Alan turned his pediatrics practice into one of the most famous health care web sites, drgreene.com. He now spends most of his time advocating and advising consumers—online, on the Dr. Oz show, and via his great books about feeding and raising Baby Green(s). We’ve had Alan at Health 2.0 several times—usually quoting Thomas Jefferson—but today we’ll chat about the WhiteOut movement. How can one simple act change a lifetime’s relationship to food?
Abbe Don, Co-Director, Connected Health Domain, IDEO
Abbe Don, Co-Director, Connected Health Domain, IDEO
Abbe’s at Health 2.0 in both professional and personal capacities. In her work at IDEO she promotes design-centered thinking for health care organizations—literally taking them to the houses and workplaces of patients to inspire dramatic breakthroughs in product and service design. But she’s also recently made a dramatic breakthrough in her relationship to food and healthy lifestyles via a stay at the Pritikin Institute. How can design-thinking change our relationship to food and wellness?
Stephen Downs, AVP, Health Group, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has a wide mandate to improve the health and health care of Americans. As the head of the RWJF Pioneer Portfolio, Steve’s role is to promote innovation. This includes groundbreaking work in tackling childhood obesity, driving improvements in the health care system, and coordinating RWJF’s promotion of health IT. The variety of his work is not too surprising as Steve’s both been at the HHS’ Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion and ran the Technology Opportunities Program at the Commerce Department. We’re delighted Steve’s at Health 2.0 to talk about the integration of health, technology, and innovation—as well as to interview one of the most interesting and unusual Project HealthDesign grantees.
Nikolai (Kolya) Kirienko, Project Director, Crohnology.MD
Kolya is a prototypical example of an engaged Patient 2.0. Following a diagnosis of Crohn’s disease in his teen years, he’s gone through a series of hospital stay and medicalizations that you probably won’t believe—with “care” ranging from the good to the barbaric. But inspired by a data-filled journal he kept through his experiences, Kolya has turned his undergraduate thesis into a major Project HealthDesign initiative. His intention is to make sure that no future Crohn’s patient will have to suffer the way he did because of an information gap.
J.D. Kleinke, Medical Economist, Author, Catching Babies
JD straddles the worlds of data and information technology and health policy. He started a managed mental health program, co-founded data analytics company HCIA, and helped start HealthGrades. All the while appearing regularly in Health Affairs (including much sparring with other policy heavyweights) and writing two health policy books (the latter of which contradicted much of the first!). Where JD goes, there’s always excitement. His Omnimedix Institute was behind the first iteration of Dossia (and had a well publicized falling out with that organization), and now he’s decided to stir things up in the controversial waters of childbirth and obstetrics. But this time he’s done it in the form of a novel, Catching Babies, out this month, and (we suspect) soon to be in your living room on Thursday nights.
Amy Romano, Associate Director of Programs, Childbirth Connection
Anyone perusing the Internet for information about childbirth knows that there’s a war out there with lots of opinion and lots of disagreement. One of the strongest proponents of midwife-assisted natural childbirth, Amy (@midwifeamy & blogger at Sense & Sensibility) is an author of the most recent edition of Our Bodies Ourselves, has worked at Lamaze and is now with Childbirth Connection. Anyone who saw her presentation at last year’s Health 2.0 Goes to Washington knows that she has no trouble calling it the way she sees it, even though that’s often contrary to ACOG’s and many hospitals’ policies. Today Amy’s going to interview Indu about her choices about her rapidly upcoming event.
Dean Ornish, Founder & President, Preventive Medicine Research Institute
Dean is a real pioneer. For more than 30 years he’s been developing and working on ways to treat heart disease that fundamentally challenge the assumptions of our medical-industrial complex by avoiding drugs and surgery. Dean also directed the first randomized controlled trial demonstrating that comprehensive lifestyle changes may stop or reverse the progression of early-stage prostate cancer, and his current research is showing that comprehensive lifestyle changes affect gene expression.
Along the way Dean’s been a consulting physician to Presidents and Congressional leaders, written numerous articles in the academic and popular press—and four best-selling books—been the subject of several documentaries, advised corporations from McDonald’s to Google, and received too many awards to list. After a prolonged process, Medicare has now agreed to provide coverage for Dean’s program, the first time that it’s covered a program of comprehensive lifestyle changes.
Dean’s also been active in the world of health online, as the Editor of the (newly acquired) Huffington Post, an expert on ShareCare (unveiled at Health 2.0 last Fall) and with his own forthcoming application, the Dean Ornish Spectrum. We can’t think of anyone better to talk about wellness, prevention and health, and to elucidate how hard it is to change health care on a personal and a system level.
Preston Maring, Associate Physician-in-Chief, Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center
Continuing a theme raised in our fireside chats, Preston is an OB/GYN in The Permanente Medical Group. But he’s here because of his other heath passion which is to help ordinary people eat better food. Preston is the inspiration behind Kaiser Permanente’s Farmers’ markets, which he started in 2003. There are now 30 weekly markets bringing fresh, locally grown and raised produce to people living near Kaiser facilities in 7 states. Preston also writes the Farmers Market Recipes blog which includes recipes and how-to videos about healthy cooking. But he’s no TV celebrity chef—for Preston this is all about the practicalities of how to help people cook, use knives correctly, and purchase good food cheaply. He’ll be challenging the Health 2.0 crowd today to help in that effort.
Carol Diamond, Managing Director, Markle Foundation
Carol directs the Health Program at Markle and chairs Connecting for Health—the public-private collaborative that many of us think laid the groundwork for much of the activity and excitement we’re seeing in Health IT today, with its 2008 Common Framework. She was at our Washington DC Conference talking about consumers use of Health IT and at our Fall 2010 Conference promoting the Blue Button initiative. But today she’s talking about her new interest: food.
