2011 Connected Health Symposium

October 20-21, 2011, Boston Park Plaza Hotel & Towers

Videos:

World-class speakers. Packed rooms. Captivated audiences. The presenters thrilled the crowd, as one person stated:

“I know this is Boston, but the brainiac quotient at Connected Health 2011 is off the charts this year. Amazed by the caliber of thinkers in our midst.”

A handful of videos will be released every week. Stay tuned!

Thursday October 20, 2011 | Friday October 21, 2011

 

Movie IconThe Infinite Journey: Driving Continous Quality Improvement and HealthCare Cost Containment
- Brent James, MD, MStat, Chief Quality Officer, Intermountain Health Care; subject of The New York Times article “If Health Care is Going to Change, Dr. Brent James Will Lead the Way”

Movie IconConversation with Brent James. A Symposium Interview
- Interviewer: John Herman, MD, Associate Chief, Department of Psychiatry, Mass. General Hospital

Movie IconIs Social and Economic Inequality Making Us Sick?
- Kate Pickett, PhD, FRSA, Professor of Epidemiology, University of York, UK; co-author, The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger (2009), named a Top Ten Book of the Decade by New Statesman)

Movie IconConversation with Prof. Kate Pickett. A Symposium Interview
- Interviewer: Alexander Baker, MBA, Chief Operating Officer, Partners Community Healthcare

Movie IconResolved: Current Approaches to Patient Self-Management Do Little to Improve Quality or Lower Costs. A Symposium Debate
- Moderator: Cynthia Bouthot, MA, President, Collaborative Innovation Group
- Agree: Shahid Shah, CEO, Netspective; blogger, www.HealthCareITGuy.com
- Disagree: Joseph Kvedar, MD, Director, Partners Center for Connected Health

Movie IconThe Innovators: Twelve Demos of Products that Could Make a Difference
- Moderator: Jon Linkous, MPA, CEO, American Telemedicine Association
- Coordinator: Rob Havasy, Project Specialist & Operations Manager, Partners Center for Connected Health
- Companies: Athena GTX, GenerationOne, GrandCare Systems, Health Advocate, Inc., Healthagen, LLC, IDEAL LIFE, Independa, lifeIMAGE, Inc., MGH Lab of Computer Science, Stratus Video, Vecna Technologies, VGo

Movie IconExpert Panel #1: Will Accountable Care Organizations Produce Accountable Patients? And, if so, How?
- Moderator: Lawrence Cohn, MD, Hubbard Professor of Cardiac Surgery, Harvard Medical School
- Timothy Ferris, MD, Medical Director, Mass. General Physicians Organization; Senior Scientist, Partners/MGH Institute for Health Policy
- Jonathan Gruber, PhD, Professor of Economics, MIT
- Dana Safran, ScD, Senior Vice President, BCBSMA

Movie IconExpert Panel #2: Game Mechanics, Gaming Psychology and New Approaches to Designing Health and Wellness Programs
- Moderator: Claus Nielsen, International Manager, Health and Welfare Technologies, DELTA Business Development
- Catherine Frederico, MS, Registered Dietician; Adjunct Professor of Nutrition Science, Regis College; developer of Food Focus, a computer game
- Debra Lieberman, PhD, Director, the Health Games Research National Program, University of California, Santa Barbara, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- Ben Sawyer, Co-Founder, Serious Games Initiative; Co-Founder, Games for Health, funded by the Pioneer Portfolio of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- Tony Tomazic, Director, Consumer Innovations, Humana

Movie IconExpert Panel #3: Mobile, Global, and Frugal: Low-Cost Innovations in Wireless Health for Poor Neighborhoods Everywhere
- Moderator: Nathan Pendleton, Chief Growth Officer, GenerationOne Inc.
- Leo Anthony Celi, MD, MPH, Medical Informatics, Harvard-MIT HST; Project Lead, Sana, CSAIL, MIT; ICU Physician, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
- Hamish Fraser, MBChB, MSc, Physician, Brigham and Women's Hospital; Director of Informatics and Telemedicine, Partners in Health
- Jessica Haberer, MD, MS, Research Scientist, Center for Global Health, Mass. General Hospital

Movie IconJanet Dillione: Next Generation Clinical Technologies: The Voice of Healthcare, The Value of Understanding
- Janet Dillione, Executive Vice President and General Manager for Healthcare, Nuance Communications, developing health care uses for Watson, the IBM Artificial Intelligence system that bested two human champions to win Jeopardy!

