Conference Dates: Nov 29, 2011
Indianapolis, IN[edit Location]
The BluePrint Health IT Innovation Exchange Summit Series will host their Mid-West event on November 29, 2011 in Indianapolis. The program events are aligned with Innovation Exchanges, which are a part of the White House Startup America Initiative. Nearly 40 innovator applications were submitted. The program’s Advisory Board and Hospital participants are in the process of selecting the top 10 finalists who will be invited to participate. Among the Hospital participants are Intermountain Healthcare (UT), St. Vincent’s Health (IN), Alegent Health (NE), Hennepin County Medical Center (MN) and Visiting Nurse Service of NY. Other participating healthcare provider organizations will be announced in the coming weeks.
The BluePrint Health IT Innovation Exchange Summit Series features regional events where healthcare providers are matched up with early stage but deployment-ready innovative companies through ”Speed Dating” sessions to establish pilot programs in alignment with the current innovation initiatives of HHS and ONC. Healthcare providers and emerging vendors can share their needs and ideas—hopefully leading to pilot programs and test-bed opportunities supporting the deployment of innovative and new healthcare technology solutions. The series is currently accepting participation from Mid-West hospitals and interested sponsors. The West Coast Summit, which already has three leading healthcare systems confirmed, is accepting applications from innovation focused Hospitals, Innovators and Sponsors.
The Mid-West Innovation Exchange Summit will also be piloting for the very first time a “virtual” participant that will communicate with the Innovators using a tablet PC and a real-time remote communication application transported to each Innovator “pod” by an event facilitator. The virtual participant concept was conceived as a way to overcome logistical and scheduling issues for interested organizations as well as to enhance the scalability of the Summit series.
The BluePrint Health IT Innovation Exchange Summit Series website provides more information on participation options for each event and its Advisory Board. Interested hospital and health IT consumer organizations looking to participate in the Mid-West or West Coast Summits should contact Mike Squires at mike.squires [at] blueprinthit [dot] com or Pam Kaur at pam.kaur [at] blueprinthit [dot] com. The BluePrint Health IT Innovation Exchange Summit Series is produced in collaboration with HIMSS.
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