Thoughts on Symposium 2009 via Twitter
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
| Joseph Kvedar, MD
About the Author: Joseph Kvedar, MD is the Director of the Center for Connected Health.
Twitter has spawned so many interesting phenomena, I’m sure we could have a series of posts on how it's changed communications. One aspect that I find fascinating is the requirement to get one’s message into the 140 character limit. I think of it as the haiku of the 21st century! We recently gathered for the 6th annual Partners Connected Health Symposium. In my attempt to deliver an unbiased opinion, I’d say it was by far the best we’ve done so far. The messages conveyed by the plenary speakers were uniformly relevant to the future of healthcare and the role connected health will play in it. It is probably impossible to reduce two days of such rich interchange into a series of 140 character messages. Still, this was the first of our symposia where Twitter played such a dominant role. Several people who were unable to attend in person commented on how they felt a part of the proceedings by tuning their twitter search to #cch09 and following along.
We’ve gone through all of the tweets that were sent those two days using the #cch09 hashtag (there were about 800 of them and they are all catalogued here, courtesy of HealthBlawg) and culled out the ones that we feel represent the most salient thoughts from the band of conference tweeters. So if you were among the Twitterati and your favorite tweet is not represented here, let me apologize up front for this. We recognize the selection was arbitrary. We tried to be even in our selection covering most of the conference content in the process. I’d welcome your thoughts and insights on this.
For those of you that attended, do you think the tweet stream captures the essence of what you took away? For those of you who did not attend, do you feel like you get a sense of the conference from reading these tweets? I will wait for a few days worth of comments and then weigh back in with my thoughts on this.
Here are just a few of the many tweets during the Symposium:
@healthblawg:
Altman: Controlling #healthcare costs goes back to FDR ... #cch09 Quality is not a given, though we may believe otherwise
@burtwolder:
Integrated systems, replace fee-for-service with capitated model in new delivery system, says #cch09 keynote
@healthblawg:
Deliv sys and payment sys reform need to go hand in hand #cch09 otherwise "trying to grow flowers in toxic environment"
@healthythinker:
RT @healthblawg: Markey: #healthcare sys needs CPR: connectivity, privacy & research (esp #CER ) #cch09 nice sound-bite Congressman! #cch09
@gmsheehan:
Mongan addresses what I think are 2 biggest issues in HC; need for operational efficiencies and reduction of admin expenses, HUGE #cch09
@nextgenweb:
Healthcare IT is 10 years behind IT in financial services #cch09
@john_chilmark:
surprised that we have not adv'd beyond PHQ-9 for self-assess, are their not better, more novel interactive approaches #cch09
@healthblawg:
Tom Lee MD Partners HealthCare: providers and payors engaged in co-evolution #cch09 Need to work together or else: chaos, poor quality etc
@jgiroux:
everyone's seeing it now: ppl Really Want to interact&network socially regarding health! #cch09
@pjmachado:
#cch09 Communications and programs need to be personalized to each patient based on their level of activation.
@lisagualtieri:
Physician ratings rarely provide the context that occurs in discussions between people #cch09
@bensawyer:
#cch09 4 items for improving health 1. bring exam room 2patient 2. continuous eval 3. right away give most up-2-date info 4. change behavior
@jgiroux:
your cellphone is your identity, so therefore it should be your HC home as well. #cch09
@bensawyer:
#cch09 notes from employer engagement panel... family is over 50% of the cost employers pay for health - how do we reach into the family?
@mrudnick:
#cch09 Christakis meets Dangerfield: if you want to look skinny hang out w/ fat people, but you'll soon be fat
@healthblawg:
Unanswered Q: How do we design healthcare interventions to leverage the IRL social networks -- food for thought. #cch09
@TrishaTorrey:
@wordtrope #cch09 boomers will embrace connected health as long as they are satisfied w/ answers to "what's in it for me?"
@LizBoehm:
attending #cch09 and learning that reimbursement isn't as strong an incentive for remote monitoring as witholding reimbursement.
@TrishaTorrey:
#cch09 excellent question from audience - how can we (profs) meet patients where they are online, instead of insisting they come to us?
@gmsheehan:
Bold; "50% of health spending from high risk/bad behavior, we need to hold people accountable with $ to truly reduce cost," Kvedar #cch09
@jgiroux:
Hwang: time for HC industry to follow the successful decentralization model. Questioning the hospital-centric model. #cch09
@drtonyah:
Ubel: "The more that irrational patients are empowered in a free market, easier to make bad decisions" #cch09
@offtheroad:
Sensei CEO -"We need to find more enjoyable ways to get people engaged.Maybe we need to hire Hollywood” #cch09
@sjmokeefe:
Face2Face commun. w/ doc & case mgr-case mgr is "hub" of care, patient education-critical factors in disease mgmt success in Medicare.#cch09
@healthblawg:
Overused quote du jour: The future is here, it just isn't evenly distributed #cch09
@sjmokeefe:
RT @healthblawg Another recurring theme: Need to move to more of a team approach to care #cch09- including patient on team!
@MattMealiffeMD:
Wow 67% of audience respondents think patients will routinely access test results online in 1-3 years...biased group? #cch09
@MattMealiffeMD:
Nearly 2/3 of audience responding feels personal health data platforms will be dependent on MD cooperation #cch09
@lisagualtieri:
Danny Sands - move to consumer provider relationship - huge cultural shift needed #cch09
@pjmachado:
Healthcare is one of the few industries that is built around the service provider's needs instead of the consumer's needs #cch09