Health Care Innovation Summit, June 10, 2011

First-ever Health Care Innovation Summit Aims to Improve Health Care through Collaboration & Innovation

More than a hundred chief innovation officers will meet with leaders from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Innovation Center, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology for the first-ever Health Care Innovation Summit this Friday.  As a part of Washington, D.C. Health Innovation Week, the summit will be the first time leaders of health innovation centers, information technology and academia will meet with this group of federal officials collectively to explore the challenges and opportunities to improving the health care system through innovation.

WHAT:

Health Care Innovation Summit, June 10, 2011



WHO:

Richard Gilfillan, MD, acting director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation




Jack Cochran, MD, Executive Director, Permanente Federation




Mac Curtis, president and CEO, Vangent, Inc.



WHEN:

Friday, June 10, 2011


Media invited from 8:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.



WHERE:

The Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health


700 Second Street, NE (between Union Station and H Street NE)


Washington, D.C. 20002


www.centerfortotalhealth.org



CONTACT:

Danielle Cass


[email protected], 510-910-9647



/PRNewswire -- June 7, 2011/

SOURCE Kaiser Permanente