MBProject Issues Call for Speakers

Contact: Evelyn Marquez Sanchez 

615-794-2009 
 

Franklin, TN (Sept. 1, 2005) The 
Medical Banking Project has formally announced the 4th National Medical Banking 
Institute to be held in Nashville, Tennessee on Wednesday and Thursday, February 
22-23, 2006. The Institute Committee is seeking speakers who are actively 
engaged in the convergence of banking and healthcare technologies, or have a 
related area of expertise (i.e., marketing of new medical banking programs, 
organizational design, compliance/risk assessment). 

Background: 
The 
4th National Medical Banking Institute will focus on real time administrative 
and clinical messaging in healthcare using bank-driven models. "The convergence 
of banking and healthcare IT has the potential to revolutionize healthcare via 
highly disbursed, real time technologies," observes John Casillas, Founder of 
MBProject and Chair of the Medical Banking Institute. "This is starting to occur 
in HSA management, lockbox specialization, new consumer services offered via 
card and online banking conveniences and receivable financing." 

New 
service types range from more efficient and expedited payments between health 
plans and healthcare providers to efficient distribution of medical records. 
This key infrastructure shift has attracted a diverse array of constituents to 
MBProject, from large employers, banks, healthcare providers, vendors, insurance 
companies, associations and others. A group of the largest corporations in 
America believe the approach can support rapid and economic deployment of a 
"medical internet" for consumer and business healthcare interactions. 

Description & Highlights: 
The Institute - a 2 day working 
conference - will offer a cross-industry showcase of pilot programs. New medical 
banking models will be announced. Registrants will hear about lessons learned, 
participate in workgroups and enjoy new networking opportunities. 

Prospective educational tracts include standards and open source work by 
other groups (and the importance of linking with these efforts), card-based 
processes, liquidity innovations, medical consumerism and HSAs, cross-industry 
linkage of established technologies and new innovations. Panels will isolate 
emerging best practices in areas of technology, marketing and compliance. 
Updates will also be provided related to the following MBProject Initiatives: 

-- "HSAs@Work": A National Panel Series that offers expert dialogue on 
industry progress related to back-end infrastructure, pricing transparency and 
policy; moderated by "Dr. HSA" - David Harris, National Healthcare Revenue Cycle 
Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers. 

-- C.O.M.B.A.T. (Cooperative 
Open-source Medical Banking Architecture & Technology: Combatting rising 
healthcare costs using medical banking principles and technology): A status 
report will be given and workgroups will meet to continue development of this 
innovative, royalty-free reference architecture. 

-- Charitable 
Communities Network™: We will provide a status report of MBProject's drive to 
ramp community safety net providers onto a 21st century digital platform. 

-- A new "Pharma Workgroup": The workgroup will help financial services 
firms to navigate through, and participate in, the federal government's new Part 
D program as well as define/propose new real time features for seamless 
financial transactions to the appropriate standards bodies. 

Speaker 
Proposals: 
If you have expertise, research or a model program related to 
medical banking, please consider speaking at the Institute.  Speaker 
proposals will be accepted until October 28, 2005. 

Learn more by 
visiting: http://www.mbproject.org/4MBI_speakers.php 
 or call 615.794.2009 today! 

Educational Grantor & Sponsorships: 
Educational Grantor, 
Corporate, Workgroup and Meal Sponsorships are available. For details, see: 
http://www.mbproject.org/4MBI_sponsorship.php . 

About the Medical Banking Project... 
The Medical Banking 
Project (a.k.a. “MBProject”) is an independent policy research and strategic 
advisory firm that facilitates the latent integration of banking technology, 
infrastructure and credit resources with healthcare administrative operations. 
The firm coined the term “medical banking™” in 1995 to denote this emerging 
niche’ industry. It provides educational and workgroup forums and is 
spearheading two related initiatives: a global, open source software platform 
(“C.O.M.B.A.T. – Cooperative Open-source Medical Banking Architecture & 
Technology™”) to combat rising healthcare costs using medical banking principles 
and technology and a fee-based, bank-driven community system ("Charitable 
Communities Network™") that coordinates safety net healthcare access for 
uninsurable, uninsured and under-insured individuals. The initiatives 
demonstrate how banks can leverage HIPAA's privacy, security and electronic 
mandates to deliver substantive cost benefits to care givers, employ 
ers and 
consumers. For more information, please go to http://www.mbproject.org . 

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