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Monday, July 27, 2009
8:00 am -
9:00 am
Breakfast and Registration
9:00 am -
12:00 pm
Pre-Summit Workshop
12:00 pm -
1:00 pm
Pre-Summit Adjournment; Lunch on Your Own
1:00 pm -
1:15 pm
Chairperson's Welcome and Opening Remarks
Jay Srini - Speaker Photo Jay Srini, MS, MBA, FHIMSS
Chief Innovation Officer, Insurance Services Division
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

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1:15 pm -
2:00 pm
OPENING KEYNOTE ADDRESS – Leveraging the Provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) to Advance the Telehealth Agenda
  • What does ARRA mean for broadband, standards, grant programs, Medicare and Medicaid incentives and privacy policy?
  • Discussion on how the Act and current health care reform initiatives can advance the key strategies of the telehealth agenda
Janet Marchibroda - Speaker Photo Janet Marchibroda
Chief Healthcare Officer, Global Healthcare and Life Sciences, IBM;
Former Chief Executive Officer, eHealth Initiative

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2:00 pm -
2:45 pm
KEYNOTE PANEL DISCUSSION – Reimbursement Models in Place for eHealth: Implications of Health Care Reform for Wireless and Remote Technologies
  • ARRA stimulus funds – What are the opportunities for wireless technologies?
  • Selecting the right technologies to adopt under payment reform and increasing the value of EMRs by deploying wireless technology
  • Reforming payment systems: Patient-Centered Medical Homes to reduce readmissions, transitioning to episode-based payment and setting the right payment levels
Moderator:
Vince Kuraitis, JD, MBA
Principal
Better Health Technologies, Inc.

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Panelists:
Alfred J. Fortin, PhD
Senior Vice President
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Hawaii – Hawaii Medical Service Association (HMSA)

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Harold D. Miller
President and Chief Executive Officer, Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement;
Executive Director, Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform

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Additional Thought Leaders TBD
2:45 pm -
3:15 pm
KEYNOTE ADDRESS – It's a Mobile World: Where We Are and Where Health Care Needs to Go
  • From correctional based programs to tele-home care technologies, the evolution of telemedicine
  • Addressing the barriers to development - reimbursement policy, licensing regulations
  • Examining the disruptive mobile, wireless technologies that will transform healthcare
  • Developing models that serve as examples -- Hawaii, DOD?
Jay Sanders - Speaker Photo Jay Sanders, MD, FACP, FACAAI
President and Chief Executive Officer, The Global Telemedicine Group;
Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (Adjunct)

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3:15 pm -
3:30 pm
Refreshment Break in the Executive Networking Lounge
3:30 pm -
4:00 pm
KEYNOTE ADDRESS – The Wireless Health Care Ecosystem: What You Need to Know to Leverage Devices and Services to Improve Patient Care
  • Opportunities for new disruptive technologies and business models are emerging. What are some of the emerging trends and how will they interact? How will they impact wireless technologies?
  • What are the connections between disruptive innovation, collaborative care management networks, remote monitoring technologies, virtual integration, network effects, personal health information platforms (e.g., Microsoft HealthVault, Google Health) and clinical groupware?
Vince Kuraitis, JD, MBA
Principal
Better Health Technologies, Inc.

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4:00 pm -
4:45 pm
CLOSING KEYNOTE ADDRESS – Leading the Way at the VA with Wireless Technology to Improve Care and Quality
  • Analyzing the rationale driving implementation of new information technologies in health care
  • Identifying the issues in implementing new technologies into health care
  • Examining outcomes associated with incorporation of new technologies into health care
  • Adopting a vision for the re-engineering and transformation of health care associated with technological advances in health care
  • Madhulika Agarwal, MD, MPH
    Chief Patient Care Services Officer, Office of Patient Care Services
    Veterans Health Administration (VHA)

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    Adam Darkins - Speaker Photo Adam Darkins, MB, ChB, MPHM, MD, FRCS
    Chief Consultant, Care Coordination Services
    Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)

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    4:45 pm -
    5:30 pm
    CLOSING KEYNOTE PANEL DISCUSSION – Mobilizing PHRs to Realize the Full Benefits that Wireless Technology Brings
    • Will PHRs prompt providers to get their own, internal electronic medical records systems in order?
    • Is limited patient awareness of remote patient monitoring solutions a barrier to adoption?
    • Will patients adopt the technologies if it costs them more money out of pocket in terms of higher deductibles, higher co-pays and non-compliance treatment options?
    Moderator:
    Jan Oldenburg - Speaker Photo Jan Oldenburg
    Senior Practice Leader, Internet Services Group
    Kaiser Permanente

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    Panelists:
    Dan Greden
    Head, eHealth Product Management
    Aetna

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    Richard K. Onizuka, PhD
    Health Care Policy Director
    Washington State Health Care Authority

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    Additional Thought Leaders TBD
    5:30 pm -
    6:30 pm
    Cocktail Reception in the Executive Networking Lounge
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