Up from Crisis: Overhauling Healthcare Information, Payment and Delivery in Extraordinary Times

Agenda:

Wednesday, October 21, 2009 | Thursday, October 22, 2009

Wednesday, October 21, 2009
 

 

Registration, Breakfast and Networking  7:00-7:45 am (Exhibit Area)

Sponsored by Verizon Wireless

 

Welcome to Partners' Connected Health Symposium 2009  7:45-8:00 am (Imperial)
  - Joe Ternullo, JD, MPH, Symposium Organizing Chair and Associate Director, Center for Connected Health, Partners HealthCare

 

Keynote #1: Healthcare Reform, Payment Reform, and the Implications for Connected Health  8:00-8:50 am (Imperial)
  - Stuart Altman, PhD, Professor of National Health Policy, The Heller Graduate School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University

 

Keynote #2: A Conversation on the Policies and Politics of Healthcare Reform, featuring US Cong. Ed Markey (D-MA) and Jim Mongan, MD, CEO of Partners HealthCare and previously Associate Director of the Domestic Policy Staff in the Carter White House  8:50-9:35 am (Imperial)

 

Morning Networking Break  9:35-10:10 am (Exhibit Area) Sponsored by Verizon Wireless
  - Special sponsored session by InterSystems (Berkeley): Engaging Patients Around the Globe. Speaker: Daniel J. O'Donnell, MD, Sr Advisor for Medical Informatics, InterSystems
  - Special sponsored session by Verizon (Clarendon): Accelerating Interoperability in Healthcare. Speaker: Rajeev Kapoor, VP and Global Managing Director, Verizon Healthcare

 

Breakout Session #1: Bending the Cost Curve: Re-Organizing Healthcare Payments to Keep Care Excellent, the System Solvent, and Information Technology Funded  10:10-11:00 am (Imperial)
Moderator: Andrew Dreyfus, Exec. Vice President, BCBS Massachusetts
  - Tom Lee, MD, Network President, Partners HealthCare
  - Robert Mechanic, Senior Fellow and Director, Health Industry Forum, Brandeis University
  - Harold Miller, Executive Director, Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform
  - Glen Shor, Assistant Secretary for Health Care Policy and Deputy General Counsel, Executive Office for Administration and Finance, Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Experts offer their views on the design of and prospects for payment reform

 

Breakout Session #2: Engaging Employees on Health and Wellness: The Morphing of Approaches and the Shifting Character of Incentives  10:10-11:00 am (Georgian)
Moderator: Sherri Dorfman, CEO, Stepping Stone Partners
  - Henry Albrecht, President and CEO, Limeade
  - Lee Belniak, Vice President, Benefits Strategy, Fidelity Investments
  - Kathy Reinhardt, Director of Corporate Benefits, Analog Devices
  - Delia Vetter, Senior Director of Benefits and Programs, EMC

 

Breakout Session #3: Behavioral Health and Telehealth: Assessing the Market and Charting the Way Forward  10:10-11:00 am (Plaza)
Moderator: Steven Locke, MD, Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Research Psychiatrist, Center for Medical Simulation (MGH) and the Center for Clinical Informatics (BIDMC); President, Veritas Health Solutions
  - David Ahern, PhD, Clinical Research Psychologist, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Senior Scientist, Abacus Group
  - Lee Baer, PhD, Clinical Professor of Psychology, Harvard Medical School/Mass. General Hospital
  - Jay Buckey, MD, Professor of Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School
  - Linda Godleski, MD, Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Lead for Telemental Health and Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine

 

Breakout Session #4: Grading Care: Tracking the Strengths, Weaknesses and Future of Online Provider Ratings  11:10 am-12:00 pm (Imperial)
Moderator: George Donnelly, Editor, Boston Business Journal
  - Angie Hicks, Founder and Chief Marketing Officer, Angie's List
  - Mario Motta, MD, cardiologist and President, Mass. Medical Society
  - Barbra Rabson, MPH, Executive Director, Mass. Health Quality Partners

 

