Getting Health IT Right Under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

Markle Foundation
Thursday, April 30, 2009
9-11:30 am EDT
Newseum, Room 802
555 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW (Freedom Forum Entrance on 6th Street)
Washington, DC 20001

A Markle Foundation Forum on

Health Care Leaders Endorse Set of Principles on "Meaningful Use"

WHAT:

CONFERENCE AND MEDIA EVENT this Thursday, April 30, 2009. Markle will bring together health information technology (IT) experts and government decision-makers to discuss how to best spend the billions allocated for health IT in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act or ARRA.

An unprecedented public-private coalition of IT and health care stakeholders that has joined behind a set of principles on "meaningful use" will be attending the event. The principles, supported by a wide array of health care leaders, will be released by Markle on Thursday.

WHO:

Featured speakers include: Zo£ Baird, President of the Markle Foundation; Carol Diamond, Managing Director of the Markle Foundation; David Blumenthal, National Coordinator for Health IT, Department of Health and Human Services; Mark McClellan, Director of the Engelberg Center at the Brookings Institution; and Todd Park, Senior Fellow for Health IT at the Center for American Progress.

Discussion panelists include: Steven Findlay, Senior Health Policy Analyst for Consumers Union; David Lansky, President and Chief Executive Officer of Pacific Business Group on Health; Farzad Mostashari, Assistant Commissioner Primary Care Information Project at NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene; Peter Neupert, Corporate Vice President for Microsoft Health Solutions Group; Marc Overhage, Director of Medical Informatics at Regenstrief Institute; Steven Waldren, Director at the Center for HIT at the American Academy for Family Physicians.

WHEN:

Thursday, April 30, 2009
CONFERENCE: 9-11:30 am EDT
Markle Foundation hosts Getting Health IT Right Under ARRA
Newseum, Room 802

555 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW (Freedom Forum Entrance on 6th Street)

Washington, DC 20001

MEDIA EVENT: 11:45-12:45 pm EDT
Media availability with Zo£ Baird, Carol Diamond and session panelists

Newseum, Room 808

555 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW (Freedom Forum Entrance on 6th Street)

Washington, DC 20001

TO PARTICIPATE:
Space is limited. Please RSVP to Amy Martin at amartin@gymr.com or 202-745-5118.