John D. Halamka, MD, MS
Chief Information Officer
BIDMC & HMS
ACG Boston is pleased to announce that Dr. John D. Halamka will deliver the keynote address at the 2009 Fall Conference & Private Company Showcase.
He will open the event by identifying areas within the healthcare and developing technology industries with most potential for meaningful impact. He will offer insight on where stimulus dollars will be allocated within these sectors, and make suggestions on changing organizational behavior and practices to accommodate these new technologies.
Dr. Halamka will speak from 1:00pm-1:45pm on Tuesday, November 17 at the Seaport World Trade Center in Boston. Registration for this event is available here.
John D. Halamka, MD, MS, is Chief Information Officer of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Chief Information Officer of Harvard Medical School, Chairman of the New England Healthcare Exchange Network (NEHEN), Chair of the US Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP), co-Chair of the HIT Standards Committee, and a practicing Emergency Physician.
As Chief Information Officer of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, he is responsible for all clinical, financial, administrative and academic information technology serving 3,000 doctors, 14,000 employees and two million patients. As Chief Information Officer of Harvard Medical School, he oversees all educational, research and administrative computing for 18,000 faculty and 3,000 students. As Chairman of NEHEN he oversees clinical and administrative data exchange in Massachusetts. As Chair of HITSP/co-Chair of the HIT Standards Committee he coordinates the process of electronic standards harmonization among stakeholders nationwide.
To learn more about this year's keynote, check out his blog "Life as a Healthcare CIO"