InterSystems DEVCON2010

Keynotes and Guest Speakers

Opening Sessions
Presentations by InterSystems senior executives will address our strategic direction and product plans. There will also be preview demonstrations of some exciting features planned for future releases.

The InterSystems Innovator Awards Presentation
The InterSystems Innovator Awards honor developers who use our technology in new ways to create unique applications and integrated solutions for their markets. The winning development teams get cash awards and have their innovative solutions publicized on our Web site and in the media.

A panel of industry analysts will pick the winning solutions. We will present the InterSystems Innovator Awards and the Student Caché Innovator Award in a general session on Monday, March  22nd. 

The Federal Electronic Health Record Strategy
Speaker: John P. Glaser, Ph.D., Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Partners Healthcare, Inc.

The Federal Government has launched a major strategy to accelerate electronic health record adoption. This presentation will discuss this massive transformation of the healthcare sector.

John Glaser, PhD, is Vice-President and Chief Information Officer, Partners HealthCare System, Inc. Previously, he was Vice-President, Information Systems at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Prior to Brigham and Women's Hospital, Dr. Glaser managed the Healthcare Information Systems consulting practice at Arthur D. Little.

Dr. Glaser was the founding Chairman of College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and is past President of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). He is past-President of the eHealth Initiative and has been a member of the Board of the American Medical Informatics Association.

Dr. Glaser is a former member of the Board of the National eHealth Collaborative. He is the former co-Chair of the Board of the National Alliance for Healthcare Information Technology. He has been a Senior Advisor to the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions.

Dr. Glaser is a Senior Advisor, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, HHS.

He is a fellow of HIMSS, CHIME and the American College of Medical Informatics. He has been awarded the John Gall award for healthcare CIO of the year. CHIME has established a scholarship in Dr. Glaser’s name. He was elected to CIO Magazine’s CIO Hall of Fame. Partners HealthCare has received several industry awards for its effective and innovative use of information technology.

Dr. Glaser has published over one hundred and fifty articles and three books on the strategic application of information technology in healthcare.

He holds a Ph.D. in Healthcare Information Systems from the University of Minnesota.