FierceHealthIT Announces Final Speaker Roster for mHealth Event

WASHINGTON, DC – January 20, 2011 – The editorial team at FierceHealthIT, today announced the speaker line-up for an executive breakfast being held in conjunction with the upcoming HiMSS11 tradeshow. The event, mHealth’s Evolving Role in Achieving Meaningful Use, will be held at the Wyndham Orlando Resort from 7:00—8:45AM on February 22, 2011.

The speaker line-up includes Joseph Kvedar, Director, Partners Center for Connected Health; Captain Robert Marshall, MD, CMIO, Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery; John Moore, Analyst & Managing Partner, Chilmark Research; and Lynn H. Vogel, CIO, University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. The event will be structured as an open roundtable discussion focusing on the impact mobile healthcare technologies are having on meaningful use. The conversation will explore the ways in which mHealth is impacting workflow, value, and clinician buy-in, and how it will ultimately help healthcare organizations to achieve meaningful use standards.

“We're excited about the diverse panel of speakers we’ve assembled for this event,” said healthcare group publisher, Wendy Johnson, who will moderate the panel. "Mobile health technology will play in increasingly prominent role in the push to achieve meaningful use of EMR systems. Our panel discussion will focus on how some of the nation's leading healthcare systems and organizations are using mobile technology to improve workflow, win clinician buy-in and further the adoption of their EMR systems."

Registration for the event is now open, and an Early Bird discount is available through February 4. Additional event information, including secure online registration, can be found at www.fiercehealthit.com/himssbreakfast.

The event is currently being sponsored by Northwestern University’s School of Continuing Studies and PatientKeeper. For additional information about sponsorship opportunities associated with the event, contact Wendy Johnson at 202-824-5093 or wjohnson@fiercemarkets.com.

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