This Year’s Speakers

Aneesh Chopra, Assistant to the President & Chief Technology Officer, Office of Science & Technology Policy

When the Obama campaign used Web 2.0 technologies and social networking to get to the White House, it was a logical next step to get those technologies used in government. But how? And who would get this effort underway?

In April of this year President Obama appointed Aneesh Chopra as Federal CTO. Aneesh had been Virginia Governor Tim Kaine’s Secretary of Technology and previously worked at healthcare and financial services consultants The Advisory Board Company.

He’s clearly the right man for the job. While in Virginia he created an open source physics text book and in his new role, he’s been setting a manic pace. Not only is he criss-crossing the country making sure that technology folks are heard in DC and vice-versa, but he’s already established apps.gov—a web site for sharing lightweight Web 2.0 technologies for government agencies. Aneesh told us that he wants to see things done in weeks not years!

But the pace of change in health care isn’t always amenable to such speed. What does Aneesh think the role of Health 2.0 will be as health care reform gets under way? And what can the Health 2.0 community contribute to this effort?

We are really excited to find out and we are delighted that Aneesh is able to find time in his incredibly packed schedule to come and talk with us.

Remote care, virtual visits, online care management tools – these are all part of the emerging category called clinical groupware. In this panel some of the technology leaders of this movement are going to show how light- weight technologies are working together to transform clinician-clinician and clinician-patient interactions.

David Kibbe, Senior Advisor, AAFP

David has been at the forefront of persuading American physicians to adopt health information technology. Best known as the co-developer of the ASTM Continuity of Care Record, he’s spent the past year very visibly involved in the politics of health IT and is a leader of the emerging clinical groupware movement.

Paul Abramson, Physician Champion, Hello Health

In Spring 2009 the Myca platform debuted at the Health 2.0 Meets Ix Conference. Myca now has investment from BCBS Venture Fund, and is expanding its services to health plans. But its centerpiece is the Hello Health network of physicians, and today we’ll hear from Paul Abramson, a practicing physician, who specializes in Integrative medicine and has an electrical engineering degree, and is an early adopter of the Hello Health technology platform.

Roy Schoenberg, CEO, American Well

Roy is CEO of American Well, which has really shaken up the environment for online care. American Well’s first installation (and frequent flier mileage generator) in Hawaii has captured national attention, and deals with Optum, TriCare, and BCBS Minnesota have followed. Roy was the inventor and founder of CareKey Inc, the health management system bought by Trizetto in 2005. Today and in the Deep Dive he’ll be showing their new Insight decision support capability.

Steve Adams, CEO, RMD Networks

Steve has been around Internet-based communications since the beginning, founding HotelNet and Webb Interactive Services in the early 1990s. He was also instrumental in developing MDGateway, an online system for physician CME. Now RMD Networks is one of the new leaders in providing a platform for patient-physician communication applications, including Reach My Doctor and the Carespace.

Martin Pellinat, CEO, VisionTree Software

VisionTree is filling in the cracks of health care communications. They’re replacing paper in the communications between patients and doctors in teaching hospitals across the nation, managing multisite and multi-national clinical trials, and allowing doctors to manage their referral networks. Martin founded the company but you might still bump into him if you make a random visit to UCSF or UCLA!

Arien Malec, VP Product Management, Relay Health

RelayHealth has grown from its beginnings as a physician eVisit service, to becoming a core SaaS platform connecting doctors, hospitals, and consumers. Since Health 2.0 last year RelayHealth has set its sights on integrating with the world of health information exchanges. And having championed ePrescribing for RelayHealth, Arien is now leading that charge. A brave man indeed!

Ron Dixon, Director, Virtual Practice Project, Partners Healthcare

Ron is an internist who started using simple online communication tools like Skype to keep in touch with and even diagnose patients. We were so impressed by his work that we asked him both to reflect on what he sees here and ask some other practicing physicians about if and how they might adopt these tools.

Amy Berlin

Amy Berlin is a practicing psychiatrist who has maintained a decade-long interest in healthcare informatics. As an advisor to physicians who want to adopt new information systems, she brings a real-world perspective in a specialty of medicine where we might see some interesting implementations of Health 2.0 technologies.

Will Sellman

Will Sellman is a family medicine doctor practicing in the East Bay but with previous stints in exotic New Zealand. While maintaining a full time schedule seeing patients, he also serves on the board of his IPA, the Affinity Medical Group and has been a leader in getting his colleagues up and running with his practice’s EMR.

Stephen Sigal

Stephen Sigal is a cardiologist practicing in Tyler, Texas. When he’s not seeing patients, he is vocal on issues of healthcare financing and delivery on his blog: www.hartdoctor.blogspot.com.

Brian Klepper, Principal, Health 2.0 Advisors

Brian’s a long time industry analyst who’s more than dabbled in health reform for many years. This year Brian has been publicly active (and sometimes publicly cynical) in the debate over “meaningful use,” both online and in hearings in Washington. He spends the rest of his time working with organizations using technology and common sense to change the process of health care delivery. He’s a founding principal of Health 2.0 Advisors.

