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Health Care Leadership Forum: Tuesday March 19, 2013


The Health Policy and Management program is pleased to sponsor its second Health Care Leadership Forum, "The Path to EHR Implementation: Strategies for Success" on Tuesday, March 19th in the Smith Center for the Performing Arts from 5:30-8:00pm. Registration will begin at 5:30, and light appetizers will be served in the lobby before the program begins at 6:00pm in the Ryan Concert Hall.

This year, our featured speaker will be Girish Kumar Navani, CEO and Co-Founder of eClinicalWorks, one of the nation's leading providers of electronic medical records solutions. In 2009, Navani was named as the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year  in the area of Healthcare Technology in New England. His keynote address will explore past efforts to expand the utiilization of EMR systems, current challenges in implementing EMR after the 2009 ARRA, and future prospects for acheving "meaningful use" of HIT. 

Following the keynote address, Navani will be joined by two local physicians for a panel discussion moderated by Dr. Robert Hackey, Director of the HPM program at PC. Dr. G. Allen Kurose, MD, and Dr. Herbert J. Brennan, DO, will offer a local perspective to the national debate over EMR adoption and meaningful use. Panelists will explore the hands on challenges in using health information technologies to improve the quality of care, control costs, and transform clinical processes.

We hope you can join us for what promises to be a insightful and engaging discussion! To download registration materials, please click here. Directions to the Providence College campus, and to the Smith Center Concert Hall, can be found here. This event is co-sponsored by the Rhode Island Chapter of the American College of Health Care Executives, and has been approved for 1.5 Face to Face CEUs by ACHE.

For additional information, please email Dr. Todd Olszewski, the coordinator of this year's event.


Faculty Updates

Dr. Robert Hackey's new book, Cries of Crisis: Rethinking the Health Care Debate, was published by the University of Nevada Press in October 2012. In December, Cries of Crisis was selected as a reviewer's choice by the Midwest Book Review, which praised its "very different perspective on healthcare issues" and described the book as "a strong addition to any social issues debate collection, much recommended." Hackey also presented an invited lecture on his book in December 2012 at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy in Boston.

Dr. Tuba Agartan's article, "Marketization and Universalism: Crafting the Right Balance in the Turkish Healthcare System" appeared in a special issue of Current Sociology on health policy in 2012.

Recent Events

 

Fall Alumni Forum. In October, the program hosted several recent graduates to share  their experiences finding jobs, networking, and pursuing graduate study after earning their HPM degrees. More than 70 students gathered in ’64 Hall to hear recent grads Meg Reidy ’12,  Tara Lepage ’10, Victoria Walsh ’10 and Kathryne St. Pierre ’08, M.S., a Criminalist in Forensic Serology Section at the Boston Police Crime Laboratory, talk about life after HPM. ​

Fall Internship Fair. In December, seniors currently enrolled in the program's required Field Experience seminar  displayed posters describing their placements and spoke about their internship experiences with HPM students, faculty, and site supervisors.
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