Breakout Session #5: The Futurists  11:10 am-12:00 pm (Georgian)
Moderator: Jay Pieper, Vice President for Corporate Development and Treasury Affairs, Partners HealthCare
  - Jay Sanders, MD, President and CEO, The Global Telemedicine Group
  - Roy Schoenberg, MD, MPH, President and CEO, American Well
  - Tandy Trower, General Manager, Microsoft Robotics
  - Paul Williamson, Head of Wireless Medical, Cambridge Consultants

A shrewd look by some smart people at the twists and turns we cannot know ... but need to think about

 

Breakout Session #6: Wireless Tech and Patient Self-Management: Opportunities, Applications, and Barriers  11:10 am-12:00 pm (Plaza)
Moderator: Ted Blizzard, MBA, Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Mass. Medical Society
  - Anand Iyer, PhD, MBA, President and COO, WellDoc
  - Rajeev Kapoor, VP and Global Managing Director, Verizon Healthcare
  - Jorge Perdomo, Vice President, Business Development, GenerationOne
  - Robert Schwarzberg, MD, President and CEO, Sensei

 

Lunch Break  12:00-1:00 pm (Exhibit Area)
  - Special sponsored session by Myca/Hello Health (Berkeley): Healthcare 2.0? How about 1 + 1? Speaker: Dr. L Gordon Moore, President, Hello Health University
  - Special sponsored session by Bosch (Clarendon): Home Telehealth Reimbursement: An Industry Colloquium

 

Keynote #3: “Eat, Drink, and Be Merry” – The Spread of Health Phenomena in Social Networks  1:10-2:00 pm (Imperial)
  - Nicholas Christakis, MD, PhD, Professor of Medical Sociology, Harvard Medical School, and author of “Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives” (2009)

 

Breakout Session #7: Nicholas Christakis' 'Connected' and its Implications for Patient Self-Management and Online Communities: Reaction and Comment by a Blue-Ribbon Respondents Panel  2:10-3:00 pm (Imperial)
Moderator: Joe Ternullo, JD, MPH, Associate Director, Center for Connected Health, Partners HealthCare
  - Mark Carroll, MD, Director, Telehealth Program, U.S. Indian Health Service
  - Robert Laubacher, Acting Executive Director and Research Scientist, Center for Collective Intelligence, MIT
  - Dena Puskin, ScD, Director, Office for the Advancement of Telehealth, Health Resources and Services Administration, US Dept. of Health and Human Services
  - Deborah Randall, JD, Counsel, Arent Fox, and National Board Member, Alzheimer's Association

 

Breakout Session #8: Remote Monitoring in 2014: What'll Be Different in Five Years about Adoption, Payment Sources, the Technology, and the Data?  2:10-3:00 pm (Georgian)
Moderator: Steve Brown, Co-Founder and CEO, 3banana
  - Terry Duesterhoeft, President, Honeywell HomMed
  - Sandra Elliott, Director, Aging and Senior Services Development, Meridian Health
  - Don Jones, VP of Business Development, Qualcomm
  - Randy Williams, MD, Founder and CEO, Pharos Innovations

 

Breakout Session #9: The Emerging Use of Videogames for Health: Innovations, Impacts and Issues  2:10-3:00 pm (Plaza)
  - Ben Sawyer, Co-Founder, Games for Health

 

Breakout Session #10: Medicare Demonstrations: Where We Are, What We've Learned and Where We're Going Next  3:10-4:00 pm (Imperial)
  - Linda Magno, Director, Medicare Demonstrations Group, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

 

Breakout Session #11: Mobile Health: Leapfrog Technology for the Developing World? Plus the demo of a new nonprofit mobile health platform  3:10-4:00 pm (Georgian)
Moderator: Robert Fabricant, MPS, Vice President, Creative, frog design
  - Jeff Blander, ScD, Co-Leader, Technology Innovation Working Group, Harvard Initiative for Global Health, and Executive Director, Bienmoyo Foundation
  - Merrick Schaefer, Technical Project Coordinator, UNICEF Innovation Team, UNICEF
  - Mitul Shah, MBA, Senior Director, Technology Partnerships, United Nations Foundation

