Our February event has been moved from our typical Tuesday to Thursday, in honor of Valentines Day!

Co-hosted by:

 and

When: Thursday, February 16, 2012
Where: Crowne Plaza Ravinia
Networking: 5:30PM

Join us for a discussion of the roll-out of Telehealth programs in Georgia and how recent developments are shaping Georgia’s needs, technology innovation, and telecommunications providers’ business opportunities. In 2011, the federal government continued action to promote mainstream adoption of Telehealth technologies. The FDA awarded $30 million in grants that will link hospitals, install teleconferencing tools, and install telemonitoring equipment to provide remote healthcare services in rural areas. Action by the FDA provided mobile medical device manufacturers and application developers the clarity necessary to build safe and effective solutions. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services took the lead in updating payment policies to make it easier to compensate providers leveraging Telehealth technology. With barriers to adoption falling, what’s in store for 2012 and beyond?

 SPONSOR THIS EVENT

Sponsorship Commitment: $1,000

Sponsorship gets your company:
- Up to 10 people from your company attend the event for free
- Logos on future email blasts advertising this event
- Recognition at the event

Sponsor Now

Moderator:

Senator Judson Hill (Senate District 32)

Senator Judson Hill was first elected to the Georgia Senate in 2004 by almost 75 percent of the vote to represent East Cobb County and a portion of Sandy Springs in northwest and north central metropolitan Atlanta. In 2006 and 2008 Senator Hill was unanimously elected to serve as Vice Chairman of the Senate Republican Caucus. He serves as Chairman of the Reapportionment and Redistricting Committee, Secretary of the Special Senate Judiciary Committee and is a member of the Health & Human Services, Judiciary, Urban Affairs and the Transportation Committee. In addition, Senator Hill is Chairman of the Georgia World Congress Center & Georgia Dome Overview Committee, Co-Chairman of the Georgia High School Sports Association Oversight Committee, Chairman of the Healthcare Transformation Senate Study Committee and serves on MARTOC, the oversight committee for the Metro Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority. Senator Hill previously served as a Deputy Majority Whip.

In 2008 Senator Hill authored and successfully passed the nation’s first patient-centered prevention-focused free market healthcare reform legislation making healthcare and insurance more affordable for Georgia’s working families. Several of his healthcare bills have been adopted by national associations as model legislation. In 2006 Senator Hill was instrumental in the passage of Georgia’s comprehensive civil justice reform bill. He also cosponsored and passed legislation allowing the people of Sandy Springs to vote on incorporation as a new city, measures protecting people from unfair governmental eminent domain powers, the nation’s toughest immigration reform legislation, and in 2006 he sponsored one of the nation’s toughest sexual predator bills.

Senator Hill and his wife Shelly have lived in East Cobb County for over 20 years. He came to Atlanta in the 70’s to attend Emory University. Shelly grew up in East Cobb graduating from Lassiter High School. Judson and his wife have been active in the east Cobb community for many years at Johnson Ferry Baptist Church, serving on the Board of East Cobb Park and volunteering in many community service activities.

Senator Hill graduated from Emory University with a B.A. in Economics and Political Science. His Juris Doctorate degree is from the Walter F. George School of Law at Mercer University, Macon, Georgia. In 2002 he coauthored the business book, “Enhancing Your Business Value”.

Senator Hill served in the Reagan Administration as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia, and also in Washington, D.C. as a White House appointee at the United States Department of State, Agency for International Development. Prior to that Senator Hill worked for President Ronald Reagan on the White House Advance Team and on the Reagan-Bush ’84 campaign. Before he was elected in 2004, he led numerous state and local political campaigns. Aside from his service to the State and community, Judson has been a Sunday school and Bible study teacher for many years and is currently a partner in a real estate development and investments firm.

Panelists:

Paula Guy
Executive Director, Georgia Partnership for Telehealth

Paula Guy has 11 years of leadership experience in building telemedicine networks in the state of Georgia. She currently serves as CEO for Georgia Partnership for TeleHealth, serves on the Georgia Health Information Exchange Board, has served on the advisory board for Georgia Technology Authority, has served on review boards for grants and has been a frequent telemedicine expert speaker and consultant. The Georgia Telemedicine Program is now the most comprehensive, robust telemedicine program in the nation. Before coming to the Georgia Telemedicine Program in 2004, she served 18 years at the Southeast Health Unit, Georgia Department of Human Resources, Division of Public Health in the capacities of Telehealth Director, Coordinator for the Georgia State Cancer Registry, and Director of the Community Care Services Program. Paula is a Registered Professional Nurse and graduate of Georgia Southwestern University. 

