This Week In Tech
On Monday, the New America Foundation will unveil its communications policy agenda for the new administration. Speakers include: FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein; the Consumers Union's Gene Kimmelman; and a number of academics from American University, Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania State University, Rutgers School of Law, the University of San Francisco, and the University of Texas. The Information Technology and Innovation Forum will host a same-day discussion on incentives for broadband deployment in President Barack Obama's economic stimulus package.
The Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday will hear perspectives on privacy of personal health records in the digital age. Chairman Patrick Leahy played a key role in the evolution of health IT legislation in the 111th Congress, insisting that safeguards be included in legislation sponsored by Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee leaders. The economic stimulus packages making their ways through Congress have health IT components.
Hearing witnesses include James Hester, director of the Vermont State Legislature Health Care Reform Commission; Consumers Union health policy program manager Adrienne Hahn; the Center for Democracy and Technology's Deven McGraw; Michael Stokes, program manager for Microsoft's HealthVault; University of Pittsburgh Medical Center vice president John Houston; and David Merritt of the Center for Health Transformation and the Gingrich Group, which is headed by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga.
On Wednesday, Robert McDowell, temporarily the lone Republican regulator at the FCC, addresses the Media Institute at a luncheon event. Meanwhile, the Information Technology Association of America, which merged recently with the American Electronics Association will recognize Data Privacy Day with a discussion and reception on Capitol Hill.
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