Carter Headrick, Director of State and Local Obesity Policy Initiatives, American Heart Association
Carter is an expert in guerrilla public health marketing. Remember Joe Camel, and tobacco advertising that “wasn’t really for kids”? Carter put together 400,000 activists at the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, and now Joe and those billboards are gone. He’s also been a radio broadcaster, and is on the steering committee for the Safe Routes to School National Partnership and is President of America Walks. But he’s here today because of his role with the American Heart Association where he heads up the effort against obesity. And we thought campaigning against smoking was hard!
Hemi Weingarten, CEO and Founder, Fooducate
Hemi’s followed a not unusual Health 2.0 road. He started out as co-founder of MDRM, a tech company acquired by SanDisk, and along the way became husband and father to three young children. He’s a sworn foodie but realized that he didn’t know much about what was in the food he was giving his kids. The result is Fooducate, and its place in the Top 10 of the App Store’s Health category shows that he’s not alone in wanting to make the right choices.
Brian Witlin, CEO, ShopWell
Brian’s a pizza- and hotdog-loving Chicago boy turned California serial-entrepreneur. He was in the worlds of footwear (GoLaces) and software development (LeverWorks), but—as he also is a trained draftsman—we shouldn’t be too surprised that Brian’s stint as Entrepreneur in Residence at IDEO turned into ShopWell. It’s a new service to help people make healthier food choices at the grocery store. We’re not sure what is says about pizza and hotdogs.
Lindsey Volckmann, Director of Business Development, Keas
Following a preview in 2008, their official Launch in 2009 and an update in 2010, we’ve seen lots of Keas at Health 2.0. Is there something new? Yes there is! Lindsey, who used to run small business grants at NCI (when she’s not hanging in exclusive Vegas VIP rooms), will show us the game-like solution that has been running in pilot among the employees of lab giant Quest.
Eric Zimmerman, CMO, RedBrick Health
RedBrick’s been on our radar in the Wellness 2.0 space for several years, not least because of the more than $45m in venture funding it’s received. Eric’s also been on our radar following stints at RelayHealth and Mirixa. But Redbrick is at Health 2.0 today to show us their unique multi-employer alliance that’s really impacting Minnesotans’ health.
Paul Wallace, Medical Director for Health and Productivity Management Programs, Kaiser Permanente
Paul is an oncologist who has played multiple leadership roles with Kaiser Permanente, all focused around improving the effectiveness of clinical care and population health. Currently he’s Medical Director for Health and Productivity Management Programs, having previously run KP’s Care Management Institute, and having also been the Chair of the Center for Information Therapy—the aims of which are now written into the EMR meaningful use criteria. But we’ve invited Paul today to put the Health 2.0 revolution into practical research perspective.
Josh Sommer, Executive Director, Chordoma Foundation
While some of us spent college playing beer pong, at age 20 Duke sophomore Josh founded the Chordoma Foundation—Chordoma is a rare bone cancer. In addition to funding research and opening up cell lines, the Foundation is working on real-time learning systems, hosting conferences where researchers share new treatments, and creating a template for the same process for other rare cancers. Honored as a Person of the Year in 2008 by ABCNews, Josh was a riveting presence at Health 2.0 goes to Washington DC last year.
Susan Love, President, Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation
Susan is a legend in the world of breast cancer treatment, education and research. She’s a Clinical Professor of Surgery at UCLA but her day job is running her eponymous foundation which has over $4 million dollars in grants for its research program—centered on the cause and prevention of breast cancer. She’s a founder of the National Breast Cancer Coalition and of course is best known for her books—Dr. Susan Love’s Breast Book is in its fifth edition. But it’s her most recent project, the Love/Avon Army of Women that’s helping partner women and scientists in order to accelerate basic translational research. The campaign is recruiting one million women (350,000 so far!) and Susan will tell us how it will change the future of research.
George Lundberg, Editor-in-Chief, Cancer Commons
George was one of the best known medical editors to go “online”, leaving JAMA to go to Medscape in 1999. After a decade at Medscape (and parent company WebMD) George is now Editor at Large for MedPage Today and—more importantly from our perspective—really pushing the envelope on how academic research and publishing gets done at Cancer Commons. As former FDA head Donald Kennedy said, “Cancer Commons puts the patient at the front end of a remarkable experiment in translational medicine” and George is showcasing the world of “N of 1” experiments, and targeted therapy finder tools.
Gilles Frydman, Founder, ACOR
In 1995, when Gilles’ wife, Monica, discovered that she had breast cancer, Gilles created ACOR, the Association of Online Cancer Resources, and the world of Internet resources for cancer patients has never quite been the same since. ACOR’s 159 listservs deliver over 1.5 million email messages per week. He’s a mainstay at Health 2.0 but Gilles won’t miss the opportunity to argue with a French hospital bureaucrat, if given half a chance. And now he’s working on helping ACOR members get into clinical research in a new relationship with 23andMe.
Deborah Estrin, Professor, Computer Science, UCLA
Deb’s early research at USC concerned multicast and inter-domain routing protocols. Then she moved to embedded networked sensing systems. You probably don’t understand that, but you’ll for sure be intrigued by her current research in participatory sensing systems. What that means is getting photos, location and more from mobile phones, and using those streams for all kinds of community data gathering, self-monitoring applications, and “citizen science.” Deb is also behind the effort to create an open mHealth architecture, but she’s here to tell us about how ordinary people can use technology for revolutionary health and social research.
Marisa Nelson, Business Development Associate, 23andMe
23andMe’s genetics services have evolved since there was some on stage “spitting” by “Matilda” at Health 2.0 in 2008. Marisa is here to show us the research that’s already resulted from 23andMe’s collaboration with the Sarcoma and Parkinsons’ communities. With a little help from ACOR, the community has grown to be the largest cohort of Sarcoma patients under Marisa’s direction, and is on track to be the first Genome Wide Association Study in this rare disease.
