Reform's New Focus on Health and Wellness, Independent Aging, Chronic Condition Self-Care and the Tools That Support Them

Agenda:

Thursday, October 21, 2010 | Friday, October 22, 2010

Thursday, October 21, 2010

 

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

 

Welcome to Day One of Partners' Connected Health Symposium 2010, by Joe Ternullo, JD, MPH, Director, International Corporate Relations, Partners HealthCare; Associate Director, Partners Center for Connected Health  7:45-8:00 am (Imperial)

 

Keynote #1: The $1,000 Genome: The Revolution in DNA Sequencing and the New Era of Personalized Medicine  8:00-8:45 am (Imperial)
  - Kevin Davies, PhD, Chief Editor, “Bio-IT World”, and Founding Editor, “Nature Genetics”

 

Keynote #2: Designing for Behavior Change: Hot Triggers for New Habits  8:45-9:30 am (Imperial)
  - BJ Fogg, PhD, Director, Persuasive Technology Lab, Stanford University

 

Morning Networking Break  9:30-10:05 am
  - Special Sponsored Session - Verizon Wireless: Empowering the delivery of remote healthcare management (Berkeley)
  - Special Sponsored Session - ANT Wireless: ANT+ The Interoperable Solution for Fitness and Health (Clarendon)

 

Breakout session #1: BJ Fogg and Persuasive Technology: A Blue-Ribbon Panel Debates the Implications for Patient Self-Management  10:10-10:50 am (Imperial)
Moderator: Jay Sanders, MD, President and CEO, The Global Telemedicine Group
  - Dave deBronkart, Principal, ePatientDave.com, and author, “Laugh, Sing, and Eat like a Pig: How an Empowered Patient Beat Stage IV Cancer (and What Healthcare Can Learn from It)” (2010)
  - Sunil Hazaray, President and CEO, Viterion TeleHealthcare
  - Randall Moore, MD, MBA, CEO, American TeleCare

 

Breakout Session #2: Gadgets, Gizmos and Apps: Journalist Brian Dolan Interviews a Distinguished Panel on the State of Innovation in Wireless Consumer Health  10:10-10:50 am (Plaza)
Moderator: Brian Dolan, Editor and Co-Founder, MobiHealthNews
  - Scott Eising, Director, Advance Market/Product Development, Mayo Clinic
  - Madeline Pantalone, VP of Strategy and Business Development, GreatCall
  - Eran Shevalsky, President and CEO, MedMinder Systems
  - Noam Ziv, Vice President, Technology, Health and Life Sciences Group, Qualcomm

 

Breakout Session #3: A Good Panel Gets a Tough Question, #1: Should Telehealth Services for Medicare Be Reimbursed Directly -- or Incentivized Indirectly through Global, Bundled or Bonus Payments? And Which Route is Likely to Predominate?  10:10-10:50 am (Georgian)
Moderator: Joseph Kvedar, MD, Director, Center for Connected Health
  - Sandra Elliott, Director, Consumer Technology and Service Development, Meridian Health
  - Rob Mechanic, Senior Fellow and Director, Health Industry Forum, Brandeis University
  - Suneel Ratan, VP, Marketing and Reimbursement, Bosch Healthcare

 

Breakout Session #4: I Think Therefore I Move? Observations on the State of the Art in Personal Robotics, Smart Prosthetics and Brain-Machine Interfaces  11:00-11:45 am (Plaza)
Moderator: Gregory Berman, PhD, Medical Products Group Leader and Managing Consultant, PA Consulting Group
  - Jose Contreras-Vidal, PhD, Associate Professor of Kinesiology, Program in Bioengineering and Neuroscience, UMaryland School of Public Health
  - Leigh Hochberg, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Engineering, Brown University; Visiting Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School; Physician, Dept. of Veterans Affairs, Providence VA Med. Center; Physician, Stroke and Neurocritical Care Services, MGH, Brigham and Women's and Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospitals
  - Grant McGimpsey, PhD, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and Director, WPI Bioengineering Institute
  - Tom Ryden, Co-Founder and COO, VGo Communications

 

Breakout session #5: The Futurists: A Fresh Look by Some Smart People at the Twists and Turns We Cannot Know ... But Need to Think About  11:00-11:45 am (Imperial)
Moderator: Jay Pieper, MBA, VP, Partners HealthCare and President and CEO, Partners International Medical Services
  - Eric Horvitz, MD, PhD, Distinguished Scientist, Microsoft Research
  - Paul Maglio, Manager, Smarter Planet Service Systems, IBM Research, Almaden
  - Roni Zeiger, MD, Chief Health Strategist, Google

