Building the Connected Health Economy: Innovation, Implementation and Investment

October 22-23, 2007

Presentations:

Below are the sessions for which powerpoint presenations are available. You can also view all sessions by video podcast: click here to subscribe with iTunes.

Private Foundations, Public Purposes: Can Philanthropies Change Healthcare? And if So, How?
- Moderator: Michael D. Allard, Director of Development, Mass. General Hospital
- Jarrett Barrios, President, Blue Cross Blue Shield of MA Foundation
- Stephen Downs, SM, Deputy Director, Health Group, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- Patrick Gaston, President, Verizon Foundation
- David Lansky, PhD, Director of Health, Markle Foundation

Shifts in the Mix of Public and Private Payers, the Quest for Funding, and Other Challenges in Store for US Health Insurance
- Moderator: John Cullinane, Chairman, LiveData
- Hon. Richard T. Moore, Senate Chair of the Joint Legislative Committee on Health Care Financing, 
  Massachusetts General Court
- James O’Connell, MD, President, Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program
- Brian O’Connor, Connected Health, Northern Ireland
- Pam Reeve, Director, American Tower Corporation
- William A. Sahlman, Professor of Business Administration and Senior Associate Dean for External 
   Relations, Harvard Business School

Who’s Willing to Spend What to Stay Healthy: The Evolving Self-Pay Market
- Moderator: Stever Aubrey, CEO and Managing Partner, Dovetail Health
- Elizabeth Boehm, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research
- Kenneth L. Minaker, MD, Chief, Geriatric Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital

Next Steps, Breakthrough Technologies and Market Prospects for Remote Patient Monitoring and Self-Management
- Moderator: Dena Puskin, ScD, Director, Office for Advancement of Telehealth
- Tom Blackadar, Founder and CEO, FitSense
- Daniel M. Gold, Chief Operating Officer, ViTel Net
- Michael Lemnitzer, Senior Director, Strategic Business Development, Philips
- Mike Mathur, President and CEO, BL Healthcare

Jump-Starting a New Market: At-Home Health Tools for Affluent Households, Military Families, and the Mainstream Market Beyond
- Moderator: Rob Scheschareg, Managing Director, Amplus Capital LLC
- John Henderson, PhD, Richard C. Shipley Professor of Management and Faculty Director of the
  Information Systems Department, Boston University School of Management
- William Turner, Manager, Business Development and Operations, ADT WellHealth

Safeguarding And Using Patient Data in Connected Healthcare: FDA, Privacy, and Other Legal and Regulatory Issues
- Moderator: Christopher Clark, Associate General Counsel, Partners HealthCare
- Stephen W. Bernstein, JD, McDermott Will and Emery
- David F. Crosby, JD, Mintz Levin
- Steven J. Snyder, JD, Goulston and Storrs
- Richard Zall, JD, Proskauer Rose

Keynote: Meeting the Cost Containment Imperative
- Thomas Lee, MD, CEO, Partners Community HealthCare

Keynote: Healthcare IT: A View from the Top of the Payer Pyramid
- Thomas A. Gustafson, PhD, Senior Health Policy Advisor, Arent Fox LLP; former Acting Director,
  CMS’ Center for Medicare Management

The Status Quo is not a Strategy: What Retail Clinics and Web 2.0 Tools Can Teach Us About Connecting with Patients
- Moderator: Danny Sands, MD, Director of Medical Informatics, Cisco
- Jack Barrette, CEO and Founder, WEGO Health
- Michael Howe, CEO, MinuteClinic
- Roy Schoenberg, MD, MPH, CEO, American Well Systems
- Steve Weiner, Chairman, Health Law Section, Mintz Levin

New Business Opportunities in Telehealth: Insights from the Philips National Study on the Future of Technology and Telehealth in Home Care
- Robert A. Fazzi, PhD, Founder and President, Fazzi Associates

Global Innovation: Looking Beyond the Technology
- Moderator: Giles W. Boland, MD, Vice Chair of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital
- Dr. Robert Marchbanks, Managing Director, Marchbanks Measurement Systems Ltd; Consultant
  Clinical Scientist, Neurological Physics Group, Dept. of Medical Physics and Bioengineering,
  Southhampton University Hospitals NHS Trust
- Dr. Iain McNeil, Medical Director, Pfizer Health Solutions, UK
- Jose Ignacio Gallego Rivera, MD, Real Time Telemedicine Services (RT2S), Spain
- Hisham Sallout, MD, Chief of Health Care Professional Education, Dhahran Health Center, Saudi
  Aramco, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
- Dr. Toru Watsuji, Corporate Research and Development Group, Sharp Corporation, Japan

Continua Health Alliance
- Nicholas Augustinos, Continua Director and Director, Internet Business Solutions Group, Cisco
- Albert Di Rienzo, Continua Director and SVP/Chief Science and Technology Officer, Welch Allyn
- Gary Feather, Director, Digital AV Systems, Sharp Laboratories
- Kimio Minami, Continua Director and General Manager of the Healthcare Systems Development Office,
  Matsushita (Panasonic)
- Jeff Perry, Continua Director and Program Director, New Ventures, Philips Medical Systems
- Michael Robkin, Treasurer of Continua and Principal Enterprise Architect in Care Delivery, Kaiser
  Permanente Information Technology
- Marshall Stanton, Continua Director and Vice President, Remote Disease Management, Medtronic
- Joseph L. Ternullo, Vice President of Continua and Associate Director of the Center for Connected
  Health, Partners HealthCare
- David Whitlinger, President of Continua and Director of Healthcare Device Standards and
  Interoperability, Intel

IEEE Workshop on Wearable Technology in Medicine: Wearable Systems for Home Care; Cardiovascular Applications of Wearable Technology; Applications of Wearable Technology in Rehabilitation
- Chair: Jay Sanders, MD, The Global Telemedicine Group
- Paolo Bonato, PhD, Affiliated Faculty, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology;
  Assistant Professor, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Harvard Medical School; Spaulding
  Rehabilitation Hospital
- Ary Goldberger, MD, Director of the Rey Laboratory and Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical
  School

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