 

Breakout Session #12: Online Communities and User-Generated Content: What's Happening, What's Not, and What Really Works for Health?  3:10-4:00 pm (Plaza)
Moderator: Jonathan Teich, MD, Chief Medical Information Officer, Elsevier
  - Amy Farber, PhD, Founder and CEO, LAM Treatment Alliance
  - Jamie Heywood, Co-Founder and Chair, PatientsLikeMe
  - Mark Klein, PhD, Principal Research Scientist, Center for Collective Intelligence, MIT
  - Daniel Palestrant, MD, Founder and CEO, Sermo

 

Afternoon Networking Break  4:00-4:35 pm (Exhibit Area)
  - Special sponsored session by CA (Berkeley): Healthcare at the Edge: Remote and Ambient Wellness Monitoring.
  - Special sponsored session by Blue Highway (Clarendon): Remote Patient Monitoring: From Warfare to Homecare. Speaker: Jim DelloStritto, Sr. Researcher Computer Science, Blue Highway

 

Keynote #4: Analyzing Digital Health by the Numbers: Five Years of Market Trends – and What They Mean for the Next Five  4:35-5:05 pm (Imperial)
  - Mark Bard, President, Manhattan Research

 

Keynote #5: Connected Health at Scale: Changing Roles for Patients and Providers  5:05-5:30 pm (Imperial)
  - Joe Kvedar, MD, Director, Center for Connected Health, Partners HealthCare

 

Blue-Ribbon Panel on the Two Preceding Presentations: Reaction and Comment  5:30-6:00 pm (Imperial)
Moderator: Janet Marchibroda, MBA, Chief Healthcare Officer, IBM
  - Deepak Ayyagari, PhD, Director, Technology Programs, Sharp Laboratories of America
  - Jonathan Linkous, CEO, American Telemedicine Association
  - Peter Tippett, MD, PhD, Vice President, Research and Intelligence, Verizon Business Security Solutions

 

Presentation of CCH Achievement Awards  6:00-6:05 pm

 

Networking Reception in Exhibit Area  6:05-7:15 pm

 

 

Thursday, October 22, 2009

 

Registration, Breakfast and Networking  7:00-7:45 am (Exhibit Area)

 

Welcome to Day Two of Partners' Connected Health Symposium 2009  7:45-8:00 am (Imperial)
  - Joe Kvedar, MD, Director, Center for Connected Health, Partners HealthCare

 

Keynote #6: The Innovator's Prescription: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change Health Care  8:00-8:40 am (Imperial)
  - Jason Hwang, MD, MBA, Executive Director of Healthcare, Innosight Institute, and co-author with Clayton Christensen, DBA, and Jerome Grossman, MD, of 'The Innovator's Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care' (2009)

 

Keynote #7: Irrational Decisions and the Limits of Free Market Medicine  8:40-9:20 am (Imperial)
  - Peter Ubel, MD, Professor of Medicine and Director of the Center for Behavioral and Decision Sciences in Medicine, University of Michigan, and author of 'Free Market Madness: Why Economics Is At Odds with Human Nature - and Why It Matters' (2009)

 

Blue-Ribbon Panel on the Two Preceding Presentations: Reaction and Comment  9:20-10:00 am (Imperial)
Moderator: Robert Hanscom, JD, Vice President, Loss Prevention and Patient Safety, CRICO/Risk Management Foundation
  - John Glaser, PhD, Vice President and CIO, Partners HealthCare
  - John Halamka, MD, CIO, CareGroup Health System; Dean for Technology at Harvard Medical School; and Chair of the US Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP)
  - Peter Neupert, Corporate Vice President, Health Solutions Group, Microsoft
  - Jim Tosone, Director, Pfizer HealthCare Informatics

 

Morning Networking Break  10:00-10:35 am (Exhibit Area)
  - Special sponsored session by Intel (Berkeley): Potential Business Models for Healthcare Delivery Reform
  - Special sponsored session by Keas (Clarendon): Matching Patient Need with the Best Medical Minds, a New Approach to Online Patient Engagement

