Ingram Micro Inc. : Ingram Micro Announces 2012 Health IT Innovation Summit on June 28
05/22/2012| 10:15am US/Eastern
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SANTA ANA, CA, May 22, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX)
--Demonstrating its technology leadership within the
healthcare industry, Ingram Micro Inc. (NYSE: IM) today
announced it will co-host the 2012 Health IT Innovation
Summit on June 28 at the Nixon Presidential Library in Yorba
Linda, Calif.
Held in conjunction with HIMSS' Southern California
chapter and UC Irvine's Center for Digital
Transformation, the one-day, high-profile business and
technology education event is anticipated to draw nearly 250
healthcare-focused stakeholders from across the U.S.
including technology innovation leaders, healthcare CIOs,
providers, and public policy and legal experts. Registration
is limited and available to complete online.
Themed "mHealth in the Era of Affordable Care," the
event will bring together the global healthcare
industry's most influential thought leaders including Dr.
Molly Joel Coye, chief innovation officer, the University of
California Los Angeles Health System, and Dr. Jason Hwang, an
innovation author and executive director of healthcare for
the Innosight Institute.
The nation's leading healthcare systems CIOs will also
share their views in a high-impact panel featuring Jack
Cranmer, CIO and vice chair of the Mayo Clinic Arizona and
Mayo Clinic Scottsdale, and Lisa Caplan, senior vice
president and business information officer for Kaiser
Permanente, as well as moderator Paul Peabody, CIO of Palomar
Pomerado Health.
Additionally, an Innovation Thought Leaders panel will offer
expert insight from Jim Geringer, the former governor of
Wyoming; Christopher Wasden, Ph.D., global healthcare
innovation leader for PriceWaterhouseCoopers; Brian Balow,
partner and healthcare IT attorney for Dickinson Wright,
PLLC; and moderator Dr. Mitch Morris, principal, health IT
for Deloitte Consulting LLP.
Additional speakers include a broad cross-section of
healthcare industry executives and technology experts from
organizations such as Allscripts, IDC, Intel, Nuance
Communications, Qualcomm Life and Siemens. Ingram Micro's
CIO Mario Leone and recently appointed chief operating and
financial officer Bill Humes will also be in attendance.
"Health IT innovation and mHealth are two disruptive
movements within the healthcare industry driving tremendous
change, challenge and opportunity," says Samuel J. King,
FHIMSS, president of the HIMSS Southern California Chapter.
"More and more healthcare organizations are looking to
mobile technology and innovation to improve patient care,
gain operational efficiencies and adhere to government
regulations and industry mandates. As these converged
technologies continue to advance, adoption of mobile health
will soar."
"The U.S. healthcare system is too expensive, leaving
many citizens uninsured, and lags many countries in key
performance measures," says Vijay Gurbaxani, professor
and director, UC Irvine's Center for Digital
Transformation. "Information technologies have the
potential to transform the healthcare system and this Summit
will foster discussion and debate that will empower
stakeholders to act to reform the system."
The Health IT Innovation Summit agenda is designed to address
key issues impacting healthcare providers and patients, as
well as legal and public policy, with a focus on the
challenges and opportunities facing mobile health.
Additionally, attendees will gather valuable takeaways on how
to capitalize on market trends by leveraging the expertise
and offerings provided by Ingram Micro and its established
healthcare IT consultant partner network, including solution
providers and technology vendors. The event will conclude
with a targeted technology showcase and networking reception
featuring the latest innovations and solutions available to
healthcare professionals and organizations.
"We're bringing together many of the healthcare
industry's most knowledgeable technology and business
leaders to help establish a broader understanding of the most
important issues shaping mobile technology in the healthcare
market and drive positive change across the industry,"
says Michael Humke, executive director, Healthcare, Public
Sector and Vertical Markets, Ingram Micro U.S. "This
Summit is a must for healthcare organizations and
practitioners who are committed to leading the market and
want to learn more about how technology can further enable
their success and help deliver the utmost in patient
care."
Leading up to June 28, news and updates on the event will be
featured on Ingram Micro's Facebook page, and reported on
Twitter under the hashtag #mHealth12. HIMSS will also be
making Summit information available to its members via email
and social media channels.
More information about the 2012 Healthcare Innovation Summit,
including the event agenda and registration, is available
here. For more information about Ingram Micro's
healthcare-specific IT solutions portfolio, channel partners
should contact their Ingram Micro sales representative and
follow Ingram Micro Healthcare on Facebook at
www.facebook.com/IngramMicroHealthcare and Twitter at
www.twitter.com/IMHealthcare.
For more information on Ingram Micro, visit
www.ingrammicro.com.
Follow Ingram Micro Inc. on Facebook at
www.facebook.com/IngramMicro and Twitter at
www.twitter.com/IngramMicroInc.
About HIMSS HIMSS Southern California is one of 54 affiliated
chapters of HIMSS, a cause-based, not-for-profit organization
exclusively focused on providing global leadership for the
optimal use of information technology (IT) and management
systems for the betterment of healthcare. With more than
2,200 members, it is one of the largest, most recognized and
innovative HIMSS chapters in the nation. For more
information, visit http://www.himss-socal.org/index.html.
About the Center for Digital Transformation: The Center for
Digital Transformation (CDT) at UC Irvine is an
interdisciplinary and open-source research institute,
comprised of business leaders, economists, computer
scientists, behavioral scientists, sociologists and other
members of the community. It was created in response to the
demand for an understanding of how to best operate within a
digital environment and provides substantive and unique
insights for succeeding in the new digital age. For more
information, visit merage.uci.edu/go/cdt.
About Ingram Micro Inc. As a vital link in the technology
value chain, Ingram Micro creates sales and profitability
opportunities for vendors and resellers through unique
marketing programs, outsourced logistics, technical and
financial support, managed and cloud-based services, and
product aggregation and distribution. The company is the only
global broad-based IT distributor, serving more than 145
countries on six continents with the world's most
comprehensive portfolio of IT products and services. Visit
www.ingrammicro.com.
Press Contact:
Marie Rourke
WhiteFox Marketing (for Ingram Micro)
(714) 292-2199
marie@whitefoxpr.com
SOURCE: Ingram Micro Inc.
mailto:marie@whitefoxpr.com
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