Zach’s got a diverse work background, working as a game developer, molecular biology researcher, and creator of interactive exhibits in museums worldwide. In 2008 he co-founded Traitwise, a web-based bio-informatics company that is attempting to “sequense” the human phenome. Traitwise has an innovative survey technology appropriate for both care and research. Zach’s brother Michael just launched the company at Health 2.0 last October, but now Zach’s going to show us its potential for real time research.
Greg Biggers, Chief Instigator and CEO, Genomera
Greg’s been consulting about the Internet since it was still called the ARPANET, and was in SaaS back when it was called ASP. But now he’s a self proclaimed protean multipreneur and troublemaker, and he’s started Genomera to allow a community of quantified-selfers and hobbyists open, share and connect their genotypes, phenotypes and behavior in a series of self guided research projects. We don’t think you’ll have seen anything quite like Genomera before.
Chalapathy Neti, Director & Global Leader, Healthcare Transformation, IBM Research
Chalapathy is another hardcore scientist with degrees in Biomedical and Electrical Engineering. His day job is leading research in perceptual computing, speech recognition and multi-modal conversational systems for information interaction. And if that wasn’t enough to convince you he’s IBM’s central intelligence for health IT, he’s also one of the key thought leaders on the stunning implications that IBM’s Jeopardy-winning AI system Watson could have in health care. Chalapathy is also an integral force behind the $100m effort IBM announced last year to extract evidence from health data, generate new processes and move the health care system to focusing on improving outcomes.
Howard Koh, Assistant Secretary for Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
We’ve had Chief Technology Officers and National Coordinators from HHS at Health 2.0, but with Howard we’re rolling out the big guns. Yup, he needed (and got) Senate confirmation! Howard oversees 14 core public health offices, including the Surgeon General and the Public Health Service. And he’s the senior public health advisor to the Secretary. Howard is also responsible for interdisciplinary programs relating to disease prevention, health promotion, the reduction of health disparities, and a whole lot more. Previously he was a Professor of Public Health at Harvard and the Commissioner for Public Health in Massachusetts. We’re delighted Howard is here to tell us more about health promotion and help announce Health 2.0 Developer Challenge winners. We hope it almost rivals the thrill of a couple of other experiences he’s had—being President of Yale Glee Club and throwing out the first pitch at Fenway Park.
Todd Park, CTO, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Despite escaping from athenahealth and moving to California, Todd was dragged back to the East Coast in 2009, where he’s has been spending 25 hours a day at HHS promoting the cause of data Liberación. In March 2010 he spearheaded the Community Health Data Initiative (CHDI), now called the Health Data Initiative. He next masterminded the new Healthcare.gov site, including getting some techie called Barack Obama to record a nifty 4 minute demo—any of you CEOs who think you’re too important to run your own demos at Health 2.0 take note please! All this time Todd’s been working with the Health 2.0 community as we launched the Health 2.0 Developer Challenge, which he’ll help showcase today. And just last month, HHS launched the Health Indicators Warehouse and healthdata.gov. Want data? Todd will get it for you, because he loves the smell of coding in the morning!
Andrew Odewahn, Director, Business Relations, O’Reilly Media
Andrew has worked as an author and editor for titles like Designing Interfaces and Beautiful Visualization, and also gets to play with fun toys like Arduinos (a tool for making computers that can sense and control more of the physical world). We’ve been working with Andrew in our Developer Challenges and he brought Make magazine to collaborate with the recent Health 2.0 Developer Code-a-thon in Boston. Given that he was accompanied by 3-D printers and Kinect controllers that got hacked into becoming neurological sensors, Lizzie believes he “brings magic with him wherever he goes.”
Arnie Milstein, Professor of Medicine and Director of the Clinical Excellence Research Center, Stanford University
Arnie’s distinguished career as medical director of the Pacific Business Group on Health and at Mercer Consulting took a turn last year when he became head of the new Stanford Clinical Excellence Research Center. Arnie’s spent his career investigating and highlighting care delivery models that lower health care spending and improve clinical outcomes—including a series of articles highlighting primary care-driven communities across America that have succeeded despite our current reimbursement system. Arnie’s also been a mover behind technology, including being an inspiration behind Cisco’s HealthPresence. Now at Stanford collaborating with the Schools of Medicine, Engineering and Business, Arnie’s going to be building new care models (and not necessarily in Stanford’s new $2 billion taj-mahospital). We can’t think of anyone better to put America’s cost problems in perspective and help assess how Health 2.0 might help.
Rushika Fernandopulle, President, Iora Health
Rushika lives multiple parallel lives in health services innovation, research and public policy. He coauthored Uninsured in America, was the first executive director of the Harvard Interfaculty Program for Health Systems Improvement, and ran two divisions at The Advisory Board Company. Now with several large employers and unions across the nation, Rushika is trying to reinvent the primary care experience, and of course Atul Gawande just made him and his Atlantic City clinic famous in a recent New Yorker article.
Eric Langshur, Founder & Chairman, Rise Health, Inc.
Following a successful career in aviation, fuel cells and more, Eric Langshur and wife Sharon spent several years dealing with complications of their infant son Matthew’s hospitalizations. The result was CarePages which soon became the standard way for patients to communicate online about their hospital stays to loved ones. Via Revolution Health, CarePages is now part of the Everyday Health empire but Eric still has the Health 2.0 bug. He’s now Chair of Myca (the company behind Hello Health) and today is here to talk about his latest venture, Rise Health. Rise is doing the really hard job of taking new care models and introducing them to larger hospital systems—we assume change management and patience are involved!