Jerry Reeves, Principal, Health Innovations

Jerry is becoming once of the best known Chief Medical Officers in the nation. He’s spent time at Humana, and as CEO of PHR (and more) vendor WorldDoc. But it was his use of data analysis to completely change the cost and outcomes for the members of the Unite Here! union in Las Vegas that got him invited to the White House earlier this year as an example of how we can use technology to “bend the curve.”

Mohandas Nair, Executive Vice President, Regence BCBS

Mohan continues a Health 2.0 tradition. We love hearing what Regence, which maybe the most innovative non-profit Blues plan, is up to as it both pushes the envelope in its national reform efforts and its use of consumer IT. Before being at Regence Mohan was an author, professor and entrepreneur. Now as part of their corporate wellness campaign, he and CEO Mark Ganz apparently run Regence during meetings on dueling treadmills!

Ingrid Lindberg, Customer Experience Officer, Cigna

Ingrid’s role is to improve the consumer’s experience at one of the biggest for-profit health plans. Given common opinion about customer service in the industry we can expect that she has a thick skin! Ingrid’s spent time in the financial industry and at consumer health plan pioneer Definity. But we asked her here today because Brian Klepper was bowled over by the work she’s got underway at Cigna.

Nathan A. Moracco, Director of the Employee Insurance Division, State of Minnesota Management & Budget

Nathan manages the health benefits programs for both state and local government employees in Minnesota. For more than 6 years he’s been managing all aspects of employee benefits and leading union bargaining negotiations. Both in his current role and previously at Honeywell Nathan was also very active in the Buyers Health Action Group State and many other health care associations. Most recently he’s been a big part of the state-wide push to get all Minnesotans on PHRs. You’ll be hearing more about that today.

Christopher Ohman, SVP, Health Plan Operations Outside California, Kaiser Permanente

Chris has the task of making sure that the trains run on time for all Kaiser’s operations outside the Golden state. That means he earns his frequent flyer miles from Hawaii to the East Coast, and he gets to see the role of KP’s massive technology investment in many different medical markets. He only recently joined Kaiser after roles at several other insurers and trade associations. We’ll find out today how well he’s been assimilated!

Adam Lee, Group Product Manager, Quicken Health Group, Intuit

We saw the preview in 2008, but now Quicken Health is in production, is live with Cigna and soon will be up at United and Medical Mutual of Ohio. Adam is in charge of the product strategy, and prior to Intuit was at healthcare supplier exchange Neoforma.

Fred Goldstein, President, U.S. Preventive Medicine

Fred joined U.S. Preventive Medicine when it acquired his innovative disease management company, Specialty Disease Management Services, in 2007. USPM is now focusing on selling its Prevention Plan to employers. It’s working for Fred who’s now looking more like the high-school gymnast he used to be!

Karl Ulfers, Director of Strategic Initiatives, Optum Health

Karl Ulfers is in charge of all clinical strategic initiatives at Optum, but he’s here today to show us eSynch. eSynch is a remarkable system for taking data from multiple sources across the United Healthgroup empire (and elsewhere) and turning it into actionable interventions for Optum’s nurses and coaches, and soon for consumers–all built on a web services platform.

Dan Kogan, CEO, HealthWorldWeb

Working with Chief Evangelist Eugene Borukhovich, Dan has built a powerful recommendation engine which he believes holds the key to integrating communities, ratings, provider directories and a whole lot more. Today, he will show you MyHealthExperience, based on his predictive modelling work in the financial industry.

David Best & Michael Banks, The Doctor’s Channel

David and Michael started The Doctors Channel which provides “media snacking”–lots of short videos for (and from) doctors to learn news (they have a partnership with Reuters), tips, clinical content and even get CME credit. All done really fast.

Gregory Gilman, RxVantage

While waiting around as a drug rep, Greg had a great idea. What if instead of the chaos of current detailing, docs’ offices and drug reps shared a common calendar to organize appointments, lunches, sample ordering and everything else? RxVantage does just that (and more).

Ryan Howard, Practice Fusion

Practice Fusion offers an ad supported SaaS-based EMR and practice management system for docs. Ryan founded it three years ago and they’ve grown to nearly 20,000 users and Salesforce.com just invested. Oh, and its free.

Mark Walinske, Boundary Medical

Mark’s a technology veteran who started Boundary Medical to help doctors track their patients’ outcomes. Their first market is orthopedics. Considering the knee surgeries we know about this sounds like a good idea!

Chaim Indig, Phreesia

Phreesia puts webpads in physicians’ offices to both streamline the clipboard process and help educate patients. Chaim literally started the company out of his Manhattan apartment and just got a serious venture investment from the BCBS fund.

Clint Crowe, mdDigest

Clint has created HealthForge which he calls eHealth Commmunity Groupware. It’s an open source platform with a set of physician-focused features. And users and developers can add their own modules.

Alan Pitt, emerge.md

Alan is an attending neurologist at the Barrow Neurological Institute. emerge.md uses an adaptation of WebEx to allow clinicians and patients to communicate within a secure environment.

