1:15pm - 2:00pm
Afternoon Event Keynote Speaker Presentation

James R. Morrow, M.D., VP and CIO, North Fulton Family Medicine. Dr. Morrow was recognized as the 2006 Physician IT Leader of the Year by HIMSS at their national conference. He is a 2004 HIMSS Primary Care Davies Award winner for implementation of his EHR.

 

Presentation topic: Toward Quality Care: Improving Health in America

Topic overview: Doctors are doing their best to provide the highest quality care they can. Paper charts are a huge hindrance to that goal. Hear from one doctor who thought he did a good job caring for patients until he implemented an electronic medical record and realized he was not the doctor he needed to be. Today, information technology helps him to provide his patients a better level of care, a more connected system, more and better access to the providers. Technological advances in communication between systems is changing the landscape that surrounds patients and their information, allowing patients to participate in their own care like they never have before. Learn about the benefits as well as some of the technology involved in making this paradigm shift to better care.

James R. Morrow, M.D., VP and CIO,
North Fulton Family Medicine

VP and CIO of North Fulton Family Medicine, a ten-doctor, four-location family practice in metro-Atlanta. Winner of a 2004 HIMSS Primary Care Davies Award for Implementation of his EHR, Dr. Morrow has presented to national audiences on numerous occasions, including the HIMSS Annual Conference and the American Health Quality Association.
Dr. Morrow was recognized as the 2006 Physician IT Leader of the Year by HIMSS at their Annual Conference in New Orleans in February, 2007.

Dr. Morrow was recently appointed as a commissioner to the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) and also serves HIMSS as a member of the Ambulatory Davies Selection Committee, the Ambulatory Information Systems Steering Committee, the Katrina’s Phoenix Task Force, and is chairman of the Practice Leadership Task Force. He also serves as HIT mentor to the Common Ground Clinic in the greater New Orleans area, a free clinic started post-Katrina to care for the indigent in that area.

Dr. Morrow serves on the board of directors of the Medical Association of Georgia’s Institute for Excellence. In 2005, he founded a healthcare consulting firm, Healthcare Quality Technology & Research, Inc. and is developing clients involved in the implementation and advancement of healthcare information technology.

Married in April, 2006, Dr. Morrow lives in Cumming, Georgia, with wife, Kim, and children Lyndsay and Nicholas, 11. In his spare time, he enjoys tailgating at Clemson football, woodworking, landscaping, writing, boating, and playing jazz guitar and piano.

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