 

Breakout session #6: A Record of Oneself: Journalist Bill Bulkeley Questions a Distinguished Panel on the Intensifying Quantification of Everyday Life  11:00-11:45 am (Georgian)
Moderator: William Bulkeley, technology journalist and Principal, Green Line Research; 30 years with the WSJ
  - Ben Heywood, MBA, Co-Founder and President, PatientsLikeMe
  - James Park, Co-Founder and CEO, Fitbit
  - Alex (Sandy) Pentland, PhD, Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences; Director, Human Dynamics Lab; Director, Media Lab Entrepreneurship Program, all at MIT; and author, “Honest Signals: How They Shape Our World” (2008)

 

Lunch in the Exhibition Area  11:45 am-1:00 pm
  - Special Sponsored Session - Bosch Telehealth: Telehealth at a Community Mental Health Center: First Hand Lessons from the Provider and Consumer Perspective (Berkeley)
  - Special Sponsored Session - Intel: Alternative Healthcare Delivery Systems and the HIT Needed to Support Them by Mark Blatt, MD, MBA (Clarendon)

 

Keynote #3: Neuroscience Gives New Meaning to Connected Health: DARPA's Drive to Create a Prosthetic Arm Subject to Direct Brain Control  1:00-1:50 pm (Imperial)
  - Introducer: Chris Phinney, President, VoxVue Health
  - Stewart Coulter, PhD, Program Manager, DEKA
  - Michael McLoughlin, Program Manager, Johns Hopkins Advanced Physics Lab
  - Kent Pankratz, MBA, Program Management Support, Defense Sciences Office, DARPA

 

Breakout session #7: Cool New Stuff: Columnist Scott Kirsner Interviews Two Savvy Investors and Two Resourceful Entrepreneurs on the Market for Health, Wellness and Patient Self-Management Tools  2:00-2:45 pm (Imperial)
Moderator: Scott Kirsner, Columnist, “The Innovation Economy,” the Boston Globe; author of “Fans, Friends and Followers” (2009) and “Inventing the Movies” (2008); and editor of “The Convergence Guide: Life Sciences in New England”
  - Kent Dicks, CEO and Founder, MedApps
  - Bill Geary, Partner, North Bridge Venture Partners
  - Michael Greeley, MBA, Partner, Flybridge Capital Partners
  - Ben Rubin, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Zeo

 

Breakout session #8: Passages: An Expert Panel Examines Lessons Learned During the Maturation of Online Social Networks, Patient Communities and Patient Blogs  2:00-2:45 pm (Plaza)
Moderator: Timothy Edgar, PhD, Assoc. Professor, Dept. of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Emerson College
  - Josh Bernoff, Senior VP, Idea Development, Forrester Research, and author of “Empowered: Unleash Your Employees, Energize Your Customers, and Transform Your Business” (2010) and “Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies” (2008)
  - Susannah Fox, Associate Director, Digital Strategy, Pew Internet and American Life Project
  - Lisa Gualtieri, PhD, Adjunct Clinical Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine, and Editor-in-Chief, eLearn Magazine

 

Breakout session # 9: Digestibles, Implantables, Wearables and Wireless Bandaids: Notes from Leaders of the In- and On-Body Revolutions  2:00-2:45 pm (Georgian)
Moderator: Richard Zall, JD, Chair, Health Care Department, Proskauer
  - David O'Reilly, MBA, Senior VP, Proteus Biomedical
  - Maggie Pax, MBA, VP, Business Development, MicroCHIPS
  - Brian Russell, Founder and CEO, Zephyr Technology
  - Lynne Warner Stevenson, MD, Director, Heart Failure Program, Brigham and Women's Hospital

 

Breakout session #10: Beyond Mobile to Embedded and Ubiquitous: The Move to Smart Products and Smarter Services  2:55-3:40 pm (Imperial)
  - Mary J. Cronin, PhD, Prof. of Information Systems, Carroll School of Management, Boston College, discusses her just-published “Smart Products, Smarter Services: Strategies for Embedded Control” (Sept. 2010), a fresh analysis of smart devices, ubiquitous connectivity and the extraordinary implications for business, for healthcare, and for people's daily lives.

