Surgical Telementoring Pilot Project in the Military
Track
:
Operations, Business & Finance
Program Code:
13
Date:
Monday, May 17, 2010
Time:
10:45 AM to 11:45 AM
EST
Location:
217B
MODERATOR
:
Dave L. Williams, MS, Health IT Senior Systems Engineer, L-3 Corporation / MC4
Mr. Williams is a healthcare IT consultant, who has excelled in acquisition management at DOD Health Affairs. He has helped manage the implementation of eight world-wide clinical IT systems for the Military Health System, collectively known as the electronic-health-record, AHLTA. Dave areas of specialization are: contract management, industry best practices implementations, and IEEE/ CMMI/Quality Improvement (software testing). While serving as the Principal Consultant to the DOD (HA), he led the support team that turned the Patient Safety concept into reality. Locally, Mr. Williams is Past President, National Capital Healthcare Executives, nationally; he is Board Certified and ACHE Fellow.
SPEAKER
(S):
Brent Riddles, Chief Systems Engineer, L-3 Corporation / MC4
Mr. Brent Riddles is an IT consultant and Systems Design Engineer with 35 years of experience in the design and integration of electronic information systems. Brent’s current areas of focus are: DOD Military Healthcare System and U.S. Army - Military Communications for Combat Casualty Care. His formative education centered in nuclear energy production, a large nursing home chain, chemical plants and manufacturing. Mr. Riddles excels in the practical application of emerging technologies to solve complex IT challenges. His unique ability to create cost efficient prototypes, quickly, is unparalleled in the federal sector and is well matched to the fast pace of health IT challenges.
engineer by training, a West Point Graduate (2002), is a decorated combat veteran of Operation Iraq Freedom, and is a Level III Certified Acquisition Professional. Skip has engineering and technical responsibility for the integration of medical software and hardware, which enables the electronic medical record to be used by Army tactical forces in the field. The military is becoming an early health IT adopter because tele-presence applications can bring clinical sub-specialist to the soldier near the front lines, (virtually), via technology.
Roderick White, Chief Information Officer, Brooke Army Medical Center
LTC Roderick White, Chief Information Officer, Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, TX. supports a 450-bed Medical Center with 5,000 staff and $420M budget. He has executive and technical responsibility for information management (IM) and technology (IT) of its clinical and administrative functions. He manages 140 employees, $15M, and 6000+ medical devices. LTC White supported this tele-presence project while in this capacity. Previously, Rod was the Deputy CIO, AMEDD for Army Surgeon General at HQ Dept of Army. LTC White has combat experience as CIO, of the 86th Combat Support Hospital (CSH) Baghdad, Iraq, a deployed hospital and a medical task force headquarters, (675 staff).
Dr. Rob Baumgardner possesses execeptional skills regarding the ability to manage/collaborate with people and joint government oragnizations to solve emerging technical, personal, social and political issues. He has over 13 years of expertise and education in the hard sciences and applied human behavior, including: energy, nuclear materials control and medical monitoring systems. Dr. Rob has over 12 years experience in evaluating, and implementing performance based programs/projects in the nuclear, HAZMAT (high risk) environments for the Department of Energy (DOE). During the last decade he has been as DOD Health Affairs (HA) change agent, assisting service MCIOs understand and meet their emerging health IT needs.