Third Annual eHealth Developers' Summit

The Third Annual eHealth Developers' Summit was successfully convened from Nov. 6–8, 2002, at the Wyndham Buttes Resort, a 25 acre mountaintop resort in Tempe, Arizona.

The organizers are indebted to the 2002 Planning and Advisory Committees and sponsors below.

Summit Details

2002 Sponsors and Corporate Contributors

5.0 Sponsors: California HealthCare Foundation, WK Kellogg Foundation

4.0 Sponsor: Div. Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute

1.0 Sponsors: The Health Communication Research Institute; Communication Technologies Branch, National Cancer Institute; Health e-Technologies Initiative (a RWJ Foundation national program); National Eye Institute; Kaiser Permanente

5.0 Contributor: Pharmacia

1.0 Contributors: Schering-Plough; Medtronic

Feedback from the Third Annual Summit participants:

"...truly focused and promoted creative collaboration among eHealth pioneers."

"This is one of the most organized and best run conferences I attend. The atmosphere was one of collaboration and learning from others who work in other fields..."

"I continue to make more high level contacts at this meeting than all the other conferences I attend combined."

"It is without exaggeration the top health informatics conference I have attended."

"Truly a unique gathering, a fabulous opportunity to partner and network with some of the most innovative thinkers in the field."

"Wide diversity of participants, well representative of disciplines in the field."

"The only meeting that I felt bad about leaving."

"Thank you for not having any philosophizing or pontificating."

"Best meeting I have been to in a long, long time."

"Well worth the time and money."

Third Annual eHealth Developers' Summit Agenda

Tuesday, November 5, 2002

Welcome Reception (evening)

Wednesday, November 6, 2002

State of the eHealth Sector in 2002: Recap of recent developments in the environment for eHealth development, business, and policy.
Presenters:
Mark Bard, President, Manhattan Research, LLC
Patricia A. Gabow, CEO and Medical Director, Denver Health and Hospitals
Marie Smith, Head, E-Strategy and Integration, Aventis Pharmaceuticals
Moderator:
Darrell Atkin, Vice President, Marketing, iMetrikus

Emerging Technologies and Implications for eHealth Development: Convergence of Web services, mobile devices, wireless, and other emerging technologies.
Presenters:
Jeff Sutherland, CTO, PatientKeeper
Steven Intille, Research Scientist, Home of the Future Consortium, MIT
Chuck Yerich, Business & Marketing Director, Medtronic
Moderator:
Neil Smithline, President, StratiVision LLC

True Confessions of an eHealth Developer: Lessons Learned: Rapid-fire frank descriptions of a recent business, application development, or research problem encountered, the approach used, and lessons learned.
Presenters: TBA

eHealth WIT (Working Innovation Technology) Teams Competition: Multidisciplinary, small group teams initiate a series of meetings to tackle and propose an eHealth solution to one of several major problems posed in health or healthcare.
Team Leaders:
Darrell Atkin, Vice President, Marketing, iMetrikus
Joseph Dal Molin, President, e-cology Corporation
Stephanie Karsten, Vice President, Humanitas
Gary Kreps, Chief, Health Communications and Informatics Research Branch, National Cancer Institute
James Norman, Chairman of the Board, Intermap Systems
Denise Runde, President, Parsis
David Sides, Practice Director, Cerner Corporation
Bill Silberg, Vice President, Medscape/WebMD
Anna-Lisa Silvestre, Director, eHealth Care Strategy, Kaiser Permanente
Gale Wilson-Steele, CEO, MedSeek

