HealthTech NextGeneration » Health Tech Next Generation Conference & Expo » May 2012


  • Our second annual HealthTech:NextGeneration Conference & Expo was held in San Francisco, CA. This two day comprehensive event was yet another success! Attendees included Healthcare & IT Executives, Consultants, Providers, Physicians & Nurses, Medical & Technology Entrepreneurs, Policy makers, Medical Administrators, Directors, Managers and more… Highlights of the event included over 50 Speakers, including keynotes from Wil Yu (Special Assistant, Innovations – Office of the National Coordinator (HHS), Health IT), John Mattison (CMIO, Kaiser Permanente), Mike O’Neill (Senior Advisor to the Secretary & CTO, US Department of Veterans Affairs) & David Houlding (Healthcare Privacy & Security Lead Architect, Intel Corporation). Educational and informative track sessions were spearheaded by

    leading experts in the healthcare and IT industry focusing on informatics, mobile and cloud technologies.

    TIME SPEAKERS TOPIC DISCUSSIONS
    7:00 AM
    Welcome to HealthTech:NextGeneration 2012!
    8:00 AM
    9:00 AM Welcoming Remarks & Opening KeynoteSpeech
    GRAND BALLROOM Peter Levin
    Senior Advisor to the Secretary & CTO, Department of Veterans Affairs
    A Government Approach to IT Innovation

