2011 Speakers

Nino Mangiapane, Head of eHealth and Telematics, German Ministry of Health

Dr Mangiapane is head of Principles of Telematics/eHealth at Germany’s Federal Health Ministry–the Bundesministerium für Gesundheit. He’s worked in Health Care for almost 25 years, originally for the Resident Doctors’ Association and then for two compulsory Health insurance funds (Krankenkassen). In his opening remarks he will discuss Health 2.0 initiatives in a heavy regulated market like Germany and their place in the overall eHealth strategy of a European health ministry.

Christoph Goetz, Bavarian Administration of Statutory Health Care Physicians / KVB

Christoph is the Director of Health Telematics at the “Kassenärztliche Vereinigung Bayerns.” His organization provides statutory health care for all non-privately insured citizens in Bavaria (over 85% of the population) and represents more than 24,000 physicians. While his medical degree is from Ludwig-Maximilian’s University in Munich and then he spent two years at German Federal Ministry of Health in Berlin researching basic issues in electronic health, Christoph’s original computer science training was at the University of Michigan in the US.

Gábor Gyarmati, Szinapszis Group

We first met Gábor when he came to Health 2.0 (twice!) in the US in 2008 and gifted us some interesting brandy apparently named after the then candidate and now President Obama (Barack means apricot in Hungarian)! Gábor’s Szinapszis Group owns–among others–the patient site Webbeteg, its teenager version Kamaszpanasz (which you’ll hear more about later from its lead editor) and the physicians’ site DrPortal, and he’s been a great ambassador for Health 2.0 in Hungary.

Frank Neumann, BIG Direkt

Starting as a social insurance clerk back in the early 1980s, Frank worked his way up through Germany’s health insurance sector to join the board of BIG in 1997, around the time the company emerged from the Federal Guild of Hearing Aid Acousticians. BIG is now the first online and direct insurer in Germany, covering over 400,000 people in a decidedly non-traditional way, using the Internet, 24 hour customer service, and an extensive range of increased benefits to engage its members.

Roman Rittweger, Advisors in Healthcare

Roman is an MD/MBA who had extensive consulting experience before he became an online pioneer in physician search and also founded the ArztPartner almeda disease management organization. Since 2006 he’s been supporting companies and investors in health care with strategy consulting and M&A/Corporate Finance advisory services, and he’ll be giving his views on the climate for Health 2.0 start-ups in Europe.

Kai Sostmann, Charité University Hospital

Kai is a practicing pediatrician, who is also head of the department of eLearning, and the head of social media for our hosts here at the Charité-Universitätsmedizin. His research interests include the impact of Health 2.0-related technologies on the health behaviors of patients. We may ask him whether his Health 2.0 work has any connection to his experience studying medicine in Nepal. (He also trained in Berlin too!)

Roberto Ascione, President, Publicis Healthware International (PHI)

Roberto Ascione is founder and President of Publicis Healthware International (PHI), an integrated agency focused on improving communications across the health & wellness community, with
a strong eHealth and information technology focus. PHI is a division of Publicis Healthcare Communications Group (PHCG), the largest and most innovative health related agency network
in the world. Roberto has more than 15 years of experience in the consulting, media and communications industry and leads a team of more than 200 employees, operating across two international Hubs based in Europe (Italy) and the USA (New York). PHI also has satellite offices in Germany, France, the UK, India, China and Australia, to ensure global presence for all clients’ needs.

Michael L. Smolens, Founder and Chairman, dotSUB

dotSUB is Michael’s ninth startup, the first eight being in high risk emerging economies. dotSUB is a revenue generating, global market leading, technology/media company, whose browser-based platform enables web video, in any digital format, to be viewed in multiple languages on any video enabled platform, including mobile.

