Leading Personal Health Record provider gets behind student group`s efforts to
bring public health policy and technology leaders together
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(Business Wire)--
Dossia, a leading Personal Health Record provider, announced today that the
company is offering its support to the student-led Public Health & Technology
(PHAT) Forum at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) to stage the Public
Health & Technology (PHAT) Conference. The conference will bring together
leading industry and academic experts to discuss the potential of health IT to
improve health delivery, focusing on provider adoption of EHRs, meaningful use,
and patient empowerment. The conference will take place Monday, November 16, at
the Joseph B. Martin Conference Center, Boston, MA, and is co-sponsored by the
Department of Health Policy and Management at HSPH.
Among the list of confirmed speakers are John Halamka (CIO of Beth Israel
Deaconess Medical Center), Adam Bosworth (CEO Keas), John Moore (Chilmark
Research), David Cutler (Professor of Economics, Harvard University), Steve Lohr
(Technology Reporter, New York Times), and Janice Nall (Director of the Division
of eHealth Marketing, CDC).
According to PHAT President and HSPH student Jonathan Payne, "This conference
provides an opportunity for students to learn from national leaders in the field
of health information technology." Payne went on to say that, "It is also our
hope that this event will raise awareness of the importance of health IT to
public health education and of the need for additional resources and a more
coordinated effort to create these types of learning opportunities in the
future."
"We at Dossia strongly believe that events like the Public Health & Technology
Conference, which bring together academic and industry leaders in a forum for
productive dialogue and sharing of expertise, are vital in order to advance
health information technology adoption and impact," said Dossia CEO Colin Evans.
"Dossia is very pleased to have the opportunity to lend our support to such
initiatives."
To access further information, or to register for the conference, please visit
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/phat/.
This conference will be broadcast via live streaming accessible from the PHAT
website provided above.
About Public Health & Technology Forum at HSPH
The Public Health & Technology Forum at HSPH is a student group that provides an
interactive forum for students to explore, connect and be leaders in the field
of health, information and technology. This is accomplished through networking
and brainstorming events, organizing conferences, and hosting industry leaders
to speak at HSPH. For more information, visit www.hsph.harvard.edu/phat.
About Dossia
Dossia is a non-profit organization consisting of several large U.S. employers
who have united under a common vision: to empower their employees to make
smarter more informed decisions about their healthcare. Through Dossia, they
will leverage their combined influence to break down barriers to health
information, which will help drive consumer-initiated change. The Dossia
Founders group includes AT&T, Applied Materials, BP America, Cardinal Health,
Intel, Pitney Bowes, sanofi-aventis, Abraxis BioScience, Vanguard Health
Systems, and Wal-Mart. For more information, visit www.dossia.org.
Dossia
Shelley Harrison, 617-621-7677
shelley.harrison@dossia.org
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