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PLENARY AND KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS
Medicine Without Walls, a unique telehealth
and unscheduled care innovation entity.
Dr. Klasko has been on the boards of several
national nonprofit hospital systems and is
currently on the corporate board of Teleflex
(TFX: NYSE), a global medical device
company. He has recently been named as a
trustee of Lehigh University. He has written
extensively on the need to change the “DNA
of healthcare” by transforming the selection
and education of health professionals. To that
end, he has received over two million dollars
in grants researching the biases affecting
physicians’ willingness to accept change.
He has written over 200 peer-reviewed
articles and books including
The Phantom
Stethoscope
(Hillsboro Press 1999) and
“Mamas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to
Be OB-GYNs.”
John D. Simon
became the 14th
president of Lehigh
University in July
2015. He previously
was executive
vice president
and provost of the
University of Virginia, where he oversaw the
academic activities of more than 20,000
undergraduate and graduate students as
well as 2,200 faculty. Under his leadership,
the University of Virginia launched several
important programs including UVA’s
Data Science Institute; he created a new
physical presence in Asia and established
an Endowment for the Arts, among many
other notable accomplishments. Before
arriving at the University of Virginia, John
served as vice provost of academic affairs
at Duke University and chairman of Duke’s
chemistry department. He received his B.A.
in chemistry from Williams College and Ph.D.
from Harvard University. He is a fellow of the
American Physical Society and the American
Association for the Advancement of Science.
He is the author of more than 250 scientific
papers and three textbooks. His most recent
research focuses on the chemical properties
of pigments preserved in the fossil record.
KEYNOTE
3:10–4pm
Grand Ballroom B, Upper 200 Level
The Advent of the Intelligent
Electronic Health Record
John Glaser, Executive Vice President, Cerner
We have made great progress in embedding
the electronic health record (EHR) in our
healthcare processes, with use reaching
unprecedented rates. Now, we are poised
to take it the next level with the intelligent
EHR. The intelligent EHR will look very similar
to the traditional system – one can still look
up patient results and history and write
prescriptions but the application will move
past transactional functions. The intelligent
EHR will be characterized by sophisticated
and flexible decision support, rules engines,
process monitoring engines, intelligent
displays of important patient data, access to
knowledge resources, the ability to collect
data from multiple care settings through a
health information exchange, and tools that
enable provider collaboration.
The advent of the intelligent EHR will be
necessary if healthcare is to effectively
address challenges such as those generated
by payment reform and managing the care of
chronically ill populations.
John Glaser
, executive
vice president at
Cerner, is responsible
for driving technology
and product strategies,
interoperability,
and government
policy development.
Glaser has devoted his career to furthering
healthcare through innovation. He is
committed to helping clients maximize their
investment in HIT. Prior to joining Cerner,
Glaser was CEO of the Health Services
business unit of Siemens Healthcare,
where he was responsible for heading
Siemens’ global healthcare IT business.
Cerner acquired Siemens Health Services
in February 2015. Formerly, Glaser was vice
president and chief information officer at
Partners HealthCare, Inc. Prior to that, he
was vice president of information systems
at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Glaser
is a well-respected industry thought leader.
He was the founding chair of the College
of Healthcare Information Management
Executives (CHIME), the past president of
the Healthcare Information & Management
Systems Society (HIMSS), and has served
on numerous boards including the eHealth
Initiative, National Alliance for Health
Information Technology, and American
Medical Informatics Association (AMIA).
Additionally, Glaser is a fellow of HIMSS,
CHIME, and the American College of Medical
Informatics. He is also a former senior advisor
to the Office of the National Coordinator
for Health Information Technology (ONC).
Glaser has published more than 150 articles
and three books on the strategic application
of information technology in healthcare,
including the most widely used textbook
on the topic,
Healthcare Information
Systems: A Practical Approach for Health
Care Management
. Glaser is on the faculty
of the Wharton School at the University of
Pennsylvania, the Medical University of South
Carolina, and the Harvard School of Public
Health. He received his PhD in healthcare
information systems from the University
of Minnesota.
KEYNOTE
3:10–4pm
201C, 200 Level
Reprise of the
2015 UPS George
D. Smith Prize
The Centre for
Operations Excellence
and the Master
of Management in Operations Research
program at the Sauder School of Business,
University of British Columbia, provides
rigorous practical training in the quantitative
analysis of business problems. We will
present an overview of the program, starting
with a look back at its history, outlining
details of how the program is structured
(focusing in particular on the “industry
project”), and sharing ideas about what has
helped the program succeed.
All Plenary & Keynote Presentations will take place in the Convention Center.
UPS SMITH PRIZE
The UPS George D. Smith Prize
recognizes an academic department
or program for effective and
innovative preparation of students
to be good practitioners of O.R.,
management science, or analytics.
The UPS George D. Smith Prize is
created in the spirit of strengthening
ties between industry and the schools
of higher education that graduate
young practitioners of operations
research. INFORMS, with the help of
CPMS, awards the prize annually to an
academic department or program for
effective and innovative preparation
of students to be good practitioners
of operations research, management
science, or analytics. The UPS George
D. Smith Prize is named in honor of
the late UPS chief executive officer
who was a champion of operations
researchers at a leading Fortune 500
corporation. UPS has generously
underwritten the award in his memory.