Dell Leads Effort to Help Transform Tennessee Health Care

Dell Leads Effort to Help Transform Tennessee Health Care

Dell CEO Kevin Rollins convened health care, government and technology leaders here today to develop strategies to modernize the U.S. health care system, including more rapid adoption of information technology (IT) in Tennessee. Participants included U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Michael Leavitt, Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen and U.S. Reps. Marsha Blackburn and Jim Cooper.

“Today’s symposium is about public and private organizations deepening their partnerships, and embracing approaches through which health care can be more effectively delivered and managed,”said Dell CEO Kevin Rollins. “For that to happen, government at all levels must create new incentives for the adoption of more modern IT across America’s health-care system, and businesses must take more initiative to drive change.”

In a related move, Dell today announced that it would be one of the largest U.S. employers to offer its employees personal health records with claims-import functionality, resulting in easy online access to up-to-date health histories.”Accelerating e-Health in Nashville” was hosted by Dell, in cooperation with the Nashville Technology Council, the Technology CEO Council (TCC) and the Tennessee chapter of the Healthcare Information Management Systems Symposium (HIMSS). Dell hosted a similar event in North Carolina in November 2005. Symposium attendees discussed recommendations for addressing challenges such as sharing clinical data, accelerating the success of regional health information organizations and facilitating provider adoption of health care IT.

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