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Dr. Elias Zerhouni

Director of the NIH
A bold vision

Dr. John Buse
Dr. John Buse

President Medicine and Science, American Diabetes Association
The high cost of diabetes

Toby Cosgrove
Toby Cosgrove

President and CEO, Cleveland Clinic
In good hands

Sandy Lutz
Sandy Lutz

Managing Director of the Health Research Institute (HRI), PricewaterhouseCoopers
A pivotal year for the health industry

Healthcare IT

As the healthcare industry continues to grow and improve, there is a greater responsibility to maximize employee health. A well-trained, sufficient workforce is essential to ensuring high quality, reliable direct care and service to patients.

Healthcare information technology has experienced single digit growth for many years in terms of investment, lagging far behind other industry verticals. Today, healthcare IT is considered one of the most progressive and dynamic sectors. The US healthcare industry is proactively responding to reports of high fatality numbers caused by medical errors each year and institutions are beginning to wake up to the reality that employing point-of-care IT is one of the ways in which patient safety can be increased and medical errors reduced.

Executive Healthcare Management will serve the industry as a vital resource for healthcare professionals and practitioners to gain insight and understand best practice strategies in health-IT. Through the most current industry news, case studies, and thought leadership from leading healthcare IT vendors, EHM will provide a platform for healthcare professionals to truly stay above their competition and transform the quality of medicine and safety through information technology.

Contributors

John Halamka John Halamka
CIO,
Harvard Medical School

Mark Anderson Mark Anderson
CEO,
The AC Group

Claudia Tessier Claudia Tessier
Chairman, Medical Records Institute
President, Claudia Tessier, LLC

Rich Rydell Rich Rydell
President,
Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems