Past Meetings

2024
03/15/2024
Hospital at Home
02/23/2024
Unveiling the Future of Care: Building Toward Interoperable EHR Data for Better Health
01/19/2024
Building a Culture of Cyber Deterrence
2023
12/15/2023
Review of Heath Innovation
11/17/2023
The New Healthcare Consumerism
10/20/2023
Responsible AI in Health IT
09/15/2023
Integrated Physician Groups at Hospitals
07/21/2023
Dialogue on AI and Mentoring, with New Winston Fellows
06/16/2023
Effects of High Level Mergers on Health Tech; Observations on Congressional Scene
04/21/2023
Cybersecurity Practices and Regulation
03/17/2023
ChatGPT
02/17/2023
Artificial Intelligence and Automation in Federal Healthcare
01/20/2023
Use of AI in Mental Health; 2023 trends in Congress and Health Policy
2022
12/16/2022
Aneesh Chopra on Social Determinants of Health
11/18/2022
Sharing Stories About Health System Successes and Failures
10/21/2022
Converting from Executive to Consultant; Regulation of Medicare Advantage
09/16/2022
Status of Healthcare Technology
07/15/2022
Information Support for Home Care
06/17/2022
Operating in the Cloud with AWS
05/20/2022
Business Process Management in Healthcare Delivery
04/29/2022
Solving the Nursing Shortage with Technology - Innovative Solutions to Redesigning Inpatient Clinical Care
03/25/2022
Metadata and AI Analytics
02/18/2022
New Analytical Tools for Using Health Data
01/21/2022
The Future of Value-Based Care Depends on Longitudinal Clinical Data, Analytics, and New Partnerships
2021
12/17/2021
Technology Lessons from the Military
11/12/2021
In-Person Visit to JLabs@WashingtonDC
10/15/2021
Ransonware Attacks and How to Deal with Them
09/23/2021
Cybersecurity in Healthcare
07/23/2021
Telehealth Revenue Cycle and Regulatory Review
06/18/2021
Effects of the Environment on World Health
05/21/2021
Arlington Innovation Corridor and Amazon HQ2
04/16/2021
Behavioral Health is Health
03/19/2021
Telemedicine Developments During the Pandemic
02/19/2021
Social Determinants of Health: The Path Forward for Actionable, Interoperable Data to Improve Health
01/22/2021
Real-Time System Disaster Preparedness and Availability
2020
12/18/2020
The Rapid National Growth of Medicare Advantage Plans
11/20/2020
Information Blocking: Dealing with the New Normal in Data Sharing
10/16/2020
Technology to Combat the Covid Pandemic
09/18/2020
Effects of Elections on Healthcare Policy
07/17/2020
Changing Investment Strategies During Covid-19
06/19/2020
The Role of Blockchain in Healthcare Today
05/15/2020
The Role of Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) In Dealing with COVID-19
04/17/2020
Technology to Meet Patient Needs in the Age of Coronavirus
03/20/2020
Information Technology Support for Disaster Response
02/21/2020
Health Systems Use of Google, Amazon, Microsoft
01/24/2020
Social Determinants of Health
2019
12/13/2019
Medicare Advantage Technology
11/15/2019
HIT Usability and Human Factors Engineering
10/18/2019
Focus on Maternal and Child Health
09/20/2019
Interoperability-- is it Happening?