Aleksandar Stojanovic, General Manager, Publicis Healthware International (PHI)

Aleksandar leads Publicis Healthware International’s German business. The 33-year-old visionary, strategist and manager positions himself at the crossing point of the emerging markets of healthcare and digital media. Publicis Healthcare Communications Group acquired his sector- independent think tank Digital District in late 2010

Ariel M. Salmang, International Digital Communications Director, Publicis Healthware International (PHI)

Ariel has been working in the communications industry for more than 15 years, both on the client and the agency side. He joined Publicis Healthcare Communications Group in 2008 and has since focussed on introducing innovation strategy as well as digital sales- and brand-drivers for a number of healthcare brands – for both product launches and mature brands – as well as local and global digitalization strategies for healthcare companies in Europe, the Americas and Asia Pacific.

Mark Duman, Executive Chair and Director, Patient Information Forum

Mark’s a pharmacist who’s previously worked at the King’s Fund–where he ran the Ask About Medicines campaign and published Producing Patient Information–and at the BBC, where he worked to motivate people to improve their health and lifestyle. Now he’s helping create another UK institution, the Patient Information Forum–a member organization dedicated to improving the standard of consumer health information and increasing the influence of its use with the NHS and beyond.

Frederic Llordachs, VP Marketing and Sales & Co-founder, Doctoralia

Frederic is an MD with an MBA who’s worked with both start-ups and traditional health care organizations. Doctoralia may be the most international physician search sites with over 15 countries with local versions, but we also invited Ferederic to Health 2.0 Europe because he’s on faculty at Barcelona’s ESADE, one of Spain’s oldest business schools, where he mentors entrepreneurs.

Britta Lang, Research Associate, Cochrane Collaboration

Britta focusses on transferring knowledge about the risks and benefits of medical care from clinical research to consumers in an understandable way. She works at the German centre of the international Cochrane Collaboration–the global leader in clinical effectiveness, practice guidelines and evidence-based medicine. Right now she’s researching the quality of health information in Health 2.0. We’re sure her PhD in Classics comes in handy for that!

Natalia Pletneva, Research Assistant, Health on the Net Foundation

At Health 2.0 Europe in 2010, HON Director Celia Boyer introduced the Health 2.0 version of HON. Natalia has been a journalist (she has degrees in pharmacy and journalism), and then studied Sustainable Regional Health Systems in Spain, Italy and Hungary for her Masters. Her research with a patients’ community in the Basque Country made Web 2.0 in health care one of her core interests. Natalia is an adviser to the HON Foundation, and will catch us up on their latest work in Health 2.0.

Marco Vitula, CEO, Diagnosia Internetservices

Marco runs Diagnosia, which is a pan-European directory for pharmaceuticals that operates in six languages. Before starting Diagnosia he ran the leading Austrian physician directory distributed by Herold, the Austrian yellow pages. Not bad progress for an industrial engineer who got his start (not that long ago!) helping small companies use Google Adwords more efficiently.

Chris Cooper, Managing Director, EPG Health Media

After a career in pharma Chris started EPG health media in 1998, He’s been working within digital healthcare and enabling pharmaceutical companies to reach and engage target audiences online ever since. His flagship site epgonline.org is Europe’s most subscribed physician website. It’s both an extremely rich information portal for doctors and a series of sponsored disease and treatment “Knowledge Centres.”

Michael Alvers, CEO, Transinsight

Transinsight is one of a new breed of health search engines that sort clinically valid information in a new and approachable way, and even helps patients connect with researchers. And it does it in multiple languages. Of course if you knew that Michael was creator of an award-winning software package for biological image analysis, has a PhD in GeoPhysics, and has been on expeditions to both the Andes and the North Pole, you’d understand that health search is a natural next step.

Michael Bainbridge, Clinical Advisor, Clinithink

Clinithink indexes free-text clinical narrative recorded by clinicians in EMRs and sends back context- sensitive clinical codes in XML format. CliP can be run against existing data records for analysis or used in real-time as physicians record clinical encounters. That may sound complex but, before being at Clinithink, Mike led the Clinical Architecture and Assistive Technology teams at NHS Connecting for Health—which we suspect was a tougher challenge!

Anna Gyarmati, Teen Editor, KamaszPanasz

Anna has been working as a teen health blogger and online editor for KamaszPanasz since 2007. She also translates for the portal from English and German. KamaszPanasz is a Health 2.0 content site for teens that allows them to share experiences with each other and ask questions of physicians. And yes she’s still in high school and Anna has the distinction of being the youngest ever presenter at Health 2.0.

