Company: Medical Records Institute and mHealth Initiative
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Past speaking events:

Over 200 keynotes in many cities of the world - has covered all continents. Speaking in US and internationally several times per month.

Last speaking events  during the last 3 months of 2008:

• 5+ Audioconferences on EMRs and mHealth
• DoD National Summit on mHealth
• mHealth Conference, Delhi, India
• Ohio Association of Health Commissioners
• Pole Government Conference, Montreal, Canada
• Massachusetts Medical Society Boston
• MIT Boston
• FAZIT Conference Stuttgart, Germany
• EMR Conference Kansas City

Waegemann is generally recognized as one of the world's top speakers on HIT, EHRs, mHealth and eHealth. Waegemann has been named by HealthLeaders Magazine as one of the top 20 most influential people in healthcare in the USA.

Topics:

• eHealth
• mHealth
• data protection
• patient card systems
• German strategies for the health card
• participatory care
• consumerism in healthcare
• Health 2.0
• ROI in HIT
• Leapfrogging healthcare technology with cell phones
• personal health records
• cell phone applications in healthcare

Speaker Bio:

PROFESSIONAL
Born in Germany but a US citizen for many years, Waegemann is considered an international leader in health informatics with a special interest in electronic patient record systems, standards, networking, telemedicine, mHealth, and the creation of the national information infrastructure. He is the most sought-after speaker on electronic health records, eHealth, and mHealth. In 2007, HealthLeaders Magazine named Waegemann as one of 20 People who make Healthcare Better. He gives interviews on eHealth and mHealth issues several times a month. 

FOUNDER OR INITIATOR OF

• ISO TC 215 on Health Informatics (Co-initiator)
• OMG's CORBAmed
• C-PAHC (Center for Cell Phone Applications in Healthcare)
• CCR:  Coined the title Continuity of Care Record and chaired the ASTM E31 Committee on Healthcare Informatics when its CCR Task Group was formed and developed the CCR standard.

PUBLICATIONS:

• Past Editor-in-Chief, Health IT Advisory Report (newsletter) 1997-2002
• Handbook of Optical Memory Systems, Medical Records Institute (4th Edition), 1992
• Strategy for Information and Image Management for the 1990s, Optical Disk Institute, 1991
• Handbook of Record Storage and Space Management, Greenwood Press, 1987
• Editor of 18 proceedings books; 100+ published articles:
• Regular contributor to various HIT publications
• Author of more than 150 articles on electronic medical records, e-health, e-care, personal health records, mHealth, and participatory care. 

LEADERSHIP ACTIVITIES (PAST AND PRESENT)

• President and CEO, Medical Records Institute
• Executive Director, Center for Cell Phone Applications in Healthcare
• Executive Director, mHealth Association
• Chair, TEPR Conference
• Board member, VUHID Project (Voluntary Universal Health Identifier)
• 2004 Board Member of SNOMED INTERNATIONAL
• 1994-2002 American National Standards Institute (ANSI):  Chair of Healthcare Informatics Standards Board (ANSI HISB)
• Past Chair, ANSI HISB Taskforce on USHIK
• 2002-2005 Member of the Board of Advisors, Illinois Institute of Technology
• Past Chair, National Conference on Information Capture
• 2001-2005 Chair, ASTM International, Chair of Committee E31
• 2000-2002, Co-chair, Consensus Work Group on Health Information Capture and Report Generation
• 2000-2001 Chair of ASTM Subcommittee E 31.26 on Personal (Consumer) Health Records
• 1998-2002 Head of Delegation, US Delegates, ANSI, to ISO TC 215
• Past Chair, Task Group on Consumer Interests, ISO TC 215 on Health Informatics
• Past Chair, Task Group on Web Activity Standards, ISO TC 215 on Health Informatics
• 1997 National Coordinator for the United States for G8: GIS Theme Two (Health Care, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Education, and other services to the public)
• 1996-2000 Member of the Executive Committee American National Standards Institute
• 1995-2002 Chairman, Centre for the Advancement of Electronic Health Records, Ltd. (London, England)
• 1995-1998 Co-chair of CORBAmed (Healthcare Domain Task Force of the worlds largest software consortium on interoperability)
• 1994-1995 Chair of Subcommittee ASTM E31.20 on Authentication of Healthcare Information (Electronic Signatures)
• 1991-1995 Chair, International Patient Cards Standards Council

AWARDS:

• 2007 HealthLeaders Magazine:  One of top US 20 People who make Healthcare Better, people who are finding innovative solutions to healthcare's myriad problems; Who are showing courage in the face of daunting challenges; - in short, who are genuinely making a difference in healthcare.
• 2001 ANSI (American National Standards Institute) Award of Appreciation
• 2000 AAMT (American Association for Medical Transcription) Distinguished Service Award
• 2001 Award by American National Standards Institute for Appreciation of work in ANSI HISB.
• 1999 ASTM E31 Committee on Health Informatics' Elmer Gabrieli Award for Contributions to Healthcare Standards Work
• 1995 SES/ASTM (Standards Engineering Society/ASTM) Robert J. Painter Award for Outstanding work in standardization in health care.
• 1994 CPRI (Computer-based Patient Records Institute) Award of AppreciationOTHER § Recent Open Letter to President-elect Obama -  see http://www.medrecinst.com/News/News.php?article=21   
• Testimony to US Congress
• Testimony to US Senate
• Testimony to NCVHS (on several occasions)
• Subject of press articles domestically and in many countries, including new York Times and Wall Street Journal§ Keynote speaker in numerous countries as well as nationally. For more information, please google C. Peter Waegemann.  There are over 2,000 entries on the web.