07/19/2019
PBMs and Drug Pricing
05/17/2019
Predictive Analytics Techniques for Tracking Patient Conditions in Clinical Settings
04/19/2019
Political Roundtable on ACA, Privacy, and Other Priorities
03/15/2019
Focus on New Issues in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
02/22/2019
Physician Burnout
2018
12/14/2018
Focus on Telemedicine Innovations and Initiatives
11/16/2018
Focus on Health IT in FDA Regulatory Activities
09/21/2018
Focus: Comparative Health Systems
07/20/2018
Focus on Predictive Analytics
06/22/2018
Focus on Geospatial Health Analytics
05/18/2018
Focus on Telemedicine's Increasing Role/Barriers
04/20/2018
Focus on Hospital-Medical Staff Physician Connectivity
03/23/2018
Revolutionizing Healthcare: Communicating Value and Improved Outcomes
02/16/2018
Precision Medicine in Oncology and Pharmacology
01/19/2018
Forecast for 2018 in Health Policy, MIPs, Technology, and Interoperability
2017
12/15/2017
Focus on FHIR, Interoperability, and Update on ONC
11/17/2017
Focus on Opioid Crisis Management Tools
10/20/2017
Fraud and Abuse Detection Technology
09/15/2017
Focus on Blockchain in Healthcare
07/21/2017
Federal Health Legislation
06/16/2017
Medical Grade Wearable Technology
05/19/2017
IT Use for Special Needs Population
04/21/2017
Future of "Meaningful Use"
03/17/2017
Uses of Natural Language Processing in Healthcare
02/17/2017
Focus on MACRA and Federal Healthcare Policy Update
01/27/2017
Focus On Cybersecurity
2016
12/16/2016
Focus on Innovation Centers, Election Impact (Follow Up)
11/18/2016
Developments in the Field of Personalized Medicine
10/21/2016
Focus on Data Analytics
09/16/2016
Patient Involvement and Engagement through the use of technology
08/21/2016
Informal Social Outing without Program
07/22/2016
Future of the Affordable Care Act (ACA)
06/17/2016
Payor/Provider Trends
05/20/2016
Misconceptions, Confusion, Naiveté, and Silliness: Five Random Real World Observations on the Transition to Value Based Care & Reimbursement
04/15/2016
New Developments and Trends in Health-Related Mobile Apps
03/18/2016
Tour of Kaiser Permanente - Center for Total Health
02/19/2016
Implementation Issues in EHRs
01/22/2016
State of Implanting Electronic Health Records
2015
12/18/2015
Genomics and Personalized Medicine
11/20/2015
The Rapidly Expanding Technology of Consumerism in Securing and Providing Medical Services
10/09/2015
Medical Travel & Tourism
09/18/2015
Briefing: The Information Assurance Universe from a Private Practice Perspective
07/17/2015
“Mobile Patient Wayfinding”
06/19/2015
“Interoperability – what is the vendor community doing about it?”
05/15/2015
Focus on Health System Enhancements of Patient Experience
04/17/2015
Payers in a Post-ACA Envrionment: What Are They Looking to Buy and How?
03/20/2015
New technologies and apps for patient care, monitoring and analysis
02/27/2015
HL7: Enabling Interoperable Healthcare Today and Tomorrow
01/23/2015
Federal Healthcare Policy in 2015 in Congress and the Executive Branch
2014
12/12/2014
Discussion regarding the problems and repair efforts of the federal website healthcare.gov in implementing the Affordable Care Act.
11/21/2014
Ebola Preparation - HIT Challenges and Opportunities
10/17/2014
ACO Technology Challenges
09/19/2014
The Rapidly Evolving Products, Patient Care Techniques, and Regulatory Developments in Telemedicine
07/18/2014
Increasing Uncertainty Surrounding the Meaningful Use Program
06/20/2014
Usability of Health Information Technology (HIT)
05/16/2014
Increasing Number of Meaningful Use Audits and How to Deal with Them
04/25/2014
The Status, Challenges and Outlook for the State-Run Health Insurance Exchanges
03/21/2014
The State of Data Analytics and How They Are Being Used in Provider Strategic Planning
01/17/2014
What is the future of the Affordable Care Act?
2013
12/13/2013
Challenges and Issues Surrounding Accountable Care Organizations
11/15/2013
The Impact of Specialty Pharmacy on the Future Drug Costs
10/18/2013
Focus on Obamacare's Effect on Fraud and Abuse Enforcement and Debt Ceiling Negotiations
09/20/2013
Focus on Dropping Health Care Costs
07/19/2013
ICD-10 Implementation and Postponement of the Employer Insurance Mandate
06/21/2013
Health Insurance Exchanges and the Technology Behind Them
05/17/2013
Focus on Healthcare Consumerism
04/19/2013
ACOs, Bundled Payments, and New Business Models
03/15/2013
The State of Technology for Coordinated Care
02/15/2013
Grants and New Capital for Technology Startups
01/18/2013
Development and Commercialization of Mobile Apps
2012
12/14/2012
Learning Health Systems and the Learning Health Community
11/16/2012
Challenges Facing the Healthcare Industry, Electronic Health Records (EHR)
10/19/2012
Challenges Facing Physician Practices
10/12/2012
Future Test Meeting
09/21/2012
Developments in Mobile Technology and Telehealth
07/20/2012
Supreme Court Decision Upholding Affordable Care Act
06/15/2012
Various stages of forming Health Information Exchanges
05/18/2012
Raising Equity Capital, Mergers, and Financial Management by Health Industry Start-Up Compa
04/20/2012
ICD-10 and its Effect on Meaningful Use.
