HealthCamp

HealthCamp Florida is live

admin — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 11:59:49 +0000

Today, Saturday 30 July 2011, is HealthCamp Florida.

Here is a feature from the Tampa Bay Business Journal:

Medical innovation in the spotlight at HealthCamp

Premium content from Tampa Bay Business Journal – by Margie Manning , Senior Staff Writer

Date: Friday, July 29, 2011, 6:00am EDT

TAMPA — Technology that developers contend will lower the cost of health care while improving the quality of care takes center stage at HealthCamp Florida.

Presenters at the first event of its kind in the state will focus on innovations, which are the key to reducing health care costs that take up a lion’s share of any company’s budget, said Joel Lopez, HealthCamp Florida co-founder and managing director of 2Z Consulting LLC.

“Florida is one of the leading sources of innovation in health care, but no one does a good job of highlighting that,” he said.

Lopez and co-founder Brenda Young, president of Marbay Group, want to change that by bringing together people who might not meet at individual industry meetings and allowing them to collaborate.

“It creates an environment that would take many months to create otherwise,” Young said.

It’s also an opportunity for innovators to meet early adapters and for entrepreneurs to find customers, Lopez said.

Connecting the dots

HealthCamp “connects the dots where they aren’t connected now,” said Pam Gaylor, an expected presenter and president of Caregivers Family Inc.

The newly formed St. Petersburg company is the sole distributor for MemoryMate, a Web-based software application that allows persons with memory impairments to communicate with family, friends and caregivers through a private network. MemoryMate is sold by subscription and can be accessed on a PC, tablet or smart phone.

Gaylor, a former IT executive with ValPak http://assets.bizjournals.com/lib/img/img_follow_arrow.png" width="21" height="11" border="0" />ValPak Latest from The Business Journals People on the move: July 23, 2010 Direct-mail firms prepare to update mailing lists more frequently Val-Pak coupons find online home Follow this company , partnered with developer Ted Lindsay to take the product through beta testing. The commercial potential is “huge,” Gaylor said.

She’s also talking to officials in Florida’s community diversion program, a Medicaid waiver program that provides community-based services to people who would otherwise qualify for Medicaid nursing home placement. Diversion improves the quality of life for participants while saving the state money, Gaylor said. The program serves about 14,000 people, and getting just a part of that business would provide a funding boost for Caregivers.

New wave of medicine

Gaylor and Lindsay’s interest in MemoryMate developed from experience as caretakers for their mothers.

Ray Weadock’s enthusiasm for a cutting-edge device to detect heart disease grew out of his own health scare when he made a life-changing decision based on the result of a bad test. Facing heart surgery, he stepped down as chief executive officer of Persystent Technologies, only to find out later he was misdiagnosed.

Now, as general partner of LSW Partners, a management consulting firm in Tampa, Weadock is working to advance the multifunction cardiogram, a device that he said can diagnosis coronary artery disease in a 15-minute test in a primary care physician’s or cardiologist’s office with greater accuracy than a traditional EKG. He called it “the new wave of medicine.”

Manufactured by LSW client Premier Heart LLC in Port Washington, N.Y., use of the device qualifies for Medicare reimbursement in seven mid-Atlantic states. Weadock is working to get national Medicare coverage with private health insurers expected to follow suit.

The device would save millions of health care dollars, preventing unneeded hospitalizations and more invasive and costly tests, Weadock said.

Challenging assumptions

Just as Weadock transitioned from the computer industry to medical technology, Anthony Sakovitchmade what seems like a big leap from Wall Street finance — serving as assistant complex manger for Morgan Stanley in west central Florida — to becoming chief executive of Aphex BioCleanse Systems Inc., a Port Richey firm that makes sanitizers for hospitals and other businesses. Sakovitch said he is at heart a research scientist who likes to challenge assumptions.

DermAphex, a hand sanitizer and Aphex’ flagship product, and other Aphex products have high concentrations of ions that attack microbes such as bacteria and viruses, a selling point for hospitals under pressure to cut infection rates. Aphex products are more environmentally friendly and less irritating to the skin than alcohol-based competitors, Sakovitch said.