Norman Wu, Co-founder, President & CEO of Qliance Medical Management
After running three start-ups, a decade at management consultants Bain, and tuning around a semi-conductor company, Norm has taken on a real challenge—building a functional and profitable primary care model. With hisphysician brother-in-law Garrison Bliss, Norm started Qliance, a venture-backed pre-paid primary care system. The model charges consumers a flat fee for all primary care and in its pilots in Seattle it’s had remarkable results in not only transforming the primary care experience but also in reducing other care costs. Now Norm is taking the model nationwide.
Don Casey, CEO, West Wireless Health Institute
When call center billionaires Gary & Mary West wanted to change health care and stimulate an industry, they picked San Diego and Don. Don came to WWHI after 25 years at J&J, ending up Chairman of the Comprehensive Care group and member of the Company’s Executive committee. Now he’s putting together a different kind of non-profit—one that will have its own engineering team, and will be investing in and building wireless products that make health care cheaper. And today he’s going to show us one of their first prototypes— appropriately enough for this conference, it’s called Sense4Baby.
Ethan Austin, Co-Founder, GiveForward
Ethan Austin, Co-Founder, GiveForward
After fundraising online for a charity marathon, Ethan began to wonder what other causes the same tools could be used for. He then met Desiree Wrigley who was looking for a partner to do the same thing. GiveForward is the result. It helps people create an online fundraising page, and most people use it to try to get help with medical expenses.
Jay Mason, President & Co-founder, MyHealthDIRECT
After years in insurance and starting a nationwide complementary care network, Jay founded MyHealthDIRECT in 2005. It took him a couple of years to convince Matthew that an appointment scheduling system for Medicaid providers and community clinics was a viable proposition, but you’ll see today that it both does good and makes business sense. There’s similar vision behind Jay’s work supporting Christian education and charities in the US and in the troubled land of the Congo.
Bettina Experton, Founder & CEO, Humetrix
Bettina’s been a national health policy advisor in three continents, and at Health 2.0 last Fall she showed us the U-BeWell (USB-based) and MediSee (smart phone) tools which patients can use to control their medical record distribution. Today Humetrix will introduce the “Automated Health 2.0 Medical Home Page.” We’ll discuss trademark legalities with Bettina later!
Bart Foster, Founder & CEO, SoloHealth
Bart has a background of being entrepreneurial with big companies (Novartis, Kellogs), but SoloHealth is a start-up on a mission to put thousands of its self-service networked diagnostic units in retail stores across America. You can check (and get educated about) your weight, vision, blood pressure and more. Is this a glimpse into the future of automated routine primary care? We’ll be showing SoloHealth for the first time and asking the tough questions.
Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Principal, Think-Health
Jane’s a health economist who delivers insight about trends, technology, and policy to clients across health care. She has one of the best blogs in health care (Health Populi) and wrote both the landmark 2008 CHCF report “The Wisdom of Patients,” and the recent & fabulous 2011 CHCF report “The Connected Patient.” She’s a loved and trusted consigliere to all of us at Health 2.0.
Lygeia Ricciardi, Senior Policy Advisor for Consumer e-Health, ONC, HHS
We’re thrilled that long time Health 2.0 friend (and sometime guest THCB contributor) Lygeia is the first to hold a brand new position within ONC directly representing consumers. Lygeia’s been working for more than 15 years on the use of Internet and communication technologies to improve life for consumers. Her work includes stints at the FCC, six years at the Markle Foundation working on their Common Framework for health information, designing interactive education for a kids’ dotcom called MaMaMedia, and graduate work at MIT Media lab. More recently she’s been running her ClearVoice consulting practice and helping the Center for Democracy & Technology in its health privacy work. We can’t think of a better appointee, and we’re thrilled that this is her first public appearance in the new role. Bet you didn’t know that ClearVoice is the translation of Lygeia from the Greek!
Margaret Laws, Director, Innovations for the Underserved, California HealthCare Foundation
Margaret Laws, Director, Innovations for the Underserved, California HealthCare Foundation
For several years CHCF’s President Mark Smith has been demanding that health care becomes cheaper. After more than a decade at CHCF Margaret is now running the Innovations for the Underserved program, working to reduce cost and improve access. In other words she’s tasked with putting her boss’ words into action. Since November last year CHCF has doubled down on this idea by introducing a $10m innovation fund modeled on social venture capital. We’ve been delighted to work with CHCF and Margaret, and we’re hoping that the Health 2.0 community can held disrupt the system and get us to “cheaper”.
David Rosenman, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic
David is a physician and innovation guru at Mayo Clinic, which has been responsible for showcasing all types of changes and trends in health care, and using America’s premier provider brand as a megaphone. In the past couple of years he’s been called both “one to watch in health care” by FierceHealthcare and “Teacher of the Year” by Mayo Medical School’s graduating class. David invited Indu to speak at Mayo Clinic in 2009 and we’re delighted that he’s here to reciprocate. Catch him quick, as he’s off to MIT for a sabbatical as a Sloan Fellow in Innovation and Global Leadership this summer.
David Rosenman, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic
David is a physician and innovation guru at Mayo Clinic, which has been responsible for showcasing all types of changes and trends in health care, and using America’s premier provider brand as a megaphone. In the past couple of years he’s been called both “one to watch in health care” by FierceHealthcare and “Teacher of the Year” by Mayo Medical School’s graduating class. David invited Indu to speak at Mayo Clinic in 2009 and we’re delighted that he’s here to reciprocate. Catch him quick, as he’s off to MIT for a sabbatical as a Sloan Fellow in Innovation and Global Leadership this summer.
Speaker Bios – San Diego 2011
Alan Greene, Founder, DrGreene.com.
