Join us for a special full-day conference “Healthcare Information Technology: Change, Outlook and Opportunity” on November 20, 2012.  

The conference highlights fundamental topics critical to building a successful company in Healthcare Information Technology (HIT): understanding the healthcare system’s complexity and perspectives of experienced entrepreneurs and investors, who will share their real-world successes and failures.

The event is organized and sponsored by the Life Sciences Angel Network and Continuum Health Partners with support of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation for Education and Entrepreneurship, The Gray Sheet/Elsevier Business Intelligence and others. 

What’s the question? Recent e-health entrepreneurial activity is largely driven by:

- Convergence of information technology and healthcare

- Emergence of a new generation of consumer-usable sensors and devices

- Emergence of educated consumers of healthcare goods as a new generation of patients

We seek to determine whether innovation is more likely to occur within the system as it absorbs the changes (and changemakers), or outside the system (and change will gradually erode the left the left from outside).

What’s the purpose? 

The purpose is to give entrepreneurs a sharper focus as they execute innovative ideas by sharing knowledge with active participants in the healthcare ecosystem, and to give established players a window to entrepreneurial innovation and fresh approaches to improve health and health care.

What’s the mechanism?

The conference is a centralized effort to bring together healthcare professionals, entrepreneurs, investors and patients – all of us.

Who should attend?

Entrepreneurs: learn from all parties involved in the process of creation long-awaited improvements in health and healthcare

Industry: discuss changing business practices ranging form hospital systems to insurance companies

Investors: get actively involved in the growing market opportunities in digital health

PROGRAM:

8:30 – 9:00 am

Opening Remarks: Dominique Pahud, Kauffman Foundation

9:00 – 9:30 am

Keynote: Esther Dyson: 'Change as an Opportunity'

9:30 – 10:30 am

Panel 1 - Healthcare System Explained: Redefining Hospitals, Insurance & More

Moderator: Milena Adamian MD, LSAN

Daniel Conroy, Aetna

Stephen Hochberg, Continuum Health Partners

Kristin Baker Spohn, Castlight Health

10:30 – 11:00 am

Coffee Break

11:00 – 12:00 pm

Panel 2 - Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks: New Players in Healthcare

Moderator: Esther Dyson, EDventure Holdings

Andrew Litt, Dell Corporation

Mark Tomaino, Welsh Carson Anderson & Stowe

David Feygin, Becton Dickinson

12:00 – 1:00 pm

Networking Lunch

1:00 – 2:00 pm

Panel 3 - Consumer and Corporate Wellness: New Frontiers in Healthcare

Moderator: Milena Adamian MD, LSAN

Nadeem Kasaam, Basis

Mike Keriakos, Everyday Health

Gavin Teo, Comcast Ventures

2:00 – 3:00 pm

Panel 4 - Follow The Money: Business Models in HIT

Moderator: Esther Dyson, EDventure Holdings

David Caluori, Welsh Carson Anderson & Stowe

Andy Weissman, Union Square Ventures

David Eichler, Psilos Capital

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Coffee Break

3:30 – 4:30 pm

Panel 5 - Regulators and Regulations: Digital Health

Moderator: Milena Adamian MD, LSAN

Sundeep Bhan, Medivo

Ben Chodor, Happtique

Rick Morrison, Comprehend Systems

Bakul Patel, FDA

4:30 – 5:30 pm

Networking Cocktail Reception

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