[A2k] 2 interesting ITIF Events: The Case for a White House Office of Innovation Policy and debate on privacy law and health

[Manon Ress]

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The Case for a White House Office of Innovation Policy

Innovation is central to growth and solving pressing societal
challenges.  It is therefore critical to ensure that federal agencies'
actions promote innovation, or at least pursue other social objectives
in a manner that is least damaging to innovation.  However, there is
no formal process within the executive branch to ensure that this
happens.  In particular, OMB's Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs cost-benefit review process generally ignores the impact of
agency actions on innovation.

In a new ITIF report, Duke University Law School professors Stuart
Benjamin and Arti Rai analyze the shortfalls of the existing
innovation policy processes and propose the creation an Office of
Innovation Policy within the White House that would draw upon, and
feed into, existing regulatory review processes but would have the
specific mission of being the "innovation champion" within these
processes.  The proposed OIP would push agencies to act in a manner
that either affirmatively promoted innovation or achieved a particular
regulatory objective in a manner least damaging to innovation. Please
join us for a discussion of this innovative proposal to create an
Office of Innovation Policy.

Moderator:  =09Robert Atkinson (bio)
President, The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation
Presenters:=09Stuart M. Benjamin (bio)
Professor of Law, Duke Law School

Arti K. Rai (bio)
Professor of Law, Duke Law School
Respondents:  =09 Stephen Merrill (bio)
Executive Director, Science, Technology, and Economic Policy (STEP),
The National Academies

Michael R. Nelson (bio)
Visiting Professor, Communication, Culture & Technology, Georgetown
University
Date:=09Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Time:=099:00 AM =96 10:30 AM
Place:=09**ITIF HAS MOVED**
1101 K Street, NW, Suite 610
Washington, DC 20005 (map)

Light breakfast will be provided

Register for this event

This will be a widely attended event hosted by ITIF and this event
complies with all new ethics rules.

News media inquiries only (no registrations), please call (202)
449-1351.



The Cost of Privacy:
A Debate on the Impact of Privacy Laws on Health IT Adoption

As the Obama Administration moves forward with plans to modernize
health care by encouraging the use of electronic medical records
(EMR), some parties continue to raise concerns about privacy. Strong
privacy laws may help protect confidential patient information and
encourage user acceptance. But strict privacy laws can also impose
additional burdens on health care providers and may slow technology
adoption. A new study recently published in Management Science
attempts to quantify the effect of state privacy regulations on the
diffusion of EMRs and finds that strict privacy regulations reduce
aggregate EMR adoption by hospitals by almost one-quarter. However,
organizations promoting stricter privacy regulations such as Patient
Privacy Rights have dismissed the findings as "preposterous."

Join ITIF for a thoughtful debate between the authors and critics of
the report to learn more about the impact of privacy laws on
technology diffusion in health care.

Moderator:=09Daniel Castro (bio)
Senior Analyst, The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation
Panelists:=09Dr. Amalia Miller (bio)
Co-author of study and Assistant Professor, Department of Economics,
University of Virginia

Dr. Catherine Tucker (bio)
Co-author of study, Douglas Drane Career Development Professor in IT
and Management, and Assistant Professor of Marketing and, MIT Sloan
School of Management

Deven McGraw (bio)
Director of the Health Privacy Project, Center for Democracy and
Technology
Date:=09Monday, June 22, 2009
Time:=092:00 PM =96 3:30 PM
Place:=09**ITIF HAS MOVED**
1101 K Street, NW, Suite 610
Washington, DC 20005 (map)

Light refreshments will be provided

Register to attend the debate

This will be a widely attended event hosted by ITIF and this event
complies with all new ethics rules.

News media inquiries only (no registrations), please call (202)
449-1351.


Submit a question:
Have a question you want us to ask the panelists? Submit to us your
ideas and we may ask your question during the debate.



New ITIF Article:
Innovation Economics Can Fight Global Warming

In this BusinessWeek article ITIF President Rob Atkinson analyzes the
cap and trade debate through the lens of the four prevailing economic
doctrines in Washington, and argues that an innovation-economics
approach to global warming that does not rely just on prices or
regulation, but on a proactive =93green=94 innovation strategy is required
if we are to successfully reduce our global carbon footprint.

Read the article




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discussions, news and networking.



To learn more about the Information Technology and Innovation
Foundation, please contact us:

**Information Technology and Innovation Foundation has moved**
1101 K Street, NW
Suite 610
Washington, DC 20005
E-mail: mail@innovationpolicy.org
Phone: (202) 449-1351
Fax: (202) 638-4922


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