The company doesn’t disclose revenue, but growth has prompted expansion. Occupying just half of its building upon opening June 30, 2010, it’s since added 5,000 square feet of warehouse space and as of July 1, added 6,000 square feet of office and training space for the sales force.

HealthCamp “is an opportunity to get in front of the people who need to use the product the most,” Sakovitch said.

He wants to learn from his potential customers. “Marketing is a two-way street. It’s not just us telling you what we have, but you telling us what you need.”

HEALTHCAMP FLORIDA Who: Leaders in health and health-related industries and organizations and others interested in the changing nature of health care What: An “unconference” — no set agenda but opportunities to talk about innovations transforming health care; a focus on technology, process and policy When: 9 a.m.- 5 p.m., Saturday, July 30 Where: Kforce, 1001 E. Palm Ave., Tampa 33605 Registration: $40 online at healthcampflorida.com or 8 to 9 a.m. onsite July 30

Seven Rules

admin — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 01:32:30 +0000

HealthCamp is based on Open Space Technology but over time we have added to the rules of Open Space to create

Seven HealthCamp “Rules”

#hcfla HealthCampFlorida.org is tomorrow 7.30.11

admin — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 09:43:13 +0000

The co-founders are on the road to HealthCamp Florida in Tampa via /BWI and SouthWest.

We are looking forward to the walk through at facility sponsor KForce this afternoon and then meeting sponsors for dinner. It will be great to meet the Guidewelll Health team out of Jacksonville and I hear that CEO and twitter nurse of the year Matthew Browning of YourNurseIsOn.com will also be there. So Tampa on Saturday 7.30.11 I the place to be for HealthCamp Florida.

Mark Scrimshire
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HealthCampSFBay shapes up!

admin — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 15:09:32 +0000

The plans for HealthCampSFBay are dropping in to place nicely. The event takes place on Friday September 23rd, 2011 at the world-renowned Sidney R. Garfield Innovation Center in San Leandro, CA.

Our “Fire Starter” speakers are confirmed. We are honored to have Dr. Alan Greene and Dr. Preston Marring opening HealthCampSFBay. They will be firing you all up about the critical role of good food as the key to health.

We will have plenty of Food and Exercise related activities taking place throughout the day. We will be updating the web site with more information as plans are finalized. However, you can check out the site now at http://HealthCa.mp/sfbay. Early bird (Friends of HealthCamp) and Sponsor tickets are already available. Go to http://healthca.mp/sfbay/tickets. We will be providing a Bus between San Leandro BART Station and the Innovation Center. Save yourself the hassle of traveling by car. Use Public Transport and catch our Bus. There is a nominal $5 fee to help defray the cost of the service which is being provided by our generous sponsors, Kaiser Permanente.

HealthCampFlorida is taking shape

admin — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 20:46:40 +0000

HealthCampFlorida is taking place on Saturday July 30th, 2011 in Tampa, Florida.

Find out more details at http://HealthCampFlorida.org

There is a fascinating roster of speakers that cover a diverse range of topics. Follow the HealthCampFlorida team by checking out the hashtag #HCFLA or the Twitter name: @HealthCampFL

The HealthCamp Founders will be at the event and will join other participants in posting information about the happenings of the day. But, better than just watching the Twitter stream why not join us in Tampa for an exciting day!

Testing #WordPress integration from Posterous to allow publishing via email

admin — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 04:21:35 +0000

This post is to test the integration and auto posting from http://healthcamp.posterous.com to http://healthca.mp.

This will make it easy to post news updates to HealthCamp from email. That is a feature that is not supported natively in the multi-site implementation of WordPress. Consequently Posterous Autoposting offers a simple solution.

Empowering Health Care Engagement

admin — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 04:55:56 +0000

We have been busy at HealthCamp Foundation. Here is a new tagline. We wanted something that encapsulates our mission. We came up with:

Empowering Health Care Engagement

This is how it looks as part of our logo:

What do you think?