 

Breakout Session #13: Making Care Management and Disease Management Work in Medicare: Observations from a Demonstration Program's Mid-Term Survivors  10:35-11:25 am (Imperial)
Moderator: Gregg Meyer, MD, MSc, Senior VP, Edward P. Lawrence Center for Quality and Safety, Mass. General Hospital/MGPO
  - Linda Magno, Director, Medicare Demonstrations Group, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
  - Suneel Ratan, VP, Marketing and Reimbursement, Bosch Healthcare, Telehealth
  - Eric Weil, MD, Medical Director, MGH Care Management Program

 

Breakout Session #14: Drilling Down on Mad Markets, Gentle Nudges and Behavioral Economics: Real-Life Applications for Healthcare  10:35-11:25 am (Georgian)
  - Michael Barrett, JD, Managing Partner, Critical Mass Consulting
  - Laurie Orlov, Founder and Principal, Aging in Place Technology Watch
  - Robert Schwarzberg, MD, President and CEO, Sensei

 

Breakout Session #15: Addressing Racial and Ethnic Disparities through Healthcare IT: One Size Doesn't Fit All  10:35-11:25 am (Plaza)
  - Joseph Betancourt, MD, MPH, Director, The Disparities Solutions Center; Senior Scientist, Institute for Health Policy; Program Director for Multicultural Education, Mass. General Hospital
  - Alex Green, MD, MPH, Associate Director, The Disparities Solutions Center, and Senior Scientist, Institute for Health Policy, Mass. General Hospital

 

Breakout Session #16: A League of Innovators: How 210 Competitors Cooperate to Run Continua and Grow a Market — A Case Study of Derring-Do, Strategic Tradeoffs and Occasional Misadventures  11:35 am-12:25 pm (Imperial)
Moderator: Michael Barrett, JD, Managing Partner, Critical Mass Consulting
  - Thomas Boyle, VP, Market Development, CA, and Board Member, Continua Health Alliance
  - Rick Cnossen, Director of Personal Health Enabling, Intel Digital Health Group, and President, Continua Health Alliance
  - Joseph Kvedar, MD, Director, Partners Center for Connected Health
  - Brian O'Connor, Founder and Former Chair, European Connected Health Campus
  - Chuck Parker, Executive Director, Continua Health Alliance

 

Breakout Session #17: Storming the Compliance Curve: New Tools for Motivating and Reinforcing Patients  11:35 am-12:25 pm (Georgian)
Moderator: Chad Bell, Director, Emerging Business, Best Buy
  - David Bear, MD, Founder and Chief Medical Officer, Senticare
  - Daniel Greden, Head, eHealth Product Management, Aetna
  - David Gruber, MD, President, Healthcare Convergence Associates
  - Jeff Levin-Scherz, MD, MBA, Principal, Towers Perrin

 

Breakout Session #18: Skills Required to Address the Global Revolution in Healthcare IT  11:35 am-12:25 pm (Plaza)
  - Moderator: Larry Finkelstein, PhD, Dean, College of Computer and Information Science, Northeastern University
  - Moderator: Stephen Zoloth, PhD, Dean, Bouve College of Health Sciences, Northeastern University
  - John Glaser, PhD, Vice President and CIO, Partners HealthCare
  - Eileen Sporing, MSN, RN, SVP for Patient Care Operations and Chief Nursing Officer, Children's Hospital Boston
  - Andrew Vaz, National Director, Life Sciences, Deloitte Consulting

 

Lunch Break  12:25-1:30 pm (Exhibit Area)
  - Special sponsored session by Agfa HealthCare and EMC (Clarendon): Visualizing the EHR. Speaker: Chris Magyar, Chief Technical Architect, Agfa HealthCare
  - Special sponsored session by iGetBetter (Berkeley): Get the best possible outcome with iGetBetter.com. Speaker: Christian Marten, MSc, Managing Director, iGetBetter.com

 

