Inaugural New England eHealth Innovation Conference
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Day 1

Thursday, March 15, 2012
7:00 am -
8:00 am
Registration
8:00 am -
9:00 am
Networking Breakfast
9:00 am -
9:05 am
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Mark Stevens Mark Stevens
Senior Director, eHealth Innovation
World Congress
9:05 am -
9:30 am
Why Innovation? A “He Said – She Said”
A Friendly Debate Between Two Healthcare IT Leaders
Ray Campbell Ray Campbell
Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer
Massachusetts Health Data Consortium
Naomi Fried Naomi Fried, PhD
Chief Innovation Officer
Children's Hospital
Moderator:
Allan Harold Goroll, MD
Professor of Medicine
Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital
9:30 am -
9:50 am
Morning Keynote
Overview of Federal initiatives in support of eHealth innovation, including $1B in new CMS funding.
Wil Yu Wil Yu
Director of Innovations
Office of the National Coordinator (ONC)
9:50 am -
10:30 am
The Pitch –Ten eHealth Entrepreneur Presentations
Top Ten eHealth Entrepreneur Finalists present live on their cutting-edge solutions.
#1 - 3 Entrepreneur Presentation
10:30 am -
11:00 am
Networking and Refreshment Break in the Executive Networking Lounge
11:00 am -
12:30 pm
The Pitch –Ten eHealth Entrepreneur Presentations
Top Ten eHealth Entrepreneur Finalists present live on their cutting-edge solutions.
#4 - 10 Entrepreneur Presentation
12:10 pm -
1:30 pm
Networking Luncheon in the Executive Networking Lounge
1:30 pm -
2:15 pm
Regional Provider CIO Roundtable
Members of the Advisory Council will discuss their observations of entrepreneur presentations and their organizations’ own innovation initiatives.
David Briden
Chief Information Officer
Exeter Health Resources
Richard W. Kubica
CIO
Hartford Hospital
Deane Morrison
Chief Information Officer, Information Technology Services
Capital Region Health Care
Charles Podesta Charles Podesta
Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer
Fletcher Allen Health Care
Moderator:
Larry Garber, MD
Medical Director for Informatics
Fallon Clinic/SAFEHealth
2:15 pm -
3:00 pm
Innovation for Population and Economic Health – Roundtable Discussion
Leon Barzin
Director, Health Information Technology
MA Medical Society
David Cochran, MD
President and CEO
VITL
Dan Feinberg
Director, Graduate Health Informatics Program
Northeastern University
Gregory S. LeGrow Gregory S. LeGrow
Director, eHealth Innovation
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts
Moderator:
Micky Tripathi Micky Tripathi, PhD
President and Chief Executive Officer
Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative (MAeHC)
3:00 pm -
3:30 pm
Anatomy of a Start-Up
Join MIT Media Lab professor and award-winning entrepreneur Dr. Ramesh Raskar and his partner, EyeNetra CEO, David Schafran as they explore the eHealth and mHealth start-up ecosystem, including their own journey as current seed-stage entrepreneurs and the critical role organizations like the MIT Media Lab play Worldwide in the innovation space.
Ramesh Raskar
Co-founder, Chief Scientist,
EyeNetra;
Camera Culture Group Director,
MIT Media Lab
David Schafran
Co-founder,CEO
EyeNetra
3:30 pm -
4:00 pm
Sponsor Innovation Case Studies & Roundtable Discussion
Moderator:
Mark Stevens Mark Stevens
Senior Director, eHealth Innovation
World Congress
4:00 pm -
5:00 pm
State eHealth Leaders and the Tapestry of New England’s eHealth Initiatives
Larry Gilbert
Director of Outreach and Business Development
Vermont Information Technology Leaders (VITL)
Jeffrey Loughlin
Executive Director
New Hampshire Regional Extension Center
Lori Reed-Fourquet
HITE-CT
Richard Shoup, PhD
MA State HIT Coordinator
Massachusetts Technology Collaborative
Amy Zimmerman
HIT Coordinator
Rhode Island
Moderator:
Pamela W. Goldberg Pamela W. Goldberg
CEO
Massachusetts Technology Collaborative
5:00 pm -
6:00 pm
Networking, Cocktail Reception in the Executive Networking Lounge