Frequent keynoter, speaker, panel moderator at 40+ industry conferences in the past 3 years
Opening keynote speaker – 2004-2009 Healthcare Unbound Conferences
Speaker at corporate events sponsored by:
Guidant
Roche Diagnostics
Centocor
Arizona Hospital Association
Gateway Computer
Connecticut Hospital Association,
Walgreens National Advisory Board
Blue Cross Blue Shield Association
HomMed Honeywell
Spacelabs
…and others
Facilitation/consulting experience leading strategic planning sessions for management, Boards and physicians
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Will the Microsoft HealthVault, Google Health, and Dossia personal health information (PHI) platforms be able to exchange data? In our introductory essay announcing the Birth of the Personal Health Information Network (PHIN), Dr. David Kibbe and I posed a critical question:
What will the PHIN look like? Will there be multiple, non-interoperable, competing networks or just one interoperable [...]
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From the August 6 edition of HISTalk — Healthcare IT News and Opinion:
"Re: UHG. Was at the Healthcare Quality Conference yesterday in Boston. Got to talking to a United Health exec who informed me that they have signed an agreement with Google Health and have a pending agreement with HealthVault. This backs up UHG’s previous [...]
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Vince Kuraitis and David C. Kibbe, MD, MBA
We’re not.
From the Kansas City Business Journal :
Google Inc. has approached Cerner Corp. about a partnership, but Cerner officials don’t sound eager to entangle themselves with the Web-search Goliath.
That’s because the proposed partnership relates to Google Health, the personal health record site launched earlier in [...]
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The Healthcare Unbound Conference is a highlight of my year and I always look forward to it!
What’s so special about this conference?
First, the caliber of the people attending. It’s a stimulating mix of high-level clinical, technical and business types. The energy is flowing and many people have told me how much they like to go [...]
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Vince Kuraitis and David C. Kibbe, MD MBA
Tomorrow’s edition of the New England Journal of Medicine contains an article entitled “Tectonic Shifts in the Health Information Economy”. While we have not yet fully digested this article, it’s clear that the authors’ description of the “Health Information Economy” closely parallels our initial description of the Personal Health Information Network (PHIN).
The [...]
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What are companies like Google, Microsoft, and Dossia (sponsored by Intel, Wal-Mart, AT&T and others) hoping to accomplish in health care?
What is the emerging Personal Health Information Network (PHIN) and why should you care?
What’s the Continuity of Care Record (CCR) Standard, and how is it destined to become an initial focal point of data exchange initiatives?
Why is the PHIN potentially disruptive to [...]
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Vince Kuraitis and David C. Kibbe, MD MBA
Who is the federal government calling on to breathe life into the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN)? Google and Microsoft.
In our first article of this series describing the Personal Health Information Network (PHIN), we noted early entrants as Google Health, Microsoft HealthVault, and Dossia. We also noted that the [...]
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Vince Kuraitis and David C. Kibbe, MD MBA
The Internet and digital technologies have transformed many aspects of our lives over the past twenty years. We can get cash at ATMs all over the world; we can book our own airline reservations; we can shop and get best prices over the Internet.
Why hasn’t this happened in [...]
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