Keynote Speakers
Deborah Peel, M.D.,
Keynote Address #1: "Beyond
Security: What We Can Expect to See in Patient Privacy
Issues & Challenges From an Obama or McCain Administration"
 Deborah
C. Peel MD is a practicing physician and national expert
on medical privacy. She became active in privacy rights at
the federal level in 1993 when the Clinton Healthcare
Initiative required every doctor-patient encounter to be
entered in a federal health database. She advocated first
as an individual and later on behalf of state and national
medical specialty organizations for patient control of
access to medical records. She presents at national panels
and Congressional briefings, has provided state and
federal testimony, and is widely quoted in trade journals
and the national press.
In 2004, Dr. Peel founded Patient Privacy Rights (www.patientprivacyrights.org)
to educate and empower Americans to preserve and protect
their fundamental human and civil rights to medical
privacy. Patient Privacy Rights is the nation?s leading
medical privacy watchdog organization. PPR educates the
public, healthcare and IT industries, the media, and
Congress about the massive threats technology poses to
Americans? privacy rights. Strong state laws, common law,
the physician-patient privilege, Constitutional law and
the principles of medical ethics that protected patient
privacy since the nation?s founding are all under assault
by the healthcare, IT, and data mining industries and the
Administration. Patient Privacy Rights represents the only
real ?stakeholders? in the healthcare system: consumers.
For electronic health systems to be trusted and succeed,
the rights and interests of patients and consumers must
come first.
In 2006, Dr. Peel formed the Coalition for Patient
Privacy. The bipartisan coalition of 40+ organizations
urged the US House of Representatives to add basic privacy
protections to health IT legislation. Coalition members
ranged from the far left to the far right, from the Family
Research Council and the Christian Coalition, to the
Electronic Privacy Information Center, the ACLU, and the
California Medical Association.
In 2007, the world's largest technology corporation,
Microsoft, agreed to adhere to the Coalition's privacy
principles and be audited on whether its HealthVault
system for electronic health records protects privacy as
pledged.
In 2008, PPR will launch PrivacyRightsCertified, a
consumer-led organization to certify electronic systems
and software that meet the toughest national and
international standards for privacy. There is a great need
for a trusted consumer seal-of-approval process so the
public can tell which electronic health systems and
products ensure that personal health information is secure
and all access is controlled by the patient.
Peter Bisbecos,
Keynote Address #2: "Indiana's
Commitment to Facilitating Consumer-Centric Service
Through the Use of Technology: A Look at the State's
Current & Future Investments in Consumer-Focused
Technology"
 Peter
Bisbecos is the Director of the Division of Disability and
Rehabilitative Services (DDRS) in the Indiana Family and Social
Services Administration. DDRS is responsible for the majority of
disability services offered by the state of Indiana. Since January
2005, DDRS has undertaken a series of reforms that have saved
roughly $100 million dollars out of a $1 billion annual budget.
These savings are being invested in new services for people with
disabilities, including contracts for: a statewide unified case
management system, a statewide crisis management system, a
statewide outreach program that provides consultation and training
for providers, a direct service professional curriculum resulting
in college credits, and a contract for new quality assurance
system that will allow Indiana to regulate to outcomes.
Bisbecos has spent his career in and around public service. He has
been a deputy prosecuting attorney in Indianapolis, a Special
Assistant for former Indianapolis Mayor Stephen Goldsmith, and he
has represented the property and casualty insurance industry
before the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.
Robert M.
Koldoner, M.D.,
Keynote Address #3: "Strategic
Health Information Technology Plan and the Effects of the
New Administration on the Work of the U.S. Office of the
National Coordinator for Health Information Technology"
 On
April 19, 2007, Robert M. Kolodner MD was appointed to the
position of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
(HIT). He had served as the Interim National Coordinator for HIT
beginning in September 2006. Dr. Kolodner leads the Office of the
National Coordinator (ONC) in making steady progress towards
advancing the President?s Health IT initiative. His experience in
patient care, health IT, and government is invaluable to such
efforts.
Dr. Kolodner came from the Veterans Health Administration in the
Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), where he had been serving as
Chief Health Informatics Officer, involved with the development
and oversight of VistA ? VA?s electronic health records systems ?
and My HealtheVet ? VA?s Personal Health Record for veterans.
Dr. Kolodner was a key clinical leader for the Decentralized
Hospital Computer Program, VA?s healthcare information system
starting in 1983. In 1993, Dr. Kolodner moved to Washington, DC
into a health IT management position leading all health automation
activities in VA.
Since 1997 Dr. Kolodner has served in several different health IT
leadership positions in VA overseeing, promoting, and guiding VA
activities related to the establishment of a life-long,
comprehensive, computerized clinical record for military personnel
and our nation?s veterans.
Dr. Kolodner received his undergraduate degree from Harvard
College and his medical degree from Yale University School of
Medicine. He completed a clinical fellowship in Medicine at
Harvard University School of Medicine and his Psychiatric
residency at Washington University School of Medicine. Dr.
Kolodner has medical specialty board certification in psychiatry.
He is a member of numerous professional societies, task forces and
editorial boards. He has authored and co-authored articles, book
chapters and books in medical and medical informatics literature
and has lectured on medical informatics throughout the United
States.
Monica E. Oss, M.S., Keynote
Address #4: "Technology as the Next Disruptive Innovation
in Behavioral Health: How Consumerism & Technology Will
Define Our Future Market Model in the Decade Ahead"
 Monica
E. Oss, M.S., Chief Executive Officer and Senior
Associate, is the founder of OPEN MINDS. Ms. Oss is a
featured speaker on and author of numerous books and
articles on industry trends and strategic marketing and
management issues. She leads the OPEN MINDS consulting
practice and serves as executive editor of its three
information services. Ms. Oss has a broad range of
executive experience in both the private and public
sectors of the behavioral health and social service
fields. Prior to OPEN MINDS, she was founder of a managed
behavioral health program, vice president of a U.S. health
risk management and underwriting division of an
international insurance company, and head of account
management for an occupational health services firm.
Ms. Oss has addressed dozens of national associations and
affinity groups in the field including: the National
Association of Addiction Treatment Providers; the American
Psychological Association; the Child Welfare League of
America; the National Community Behavioral Healthcare
Council; and the National Alliance of the Mentally Ill.
She has also served as the chairperson of the behavioral
health track of the National Managed Health Care Congress
and chaired the judging committee of the Eli Lilly
Behavioral Healthcare Leadership Award.
Ms. Oss has led a range of industry research and
management consultation initiatives, serving as principal
investigator on research projects that included
examination of managed behavioral health enrollment,
employee assistance program models, rural mental health
delivery models, and HMO behavioral health benefits plans.
In addition, she has provided strategic consultation to
provider and professional organizations, advocacy
initiatives, state and county government agencies,
pharmaceutical companies, technology companies, and
venture capital firms.
Ms. Oss is a graduate of the University of Minnesota and
has completed her doctoral course work in marketing and
health care policy at George Washington University. She
serves on the advisory boards of the Shippensburg
University Health & Human Service Management Program, the
Institute for Behavioral Health Informatics, and DrugRisk
Solutions. She has previously served on numerous boards
and advisory committees, including that of her local
county?s mental health/mental retardation oversight board
and a regional Head Start program
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