Advisory Board Meeting
IHO 2012 Advisory Board Meeting
On June 13, 2012 health care leaders from around the world came together to attend the IHO Advisory Board Meeting at the Harvard Club in Boston, MA. The Board and other participants had the opportunity to hear from various organizations – Mayo Clinic Florida, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Greater Baltimore Medical Center, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, New Jersey Hospital Association, Palmetto Richland and The Ottawa Hospital – that have adopted IHO’s methodology. In addition to our Board members, we were joined by many distinguished guests including the new President of Healthcare Financial Management Association, CEO of American Organization of Nurse Executives, former Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services administrator, Executive Director of the Institute of Medicine, Massachusetts Executive Office of Health & Human Services Secretary, as well as representatives of American College of Emergency Physicians, Leapfrog Group, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, hospital CEOs and Chief Nursing officers.
From left to right:
Cyril Chantler (Chairman of the University College London Partners Academic Health Science Partnership), Benjamin Chu (President, Kaiser Permanente Southern California), Mark Smith (President & CEO, California HealthCare Foundation), Sandy Schwartz (Leon Hess Professor of Medicine and Health Management & Economics, School of Medicine and The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania), Eugene Litvak (President & CEO, IHO), James Tallon (President of the United Hospital Fund of New York, Chair of the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured and Secretary/Treasurer of the Alliance for Health Reform), Helen Darling (President & CEO, National Business Group on Health), Richard Umbdenstock (President & CEO, American Hospital Association), Susan Dentzer (Editor-in-Chief, Health Affairs), Glenn Steele (President & CEO, Geisinger Health System), Michael McGinnis (Senior Scholar & Executive Director, Institute of Medicine of the National Academics), William Pierskalla (Professor and Former Dean of the Anderson School of Management at UCLA, Former President of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies)
