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Partners HealthCare
October 25-26, 2012 - Boston Park Plaza Hotel & Towers

2011 Symposium Agenda

Driving Quality Up and Costs Down: New Technologies for an Era of Accountability

Dear Friends,

Symposium 2011 features an expanded line-up of keynotes by brilliant thinkers, pointed debates on tough healthcare questions, interviews that dig deep for insight, probing expert panels and rapid-fire demos of new technologies. Click here to see the list of speakers.

We’ve peppered the schedule with events that make conversation easy and networking enjoyable.  Meet 1,200 health technology leaders world-wide -- hospital leaders, community-based practitioners, health plan leaders, large employers, government policymakers and leading investors. Click here for a listing of the 1,100 attendees at last year’s Symposium.

Mark your calendars. Make ready with products, plans, debates and ideas. Sponsorship and support opportunities and registration are open.  I look forward to seeing you in October.

Best regards,

Joe Ternullo

Organizing Chair

Partners HealthCare

Thursday, October 20, 2011
Time Session/Speakers Location
7:00am Registration, breakfast, networking and exhibit hall open

7:45am to 8:00am Welcoming remarks: Joe Ternullo, Partners Center for Connected Health

Imperial Ballroom
8:00am to 8:20am Keynote #1: The Infinite Journey: Driving Continuous Quality Improvement and HealthCare Cost Containment

Brent C. James, MD, M.Stat
Chief Quality Officer and Executive Director, Institute for Health Care Delivery Research at Intermountain Healthcare

 Imperial Ballroom
8:20am to 8:40am Keynote #2: Is Social and Economic Inequality Making Us Sick?

Kate Pickett, PhD
Professor of Epidemiology in the Department of Health Sciences at the University of York, author

 Imperial Ballroom
8:40am to 8:50am Transition

8:50am Resolved: Current Approaches to Patient Self-Management Do Little to Improve Quality or Lower Costs. A Symposium Debate

Joseph C. Kvedar, MD
Director, Center for Connected Health, Partners HealthCare

 Plaza
8:50am The Innovators: Ten Demos of Products That Could Make a Difference

Statler
8:50am to 9:20am Conversation with Dr. Brent James. A Symposium Interview

Brent C. James, MD, M.Stat
Chief Quality Officer and Executive Director, Institute for Health Care Delivery Research at Intermountain Healthcare

 Imperial Ballroom
9:20am to 9:50am Conversation with Prof. Kate Pickett. A Symposium Interview

Kate Pickett, PhD
Professor of Epidemiology in the Department of Health Sciences at the University of York, author

 Imperial Ballroom
9:50am to 10:25am Morning networking break and exhibit hall open

Exhibit Hall
9:50am to 10:25am Special Sponsored Session - Verizon Wireless

Berkeley
9:50am to 10:25am Special Sponsored Session - SAP

Clarendon
10:25am to 11:10am Expert Panel #1: Will Accountable Care Organizations Produce Accountable Patients and, If So, How?

Imperial Ballroom
10:25am to 11:10am Expert Panel #2: Game Mechanics, Gaming Psychology, and New Approaches to Designing Health and Wellness Programs

Plaza
10:25am to 11:10am Expert panel #3: Mobile, Global and Frugal: Low-Cost Innovations in Wireless Health for Poor Neighborhoods Everywhere

Statler
11:10am to 11:20am Transition

11:20am to 11:40am Keynote #3: Conversation with HRH Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of Denmark
Frederik André Henrik Christian, M.Sc. in Political Science

 Imperial Ballroom
11:40am to 12:00pm Keynote #4: Next Generation Clinical Technologies: The Voice of Healthcare, The Value of Understanding

Janet Dillione
Executive Vice President and General Manager, Healthcare Division, Nuance

 Imperial Ballroom
12:00pm to 1:00pm Special Sponsored Session - Vidyo

Clarendon
12:00pm to 1:00pm Special Sponsored Session - Bosch

Berkeley
12:00pm to 1:00pm Lunch and exhibit hall open

1:00pm to 1:20pm Keynote #5: Cowboys vs. Pit Crews

Atul Gawande, MD, MPH
General and Endocrine Surgeon, Brigham and Women's Hospital; Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School & Harvard School of Public Health; Lead, WHO Safe Surgery Saves Lives program, author

 Imperial Ballroom
1:20pm to 1:40pm Keynote #6: New Technologies for Breakthrough Emotion Measurement

Rosalind W. Picard, ScD
Founder and Director, Affective Computing Research Group, MIT Media Lab; Co-Director, Things That Think consortium; Leader, Autism & Communication Technology Initiative, MIT; Co-Founder, Affectiva, Inc.

 Imperial Ballroom
1:40pm to 2:00pm Keynote #7: Can $10 Million Dollars Revolutionize Health Care?