Alan turned his pediatrics practice into one of the most famous health care web sites, drgreene.com. He now spends most of his time advocating and advising consumers—online, on the Dr. Oz show, and via his great books about feeding and raising Baby Green(s). We’ve had Alan at Health 2.0 several times—usually quoting Thomas Jefferson—but today we’ll chat about the WhiteOut movement. How can one simple act change a lifetime’s relationship to food?
Abbe Don, Co-Director, Connected Health Domain, IDEO
Abbe Don, Co-Director, Connected Health Domain, IDEO
Abbe’s at Health 2.0 in both professional and personal capacities. In her work at IDEO she promotes design-centered thinking for health care organizations—literally taking them to the houses and workplaces of patients to inspire dramatic breakthroughs in product and service design. But she’s also recently made a dramatic breakthrough in her relationship to food and healthy lifestyles via a stay at the Pritikin Institute. How can design-thinking change our relationship to food and wellness?
Stephen Downs, AVP, Health Group, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has a wide mandate to improve the health and health care of Americans. As the head of the RWJF Pioneer Portfolio, Steve’s role is to promote innovation. This includes groundbreaking work in tackling childhood obesity, driving improvements in the health care system, and coordinating RWJF’s promotion of health IT. The variety of his work is not too surprising as Steve’s both been at the HHS’ Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion and ran the Technology Opportunities Program at the Commerce Department. We’re delighted Steve’s at Health 2.0 to talk about the integration of health, technology, and innovation—as well as to interview one of the most interesting and unusual Project HealthDesign grantees.
Nikolai (Kolya) Kirienko, Project Director, Crohnology.MD
Kolya is a prototypical example of an engaged Patient 2.0. Following a diagnosis of Crohn’s disease in his teen years, he’s gone through a series of hospital stay and medicalizations that you probably won’t believe—with “care” ranging from the good to the barbaric. But inspired by a data-filled journal he kept through his experiences, Kolya has turned his undergraduate thesis into a major Project HealthDesign initiative. His intention is to make sure that no future Crohn’s patient will have to suffer the way he did because of an information gap.
J.D. Kleinke, Medical Economist, Author, Catching Babies
JD straddles the worlds of data and information technology and health policy. He started a managed mental health program, co-founded data analytics company HCIA, and helped start HealthGrades. All the while appearing regularly in Health Affairs (including much sparring with other policy heavyweights) and writing two health policy books (the latter of which contradicted much of the first!). Where JD goes, there’s always excitement. His Omnimedix Institute was behind the first iteration of Dossia (and had a well publicized falling out with that organization), and now he’s decided to stir things up in the controversial waters of childbirth and obstetrics. But this time he’s done it in the form of a novel, Catching Babies, out this month, and (we suspect) soon to be in your living room on Thursday nights.
Amy Romano, Associate Director of Programs, Childbirth Connection
Anyone perusing the Internet for information about childbirth knows that there’s a war out there with lots of opinion and lots of disagreement. One of the strongest proponents of midwife-assisted natural childbirth, Amy (@midwifeamy & blogger at Sense & Sensibility) is an author of the most recent edition of Our Bodies Ourselves, has worked at Lamaze and is now with Childbirth Connection. Anyone who saw her presentation at last year’s Health 2.0 Goes to Washington knows that she has no trouble calling it the way she sees it, even though that’s often contrary to ACOG’s and many hospitals’ policies. Today Amy’s going to interview Indu about her choices about her rapidly upcoming event.
Dean Ornish, Founder & President, Preventive Medicine Research Institute
Dean is a real pioneer. For more than 30 years he’s been developing and working on ways to treat heart disease that fundamentally challenge the assumptions of our medical-industrial complex by avoiding drugs and surgery. Dean also directed the first randomized controlled trial demonstrating that comprehensive lifestyle changes may stop or reverse the progression of early-stage prostate cancer, and his current research is showing that comprehensive lifestyle changes affect gene expression.
Along the way Dean’s been a consulting physician to Presidents and Congressional leaders, written numerous articles in the academic and popular press—and four best-selling books—been the subject of several documentaries, advised corporations from McDonald’s to Google, and received too many awards to list. After a prolonged process, Medicare has now agreed to provide coverage for Dean’s program, the first time that it’s covered a program of comprehensive lifestyle changes.
Dean’s also been active in the world of health online, as the Editor of the (newly acquired) Huffington Post, an expert on ShareCare (unveiled at Health 2.0 last Fall) and with his own forthcoming application, the Dean Ornish Spectrum. We can’t think of anyone better to talk about wellness, prevention and health, and to elucidate how hard it is to change health care on a personal and a system level.
Preston Maring, Associate Physician-in-Chief, Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center
Continuing a theme raised in our fireside chats, Preston is an OB/GYN in The Permanente Medical Group. But he’s here because of his other heath passion which is to help ordinary people eat better food. Preston is the inspiration behind Kaiser Permanente’s Farmers’ markets, which he started in 2003. There are now 30 weekly markets bringing fresh, locally grown and raised produce to people living near Kaiser facilities in 7 states. Preston also writes the Farmers Market Recipes blog which includes recipes and how-to videos about healthy cooking. But he’s no TV celebrity chef—for Preston this is all about the practicalities of how to help people cook, use knives correctly, and purchase good food cheaply. He’ll be challenging the Health 2.0 crowd today to help in that effort.
Carol Diamond, Managing Director, Markle Foundation
Carol directs the Health Program at Markle and chairs Connecting for Health—the public-private collaborative that many of us think laid the groundwork for much of the activity and excitement we’re seeing in Health IT today, with its 2008 Common Framework. She was at our Washington DC Conference talking about consumers use of Health IT and at our Fall 2010 Conference promoting the Blue Button initiative. But today she’s talking about her new interest: food.
