Past Summit Keynote Speakers
September 2006
Joseph C. Kvedar, M.D., Founder and Director of
Partners Telemedicine
Marcia Reissig RN, MS, CHCE, President of Partners
Home Care and chief executive of home care for the Partners HealthCare
System
Dr. Jeremy Nobel Harvard School of Public Health
faculty
January 2007
Dr. Mike Bainbridge, Clinical Architect, NHS
Connecting for Health
Dr. Alasdair Honeyman, British Medical Informatics
Society
April 2007
Sumio Murase, M.D., Ph.D, President, Japanese
Telemedicine and Telecare Association Professor, Division of Medical
Informatics, Shinshu University Hospital
Ryuji Kono, Head of Product Development Division,
Konami Sports & Life Co.,Ltd.
July 2007
Louis J. Burns, Vice President, General Manager,
Digital Health Group, Intel Corporation
Philip R. Madvig, M.D., Associate Executive Director,
The Permanente Medical Group
October 2007
Joseph C. Kvedar, MD, Director Center for Connected
Health Partners HealthCare
John D. Halamka, MD CIO, CareGroup and Harvard
Medical School Chair, NEHEN CEO, MA-Share
January 2008
Andrew McCormick, Permanent Secretary Department of
Health, Social Services and Public Safety, Republic of Ireland
Mary Harney, Minister of Health, Republic of
Ireland
Brendan Tuohy, ex Secretary General of the Department
of Communications, Marine, and Natural Resources, Republic of Ireland
April 2008
Gérard Comyn, Acting Director Head of 'ICT for
Health' Unit ICT for Health Unit, DG INFSO, European Union
Past Events
Date: July 7-8, 2008
Location: Marriott San Francisco, San Francisco, California
The Healthcare Unbound Conference & Exhibition is the premier event that
focuses on the convergence of consumer and healthcare technologies. The
program has a special focus on the use of remote monitoring, home telehealth
and pervasive computing technologies to manage diseases and to promote
wellness.
Keynote speakers include: David Whitlinger, President and Board Chairman,
Continua Health Alliance.
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Date: July 9-11, 2008
Location: Intercontinental San Francisco Hotel, San Francisco, CA
Join us for a members only meeting in the beautiful city of San Francisco,
California.
The Continua Summer Summit offers many benefits to members of Continua, such
as networking opportunities, progress reports, and educational
sessions.
Connections
Date: June 24-26, 2008
Location: Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA
Time: 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
Now in its 12th year, CONNECTIONS: The Digital Living Conference and Showcase
is hosted by leading research firm Parks Associates in partnership with the
Consumer Electronics Assocaition (CEA). CONNECTIONS sessions provide
high-level research, knowledge and analysis to executives from the converging
industries developing products and services for consumers. Topics include
IPTV and "TV 2.0," bundled services, consumer storage, mobile applications
and content, social and digital media, and home and lifestyle
management.
CONTINUA HEALTH ALLIANCE CONNECTIONS
PANEL: The Next Generation of Personal Telehealth is here!
Date: June 24, 2008
Time: 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
Join a dynamic panel with members of the Continua Health Alliance: a
non-profit, open industry coalition of the finest healthcare and technology
companies joining together in collaboration to improve the quality of
personal healthcare. With more than 150 member companies, Continua is
dedicated to establishing a system of interoperable personal health solutions
with the knowledge that extending those solutions into the home fosters
independence, empowers individuals and provides the opportunity for truly
personalized health & wellness management.
Explore Continua's three use cases - chronic disease management, aging
independently, and health & fitness - and discover how Continua is
utilizing standards to ensure interoperability while opening new
opportunities in solutions and services.
Agents of Change: US Healthcare
Date: June 19-20
Location: Lerner Hall, Columbia University, New York, New
York
US Congress Committee Policy Event
When: June 12, 2008
Time: 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. EDT
Where: 902 Hart, Senate Office Building, Capitol Hill, Washington D.C.,
USA
The Steering Committee on Telehealth and Healthcare
Informatics annually holds educational sessions, technology
demonstrations and field visits. These events focus on a wide variety of
groups developing legislative priorities and awareness of telehealth. This
session is expected to attract more than 350 people from Congressional
offices, federal agencies, the Department of Defense and Veterans
Administration.
