The early returns are in: Blogs about HealthCamp Boston 2014 have been posted by Jacqueline Thong at Klio Health, Shaun Sutner at SearchHealthIT/TechTarget and Monica Miller at MedTech Boston. Check ’em out.
Please tell us a little about your day job.
I create partnerships between ConsumerMedical and other innovative organizations.
What are you passionate about?
Helping patients get the best care no matter where they are!
What are you doing (or would like to do) to “hack” health care?
Disrupting whatever I can on a daily basis!
Why are you attending HealthCamp Boston?
To learn from others who are thinking completely different from the crowd.
What kinds of people do you want to meet at HealthCamp?
Creative thinkers who are ready to do things we’ve never thought of in healthcare!
HealthCamp depends upon the generous support of our sponsors. The local health innovation community has come through once again. We will be hearing from our sponsors Monday morning as they present 4×4’s: four slides in four minutes, describing a recent or current issue, and getting us all thinking before we set the agenda for the day.
The EHR that Learns with You
Largest Provider of Health and Nutrition Apps for Chronic Conditions
ID Experts – Complete Data Breach Care
Clarifying disease complexity for better clinical decisions
Please tell us a little about your day job.
Over the past 16 years, I have helped healthcare technology companies with product innovation and road map development. During my client assignments, I use market knowledge about the direction of connected health, needs of patient and the care team and available solutions to guide the concept and definition of a truly innovative and valued solution.
What are you passionate about?
Building a true collaboration between the patient/family and the care team for better care management
What are you doing (or would like to do) to “hack” health care?
Patient journey mapping to identify the gaps and opportunities for innovation.
Why are you attending HealthCamp Boston?
I believe that it is essential to be aware of new people, technology and approaches across the healthcare technology space in order to be innovative.
Please tell us a little about your day job.
I am the product owner of InLight EHR, a new problem oriented & web based electronic health record.
What are you passionate about?
Evan strives to connect creativity, human motivation, technology and design to improve health care delivery.
What are you doing (or would like to do) to “hack” health care?
I would like to continuing hacking the fundamental problems in current clinical documentation.
Why are you attending HealthCamp Boston?
I would like to share work on the problem oriented medical record and receive feedback from other Campers.
If you were to lead a session, what would it be about?
The Problem Oriented Medical Record, a key innnovation in improving clinical documentation.
What kinds of people do you want to meet at HealthCamp?
I’m interested in meeting folks interested value based delivery in health care. I’m also interested in meeting those with experience in applying Lean Start Up techniques.
Please tell us a little about your day job.
I am a research scientist at the Center for Connected Health. I am responsible for writing grant proposals to fund new and ongoing research, create a research protocol, project management, statistical analysis, and publishing research results.
What are you passionate about?
I am trained as a medical sociologist. I am broadly interested in how technology impacts people’s lives. More specifically, how the Internet and new information and communication technology can be used to improve healthcare and the potential to reduce health disparities, or increase disparities for some groups that lack access and skills.
What are you doing (or would like to do) to “hack” health care?
Improve patient participation in the design of technology-based healthcare solutions and participatory health research.
Why are you attending HealthCamp Boston?
To meet people in the Boston area who are interested in understanding and making a positive contribution to changing healthcare in the US and globally.
If you were to lead a session, what would it be about?
We hear everyday about the potential positive effects of using technology to improve healthcare systems. I sometimes like to remind people that there are also a range of potential negative effects that should be considered to ensure systems are designed and implemented in ways that benefit everyone and ideally, can help to reduce health disparities.
What kinds of people do you want to meet at HealthCamp?
Everyone and anyone interested in the transformation of healthcare!
Please tell us a little about your day job.
physician, attorney and former large group practice CIO, advising products and programs for collaborative care
What are you passionate about?
helping teams design better health care solutions
What are you doing (or would like to do) to “hack” health care?
would like to find a way to measure contributions of physicians to coordinated care team outcomes, as a basis for compensation. I need to learn about team sports statistics–moneyball for medicine
Why are you attending HealthCamp Boston?
to learn and to expand my thinking
If you were to lead a session, what would it be about?
ideation of an episode of care tool, a sort of coordination of care “information bus” between care team members and their systems, which can track participation and contributions for the comp formula mentioned above
What kinds of people do you want to meet at HealthCamp?
smart, energetic, creative, cross-disciplinary thinkers
Please tell us a little about your day job.
I run a small consulting business, and am a founder at a couple of startups—I like to keep busy.
What are you passionate about?
Empowering people through entrepreneurship and health.
What are you doing (or would like to do) to “hack” health care?
Using the customer loyalty concepts used in financial services to improve habits and motivate healthy behaviors.
Why are you attending HealthCamp Boston?
To learn from and get to know others that are trying to achieve at the intersection of health and technology.
If you were to lead a session, what would it be about?
Engagement Insights from Organizational Psychology, Education, and Medicine.
What kinds of people do you want to meet at HealthCamp?
People who have worked on the problems of diet, exercise, behavior change, and/or population health management.
Please tell us a little about your day job.
I am the CEO of a Cambridge based start-up, Selventa. We are a personalized healthcare company, providing services to pharma and developing our own set of tests for patients with auto-immune diseases like RA.
What are you passionate about?
I care deeply about re thinking the pharmaceutical industry as a whole. I think that a big part of that will be a much tighter integration of patient specific molecular information with molecularly-targeted therapies.
What are you doing (or would like to do) to “hack” health care?
We are bringing or state of the art analytical platform to the table to analyze big molecular data. We can often predict response to drug classes or define molecular sub-groups in heterogeneous diseases.
Why are you attending HealthCamp Boston?
I am here to challenge and be challenged and to get some fresh ideas on how to move forward.
If you were to lead a session, what would it be about?
Pharma 2.0
What kinds of people do you want to meet at HealthCamp?
Other entrepreneurs, investors, and patients. I know this is not targeted towards patients, but we all have a health issue that needs tackling.