Rachel Iredale, Senior research fellow, Cancer Genetics Story Bank

Trained in her native Ireland as a expert in the social impact of genetics, Rachel’s now a Senior Research Fellow working at the All Wales Medical Genetics Service focusing on the impact of cancer on families. In 2010 she started the Cancer Genetics StoryBank. The story bank is an innovative collection of patient and staff stories providing a valuable source for current and new patients, and their families,v to share information about cancer in a new way.

Bartho Hengst, Dutch Cancer Society (KWf Kankerbestrigding)

In 2012 KWF Kankerbestrijding, the national Dutch cancer society, is launching kanker.nl – a social network for Dutch cancer patients – in cooperation with 25 national cancer patient organizations and all eight comprehensive cancer centers in the Netherlands. Bartho Hengst, owner of the web consultancy Xenias.nl, is a specialist in cancer social networks, His role is to help Kanker.nl in its goal to give patients a blend of personalized information, social networking, matching facilities and access to e-health tools. We think his degree in philosophy and ethics is bound to help!

Jorge Juan Fernandez, Director of E-Health & Health 2.0, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu

Barcelona’s Hospital Sant Joan de Déu (HSJD) is the leading children’s hospital in Spain and the reference point for Health 2.0 in Spain. At HSJD Jorge is responsible for the Liquid Hospital project, seeking to radically transform health care through intensive use of technologies, such as online consultations, remote monitoring, social media and e-Learning. Jorge’s also the author of “Las reglas de juego”, the most downloaded eBook in the history of the Spanish Internet and has been blogging about health innovation at www.saludygestion.com since 2004.

Niels Boye, Physician & CEO, Klinisk Informatik

Niels is an Associate Professor in Clinical informatics and owner of the company Klinisk Informatik – a health 2.0 knowledge-SME. He has participated in several European ICT for Health projects such as the PREVE project that examined directions for ICT Research in Disease Prevention and the eHealth Innovation Thematic Network.

Topi Hanhela, Business Development, Pharmaceutical Information Centre

Topi is a specialist in international digital business who’s responsible for the Pharmaceutical Information Center’s marketing and IT activities as well as training business. The Pharmaceutical Information Center is the hub for drug information in Finland with up to date drug information databases for consumers, health care professionals, and IT vendors. When not working Topi’s to be found escorting two French bulldogs around Helsinki.

Corinna Schaefer, Head of Patient Information Department, German Agency for Quality in Medicine

Corinna heads up patient information at “Ärztliches Zentrum für Qualität in der Medizin (ÄZQ).” Established in 1995 by the German Medical Association and the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians, ÄZQ coordinates health care quality programmes with a special focus on evidence-based medicine, medical guidelines, patient empowerment, patient safety programs, and quality management. At ÄZQ Corinna’s activities include development of patient versions of clinical practice guidelines and providing vetted patient information.

Joris Moolenaar, CEO, IPPZ

At Health 2.0 Europe 2010 Joris showed us Mijntherapie (Mytherapy), a secure online environment for mental health consultations. (For those of you practicing your Dutch, IPPZ stands for Innovatie Psychologische Psychiatrische Zorg or Psychological and Psychiatric Care Innovation). IPPZ has now branched out and is supplying treatment communities, where doctors can create their own blended (online and face-to-face) programs. But IPPZ is becoming a real platform—you’ll see it used later today by Jellinek–and the treatments co-created by its clients can be shared via the IPPZstore.

Simon Brownleader, Advisor, HealthLoop

Simon is a primary care physician at Blithehale Medical Centre in London but he’s been involved with several health IT projects, including using mobile technology with Orange and ‘Sweet
talk’ a text message support program for newly diagnosed diabetics. He’s also a founder of
the Second Life-based training program me Mediverse and an executive academy member of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Science. But today he’s going to show us the European version of HealthLoop, which was launched at Health 2.0 a couple of years back in the US.