The Continua Health Alliance will have a series of tables at the event and
its membership will demonstrate their technologies and help educate a key
group of decision-makers!
While the tables offered to Continua members have been filled, member
companies who are attending any event during the HIT Week in Washington D.C.
are welcome to come to 902 Hart to receive Continua Name Pins, Member Signs
and additional Continua collateral. Contact admin@continuaalliance.org
for more information.
Long Term Healthcare IT Summit
- CONTINUA PARTNER INDUSTRY EVENT
- Date: June 9-10, 2008
- Location: Tremonts Historic Venue and All-Suite
Hotel, Baltimore, MD
- If you work in the post-acute and LTC community, this is THE
conference to attend on HIT. This year's summit provides cutting-edge
information on critical HIT initiatives in the industry, and will provide
you the ability to:
- - Get up to speed on the new 2008-2010 LTC HIT Road Map
- Hear Robert Kolodner, MD, National Coordinator for HIT
- Discuss alignment to the national HIT agenda and priorities
The summit will provide a mix of strategy setting, updates on current
industry initiatives, HIT education, and technology vendor
interaction.
The early bird registration of $300 has been extended through May 30th and
includes access to all meeting sessions, exhibitor showcase, networking
reception, and daytime meals. Registration and hotel information is
available at http://www.ahima.org/meetings/ltc/LTCSummit.asp.
CONTINUA PARTNER INDUSTRY EVENT
Date: May 30, 2008
Time: 1:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Location: Max Rayne Auditorium, Royal Society of Medicine,
London, UK
Organized by the Telemed and eHealth Forum of the Royal Society of Medicine,
this half-day workshop will support healthcare commissioners, public and
private service developers, physicians and other healthcare providers as well
as telehealth equipment vendors in developing successful business cases for
sustainable telehealth services, and in better understanding the requirements
and constrains of other actors involved in the healthcare value system.
Participants will have a chance to reflect on their learning and group
exercises and put forward questions for discussion by other participants and
the presenters. As a final outcome, all will have a better understanding of
the problems and challenges, but also of the business opportunities provided
by a results-oriented approach to eHealth.
CONTINUA PARTNER INDUSTRY EVENT
Date: May 22, 2008
Time: 9:00 AM
Location: Crowne Plaza Hotel Dublin - Northwood
The National Standards Authority of Ireland (NSAI) is holding a Medical
Devices Information Day on the recent revisions to the Medical Devices
Directive (MDD 2007/47/EC), concentrating on the extra regulatory demands on
Notified Bodies and Manufacturers.
Manufacturers need strong partnerships with a Notified Body that has the
expertise and is adaptive, resourceful, responsive and capable of
facilitating timely CE Mark approvals. NSAI has this ability and fully
embraces current regulatory challenges to expand Ireland's competitive
edge.
The Information Day provides an opportunity to highlight the 'public good'
and national importance of NSAI working closely with the medical device
industry, the IMDA, IDA, Enterprise Ireland, IMB and medical
professionals.
Date: May 4-7, 2008
Location: Vancouver, Canada
Booth: 912
This year's conference theme, Extending the Reach is indicative of the
progress we are making in advancing the e-health agenda. Every jurisdiction
in the country, every type of care setting, even patients in their homes, are
reaping the benefits of technology-enabled solutions that are allowing for
more effective, and timely provision of quality care and system
Management.
Date: May 7, 2008
Location: Belfast Ramada, Belfast, Northern Ireland
During Continua's Winter Summit in Dublin, the Northern Ireland government
announced the establishment of the European Centre for Connected Health. Also
announced by the government was the allocation of $96 million to help bring
5,000 people suffering from chronic disease in Northern Ireland to a remote
monitoring service by 2011.
To help the procurement process and support its membership, the European
Center for Connected Health & Continua hosted European Connected Health
Expo Day 2008. This unique tradeshow allowed Continua member companies to
showcase their products for Northern Ireland government officials, healthcare
professionals and the leadership of the European Centre for Connected
Health!
This event was specifically marketed to individuals responsible for the
procurement of health care and remote patient monitoring systems. It was an
unparalleled opportunity to impress not only Northern Ireland and Republic of
Ireland delegates with member companies' products, but the equivalent
leadership from all of Europe.
Med-e-Tel
Date: April 16-18, 2008
Location: Luxexpo fairgrounds, Luxexpo, Luxembourg
For more information and to register for this event please click
here.