Jason Bhan, Ozmosis

Jason is a practicing physician and entrepreneur who last year showed us Ozmosis, which was then an early stage online physician community. Now it’s being used in several hospitals, and today he’s showing us how Ozmosis helps doctors communicate about disease outbreaks.

Steve Schelhammer, Phytel

Steve rode the disease management boom when he founded and sold Accordant Health Services. Now he’s helping physicians manage their patient populations using data mining technology and innovative outreach.

Lou Cornacchia, Doctations

Lou is a neurosurgeon who founded Doctations to connect physicians in a network with each other and their patients, and to solve many of the problems they face in their current practice. You can also catch him in an extended Deep Dive later this afternoon.

Michael Nusimow, Dr. Chrono

Dr. Chrono is a new SaaS-based solution for physician practice management. Working with Daniel Kivatinos, Michael has been integrating Dr. Chrono into several other solutions, including Phreesia.

Esther Dyson, EDventure

Esther needs no introduction to the technology crowd, and now is equally well known in healthcare for her role as an investor (Medscape, Medstory, PatientsLikeMe, 23andme, Organized Wisdom and many more), and for likening the health care system to a “calcified hairball stuck at the bottom of a drain.” Last year she trained to be a cosmonaut and we’re never sure what to expect next!

Amy Tenderich

Amy’s a key spokesperson for patients and is now also the community manager for Diabetic Connect. But it’s her role as the founder of DiabetesMine that’s enabled her to change the way patients and health care organizations work. Her now annual DiabetesMine Device Challenge has produced some amazing innovations.

Susannah Fox, Pew Internet & American Life Project

Susannah is the authority on what Americans are doing online regarding their health, and is a regular presenter at past Health 2.0 conferences. What you may not know is that she had her broken nose reset on the side of a rugby field by another Health 2.0 presenter. You’ll have to read on to find out who that was!

Jen McCabe, Contagion Health

When Jen became an intern at Health 2.0 in early 2008 we didn’t know about her series of surgeries following a car crash when she was only 20. We didn’t know she was going to work with Organized Wisdom, start two tech companies (NextHealth and Contagion), and we didn’t know about her now legendary ascendency to the top of the Health 2.0 Twittersphere. But we do now!

Trisha Torrey, Every Patient’s Advocate

Trisha was misdiagnosed with cancer in 2004. The result of that horrifying experience sent her on a crusade to help others and she does that via the Every Patients Advocate blog, on About.com, in her newspaper columns, on her radio show, using her DiagKNOWsis web site and lots more! Now she’s putting it together in her new book You Bet Your Life! The 10 Mistakes Every Patient Makes.

Gilles Frydman, 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. And now Gilles is a mainstay behind the new Society for Participatory Medicine.

“ePatient” Dave deBronkart, The New Life of ePatient Dave

Dave became a very quick study about health when he was diagnosed with and beat kidney cancer in 2007. Since then Dave has both told his story widely, testified in Washington on patients data rights, and caused an almighty stir when moving his records from Beth Israel into Google Health. He’s a pretty nifty dancer too.

Doug Goldstein, iConnecto

Doug has been working in eHealth since before the term was invented. As a consultant and futurist, he helps healthcare companies improve their performance, productivity and profits. He’s also President of Medical Alliances, and now he’s ahead of the curve running iConnecto—which is a trailblazer integrating gaming, mobile and web into healthy lifestyles.

Robert Hone, Creative Director, Red Hill Studios

Red Hill Studios and Robert are active in a number of health e-gaming projects as part of NIH grants, and today Robert will show us how the Wii interface is helping patients with Parkinson’s Disease.

Belinda Lange, Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California

Belinda is a physical therapist by training and she’s working on the use of Virtual Reality Technology for PTSD and for pain distraction in children, Alzheimer’s disease and rehabilitation.

Kristi Miller Durazo, Senior Strategy Advisor, American Heart Association

For several years Kristi has been the AHA’s emissary to the world of social media and been studying its role in improving health. She inspired the creation of the game CryptoZoo, designed by game expert, Jane McGonigal, in collaboration with Institute for the Future. Hopefully some of you by now took part in CryptoZoo, which encourages physical activity in real world spaces.

Jonathan Eubanks, Executive Producer, Invicta Interactive and Consultant to Remission

Jonathan is a video game industry veteran who was Executive Producer to HopeLab in the development of Remission, the revolutionary cancer empowerment game for kids. Today he’s going to demonstrate innovations in virtual worlds and the implications for Health 2.0.

Kenneth Seymens, Venture Partner, Versalius Ventures

Ken is a venture capitalist who specializes in the middle east and Africa and also used to be the CIO of the AHA! He also has been working on a team building some adver-games and is here to add his comments to this panel.

Tyson McDowell, CEO, Benchmark Revenue Management

Tyson has been building businesses on the Internet since he was 14 and by the time he left high school had created the San Diego Zoo Panda Cam when he was CTO of Camzone Networks. Now he’s running Benchmark Revenue Management, a technology platform designed to overlay and rapidly integrate with any hospital IS infrastructure to improve its operations and financial performance. We understand that this is a non-trivial task.

