Partners in Digital Health

Privacy laws like GDPR and California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) have created a much more regulated environment in which enterprises need to operate in regards to consumer data permissions. Built on hyperledger fabric, HealthVerity Consent is an enterprise-level platform that allows organizations to aggregate and manage all existing touchpoints across the organization in one central location to c...

Ellen McCarthy Cadent Medical Communications, Managing Director Julia Saiz Shimosato Syneos Health, SVP Description : Today’s healthcare industry is unapologetically data-driven. From virtual biotech start-ups to big pharma and independent research agencies, making data available to the public, whether positive or negative, is an integral component of any research and development effort. Among all...

Heather Flannery (Moderator) ConsenSys Health, Health Circle Global Lead Avinash Burra Digital Asset, Product Manager Combiz Richard Abdolrahimi Deloitte, Former U.S. Treasury Senior Policy Advisor Jim Kyung-Soo Liew Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, Assistant Professor of Finance Description : The what's and who's of the stakeholders in healthcare, and how smart contracts can be deployed in de...

Rhonda Johnston, Ph. D., BC-FNP, BC-ANP Director, VA Office of Connected Care Quality and Training Division, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Connected Care, Quality and Training Division Rita F. Kobb, MSN, APRN-BC Telehealth Training Team Lead, VA Office of Connected Care Quality and Training Division, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Connected Care, Quality and Traini...

Mr. Bruce Brandes Senior Vice President of Consumer Centered Virtual Care, Teladoc Health Dr. Lyle Berkowitz CEO of Back Nine Healthcare Consulting and Editor-in-chief of Telehealth and Medicine Today The COVID-19 pandemic exponentially accelerated adoption of virtual care and heightened consumer expectations, which caused health systems to reimagine their role in virtual care. As a result, adopti...

Heather Flannery (Moderator) ConsenSys Health, Health Circle Global Lead Jose Arrieta U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Associate Deputy Assistant Secretary Debbie Bucci Government Office, IT Architect Tom Savel CDC, Director, Informatics Innovation Unit

Tory Cenaj (Moderator) Founder and Publisher, Partners in Digital Health, Blockchain in Healthcare Today and Telehealth and Medicine Today Courtney Morris ARTiFACTS, President, Co-Founder Sean Manion Science Distributed, Chief Executive Description : Significant portions of usable, and funded research never make it through the data funnel, getting lost as "dark knowledge." Blockchain technology of...

With ConV2X in the not-too-distant future, we decided to hark back to one of last year's Keynote Addresses with the one and only, John D. Halamka. John D. Halamka, MD, MS Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Chief Information Officer; Beth Israel Deaconess Med; Editor-in-Chief, BHTY Dr. Halamka completed his undergraduate studies at Stanford University, where he received a degree in medi...

Ted Tanner (Moderator) PokitDok, Co-Founder, CTO Matt Cunningham SVP, Business Development, Evicore Erik Pupo Chief Information Officer, Columbia University Irving Medical Cente Jay Sales Co-Director, VSP Global Description : Over the past years many companies and pundits have discussed the adoption of distributed ledger technologies, aka blockchain for healthcare applications. This panel will dis...

William Baker (Moderator) New York University, Director, Global Debate Fund Richard Heinzl WorldCare International, Inc., Global Medical Director Richard Migliori UnitedHealth Group, Executive Vice President, Medical Affairs and Chief Medical Officer David Gruber Alvarez & Marsal Healthcare Industry Group (HIG), Managing Director and Director of Research Michael K. Gusmano The Hastings, Center Res...

Vince Albanese Haven Health Solutions, CEO Mark Jacobs Delaware Health Information Network, Chief Information Officer Mark B. Thompson Medical Society of Delaware, Executive Director Description : Representatives from the Medical Society of Delaware (MSD), Delaware Health Information Network (DHIN), and Haven Health Solutions will discuss the utilization of blockchain and a community-wide collabor...

Oren Mechanic Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Attending Physician, Emergency Medicine Description : Telehealth is a new health care delivery model that could provide significant value to patients and reshape the health care system. With the advent of digital health innovation, we have such an abundance of opportunities... the session will address the exciting future of connected medicine and...