Wireless Pharma
CONTINUA PARTNER INDUSTRY EVENT
Date: April 14-15, 2008
Location: Doubletree Hotel Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Leveraging the power of wireless technologies throughout the various statges
of pharmaceutical development:
Wireless technology is a nascent area, but it is growing faster than many can
monitor, reporting billions of dollars of growth in the past few ears alone.
To remain competitive in the pharmaceutical industry, wireless solutions for
varying stages of the drug development process must be examined - and the
Wireless Pharma event provides the perfect forum to do so. this unique event
provides presentations on best practices for leveraging the power of wireless
technologies in the area of drug research; development and
manufacturing/supply chain. In addition attendees can personalize their
conference experience by choosing from TWO optional workshops and FOUR
roundtable discussions. By maximizing the level of interactivity at the
event, we aim to send you back to your company with definitive information on
how wireless technologies can help to reduce error, improve efficiency and
increase productivity within your organization.
Continua Spring Summit
Date: April 13-15, 2008
Location: The Hilton, Luxembourg
The spring summit was held at the Hilton in Luxembourg, a small city-state in
Europe. Over 120 attendees were present.
Please click here for Summit
Presentations.
FIBO
Date: April 10-13, 2008
Location: Essen, Germany
ATA Conference, Seattle
Date: April 6-8, 2008
Location: Washington State Convention Center, Seattle,
Washington
Booth: 420
Continua Personal Telehealth Matchmaking Event
CONTINUA-SPONSORED EVENT
Location: Room 3A,
Level 3
The Continua Health Alliance held a Personal
Telehealth Matchmaking session at ATA 2008 this year! Continua launched an
online web service to help health care service providers distribute personal
telehealth project requests (RFPs) to the Continua vendor community. This
session described the new service and also gave the stage to some service
provider companies who made brief presentations outlining their RFP details
and goals. Vendor companies now have the chance to network with these service
providers one on one to exchange information and ideas.
Continua Townhall Meeting (Members
Only)
Date: March 19th, 2008
Time: 7:00am - 9:00am PT
Venue: Teleconference
The March Townhall Meeting was held on the 19th and gave an overview of
activities being performed by the Work Groups.
Continua Winter Summit 2008
(Members Only)
Date: January 22-24, 2008
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Summit meetings was held at Croke Park
Stadium. The home of Gaelic Games and headquarters of the Gaelic Athletic
Association (GAA), Croke Park has been at the heart of Irish sporting life
for over a hundred years.
Copies of summit presentations can be found here.
2008 International CES
Panel
Date: January 8, 2008
Location: Las Vegas, NV
The International CES is the industry's largest educational forum to help
companies expand their businesses and understand new technology.
Continua President David Whitlinger served as a panelist for the discussion
"Making Room for the Boom: CE for the Aging Consumer."
2007 Employee Benefits Conference - Second
Generation Wellness and Productivity: Engagement and
Implementation
Date: December 4-6, 2007
Location: The Drake, Chicago, IL
Join us for this comprehensive conference to learn from companies who are
leading the way in improving benefits and reducing costs. These companies
will share lessons learned and best practices from their initiatives. You
will have an opportunity to learn the latest in a fast changing terrain,
including:
Benefits to your workforce demographics, culture of wellness among
employees, communication to empower employees, safe carrot and stick
strategies in employee engagement, and much more…
Troy Severson, Continua's Marketing Work Group Chair, will lead Continua
involvement; functioning as a moderator and sitting on a Continua panel with
Jim Fisher and Brigitte Piniewski. Other Continua speakers include Ranndy
Kellogg and Richard Zall.
Click here for more information on the Conference.
Medical Devices for Connected Home Health:
Product Design and Market Demand presented by Park
Associates
Date/Location: Thursday, November 29, 2007 at 1pm CT |
Webcast
This webcast will offer industry experts' view(including Continua's David
Whitlinger) on the design of medical devices used for remote health
monitoring applications. Industry insiders, including a Parks Associates'
analyst, will discuss latest product features, device usability and
reliability, service requirements, and distribution channels. They will also
provide their views of current market demand and future growth
opportunities.
http://www.parksassociates.com/extras/webcast_blasts/2007digitalhealth/11262007
Continua Members Town Hall Meeting (Members
Only)
Date: November 28, 2007
Time: 7:00 am - 9:00am PST
Venue: Teleconference
This is an excellent opportunity to hear about each of the Working Groups
activities and overall status of Continua membership. This date also marks
Continua's one year anniversary! Working Group Chairs will present their
accomplishments and plans from their team while attendees can ask questions
about upcoming projects or activities. Dial-in logistics will be provided as
we get closer to the meeting. Please join to hear about how Continua has
progressed over the past year.