Matthew Browning, CEO, YourNurseIsOn.com

YourNurseIsOn is designed to fix a widespread problem: How do you easily alert trusted nurses that there are hospital shifts available, without either paying an agency a fortune or wasting hours of staff time on the phone? Matthew is not only a savvy technologist but also an interesting combination of a nurse, husband, father, warrior, healer and gardener.

Tyler Kiley, CEO, InQuickER

Have you ever wondered why OpenTable can tell you where there’s a spare reservation at any restaurant across the country, but to get in at your local ER is always a three hour wait? Tyler, whose mother was an ER nurse, thinks that he has the answer. (Say the name, you’ll figure it out!)

Ted Dagnal, Director of Operations, Prodigo Solutions

Prodigo connects the external marketplace where hospitals buy supplies with their internal contracting and management systems. That may not sound glamorous, but supplies are the second biggest costs for hospitals and Prodigo has the potential to massively improve organizations’ procurement. Ted directs operations for Prodigo, which was incubated at Pittsburgh giant UPMC.

Alex van Klaveren, CEO, MedicExchange

Alex joined MedicExchange in September 2008 and has been creating its niche as a social network helping medical purchasers. It’s a far cry from his previous gig, running ourweddingday.com—successfully sold earlier this year.

Josh Seidman, President, Center for Information Therapy

Under Josh’s direction, the Center for Ix Therapy is emerging as the fulcrum for educating the health care industry and policy makers about the potential for optimizing patient education. He runs a lot of marathons, including finishing the Boston Marathon immediately before last April’s Health 2.0 Meets Ix Conference.

Adam Vincent, VP of Product Development, WebLib

WebLib has been developing semantic search technology largely for government agencies. Adam’s going to show us HealthMash which combines one of the most interesting new interfaces we’ve seen in vertical health search with proprietary health knowledge base extracted from multiple databases.

Scott Reese, CEO, Wool Labs

We first met Scott when he was at the agency Digitas, and we struggled then to keep up with his understanding of cutting edge technology. Now he’s putting that to work at Wool Labs where WebDig is one of the most interesting examples we’ve seen of real time search. It’s currently helping pharma firms understand what’s being said about their products right now online in social networks, tweets and blogs.

Sarah Loughran, VP, New Product Development, HealthGrades

HealthGrades showed us its move into consumer ratings of physicians at Health 2.0 in Spring 2008 and in drug ratings last Fall. But with its consumer site WrongDiagnosis.com, Healthgrades is becoming a mainstream online health destination. Sarah’s been at HealthGrades for more than a decade.

Jeremy Bloom, CEO, MDInfo

Jeremy is the three-time world champion freestyle bumps skier who sued the NCAA for interrupting his college football at Colorado. Just in case all of us other males here aren’t feeling inadequate enough about what we got up to in our early twenties, Jeremy has also been a GQ model, has his own Foundation that helps low income seniors, and has now launched MDInfo which is one of the fastest growing new online health content sites.

Steven Krein, CEO, OrganizedWisdom

Steve is no stranger to Health 2.0 conferences. We deliberately left him out of our Spring conference after his (true) boast last Fall that Organized Wisdom was the only company to launch a new service at each of the first 3 Health 2.0 conferences. Undaunted, he’s back today with two product launches. (Yes, that makes them 5 for 5 for those of you counting!)

Tracy Chu, Director, Product Management, RightHealth

Tracy joined Kosmix in 2008, following a stint running content, community, and e-commerce for Yahoo! Travel and Yahoo! Shopping. Since the early days of vertical search in health, RightHealth has become a serious player and is in many ways a front door for millions of searches into the world of Health 2.0.

Michael Millenson

Michael is a nationally recognized expert on patient empowerment and safety issues, and the author of Demanding Medical Excellence. Michael is a principal at Health 2.0 Advisors and works extensively on care quality issues. He’s also a columnist with Kaiser Health News and the Huffington Post.

Al Waxman, CEO, Psilos

Al runs Psilos, which is one of the best known “health care only” venture funds, where he invests in companies that use technology to improve efficiency and outcomes in health care. Just a few of Psilos’ successes are Active Health Management, Health Hero Network, and Definity Health. Current investments include HealthEdge, CareGuide, Quality Metric, Extend Health, and Triveris. But Al’s on this panel because he’s been calling out other VC’s for not focusing on the need for health care technology to step up to answer the system’s problems. Yes, he’s the optimist here!

Luke Mitchell, Senior Editor, Harper’s Magazine

Luke has written in Harpers about oil, Iraq, torture and much more in recent years. But we were fascinated by his Februrary 2009 article Sick in the Head, in which he took a deep look at the politics, organization and technology of American health care, and concluded that America won’t get the health care system it needs.

Maggie Mahar, Health Care Fellow, The Century Foundation and Author, HealthBeatBlog

Maggie was a Barron’s reporter who exposed the dark underbelly of the 1990s stock boom in Bull! She then turned her attention to health care with her book Money-Driven Medicine, which has now been made into a documentary. Along the way she’s become a real expert in the opaque relationship between politics and markets in health care. She’s also running a very high profile Medicare Reform working group at her “home,” The Century Foundation.

