In his career, Dan DeMaioNewton has led major, multi-million dollar, mission-critical programs and projects and worked alongside industry leaders in strategy, business, IT and organizational learning.

Specific to healthcare, he helped the Massachusetts Department of Public Health get $400,000 in Medicaid in 15 minutes, and implemented networks and provided technology support for the Boston Children's Hospital Pediatric Cardiology unit.

The good news for the healthcare industry is that DeMaioNewton, director of strategy and business development for Monster Worldwide, will share his vast experiences in his closing keynote, "Brass Tacks and Bottom Line Results: The Discipline of Effective IT Leadership," 
today from 1:30 pm-2:30 pm CT.

DeMaioNewton has seen his share of methodologies, fads, tools and tactics, and will share with attendees the ones that have delivered the greatest results. "They have generated over $100 million for Monster Worldwide alone, have saved organizations, produced significant change where change was seen as impossible, and made an important difference in the lives of many on the IT teams," he said.
 
The experiences DeMaioNewton will share are relevant for today's healthcare industry. "Healthcare information technology is at a critical pivotal point," he said. "While healthcare technology has produced dramatic breakthroughs in testing, treatment and patient care, healthcare information technology is just arriving. Achieving success in meaningful use, electronic health records, and a shift from 'Doctors as Gods' to 'doctors as guides' are driving healthcare IT leaders to adopt a new set of multidisciplinary skills, tools and methodologies."


DeMaioNewton stresses that while the U.S. is "on a breakneck treadmill race to maximize efficiency with a deeply held belief that technology will solve our problems and save us," the healthcare industry needs to be aware of the risk it runs of "scripting the healthcare experience, completely depersonalizing the healthcare system, and trading the doctor-patient relationship for the doctor-computer-patient formula."

"Attendees will learn tools that have been effective in making successful change happen, that have produced high-performing teams, and transformed organizations," he said. "They will also learn when, how, and why these tools are effective." In addition to offering pragmatic tools from diverse disciplines that will help professionals in their current jobs and in their career overall, he will share his unique insights and wisdom, including his experience with Tibetan Buddhist monks.

"My greatest hope is that the session may provide attendees with tools that will help them in their work, enable them to be of greater help to others, contribute to the success of their teams and organizations, and as a result, reduce suffering and improve patient health," he said. Realistically, given the hour-long session, DeMaioNewton said, "The best I can hope for is that they will learn some new tools and that a few seeds will be planted that they may nurture to help in their daily work leading healthcare IT organizations."

DeMaioNewton said the closing keynote should be required attendance for professionals at all levels, from students to senior executives to those who have successfully led effective IT programs.