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PPM Media Announces Health IT Insight 2008 Summit; IDC's Health Industry Insights to Be Content Partner

Posted on: Wednesday, 20 June 2007, 15:06 CDT

MANCHESTER, N.H., June 20 /PRNewswire/ -- PPM Media today announced Health IT Insight 2008, the first national invitational summit featuring a content partnership with Health Industry Insights, an IDC company that provides cutting-edge research and advisory services for the healthcare technology marketplace. Health IT Insight 2008 will facilitate business, networking and collaboration between IT suppliers and an invitation-only audience of senior- level executives from the payer and provider segments of the healthcare industry. The event will take place from January 13-15, 2008 at the Westin Savannah Harbor Golf Resort & Spa in Savannah, Georgia.

As the official content partner of Health IT Insight 2008, IDC's Health Industry Insights will make presentations on the latest IT healthcare research, trends, market opportunities, and IT investment strategies. Participating analysts will include:

-- Scott Lundstrom, Vice President of Research and a leading expert on the entire healthcare industry value chain -- Alan Louie, Ph.D., Research Director focused on the emerging opportunities in personalized health -- Marc Holland, Program Director, Health Provider Research, the leader of the provider research and advisory practice -- Janice W. Young, Program Director of Payer IT Strategies focused on trends and technologies impacting payer business success

"As technology continues to transform the healthcare industry, we are seeing increased investments in areas that support better cross-industry collaboration, like electronic health records, personalized health, pay for performance, and data warehousing and analytics," says Scott Lundstrom, Vice President of Research, Health Industry Insights. "Health IT Insight 2008 represents a highly focused environment to facilitate this collaboration among payers, providers and suppliers, and we are pleased to be working with PPM Media to contribute our thought leadership to a significant new industry event."

IT executives from the payer and provider segments need to qualify in order to attend Health IT Insight, and all qualified attendees will receive a full participation package including airfare, hotel accommodations, meals and all event programming. In addition to the intensive content program, the three-day agenda is highlighted by pre-scheduled meetings between attending executives and vendors in case study presentations, one-on-one meetings for follow-up discussions, and a product demonstration and meeting area.

For further information on Health IT Insight 2008, visit http://www.healthitinsight.com/ . Vendor suppliers interested in sponsorship opportunities should contact Paul Samargedlis at 603-668-7141 or paul.samargedlis@ppmmedia.com. Healthcare payer and provider IT executives wishing to qualify for an invitation should contact Lisa Jones at 603-668-7144 or lisa.jones@ppmmedia.com.

Health IT Insight is produced by PPM Media (http://www.ppmmedia.com/), a leading producer of executive-level business-to-business events in the U.S. and around the world. The content provider of the event is Health Industry Insights (http://www.healthindustry-insights.com/), an IDC company that provides health and life sciences industry executives, and the suppliers who serve them, with market research and advisory services.

PPM Media

CONTACT: Peter Gordon, +1-603-668-7143, or peter.gordon@ppmmedia.com ofPPM Media

Web site: http://www.ppmmedia.com/http://www.healthindustry-insights.com/http://www.healthitinsight.com/

Source: PRNewswire

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