Christopher Schroeder, CEO, HealthCentral

Chris founded the Online Publishers Association, ran the Washington Post Online and has been recognized as one on the most influential people in online media. He has vast experience in the financial world and in the first Bush Administration. But we’re glad to (finally!) have him at Health 2.0 because he’s led the rebirth of HealthCentral into being one of the major content and conversation neworks in online health. It’s also the health vehicle for media giant IAC which made a large investment in 2008.

Elizabeth Cohen

Elizabeth is a very familiar face as the senior medical correspondent of CNN. She writes the popular “Empowered Patient” column on CNN.com, and her book What Your Doctor Doesn’t Tell You, is coming out in 2010. Meanwhile she’s gamely put up with Indu & Matthew lecturing her about the importance of Health 2.0 and we’re delighted that she’s here!

Alexandra Drane, President, Eliza

Alex founded Eliza, which uses its tools in interactive voice response to promote “healthy discussions.” Those of you at Health 2.0 in October 2008 won’t easily forget the result of her “first date” with Matthew Holt—the Engage With Grace project. But today she’s also going to tell us about a very special Health 2.0 marriage.

Chris Rauber, San Francisco Business Times

Chris has been following health care and doing some of the best business reporting on it for longer than he might care to admit. He also covers the wine industry, which we suspect might offer more entertainment possibilities!

Adam Bosworth, CEO, Keas

Before founding Keas, Adam was the head of Google Health. He’s also held many positions at some of the biggest tech companies and is known as one of the pioneers of XML technology. He gave us a sneak preview of Keas last year, but it’s now in public Beta and the idea has changed a lot. Meanwhile Adam has been active giving consumer health information a voice in Washington DC and was one of the driving forces behind HealthDataRights.org.

Carleen Hawn

Carleen used to write for Fortune but is best known in Health 2.0 for writing the Take two aspirins and tweet me in the morning article in Health Affairs– we’ll forgive her for her choice of Health 2.0 definition in that article! Now she’s gone on to found HealthSpottr.

Thomas Goetz, Wired Magazine

Thomas helped make PatientsLikeMe famous in an article in the NY Times in 2008, and is the author of the brand new and remarkable book about the future of personalized medicine, The Decision Tree. We think it’s going to make him (even more) famous. There’s a slight chance that Thomas will be waylaid by his wife expecting a baby around the time of the conference. If that happy event intervenes, Nina Sossamon Pogue from ICYOU has very graciously offered to step in.

Jane Sarasohn Kahn

After a decade working for larger consulting firms, Jane started THINK-Health in 1992 todeliver her encyclopedic knowledge and insight about trends, technology, and policy to clients across healthcare. She also writes a monthly online column in iHealthbeat, is a founding Principal of Health 2.0 Advisors, and blogs at Health Populi.

Wayne T. Gattinella, President & CEO, WebMD

Wayne joined WebMD in 2001. WebMD is now not only the most recognized online health brand for consumers but also apparently the most searched “health” word on Google. It’s also a major provider of health and benefits portals for the country’s largest corporations and health plans. Last year Wayne and Phil Marshall showed us the Verizon portal. This year we hear that they’re going mobile…possibly connected to WebMD Mobile being one of the most downloaded health tools from the App Store.

Sameer Samat, Director of Product Management, Google Health

Sameer is a technology veteran who has been running Google Health for around a year, during which time there has been some controversy. He’s had to deal with both the data issues highlighted by ePatient Dave and some (perhaps unfair) criticism from the Health 2.0 crowd about Google’s commitment to health care. Meanwhile this year Google has introduced a new browser, OS, mobile OS, and communication platform (Wave) and continued to drive use of its cloud computing platform inside health care organizations. Today Sameer’s going to introduce us to new partner MDLiveCare.

Bob Smoley, Chief Executive Officer, MDLiveCare

MDLiveCare is a new entry to the world of online care. Bob will show us their new integration with Google Health.

David Cerino, GM, Consumer Health Solutions, Microsoft

Dave runs HealthVault which has continued this year to quietly cement new relationships, including one with the Mayo Clinic Health Manager debuting at Health 2.0 Meets Ix in the Spring. Meanwhile Microsoft has moved health search under its new Bing search division, which of course has cemented a new deal with Yahoo! Dave previously was part of the consumerization of online travel at Farelogix and Orbitz.

Rex Jakobovits, Creator/VP Solution Line Mgmt, MyPACS.net/McKesson

Since founding and selling MyPACS.net to the biggest conglomerate in health care, Rex is now a VP in McKesson’s Medical Imaging Group. Rex figured out a clinical business use for Web 2.0 in health care in image sharing and this year is back to show how radiologists and institutions are using MyPACS.net to support their clinical decision making.

Lance Hill, CEO, Within3

Lance showed us Within3’s early days at our first Health 2.0 Conference. Within3’s networks for physicians and medical scientists are having a major impact in the world of clinical trials and information exchange within institutions. Now they’re working with specialty societies and pharma companies to push the boundaries of crowdsourced decision making.