 

Breakout session #11: Emerging Technologies for People with Disabilities: An Expert Panel Dissects a Growing Market  2:55-3:40 pm (Georgian)
Moderator: Michael Barrett, JD, Managing Partner, Critical Mass Consulting
  - Kevin Franck, PhD, MBA, Head, Clinical and Audiologic Products and Strategy, Cochlear Limited
  - Larry Goldberg, Director, Media Access Group at WGBH and Director, WGBH National Center for Accessible Media
  - Dean Karavite, MSI, Lead Human-Computer Interaction Specialist, Center for Biomedical Informatics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
  - Janet LaBreck, Commissioner, Mass. Commission for the Blind

 

Breakout session #12: What Makes You Tick: Recent Insights Into Incentives and Behavior Change  2:55-3:40 pm (Plaza)
Moderator: Jessica Wolfe, PhD, MPH, Founder and Principal, BluePond Wellness
  - David J. Costello, PhD, SVP, Consumer Segmentation and Engagement Strategies, Health Dialog
  - Rick Lee, CEO, Healthrageous
  - Matthew Levy, PhD, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholar, Harvard University
  - Tracey Moorhead, President and CEO, Care Continuum Alliance

 

Afternoon networking break  3:40-4:15 pm
  - Special Sponsored Session - Alcatel-Lucent (Berkeley)

 

Keynote #4: Robotic Personal Coaching Comes to Market: Lessons for Technological Innovation and Patient Engagement  4:15-5:00 pm (Imperial)
  - Cory Kidd, PhD, CEO, Intuitive Automata
  - Caroline Apovian, MD, Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics, BU School of Medicine; Director, Center for Nutrition and Weight Management, Boston Medical Center

 

Plenary Panel #1: Changes in Store: A Blue-Ribbon Panel Discusses Payment Reform, Provider Accountability and the Quality and Cost Potential of Patient Self-Management  5:00-5:45 pm (Imperial)
Moderator: Michael Barrett, JD, Managing Partner, Critical Mass Consulting
  - Andrew Dreyfus, President and CEO, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Mass.
  - Tom Lee, MD, Network President, Partners HealthCare
  - Derek Newell, President, Bosch Healthcare

 

Presentation of Awards by Joe Ternullo, JD, MPH, Director, International Corporate Relations, Partners HealthCare; Associate Director, Partners Center for Connected Health  5:45-6:00 pm (Imperial)

 

Networking reception  6:00 pm (Exhibit Area)

 

 

Friday, October 22, 2010

 

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

 

Welcome to Day Two of Partners' Connected Health Symposium 2010, by Joe Kvedar, MD, Director, Partners Center for Connected Health  7:45 am (Imperial)

 

Keynote #5: The Changing Marketplace for Health Care Services: Constricted Resources, the Drive for Care Redesign and Integration, and Opportunities for Technology  8:00-8:30 am (Imperial)
  - Gary Gottlieb, MD, President and CEO, Partners HealthCare

 

Keynote #6: The Art of Choosing  8:30-9:15 am (Imperial)
  - Sheena Iyengar, PhD, S.T. Lee Professor of Business, Columbia Business School, and author, “The Art of Choosing” (2010)

 

Keynote #7: Applying Behavioral Economics to Health  9:15-10:00 am (Imperial)
  - Kevin Volpp, MD, PhD, Director, Center for Health Incentives, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, and Director, Center on Behavioral Economics and Health, both at UPenn; Associate Professor, UPenn School of Medicine and the Wharton School; staff physician, Philadelphia VA Medical Center

 

Morning networking break  10:00-10:35 am
  - Special Sponsored Session - Vidyo: Extending the reach of physicians with Vidyo telepresence any time, from anywhere, on any device (Berkeley)

 

Breakout session #13: A Good Panel Gets a Tough Question, #2: Are Carrots Enough? Or Is There Also a Role for Financial Penalties in Motivating People to Manage Their Chronic Conditions?  10:35-11:15 am (Georgian)
Moderator: Brian Fitzgerald, Managing Partner, ROX Associates
  - Eric Kasen, Partner, Employee Benefits Consulting, Hays Companies
  - Anna-Lisa Silvestre, VP, Online Services, Kaiser Permanente
  - Kevin Volpp, MD, PhD, Director, Center for Health Incentives, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, and Director, Center on Behavioral Economics and Health, both at UPenn; Associate Professor, UPenn School of Medicine and the Wharton School; staff physician, Philadelphia VA Medical Center