    10:00 PM
    11:00 AM Morning Breakout Track Sessions
    GRAND BALLROOM EAST EHR Policy & Reform – Where are we now?
    Shahid Shah (Moderator)
    CEO, Netspective
    • Dramatic progress on health IT resulting from HITECH Act.
    • How “meaningful use” provides a roadmap for delivery system reform
    • Interoperability – key to meeting reform goals
    • HIE – key to managing population health & financial risks under ACOs & new caredelivery models
    • Research showing hospitals & physicians progressing with EMR adoptions & ‘MeaningfulUse’ requirements
    • EHR implementation/adoption trends and challenges
    • Future of MU
    Dorian Seamster
    Chief of Health Information Services, CalHIPSO
    David Sayen
    Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
    Carol Simon
    Director, Optum Institute for Sustainable Health
    GRAND BALLROOM WEST Smartphones & Apps in MobileHealthcare
    • Rise of smart-mobile – market penetration/demographics
    • How smart-mobile can improve adherence
    • Novel financing models to enable free solutions for users
    • Smartphones as a stepping stone towards ubiquitous sensing technology
    • Desirable bias mobile applications will create towards focusing on consumer use
    Lisa Duncan (Moderator)
    Head of Industry Health Services, Google
    Khaled Hassounah
    CTO, MedHelp
    Robert Pakter
    CEO, PillJogger, Inc.
    Alan Portela
    CEO, Airstrip Technologies
    REDWOOD How will Cloud Transform Healthcare – the Rationale for CloudComputing in Healthcare
    Greg Caressi (Moderator)
    Senior VP Healthcare & Life Sciences, Frost & Sullivan
    • Innovations in cloud computing
    • Privacy & security in cloud environments
    • EHR & PHR management in cloud enabled environments
    • How can cloud computing benefit healthcare providers’ operational capabilities in supporting MUrequirements?
    • What are some of the key challenges in clinical computing infrastructure in support of CPOE andMU?
    • Telemedicine in the cloud
    Alistair Crighton
    Founder & CEO, Choice Hospital Systems
    Farid Agahi
    Senior Business Strategist, VMWare
    Jay Culver
    Director Strategic Accounts, GlobalMed
    12:30 PM
    GRAND
    BALLROOM
    David Houlding
    Healthcare Privacy & Security Lead Architect, IntelCorporation
    • Trends driving healthcare change with risk
    • Relationships between user experience, compliance & risk
    • Best practices for managing risk
    • The role of hardware assisted security & vertically integrated safeguards
    2:00 PM Exhibition & NetworkingBreak
    2:30 PM Afternoon Parallel TrackSessions
    GRAND BALLROOM EAST Patient Centered Healthcare & Empowerment throughHIE
    Nam Vo (Moderator)
    Senior Director, Oracle Health Sciences
    • Building a solid information management foundation for healthcare enterprises
    • How will HIE affect small physician practice workflow?
    • Healthcare informatics & business strategies
    • EHR & HIE marketplace – success & failures
    • Information management to the rescue
    • Future trends in HIE adoption and the impact on hospitals and patients
    • Importance of community participation in the establishment of an HIE
    • Role of HIEs in cost-effective management of chronic diseases
    Shadaab Kanwal
    Executive Director Reasearch & Quality, Kaiser Permanente IT-Corporate Services
    Chris Hobson
    Chief Medical Officer, Orion Health
    Kellen Glinder
    Pediatrician, Palo Alto Medical Foundation Founder & Chief Technologist, DevCool
    GRAND BALLROOM WEST Mobile Solutions for Patient Empowerment
    • Remote patient monitoring: where patient empowerment meets clinical care
    • Usage models for mobile devices and consumer health
    • Mobile access to your electronic health data
    • Emessaging on mobile platforms
    • Moblie connectivity as a way around different EHR’s not communicating data
    • Global trends driving the need for patient empowerment
    Janet Bauer (Moderator)
    Professor & Director, UCLA School of Dentistry
    Arnaub Chatterjee
    Special Assistant to CTO, Office of Secretary at U.S. Department of Health & HumanServices
    Kent Dicks
    CEO & Founder, MedApps, Inc.
    Ben Wilson
    Director Global Health Strategy, Intel Corp.
    3:30 PM Coffee & Networking Break
    4:00 PM Afternoon Breakout Track SessionsResume
    GRAND
    BALLROOM EAST
    Clinical Informatics
    Geoff Rutledge (Moderator)
    Co-Founder & CMIO, HealthTap
    • Impediments to adoption of a clinical system in a care setting
    • Innovations in user design to accelerate provider adoption
    • Effective integration of clinical information systems into complex work systems
    • Key findings from 2012 Primary Research from 60+ in depth Interviews with C-suite at leadinghealthcare provider organizations in the US
    • Five emerging analytic imperatives & their approach
    • What every healthcare provider needs to consider
    • Making Health Data Useful for Successful Clinical Decision Support
    Graham Hughes
    Chief Medical Officer, SAS Institute
    Anwer Khan
    Director, Deloitte Consulting, Life Sciences & Healthcare
    Sarah Molina
    Manager, Health Industries Advisory, PricewaterhouseCoopers
    GRAND BALLROOM WEST Engaging Consumers via Social Media & MobileTechnology
    Maneesh Goyal (Moderator)
    Co-Founder & General Partner, MergerTech Health Ventures
    • The consumer/physician connection: can patients & physicians really be SM friends?
    • In home tracking of chronic disease conditions as tool for early warning
    • Patients want to track their own health on their mobile phone apps
    • Integration of different apps data into a single platform helps patient have an overview of allof their health data
    • Prescriptions and referrals using asynchronous communications
    • Dispelling the notion that it is as simple as “creating an app for it”
    • Challenge of keeping balance to prevent becoming either pure social entertainment or medicallyalienating
    • Issues of privacy and security for health in social media and mobile
    Enoch Choi
    Partner, Palo Alto Medical Foundation
    Arnaub Chatterjee
    Special Assistant to CTO, Office of Secretary at U.S. Department of Health & HumanServices
    Khaled Hassounah
    CTO, MedHelp Co-Founder & CEO, Mobile Commons
    REDWOOD Strategies for Managing Privacy & Security inHealthcare