Sanjay Koyani, Director of Web Communications, U.S. Food and Drug Administration

Sanjay leads Web design and usability efforts for the FDA, following more than a decade doing similar roles at HHS and the National Cancer Institute. The FDA of course has been much in the news given both drug and food safety issues in recent months. Sanjay’s team has been very aggressive in using tools like Twitter to communicate directly with professionals and the public about peanut-butter amongst other topics.

John deSouza, CEO, MedHelp

John is the Ethiopian-born CEO of MedHelp which in the past few years has grown to over 7 million monthly visitors. Last year John told us about MedHelp’s role revealing a Victoria’s Secret production problem. Now MedHelp helps patients self-organize their own specific care knowledge, allows them to track many aspects of their health, and still allows them to interact directly with physicians from leading institutions like Cleveland Clinic & Vanderbilt.

Hugo Stephenson, Founder/President, iGuard

iGuard may be the biggest Health 2.0 membership site you’ve never heard of. Launched in 2007 as a spin-off of Quintiles, where Hugo was a senior executive, iGuard now has more than 1.5 million members who are both getting information about interactions and recalls, and are also being recruited for clinical trials and even genomics studies. Hugo is an Australian living in Paris, which will make his trip to Health 2.0 Europe 2010 slightly shorter than the one he made to be here today.

Kristin Peck, SVP, Worldwide Strategy and Innovation, Pfizer

Pfizer has been one of the most innovative big pharma players in working with Health 2.0 companies. They were an early customer of Sermo, and have recently announced an innovative deal with Private Access to increase participation in clinical trials. Kristin is also responsible for just a tad more than Pfizer’s Health 2.0 strategy, including the minor task of managing the integration of Pfizer’s $68 billion purchase of Wyeth.

Alexandra Carmichael, CEO, CureTogether

We’ve been watching CureTogether since the early days way back in 2008! Under Alexandra’s guidance over 4,500 people are tracking just about everything that may (or may not) have something to do with their health conditions. They’re producing research about successful treatments in a series of crowdsourced publications, and now have data linking asthma with infertility.

Jamie Heywood, Chairman, PatientsLikeMe

PatientsLikeMe remains a media darling–including a long feature by Thomas Goetz in the NY Times last year– and has expanded from ALS to communities in many other conditions. Last year Ben Heywood told us about PLM’s research into Lithium. This year Jamie will be talking about research with Pfizer and their new community research venture into Epilepsy with UCB.

Amy DuRoss, VP, Navigenics

Even if she’d never joined Navigenics, Amy would still be a huge star in the world of genomics and clinical research. She was the driving force behind the passage of Proposition 71 in 2004, which provides $3 billion in funding for stem cell research and created the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine. Now she’s mixing her role running policy and business at Navigenics with a pretty promising co-ed soccer career.

Julie Murchinson, Health 2.0 Accelerator

Julie is the Executive Director of the Health 2.0 Accelerator. Working in tandem with Aaron Apodaca she has steered it from being a good idea discussed with Indu over lunch one day into being an active consortium that is pushing the forefront of technology use in health care, and also explaining it to the world. Julie’s day job is Managing Director at Manatt Health Solutions which bought her company Object Health 2007, and prior to that she worked with David Brailer at CareScience.

Aaron Apodoca, Health 2.0 Accelerator

Aaron is the Director of Strategy & Operations for the Health 2.0 Accelerator. His day job is as a manager of Manatt Health Solutions, where he mostly keeps Julie out of trouble. For the Accelerator, he has been primarily responsible for managing the very varied demands of a group of young, energetic companies. But his current work is a stop gap before he resumes his real calling as a jazz trumpeter.

Jason Peoples, VP Sales, MediKeeper

Jason joined Ryan and Bruce Tarzy at MediKeeper earlier this year after a decade in technology. MediKeeper is one of the first patient-centered tool sets to integrate with both HealthVault and Dossia.

Christopher Parks, CEO, change:healthcare

Chris has been a Health 2.0 pioneer since 2006. Starting with billing calculators and communities, change:healthcare now offers comprehensive tools for managing healthcare spending. Chris and his partner, Robert Hendrick, like the new Camaro, but struggle somewhat getting into it.

Taylor Giles, Director of Community Solutions, Kryptiq

Kryptiq facilitates an open collaborative network that connects physicians with each other and their patients, essentially a sophisticated secure email system that is moving data between more than 30,000 physicians. Taylor was the first person to demonstrate HealthVault to a Health 2.0 audience.

Stelle Smith, Clinical Product Marketing Manager, Sage

Sage is a classic legacy practice management and EHR vendor that under new leadership in recent years, has aggressively been integrating with new tools and services. Stelle is part of the Sage team that has done so much to support the work of the Accelerator.

Francis Kong, CEO, MedSimple

Francis was a typical young physician, frustrated by his family members always insisting that he help them prepare for their doctor visits. So he built MedSimple, an Internet application that collects data from patients, translates their answers into ‘doctor speak’, and assembles it for both the patient and physician to use together at the office visit. Francis debuted MedSimple at Launch! last year and has been working with several large provider groups to put it into practice.