03/16/2012
How Data can be Translated into Useful Information.
02/17/2012
Use of Social Media and "Gamification" in Healthcare
01/20/2012
Meeting
01/20/2012
Uses of Data in Clinical Trials and at CMS, featuring Senior Officials from both agencies. Also Provider Adoption of New Technology.
2011
12/16/2011
Application of IBM Watson Technology to Healthcare
11/18/2011
Health Insurance Exchanges
10/21/2011
Innovative New Devices
09/16/2011
Implementation Gaps in Health Information Technology
08/19/2011
Social Event and Golf (no program)
07/15/2011
Personalized Medicine - New Developments and Challenges
06/17/2011
Health IT Initiatives at HRSA and Regionalized Emergency Medical Care
05/20/2011
Evolving Models of Primary Care: Technology, Reimbursement Pressures, Aggregation
04/15/2011
Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs): Update on Regulations and CMS Activities
03/18/2011
Role of the States in Various Aspects of Healthcare Reform and IT Implementation
02/18/2011
Success and Failures of States Insurance Reform. e.g., Massachusetts
01/21/2011
The Use of Social Media by Physicians and Hospitals in Connection with Patient Care (continued discussion)
2010
12/17/2010
Uses of Social Media by Health Care Providers
11/12/2010
Clinical Effectiveness, Transactional Research and Other Initiatives of CMS Center for Innovation
10/08/2010
Regional Extension Centers and Health Information Exchanges
09/17/2010
The Effects of Health Care Reform on Hospital and Health Care Systems: Pathways for Eliminating Waste, Fraud and Abuse
08/20/2010
No Meeting - Social Event
07/16/2010
New Devices, Software and Techniques Being Used in the Public and Private Sector to Find and Prevent Waste, Fraud and Abuse
06/18/2010
Physician EMR Implementation-- Who is against it and why?
05/21/2010
The Economic and HIT Plight of Rural Hospitals (with attention to non-rural hospitals as well)
04/16/2010
Addressing the challenges and new regulations on Privacy and Security
03/19/2010
Reconstructing Primary Care
02/19/2010
The Stimulus Bill Regulations-- Key issues and analysis
01/15/2010
Waste and Inefficiency-- Where is it and how can it be addressed? -A discussion of the recent Thomson-Reuters White Paper
2009
12/11/2009
Healthcare Reform and the Stimulus Bill -- What has Been Accomplished, What Will Happen in 2010?
11/20/2009
The Uses of Technology in Eldercare
10/16/2009
State Health Systems -- How are They Doing and What Lessons Can They Teach Washington?
09/11/2009
Comparative Effectiveness and Evidence Based Medicine-- How they will Affect Cost Control and Meaningful Use?
