SHSMD - 2008 Annual Conference and Exhibits
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Raging Rivers: The Confluence of Search and Transparency
Program Code:
T07
Date:
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Time:
10:30 AM to 12:00 PM
EST
SPEAKER
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Missy Krasner, Product Marketing Manager, Health Team,
Google, Mountain View, CA
Missy Krasner is Product Marketing Manager at Google where she is a member of the Google Health team. Prior to Google, Ms. Krasner worked in the Secretary’s Office at the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services' (HHS). She was Senior Advisor to Dr. David Brailer, M.D.,Ph.D., the first National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC). Ms. Krasner has more than ten years of healthcare policy and healthcare marketing and communications experience. She has worked in both the non-profit and corporate sectors where her experience has ranged from coordinating high-level press briefings on Capitol Hill to launching health information technology products for Fortune 100 companies and IPO offerings. Ms. Krasner holds an M.A. in Communications from Stanford University and a B.A. in English Literature from the University of California, Los Angeles. She has published a series of articles most recently in the Health Forum and Health Data Management.
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Sarah Loughran is Executive Vice President at HealthGrades and has helped to drive HealthGrades' mission to guide America to better healthcare and directed much of its development since 1998. Ms. Loughran has strategic and operational responsibility for HealthGrades' business-development and quality improvement services for hospitals. In addition, Ms. Loughran led company product development from 1998 to 2006, including the creation of the initial methodologies used for HealthGrades' hospital, nursing home, and home health ratings; new data identification, acquisition, and deployment; and application development.
Ms. Loughran is a regular speaker at industry conferences and received a BA in Economics from Vanderbilt University and an MBA and MHSA from the University of Michigan.
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Description
The online health-seeking population is growing dramatically. A recent study illustrates that the Internet is the most preferred source for health information and there are approximately 116 million consumers using the Internet to get healthcare information and to find a provider. In dealing with health issues, individuals turn to the Web before their doctor, hospital, or any other provider. Gain valuable insight into these current trends in consumer online search behavior and transparency and understand how they provide strategic business opportunities and risks for hospital organizations. Learn from innovative hospitals how to effectively leverage search and the Internet. Identify what you can do to build an online presence to connect with patients and ignite your online marketin