Recordings are available for members only.
Medica Meeting
Date/Location: Thursday, November 15, 2007 | Duesseldorf,
Germany
MEDICA is the center of attraction for all those involved in the health
service. More than 135,000 visitors are expected to again obtain information
on all the current and future trends in in-patient and out-patient care at
this annual event. With its extensive ancillary program, numerous special
events, two major congresses and the largest product display in the industry,
MEDICA is the hub of the medical trade. For more information, visit http://www.mdna.com/shows/medica.html
Scottish Centre for Telehealth Conference
2007
Date/Location: Tuesday-Wednesday, November 20-21, 2007 | Glasgow,
Scotland
The Scottish Centre for Telehealth Conference 2007 will feature a diverse
range of informative and recognized speakers, both national and
international, who will share their experience of successful approaches to
implementing telehealth projects, giving attendees an opportunity to
participate in a number of informative and educational sessions over the two
days. For more information, visit http://www.sct.scot.nhs.uk/SCT_Conference_2007.html
Center for Connected Health Symposium 2007:
Building the Connected Health Economy: Innovation, Implementation and
Investment
Date: October 22-23, 2007
Venue: Conference Center at Harvard Medical Center in Boston,
MA
The 2007 Symposium brings together thought leaders from all aspects of
healthcare and technology, to inform, discuss, debate and learn together as
this new economy moves forward to help reshape and transform the care
process. For more information visit, http://www.connected-health.org/events/symposium-2007.aspx
Continua Members Fall Summit 2007 (Members Only)
Date: October 24-25, 2007
Venue: Conference Center at Harvard Medical Center in Boston,
MA
Registration details and agenda are now available on the Members Page.
Caregiving Conference
Date/Location: Wednesday, September 5, 2007 | Colarado
Event details coming soon!
DMAA Pace Setters Series
Date/Location: Monday, September 17, 2007 | Las Vegas, Nevada
Cutting-edge technology has long been the hallmark of disease management, and
you'll find no better place to learn about the latest innovations than the
2007 DMLF. From advances in online monitoring to improved data systems to new
tools for patients and providers, this morning session will provide an
exclusive glimpse into the world of new products from the disease management
and care coordination community's most progressive companies. Review the
research and see the proven results in this exciting series of presentations
from industry leaders. For more information, visit http://www.dmaa.org/DMLF07/dmlf_pacesetters.asp
Marketing to the New Healthcare
Consumer
Date/location: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 | Chicago,
Illinois
Discover what marketing, sales and product experts need to understand and
meet the changing demands of the new healthcare consumer. For more
information, visit http://www.consumerhealthworld.com/mtnhccs07/default.asp
Continua Members Town Hall Meeting (Members Only)
Date: Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Time: 7:00am - 9:00am
Venue: Teleconference
This is an excellent opportunity to hear about each of the Working Groups
activities and overall status of Continua membership. Working Group Chairs
will present their accomplishments and plans from their team while attendees
can ask questions about upcoming projects or activities. Dial-in logistics
are available on the members landing page.
Healthcare Unbound
Date: July 16-17, 2007
Venue: Marriott San Francisco Airport, San Francisco,
CA
Fourth Annual Healthcare Unbound Conference & Exhibition, July 16-17,
2007, San Francisco, CA. Special focus on remote monitoring and home
telehealth for disease management and wellness promotion. In addition to
in-depth coverage of technology-enabled disease management and wellness
promotion, including leading-edge case studies, this year's program will
delve into legal/regulatory and reimbursement issues, payer perspectives, the
emerging role of wireless technologies and the potential of Health 2.0
applications. The program features a new Aging Services educational track
designed to meet the information needs of the long-term care community.
