Health 2.0 meets Ix
April 22-23, 2009 | Park Plaza Hotel Boston, Boston, MA

Introduction: Health 2.0 Meets Ix

Josh Seidman, President, Center for Information Therapy
Indu Subaiya & Matthew Holt, Co-Founders, Health 2.0

The Opening Great Debate: Ix and Health 2.0 - Synergies or Tensions?

There are great similarities between the Health 2.0 and the Information Therapy movements. At their core both are about the distribution and consumption of information in health care, and about the translation of that information into action. But there are also tensions too, and this opening session will ask whether Health 2.0 & Ix are two sides of the same coin.

Lead Keynote:
Don Kemper, CEO, Healthwise
"Health 2.0 kisses Ix"

Dissenting view from:
Matthew Holt, Co-Founder Health, 2.0

Commentary from Alan Greene (drgreene.com & ADAM), Gilles Frydman (ACOR), and Ted Eytan (Kaiser Permanente), and a summary/rebuttal from Don Kemper & Matthew Holt.
Moderator: Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Think-Health & Health 2.0 Advisors

Demonstrations from leading Health 2.0 and Ix companies: (TBA)

Networking break in Exhibit Hall, or catch a sponsored "Deep Dive" from MedEncentive...

Great Debate #2: Building Health 2.0 into the Delivery System

Ix has been long associated with some of the leading integrated delivery systems in the US. But many participants in Health 2.0 have an ambivalent attitude to provider- side initiatives. And of course there is not a clear single type of "delivery system." We'll have four top leaders from different segments of the delivery system present their contrasting views of what Building Health 2.0 into the Delivery System means.

• Integrated system -- James Hereford, Group Health Cooperative
• Academic medical center -- John Halamka, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
• Start up consumer clinic -- Rushika Fernandopulle, Renaissance Health
• Small physician practice -- the view from organized medicine (TBA)
• Moderator: Scott Shreeve, CrossOver Health

Demonstrations from: Myca/Hello Health & other leading Health 2.0 and Ix companies

Day 1 Wrap-up

Indu Subaiya, Josh Seidman & Matthew Holt will keep you from cocktails for a minute or two.

Brief Reception in Exhibit Hall

There'll be time for a very quick chat in the Exhibit Hall, but don't dally too long as we're all headed to the......

Health 2.0 Meets Ix Night out

This will be a fun & fancy night out--we're trying to see if Beantown can rival the luxurious feel of the San Diego skyline in 2008. We'll be surveying the town from a really cool location up above the Boston skyline where you can come and mingle with your 500 best friends. Our friends at Kaiser Permanente are providing the victuals, and there'll be some special surprises!

Breakfast

Introduction to Day 2 & Setting the Stage

Susan Dentzer, Editor, Health Affairs, will look at the current reform debate with Josh Seidman, and start to suggest where Ix and Health 2.0 fit in

Great Debate #3: What's the Future Role of the Doctor?

Technology is changing the potential role of the physician, and stratifying what the doctor of the future can and might do. So does the rise of Ix mean that physicians are captains of a wider care team, or does the rise of Health 2.0 mean that doctors find that their roles in patient care are increasingly marginalized?

Debating that point
Paul Wallace, Kaiser Permanente & Chairman, Ix Center Board of Directors
vs.
Jamie Heywood, Chairman, PatientsLikeMe
Moderator: Indu Subaiya, who'll be introducing the premier of a new video "The Future Doctor" starring some very exceptional young physicians-to-be

Plus commentary from Danny Sands (Cisco & BIDMC), Susan Edgman-Levitan (Mass General Stoeckle Center), Jay Parkinson, (Hello Health) & Roy Schoenberg (American Well), Win Hodges (patient advocate). Followed by conclusions and rebuttals from the debaters.