Carter Headrick, Director of State and Local Obesity Policy Initiatives, American Heart Association
Carter is an expert in guerrilla public health marketing. Remember Joe Camel, and tobacco advertising that “wasn’t really for kids”? Carter put together 400,000 activists at the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, and now Joe and those billboards are gone. He’s also been a radio broadcaster, and is on the steering committee for the Safe Routes to School National Partnership and is President of America Walks. But he’s here today because of his role with the American Heart Association where he heads up the effort against obesity. And we thought campaigning against smoking was hard!
Hemi Weingarten, CEO and Founder, Fooducate
Hemi’s followed a not unusual Health 2.0 road. He started out as co-founder of MDRM, a tech company acquired by SanDisk, and along the way became husband and father to three young children. He’s a sworn foodie but realized that he didn’t know much about what was in the food he was giving his kids. The result is Fooducate, and its place in the Top 10 of the App Store’s Health category shows that he’s not alone in wanting to make the right choices.
Brian Witlin, CEO, ShopWell
Brian’s a pizza- and hotdog-loving Chicago boy turned California serial-entrepreneur. He was in the worlds of footwear (GoLaces) and software development (LeverWorks), but—as he also is a trained draftsman—we shouldn’t be too surprised that Brian’s stint as Entrepreneur in Residence at IDEO turned into ShopWell. It’s a new service to help people make healthier food choices at the grocery store. We’re not sure what is says about pizza and hotdogs.
Lindsey Volckmann, Director of Business Development, Keas
Following a preview in 2008, their official Launch in 2009 and an update in 2010, we’ve seen lots of Keas at Health 2.0. Is there something new? Yes there is! Lindsey, who used to run small business grants at NCI (when she’s not hanging in exclusive Vegas VIP rooms), will show us the game-like solution that has been running in pilot among the employees of lab giant Quest.
Eric Zimmerman, CMO, RedBrick Health
RedBrick’s been on our radar in the Wellness 2.0 space for several years, not least because of the more than $45m in venture funding it’s received. Eric’s also been on our radar following stints at RelayHealth and Mirixa. But Redbrick is at Health 2.0 today to show us their unique multi-employer alliance that’s really impacting Minnesotans’ health.
Paul Wallace, Medical Director for Health and Productivity Management Programs, Kaiser Permanente
Paul is an oncologist who has played multiple leadership roles with Kaiser Permanente, all focused around improving the effectiveness of clinical care and population health. Currently he’s Medical Director for Health and Productivity Management Programs, having previously run KP’s Care Management Institute, and having also been the Chair of the Center for Information Therapy—the aims of which are now written into the EMR meaningful use criteria. But we’ve invited Paul today to put the Health 2.0 revolution into practical research perspective.
Josh Sommer, Executive Director, Chordoma Foundation
While some of us spent college playing beer pong, at age 20 Duke sophomore Josh founded the Chordoma Foundation—Chordoma is a rare bone cancer. In addition to funding research and opening up cell lines, the Foundation is working on real-time learning systems, hosting conferences where researchers share new treatments, and creating a template for the same process for other rare cancers. Honored as a Person of the Year in 2008 by ABCNews, Josh was a riveting presence at Health 2.0 goes to Washington DC last year.
Susan Love, President, Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation
Susan is a legend in the world of breast cancer treatment, education and research. She’s a Clinical Professor of Surgery at UCLA but her day job is running her eponymous foundation which has over $4 million dollars in grants for its research program—centered on the cause and prevention of breast cancer. She’s a founder of the National Breast Cancer Coalition and of course is best known for her books—Dr. Susan Love’s Breast Book is in its fifth edition. But it’s her most recent project, the Love/Avon Army of Women that’s helping partner women and scientists in order to accelerate basic translational research. The campaign is recruiting one million women (350,000 so far!) and Susan will tell us how it will change the future of research.
George Lundberg, Editor-in-Chief, Cancer Commons
George was one of the best known medical editors to go “online”, leaving JAMA to go to Medscape in 1999. After a decade at Medscape (and parent company WebMD) George is now Editor at Large for MedPage Today and—more importantly from our perspective—really pushing the envelope on how academic research and publishing gets done at Cancer Commons. As former FDA head Donald Kennedy said, “Cancer Commons puts the patient at the front end of a remarkable experiment in translational medicine” and George is showcasing the world of “N of 1” experiments, and targeted therapy finder tools.
Gilles Frydman, Founder, ACOR
In 1995, when Gilles’ wife, Monica, discovered that she had breast cancer, Gilles created ACOR, the Association of Online Cancer Resources, and the world of Internet resources for cancer patients has never quite been the same since. ACOR’s 159 listservs deliver over 1.5 million email messages per week. He’s a mainstay at Health 2.0 but Gilles won’t miss the opportunity to argue with a French hospital bureaucrat, if given half a chance. And now he’s working on helping ACOR members get into clinical research in a new relationship with 23andMe.
Deborah Estrin, Professor, Computer Science, UCLA
Deb’s early research at USC concerned multicast and inter-domain routing protocols. Then she moved to embedded networked sensing systems. You probably don’t understand that, but you’ll for sure be intrigued by her current research in participatory sensing systems. What that means is getting photos, location and more from mobile phones, and using those streams for all kinds of community data gathering, self-monitoring applications, and “citizen science.” Deb is also behind the effort to create an open mHealth architecture, but she’s here to tell us about how ordinary people can use technology for revolutionary health and social research.