Erick Von Schweber, Executive Co-Chair, PharmaSURVEYOR

This will be Erick’s third presentation at Health 2.0, and every time there’s fun, surprises and usually costumes as he shows how PharmaSURVEYOR promotes drug safety by going well beyond interaction checkers. Last year an audience member used PharmaSurveyor to diagnose a sick relative’s interaction in the exhibit hall. Erick is also on the board of the Health 2.0 Accelerator and has been working on a cloud-based multiplefunction drug database with new members of the Accelerator, First DataBank.

Mike Kirkwood, CEO, Polka

Mike also introduced Polka at last year’s Health 2.0 Launch! Polka’s mobile and web observation engine makes it easy to log daily posts for medications, pain, weight, or anything on your mind both privately and with your doctor, nurse, family, friends, or the world. Mike also ran yesterday’s HealthCampSFBay.

Benay Dara-Abrams, CEO and Chief Gerontechonology Officer, Kinnexxus, Inc.

A combination of stroke, cancer and failed back surgery in just one year amongst Benay’s relatives thousands of miles away made her realize the inadequacy of current systems for caregivers. So she created Kinnexxus, which supports coordination and communication across family caregivers, professional care providers, and seniors.

Adam Bosworth, CEO, Keas

Keas sneak previewed last year as a way for patients to manage their health information. Now in beta Keas is much more than that. It’s now a platform that leverages the real ‘health experts’ to deliver their expertise through Keas Care Plans– step-by-step action plans designed to factor in an individual’s personal health data, their goals, and their progress.

Alex Drane, President, Eliza

Eliza is best known for its personalized automated phone calls. But today Alex and Josh are going to show some of the magic behind the calls, and some of the personalized decision-making that’s resulting in their new multi-channel platform ElizaLIVE.

Joshua Rosenthal, Products Engagement Guru, Eliza

Josh went to elementary school in rural France and is a Fulbright recipient from the Sorbonne in Paris. He first came to our attention when his startup, Sprigley, debuted at Health 2.0 in Spring 2008 in San Diego. Sprigley created a personalization engine that worked across multiple channels. It wasn’t just us that noticed Sprigley, as Josh is now here as part of Eliza—one of the first pure Health 2.0 marriages.

Denise Silber, Basil Strategies

Denise has been involved in eHealth since the early days and spends most of her time in Paris working with large European drug and technology companies. And she’s Health 2.0’s partner in putting on Health 2.0 Europe in Paris next April!

Matt Berg, ICT Coordinator, Millennium Villages Project

Matt is a geek (well a former Geekcorps volunteer) who’s spent more than a decade using technology to improve the lives for millions in rural Africa. Today he’s going to show us the RapidSMS platform, which the Millennium Villages Project is currently piloting to monitor malnutrition and malaria in children in Kenya. You will be amazed when you see how the health of sick children can be changed in just 160 characters. Matt was introduced to us by the younger Subaiya whose work with the Millennium Villages project was featured in the “3 young doctors” video shown at the Health 2.0 meets Ix conference.

Alex Savic, CEO, Alensa AG

Alensa is Swiss-based technology platform that combines pure e-commerce, health information (including interaction with real physicians) and community building, which Alex introduced to us at Health 2.0 last year. This year he’s going to demonstrate a new widget for a new era of health care eCommerce.

Simon Levy, Business Manager, BMJ Publishing Group

Simon runs the business side of BMJ’s new ventures, a job he somehow fits in around his religious devotion to attending every game of the Anglo-Russian soccer conglomerate Chelsea FC. He’s here to present doc2doc, the BMJ’s new international social network for physicians.

Michael Lenoir, Founder, Global Village for Health

Michael is an allergist and pediatrician specializing in the care of asthma in urban inner city children in the San Francisco Bay Area. That work has won him too many accolades to count, but he’s here to present Global Village for Health, a new global health community that focuses on the conditions and challenges for members of the English speaking African diaspora.

Clive Pinder, Founding Partner, Healthy Worlds

Clive was the CEO of vlife, a UK-based healthcare management company that was sold to CIGNA in 2006. He is now working on health coaching in virtual worlds; that is when he’s not involved in helping entrepreneurs in rural Africa.

Mary Cain, Lifemasters

Mary is a Product Manager with care management company LifeMasters, where she has learned the elder care market well. Previously she was a Director at Institute for the Future where she specialized in health care and the Internet, and had the (dubious) pleasure of working with Matthew Holt.

Andy Cohen, CEO, Caring.com

Andy created Caring.com after caring for his mother during her battle with lung cancer. It’s a venue for anyone dealing with all the issues involved in caring for loved ones, and has been growing fast since its introduction in 2008.

Jane Lincoln, Project Manager, AARP & Alexander Grunewald, VP of New Product Development, DestinationRx

Jane says that she likes working in teams and producing amazing transformative tools and content for the web. Working with Alex and his colleagues at DestinationRx, Jane has built a new tool that extends DestinationRx’s functionality for AARP members. It looks like she’s getting to do what she likes!

