Information Technologies for Health Care in Findlay/Hancock County, Ohio Information Shared

Information Technologies for Health Care in Findlay/Hancock County, Ohio Information Shared in Cooperation with BVHA, BVMA, Spectrum, Findlay Surgery Center, and Other Practice Colleagues Presents: Unlimited Potential - Using Information Technology to Improve Safety, Satisfaction, and Quality in Healthcare Presentation by: Dr. Bill Crounse, Global Healthcare Industry Manager, Microsoft

Location: Ruse Board Room, January 29th at 6:30pm RSVP: Abby Hartman, [email protected], (419) 422-8401, x 112 Healthcare is perhaps the ultimate information business. Gathering, interpreting, acting upon and disseminating accurate and timely information is at the very core of medical practice. Yet in this era of ubiquitous computing, high-speed telecommunications, wireless networks, e-commerce and the Internet, many of our customer service, business and care delivery processes in healthcare have changed very little; at least compared to the great strides being made in other industries. What are the challenges and opportunities for providing better service, quality and safety in healthcare? Who will win, and who will lose in a digital healthcare economy? What strategies and tools are needed by employers, payers, hospitals, providers and patients to survive in a world that runs on e-time? Learn about new business trends and some of the exciting technologies that will redefine the ways we receive, process, and deliver health information and medical services. Topics include:  Meeting customer expectations in a world that operates on e-time. How are we doing in healthcare?  A look into the not-too-distant future: Innovations for providing healthcare information and medical services to patients; are you ready?  “Microsoft Health” today and tomorrow: an innovative web-based solution developed for Microsoft employees. Is it a model for employers everywhere and what does it mean for you?  Seamless computing. Improving work-flow, customer service, and communication with applications and technologies for anytime, anywhere, and on any device computing.  The future of clinical computing: a more intuitive user interface, tools for information workers, data input options, mobility, lower cost, connected. Helping healthcare workers realize their full potential.

Bill Crounse, MD, is Global Healthcare Industry Manager for the Microsoft Corporation. Prior to joining Microsoft, Dr. Crounse was Vice President and Chief Medical Information Officer for Overlake Hospital Medical Center and the Overlake Venture Center in Bellevue, Washington. He is also a founder of DoctorGoodwell.Net, a company that worked in partnership with Microsoft to improve connectivity between physicians and their patients. Before founding Doctor Goodwell, Dr. Crounse was Vice President and CIO for Overlake Hospital Medical Center, a not-for-profit community hospital twice honored by Hospitals and Health Networks as one of the nations “most wired” and most innovative hospitals.

Dr. Crounse is also known locally and nationally for his work in medical communications. Dr. Crounse wrote Healthscape, a weekly column on medicine and information technology, for the Eastside and South County Journal newspapers. He has been a medical writer/editor for the Microsoft Corporation’s employee Intranet site, and was Medical Editor for KIRO-TV, Channel 7 (CBS) in Seattle. He has also served as a physician broadcaster and medical editor for KOMO-TV (ABC Seattle), ABC Network News (The Health Show), Lifetime Medical Television (Physicians Journal Update), The Discovery Channel, and Medical News Network. Dr. Crounse, a residency trained family physician, is a graduate of the Medical College of Ohio. Prior to joining Overlake Hospital in 1995, Dr. Crounse was a physician and medical executive with Virginia Mason Medical Center and Group Health in Seattle.