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Smart Valley, Inc. announces a workshop on Health Care and the Information 
Superhighway.

Smart Valley is organizing this workshop to bring together health care 
professionals from various information networking projects in Northern 
California.  Plus, Smart Valley hopes to solicit ideas and suggestions for 
potential large, regional flagship projects to bring the information 
superhighway to Northern California health care.

In Northern California, we have a chance to do what is only beginning 
elsewhere around the country:  to assist the regional health care system 
through large-scale communication networking.  We need your 
contributions at the workshop to help us formulate a plan to
realize this goal.

At the workshop, professionals from many areas of the health care 
industry will gather in panel discussions to address the relevant 
business, technology, and organizational issues.  Each panel will be 
followed by an audience question and answer session.  Finally, there 
will be a wrap-up session to bring our ideas together and to formulate 
the next steps.

The workshop will be on Monday, October 10, from 1 p.m. to 5:15 p.m., 
with light refreshments beginning at 12:30 p.m.  It will be located at 
the Tandem Computers Auditorium, 10435 North Tantau Avenue, in 
Cupertino, California.  Admission is free, but donations will be welcome to
help cover the costs of the workshop.

Attendance will be limited to those individuals currently involved with, 
or planning to be involved with, either the health care or the 
information network industries.  To register, please fax or E-mail the 
enclosed registration form to Smart Valley, c/o Mason Myers (FAX: 415-
843-2222,  E-mail:  MasonM@svi.org). Registrants will receive maps to 
the meeting site as well as entrance tickets.  Feel free to contact
Mason Myers if you have any questions (415-843-2053, E-mail: 
MasonM@svi.org).

Please pass this information on to others who may be interested and 
could contribute to the workshop.  Thank you for your attention and I 
hope to see you on October 10.

Regards,
Mason Myers
Project Coordinator

Included:  Workshop Agenda
           Registration Form
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------------HEALTH CARE AND THE INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY--------------
                     Sponsored by Smart Valley, Inc.
           Stanford University's Section on Medical Informatics
                            Tandem Computers

Monday, October 10, 1994, from 12:30 pm to 5:15 p.m.
Tandem Computers Auditorium, 10435 North Tantau Avenue, Cupertino, CA

OBJECTIVE: To bring together health care professionals involved with and 
interested in information networking, and to solicit ideas and 
suggestions for one or more large, regional flagship projects to bring 
the information superhighway to Northern California health care.

FORMAT: A series of three panel presentations, each approximately one 
hour in duration. Each panel will be composed of four to five speakers 
who will each give a ten minute presentation, followed by a general Q&A 
session, with panelists fielding questions from the audience.  There 
will be a wrap-up discussion to conclude the workshop.

ADMISSION:  Free of charge; donations appreciated.

                                  AGENDA

Light Refreshments                                 12:30 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Welcome to the Workshop                             1:00 p.m. - 1:10 p.m.
Dr. Ted Shortliffe; Smart Valley, Inc. Board of Directors;  Stanford 
University School of Medicine, Professor of Medicine

PANEL ON BUSINESS ISSUES:                           1:10 p.m. - 1:50 p.m.
Jay M. Tenenbaum; Enterprise Integration Technologies, Inc., Chief 
Executive Officer 
     "Applying the CommerceNet Model to Health Care"
Dorinda Shaw;  San Francisco Medical Group, Manager of Patient Care 
Services
     "California Health Information Network - CHIN"
Denise Wilson; California Deptartment of Health Services, Information Systems
Analyst
     "Benefits Information Card - BIC"
Susan Moriconi;  Hewlett-Packard, Inc., Health Benefits Manager
     "Health Care and the Employer's Perspective"
 
     Questions and Answers on Business Issues        1:50 p.m. - 2:10 p.m.

PANEL ON TECHNOLOGY ISSUES:                          2:10 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Rick Hronicek; Pacific Bell, CalREN Program Director
     "CalREN Health Care Applications"
Blackford Middleton, M.D.;  Stanford University Medical Center, Medical 
Director of Information Management and Technology
     "Bay Area Community Health and Education Network - BACHEN"
Ronald Arenson, M.D.;  University of California, San Francisco, 
Alexander R. Margulis Professor of Radiology, Chairman of the Radiology 
Department
     "Tele-Radiology Today"
Richard Lucier, M.L.S.; University of California, San Francisco, 
Assistant Vice Chancellor for Academic Information Management, 
University Librarian, Director for the Center for Knowledge Management 
     "Network-Enabled Distribution of Biomedical Information: The Red    
      Sage Project"
Jay Shuler; Northern Telecom, Manager of Product Marketing, Integrated 
Community Networks Group
     "Network Technologies for Telemedicine"

     Questions and Answers on Technology Issues      3:00 p.m. - 3:20 p.m.

     Break                                           3:20 p.m. - 3:40 p.m.

PANEL ON ORGANIZATIONAL ISSUES:                      3:40 p.m. - 4:20 p.m.
Bruce Johnson, Ph.D.; Andersen Consulting, Partner, Center for Strategic 
Technology and Director of Health Care Information Infrastructure 
Research Program
     "Changing Requirements in the Health Care Industry"
Donald Simborg, M.D., Medicus Systems Corporation, Inc., Chief Product 
Strategist
     "Health Care Metrics"
Michael Higgins, Ph.D.;  Hewlett-Packard Labs, Manager of the 
Physician's Workstation Project
     "Issues of Wide Area Connectivity"
Ted Cooper, M.D.;  Kaiser Permanente, Associate Director for Medical 
Information Services
     "Health Care Information Systems and the Challenge for Care 
Delivery"

     Questions and Answers on Organizational Issues    4:20 p.m.-4:40 p.m.

WORKSHOP CONCLUSION:                                 4:40 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.

An open discussion to draw the three panels together and to solicit 
ideas and suggestions for how Smart Valley, Inc. can help with the 
implementation of a large, regional flagship project to bring the 
information superhighway to Northern California health care.

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           "HEALTH CARE AND THE INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY"

                  
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