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Soa in Healthcareconference SOA IN HEALTHCARE CONFERENCE VALUE IN A TIME OF CHANGE June 2 - 4, 2009 - Chicago, IL USA SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES ANNUAL SPONSORS: Platinum Sponsor: Gold Sponsor: Silver Sponsors: EVENT SPONSORS: Gold Sponsor: Silver Sponsors: Analyst Sponsor: Media Sponsors: Hosted by TUESDAY, June 2, 2009 EXECUTIVE SUMMIT PLENARY (Single Track) 0830 - 0900 Conference Welcome Richard Mark Soley, PhD Executive Director, SOA Consortium and Chairman & CEO, Object Management Group As Chairman and CEO, Dr. Soley is responsible for the vision and direction of the world's largest consortium of its type. Dr. Soley joined the nascent OMG as Technical Director in 1989, leading the development of OMG's world-leading standardization process and the original CORBA® specification. In 1996, he led the effort to move into vertical market standards (starting with healthcare, finance, telecommunications and manufacturing) and modeling, leading first to the Unified Modeling Language (UML®) and later the Model Driven Architecture (MDA®). Previously, Dr. Soley was a cofounder and former Chairman/CEO of A. I. Architects, Inc., maker of the 386 HummingBoard and other PC and workstation hardware and software. Prior to that, he consulted for various technology companies and venture firms on matters pertaining to software investment opportunities. Dr. Soley has also consulted for IBM, Motorola, PictureTel, Texas Instruments, Gold Hill Computer and others. He began his professional life at Honeywell Computer Systems working on the Multics operating system. A native of Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A., Dr. Soley holds the bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 0900 - 1015 Keynote: Who Defines the 'Service' in SOA The Honorable James B. Peake, M.D. Lieutenant General, USA (Ret) James Peake, M.D., was nominated by President George W. Bush to be Secretary of Veterans Affairs on October 30, 2007. He was unanimously confirmed by the Senate on December 14, 2007, and served from December 2007 through January 2009. Dr. Peake was the principal advocate for veterans in the U.S. government and directed the nation's second largest cabinet department, responsible for a nationwide system of healthcare services, benefits programs, and national cemeteries for America's veterans and dependents. During his tenure, VA employed more than 280,000 people at hundreds of medical centers, nursing homes, benefits offices, and national cemeteries throughout the country. One of Dr. Peake's major responsibilities and accomplishments was the assembly of VA's budget for fiscal year 2009, considered the most representative budget to support veterans' needs since the early 1950's. Dr. Peake is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, Society of Thoracic Surgeons, and the American College of Cardiology. He has been honored with the Order of Military Merit; the "A" Professional Designator; and the Medallion, Surgeon General of the United States. SESSION 1 - 1015 - 1100 1015 - 1100 An Evolutionary Approach to SOA in Healthcare Enterprises Wes Rishel Research Vice-President and Distinguished Analyst, Healthcare Provider Team of Gartner Wes Rishel is a vice-president and distinguished analyst in Gartner's healthcare provider research practice. He covers electronic medical records, interoperability, health information exchanges, the nationwide health information network and the underlying technologies of healthcare IT, including application integration and standards. Rishel is a commissioner of the CCHIT, a past chair of HL7 and has served on the boards of WEDI and HIMSS. He was the primary author of the Gartner report summarizing the NHIN Prototype Architecture contracts of the NHIN. 1100 - 1130 Morning Refreshments SESSION 2 - 1130 - 1230 1130 - 1215 Driving Healthcare Vendors to a Services Paradigm Steve Wretling Executive Director, Kaiser Permanente Enterprise Architecture, Application and Integration Architecture Stephen Wretling is an information technology professional who has led the architecture, design and development of numerous large-scale enterprise systems using Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). He has much experience in highly scalable, distributed application architecture and development including the areas of Telecommunications and Healthcare. Most recently, he has directed the development of the SOA Strategy and Enterprise Architecture for Kaiser Permanente. Mr. Wretling's experience includes a seat on the Colorado Regional Health Information Organization (CORHIO) Technical Advisory Panel helping to direct the state's approach on Health Information Exchange. 