Importance : This three-part study characterizes the widespread implementation of telehealth during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, giving us insight into the role of telehealth as we enter a stage of “new normal” healthcare delivery in the U.S. Objective : The COVID-19 Telehealth Impact Study was designed to describe the natural experiment of telehealth adoption during the pandemic. Usin...

Dee Ford Medical University of South Carolina, Professor of Medicine Kathryn King Cristaldi Medical University of South Carolina, Associate Program Director, Center of Excellence James McElligott Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), Medical Director for Telehealth Description : In 2017 MUSC was one of two academic health systems recognized by the federal government as a Telehealth Center o...

Lori Ruderman Department of Health and Human Services Director, BuySmarter PMO Kenneth Thomson HHS, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Administration, BUYSMARTER Solution Architect at Nationwide IT Services, Inc. BUYSMARTER is a transformative, data-driven initiative leveraging the collective purchasing power ($24B/year) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to secure lower p...

Bryan Arkwright Schumacher Clinical Partners / Wake Forest University School of Law, Managing Consultant / Professor James Edwards Cloudbreak Health, LLC, CEO and Co-Founder John Mattison Kaiser Permanente, Asst. Med. Dir. Chief Health Information Officer, Kaiser Permanente, Faculty, Singularity University Description : Efficiency is widely recognized as one of the most important concepts in econo...

John D. Halamka (Moderator), MD, MS Beth Israel Deaconess System, Chairman, New England Healthcare Exchange Network (NEHEN), Co-Chair, HIT Standards Committee, Professor, Harvard Medical School Cees Hesp PharmAccess, Director mHealth Research Labs, PharmAccess Foundation, and Director, Digital Impact Alliance (DIAL), United Nations Foundation Florence D. Hudson Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub at...

Heather Flannery (Moderator) ConsenSys Health, Health Circle Global Lead Avinash Burra Digital Asset, Product Manager Combiz Richard Abdolrahimi Deloitte, Former U.S. Treasury Senior Policy Advisor Jim Kyung-Soo Liew Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, Assistant Professor of Finance Description : The session will address what and who the stakeholders are in healthcare, and how smart contracts can...

Rajiv Leventhal (Moderator) Healthcare Informatics, Managing Editor Jay Parkinson Sherpaa, Founder & CEO Sandeep Pulim Medici MD, CIO Description : In a healthcare landscape that is increasingly shifting to value-based care, some patients are finding the amount of time their primary care physicians have for them dwindling and look for other methods of healthcare delivery to increase communication...

William Baker New York University, Director, Global Debate Fund Brian Behlendorf Hyperledger, Executive Director John D. Halamka, MD, MS Beth Israel Deaconess System, New England Healthcare Exchange Network (NEHEN), Co-Chair, HIT Standards Committee, Professor, Harvard Medical School Tim Ken Mackey UC San Diego, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Global Public Health Amanda Stanhaus Univers...

Stan Kachnowski HIT Lab, Columbia University, Chair, Health Information Policy & Management Professor Stan Kachnowski, PhD MPA CSEP, an Oxford trained researcher, has taught over 5,000 students from Columbia University, IIT-Delhi, and Quinnipiac College. His teaching and research over the past 25 years includes educating graduate level and executive students on 4 continents and conducting extensiv...

Presenter | Jim Nasr CEO, ACOER Jim Nasr is the CEO of Acoer—at technology firm focused on building usable, open, blockchain-enabled software for healthcare—and the acting CTO at Safe Health Systems, a digital health platform provider. Prior to his current roles, Jim was Chief Software Architect at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)—leading the modernization of the agency’s sc...

Cristina Dolan iXledger Technologies, Co-Founder & COO Cristina Dolan is Co-Founder and COO of iXledger an alternative marketplace for insurance based on blockchain. As a former executive at a software company that offers award winning global multi-asset institutional trading solutions in the cloud, she is applying her knowledge of traditional marketplaces to the creation of next generation blockc...

Jon Savage DO, FAAEM | Care on Location Gerard Frunzi MBA | Children's Hospital, Colorado Terri Casterton MBA | MSSCL

Rajiv Leventhal (Moderator) Healthcare Informatics, Managing Editor Michael Adcock UMMC Center for Telehealth, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Executive Director, Center for Telehealth Abstract Session Description: Mississippi understands the challenges and costs of a patient population with chronic diseases. The University of Mississippi Medical Center’s (UMMC) Center for Telehealth has...