    • HiT Privacy & Security compliance: Are you ready for Meaningful Use?
    • What should be the correct Governance Structure for Privacy & Security at Leading HealthOrganization?
    • Checklist for Compliance with HIPAA & Meaningful Use Mandates
    Adam Ely (Moderator)
    CISO, Heroku at Salesforce.com
    David Houlding
    Healthcare Privacy & Security Lead Architect, Intel
    Pratik Verma
    Co-Founder & COO, AgeTak Inc.
    Daniel Berger
    President & CEO, Redspin
    5:00 PM
    7:00 AM
    Welcome to HealthTech:NextGeneration 2012!
    8:00 AM
    9:00 AM Welcoming Remarks & Opening KeynoteSpeech
    GRAND
    BALLROOM
    Wil Yu
    Special Assistant, Innovations – The Office of the National Coordinator (ONC/HHS), HealthIT
    • The Healthcare Innovation Imperative
    10:00 PM
    11:00 AM Morning Breakout Track Sessions
    REDWOOD Funding Opportunities for mHealth
    • Barriers & challenges
    • Healthcare IT Grant Funding and Focus Areas
    • VC Funding and the Screening Process
    • What are the important milestones prior to raising capital?
    • Healthcare reform legislation has significant structural impact – administrative cost caps, newpay-for-performance models, healthcare insurance purchasing exchanges and information technologymandates
    • Advances in secure mobile networks, behavior patterns of consumers and increasing alignment ofpayer reimbursement revolutionizing how healthcare is planned, delivered, evaluated and paid for
    Ryan McQuaid (Moderator)
    Strategy & Business Development, AT&T mHealth Platform
    Maneesh Goyal
    Co-Founder & General Partner, MergerTech Health Ventures
    Halle Tecco
    Co-Founder & CEO, RockHealth
    Roy Ziegler
    Venture Partner, Chrysalis Ventures
    GRAND BALLROOM EAST HIT Innovations – Influencing Physicians to EmbraceHIT
    Sam Shekar (Moderator)
    Chief Medical Officer, Northrop Grumman Information Systems
    • Key barriers to EHR and HIT adoption
    • Saying goodbye to HL7 and other dated standards
    • Enabling patients to manage their health and track their care
    • Unlocking between-visit date
    • Proven strategies for encouraging provider adoption of EHRs
    • Helping providers understand the value of data
    • The data entry hurdle
    • Barriers to spread amongst MDs
    • synergy across systems, getting pharmacy fill data as feedback to medical provider
    • improving data collection during a visit
    Matt Douglass
    Co-Founder & VP Engineering, Practice Fusion
    Aaron Blackledge
    M.D. & Founder, Care Practice Clinic
    Speranza Avram
    CEO, CalHIPSO
    GRAND BALLROOM WEST Benefits & Risks of Cloud Computing in the HealthcareEnvironment
    Shahid Shah (Moderator)
    CEO, Netspective
    • Recognized benefits of collaboration multiprovider coordination
    • ACOs – coordination across silos
    • Patient Centered “Locus of Information Control”
    • Architecture and strategy – addressing security, manageability, automation, metering, andemployee use model considerations
    • Client in the cloud
    • A roadmap to hybrid cloud & expanding cloud usages
    • Employing Cloud Computing to improve Medical practices
    Ajay Chandramouly
    Director, Intel Corp.
    Pierre Theodore Associate Professor of

