The healthcare delivery and payment landscape is undergoing rapid transformation, driving healthcare leaders to partner and collaborate with technology innovators in a bid to reduce costs and improve patient health outcomes. This year's Digital Health Evolution Conference focuses on "New Frontiers for Building Community Health Networks." Explore the challenges and opportunities experienced by technology and healthcare stakeholders who are solving America’s growing chronic disease crisis.
Conference attendees will leave with a deepened understanding of the most promising data and tools that are allowing governments, businesses, community-based organizations, insurers and healthcare institutions to create pioneering models for improving the health of patient populations.
Agenda
12:00-12:30 Registration
12:30-1:45 Lunch & Keynote: Is the Environment Polluting the Population Health Movement?—Featuring Gina McCarthy, Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Join Gina McCarthy, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator, as she discusses the mutualism of public health and the health of the environment. Gina McCarthy was appointed by President Obama in 2009 as Assistant Administrator for EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation. With significant financial incentives and penalties at stake under the Affordable Care Act, public health challenges are now population health challenges. In order to adequately meet our city’s population health management goals, environmental health factors must be addressed. Researchers from across disciplines are finding correlations between air pollution and other environmental challenges, and our growing chronic disease epidemic.
2:00-3:00 Panel I: The Art & Science of Commercializing Digital Health
As healthcare becomes more patient-centric and economically conscious, payers, providers and pharmaceutical companies are launching tech innovation centers to source promising digital, mobile and connected medical device solutions. Join us for eye-opening accounts from health-technology investors and founders on the trials and triumphs experienced when commercializing digital health technologies.
Learning Objectives
- Patient and health consumer related technology challenges that investors are most interested in alleviating
- Digital health investments that are proving to be the most successful at engaging patients in disease management and self-care
- Predictions of which technologies will become top priorities for healthcare leaders in 5 and 10 years
Panelists:
- David Reiter MD, DMD, MBA, FACS, VP and Executive Director of Thomas Jefferson University's Center for Healthcare Entrepreneurship & Scientific Solutions
- Tom Olenzak, Managing Director, Strategic Innovation Portfolio, Corporate Development and Innovation at Independence Blue Cross
- Kevin Keenahan, Co-founder and CEO of Tissue Analytics
- Graeme Ossey, Director of NYC Health 2.0
- Rahul Jain, CEO, TowerView Health
3:00-4:00 Keynote II: Using mHealth to Facilitate Behavioral Change in Patients with Chronic Disease—Featuring Lorien Abroms, ScD, MA, Director of the Milken Institute School of Public Health's Public Health Communication and Marketing Program
Dr. Lorien Abroms, ScD, MA, Director of the Public Health Communication and Marketing Program at the Milken Institute School of Public Health, will discuss her research on the application of mobile communication technologies for chronic disease intervention. Abroms developed and evaluated a smoking cessation kit for young adult smokers called the X-Pack, which was awarded the Best Materials Award by the Public Health Education and Health Promotion (PHEHP) Section of American Public Health Association and currently is leading an evaluation of an interactive text messaging program for smoking cessation, the Text2Quit Program.
4:15-5:15 Panel II: Coordinating Care Across Community Health Networks
Integrating patients and caregivers into the care process is one of the biggest challenges healthcare organizations transitioning to value-based care delivery face. As healthcare moves in this direction, we must find ways to coordinate care across health networks, equip patients to engage in self-care, and connect patients and caregivers to their local health community resources.
Learning Objectives
- How technology helps healthcare organizations engage diverse patient communities
- Technologies that are proving most effective in enabling caregivers, families, and other loved ones to support patients
- How patients are using disease management tools to improve their health
- Savings that have been achieved by encouraging chronic disease patients to more fully engage in self-care
Panelists:
- Cheryl Bettigole, MD, MPH, Director of the Division of Chronic Disease Prevention at the Philadelphia Public Health Department
- Ann Marks, Certified Case Manager, Director of Care Coordination at Delaware Valley Accountable Care Organization
- Keyon Smith, MBA, Outreach Specialist at Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
- Chinwe Onyekere, MPH, Associate Administrator of Lankenau Medical Center/ Main Line Health