 

Breakout session #14: Grades Are Coming In: A Special Symposium Panel on the 2010 Mid-Term Elections and their Implications for US Health Policy  10:35-11:15 am (Imperial)
Moderator: David Whitlinger, Executive Director, New York eHealth Collaborative
  - Jim Capretta, MA, Civic Enterprises, LLC; formerly Associate Director, 2001-2004, White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB); currently Fellow, Ethics and Public Policy Center; Adjunct Fellow, Global Aging Initiative, Center for Strategic and International Studies; and Adjunct Fellow, the Hudson Institute
  - Phil Johnston, Founder and Principal, Philip W. Johnston Associates; former New England Administrator, U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services; and former Mass. Secretary of Health and Human Services under Gov. Michael Dukakis
  - John McDonough, PhD, Joan H. Tisch Distinguished Fellow in Public Health at Hunter College; former Senior Adviser, U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions; Chief Adviser on Health Care Reform to the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy; and former Executive Director, Health Care For All
  - Tim Murphy, MPP, President and CEO, Beacon Health Strategies; former Director of Policy and Mass. Secretary of Health and Human Services under Gov. Mitt Romney

 

Breakout session #15: Pitching Good Health: A Health Marketers' Roundtable  10:35-11:15 am (Plaza)
Moderator: Frank McGillin, MBA, VP, Marketing Communications and Branding, Philips Healthcare
  - Elizabeth Boehm, Principal Analyst, Customer Experience for Healthcare and Life Sciences, Forrester Research
  - Amy Cueva, Founder and CEO, Mad*Pow
  - Steve Wardell, MBA, Senior Director, Business Development, PatientKeeper
  - Eric Zimmerman, MBA, Chief Marketing Officer, RedBrick Health

 

Breakout session #16: Mapping Uneven Terrain: Using Information Technology to Identify Health Disparities and Narrow Them  11:25 am-12:10 pm (Plaza)
Moderator: Barbra Rabson, MPH, Executive Director, Mass. Health Quality Partners
  - Joe Betancourt, MD, Director, The Disparities Solutions Center; Senior Scientist, Institute for Health Policy; and Program Director for Multicultural Education, all at Partners HealthCare
  - Nicholas Steel, MB, ChB, MSc, Clinical Senior Lecturer in Primary Care, School of Medicine, Health Policy and Practice, University of East Anglia
  - Roni Zeiger, MD, Chief Health Strategist, Google

 

Breakout session #17: Empowered eClinically: Experts Look at New Data Sources and New Technologies Transforming the Patient's Role in Clinical Research  11:25 am-12:10 pm (Georgian)
Moderator: Amir Nashat, PhD, General Partner, Polaris Venture Partners
  - Naomi Fried, PhD, Chief Innovation Officer, Children's Hospital Boston
  - John Halamka, MD, MS, CIO of CareGroup Health System; CIO and Dean for Technology, Harvard Medical School; CIO of the Harvard Clinical Research Institute; Co-Chair of the HIT Standards Committee advising the National Coordinator for Health IT; practicing emergency room physician
  - Peter Tippett, MD, PhD, VP, Innovation and Technology, Verizon Business
  - Paul Wicks, PhD, Director of Research and Development, PatientsLikeMe

 

Breakout session #18: Rude Surprises and Revolting Developments: Aha's! Lurking in the Recent Data on Consumer Preferences and Online Behavior  11:25 am-12:10 pm (Imperial)
Moderator: Warwick Charlton, MD, VP and Chief Medical Officer, Intuit Health
  - Kristin Carman, PhD, Co-Director, Health Policy and Research, American Institutes of Research
  - Monique Levy, MA, Senior Director of Research, Manhattan Research
  - Kristen Purcell, PhD, Associate Director for Research, Pew Internet and American Life Project

 

Lunch in the Exhibition Area  12:10-1:20 pm
  - Special Sponsored Session - Philips: Care across the continuum: from hospital to home by Paul Bromberg, VP and General Manager, Remote Patient Monitoring, Philips Home Healthcare Solutions (Berkeley)
  - Special Sponsored Session - Weber Shandwick: Digital Advocacy in Action (Clarendon)

 