Matt Jameson Evans, Chairman, HealthUnlocked

HealthUnlocked is an online patient-clinician support platform that tracks individual and group health care experiences. It allows patients to communicate with physicians (which Matt will show us today) and with each other in communities working with several patient charities (for which we’ll have to wait!). Matt’s an orthopedic surgeon who in a prior life founded the UK doctors’ network Remedy, which mobilized 15,000 doctors onto the streets of London in a kind of medical Arab Spring in 2007.

Erden Asena, CEO & Founder, doktorsitesi

Erden is a physician and a biophysicist. So it’s natural that he’d already founded doktorsitesi before he finished his PhD. Now the biggest health platform in Turkey, doktorsitesi allows consumers to share their experiences, ask advice and make appointments. Physicians use the site to respond to consumer questions and inquiries. We guess with Erden here, this is really Health 2.0 Eurasia!

Robert Halkes, Senior Consultant, Drimpy

Drimpy is a comprehensive platform launched this year which combines a patient’s health record and journal with a network and the ability to communicate with doctors, health professionals, and other patients. It’s being piloted in an Amsterdam hospital with a trial with an insurance company about to start, and Rob and CEO Arnold Breukhoven have big plans for its future. While Drimpy is new, Rob’s a physician who’s been been a lecturer at Tilburg University and consultant to the health industry for more than twenty years.

Alexander Börve, Founder & CEO, iDoc24

As well as being an entrepreneur, Alexander is a spine surgeon, PhD student, and teacher to medical students at Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg. Somehow he’s managed to fit in living in seven countries and speaking six languages. iDoc24 started in the STING (Stockholm innovation and growth) incubator in 2009 and took home first place in the Mobile Healthcare University Challenge at last year’s mHealth Summit in London. So what does a spine surgeon design for iDoc24’s first health application? A remote dermatology exam of course!

Amit Khutti, Managing Director, DrEd

Amit co-founded DrEd with David Meinertz after leaving his role as the Director of Strategy & Planning for Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, following a number of years working on health issues as part of the Prime Minister’s Delivery Unit. DrED is a new online service in which real UK primary care doctors prescribe real medicines in real time, with the intention of making life much more convenient for patients.

Frank Antwerpes, CEO, DocCheck

Frank is a physician and dentist, who also worked as a freelance copywriter before founding antwerpes & partner GmbH in 1990, the predecessor to DocCheck. The DocCheck portal has almost 750,000 users and allows certified physicians one password access to 2,500 cooperating Web sites. Frank also still runs antwerpes ag, an agency which develops and implements communication strategies with an emphasis on healthcare.

Tim Ringrose, Managing Director, Networks in Health/Doctors.net.uk

Doctors.net.uk was started in 1998 and is the dominant player in the UK online physician market with more than 1/3 of UK physicians using the community every week to discuss clinical cases, administration, politics and much more. Despite all that the CEO of the biggest US physician community (apparently) said he’d never heard of it at Health 2.0 Europe last year! This year Tim’s launched Networks in Health-an international alliance of online physician communities which is becoming a one-stop-shop for pharma and other clients. Watch your back, Dr Palestrant!

Susanna Palkonen, Vice President, European Patients Forum

Susanna is an EPF Board member and VP and she’s also the Executive Officer of the European Federation of Allergy and Airways Diseases Patients’ Association. Since 2003 EPF has been the collective patients’ voice at EU level, representing 40 patient organizations. EPF’s vision is high quality, patient-centred, equitable health care for all patients throughout the European Union.

Anna Omstedt Lindgren, Managing Director, MedUniverse

Anna was the co-founder of Sweden’s largest food, beverage and recipe community, Tasteline.com, which she sold to the Norwegian media group Schibsted in 2005. Having solved the world of food online, in 2008 she founded MedUniverse–a community where physicians can discuss important clinical and career issues with colleagues. Doctors on MedUniverse can use the platform to start their own networks, share documents and exchange advice, build their own digital profile and maintain contact with colleagues and former classmates. MedUniverse is part of an international alliance of online physician communities called Networks in Health, spearheaded by Tim Ringrose.