Marisa Nelson, Business Development Associate, 23andMe
23andMe’s genetics services have evolved since there was some on stage “spitting” by “Matilda” at Health 2.0 in 2008. Marisa is here to show us the research that’s already resulted from 23andMe’s collaboration with the Sarcoma and Parkinsons’ communities. With a little help from ACOR, the community has grown to be the largest cohort of Sarcoma patients under Marisa’s direction, and is on track to be the first Genome Wide Association Study in this rare disease.
Zach Simpson, Chief Architect & Scientist, Traitwise
Zach’s got a diverse work background, working as a game developer, molecular biology researcher, and creator of interactive exhibits in museums worldwide. In 2008 he co-founded Traitwise, a web-based bio-informatics company that is attempting to “sequense” the human phenome. Traitwise has an innovative survey technology appropriate for both care and research. Zach’s brother Michael just launched the company at Health 2.0 last October, but now Zach’s going to show us its potential for real time research.
Greg Biggers, Chief Instigator and CEO, Genomera
Greg’s been consulting about the Internet since it was still called the ARPANET, and was in SaaS back when it was called ASP. But now he’s a self proclaimed protean multipreneur and troublemaker, and he’s started Genomera to allow a community of quantified-selfers and hobbyists open, share and connect their genotypes, phenotypes and behavior in a series of self guided research projects. We don’t think you’ll have seen anything quite like Genomera before.
Chalapathy Neti, Director & Global Leader, Healthcare Transformation, IBM Research
Chalapathy is another hardcore scientist with degrees in Biomedical and Electrical Engineering. His day job is leading research in perceptual computing, speech recognition and multi-modal conversational systems for information interaction. And if that wasn’t enough to convince you he’s IBM’s central intelligence for health IT, he’s also one of the key thought leaders on the stunning implications that IBM’s Jeopardy-winning AI system Watson could have in health care. Chalapathy is also an integral force behind the $100m effort IBM announced last year to extract evidence from health data, generate new processes and move the health care system to focusing on improving outcomes.
Howard Koh, Assistant Secretary for Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
We’ve had Chief Technology Officers and National Coordinators from HHS at Health 2.0, but with Howard we’re rolling out the big guns. Yup, he needed (and got) Senate confirmation! Howard oversees 14 core public health offices, including the Surgeon General and the Public Health Service. And he’s the senior public health advisor to the Secretary. Howard is also responsible for interdisciplinary programs relating to disease prevention, health promotion, the reduction of health disparities, and a whole lot more. Previously he was a Professor of Public Health at Harvard and the Commissioner for Public Health in Massachusetts. We’re delighted Howard is here to tell us more about health promotion and help announce Health 2.0 Developer Challenge winners. We hope it almost rivals the thrill of a couple of other experiences he’s had—being President of Yale Glee Club and throwing out the first pitch at Fenway Park.
Todd Park, CTO, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Despite escaping from athenahealth and moving to California, Todd was dragged back to the East Coast in 2009, where he’s has been spending 25 hours a day at HHS promoting the cause of data Liberación. In March 2010 he spearheaded the Community Health Data Initiative (CHDI), now called the Health Data Initiative. He next masterminded the new Healthcare.gov site, including getting some techie called Barack Obama to record a nifty 4 minute demo—any of you CEOs who think you’re too important to run your own demos at Health 2.0 take note please! All this time Todd’s been working with the Health 2.0 community as we launched the Health 2.0 Developer Challenge, which he’ll help showcase today. And just last month, HHS launched the Health Indicators Warehouse and healthdata.gov. Want data? Todd will get it for you, because he loves the smell of coding in the morning!
Andrew Odewahn, Director, Business Relations, O’Reilly Media
Andrew has worked as an author and editor for titles like Designing Interfaces and Beautiful Visualization, and also gets to play with fun toys like Arduinos (a tool for making computers that can sense and control more of the physical world). We’ve been working with Andrew in our Developer Challenges and he brought Make magazine to collaborate with the recent Health 2.0 Developer Code-a-thon in Boston. Given that he was accompanied by 3-D printers and Kinect controllers that got hacked into becoming neurological sensors, Lizzie believes he “brings magic with him wherever he goes.”
Arnie Milstein, Professor of Medicine and Director of the Clinical Excellence Research Center, Stanford University
Arnie’s distinguished career as medical director of the Pacific Business Group on Health and at Mercer Consulting took a turn last year when he became head of the new Stanford Clinical Excellence Research Center. Arnie’s spent his career investigating and highlighting care delivery models that lower health care spending and improve clinical outcomes—including a series of articles highlighting primary care-driven communities across America that have succeeded despite our current reimbursement system. Arnie’s also been a mover behind technology, including being an inspiration behind Cisco’s HealthPresence. Now at Stanford collaborating with the Schools of Medicine, Engineering and Business, Arnie’s going to be building new care models (and not necessarily in Stanford’s new $2 billion taj-mahospital). We can’t think of anyone better to put America’s cost problems in perspective and help assess how Health 2.0 might help.
Rushika Fernandopulle, President, Iora Health
Rushika lives multiple parallel lives in health services innovation, research and public policy. He coauthored Uninsured in America, was the first executive director of the Harvard Interfaculty Program for Health Systems Improvement, and ran two divisions at The Advisory Board Company. Now with several large employers and unions across the nation, Rushika is trying to reinvent the primary care experience, and of course Atul Gawande just made him and his Atlantic City clinic famous in a recent New Yorker article.
Eric Langshur, Founder & Chairman, Rise Health, Inc.
Following a successful career in aviation, fuel cells and more, Eric Langshur and wife Sharon spent several years dealing with complications of their infant son Matthew’s hospitalizations. The result was CarePages which soon became the standard way for patients to communicate online about their hospital stays to loved ones. Via Revolution Health, CarePages is now part of the Everyday Health empire but Eric still has the Health 2.0 bug. He’s now Chair of Myca (the company behind Hello Health) and today is here to talk about his latest venture, Rise Health. Rise is doing the really hard job of taking new care models and introducing them to larger hospital systems—we assume change management and patience are involved!