Movie IconBosch Sponsored Lunch - Connecting the Care Continuum: Telehealth Supporting Acute, Chronic and Palliative Care Coordination
- Special Sponsored Session - Bosch: Connecting the Care Continuum: telehealth supporting acute, chronic and palliative care coordination, a panel discussion (Berkeley)

Movie IconAtul Gawande, MD, MPH: Cowboys vs. Pit Crews
- Atul Gawande, MD, MPH, Surgeon, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; The New Yorker magazine staff writer on health care; Lead Advisor, Safe Surgery Saves Lives program, World Health Organization

 Movie IconRosalind Picard, ScD: New Technologies for Breathrough Emotion Mangement
- Rosalind Picard, ScD, Director, Affective Computing Research Group, MIT Media Lab; Co-Founder, Affectiva

 Movie IconEileen Bartholomew: Can 10 Million Dollars Revoluntionize Health Care?
- Eileen Bartholomew, Senior Director, Life Sciences Prize Development, X PRIZE Foundation

Movie IconExpert Panel #4: Personalized Medicine, Connected Health: The Accelerating Convergence of Genomics, Information Technology and Healthcare
- Moderator: Scott Lundstrom, Group Vice President, IDC Health Insights
- Toby Bloom, PhD, Director of Informatics, Genome Sequencing Platform, The Broad Institute
- George Church, PhD, Director, Center for Computational Genetics, Harvard Medical School; winner, 2011 Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science
- Rodrigo Martinez, Life Sciences Chief Strategist, IDEO

 Movie IconExpert Panel #5: Facebooking Health: Scouting Out the Latest Trends in Online Patient Communities and Social Media
- Moderator: Lisa Gualtieri, PhD, Assistant Professor, Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine
- John Brownstein, PhD, Research Faculty, Children's Hospital Boston; Director, Computational Epidemiology Group, Informatics Program, Children's Hospital Boston
- Chris Cartter, General Manager, MeYou Health
- Tara Cousineau, PhD, Founder and CEO, BodiMojo
- Joseph Kim, MD, VP of Medical Affairs and Technology, Medical Communications Media; Founder and Editor of MedicalSmartphones.com

Movie IconExpert Panel #6: Start Up: Four Entrpreneurs under the Age of 40 Discuss their Ventures in Consumer Health IT
- Moderator: Mark Vanderwerf, Vice President and Director of eHealth, Nonin Medical
- Alexandra Drane, Co-Founder and President, Eliza Corporation
- Veer Gidwaney, CEO, DailyFeats
- Alan Ricks, Co-Founder and Creative Director, MASS Design Group
- Ben Rubin, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Zeo

Movie IconSandy Pentland, PhD; Sensing Health and Shaping Behavior
- Alex (Sandy) Pentland, PhD, Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, MIT; Director, MIT Human Dynamics Lab; Co-Founder, CogitoHealth; author, Honest Signals: How They Shape Our World (2010)

Movie IconTimothy Bickmore, PhD; The Age of Compassionate Computing
- Timothy Bickmore, PhD, Associate Professor, College of Computer and Information Science, Northeastern University

Movie IconScott Harmon, MBA; What Would You Make if You Could Make Anything? The Replicator Arrives
- Scott Harmon, MBA, Vice President, Z Corporation

Movie IconACOs – Nice Idea, Won’t Work. A Symposium Debate
- Moderator: Lawrence Vernaglia, JD, Healthcare Industry Chair, Foley & Lardner
- Agree: Jeff Goldsmith, PhD, President, Health Futures Inc.; Associate Professor of Public Health Services, University of Virginia
- Disagree: Timothy Ferris, MD, MPH, Medical Director, Mass. General Physicians Organization; Senior Scientist, Partners/MGH Institute for Health Policy