Breakout session #19: A Good Panel Gets a Tough Question, #3: When Do Smart Devices and Telehealth Services Cut Costs by Substituting for More Expensive Care? And When Do They Add Costs Instead?  1:30-2:10 pm (Plaza)
Moderator: Victor Kats, MBA, Investment Manager, Ascension Health Ventures
  - Chris Attaya, MBA, President, Partners Home Care
  - Terry Duesterhoeft, MBA, President, Honeywell HomMed
  - Stephen Rosenthal, MBA, President and COO of CMO, The Care Management Organization of Montefiore Medical Center
  - Max Stachura, MD, Director, Center for Telehealth, Medical College of Georgia

 

Breakout session #20: Can We Talk? Fresh Developments and New Wrinkles in Patient-Clinician Communication  1:30-2:10 pm (Georgian)
Moderator: Jonathan Bush, MBA, President and CEO, athenahealth
  - Adam Bosworth, Founder and CEO, Keas
  - Thomas Houston, MD, MPH, Prof. of Quantitative Health Sciences and Medicine, and Chief, Division of Health Informatics and Implementation Science, UMass. Medical School
  - Danny Sands, MD, MPH, Senior Medical Informatics Director, Cisco, and Physician, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
  - Roy Schoenberg, MD, MPH, President and CEO, American Well

 

Breakout session #21: Amping Up Compliance: Journalist Ryan McBride Interviews a Special Panel on New Tools and Approaches for Engaging with Employees, Members and Patients  1:30-2:10 pm (Imperial)
Moderator: Ryan McBride, Correspondent, Xconomy
  - Dan Greden, Head, eHealth Product Management, Aetna
  - David Rose, CEO, Vitality
  - Tony Schueth, President and CEO, Point-of-Care Partners
  - Amy Yoffie, Founder and CEO, iReminder

 

Breakout session #22: Making Health Contagious: Can We Change People's Behavior by Influencing Their Social Networks? And If We Can, Should We?  2:20-3:00 pm (Imperial)
Moderator: Karen Bell, MD, MMS, Chair, Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT)
  - Nathan Cobb, MD, Research Investigator, Schroeder Institute for Tobacco Research and Policy Studies, and Asst. Professor, Georgetown University Medical Center
  - Steve Locke, MD, CEO, Veritas Health Solutions, and Assoc. Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
  - Lawrence Miller, MD, President and CEO, MedNetworks
  - Mike Zani, CEO, Shape Up The Nation

 

Breakout session #23: Provider, Patient, Kin: Technology Tools to Support and Supplement Family Caregiving  2:20-3:00 pm (Plaza)
Moderator: Deborah Randall, JD, Principal, Deborah Randall Consulting
  - Ken Accardi, Co-Founder and CTO, Ankota
  - Liddy Manson, President and CEO, BeClose
  - Laurie Orlov, Founder and Principal, Aging in Place Technology Watch
  - Dave Waks, Co-Founder and Co-Director, The Broadband Home

 

Breakout session #24: Connected Health around the Globe: How and Why Solutions Need to Differ by Geography and by Social, Economic and Cultural Setting  2:20-3:00 pm (Georgian)
Moderator: Chuck Parker, MSc, Executive Director, Continua Health Alliance
  - David Aylward, Executive Director, mHealth Alliance
  - Dr. Peter Donnelly, PhD, Chief Executive, BioBusiness Northern Ireland
  - Dr. George Margelis, MBBS, M.Optom, GCEBus, Industry Development Manager, Intel Australia Digital Health Group
  - Donato Tramuto, CEO and Vice Chairman, Physicians Interactive

 

Plenary Panel #2: Short Takes for the Long Run: Four Fresh Ideas for Improving Healthcare  3:10-3:50 pm (Imperial)
Moderator: Joe Ternullo, JD, MPH, Director, International Corporate Relations, Partners HealthCare; Associate Director, Partners Center for Connected Health
  - Carol Diamond, MD, MPH, Managing Director, Markle Foundation; Chair, Markle Connecting for Health
  - Mary Jane England, MD, President, Regis College
  - John “Tom” Koutsoumpas, Senior VP, ML Strategies/US
  - Joe Kvedar, MD, Director, Partners Center for Connected Health

 

Closing Remarks by Joe Ternullo, JD, MPH, Director, International Corporate Relations, Partners HealthCare, Associate Director, Partners Center for Connected Health  3:50-4:00 pm (Imperial)

 

Refreshments  4:00 pm

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