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Subject: MBP Health Savings Account ( Aug. 22); Health-Ont Forum (Aug. 25)
1) The Medical Banking Project is hosting an open Health Savings Account (HSA) Workgroup meeting (held online) on Monday, August 22, 2005 at 1:00 pm CDT. The HSA Workgroup is led by Dave Harris, National Healthcare Revenue Cycle Partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers and MBProject's Dr. HSA columnist. The online session will continue the work of the first HSA Workgroup meeting held at the 2005 Medical Banking Leadership Forum, an exclusive MBProject membership event that was hosted at the Vanderbilt Center for Better Health in Nashville, TN in July. "The HSA environment is driving convergence between banks and healthcare in ways that are hard to imagine today. David Harris' vision is that one day we will be able to walk up to a medical kiosk, swipe a card and purchase the healthcare required with no further obligations, much like how we purchase airline tickets online today. No paper trail of confusing statements or EOBs but a seamless, real time process. That took some time to develop, required bank participation and industry consensus, but was well worth the effort," comments John Casillas, founder of MBProject. At the Forum, MBProject officially announced a new open source project dubbed "C.O.M.B.A.T." for "Cooperative Open-source Medical Banking Architecture and Technology". The initiative of the mission is to "combat the rising costs of healthcare using medical banking principles and technology". The HSA Workgroup represents one of six workgroups that will build out business level requirements and operating protocols that will be programmed into the reference architecture and tested in three safety net settings. The HSA Workgroup will build out real time administrative processing rules. The C.O.M.B.A.T. effort has gained increasing support among large employers, financial services firms and technology firms. Registration: Registration for the event is required. MBProject members may place reservations at any time until Thursday, August 18th, by emailing us at evc@mbproject.org. Non-members may send an email to info@mbproject.org to reserve seating, which is limited to the first 50 non-member registrants. There is no registration fee for this. Informational Links: Latest Dr. HSA Column: http://www.mbproject.org/column-harris.php C.O.M.B.A.T. Website: http://www.mbproject.org/combat-homepage.php HSA Workgroup Website: http://www.mbproject.org/sombex-workgroups-hsa2.php ------------------------------ Evelyn Marquez-Sanchez Manager, Operations & Programming The Medical Banking Project 320 Main Street, Suite 230 Franklin, TN 37064 v: 615-794-2009 Ext. 2 f: 615-794-1481 http://www.mbproject.org # # # # # 2) Ontolog Forum Panel Discussion Aug. 25, 2005: Health Informatics Dear Colleagues: We are pleased to announce an Ontolog Forum Virtual Panel Discussion on August 25, 2005 on the topic: Healthcare Informatics Landscapes, Roadmaps, and Blueprints: Towards a Business Case Strategy for Large Scale Ontology Projects You can find an abstract and information on how to attend and RSVP at http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2005_08_25 This is an important and timely topic that relates ontological concerns to our everyday lives in a way that most everyone can understand and with which most everyone interacts in some fashion many times during their lives. It is even more important in these times. Our discussion promises to be pointed and enlightening. We hope you can attend. Regards, Rex Brooks -- Rex Brooks President, CEO Starbourne Communications Design GeoAddress: 1361-A Addison Berkeley, CA 94702 Tel: 510-849-2309 Member, OASIS Emergency Management Technical Committee Co Chair, OASIS Emergency Management Messages and Notification Subcommittee Member, OASIS Emergency Management Geospatial Information Systems Subcomittee Co Chair, OASIS HumanMarkup Technical Committee Chair, OASIS Human Physical Characteristics Description Markup Language Subcommittee Member, OASIS International Health Continuum Technical Committee Member, OASIS Web Services for Remote Portlets Technical Committee Member, OASIS Service-Oriented Architecture Reference Model Technical Committee
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