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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-DMV BLOCKATHON provided participants unique opportunities for visibility, collaboration and advisory with subject matter experts and community other participants from academia, government and industry. Requests for participation were pre-vetted by a selection panel.

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 impact the telehealth and blockchain health technology sectors. Products/services had to be GDPR and/or HIPAA compliant. Contestants submitted detailed applications from which judges selected eight (8) finalists for a 5 minute lightning round pitch conducted at ConV2X.

The Finalists, in alpha order, by company are:

• 1. AmericanTelephysicians (ATP)

• 2. BitMED_io

• 3. Cohealth

• 4. Debut mHealth's Debut Protocol

• 5. Digipharm's Reimburse

• 6. Happify

• 7. Health Innovation's WillChain

• 8. Knowmadics

We congratulate the 2nd Annual Innovation Ignition Competition Winners:

• 1st Place: Happify Health

• 2nd Place: BitMEd

• Honorable Mention: WillChain

Judges used six criterion to select winners: (1) identification of medical problem, (2) technical solution, (3) relevance to healthcare sector and technology, (4) ability to monetize, (5) caliber and expertise of team, and (6) overall impression.

Judges:

Bryan Arkwright Managing Consultant / Professor, Schumacher Clinical Partners / Wake Forest University School of Law

Fennie Wang COO and Chief of Regulatory, OpenWater Capital

Anton Decker President, Health Innovation, Bon Secours Mercy Health

Gary German Founder, and CEO, Nonnatech

Gil Alterovitz, PhD Faculty, Harvard Medical School/Boston Children's Hospital, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard Medical School

John D. Halamka, MD, MS John D. Halamka, MD, MS, CIO, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Chairman, New England Healthcare Exchange Network (NEHEN), Co-Chair, HIT Standards Committee, Professor, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess System

Karim Babay CEO & Chief Investment Officer, Intrinsic Value Investment Partners

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 the acquisition workforce process challenges, and improve the value derived from HHS expenditure on acquisition support systems. It is architected to combine the power of four proven emerging technologies to address these fundamental challenges, and to provide a transformational enhancement to HHS Acquisition capabilities. This program also helps align HHS with the President’s Management Agenda, the Modernizing Government Technology Act and the DATA Act.

The core of this solution is a blockchain based data layer. This data layer utilizes data from all core HHS acquisition systems, and other external sources of acquisition data (e.g., SAM). Machine Learning is used to cleanse this data for use by artificial intelligence based algorithms. These algorithms are used to extract insight from the large volumes of data. Robotic process automation is then used to power dramatic improvement in acquisition workflow and processes by eliminating repetitive tasks currently performed by the acquisition workforce. The approach to this program minimizes business and technology risk: an agile framework is utilized to ensure flexibility; human centered design techniques provide full alignment with the OpDivs; microservices are the basis of capability delivery; existing acquisitions systems remain operational while new capability is rolled out.

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 prices, achieve operational efficiencies, and generate cost savings on goods and services.

BUYSMARTER ‘s proof of concept used Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) technology to analyze departmental requirements based on current HHS-wide spend data. This helps identify opportunities to consolidate contract vehicles across agencies within HHS to leverage overlapping requirements at a significant cost savings for the federal government.

BUYSMARTER is positive initiative that is driving cultural change in support of HHS Reimagine. It is intended to focus on utilization of new and emerging technologies, like artificial intelligence and robotics, to analyze spend across HHS to make better informed decisions about price conscious purchasing in order to achieve:

• Collaborative, collective, and coordinated forecasting across HHS that leverages buying power to generate savings through bulk purchasing and effective spend tracking

• Organizational alignment that eliminates waste and risk through improved transparency and accountability

• An acquisition organizational structure that is cohesive across HHS and operates in an efficient and effective

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 than the sum of their parts. In doing so, we can create a global, decentralized health system that truly puts patient care at the center, while supporting and further enabling the clinicians that make this care possible, to deliver higher quality care at a fraction of the cost.

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

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Courtney Morris

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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 to bring this dark knowledge to light. The panel will discuss how blockchain technology impacts research and scholarly outputs including attribution, reproducibility, immutibility and peer review. Discussions will include how the technology can promote more knowledge, abbreviating time to market. Emerging use cases will be highlighted to demonstrate how the technology has dislodged traditional academic publishing practices including the ability to mine dark knowledge for potential scientific break throughs.