Thursday, November 7, 2002

Where’s the Data? Hot eHealth Research Results: Presentation of “hot” research data and emerging eHealth knowledge base. Best research paper receives a cash award.
Titles & Presenters:
Testing CrashSite: A Computer Mediated Intervention for Prevention of Impaired Driving in Teens. Simon H. Budman, Emil Chiuzzi, Shalini Tendulkar, Erica Rosenthal, Inflexxion, Inc.
How Women with Breast Cancer Use the Internet and How it Affects Their Quality of Life. David H. Gustafson, Robert Hawkins, Suzanne Pingree, Fiona McTavish, University of Wisconsin
A Randomized One-Year Back Pain Trial Utilizing an Email List. Kate Lorig, Diana Laurent, Philip Ritter, Stanford University
Member Satisfaction with Online Web Services. James Hereford, Ted Eytan, John Lee, Group Health Cooperative
Influencing Dietary Behavior through an eHealth Intervention Implemented in a Managed Care Setting. Victor J. Strecher*, Christine Johnson**, George Divine**, Mack Ruffin*, Lucy Robinson**, Holly Derry*, Mike Nowak*, *University of Michigan; ** Henry Ford Health System
Moderator:
David Ahern, Director, Health e-Technologies Initiative

eHealth for the Public Good: Population/Public/Community Health Applications: Applications that focus on population and public health, including surveillance, health outcomes, the underserved, and bioterrorism efforts.
Presenters:
Bruce Bragg, Director, Ingham County Health Department
Claudia Page, Program Officer, California HealthCare Foundation (Health-e App)
Steve Solomon, Chief, Healthcare Outcomes Branch, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Moderator:
Kay Randolph-Back, Program Analyst, Kellogg Foundation

Mini Developers’ Workshop 1: User Centered Design and Testing: Methods to Improve eHealth: Review of relevant models in usability theory and when developers should use them.
Presenters:
Sanjay Koyani, Usability Engineer, and Janice Nall, Chief, Communication Technologies Branch, National Cancer Institute
Moderator:
Eric Dishman, Senior Manager & Researcher, Intel Proactive Health Lab

Open Space (“on the fly”) Session: Concurrent sessions where Summit participants propose “hot” topics, and final sessions are determined by meeting attendees.
Topics to Date:
1. Funding Issues: Looking for Money in the Right and Wrong Places (Andrew Robinson, Executive Director, Patient2Patient, Inc.)
2. Impact of HIPAA on eHealth Application Development and Implementation (Neil Smithline, President, StratiVision LLC; Denise Runde, Vice President Strategy and Business Development, FACCT; John E. Cummerford, Attorney, Greenberg Traurig LLP)
3. Information Therapy: Pushing Ix Prescriptions to Patients at Every Moment of Care (Don Kemper, CEO, Healthwise)
4. Innovation and Technology Sharing for Enhanced Quality and Lower Technology Cost (Douglas E. Goldstein, President, Medical Alliances, Inc. and eHealthcare.net)
5. Strategies for Embedding Quality in Medical Practice: How to Improve Quality and Drive Adoption (Peter Basch, Medical Director, e-Health Initiatives, MedStar Health)

Table Chat Demos: One-on-one table top application demos with laptops.
Demos: TBA

eHealth Data Standards and Interoperability: Review of progress in achieving useful eHealth-related standards.
Presenter:
Wes Rishel, Chair, Board of Directors, HL7 and Research Director, Gartner Group
Moderator:
Carol Diamond, Managing Director, Information Technologies for Better Health Program, Markle Foundation

eHealth WIT (Working Innovation Technology) Teams Meeting

Dinner Session
Presentation of awards for best online CME course and best reasearch paper.
Keynote presentation: The Semantic Web: Implications for the Future of eHealth
Presenter:
Deborah McGuinness, Associate Director and Senior Research Scientist, Knowledge Systems Laboratory, Stanford University

Friday, November 8, 2002

eHealth WIT (Working Innovation Technology) Teams Presentations: Each team presents their proposed solutions to a multidisciplinary judging panel. The team with the best overall solution receives a $5,000 award for funding subsequent collaborative activities.

Mini Developers’ Workshop 2: Commercialization and Marketing: Effective marketing and commercialization techniques for eHealth applications.
Presenter:
Allen Baker, DawnBreaker
Moderator:
Linda Harris, Senior Health Communication Scientist, Behavioral Research Program, National Cancer Institute

Mini Developers’ Workshop 3: Partnering with Big Business: Pros and Cons: Pros and cons of partnerships with pharmaceutical companies and other big corporations.
Presenters:
John Marchica, Founder and CEO, FaxWatch, Inc.
Ken Brier, Purdue Pharma LP

Meeting Summary and Adjourn (Noon)

Farewell Networking Reception