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HealthCamp is an entirely volunteer-run non-profit organization dedicated to facilitating conversations about healthcare innovation that will lead to new ideas, processes, and technologies to improve the lives of everyone. We can’t put on these events without the generous help from our sponsors who we would like to recognize in appreciation:

Kaiser Permanente’s care providers, members, architects and engineers use elements of human-centered design to improve and innovate physical spaces, technologies and clinical operations.

Sprint knows that responding quickly to patient needs, while controlling costs, is essential for healthcare providers at any level. That’s why we provide a wide range of effective communications and data access solutions to help get the job done wherever your rounds take you.

Cisco Systems Inc. is focused on introducing a world of new possibilities in healthcare. For more than 20 years, Cisco has supported healthcare organizations in their mission to deliver affordable, accessible health services by helping them optimize the use of people, resources, and information. Cisco offers innovative networked health solutions that provide highly secure information exchange, offer new ways to collaborate, and enable enhanced healthcare delivery services.

The Innovation Learning Network (ILN) brings together the most innovative healthcare organizations in the country to share the joys and pains of innovation. Its purpose is to foster discussion on the methods and application of innovation, diffusion and design thinking to ignite the transfer of ideas, and provide opportunities for inter-organizational collaboration.

YourNurseIsOn.com helps hospitals, agencies and healthcare systems save time, money and improve patient outcomes by contacting and confirming their healthcare providers, and other staff, with instant, two-way text, phone and email communications.  Put the right person in the right place, right now with YourNurseIsOn.com – Click, Contact & Confirm.

At Wholesale Change, we know the health care system to be deeply flawed and unresponsive to people’s health and financial needs. The Wholesale Change model is disruptive to business as usual. Our unfair advantage is that we place the individual and family at the focal point of decision-making about their health care and its costs.

AirMagnet now part of Fluke Networks, is the leader in security, performance and compliance solutions for wireless LANs. The company’s innovative products include AirMagnet Enterprise, the leading 24×7 WLAN security and performance management solution, and AirMagnet WiFi Analyzer — which is known as the “de facto tool for wireless LAN troubleshooting and analysis.” Other products provide WLAN site survey and design, RF interference detection, remote diagnostics, and the world’s first voice over WiFi analysis solution.

MEDgle provides analytics-assisted health and clinical care delivery supporting P4P healthcare. MEDgle’s goal is to enhance care delivery by empowering everyone from patients to providers to make better decisions faster with real-time patient specific evidence-based analysis. Through MEDgle’s care delivery analytics cloud, MEDgle seeks to empower partner technology providers to create the best most innovating health applications possible for everyone’s benefit. We strive to answer the question – “What is the best healthcare decision for each patient within the context of their data?”

Ansca Mobile, a venture-backed company based in Palo Alto, CA, creates revolutionary mobile software toolkits. Ansca’s platform, Corona, empowers developers of all backgrounds to create graphically rich applications and games for iPhone, iPad, and Android- no need to choose only one marketplace. We want to power your application in mHealth.

Stetho Publishing is proud to produce the award winning book Stay Healthy, Live Longer, Spend Wisely – Making Intelligent Choices in America’s Healthcare System. Written for patients, this easy-to-read essential guide to getting the best care is available in hardcover, Kindle, and iBooks.

Smart Design has been turning insight and innovation into successful consumer experiences for 30 years. Their strategic approach integrates product and brand to ensure winning solutions. The firm’s consistent results are delivered by a multi-disciplinary, international staff working in teams across offices in New York, San Francisco, and Barcelona. Their clients in the healthcare category include Cardinal Health, UCB, and Johnson & Johnson among others.

Cautious Patient Foundation is committed to educating and empowering patients in the quest for quality healthcare. With its family of educational programs and innovative technology-based tools, Cautious Patient Foundation works to encourage people to be engaged and proactive in managing their health and healthcare provider relationships.

The Oakmore Group is a boutique consulting firm specializing in health technology. We work with you to build and deepen your customer relationships through pragmatic strategies, targeted products, well-planned implementations, brand strategy, and engaging customer communications. We have a history of delivering initiatives that have a direct impact to your profitability, goals, customer satisfaction, and long-term growth.

