Sentillion Healthcare IT Expert Available for Comment on President Obama’s Healthcare Reform Speech to Congress September 9th at 8pm ET

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WHO		Jonathan A. Leviss, MD, vice president, chief medical officer at Sentillion, the leading provider of identity and access management solutions for healthcare; staff physician, Thundermist Health Center in Rhode Island; and editor and co-author of the soon to be released book, “H.I.T. or Miss: Lessons Learned from Health Information Technology Implementations,” due out November 2009. Dr. Leviss has led multiple healthcare technology initiatives across inpatient, ambulatory, and community settings and served as the first Chief Medical Informatics Officer at the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation. In addition to his professional experience, Dr. Leviss held faculty positions at the medical schools of NYU and Columbia University and remains a frequent author and presenter on the subject of medical informatics.

WHAT		President Obama will address healthcare reform in a speech to a joint session of Congress on September 9th at 8pm ET. With his passage of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act (part of the Stimulus package known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act), Obama has shown that healthcare IT is a national priority and needs to be ramped up for healthcare reform to be effective.

DETAILS		Dr. Leviss is available to offer expert commentary on:
		— the nation’s healthcare delivery system’s readiness for HIT, given the industry’s slow adoption rate of technology
		— the lessons we need to be aware of based on past HIT failures
		— the concerns over the security and privacy of patient data and identity theft
		— how HIT can reduce the inefficiencies and high costs that burden the nation’s health system