Dancing With the Healthcare Stars: Getting Traction For Your Healthcare Innovation in Cambridge

Dancing With the Healthcare Stars: Getting Traction For Your Healthcare Innovation

A deep-dive seminar for entrepreneurial communities examining
transformative ideas and technology solutions for modern primary care.

Monday, June 4, 2012: 5:00 - 9:00 PM

Microsoft NERD Center, One Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA

Dancing With the Healthcare Stars:
Getting Traction For Your Healthcare Innovation

An evening of:

• Innovation and business plan presentation
  
  
• Coaching & critique by nationally recognized leaders in health care transformation
  
  
• Networking among nationally recognized healthcare innovation leaders and your entrepreneurial peers
  

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Boston -- medical capital of the world. And home to thousands of brilliant innovators and their companies, many in healthcare tech, but:

• How does healthcare innovation find customers?
• What does it take to overcome the hurdles and chasms?
• What makes large, institutional customers go beyond business as usual and put good ideas on the map?
• How does one break into the emerging market for primary care transformation?
• What is your path to market traction?
  

Join us for and evening of networking and entrepreneur presentation of five innovations and their business cases, with individual coaching by six of the leading minds on where healthcare is going, in Massachusetts and nationally.

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AGENDA

5:00 - 6:00 PM: Networking reception & light buffet

6:00 - 6:30 PM: Welcome & introductory remarks by panelists

6:00 - 9:00 PM: Presentations and Panel Q&A / Feedback (15 min. presentation, 10 min. Q&A)

OUR NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED EXPERT PANEL:

Mike Dempsey, Accelerator Program Leader, Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology (CIMIT)

Mike is an Entrepreneur in Residence at CIMIT. His primary responsibility is to lead the CIMIT Accelerator Program which is focused on finding, funding and facilitating innovations that are to be handed off to industry within twelve to eighteen months. Mike and his team work closely with the project teams to not only advance the technology, but also to develop and execute a complete strategy for getting the innovation into practice. (Link to Mike's full bio here.)

John D. Halamka, MD, MS, Chief Information Officer of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

John is also Chief Information Officer and Dean for Technology at Harvard Medical School, Chairman of the New England Health Electronic Data Interchange Network (NEHEN), CEO of MA-SHARE (the Regional Health Information Organization), Chair of the US Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP), and a practicing Emergency Physician. At Beth Israel Deaconess, he is responsible for all clinical, financial, administrative and academic information technology serving 3,000 doctors, 12,000 employees and one million patients. (Link to John's full bio here.)

Rick Lopez, CMO Atrius Health

Rick has served in a number of roles for Harvard Vanguard including vice president of clinical programs, deputy medical director, and internal medicine chief. He was instrumental in the successful roll-out of the electronic medical record across the practice, the development of a central outreach program for patients, and many other important clinical and medical management initiatives. As a board certified internist, Dr. Lopez has practiced primary care internal medicine at Harvard Vanguard's Medford practice since 1982. (Link to Rick's bio here.)

Somava Stout, MD, Vice President for Patient-Centered Medical Home Development at Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA)

Soma Stout provides oversight and medical leadership for implementing the practices and processes that will support coordinated, integrated, patient and family-centered care along with the staff training and team development needed to effectively deliver care in the medical home model of care across CHA's extensive network of ambulatory practices, which register 600,000 visits annually. (Link to Soma's bio here.)

Doug Thompson, Chief Administrative Officer for Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Development at Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA)

Doug serves as the ACO initiative director for developing and implementing a strategic business plan for CHA's transformation into an ACO. Doug provides coordination, oversight, and leadership of the implementation of the global payment model between Network Health and the CHA delivery system and works with other CHA leaders to launch global payment arrangements with the Executive Office of Health and Human Services (EOHHS), the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and others. (Link to Doug's bio here.)

MODERATOR: Allan Goroll, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Physician of the Medical Service at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)

Allan is considered one of the pioneers of modern primary care, having initiated the nation's first residency track in primary care at Massachusetts General Hospital, where he led the adoption into practice of one of the nation's first electronic medical record systems. He continues to practice and teach primary care internal medicine today.

He is lead author and editor of the first textbook on primary care internal medicine, Primary Care Medicine, now in its 7th edition, and has been highly active in organized medicine and health care reform throughout his career, having served in numerous leadership roles, most recently as founder and now chair emeritus of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative and currently founder and chair of the Massachusetts Coalition for Primary Care Reform.

Allan is the recipient of numerous awards for his work in medical education and innovation, recently testified before the U. S. Senate Finance Committee on work-force issues in health care, and is currently leading the PCPCC Payment Reform Task Force based in Washington, DC.

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Entrepreneur Presenters:

• Soltrix Technology - Raghu Nandan - patient satisfaction measurement

• ASP.md - Chris Kreis - medical practice IT implementation

• PrescribableApps - John Moore III - mobile health

• Ambio Health - Kevin Jones, Alden Stevens - enabling the wireless home

• HomMed - Arvind Ramadorai - remote monitoring/telehealth solutions

Join us for a evening of entrepreneurial ideas
and unique business insight from world-class experts!

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Questions? Please e-mail us at CCTWG!

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Many thanks to our friends at Microsoft.

The Microsoft New England Research & Development Center (NERD) is a research and software innovation campus located in the heart of Cambridge, Massachusetts. The NERD vertical campus spans two buildings with its primary presence and conference center located at One Memorial Drive and a recently renovated and expanded space located at One Cambridge Center. NERD is home to some of Microsoft's most strategic teams including Microsoft Research New England, Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V), SharePoint Workspace, Microsoft Technical Computing, Microsoft Advertising, Microsoft Lync, Microsoft Office 365 and more. NERD has become a hub of activity for the local tech community and has hosted more than 500 events and welcomed more than 40,000 visitors during the past two years.

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