Apixio is the leading developer of search and visualization solutions for key clinical information. Optimized for large volumes of complex multi-source medical records, Apixio’s web and smart-phone applications provide instant access to relevant information, anywhere.

The Institute for the Future is an independent, nonprofit strategic research group with more than 40 years of forecasting experience. The core of our work is identifying emerging trends and discontinuities that will transform global society and the global marketplace. We provide our members with insights into business strategy, design process, innovation, and social dilemmas. Our research spans a broad territory of deeply transformative trends, from health and health care to technology, the workplace, and human identity. The Institute for the Future is located in Palo Alto, California.

Plexis provides rules-based claims adjudication software packages that improve productivity and provide unparalleled data control, allowing healthcare IT executives to manage change and make smarter‚ faster decisions. As a Microsoft Certified Partner‚ Plexis builds familiar Microsoft Windows-based healthcare information systems, leveraging flexible service-oriented architecture (SOA) to take advantage of the latest processing technologies.

The West Wireless Health Institute was founded in March 2009 by the Gary and Mary West Foundation, the independent nonprofit is dedicated to innovating, validating, advocating for, investing in and commercializing the use of wireless technologies to transform medicine.

Presidiohealth was founded in 2004 with the primary mission of simplifying your work day. Using innovative web technologies, we consolidate your critical business information so that you can easily manage all of your patient payments, and your practice document workflow needed for coding and billing, all in one system. Make performance your passion with our PerformPOS, PerformMD, and PerformRN solutions.

Kalypso is the world’s premier innovation consulting firm, helping clients improve profitability by delivering on the promise of innovation. Kalypso offers clients full service capabilities including Business and Innovation Strategy, Front End of Innovation, Portfolio and Pipeline Management, Development and New Product Introduction, Value Management, PLM Technology, Leadership and Learning, and Intellectual Property Services.

Decision Analyst is a global research and marketing consulting firm specializing in strategy and insight research, new concept development, and advanced modeling, and we’ve just celebrated our 32nd birthday. We work with clients throughout the world in the medical, and pharmaceutical, telecommunications, technology, retail, hospitality industries. We own and operate American Consumer Opinion® Online—one of the largest consumer opinion panles with more than eight million members worldwide. Our exclusive Medical Advisory Board™ and Physicians Advisory Council® gives us access to more than 55,000 healthcare professionals who have agreed to participate in surveys and studies. And Our Imaginator® community allows us to tap into the creative abilities of some of the most innovative consumers around.

HealthInReach is a community where patients have access to nearly every licensed doctor from which to find just the right match. Becoming part of the HealthInReach community is FREE for both patients and doctors. HealthInReach members can see what specific procedures a doctor offers, the cash costs of each, and receive pre-negotiated group discount rates.

Kony Solutions was founded in 2007 by successful entrepreneur Raj Koneru, who recognized that mobile devices and their capabilities would continue to grow exponentially and be a key driver in the next customer interaction revolution. Kony’s mission is to develop the technologies and applications that facilitate and accelerate customer engagement over any mobile operating system, device and channel.

FairCareMD enables comparison shopping and direct contracting between doctors and patients. Patients can quickly find the services they need at a fee they can afford. Providers can be paid fairly, quickly, and with almost no administrative work. The site launched in New York this Summer and is already cutting the cost of healthcare while improving pay for Providers and reducing risk for Payers and Employers. FairCareMD empowers patients and providers to connect, collaborate, and contract for care – changing healthcare, one relationship at a time.

For the US and Canadian marketplace, IMI Healthcare™ helps clients build market relevance and optimize healthcare marketing performance. We offer an unrivalled pairing of healthcare and health IT knowledge with consumer-market expertise to help clients define, refine and validate marketing strategies. We deliver in areas that range from health IT, and electronic health records (EHR), to the pharma and wellness sectors. Our end-to-end marketing services are built to communicate clinical, financial and administrative value of products and services to patients, physicians, healthcare administrators, and other decision makers. Backed by the power of parent company IMI International www.consultimi.com, we analyze consumer behaviors and the mechanics of marketing programs—and we translate insight into healthcare marketing impact to ensure our clients secure their competitive edge.