Movie IconKeynote #11: US | EU Collaboration – Driving Healthcare Innovation (Imperial)
- Edwin Poots, Health Minister, Northern Ireland

Movie IconPresentation of awards
- Presenters: Samuel O. Thier, MD, Professor of Medicine and Health Care Policy, Emeritus, Harvard Medical School and Joseph C. Kvedar, MD, Director, Partners Center for Connected Health

 Friday October 21, 2011

Movie IconWelcoming remarks
- Joseph Kvedar, MD, Director, Partners Center for Connected Health

Movie IconWilliam Shrank, MD, MSHS: Improving Patient Engagement and Medication Adherence Through Health System Innovation
- William Shrank, MD, MSHS, Director of Evaluation, the Innovation Center, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; author of a landmark study on the health uses of Facebook by patients with diabetes

Movie IconClifford Nass, PhD: Communicating Health Issues to Chronically-Distracted Users (Imperial)
- Clifford Nass, PhD, Thomas M. Storke Professor, Stanford University; Director, Communication between Humans and Interactive Media Lab; author, The Man Who Lied to his Laptop: What Machines Teach Us About Human Relationships (2010)

Movie IconResolved: For Telehealth and Remote Patient Monitoring, the Business Model of the Future Isn’t Direct Reimbursement; It’s Bundled and Global Payments. A Symposium Debate
- Moderator: Joan Lebow, JD, Principal, Lebow, Malecki & Tasch
- Agree: Vince Kuraitis, JD, MBA, Principal, Better Health Technologies
- Disagree: Jasper zu Putlitz, MD, President, Robert Bosch Healthcare

Movie IconVoices from the Community: New Delivery Models & Demand for High Quality, Affordable Care
- Interviewer: Jay Sanders, MD, FACP, President and CEO, The Global Telemedicine Group; Adjunct Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
- Barbra Rabson, MPH, Executive Director, Mass. Quality Health Partners
- Diane Stollenwerk, MPP, Vice President of Community Alliances, National Quality Forum

Movie IconThe Innovators: Fifteen Demos of Products That Could Make a Difference
- Moderator: Julian Goldman, MD, Director, MD PnP Program & the CIMIT Program on Interoperability & Medical Director, Partners HealthCare Biomedical Engineering
- Coordinators: Rob Havasy, Project Specialist & Operations Manager, Partners Center for Connected Health
- Michael Robkin, MBA, Founder and President, Anakena Solutions
- Companies: AirStrip Technologies, Andago North America, Applied Pathways, BlueLibris, Inc., Enhanced Medical Decisions, Inc., HealthOneMed, Healthrageous, Inc., Impak Health LLC, MITRE, Nuance Communications, Proxense, LLC, Ringful Health, Status Solutions, wellbe.me, Zeo

Movie IconAn Interview with Gary Wolf, Founder of the Quantified Self Movement - How Self Tracking Affects Your Health
- Interviewer: Joseph Kvedar, MD, Director, Partners Center for Connected Health
- Gary Wolf, MA, Editor, Wired Magazine; Co-Editor, The Quantified Self

Movie IconExpert panel #7: What Makes You Tick: New Insights into Decision-Making and Behavior Change
- Moderator: Michael Barrett, JD, Managing Partner, Critical Mass Consulting
- Joseph Kvedar, MD, Director, Partners Center for Connected Health
- Steven Locke, MD, Research Psychiatrist, Harvard Center for Medical Simulation; Associate Psychiatrist, Massachusetts General Hospital
- Liddy Manson, MBA, President, Be Close
- Vish Viswanath, PhD, Associate Professor of Society, Human Development, and Health, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; co-editor, Health Behavior and Health Education: Theory, Research and Practice (2008)

Movie IconExpert panel #8: Messages from the Marketplace: Interviews with Two Venture Capitalists and Two Leading Journalists on the State of Innovation in Consumer Health Technology
- Moderator: David Whitlinger, Executive Director, The New York eHealth Collaborative
- Brian Dolan, Editor and Co-Founder, MobiHealthNews
- Bill Geary, Partner, North Bridge Venture Partners
- Scott Kirsner, columnist, “Innovation Economy,” Boston Globe; author, Fans, Friends and Followers: Building an Audience and a Creative Career in the Digital Age (2009)
- Halle Tecco, MBA, Founder and Managing Director, Rock Health