Norman Wu, Co-founder, President & CEO of Qliance Medical Management
After running three start-ups, a decade at management consultants Bain, and tuning around a semi-conductor company, Norm has taken on a real challenge—building a functional and profitable primary care model. With hisphysician brother-in-law Garrison Bliss, Norm started Qliance, a venture-backed pre-paid primary care system. The model charges consumers a flat fee for all primary care and in its pilots in Seattle it’s had remarkable results in not only transforming the primary care experience but also in reducing other care costs. Now Norm is taking the model nationwide.
Don Casey, CEO, West Wireless Health Institute
When call center billionaires Gary & Mary West wanted to change health care and stimulate an industry, they picked San Diego and Don. Don came to WWHI after 25 years at J&J, ending up Chairman of the Comprehensive Care group and member of the Company’s Executive committee. Now he’s putting together a different kind of non-profit—one that will have its own engineering team, and will be investing in and building wireless products that make health care cheaper. And today he’s going to show us one of their first prototypes— appropriately enough for this conference, it’s called Sense4Baby.
Ethan Austin, Co-Founder, GiveForward
Ethan Austin, Co-Founder, GiveForward
After fundraising online for a charity marathon, Ethan began to wonder what other causes the same tools could be used for. He then met Desiree Wrigley who was looking for a partner to do the same thing. GiveForward is the result. It helps people create an online fundraising page, and most people use it to try to get help with medical expenses.
Jay Mason, President & Co-founder, MyHealthDIRECT
After years in insurance and starting a nationwide complementary care network, Jay founded MyHealthDIRECT in 2005. It took him a couple of years to convince Matthew that an appointment scheduling system for Medicaid providers and community clinics was a viable proposition, but you’ll see today that it both does good and makes business sense. There’s similar vision behind Jay’s work supporting Christian education and charities in the US and in the troubled land of the Congo.
Bettina Experton, Founder & CEO, Humetrix
Bettina’s been a national health policy advisor in three continents, and at Health 2.0 last Fall she showed us the U-BeWell (USB-based) and MediSee (smart phone) tools which patients can use to control their medical record distribution. Today Humetrix will introduce the “Automated Health 2.0 Medical Home Page.” We’ll discuss trademark legalities with Bettina later!
Bart Foster, Founder & CEO, SoloHealth
Bart has a background of being entrepreneurial with big companies (Novartis, Kellogs), but SoloHealth is a start-up on a mission to put thousands of its self-service networked diagnostic units in retail stores across America. You can check (and get educated about) your weight, vision, blood pressure and more. Is this a glimpse into the future of automated routine primary care? We’ll be showing SoloHealth for the first time and asking the tough questions.
Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Principal, Think-Health
Jane’s a health economist who delivers insight about trends, technology, and policy to clients across health care. She has one of the best blogs in health care (Health Populi) and wrote both the landmark 2008 CHCF report “The Wisdom of Patients,” and the recent & fabulous 2011 CHCF report “The Connected Patient.” She’s a loved and trusted consigliere to all of us at Health 2.0.
Lygeia Ricciardi, Senior Policy Advisor for Consumer e-Health, ONC, HHS
We’re thrilled that long time Health 2.0 friend (and sometime guest THCB contributor) Lygeia is the first to hold a brand new position within ONC directly representing consumers. Lygeia’s been working for more than 15 years on the use of Internet and communication technologies to improve life for consumers. Her work includes stints at the FCC, six years at the Markle Foundation working on their Common Framework for health information, designing interactive education for a kids’ dotcom called MaMaMedia, and graduate work at MIT Media lab. More recently she’s been running her ClearVoice consulting practice and helping the Center for Democracy & Technology in its health privacy work. We can’t think of a better appointee, and we’re thrilled that this is her first public appearance in the new role. Bet you didn’t know that ClearVoice is the translation of Lygeia from the Greek!
Margaret Laws, Director, Innovations for the Underserved, California HealthCare Foundation
Margaret Laws, Director, Innovations for the Underserved, California HealthCare Foundation
For several years CHCF’s President Mark Smith has been demanding that health care becomes cheaper. After more than a decade at CHCF Margaret is now running the Innovations for the Underserved program, working to reduce cost and improve access. In other words she’s tasked with putting her boss’ words into action. Since November last year CHCF has doubled down on this idea by introducing a $10m innovation fund modeled on social venture capital. We’ve been delighted to work with CHCF and Margaret, and we’re hoping that the Health 2.0 community can held disrupt the system and get us to “cheaper”.
David Rosenman, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic
David is a physician and innovation guru at Mayo Clinic, which has been responsible for showcasing all types of changes and trends in health care, and using America’s premier provider brand as a megaphone. In the past couple of years he’s been called both “one to watch in health care” by FierceHealthcare and “Teacher of the Year” by Mayo Medical School’s graduating class. David invited Indu to speak at Mayo Clinic in 2009 and we’re delighted that he’s here to reciprocate. Catch him quick, as he’s off to MIT for a sabbatical as a Sloan Fellow in Innovation and Global Leadership this summer.
David Rosenman, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic
David is a physician and innovation guru at Mayo Clinic, which has been responsible for showcasing all types of changes and trends in health care, and using America’s premier provider brand as a megaphone. In the past couple of years he’s been called both “one to watch in health care” by FierceHealthcare and “Teacher of the Year” by Mayo Medical School’s graduating class. David invited Indu to speak at Mayo Clinic in 2009 and we’re delighted that he’s here to reciprocate. Catch him quick, as he’s off to MIT for a sabbatical as a Sloan Fellow in Innovation and Global Leadership this summer.