Kevin Doran
Sales Engineering Director, Windstream Communications

Kevin Doran has 32 years experience leading technical teams in the carrier space. He currently serves as the Director of Sales Engineering for the South Region of Windstream. Windstream is the second largest telecom provider in Georgia, with deep roots as a rural focused Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier.

Windstream has grown through a series of strategic mergers and acquisitions to become a full service provider, focused on Enterprise customers, generating approximately 4 Billion in annual revenues within this market segment.

Windstream is a proud Gold Level Corporate Partner of the National Rural Healthcare Association (NRHA) and provides solution based services to meet the current and emerging technology needs of healthcare providers at all levels—from small, rural clinics to the largest urban hospital campus.

Kevin leads the engineering teams who support customers in an 11 state region. His team designs solutions to address the constantly evolving IT challenges of today’s healthcare industry and the challenges unique to healthcare.

Dr. Mark Braunstein
Associate Director, Health Systems Institute, Georgia Institute of Technology 

Dr. Braunstein teaches health informatics and is involved in research aimed at wider and deeper adoption of health information technology to improve the quality and efficiency of care delivery.

He was co-founder, Chairman and CEO of Patient Care Technologies, Inc. (PtCT), an ATDC Graduate company, a 1998 Inc 500 company, and a leading provider of electronic patient record and care management systems to the home care industry. PtCT was acquired by MEDITECH in 2007.

He received his BS degree from MIT in 1969 and his MD degree from the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) in 1974. After an internship at Washington University he joined the faculties of Medicine and Pharmacy at MUSC until he left in 1978 to co-found PROHECA, an early developer of clinical pharmacy systems. PROHECA was acquired by National Data Corporation (NDC) in 1981 and was the seed for NDCHealth. At NDC he ran what was then the NDC Healthcare Division for five years and was the company's President and COO for three years until he left in 1990 to co-found PtCT.

He is the author of over fifty papers; articles and book chapters devoted to various aspects of clinical automation. His most recent publication is “Searching for the Holy Grail: Integrated Electronic Medical Records and Beyond”, a chapter he co-authored for the book “e-Healthcare: Harness the Power of Internet e-Commerce and e-Care”, edited by Douglas E. Goldstein and published by Aspen. He is Senior Adviser for health information technology to Focus, LLC, an investment banking firm that provides a range of services tailored to the needs of emerging growth and middle market businesses from offices across the country. Dr. Braunstein is the immediate past Chairman of the Board of the Georgia Advanced Technology Ventures (GATV)—a corporation that supports the Advanced Technology Development Center, a technology incubator operated by the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is also a past Chairman of the American-Israel Chamber of Commerce, Southeast Region and of the Atlanta Chapter of the MIT Enterprise Forum. He won a 1996 Entrepreneur of the Year Award for the Southeast Region, received a 1995 Innovation in Medical Management Award from the American Society of Physician Executives and received the 2006 Founder's Award from the American-Israel Chamber of Commerce, Southeast Region.

He lives in Atlanta with his wife, a family physician and co-author of the book “Your Body, Your Health.”

Dan Webber, CIO
Prime Holding BV

Dan has served as Chief Information Officer for 16 years, 10 of those years have been spent in healthcare and biotech.  Dan has led the integration of technology and related business and operational processes for 36 acquisitions, divestitures, and mergers and evaluated another 68. 

Dan designed, implemented, and envisioned the network and system process workflow for the first FDA Approved DNA based sequencing system as Chief Information Officer of Bayer Visible Genetics.  His pharmacogenomic systems supported drug discovery and research activities in the areas of HIV, HCV, HBV, and multiple areas of cancer.

Dan implemented and designed systems at Angelica which include mobile technology, fleet management, and web based linen management that can be found in over 200 hospitals across the US. 

Currently, Dan’s work is for a leading global provider of medical education in oncology and integrated oncology sciences and services consultancy.  Virtual oncologists and nursing meetings, mobile applications, and video delivery of the latest in oncology education are just a part of his day-to-day activities.  He is currently working on a second opinion system for patients with cancer in Europe inclusive of integrated medical imaging compression and viewing on an iPad.

Dan is an active blogger, thought leader, speaker and is active in several community groups. Dan is an active Executive Advisory Board member of ATP, Co-Founder and President of Digitainment Georgia, Vice President and Co-Founder of the Social Executive Council (SEC), and Treasurer and Board Member of ToolBank USA.

For more information on Dan, you can check out his LinkedIn profile at www.linkedin.com/in/danwebber, follow him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/SocialDanWebber or contact him directly at dan.webber@oncoservices.com.