Artur Cichoń, CEO, Grupa Rx

Artur’s been creating and developing different Internet sites in Poland since 1997 in the fields of e-commerce, newspapers and social media–but now he’s CEO of Grupa Rx which runs the biggest social network site for Polish physicians–Konsylium24.pl–and has some interesting tricks and learnings to tell us about how physician communities work in Poland. Hint: doctors like helping sick doctors!

Miguel Cabrer, CEO and Founder, Medting

Since getting a Computer Science degree from the Balearic Islands University, Miguel has been working on projects connected to telemedicine and eHealth in the US and in Spain, including a five year stint as CIO of Hospital Son Llatzer which received numerous awards for its Digital hospital project. Medting.com provides an international venue for sharing radiology images & videos which enables clinical case collaboration for Second opinions, Medical Education, and the Scientific Social Network. Medting has enterprise licenses with hospitals in Spain and elsewhere including Mayo Clinic and King Fahd in Saudi Arabia. Miguel is a Health 2.0 Ambassador and so he’s one of the rare demurs from 2010 that we’re allowing to give an update!

Stephen Cook, CEO, 23 Gears

Steve is an English web developer living in Sweden. 23 Gears produces online training tools and PatSim–a patient simulator allowing medical students to train on diagnostic techniques on a wide range of patient cases–is their first product. It was developed in conjunction with Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg.

Hugo Stephenson, Founder/President, MediGuard

MediGuard (which has changed its name from iGuard) may be the biggest Health 2.0 membership site of all. Launched in 2007 as a spin-off of Quintiles, where Hugo was a senior executive, iGuard now has in excess of 2 million members in the US and another 100K plus in the UK. They’re getting information about interactions and recalls, being involved in frequent studies and are also being recruited for clinical trials. Hugo is a frequent visitor to the US but has been living in Paris. He’s moving back to his native Australia very soon. Ready for Health 2.0 Australia perhaps?

Pablo Graiver, CEO, Trialreach

Pablo’s been around the online world. He was at Internet incubator NetJuice, CEO at DondeComprar. com, the first ever price-comparison site in Spanish, co-founder at Kelkoo.com (acquired by Yahoo! for $575m in 2004 and sold by them for a whole lot less in 2008), not to mention stints at Kayak.com and ValueClick. But we’re very impressed with his UK-based clinical trial recruiting site TrialReach which he launched at Health 2.0 in San Francisco in 2009. So he’s back to show us the latest.

Matt Berry, CEO, Orca Health

Orca Health has been stealthily releasing visually beautiful iPad patient education apps over the past few months, but this is the first time you’ll see them at any conference. Watch out for the simulation of cataracts and macular degeneration. We were going to tell you that CEO Matt Berry played quarterback at BYU and make comparisons to Steve Young, but then we realized that no one in Europe knows what that means.

Cédric Hutchings, CEo, Withings

Since Cédric gave him a scale a Health 2.0 Europe, Matthew Holt’s lost a few kilos. But really Withings has taken the device world by storm with the integration of their scale and blood pressure cuff into most of the major data utility layers. At Health 2.0 Europe 2011 for the first time Withings will reveal their new baby monitor. And appropriately enough both Indu & Matthew have new babies and will likely be very early adopters!

Anatole Menon-Johansson, Director, SXT Health CIC

SXT Health CIC is building a service to put people needing instant information about sex issues in touch with those who supply services like emergency contraception, family planning and STD testing. Anatole is the clinical lead for Sexual Health at Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospital and Clinical Director for the sex information charity Brook. And a while back he was a Harkness/Health Foundation Fellow, carrying on a trend of British Harkness fellows appearing at Health 2.0 Europe (You may remember Emma Stanton from 2010).

Roman Schenk, CEo, PROTEGIA

PROTEGIA is a Munich-based corporate health management company. They’ve just signed a deal with Cigna’s VieLife unit, and are rolling out their new service to employers this month–but you’ll see it today for the first time. Before founding PROTEGIA Roman founded the first disease management company in Europe.