08/21/2009
No Meeting - Social Event
07/17/2009
HIT Planning, Assessment, and Acquisition: Key Decisions in the Purchasing Cycle
06/19/2009
Hospital-Physician Engagement on HIT Development
05/15/2009
Existing Industry Standards for
04/17/2009
Medical Home
03/20/2009
Discussion of Stimulus Bill, Obama Healthcare Reform Plan and Transitions in the Administration
02/20/2009
Healthcare Technology, Physician Integration and Joint Ventures - Changes at CMS
01/16/2009
The Technological Effects of
2008
12/19/2008
The Effect of the Economic Slowdown on Healthcare and Health Technology
11/21/2008
Healthcare Analytics
10/17/2008
Lessons from the Airline Industry on Healthcare Safety and Avoiding Medical Errors
09/19/2008
The Federal Information Technology Plan for the Office of the National Coordinator - Overview of the Life Sciences Community in Northern Virginia
08/15/2008
Social Event - No Program
07/18/2008
The Positions of the Leading Political Candidates on Healthcare Issues
06/20/2008
Tracking Health and Wellness - The Uses of Technology in Treating Autism
05/16/2008
Issues Relating to Clinical Trials: Offshore Locations, the JANUS System; and Recruiting Patients
04/18/2008
The Joint Medical Record System of the VA and DOD: Issues of Interoperability
03/28/2008
Current Developments in e-prescribing - Uses of Technology in Personalized Medicine
02/15/2008
Status of the National Health Information Network - One Medicare Advantage Plan's Pay for Quality Program
01/18/2008
Bio Laboratories in the US under the Microscope
2007
12/14/2007
Applications of Healthcare Technology to Retirement Living and Long-Term Care
11/16/2007
Barriers to the Implementation of Electronic Medical Records and Academic Training for the Use of Technology
10/19/2007
The Challenge of Maintaining Medical Privacy and Security Relating to Laptop Theft
09/21/2007
Telemedicine and its Applications to Disease Specialties and Remote Care
08/17/2007
Informal Lunch for Those Who are Not on Vacation to be Held at the Fairfax Country Club
07/20/2007
Technology Related to Pandemics, Disease Outbreaks, and Public Health Crisis
06/15/2007
Medical Automation and Robotics
05/18/2007
Changing Trends in Physician Employment and Their Effect on Specialty Hospitals
04/27/2007
Congressional and Administrative Priorities in the New Congress
03/16/2007
Globalization and Other Key Trends in the Healthcare Landscape
02/16/2007
No Meeting
01/19/2007
The Impact of Sarbanes Oxley and Other Compliance Regulations on the Health Care Industry
2006
12/15/2006
The Top Ten Concerns of CEOs and CIOs
11/17/2006
Does Technology Really Affect Quality, and the Effect of Hospital Leadership on Quality
10/20/2006
Life After Brailer at DHHS and Potential Changes in Congressional Health Policy after the Elections
09/15/2006
Clinical Service Line Management
08/18/2006
NO MEETING (Social Event)
07/21/2006
Recent Challenges to Health Data Security and HIPAA Enforcement
06/16/2006
Making Pitches to Funding Sources: Case Studies on the Do's and Don'ts
05/19/2006
Changes in the FDA Approval Process and Oversight of the Re-Use of Disposables
04/21/2006
Technology Support for Evidence Based Medicine; and an Update on NHIN
04/21/2006
Technology Support for Evidence-based Medicine
03/17/2006
The Growing Impact of Consumerism in Electronic Health Care Systems; and an Update on the Implementation of Open Source Vista in Physician Offices
02/24/2006
Clinical Information Technology and Convergence
02/24/2006
The Integration of Clinical and Information Systems
01/20/2006
Federal Funding of Health Information Technology: What Does the Federal Government Have to Offer?
2005
12/16/2005
Update on Capital Financing for Health Technology Organizations: Where is the Money?
11/18/2005
Syndromic Surveillance: Public and Private Initiatives to Track and Utilize Public Health Care Information
10/21/2005
The Status and Implementation of Health Information Exchanges and Regional Health Information Organizations
09/23/2005
Federal Government Priorities in Health Care Technology: the View from Congress and the Administration
08/26/2005
Lunch and Golf Outing
07/15/2005
Feature Topic: The VistA Electronic Medical Record System in the U.S. and Abroad
06/17/2005
Feature Topic: Mobile Computing and its Applications to Healthcare
06/17/2005
Feature Topic: Mobile Computing and its Applications to Healthcare
06/17/2005
Feature Topic: Mobile Computing and its Applications to Healthcare
05/20/2005
From Crisis to Confidence: Creating High Reliability in Healthcare (Dr. Joseph Bormel, Quadramed)
04/15/2005
Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Technology; Short Presentation: At-risk Contracting of Health Care Technology
04/15/2005
New Technology for Critical Care (Featuring a presentation by VISICU), and At-Risk Contracting for Technology
03/18/2005
An On-Site Tour of the New Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, VA and a Discussion about Purchasing Criteria.