Keynote speakers include David L. Whitlinger, President & Board Chairman,
Continua Health Alliance. 350+ attendees expected. Audience will include
senior executives/clinicians from healthcare provider and payer
organizations, healthcare IT/telemedicine vendors and medical device
companies. For additional information, please visit: http://www.tcbi.org/hu2007/index.html
2007 LTC Health IT Summit: Advancing
Technology in Aging Services
Date: June 20-21, 2007
Venue: Wyndham Hotel, Chicago, Illinois
Don't miss the opportunity to learn from experts and thought leaders from
Government, post-acute, and long term care organizations including: ONC,
ASPE, CMS, Continua Health Alliance, Commonwealth Fund, Blue Cross Blue
Shield Association, CCHIT, and more!
Three keynote presentations, five panel discussions and eighteen education
sessions in Health Strategies, EHR & Technology Infrastructure (Wires
& Boxes) and EHR Foundation tracks. For more information, please visit
http://www.ahima.org/meetings/ltc/index.asp.
Continua Members Town Hall Meeting (Members
Only)
Date: June 6, 2007
Time: 7:00 am PDT
Venue: Teleconference
This is an excellent opportunity to hear about each of the Working Groups
activities and overall status of Continua membership. This date also marks
Continua's one year anniversary! Working Group Chairs will present their
accomplishments and plans from their team while attendees can ask questions
about upcoming projects or activities. Dial-in logistics will be provided as
we get closer to the meeting. Please join to hear about how Continua has
progressed over the past year.
ATA 2007
Date: May 13-15, 2007
Venue: Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center, Nashville,
TN
ATA 2007 is the world's largest scientific meeting and trade show focusing
exclusively on telemedicine. Come listen to the Technology and
Telecommunications Roundtable on Monday, May 14th where I will be discussing
Continua Health Alliance: Applying Standards for Personal Remote Monitoring.
Also, plan to visit Continua in booth #718.
http://www.americantelemed.org/conf/2007/ATA%202007%20Final%20Program_FINAL.pdf.
Personal Health Management: Adoption of New
Benefits, Tool and Technologies
Date: May 8, 2007
Time: 8:00 am - 6:00 pm EDT. There will be a cocktail reception
from 4:30 pm - 6:00pm EDT.
Venue: Conference facilities at the office of Proskauer Rose,
1585 Broadway, New York, NY.
Attendance: Will be limited and by invitation only. There will
be no registration fee.
Continua Health Alliance is proud to help sponsor this forum which will
bring together high-level health benefits executives from Fortune 100
companies to discuss innovative, consumer-centric approaches to managing
health care costs and quality. Attendees will learn about best practices in
benefits design and health management and in the use of new technologies to
achieve desired results. Successful company case studies will be described,
and there will be presentations from leading benefits consultants and vendor
companies offering new tools and technologies.
Speakers Included:
- Mike Barrett, Managing Partner, Critical Mass Consulting
- George Chedraoui, President, Bridges to Excellence
- Ron Feinstein, CEO, Lifeline and VP Consumer Healthcare Solutions,
Philips
- Craig Froude, Executive Vice President and General Manager, WebMD
- Dave Guilmette, Managing Director, Towers Perrin
- Joseph Kvedar, MD, Director, Center for Connected Health, Partners
HealthCare
- Jeremy Nobel, MD, MPH, Faculty, Harvard School of Public Health
- John Pleasants, CEO, Revolution Health
- Jay H. Sanders, MD, FACP, President & CEO, The Global Telemedicine
Group and President Emeritus American Telemedicine Association
- Delia Vetter, Director of Benefits, EMC
- David Whitlinger, President, Continua Health Alliance
- Rick Zall, Esquire, Member, Proskauer Rose LLP
- Marykate Scott, Scott & Company, Inc.
Tokyo Telehealth Symposium
Today, the world is facing common challenges: Prevention of disease,
chronic disease management and elderly care. The Tokyo Telehealth Symposium
put all stakes holders for personal telehealth together, including opinion
leaders from government, academics and healthcare industry, and discuss how
we should utilize information and communication technology to address the
world's common healthcare challenges.
Click here to
download the Symposium presentations in English and Japanese (ZIP, 68
MB).
World Health Care Congress
Continua Health Alliance sponsored the third annual World Health Care
Congress EUROPE 2007 event in Barcelona Spain from March 26-28, 2007.
CES Panel Presentation
Continua members participated in a panel discussion at CES titled "The
Future of Consumer Electronics: Convergence with Home Health" on January 8,
2007. The presentation is available for download: click here.