    Surgery, Van Auken Endowed Chair in Thoracic Surgery, UCSF

    Heinz Schwarz
    VP Business Development, NextGate
    12:30 PM
    GRAND
    BALLROOM
    John Mattison
    CMIO, Kaiser Permanente
    • Mega Trends in Healthcare
    2:00 PM Exhibition & NetworkingBreak
    2:30 PM Afternoon Parallel TrackSessions
    REDWOOD Semantics in Analytics – Making Sense of HealthcareData
    Piyush Malik (Moderator)
    Program Director, IBM
    • Semantic technologies to construct and analyze networks of diverse structured and unstructureddata
    • To make sense of the sea of structured and unstructured data flowing across healthcareorganizations, there is a need to create a new class of powerful research, productivity and decision-support applications for healthcare
    • Healthcare analytics – critical to cost control and improved care
    • Groundbreaking work based on semantic technologies, allowing unprecedented access to codifiedand machine usable healthcare data
    • Exploring unstructured ontologies in Healthcare
    • Finding out what data is really important
    Dan Riskin
    CEO, Health Fidelity
    Anwer Khan
    Director, Deloitte Consulting Life Sciences & Healthcare
    Evren Eryurek
    CTO, GE Healthcare IT & Performance Solutions
    GRAND BALLROOM EAST mHealth’s place in the Future of HealthcareDelivery
    Ben Wilson (Moderator)
    Director Global Health Strategy, Intel Corp.
    • Consumerism of mHealth devices & services
    • Patient engagement/communication via mhealth
    • Moving from the traditional care model – reducing cost, improving quality of care
    • ACOs and new opportunities in patient-provider communications
    • The critical role of interoperability in realizing the vision for mhealth
    • Employing mHealth to unshackle the Physician
    • Barriers to mHealth adoption
    • Institutions using mHealth to reach outside of their walls and broaden their practice
    • Leading the development of mHealth ecosystem
    • Integrating mHealth into Informatics
    • Managing new ways of patient communication using mobile technology
    • Connected health & telehealth initiatives
    Sara Rushinek
    Professor, University of Miami
    Sandra Elliott
    Director, Consumer Technology & Service Development, Meridian Health
    Brian Russell
    CEO, Zephyr Technology Limited
    Strategic Business Development, Samsung
    GRAND BALLROOM WEST Healthcare IT Platforms (A Presentation)
    Shahid Shah (Presenter) CEO,Netspective

    Senior Advisor to the Secretary & CTO, Dept. of Veterans Affairs
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    Special Assistant, Innovations – The Office of the National Coordinator (ONC/HHS), Health IT
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    Chief Medical Information Officer, Kaiser Permanente
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    Healthcare Privacy & Security Lead Architect, Intel Corporation
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    President & CEO, Redspin, Inc.
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    Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
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    Founder & CEO, MedApps
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    CMO, Northrop Grumman Information Systems
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    Chief Medical Officer, Orion Health
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    Sr. Manager Strategic Business Development, Samsung
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    Director, Deloitte Consulting, Life Sciences & Healthcare
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    Program Director, IBM Global Business Services
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    Partner, Palo Alto Medical Foundation
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    Manager, PricewaterhouseCoopers
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    Pediatrician, Palo Alto Medical Foundation
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    CEO, PillJogger, Inc
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    Co-Founder & VP Engineering, Practice Fusion
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    CEO, Health Fidelity
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    CEO, Netspective
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    Associate Professor of
    Surgery, Van Auken Endowed Chair in Thoracic Surgery, UCSF

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    Director, Intel Corporation
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    Executive Director Reasearch & Quality, Kaiser Permanente
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    Special Assistant to CTO, Office of Secretary at U.S. Department of HHS
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    Co-Founder & General Partner, MergerTech Health Ventures
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    Sr. VP Healthcare & Life Sciences, Frost & Sullivan
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    CTO, MedHelp
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    CEO, Zephyr Technology Limited
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    Venture Partner, Chrysalis Ventures
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    Co-Founder & CEO, RockHealth
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    CEO, CalHIPSO
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    CTO, GE Healthcare IT & Performance Solutions
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    Senior VP & Director, Optum Institute for Sustainable Health
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    Healthcare Privacy & Security Lead Architect, Intel Corporation
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    Founder & Chief Technologist, DevCool
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    CEO, AirStrip Technologies
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    Director, Global Healthcare Strategy, Intel Corporation
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    Professor, University of Miami
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    Senior Director, Oracle Health Sciences
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    M.D. & Founder, Care Practice Clinic
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    Senior Business Strategist, VMWare
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    Co-Founder & CEO, Mobile Commons
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    Co-Founder & CMIO, HealthTap
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    Director Consumer Technology & Service Development, Meridian Health
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    Chief Medical Officer, SAS Institute
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    CISO, Heroku at Salesforce.com
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    Head of Industry Health Services, Google
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    Co-Founder & COO, AgeTak Inc.
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    Director Strategic Accounts, GlobalMed
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    VP Business Development, NextGate
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    Professor & Director, UCLA School of Dentistry
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    Strategy & Business Development, AT&T mHealth Platform
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    Founder & CEO, Choice Hospital Systems
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    Chief of Health Information Services, CalHIPSO
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