Demonstrations from: UpToDate & some other leading Health 2.0 and Ix companies
 

Networking break & catch a sponsored "Deep Dive" (TBA)

Great Debate #4: Navigating the New Health Care Delivery System

The role of technology is changing how patients navigate their health care experience. In some ways we're seeing the tension between information democratization and information overdose. There are at least two segments to this issue:

Part I: Guidance on health information:
What will be the role of Info-mediaries? Will information be best mediated via humans, or purely by automated technology.

Introduction by Josh Seidman,

Special presentation from Susannah Fox, Pew Internet & American Life Project.

Demonstrations from: WeGo Health & two more leading Health 2.0 and Ix companies

Part II: Guidance & Navigation around the healthcare system:
How will consumers' paths through the health care delivery system be facilitated by technology? Will larger health care organizations (or plans or employers?) help patients navigate the system and perhaps impose requirements and restrictions on them. Will the role of the patient advocate truly emerge, and who will perform it? Or will patients and consumers remain left alone to fend for themselves as they mostly are now.

Debate between
Michael Parkinson (ex-Chief Medical Officer, Lumenos)
&
"ePatient" Dave deBronkart (Blogger, The New Life of ePatient Dave)

Commentary from Arna Ionescu, IDEO

Demonstrations from: Mayo Clinc with Microsoft HealthVault & other leading Health 2.0 and Ix companies

Lunch

At lunch, we will present a variety of options for the Health 2.0 and Ix communities. You can take your pick from attending the popular Unconference, stopping by the exhibit hall, seeing another edition of Launch! and/or attending an update meeting of the Health 2.0 Accelerator

Great Debate #5: "Wiki vs. Expert": What's the best approach to Knowledge Creation?

User-generated content, especially when created mostly by those with little formal training, has been regarded with deep suspicion by many. But now the concept is taking hold that the crowd itself has wisdom beyond that of its member, and that wisdom might exceed that of any expert or experts. Two leaders with extremely strong view points will debate whether and if user-generated content, crowdsourcing and other ways of surfacing content are appropriate for creating and verifying health information. And what does this mean for the traditional roles of clinical trials and evidence-based medicine? This one will be a real barn-burner, we promise you!

Debating that point
Denise Basow, UpToDate
vs.
Dan Hoch, BrainTalk
Introduction & Moderation: Josh Seidman, Center for Ix

Plus commentary from Gerry Kane (Boston College), followed by rebuttals and conclusions from the d ebaters

Demonstrations from: CureTogether, MedPedia & Healthwise

Networking Break

Great Debate #6: Incentives--Who's Paying for Ix & 2.0?

Susan Denzter, Editor, Health Affairs, will lead a panel debating the relationship between health reform, new payment incentives and who (if anyone) will pay for Health 2.0 or Ix

This panel will start with a special presentation from legendary researcher Jack Wennberg, Dartmouth.

In addition to Dr. Wennberg there'll be viewpoints and commentary from:

• CMS -- TBA
• Integrated Systems-- Murray Ross, Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy (and formerly with CBO)
• Large Employer Purchaser representative-- TBA
• Washington political figure-- TBA

Demonstrations from: MedEncentive & Health Hero Network

Looking ahead: What's the future for Ix & Health 2.0?

We'll finish with 4 visions for the future of Health 2.0 & Ix through 4 different lens

• Consumerist & Patient -- Win Hodges, Patient Advocate
• Government Finance & Policy for IT -- Robert M. Kolodner, Director, ONC, HHS
• Integrated System -- Anna-Lisa Silvestre, VP, Online Services, Kaiser Permanente
• How Health 2.0 and/or Ix will change the health care system -- Esther Dyson, EDventure
• Moderator: Susan Denzter, Editor, Health Affairs

Rebuttals and conclusions from the Debaters, and lots of interaction with the audience

Conference Wrap Up

Josh Seidman, Indu Subaiya & Matthew Holt will keep you from cocktails for just more than a minute or two while we get reactions to two intense days of the nexus of Health 2.0 Meets Ix

Cocktails

Network among the exhibitors, hang out in the Lounge, play games, and have fun! You won't get this chance again until the next Health 2.0 or Ix Conference!