 Movie IconExpert panel #9: In The Trenches: Progress, Pitfalls and Practical Matters in Launching Connected Health Programs
- Moderator: Susan Lane, RN, MSN, MBA, Corporate Manager, Technology and Operations, Partners Center for Connected Health
- Robert Havasy, Project Specialist and Customer Operations Manager, Partners Center for Connected Health
- Kamal Jethwani, MD, MPH, Lead Research Scientist, Partners Center for Connected Health
- Khinlei Myint-U, MBA, Corporate Manager, Product Development and Communications, Partners Center for Connected Health
- Alex Pelletier, MBA, Corporate Team Lead, Partners Center for Connected Health

Movie IconNicole Lamb-Hale, JD: Connected Health: Opportunities to Meet Global Healthcare Demand
- Nicole Lamb-Hale, JD, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Manufacturing and Services, International Trade Administration

Movie IconExpert panel #10: The Futurists: A Fresh Look by Some Smart People at the Twists and Turns We Cannot Know … But Need to Think About
- Moderator: M. Turner Billingsley, MD, FACEP, Chief Medical Officer, Intersystems
- Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, PhD, Distinguished Professor and Director, Center for Complex Network Research, Northeastern University ; author, Bursts: The Hidden Pattern Behind Everything We Do (2010)
- David Blumenthal, MD, MPP, Samuel O. Thier Professor of Medicine and Professor of Health Care Policy, Mass. General Hospital, Partners HealthCare System and Harvard Medical School; Former National Coordinator of Health Information Technology
- Vaishali Kamat, Group Manager, Medical Technology, Cambridge Consultants
- Peter Tippett, MD, PhD, VP, Verizon Connected Health and Verizon's Innovation Incubator

Movie IconExpert Panel #11: When Does Good Patient Care Demand the Human Touch? Sure About That? A Fresh Look at Avatars and Robots
- Luis Barros, MBA, Managing Partner, LB Ventures’ Exeter Science and Technology Group (ExeterSTG)
- Timothy Bickmore, PhD, Associate Professor, College of Computer and Information Science, Northeastern University
- Johnny Pedersen, CEO, Team Online
- Tom Ryden, MS, COO and Co-Founder, Vgo Communications

Movie IconExpert Panel #12: From Mobile to Ubiquitous: The Continuing Voyage of Consumer Health Tools
- Moderator: Chuck Parker, MS, Executive Director, Continua Health Alliance
- Damien Balsan, Director, NFC Business Development, Nokia; Co-Chair, MIT Enterprise Forum/Boston NFC Hub
- Joseph Carangelo, Director of Business Development, GreatCall
- Mary Cronin, PhD, Professor of Information Systems, Boston College
- Matthew Davis, Principal Research Analyst, Gartner

Movie IconRobert Galvin, MD, CEO: Connecting Consumers to Costs: Ready or Not, Here It Comes
Robert Galvin, MD, CEO, Equity Healthcare, a Blackstone Group provider of health and wellness programs; former Director of Global Health Care, GE

Movie IconJoseph Kvedar, MD: Self-Quantification as a Driver of Behavior Change
- Joseph Kvedar, MD, Director, Partners Center for Connected Health

Movie IconClosing Panel: Health Care in the Tumultuous New Era of Debt Reduction Politics. A Special Symposium Discussion
- Moderator: David Storto, President, Partners Continuing Care; President, Spaulding Rehabilitation Network
- David Cutler, PhD, Otto Eckstein Professor of Economics, Department of Economics and Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
- Alexander Hecht, JD, LLM, Deputy Director, Mintz Levin center for Health Law and Policy
- Andrew McCormick, Permanent Secretary for Health and Social Services, Northern Ireland
- Kevin Schulman, MD, MBA, Prof. of Medicine and Gregory and Jeremy Mario Prof. of Business Administration, Duke University; Associate Director, Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University

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