Who Provides, Who Decides, Who Pays: Consumers, Clinicians & Business Models in the Connected Care Era

October 27-28, 2008

Presentations:

Below are the sessions for which powerpoint presentations are available.

Participatory Medicine: How User-Generated Media are Changing American Attitudes and Actions, Online and Off
- Susannah Fox, Associate Director, Pew Internet and American Life Project

What We're Working On Now: Research That Asks, "Why Don't Patients Comply with their Doctors' Orders - and What Will It Take to Get Them to Change?
- Presenter: Alice Watson, MD, MPH, Corporate Manager, Research and Program Evaluation, Center for Connected Health
- Respondent: James Michaelson, PhD, Asst. Professor of Pathology, Division of Surgical Oncology, MGH
- Respondent: David Rose, CEO, Vitality

What We're Working On Now: Getting the "System" to be a Real System for Heart Failure Patients
- Presenter: Doug McClure, Corporate Manager, Technology and Operations, Center for Connected Health
- Respondent: Judith Flynn, BSN, MBA, Chief Clinical and Compliance Officer, Partners Home Care
- Respondent: Allison McDonough, MD, Medical Director of Population Management, Partners High Performance Medicine

Time for a Model Makeover? A Candid Conversation on the Evolving Prospects for Disease Management
- Moderator: Michael Barrett, Managing Partner, Critical Mass Consulting
- Joseph Kvedar, MD, Director, Center for Connected Health
- Al Lewis, President, Disease Management Purchasing Consortium
- Gordon Norman, MD, EVP, Science and Innovation, Alere Medical, and Chair, DMAA: The Care Continuum Alliance

What We're Working On Now: Assessing ePrescribing's Value to American Healthcare
- Presenter: Doug Johnston, Executive Director, Partners Center for Information Technology Leadership (CITL)
- Respondent: Karen M. Bell, MD, Director, Office of Health IT Adoption, Office of the National Corrdinator for Health Information Technology, US DHHS

Social Networking, Patient Communities, and User-Generated Content: A Status Report on Health 2.0
- Moderator: Matt Holt, The Health Care Blog
- Stead Burwell, CEO, Diabetic Connect
- Ben Heywood, CEO, PatientsLikeMe
- Brian Loew, CEO, Inspire

Reflections on the State of Connected Health
- Joseph Kvedar, MD, Director, Center for Connected Health

Global Perspectives on the Transformation of Healthcare Delivery and Workforce Development
- Thomas Aretz, MD, VP, Global Programs, Partners Harvard Medical International
- Elizabeth Brown, RN, MBA, Director of Clinical Systems, Partners Harvard Medical International
- Mehul Mehta, MD, SVP and Chief Strategy Officer, Partners Harvard Medical International

So, You Think You Are Healthy?
- Jay Sanders, MD, The Global Telemedicine Group

A Modest Proposal: New Products and Services To Fix Health Care 
- Adam Bosworth, Founder and CEO, Keas

Hospitals Under the Gun: New CMS Business Models for Reducing Re-Admissions and ER Visits
- Molly Coye, Founder and CEO, Health Technology Center

The Next New Thing: The Innovators' Showcase at Connected Health
- Moderator: Mitch Mitchell, VP, RelayHealth Consumer Solutions
- Ed Aberger, PhD, Co-Founder and Vice President, Abacus Health Solutions
- Graham Pallett, Team Leader, Business Development, carol.com
- Don Rosen, Chief Technology Officer, GenerationOne

Medicare Payment for Telehealth: When Will It Happen and How Will It Work?
- Presenter: Joseph Ternullo, JD, MPH, Associate Director, Center for Connected Health
- Respondent: Pat Gardner, Senior Reimbursement Manager, Medtronic
- Respondent: Robert Mechanic, Senior Fellow and Director, Health Industry Forum, Brandeis University

Illness in the Age of "e": A Case Study in Participatory e-Medicine
- "e-Patient Dave" deBronkart
- Danny Sands, MD

Physicians Play the High-Stakes Care Coordination Game: A Progress Report on Medicare's CMHCB (Care Management for High Cost Beneficiaries) Pilot
- Moderator: Timothy Ferris, MD, Medical Director, Mass General Physicians Organization
- Anne Meara, RN, MBA, Associate VP, Network Care Management, Montefiore Medical Center
- Derek Newell, CEO, Health Hero Network
- Eric Weil, MD, Medical Director, MGH Care Management Program

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