Partners in Digital Health

Ahmed Abdulla Digipharm, Founder/CEO , Digipharm, and UN/CEFACT, UN Economic Commission for Europe | https://digipharm.ch Ahmed Abdulla is the Founder and CEO of Digipharm. Digipharm has developed the world's first blockchain-based smart contract platform for innovative pricing & value based reimbursement and the worlds first 'live' RWE repository that rewards patients for their contribution. He h...

Jose Arrieta U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Associate Deputy Assistant Secretary,

Todd Eury (Moderator) Pharmacy Podcast Network, Founder Walter De Brouwer doc.ai, CEO and Founder Basker Gummadi Bayer, Digital Innovation John D. Halamka Beth Israel Deaconess System, Chairman, New England Healthcare Exchange Network (NEHEN), Co-Chair, HIT Standards Committee, Professor, Harvard Medical School Amar Das IBM Research, Director, Learning Health Systems Digitalization of Clinical Tri...

Dominique Hurley HealthVerity, Vice President Innovation & Strategy 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 exist...

Ellen McCarthy Cadent Medical Communications, Managing Director Julia Saiz Shimosato Syneos Health, SVP 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 the means ava...

Oren Mechanic Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Attending Physician, Emergency Medicine Session 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 medic...

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...

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 extens...

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 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., health data, real estate...

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 In 2017 MUSC was one of two academic health systems recognized by the federal government as a Telehealth Center of Excellence....

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 Over the past years many companies and pundits have discussed the adoption of distributed ledger technologies, aka blockchain for healthcare applications. This panel will discuss the juxta...

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 Efficiency is widely recognized as one of the most important concepts in economics and busin...

Vince Albanese Haven Health Solutions, CEO Mark Jacobs Delaware Health Information Network, Chief Information Officer Mark B. Thompson Medical Society of Delaware, Executive Director 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 collaborative approach...

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 Addresses the challenges and opportunities in improving healthcare outcomes with advanced technologies and Telehealth. From...

Keynote Address: Operationalizing Intuition and Genius Jose Arrieta, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Associate Deputy Assistant Secretary https://hhs.gov/

Rajiv Leventhal (Moderator) Healthcare Informatics, Managing Editor Jay Parkinson Sherpaa, Founder & CEO Sandeep Pulim Medici MD, CIO 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 with their doc...

John D. Halamka 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, and EHR integra...

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...

The session will address what and who the stakeholders are in healthcare, and how smart contracts can be deployed in decentralized payment system in healthcare, types of platforms that can be deployed, the structure of private blockchains, what the best public platforms for smart contracts with payments are, and if scalable, technological limitations. In addition, best case implementations ,where...

Efficiency is widely recognized as one of the most important concepts in economics and business, a generic definition from Knapp (1984) coins it as 'the allocation of scarce resources that maximizes the achievement of aims'. Organizations, hospitals, and health systems across the world have been implementing telehealth for their patients and employees with efficiency in mind. A variety of benefits...

Heather Flannery (Moderator), 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 (bl...

How research and outcomes are linked to innovation presenting recent outcomes from a case use. Points of view from providers and innovators on patient care, science, and technology will be discussed. The ideation behind the XPRIZE and how the most successful solutions are created not from ingenuity, but from identifying legitimate market gaps are discussed. Rajiv Leventhal, (Moderator) - Healthcar...

Cristina Dolan iXledger Technologies, Co-Founder & COO https://ixledger.com/ 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...

The affirmative team provides a defense of the topic wording that can include parts or its entirety. They will offer an initial “case” in their opening presentation, rebuild it in their response by refuting the negative attacks and offer key final comparisons in their rebuttals. The negative team’s job is to disprove the affirmative thesis. Their initial presentation should poke holes in the initi...

Using Blockchain for Managing Medical Records in Difficult Environments with Paul Snow | Factom 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...