Eileen Bartholomew
Senior Director, Life Sciences Prize Development, X PRIZE Foundation

 Imperial Ballroom
2:00pm to 2:10pm Transition

2:10pm to 3:00pm Expert panel #4: Personalized Medicine, Connected Health: The Accelerating Convergence of Genomics, Information Technology and Healthcare

Imperial Ballroom
2:10pm to 3:00pm Expert panel #5: Facebooking Health: Scouting Out the Latest Trends in Online Patient Communities and Social Media

Plaza
2:10pm to 3:00pm Expert panel #6: Start Up: Four Entrepreneurs under the Age of 40 Discuss Their Ventures in Consumer Health IT

Statler
3:00pm to 3:30pm Afternoon networking break and exhibit hall open

3:30pm to 3:50pm Keynote #8: Sensing Health and Shaping Behavior

Alex (Sandy) Pentland
Director, Human Dynamics Laboratory, MIT, and Director, MIT Media Lab

 Imperial Ballroom
3:50pm to 4:10pm Keynote #9: The Age of Compassionate Computing

Timothy Bickmore, PhD
Assistant Professor, College of Computer and Information Science, Northeastern University

 Imperial Ballroom
4:10pm to 4:30pm Keynote #10: What Would You Make if You Could Make Anything? The Replicator Arrives

Scott Harmon, MBA
Vice President, Z Corporation

 Imperial Ballroom
4:30pm to 5:30pm Resolved: ACOs – Nice Idea, Won’t Work. A Symposium Debate

Imperial Ballroom
5:30pm to 5:45pm Presentation of awards

Imperial Ballroom
5:45pm Networking reception

Friday, October 21, 2011
Time Session/Speakers Location
7:00am to 7:45am Registration, breakfast, networking and exhibit hall open

7:45am to 8:00am Welcoming remarks: Joseph Kvedar, MD, Director, Partners Center for Connected Health

Imperial Ballroom
8:00am to 8:20am Keynote #11: Improving Patient Engagement and Medication Adherence Through Health System Innovation (Imperial)

William Shrank, M.D., M.S.H.S.
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and Associate Physician, Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Brigham and Women's Hospital

 Imperial Ballroom
8:20am to 8:40am Keynote #12

Imperial Ballroom
8:40am to 8:50am Transition

8:50am to 10:00am Resolved: For Telehealth and Remote Patient Monitoring, the Business Model of the Future Isn’t Direct Reimbursement; It’s Bundled and Global Payments. A Symposium Debate

Imperial Ballroom
8:50am to 9:25am Voices from the Community: New Delivery Models & Demand for High Quality, Affordable Care

Plaza
8:50am to 10:00am The Innovators: Fifteen Demos of Products That Could Make a Difference

Statler
9:25am to 10:00am An Interview with Gary Wolf, Founder of the Quantified Self Movement - How Self Tracking Affects Your Health

Plaza
10:00am to 10:35am Special Sponsored Session - InterSystems

Berkeley
10:00am to 10:35am Morning networking break and exhibit hall open

10:35am to 11:15am Expert panel #7: What Makes You Tick: New Insights into Decision-Making and Behavior Change

Imperial Ballroom
10:35am to 11:15am Expert panel #8: Messages from the Marketplace: Interviews with Two Venture Capitalists and Two Leading Journalists on the State of Innovation in Consumer Health Technology

Plaza
10:35am to 11:15am Expert panel #9: In The Trenches: Progress, Pitfalls and Practical Matters in Launching Connected Health Programs

Statler
11:15am to 11:25am Transition

11:25am to 12:00pm Keynote #13: Serving Global Markets: Opportunities to Feature Health Care Exports

Nicole Lamb-Hale, JD
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Manufacturing and Services, International Trade Administration

Imperial Ballroom
12:00pm to 1:00pm Lunch and exhibit hall open

1:00pm to 1:45pm Expert panel #10: The Futurists: A Fresh Look by Some Smart People at the Twists and Turns We Cannot Know... But Need to Think About

Imperial Ballroom
1:00pm to 1:45pm Expert panel #11: When Does Good Patient Care Demand the Human Touch? Sure About That? A Fresh Look at Avatars and Robots

Timothy Bickmore, PhD
Assistant Professor, College of Computer and Information Science, Northeastern University

 Plaza
1:00pm to 1:45pm Expert panel #12: From Mobile to Ubiquitous: The Continuing Voyage of Consumer Health Tools

Statler
1:45pm to 2:00pm Transition

2:00pm to 2:20pm Keynote #14

Robert S. Galvin, MD
Chief Executive Officer, Equity Healthcare; Executive Director, Corporate Private Equity, The Blackstone Group

 Imperial Ballroom
2:20pm to 2:40pm Keynote #15: Self-Quantification as a Driver of Behavior Change

Joseph C. Kvedar, MD
Director, Center for Connected Health, Partners HealthCare

 Imperial Ballroom
2:40pm to 3:25pm Closing Panel: Health Care in the Tumultuous New Era of Debt Reduction Politics. A Special Symposium Discussion

Imperial Ballroom
3:25pm to 3:30pm Closing remarks: Joe Ternullo, Partners Center for Connected Health

Imperial Ballroom
3:30pm Refreshments

Connected Health 2010 Symposium

View the 2010 program (PDF)