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TEPR (Towards the Electronic Patient Record) opens its doors
on May 19, 2008 at the Ft. Lauderdale Convention Center, attendees
will experience a newly designed and expanded conference that
has grown beyond the EMR/EHR program that it established nearly
24 years ago. Breaking out of this pattern that is reflected
in conferences throughout the industry, TEPR 2008 will explore
emerging as well as traditional topics according to major
categories of interest.
The 2008 program, developed by Medical Records
Institute (MRI) CEO Peter Waegemann, will include twenty-two
educational tracks and roughly 500 speakers addressing topics
in 5 major categories: Hospitals, Payers, Physicians, Health
IT Professionals, and Web-based Consumer Patient Systems
including Digital Health Companions.
"TEPR 2008 will be known as both the most
strategic and practical conference that is convenient and
pleasant to attend and offers more stimulating content than
any other conference" says Waegemann, who was recently
named among the "20 People Who Make Healthcare Better"
by HealthLeaders Magazine.
The Opening Session will be completely revamped
along the theme "What will/should the next president
do for Health IT." Other highlights include Microsoft's
James Mault MD among the keynote speakers.
Designed as "The Strategic and Practical Health
IT Conference," TEPR's manageable size and comprehensive
education program will distinguish it from the hundreds
of other HIT events hosted every year. By keeping the program
dynamic up to a few months before the conference, TEPR assures
an up-to-date Health IT program covering latest developments.
At the same time, TEPR's mission "to promote and enhance
the journey towards electronic medical records" remains
as central to the conference as it was when it first opened
its doors in 1985. Unique to that mission is TEPR's role
in not just reporting but also stimulating HIT/EMR developments.
TEPR's educational sessions have long been acknowledged
as the best, as reflected in a 2007 attendee's comment:
"I've learned more pertinent knowledge (at TEPR) regarding
EMRs in the last five days than I have from every other
conference I've been to all put together - and I've been
to HIMSS twice."
In 2008 TEPR will continue to be the best EMR/EHR
conference, where the most relevant HIT topics are addressed,
ranging from convenience clinics to medical specialties,
from strategies for the hospital of the future to creating
communities under Stark laws and more. In addition, TEPR
will continue to host its annual awards, as well as feature
a multitude of EMRCompare(SM) demonstrations, where vendors
showcase the usability of their EMR systems.
The preliminary program may be viewed at www.tepr.com.
For a limited time only, a series of free activities are
offered to early registrants, including golf, sailing, biking,
boating, etc. Now is the time to plan for TEPR. Visit MRI's
website to view the complete program, for more information,
or to register now at the discounted rate.
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