Alberto Sanna, Director, eServices for Life & Heath, Institute Health San Raffaele

Alberto has been involved in health care re-engineering projects at the Scientific Institute San Raffaele in Milano since 1989 but since 2002 he’s been director of the e-Services for Life and Health Unit. His research is at the three main verticals: Smart Hospitals, Smart Life, and Smart City; and one horizontal: Privacy, Safety & Security. He is also the author of edutainment video games and has several patents & trademarks. But today he’s going to tell us about how to make an impact regarding nutrition, exercise and health literacy.

Jacob Hofdijk, Implementator Integrated Care Funding System, Dutch Ministry of Health

Jacob was actively involved in the shift to integrated care funding in the Netherlands, first in hospitals and since 2003 for chronic diseases. He is also on the board of the European Association of Medical and Health Informatics. Given that the Dutch are regarded as a model for both IT use as well as care integration, he’s very well placed to talk about the connection between Health, Wellness and Health 2.0.

Laurent Coussirat, CEO, Mood Institute

After years working as a consultant to pharma and health corporations in Europe, Laurent realized that a web-based tool for mood monitoring for both patients and their families can have a big impact on care. The audience at Health 2.0 Europe in 2010 agreed, as Mood Institute was a Launch! winner.

Howard Last, Medical Director, Active Medicine

Howard Last is a practicing GP and a member of the Leeds Asthma Focus Group. In 2005 his practice won the Improvement Foundation’s Guy Rotherham Award for the care of patients with chronic diseases. But now he’s using technology to improve patients’ education and understanding of how to remain healthy by providing them with an asynchronous communication tool that helps them understand and control their asthma.

Ulrich Schulze Althoff, Managing Director, Medisana Space Technologies

Ulrich spent the past decade in the gaming business and sold his classic game publishing company (think: Space Invaders) to Taito in 2005. He’s now trying to make health self-management easy and entertaining for everyone, and the way to get to that is to use addictive measurement devices. Today he’ll show us VitaDock, which converts the iPad or iPhone into 4 different biometric devices in a really fun and engaging manner.

Jasper Ten Dam, Business Manager, myJellinek

Jasper runs the myJellinek treatment program me for an innovative mental health organization in Amsterdam called Arkin. Using the IPPZ platform, Jellinek delivers effective and efficient treatments for addictions to over 2000 patients a year, using a unique blended psychological treatment of online and face-to-face sessions.

René Seilhorst, CEO, Intenz/High Five Health Promotion

After becoming involved with corporate fitness in the late 1980s, René developed corporate wellness programmes for international organizations like Deloitte, IBM and Fortis. In 2006, he launched a nationwide network of more than 600 fitness clubs to provide corporate fitness in the Netherlands, using web-based technology to monitor and administer participation and results. He merged his company Intenz with High Five Health Promotion in 2009. Today he’s going to show the new system which encourages wellness using games and sensor-based activity monitoring.

Peter Ohnemus, Founder and Chairman of the Board, Quentiq

Peter’s been involved in many high-tech and bio-tech investments over the last 25 years but his newest venture Quentiq lets people track and benchmark their personal health data. It tracks it in real-time by incorporating data from scales, blood pressure monitors, smartphones and fitness tracking devices. That gets turned into a unique Quentiq Health Score which represents the individual’s current health status.

Alex Ressi, Founder, TweetWhatYouEat!

Alex used to build community-based gaming platforms for Game Trust, which was sold to RealNetworks in 2007. Since then he’s launched several Twitter-based mash-ups. Today he’s going to show us how TweetWhatYouEat allows users to construct a food diary and crowd- source calorie counts for food the way people actually eat it. Of course the member of the family who’s really influential in the Health 2.0 world is his wife Meredith, who is President of survey gurus Manhattan Research.

Esther Dyson, Chairman, EDventure Holdings

Esther needs no introduction to the technology crowd. But in the last few years healthcare investing (Medscape, Medstory, PatientsLikeMe, 23andme, Organized Wisdom, Imoveyou and many more) has taken more and more of her time. She’s also been a valued consigliere to Indu & Matthew. At the first Health 2.0 she likened the health care system to a “calcified hairball stuck at the bottom of a drain” and now she‘s on the warpath about the market for “bad health.” We are though a little nervous about the number in the title of this talk!