11:30am–12:30pm – Room 2
Clinical Informatics Panel Discussion: Personal Health Records and Portals

Moderator:
James R. Morrow, M.D., VP and CIO, North Fulton Family Medicine

James R. Morrow, M.D., VP and CIO,
North Fulton Family Medicine

VP and CIO of North Fulton Family Medicine, a ten-doctor, four-location family practice in metro-Atlanta. Winner of a 2004 HIMSS Primary Care Davies Award for Implementation of his EHR, Dr. Morrow has presented to national audiences on numerous occasions, including the HIMSS Annual Conference and the American Health Quality Association.
Dr. Morrow was recognized as the 2006 Physician IT Leader of the Year by HIMSS at their Annual Conference in New Orleans in February, 2007.

Dr. Morrow was recently appointed as a commissioner to the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) and also serves HIMSS as a member of the Ambulatory Davies Selection Committee, the Ambulatory Information Systems Steering Committee, the Katrina’s Phoenix Task Force, and is chairman of the Practice Leadership Task Force. He also serves as HIT mentor to the Common Ground Clinic in the greater New Orleans area, a free clinic started post-Katrina to care for the indigent in that area.

Dr. Morrow serves on the board of directors of the Medical Association of Georgia’s Institute for Excellence. In 2005, he founded a healthcare consulting firm, Healthcare Quality Technology & Research, Inc. and is developing clients involved in the implementation and advancement of healthcare information technology.

Married in April, 2006, Dr. Morrow lives in Cumming, Georgia, with wife, Kim, and children Lyndsay and Nicholas, 11. In his spare time, he enjoys tailgating at Clemson football, woodworking, landscaping, writing, boating, and playing jazz guitar and piano.

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Kathryn (Katie) Smith, Project Director, Emory Healthcare

Diane Turcan is a former CEO and Nurse Executive for Mercy Health, with over twenty years experience in the development of advanced information technology applications and solutions for healthcare. She directed BellSouth’s vertical healthcare marketing program for the past ten years, and now leads the development of product and application solutions, strategic marketing, and alliance programs for the medical industry at AT&T. Before joining BellSouth, Diane was Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Telemedical Systems Integration, a consulting firm specializing in telemedicine, information technology, and online services for the healthcare industry. Prior to that, she led development of Sprint’s healthcare industry marketing program and global Healthcare Application and Network Delivery System.
Diane is well known for her pioneering work developing telehealth applications and medical information networks, and is currently working with states and health information exchange organizations on the development of ehealth and telemedicine networks. She holds a patent for health information systems and has seven pending patents for healthcare information technology. Diane has been instrumental in the development of leading telemedicine networks, including the Department of Defense Medical Diagnostic Imaging System Teleradiology network and the Western New York Telemedicine network which received the 1994 ComputerWorld-Smithsonian Innovative Use of Technology in Medicine award.
Recognition of her leadership in health information technology and telehealth includes 2004 Woman of the Year in Technology and 2000 Who’s Who in Telemedicine. Diane is on the board of the North Carolina Healthcare Information and Communications Alliance, is a member of HIMSS and a charter member of the American Telemedicine Association and Center for Health Transformation.
Diane earned her BS in Nursing and BBA in Marketing from the University of Florida, and received her MS in Nursing and MBA in Health Care Management from Northern Illinois University.

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Diane Turcan, RN, MSN, MBA/HCM, Associate Director/ Medical, AT&T; Former CEO and Nurse Executive, Mercy Health

Kathryn (Katie) Smith is a project director for the implementation of Emory Healthcare’s electronic medical record.
Emory Healthcare is an integrated academic healthcare system committed to caring for their patients and their families, educating healthcare professionals for the future, pursuing discovery research and clinical innovation and serving our community. The clinical arm of the Woodruff Health Sciences Center of Emory University, Emory Healthcare is the largest, most comprehensive health care system in the state of Georgia.
As a project director for Emory Healthcare’s electronic medical record implementation, Katie has directed the implementation of the EMR in The Emory Clinic, an 800 physician multi-specialty practice. Previous roles with Emory Healthcare have included project director for the redevelopment of the Emory Crawford Long Hospital in midtown Atlanta and director of operations and clinical improvement for the hospitals. Ms. Smith is a fellow of HIMSS, has previously served as Vice-President of the National HIMSS board and received the Management Engineer of the Year award (1995) from the society. Katie is a graduate of the Health Systems program at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

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Robert Connely, President/CEO, Novo Innovations, Inc.

Robert is a dynamic business leader, innovator, and visionary with over 25 years of experience in healthcare information and networking technology. He co-founded Novo in 2003 to pioneer the use of intelligent software agents to meet the challenges of information exchange and interoperability between hospitals, physicians and others in the healthcare community.

Prior to Novo, Robert was a senior technology leader at McKesson and recognized expert in portal and integration technologies. While there, he was responsible for the invention of several successful products that are used by hospitals and physicians across the US today. He has spoken extensively about emerging technologies and how they can be used to address challenges and improve performance.

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