Everything Channel's Healthcare IT Summit to Take Place November 8-10 in La Quinta, CA

Event to Focus on "Certain Actions for Uncertain Times"

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FRAMINGHAM, Mass.
Oct 14, 2009

Everything Channel, a division of United Business Media, today announced its Healthcare IT Summit will take place November 8-10 at the La Quinta Resort & Club in La Quinta, CA. Healthcare IT Summit explores the challenges and actions that IT can take in the new uncertain environment by bringing together industry analysts, IT executives from healthcare insurer and provider organizations as well as leading vendors for uniquely collaborative discussions on today's pressing business and IT issues, best practices and the latest tools and technology that will improve business performance.

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Katherine Busey, Director of CIO Programs, Everything Channel, said, "When the economy will turn around, the liquidity in the capital markets and even the effect of the economic stimulus, is a matter of speculation. While the current environment may be filled with uncertainties, CIOs are continually challenged to make definitive actions that cut spending on IT where possible and align IT around initiatives that run, grow and transform the business. Healthcare IT Summit is the place for these key decision makers to come together to discuss how IT can be a key differentiator to effectively enabling care and business strategies."

  Event highlights include:
  --  Keynote speaker: JD Kleinke, Medical Economist; Health Information
      Technology Entrepreneur; Author, Oxymorons:  The Myth of a US Health
      Care System
  --  Keynote speaker:  Glenn Steele, Jr., MD, PhD, Geisinger Health System
  --  Bob Booz, Managing VP, Gartner will present "Will Health Insurers Find
      Something Special in a Medical Home?"
  --  Wes Rishel, VP Distinguished Analyst, Gartner and Tom Handler,
      Research Director, Gartner will present "Impact of the Patient
      Centered Medical Home on CDOs"
  --  Barry Runyon, Research VP, Gartner, will present "CDO Portals to
      Healthcare"
  --  Joanne Galimi, Research VP, Gartner will present "The Integrated
      Approach To Care Management"
  --  Vi Shaffer, Research VP, Gartner will present "IT's Role in Pursuing
      Top Performance in the Post-Paper Era"
  --  John Lovelock, Research VP, Gartner will present "Vendor Management:
      Reduce Risk and Improve Value"
  --  Maureen O'Neil, Principal Research Analyst, Gartner will present
      "Healthcare Insurance BPO Market Ready To Take Off"
  --  Wes Rishel, VP Distinguished Analyst and Tom Handler, Research
      Director, Gartner will present "Meaningful Use and Certification: Are
      the EHR Incentives Worth the Effort?"

  --  Jonathan Edwards, Research VP, Gartner will present " The Potential
      and Reality of Telemedicine"

The Healthcare IT Summit's format includes private Boardroom appointments and pre-scheduled analysts one-on-one meetings, which are ideal for product presentations, partnership discussions and networking. Healthcare IT Summit consistently delivers meaningful business connections with senior health insurers and vendors focused on IT issues critical to the success of their organizations.

Event platinum sponsors include are Healthation, Healthedge and ikaSystems; gold sponsors are 3M, InterSystems, QlikView, Telus and TMG Health; and silver sponsors are CAREfx, click4care, Covisint, Healthx, Informatics Corporation of America, MEDecision, MedPlus, Microsoft, ORION Health, Pitney Bowes, SUNGARD, TRIZETTO and ZeOmega.

For additional information on sponsorships, contact Susie Wilson at Susie.wilson@ec.ubm.com or 508.416.1184.

About Everything Channel (http://www.everythingchannel.com/, http://www.channelweb.com/)

Everything Channel is the one-stop shop for managing and accelerating technology sales. From branding and recruiting to marketing and sales, Everything Channel offers technology marketers the unmatched breadth and depth of global brands and market intelligence combined with unparalleled audience loyalty and credibility serving all technology sales channels through an extensive database. Everything Channel provides innovative field sales and marketing solutions to arm the sellers of technology with the resources they need to achieve measurable and significant results.

About United Business Media Limited (www.unitedbusinessmedia.com)

UBM (UBM.L) focuses on two principal activities: worldwide information distribution, targeting and monitoring; and, the development and monetization of B2B communities and markets. UBM's businesses inform markets and serve professional commercial communities - from doctors to game developers, from journalists to jewelry traders, from farmers to pharmacists - with integrated events, online, print and business information products. Our 6,500 staff in more than 30 countries are organized into specialist teams that serve these communities, bringing buyers and sellers together, helping them to do business and their markets to work effectively and efficiently.

  Contact
  Mark Britton
  Everything Channel
  603-471-4219
  mark.britton@ec.ubm.com

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SOURCE: Everything Channel

CONTACT: Mark Britton, Everything Channel, +1-603-471-4219,
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