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Business Officials Invited to Learn How Region's First Patient Health Information Exchange Can Reduce Health Costs

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 3, 2009
Contacts:
Earl Wells/Laura Taczak
e3communications
716-854-8182

Panel will feature leading health care and business executives

BUFFALO, NEW YORK - Health care costs continue to impact the bottom line of businesses across Western New York, but the sharing and exchange of health care information electronically has the potential to cut costs and create an improved quality of care system for patients.

HEALTHeLINK™, the Western New York Clinical Information Exchange, will sponsor a forum featuring leading business and health care executives discussing the impact of health care costs on businesses and solutions to mitigate these costs.

The event is free and will take place on Thursday, February 26 at 8 a.m. at the Buffalo Niagara Partnership, 665 Main Street, Suite 200 in Buffalo.

Panelists include James R. Boldt, chairman and CEO, Computer Task Group; Bonnie Sunday, MD; Dr. Michael Cropp, president and CEO, Independent Health and HEALTHeLINK™ board chairman; and, Daniel E. Porreca, executive director of HEALTHeLINK™.

For more information and to register please call 852-7100.