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 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 and motivations for telehealth exist, this session explores the efficiencies realized (financial, clinical, operational, technical). Leading experts and senior leaders from UnitedHealth Group, Kaiser Permanente, and Cloudbreak Health join this exciting panel to discuss how telehealth has become a strategic asset and made breakthrough efficiency impacts and results in their own and partner/client organizations.

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 discuss the juxtaposition of the so-called Health IT industry and the myriad of applications that would positively reduce friction between the provider and consumer. This improved interaction will also reduce costs and bring true transparency to all transactions in healthcare. Many believe that the Health IT industry is completely homeostatic for any type of true disruption. Why does the industry trumpet disruption when their actions speak louder than words? We address these concerns with leaders on the cutting edge of technology.

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 and Telehealth. From blockchain, to artificial intelligence, to quantum computing, and the next generation internet, we will discuss how advanced technologies can address the needs for personalized medicine, patient-centric healthcare, and leveraging the vast amount of data being captured today and in the future. Many data elements from petabytes of genomics data, to RWE (Real World Evidence), to implanted chips in patients, to WAMIII - Wearables and Medical Internet of Things Interoperability and Intelligence - are part of the evolving health IT landscape. With all this data, the TIPPSS elements are increasingly important - the Trust, Identity, Privacy, Protection, Safety and Security - of devices, data and patients. Join us for an informative and thought provoking session on the promise and perils of this highly connected world, and how the Next Generation Internet can be part of the solution.

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., health data, real estate, music, insurance, advertising, art). Once tokenized, assets can be easily and securely exchanged. Within the healthcare ecosystem, these digital assets can be used for many different purposes (incentivizing positive health behaviors, reward data sharing, facilitate communication, assuring data quality, etc.). This session will discuss the transformational impact tokenization can have within the healthcare ecosystem. Topics will also include the use of next generation, non-fungible tokens (e.g., ERC-721, “CryptoKitties”). As every technology has its challenges, concerns and pitfalls around tokenization and the internet of value will be discussed.

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 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.

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 Training Division

Claire Marty, MN, RN, National Quality Lead, VA Office of Connected Care Quality and Training Division, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Connected Care, Quality and Training Division

Padraic McVeigh, RN, MSN, Quality Manager, VA Office of Connected Care Quality and Training Division, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Connected Care, Quality and Training Division

In fiscal 2019, over 909,000 VA patients received a portion of their VA care through telehealth, and over 60% of VA’s primary and mental health care providers participated in one or more Clinical Video Telehealth (CVT) appointments to a patient’s home.

The VA Office of Connected Care Quality and Training (QT) Division’s pandemic 2020 response resulted in over 80,000 new course completions in the first month and over 20% more primary care and mental health providers conducting CVT visits in the first five months. During this period, the number of CVT appointments increased by over 1,000%.

Learn how the VA’s telehealth training infrastructure enabled the VA to enter the COVID-19 public health emergency fully prepared for the rapid growth in telehealth care. As CVT became increasingly important during the COVID-19 response, the QT Division made necessary curriculum adjustments, meeting provider and patient needs.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.30953/tmt.v6.241

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 that have paved the way for Factom. A true open-source evangelist, Paul also acts as Founder and Chief Architect for DTRules, a open source project he founded in 2004 to make Decision Table based Rules Engines available to all sorts of projects. DTRules, as open source has allowed this general purpose decision-making protocol to be used in many states for health and human services projects, commercial websites, university projects, and many other applications. He also went on to build another for the state of Ohio to support onsite corporate audits.

An active proponent and developer of blockchain based technologies, Paul is a founder of the the Texas Bitcoin Conference, and currently serves as president and chair. He holds three patents for graphics hardware and system configuration technologies. He is a supporter of and contributor to the Colored Coins and Ethereum projects, in addition to driving the development of the Factom Network.

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 healthcare and life sciences) and serves as the FY19 Co-Chair of the global HIMSS Blockchain in Healthcare Task Force. Ms. Flannery is also an Innovation Fellow at EP3 Foundation, has served as Industry Faculty for the United States Department of Health and Human Services Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (US HHS ONC) and is an active consultant, advisor, and keynote speaker.

Prior to ConsenSys and BiHG, she founded and led Obesity Prevention, Policy, and Management, Inc. ("Obesity PPM"), an innovative provider of disease management, population health, research administration, and information technology managed services for health systems in the Americas, and an early adopter of distributed ledger technology.

Ms. Flannery has driven continuous business model innovation via technology early adoption throughout her 25-year career as an entrepreneur, technologist, and strategist. She has consulted in the public sector in context of international development, and brings a global health perspective to her initiatives. Ms. Flannery is a broad, lateral thinker who applies complex adaptive systems theory to identify, advance, and course-correct critical path to progress against large-scale macroscopic challenges, focusing in the health sector since 2006.

Due to her personal life experience, Ms. Flannery is intrinsically motivated to impact population health and economic prosperity through non-communicable disease prevention and treatment. She builds mission-driven organizations aligned by shared values: making measurable societal contributions, creating economically sustainable interventions, and prioritizing diversity and inclusion.

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 University of California, San Francisco and simultaneously pursued graduate work in bioengineering at the University of California, Berkeley focusing on technology issues in medicine. He completed his residency at Harbor–UCLA Medical Center in the Department of Emergency Medicine.

In his role at BIDMC, Dr. Halamka is responsible for all clinical, financial, administrative, and academic information technology, serving 3,000 doctors, 12,000 employees, and 1,000,000 patients. As chairman of NEHEN, Dr. Halamka oversees clinical and administrative data exchange among the payers, providers, and patients in Massachusetts. As a Harvard professor, he has served the George W. Bush administration, the Obama administration, and national governments throughout the world planning their healthcare IT strategy.

Dr. Halamka has authored five books on technology-related issues, hundreds of articles and thousands of posts on the popular Geekdoctor blog. He runs Unity Farm in Sherborn, MA and serves as caretaker for 150 animals, 30 acres of agricultural production and a cidery/winery.

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

University of Michigan, PhD Student