New HealthCamps on the Horizon?

admin — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 14:51:03 +0000

HealthCamp keeps growing. Today (June 21, 2011) A planning team will be discussing HealthCa.mp/la. The Los Angeles HealthCamp, which is being supported by Kaiser Permanente, is being planned for November. Originally it was targeted for July. HealthCa.mp/la will have a different focus. We are looking to build a stronger connection with diet and exercise as a route to vitality and well being. It should be a fascinating event. Watch out for details.

HealthCa.mp/az is taking shape. It also happens in November on the 5th. A team at Arizona State University in Phoenix are busy putting the event together.

The next HealthCamp is HealthCampFlorida, taking place in Tampa, FL on Saturday July 30th. We may also have a HealthCamp happening the same day in Portland, Oregon as an adjunct to O’Reilly Media’s OSCON Conference. Watch out for developments at HealthCa.mp/or.

HealthCampSFBay is on the Schedule for Friday September 23rd. Sponsor tickets and Friend of HealthCamp tickets are already available. If you plan to be in San Francisco for Health Innovation Week and the Health 2.0 Conference then grab your ticket for HealthCampSFBay today. Once again the event is hosted at the Kaiser Permanente Sidney R Garfield Innovation Center in San Leandro, CA.

There is also a possibility of a HealthCamp happening in the UK this year. Details are still in the works. Watch out for news on that front!

Every jacket tells a story

admin — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 01:00:12 +0000

HealthCamp Foundation happily participated in Regina Holliday’s The Walking Gallery on Tuesday, June 7, 2011. This is an amazing project where each coat is “painted with the story of a patient or an element of health advocacy by me (Regina Holliday) or another artist.”

Here are all of the night’s walkers lined-up in front of the Walking Wall at the Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health, showing their jackets. It was a powerful part of DC Health Innovation Week which included HealthCampDC. All of the jackets are amazing: Welcome to the Walking Gallery.

Mark’s coat is Half Past Midnight and includes part of the HealthCamp logo – the fireball & heart. There is also the “blue button”, “green button”, and “white button”, part of the Rainbow Button Initiative.

My coat, “Nurse Power”, also includes the HealthCamp fireball & heart but shows two nurses getting ready to kick some butt and that “butt” is the green creature in the corner – the AIDS virus! I Love everything that my jacket depicts.

This is just the start of the Walking Gallery but there will be more starting with The Walker’s Oath.

Thanks to Ted Eytan for providing a copy of the Proclamation.

HealthCa.mp News – DC, SFBay, LA, AZ and on Air

admin — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 19:42:40 +0000

Last weekend, April 2nd saw a very successful HealthCampCT@Yale School of Nursing. The event generated more than 1 million Tweet Impressions and reached over 85 people on Twitter.

Washington DC

The next step for HealthCamp is HealthCa.mp/dc this event will be held at the brand new #KPCTH Kaiser Permanente Center For Total Health – 700 Second St, NW, Washington DC. This is easy to get to by public transport. It is connected by a walkway from Union Station. Our theme for this event is “Vitality through Data.”

HealthCa.mp/dc takes place on June 8th, 2011. This is the day before the Community Health Data Initiative Forum that the Department of Health and Human Services is hosting at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda.

The event is being coordinated with HHS. We are all set for a stimulating couple of days of innovation and discussion.

Los Angeles

We are in the early planning stages of another exciting HealthCamp event in July, 2011. This will be sponsored by Kaiser Permanente and will focus on connecting HealthCamp with Food and Nutrition. Watch out for some exciting ideas in the evolution of HealthCamp.

San Francisco Bay

San Francisco is holding a Health Week that has now expanded to 10 days. A big part of that week will be HealthCampSFBay followed by the Health 2.0 Conference. Watch out for the details and mark your calendars for late September 2011.

Phoenix, AZ

In November 2011, Arizona State University will be hosting HealthCa.mp/az. More details to follow as we work through the planning.

HealthCamp Radio

HealthCamp is on the air. Gregg Masters, our Social Media Guru here at HealthCamp Foundation hosts regular broadcasts to talk about HealthCamp. You can catch the shows at HealthCa.mp/radio.