Annie Earley, Managing VP, Gartner
Joanne Galimi, Research VP, Gartner
This opening session will provide a roadmap on how healthcare executives can capitalize their time at the Healthcare Summit. Expectations will be highlighted to ensure all attendees have access to rich and usable content that will assist in short and long term planning. The Gartner healthcare analyst team will also be introduced.

Healthcare Town Hall
Gartner Analyst Team
The "Healthcare Town Hall" session is an interactive session with the Gartner Healthcare analyst team that will provide a forum to answer critical questions from healthcare executives. We will set the stage for the conference and solicit input from the audience to make this conference a revelant and valuable experience.

Health IT: Going from Hype to Interoperability
Dr. Robert M. Kolodner, National Coordinator, Health Information Technology Department of Health and Human Services
Dr. Robert M. Kolodner will discuss the key federal initiatives to advance health information technology across the United States in the areas of collaborative governance, interoperability adoption, and privacy and security.

The Healthcare CIO 2.0
Dr. Lynn Vogel, Vice President & CIO, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Like other executives, the CIO needs to focus on leadership, relationships and business. But the Healthcare CIO must be a distinctive contributor too, bringing unique knowledge of information and technology’s potential. Nowhere is the advancing promise from the fusion of information technology and medicine more apparent and more challenging than in cancer care. Dr. Vogel will discuss his experiences in creating and executing a vision for IT as one of the world’s leading cancer centers breaks new ground in personalized and genomic medicine and beyond.

Mastermind Panel
Moderators:
Bob Booz, Managing VP
Wes Rishel, VP, Distinguished Analyst
Panelists:
Grad Conn, Senior Director, Global Consumer Health Strategy, Health Solutions Group, Microsoft Corporation
Alfred Spector, VP of Research and Special Initiatives, Google