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Identity Management in Healthcare
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM ET
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Sponsored By:
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Accurately linking patients with their personal medical information and managing patient information are significant problems today for hospitals, other healthcare providers and healthcare payers that impact administrative efficiency, revenue collection, legislative compliance and patient quality of care. Sponsored by the Smart Card Alliance, Gemalto, Infineon Technologies and LifeMed, Inc., this educational webinar will provide a detailed review of how healthcare organizations are facing increasing regulatory challenges that will require new approaches to address patient identification and securely authenticating patient health data.
Presenters will discuss the challenges with identity management in healthcare and the importance of establishing a secure, robust, scalable healthcare information management infrastructure both within healthcare organizations and with healthcare data exchanges. Paul Contino, Mount Sinai Medical Center, and Lawrence Carbonaro, The Memorial Hospital, will present how their organizations' implementations of smart patient health cards have improved patient identity management.
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Learning Objectives |
This webinar will discuss:
- Importance of identity management in healthcare
- The enhanced liability that new regulations and legislation place on healthcare organizations
- Challenges with patient identity management and authentication within healthcare organizations and with healthcare data exchanges.
- Results achieved by the Mount Sinai Medical Center and Memorial Hospital smart patient health card programs
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Who Will Benefit? |
From Healthcare Providers, Hospitals, Payors and Insurers
- Chief Information Officers
- Chief Operating Officers
- Chief Technology Officers
Also Executives responsible for IT (EVP, SVP, VP, Directors and Managers) |
Speakers |
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Randy Vanderhoof
Executive Director
Smart Card Alliance
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Richard Marks
Co-Founder & President
Patient Command, Inc.
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Lawrence Carbonaro
Director, Purchasing & Patient Retention
The Memorial Hospital, North Conway, New Hampshire
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Paul Contino
Vice President of Information Technology
Mount Sinai Medical Center
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Webinar Registration
Complimentary Webinar - No Fee
Or call: 800-647-7600
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About our Speakers
Paul Contino is Vice President of Information Technology for the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City which is one of the country's premier academic medical centers. Founded in 1852, The Mount Sinai Hospital is also one of the oldest and largest voluntary teaching hospitals in the US. Mount Sinai is internationally acclaimed for excellence in clinical care, education, and scientific research in medicine.
Mr. Contino is a healthcare IT executive with over 15 years of experience in technology development and management. Mr. Contino oversees Mount Sinai's extensive application portfolio, which encompasses all clinical, financial and administrative systems used by the hospital and school of medicine. In addition, Mr. Contino is responsible for the overall architecture of all custom developed applications and database systems.
Prior to his career in information technology, Mr. Contino was a research scientist and has a strong biomedical and clinical background. He has served as a technical consultant to a number of pharmaceutical and medical manufacturing companies regarding clinical instrumentation and biomedical engineering. Mr. Contino is a graduate of City College of New York with a BS in Biochemistry. He also attended the CIO Institute at Columbia University.
Mr. Contino has been actively involved in a number of healthcare data exchange initiatives and has lectured nationally on these initiatives. His expertise and perspective is regularly sort after on topics related to new technology, identity management, security, privacy and healthcare standards and interoperability. He led the development of the Personal Health Card (smart card) initiative at Mount Sinai and is the organizer of the HealthSmart Network in NYC. Mr. Contino currently serves as the chair of the Healthcare Council of the Smart Card Alliance and is a board member of the New York Clinical Information Exchange (NYCLIX), a leading health information exchange in NYC.
Richard D. Marks is co-founder and president of Patient Command, Inc., McLean, Virginia, an early-stage company that is developing a secure personal health record system for the Internet.
Richard practiced law in Washington, D.C from 1971 to 2003. He was a partner at Dow, Lohnes & Albertson for 25 years, and later at Vinson & Elkins and Davis Wright Tremaine. His practice included litigating intellectual property, privacy, freedom of expression, and security issues; advising and litigating on behalf of telecommunications companies; negotiating and enforcing contracts for outsourcing or acquisition of large computer systems; and advising on HIPAA.
Richard successfully argued the first case declaring a part of the Communications Act unconstitutional, and in 1998, in the U.S. Supreme Court, he argued and won a landmark First Amendment–free press case concerning televised political debates. He represented the American Association for the Advancement of Science in a brief amicus curiae in Bernstein v. Dept. of State ( 9 th Cir. 1997), challenging export restrictions on encryption source code.
Richard served in the U.S. Army, including a tour in Vietnam as a Captain in Military Intelligence. Assigned to the Office of Strategic Research and Analysis, Headquarters, U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, his responsibilities included briefing the U.S. Ambassador, the Commanding General, MACV, and the CIA Chief of Station on political intelligence in Laos, China, Burma, and Thailand. He continued his interest in intelligence and national security matters throughout his years of legal practice. His current responsibilities at Patient Command include secure systems to maintain the privacy of personal health records.
Richard has published extensively on security and privacy issues and their intersection with the First Amendment. Among his publications are: Implementing HIPAA: Guidelines for Systems Implementation Projects, 5 ECLR (Electronic Commerce and Law Report, Bureau of National Affairs) 468 (May 3, 2000); HIPAA, Bartnicki, and Public Interest in Inherently Private Records 6 ECLR 811 (Aug. 1, 2001); Network Security: No Rest for the Wary, 8 ECLR 485 (May 21, 2003; co-author); and Member Briefing on HIPAA Security (American Health Lawyers Association, 2004; co-author). He has been a speaker on personal health records (PHRs) and health record banking at the 2008 and 2009 annual meetings of HIMSS, the Healthcare Information Management and Systems Society. He also has been a frequent speaker on information security and corporate governance as it relates to privacy and security.
Richard is chair of the ABA Section of Science and Technology Law’s Grants and Funding Committee, and was Chair of the Section’s Computer Law Division, its Program Committee, and its HIPAA Task Force, and he was an ABA member of the National Conference of Lawyers and Scientists.
Richard is a member of the American Law Institute. He was a Director of the Computer Law Association, and Co-Chair of the Security Policy Advisory Group of the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI), and Chair of WEDI’s HIPAA security certification committee.
Richard holds an Airline Transport Pilot certificate and is a certified flight instructor. He holds a B.A. from the University of Virginia and a J.D. from Yale Law School.
Randy Vanderhoof is the Executive Director of the Smart Card Alliance. He came to the Alliance in January, 2002 and became the interim director in March. He was named Executive Director in August, 2002. He also served as on the Executive Board for the Alliance as a corporate member from 1998–2001.
Prior to joining the Smart Card Alliance, he was Senior Project Manager and Solutions Sales Manager for IBM Global Smart Card Solutions, an international product group supporting IBM's smart card services to its global banking, healthcare, and government industry vertical teams. From 2000 to 2001, he was Vice President, Business Development, with First Access, Inc., a developer of contactless smart card technology for network access security and authentication. From 1995 to 2000, he worked at Schlumberger as Market Segment Manager, Campus Solutions, supporting the development and marketing of smart card-based identification and payment systems.
Randy is a graduate of Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia, PA. He received his MBA from Rider University in Lawrenceville, NJ. Randy is married with three children and resides in Mercerville, NJ.
Lawrence Carbonaro is the Director, Purchasing & Patient Access at The Memorial Hospital in North Conway New Hampshire. Mr. Carbonaro oversees all purchasing, registration, scheduling and communication functions at the facility. Memorial Hospital is a 25 bed critical access hospital providing emergency, inpatient, ambulatory surgery, imaging, oncology and cardiac rehab functions. Also part of the hospital are physician practices with services in primary care, surgery / urology, diabetes, orthopedics and woman’s health.
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