Partners in Digital Health

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...

Speakers 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. Description The COVID-19 pandemic exponentially accelerated adoption of virtual care and heightened consumer expectations, which caused health systems to reimagine their role in virtual...

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...

John D. Halamka, MD, MS | Beth Israel Deaconess System, Chairman, New England Healthcare Exchange Network (NEHEN), Co-Chair, HIT Standards Committee, Professor, Harvard Medical School Robert Chu | Embleema, CEO and CTO Keith Hanna | IPRD Solutions, Chief Executive Officer Katherine Kuzmeskas | SimplyVital Health, Co-Founder Description : Usability, product value, role of cryptocurrency, standards,...

David Gruber (Moderator) Alvarez & Marsal Healthcare Industry Group (HIG), Managing Director and Director of Research Iris Berman Northwell Health, VP and AVP, Telehealth Services and Member, NYS Regulatory Modernizatioin Workgroup for Telehealth Andrew B. Wilson Morris James LLP, Attorney and Legislative Specialist Description : Efficiency is widely recognized as one of the most important concept...

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...

Shawnna Hoffman IBM, Global Cognitive Legal Co-Leader, Watson AI & Quantum Computing, Global CoC Florence D. Hudson (Moderator) Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub at Columbia University, Special Advisor Next Generation Internet Carlo Piraino International Healthcare Consultant Session Description: Addresses the challenges and opportunities in improving healthcare outcomes with advanced technologies...

Tom Savel (Moderator) CDC, Director, Informatics Innovation Unit Katherine Kuzmeskas SimplyVital Health, Co-Founder Chrissa McFarlane Patientory, Founder/CEO Mihaela Ulieru Endor.coin, Chief Alchemist Session Description: Tokenization is a fundamental and transformation feature enabled via a blockchain. Tokenization is the digital representation of a real-world or digital asset of value (e.g., hea...

Rajiv Leventhal (Moderator) Healthcare Informatics, Managing Editor Erik Viirre UC San Diego, Adjunct Professor of Neurosciences, UC San Diego and Former Medical Director, Qualcomm Tricorder X Prize and Nokia Samsung XCHALLENGE Joseph (Joe) Smith Reflexion Health, a Digital Health Corp Company, CEO The session covered how research and outcomes are linked to innovation presenting recent outcomes fr...

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 Tr...

Managing Medical Records in Difficult Environments w/ Blockchain Paul Snow, Factom, CEO https://factom.com/ Paul Snow is the founder and CEO at Factom, the creator of the first blockchain technology built from the ground up, to solve real-world business problems. Paul’s innovative approach to software and application engineering has spawned a litany of inventive open-source companies and solutions...

Heather Flannery , ConsenSys Health, Health Circle Global Lead https://consensys.net/ Heather Leigh Flannery is the Health Circle Global Lead at ConsenSys and the Co-Founder and Board Chair of Blockchain in Healthcare Global ("BiHG"), a new 501(c)6 trade association organized under the IEEE ISTO launching in Q4 2018. She chairs the IEEE SA P2418.6 Standards Development Working Group (blockchain in...

John D. Halamka, MD, MS Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Chief Information Officer; Beth Israel Deaconess Med; Editor-in-Chief, BHTY geekdoctor.blogspot.com/ Dr. Halamka completed his undergraduate studies at Stanford University, where he received a degree in medical microbiology and a degree in public policy with a focus on technology issues. He entered medical school at the Univers...

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...

Care on Location | Jon Savage DO, FAAEM Children's Hosp Colorado | Gerard Frunzi MBA SCL | Terri Casterton MBA, MS

BHTY-DMV Chapter Blockathon Pitch Competition : Ingrid Vasiliu-Feltes MD MBA, FACHE, MDMBA, Chief Quality & Innovation Officer, MEDNAX The BHTY-DMV BLOCKATHON pitch competition invited evidence-based submissions of original research focused on distributed ledger technologies that transform and disrupt ecosystem inefficiency to tackle societal issues impacting health consumers worldwide. The BHTY-D...

Keynote Remarks from ConV2X 2020 | John Halamka, MD, President, Mayo Clinic Platform

The competition invited entries focusing on the following areas: Reducing health systems and patient out-of-pocket costs Designing for the level of a patient’s mobility Educating patients on new technology, use, application, and outcomes Enhanced standard of care for care-giving, remote care, elderly care, and urban care Applicants were asked to demonstrate how products and services directly impac...

Oki Mek U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Chief Product Officer Aleksandar Zelenovic Sapient Consulting, Strategy and Consulting Practice Lead ACCELERATE is a transformative program in support of HHS ReImagine Acquisition. It is designed to empower the workforce in a decentralized manner and create a flexible capability for HHS to change and implement policy. Accelerate addresses...

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...

Kenneth Colon Izzy Care, Co-Founder and CEO, Wyoming, USA Over the past decade, there have been many innovations in new payment and care delivery models and technology – from telemedicine to AI to blockchain. These innovations, however, need to be used in tandem to drive real change. We will review each of these innovations and propose a model for how they can be brought together to be greater tha...

Cees Hesp PharmAccess Director mHealth Research Labs, PharmAccess Foundation, and Director, Digital Impact Alliance (DIAL), United Nations Foundation An introduction for the novice on what blockchain technology is, where it fits in the healthcare arena, use cases, and current trends and potential barriers to market.

Ron Ribitzky R&D Ribitzky, Founder & CEO Uli Broedl Boehringer Ingelheim, Canada, Medical Director and Vice President of Medical and Regulatory Affairs Chrissa McFarlane Patientory, Founder/CEO Kevin A. Clauson Lipscomb University, Associate Professor, College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences Most read articles by the same author(s) Kevin A. Clauson, Elizabeth A. Breeden, Cameron Davidson, Timothy K....

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 Significant portions of usable, and funded research never make it through the data funnel, getting lost as "dark knowledge." Blockchain technology offers new ways...

Priya Ramaswamy Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Resident Introduction and top line review of hash functions, encryption in health care, and creating a ledger. This is a great session for those that DON'T have a tech background, if you are new to blockchain ,or those who want a refresher/review. Learn how to setup your own blockchain project with code from Github with a simple walk through ap...