Breakout Session #19: Advances in Personal Health Data Platforms: Strategic Reflections on an Ever-Rising Bar and an Ever-Evolving Idea  1:30-2:20 pm (Imperial)
Moderator: John Moore, Managing Partner, Chilmark Research
  - Phil Marshall, MD, Vice President of Product Strategy, WebMD Health Services
  - Peter Neupert, Corporate Vice President, Health Solutions Group, Microsoft
  - Roni Zeiger, MD, Product Manager, Google Health

 

Breakout Session #20: New Directions for Self-Insured Firms in the Purchase of Health and Wellness Services  1:30-2:20 pm (Georgian)
Moderator: Doug McClure, MIM, Corporate Manager, Technology and Operations, Center for Connected Health, Partners HealthCare
  - T. Forcht Dagi, MD, MPH, Partner, HLM Venture Partners and Senior Lecturer, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology
  - Dave Hom, President, Solucia Well
  - William Hubert, Manager, Health and Welfare Plans, Partners HealthCare
  - Bryce Williams, Director, Prevention and Wellness, BCBS of Massachusetts

 

Breakout Session #21: Get (Your House) Smart: Aging in Place, At Home, Aided by Technology  1:30-2:20 pm (Plaza)
Moderator: Marc Holland, CEO and Managing Director, System Research Services
  - Joe Coughlin, PhD, Founder and Director, MIT AgeLab
  - Charles Hillman, Founder and CEO, GrandCare Systems
  - Laurie Orlov, Founder and Principal, Aging in Place Technology Watch
  - Tom Ryden, Co-Founder and COO, North End Technologies

 

Breakout Session #22: Coordinating Care: What's Really Involved and Who's Really Going to Do It?  2:30-3:20 pm (Imperial)
Moderator: Richard Zall, JD, Chairman, Health Care Industry Practice, Proskauer Rose
  - Deborah Schrag, MD, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
  - Tracey Moorhead, President and CEO of DMAA: The Care Continuum Alliance
  - Stephen Rosenthal, MBA, Corporate Vice President, Network Care Management, Montefiore Medical Center
  - Trisha Torrey, Founder, Every Patient's Advocate

 

Breakout Session #23: Revisiting a Data Gaffe, Six Months On: What's Been Learned, What's Changed — and What Still Needs To?  2:30-3:20 pm (Georgian)
  - “e-Patient Dave” deBronkart, Co-Chair, Society for Participatory Medicine
  - Daniel Sands, MD, Senior Medical Informatics Director, Cisco

 

Breakout Session #24: Telehealth, Mobile Health, Remote Monitoring and Chronic Disease Management: New Data on Innovation by Home Health Agencies  2:30-3:20 pm (Plaza)
  - Robert Fazzi, PhD, Fazzi Associates

 

Official Launch of the Journal of Participatory Medicine: Straight Talk from the Editors on the Changing Role of the Patient in Health Care and the Changing Rules of the Game for a New Publication  3:30-4:15 pm (Imperial)
Moderator: Jessie Gruman, PhD, Founder and President, Center for Advancing Health, author, 'AfterShock: What to Do When the Doctor Gives You - or Someone You Love - a Devastating Diagnosis' (2007), and Co-Editor, Journal of Participatory Medicine
  - Gilles Frydman, Founder and President of ACOR (Association of Cancer Online Resources) and Editorial Board Member, Journal of Participatory Medicine
  - Alan Greene, MD, Founder of DrGreene.com, Chief of Future Health at A.D.A.M., author, 'Raising Baby Green' (2007), and Deputy Editor, Journal of Participatory Medicine
  - Dan Hoch, MD, PhD, Dept. of Neurology, Mass. General Hospital, co-founder of 'Braintalk', and Editorial Board Member, Journal of Participatory Medicine
  - Charles W. Smith, MD, Executive Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs and Professor of Family and Community Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Founder of 'eDocAmerica', and Co-Editor, Journal of Participatory Medicine

 

Closing Remarks  4:15-4:20 pm
  - Joe Ternullo, JD, MPH, Associate Director, Center for Connected Health, Partners HealthCare

 

Refreshments  4:20 pm (Exhibit Area)

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