDI SNIP HIPAA Implementation Summit. For more information, visit http://snip.wedi.org/public/articles/index.cfm?Cat=60 or contact Kristin Becker, Director of SNIP, at 703-391-2714, or [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- The WEDI SNIP listserv to which you are subscribed is not moderated. 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