02/18/2005
RFID Technology: How Will it Change the Landscape?; Short Presentations: Convergence: The Challenge of Integrated Technology Purchasing
01/21/2005
The Technological Challenges of Consumer Directed Health Plans; Short Presentation: The Work of the Mid-Atlantic Business Group on Heal
2004
12/17/2004
Personal Health Records
11/19/2004
Technology for Clinical Trials
10/29/2004
Lori Evans, Senior Advisor to Dr. David Brailer, the President's National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
09/24/2004
Hospital Data Reporting and Pay-for-Performance Initiatives
08/27/2004
Informal Social Gathering for those not on Vacation (Lunch and Golf Outing)
07/16/2004
Capital Financing for Washington Area Bio Technology Companies - Ed Rudnic of Advancis Pharmaceutical
06/18/2004
New Priorities of the Leapfrog Group, Including Quality Measurement
05/14/2004
DHHS Priorities in Health Care Technology/National Health Information Infrastructure
04/16/2004
Outsourcing and Offshoring: Business, Regulatory and Political Issues Affecting Healthcare
03/19/2004
Trends and Developments in Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS)
02/20/2004
Current Developments in Electronic Health Records
01/16/2004
Use of the Internet and Other Software for Knowledge Management
2003
12/12/2003
Current Trends in Capital Financing of Health Care Technology Companies and Products
11/21/2003
How Does an Institution Sort out Priorities for New Technology Acquisitions?
10/17/2003
Technologies to Address Staffing in Nursing
09/19/2003
Qualcomm's Joint Venture with Verizon (and other new developments in wireless healthcare technology)
08/21/2003
Golf and Lunch from 12 - 5 TPC at Avenel in Potomac, MD
07/18/2003
New Healthcare Technology Stimulated by Defense and Homeland Security
06/20/2003
Uses of Technology in Genetics and Stem Cell Research
05/16/2003
CPOE and Patient Safety Systems - Doing it Right and Doing it Wrong
04/25/2003
Open Source Information Technology for Physicians and Practices and Institutions
03/21/2003
Selling to Hospitals
02/21/2003
Focus on Anesthesia Technology
01/17/2003
Outlook for 2003 in Biotech and Infotech
2002
12/13/2002
The Technology of the new George Washington University Hospital (a tour of the hospital itself)
11/15/2002
The Future of Orthopedic Devices and Applications
10/18/2002
Technology Transfer (migration of ideas and inventions from academia/NIH to the business sector)
09/20/2002
Healthcare Documentation: Information Capture and Reporting
08/16/2002
Informal Social Gathering For Those Not On Vacation (Lunch and Golf)
07/19/2002
Physician Order Entry Systems: Demonstration and Issues Discussion
06/21/2002
Recent Developments in Wireless Communications and Data Management in Healthcare
05/17/2002
1. Reimbursement and Coverage Issues 2. NIH Priorities and Interaction with the Private Sector
04/19/2002
The Effect of Human Genome Technology on Traditional Health Care Delivery
03/15/2002
Drug Discovery Companies
02/15/2002
Medical Training Simulators
01/18/2002
Branding and Selling Your Company
2001
12/14/2001
Outsourcing and the Role of the CIO
11/16/2001
Biopreparedness: The Role of Technology in Disaster Planning, Communication, Education and Response
10/19/2001
Data Security
09/21/2001
Wireless and Other Hand-Held Technology for Providors
08/17/2001
Informal Social Gathering for Those not on Vacation
07/17/2001
The Leapfrog Group: the Uses of Technology by Employer Health Benefit Plans
07/17/2001
The Leapfrog Group: the Uses of Technology by Employer Health Benefit Plans
06/15/2001
Special Issues in Recruiting and Retaining Personnel for Health Technology Companies
05/18/2001
Kaiser and the Internet: a Case Study in Patient and Provider Communication
04/17/2001
Technology to Address Medical Errors and Patient Safety
03/20/2001
The Business of Biotech
02/20/2001
The consumer impact on eHealthcare
01/16/2001
The Use of Technology by Payors
2000
12/19/2000
An Overview of HIPAA and Discussion of Key Privacy Trends
11/14/2000
The business of eko systems and implications for similar technologies.
10/17/2000
Comprehensive Patient Management Systems (CPMS)
09/19/2000
The Uses of Technology by Physicians
07/18/2000
Industry Segmentation
06/20/2000
The Workings of Incubators
05/16/2000
The Technology of Global Info Tech
04/13/2000
eCommerce Concepts, Terms and Technologies
03/21/2000
Venture Capital Investment Trends
02/15/2000
Consumerism in Healthcare
01/18/2000
What is the purpose and charter of a technology network like ours?