- Core Education
- Call for Proposals
- Call for Reviewers
- Keynote Speakers
- Views from the Top
- Education Sessions
- E-Sessions
- Roundtable Sessions
- Davies Award Recipients
- eHealth Executive Track
- Military Health Services
- Cluster Programs
- Ambulatory Professional Practicum
- Preconference Education
- Workshops
- Symposia
- CIO Forum
- Career Focused Education
- CPHIMS Review Course
- CPHIMS Exams
- User Groups
- Microsoft HUG Tech Forum 2009 - Chicago
- Cisco’s Community for Connected Health Summit
Keynote Speakers
Sunday, April 5
12:30pm - 2:00pm
Dennis Quaid
Actor
Dennis Quaid will open the conference on Sunday, April 5, with his presentation, “Dennis Quaid and the Quaid Foundation Story.” Quaid, and his wife Kimberly, started their foundation to promote patient safety after their twins, Thomas and Zoe, received an overdose of the blood thinner Heparin while in the hospital recovering from an infection. The twins were born on Nov. 8, 2007 in Santa Monica, Calif. As an actor, Quaid has been honored by the New York Film Critics Circle and The Independent Spirits Awards as “Best Supporting Actor of the Year” and also garnered nominations for a Golden Globe Award and Screen Actor’s Guild Award for the critically acclaimed 2002 film, Far From Heaven.
Monday, April 6
8:30 am – 9:30 am
George C. Halvorson
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc. and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals
An award-winning CEO recognized for his commitment to health technology, George. Halvorson is widely credited with supporting the successful rollout of Kaiser’s multi-billion dollar information technology initiative, KP HealthConnect. The EHR system rolled out last year in nine states and the District of Columbia, providing 13,000 physicians with electronic access to their patients’ medical records in each of the system’s more than 400 medical offices, clinics and hospitals. Mr. Halvorson is the 2005 recipient of the Modern Healthcare CEO IT Achievement Award. He has written numerous articles on subjects ranging from health IT to the changing marketplace in respected publications.
Wednesday, April 8
8:30 am – 9:30 am
Alan Greenspan
Economist, Former Chairman, board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
HIMSS09 welcomes one of the world’s most distinguished economic analysts as a keynote speaker. For 18½ years and four presidential administrations, Alan Greenspan served as Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. He advised leaders across the political spectrum as he called for a smaller federal budget deficit, freer trade and less government involvement in the economy. His analysis of economic trends for the long and short term has influenced and often shaped the course of policy, international relations and financial markets. Currently, Dr. Greenspan heads a consulting firm in Washington, DC and is the author of The Age of Turbulence. Don’t miss Alan Greenspan, as he reflects on his remarkable career and discusses how the economic climate could impact healthcare in the near future.