David Rose, Chief Executive Officer, RxVitality

David was founder of Ambient Devices where he pioneered embedding information in objects like bathroom mirrors and refrigerator doors, to make them an interface to digital information. He’s taken that in a particular direction at RxVitality with the amazing glowcaps system which, as you might guess, makes the cap of pill bottles glow when the patient forgets to take their medications. And David likes singing in the Tanglewood choir.

Steven Lanzet, National Director of Late Life Care Innovations, Healthwise

Steve uses his academic training and practicing background as a family counselor to tackle the crucial and sensitive topic of late life care at Healthwise. Steve is using Healthwise’s Conversations technology combined with our knowledge of behavioral health to bring together families who want to help their elders. Steve may not sing in a choir, but he can be found acting in, producing, and directing local community theater productions.

Paul To, CEO & Founder, emota.net

Paul has recently left Nortel where he was in charge of Nortel’s Incubator and it’s Open Innovation programs. Why? Because at emota.net he has a team of top notch scientists working on applying latest research in ambient intelligence, awareness systems and emotional communications to Health 2.0. The first target is a whole new take on a communications system for seniors.

Jeremy Nobel, Harvard School of Public Health

Jeremy is a very well known health care IT pundit who lives bi-coastally between San Francisco and Boston. Jeremy has been involved in health IT companies like NaviMedix, Health Access and is on the board of DMAACEO. But his latest venture is the Foundation for Art & Healing.

Henry Albrecht, CEO, Limeade

Limeade helps people improve their health by measuring their activities and helping them change their habits. Since last year’s Health 2.0 appearance Limeade has been having success with mid-range employers. Henry has spent years doing mind-numbing econometric analysis but may try to impress you by talking about his short-lived basketball career. Yes, he’s the tall one.

Jiten Chhabra, CEO, Usable Health

Jiten has created Dr J Says which is one of the more remarkable point of service applications we’ve seen. It works by integrating cafeteria menus with calorie counter and exercise information, and putting it in your face at mealtime. It’s in pilot at Georgia Tech where it’s helping students avoid racking up that Freshman Fifteen.

Ellen Badinelli, Founder & CEO, ScanAvert, Inc.

Ellen Badinelli spent twenty years in the securities industry detecting unusual trading patterns and profiles and is now applying the same systemic logic to create a method of generating compatibility/incompatibility alerts outside an established set of criteria for dietary preference and avoidance. In other words she’s patented a system that scans food labels and tells you precisely what’s in them in case of allergies, drug reactions or other vital information for the millions who need to take care when they eat.

Ron Keen, President, PureWellness

Ron is a deepwater technologist who’s built software for Allscripts, GE Healthcare and IDX. He’s now turned his attention to the corporate wellness market where PureWellnes provides one of the most comprehensive wellness platforms we’ve seen both from the point of view of the user and the corporate administrator.

David Hansen, Director of Business Development, NutritionQuest

David builds partnerships and serves large clients for NutritionQuest, which came out of work done by scientists Gladys and Clifford Block at UC Berkeley and has recently had a successful trial helping Kaiser Permanente members lose weight. In David’s past, most of his major triumphs involved rescuing consulting projects at Institute for the Future which were heading for the rocks under the direction of Matthew Holt.

Devika Singh, VP, Solutions Architecture & User Experience, Alere

Following a series of mergers, Alere is now owned by device manufacturer Inverness Medical Innovations and is integrating tools and capabilities from several companies including Matria, CorSolutions, and ParadigmHealth in order to serve literally every part of the care continuum. Devika’s role is to put all that together into one platform and she’ll be demonstrating the latest version of the soon-to-be-released Alere portal today.

Glen Tullman, CEO, Allscripts

Glen joined Allscripts after a successful career at CCC Information Services followed by taking Enterprise Systems public and selling it to HBOC. But it’s as CEO of Allscripts that he’s catapulted to the national stage, turning a company once best known for a niche in-office dispensing product into one of the major powerhouses of Health IT. Allscripts now services maybe more physicians than any other vendor, and while many of those use their legacy client server product, it’s been an early leader in SaaS with its NEPSI free online prescribing service. In the last 18 months Glenn has guided Allscripts through one of the biggest mergers in the sector (with Misys) and has been deeply involved both with CCHIT for which he’s a commissioner. Based in Chicago, Glen was an early fundraiser for the Obama Presidential campaign and also encouraged the then Senator to take a good look at the potential for IT in health care. He’s also a well known supporter of the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation.

Jonathan Bush, CEO, athenahealth

Jonathan has made quite a name for himself since founding athenahealth, with Todd Park—now the CTO at the Health and Human Services. athenahealth is not only the biggest SaaS-based practice management system, but a fine example of the concept of data sets getting more valuable as more physicians come on the network. Jonathan spent much of this year being outspoken about the limitations of the ARRA act and being critical of the state of play amongst the current EHR vendors. athenahealth is now extending its athenaClinicals EMR product and will soon be adding Communicator, a series of patient connection tools. Despite the fact Jonathan is related to that other guy with the same last name, last year he apparently voted for Obama. And Health 2.0 has proof of the value of his EMT training—it was Jonathan that reset Susannah Fox’s nose by the side of the rugby field.