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