1215 - 1230 The Role of SOA in Business-IT Alignment Cross-Enterprise Interoperability Ken Rubin Chief Architect, Federal Healthcare, EDS Ken Rubin is the Chief Healthcare Architect, responsible for EDS, an HP Company's Civilian Government & DoD Healthcare Portfolio. Ken provides direction of strategy in the areas of health informatics and enterprise architecture. Ken is an active member of the standards community, holding positions as co-chair of the Object Management Group Healthcare Domain Task Force, the Health Level Seven (HL7) Service-Oriented Architecture Special Interest Group and the Healthcare Service Specification Project. 1230 - 1330 LUNCH SESSION 3 - 1330 - 1500 BUSINESS TRACK 1330 - 1430 Federal NHIN Connect Overview Craig Miller Chief Architect, FHA CONNECT Initiative, Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (US) Miller is the chief architect for CONNECT, a SOA-based solution that connects federal agencies into nationwide health information exchanges. As a strategic advisor to the Federal Health Architecture (FHA) program, he guides the development of CONNECT and other federal solutions based on his expertise in electronic health information exchange, electronic health records and service-oriented architecture. Miller has more than 12 years of enterprise architecture experience at the director level, working with agencies such as HHS, CMS, FDA, USDA and OMB. He was the lead enterprise architect for HHS' department- wide enterprise architecture initiative, and He led the development of versions 2.0-2.2 of the OMB EA Assessment Framework and was responsible for developing the structure of the Federal Transition Framework . Tim Cromwell PhD, RN Director, Standards & Interoperability CHIO, Dept. of Veterans Affairs Tim Cromwell is the Director of Standards and Interoperability for the Chief Health Informatics Office at Veterans Health Administration. He is the main point of contact for the NHIN activities within VA. Cromwell has served in a number of posts in 25 years of service at the VA, including staff nurse, nurse manager, clinical applications coordinator, senior project manager and program manager. He resides in Salt Lake City with his wife in an empty nest. Steve Steffensen, MD LCDR, MC USN, CMIO Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center Dr. Steffensen is a board certified active duty Navy Neurologist who currently works for the Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC) as Chief of the Advanced Information Technology Group (AITG). He has been involved in numerous health IT projects related to the Armed Forces Health Longitudinal Tracking Application (AHLTA) and is recognized across the Military Health System as a physician advocate in electronic medical record business process integration and innovation. Prior to his military career, Dr. Steffensen was the cofounder and lead programmer for an online electronic medical record company supporting the needs of physicians in remote under-served communities. In addition to clinical duties, his current military responsibilities include serving as the Department of Defense lead for the Nationwide Health Information Network CONNECT initiative. 1430 - 1500 The Business Side of SOA Fred Cummins Fellow, EDS Fred Cummins is an EDS Fellow with a long career in the development of information systems and information systems consulting. Throughout his career, Fred has worked in the fields of distributed systems architecture and integration, object-oriented systems, knowledge-based systems, and strategic planning. He has developed systems or functioned as a technical advisor across multiple industries including manufacturing and distribution, financial services, transportation, insurance, healthcare and government. Fred continually utilized leading edge technologies and has had significant influence on application development and business modeling technology through representation of EDS/HP and co- chair of the Business Modeling and Integration task force at OMG (Object Management Group) Fred is the primary inventor on 11 patents and has an additional 10 patents pending. He has authored three books, most recently Building the Agile Enterprise with SOA, BPM and MBM (Elsevier, 2009). TECHNICAL TRACK 1330 - 1400 SOA in an Electronic Health Record Product Line Sholom Cohen Senior Member Tech. Staff, Carnegie-Mellon Software Engineering Institute Sholom Cohen is a member of the Research Technology and System Solutions Program of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI). He has authored major technical reports and conference papers on product lines, including: asset development, product development, linkages to SOA, and variation management. Mr. Cohen has supported product line development and acquisition for both DoD and industrial organizations in the areas or Architecture Definition and Evaluation, Understanding Relevant Domains, Scoping, Configuration Management,
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