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Pilot Program
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Health IT and How it Impacts the Quality of Health Care in America |
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Meet the Panel
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Carolyn Clancy, M.D.
Director
AHRQ
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Alan G. Merten, Ph.D.
President
George Mason University
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Alison Rein
Former Assistant Director Food and Health Policy
National Consumers League
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Gregory Bentz, M.D., Ph.D.
Chief Medical Officer
INOVA Loudon Hospital
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Theresa M. Davis, R.N., M.S.N.
Operations Director/Patient Care Director eICU
INOVA Health System
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Gregg Meyer, M.D., M.Sc.
Senior VP for Quality and Patient Safety
Massachusetts General Hospital
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Robert M. Kolodner, M.D.
National Coordinator
Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT
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Dave deBronkart
PatientSite System User
Patient at Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
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Steven E. Wojcik
Vice President, Public Policy
National Business Group on Health
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Deven McGraw
Chief Operating Officer
National Partnership for Women & Families
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Geoffrey Brown, Ph.D.
Sr. VP/Chief Information Officer IT
INOVA Health System
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Steven E. Wojcik
Vice President, Public Policy
National Business Group on Health
Steven Wojcik is Vice President of Public Policy for the National Business
Group on Health. He has over 20 years of experience in health policy
development, analysis and research; government relations; and public affairs.
At the Business Group, he is responsible for developing and coordinating the
Business Group’s position and strategy on federal issues impacting health
benefits for large employers, providing information and analysis on the best
practices and concerns of large employers to Capitol Hill and the
Administration, and keeping members informed of policy developments in
Washington that may impact employer-sponsored health benefits and programs.
Mr. Wojcik currently serves as the Business Group’s representative on the
Beneficiary Advisory Panel for the Medicare Model Guidelines Committee that
Congress has charged with making recommendations for formularies for the
Medicare prescription drug benefit. He is also the Business Group’s
representative on the Ambulatory Care Quality Alliance (AQA), a collaborative
national effort to develop and implement consensus measures on health care
quality for physician services and in outpatient settings. He serves on the
AQA’s Cost of Care Workgroup and on the joint AQA – Hospital Quality Alliance
Efficiency/Episodes of Care Workgroup. He is also the Business Group’s voting
member of the National Quality Forum, a national multi-stakeholder consensus
body for health care quality measures. Mr. Wojcik also serves on the policy
and/or steering committees of the Employers Coalition on Medicare, the HSA
Working Group, and other policy coalitions in Washington, D.C.
Previously, Mr. Wojcik was Manager of Government Relations for PacifiCare
Health Systems and Senior Health Policy Analyst for WellPoint Health Networks
Inc., two large national health plans based in California. He was responsible
for federal policy development and strategy at PacifiCare, focusing largely on
Medicare and managed care legislative and regulatory issues. He also focused on
Medicare issues at WellPoint and was also responsible for state health policy
development in California and other states.
Prior to relocating to California, Mr. Wojcik served as a Consultant to the
Center for Health Policy Studies in Maryland and as a Policy Analyst at Project
HOPE’s, Center for Health Affairs where he conducted research, policy analysis,
and program evaluation for various federal agencies, state governments, and
private clients. Mr. Wojcik also served as a consultant to the Polish Ministry
of Health between 1988 and 1992, funded in part by USAID, where he advised on
health care financing reform and oversaw part of a successful World Bank loan
application for the health sector. He holds an M.A. in Public Policy from the
University of Chicago and a B.S. in International Relations from Georgetown
University.
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