Fourth Annual eHealth Developers' Summit

Nov. 5–7, 2003, San Diego, CA

The Fourth Annual eHealth Developers’ Summit was successfully convened at the beautiful Loews Coronado Bay Resort in San Diego, CA.

Summit Details

Summit Summary: eHealth: Striving for Critical Mass
Planning and Advisory Committees
Summit Awards Winners
Feedback from Summit Participants

Fourth Annual Summit Sponsors and Corporate Contributors

5.0 Sponsor: California HealthCare Foundation
4.0 Sponsors: WK Kellogg Foundation, Markle Foundation
3.0 Sponsor: Div. Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute
2.0 Sponsors: Health e-Technologies Initiative; Communication Technologies Branch, National Cancer Institute
1.0 Sponsor: Kaiser Permanente
3.0 Corporate Contributor: Purdue Pharma LP
1.0 Corporate Contributor: Medical Directions, Inc.

Fourth Annual eHealth Developers' Summit Agenda

Tuesday, Nov. 4, 6:00PM-8:00PM

Evening

Welcome Reception

Wednesday, Nov. 5, 7:00AM-8:30PM

Morning

Breakfast

Welcome and Orientation

State of the eHealth Sector, 2003 - Developments in the eHealth sector during the past year from the consumer, health care provider, corporate, and government perspectives.
Moderator:
Marie Smith, Vice President, e-Strategy and Integration, Aventis Pharmaceuticals
Panelists:
Mark Bard, President, Manhattan Research LLC
Steven Labkoff, Director, Business Technology, Pfizer
M. Barry Rhodes, Associate Director for Public Health Systems Development, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Transformation of Primary Care through eHealth: Structure, Function, and Incentives - How primary care is being transformed by eHealth, including lessons learned, addressing barriers, and assessing outcomes.
Moderator:
Peter Basch, Medical Director, e-Health Initiatives, MedStar Health
Panelists:
Rick Peters, American Academy of Family Practitioners
Paul Tang, Chief Medical Information Officer, Palo Alto Medical Foundation
John Janas, President, Clinical Content Consultants, LLC

Afternoon

Lunch

Future Challenges and Prospects for Interoperable Personal Health Record Products - Discussion of ways to ensure that personal health record products can perform across multiple health domains, primary challenges and recommended strategies for ensuring interoperability, and open source versus proprietary efforts.
Moderator:
Mary Jo Deering, Director, Health Communication and Telehealth, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, HHS
Panelists:
Wendy Angst, CEO, Capmed Corporation
Matt Sanders, Chairman and CEO, iMetrikus
Phillip Marshall, Director of Products, Wellmed/WebMD

eHealth Working Innovation Technology (WIT) Teams Meeting #1 - Small groups collaboratively develop an eHealth solution to a problem in health or healthcare. The team with the best solution--based on innovation, potential impact, practicality, and sustainability--receives a $5000 grant for subsequent concept development.

Networking Time with Affinity Activity Groups

Evening

Dinner with Affinity Groups

Thursday, Nov. 6, 6:00AM-9:00PM

Morning

eHealth Locomotion 5K Prediction Fun Run/Walk

Breakfast, WIT Teams Meeting #2

Hot eHealth Research Results and Translating Findings into eHealth Practice - Presentation of the best research papers in 2003 selected from a national competition. Followed by a research into practice discussion of how to bring successes from lab to market.
Moderator:
David Ahern, Director, Health eTechnologies Initiative
Presentations:
An Internet Intervention as Adjunctive Therapy for Pediatric Encopresis
Lee M. Ritterband, PhD (1); Daniel J Cox, PhD (1); Lynn S Walker, PhD (2); Boris Kovatchev, PhD (1); Lela McKnight, PhD (3); Kushal Patel, MA (2); Stephen Borowitz, MD (1); James Sutphen, MD, PhD (1)
(1) University of Virginia Health System, (2) University of Vanderbilt, (3) University of Miami

The webVisit Study: Impact of Online Doctor-Patient Communication on Satisfaction and Cost of Care
Eric Zimmerman, MPH, MBA (1); Jeffrey Rideout, MD (2); Laurence Baker (3)
(1) RelayHealth Corporation, (2) Blue Shield of California Foundation, (3) Stanford University

Capturing Food Choice with a Bilingual Interactive Multimedia Dietary Assessment Tool
Jennifer Anderson, PhD, RD; Jamie Zoellner, MS, RD; Susan Martin Gould, PhD, RD; Department of Food Science & Human Nutrition, Colorado State University

Internet-based Support for Dyspnea Self-Management in Patients with COPD
Huong Q Nguyen, RN, PhD (1); Virginia Carrieri-Kohlman, RN, DNSc (1); Sally H Rankin, RN, PhD (2); Robert Slaughter, PhD (3), Michael S Stulbarg, MD (4)
(1) Department of Physiological Nursing, School of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco, (2) Department of Family Health Care Nursing, School of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco, (3) Office of Research, School of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco, (4) Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco

Computer Support for Pharmacy Based Smoking Cessation
Beth Bock (1); Frederick Bock (1); James Christian (2); Kyle Kelly (2)
(1) BTTF Inc, (2) PHCC LP

eHealth Development for Multicultural Audiences - eHealth needs and expectations of multicultural audiences in North America and how eHealth developers should address them in application design and implementation.
Moderator:
Henrie Treadwell, Director, Kellogg Programs & Senior Social Scientist, National Center for Primary Care, Morehouse School of Medicine
Panelists:
Armando Valdez, President, Valdez and Associates
Farai Chideya, Special Editor, the Beehive, One Economy Corporation

Afternoon

Lunch with WIT Teams Meeting #3

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.

Table Chats/Demos - One-to-one table top demos of attendees' products or services to solicit feedback on a product/project, or initiate partnerships or collaborations.

Open Space Sessions - Hot topics in eHealth on demand.

Networking Time with Affinity Activity Groups

Evening

Dinner with Summit keynote and awards announcements
Keynote:
Angel Investing and eHealth - Are They Compatible?
Jack J Florio, Vice President, Communications and BioMedTrak Investor, San Diego Tech Coast Angels

Friday, Nov. 7, 7:00AM-1:30PM

Morning

Breakfast

eHealth WIT Teams Presentations - Team presentations to judges and audience.

Successful eHealth Commercialization - Defining commercialization in terms of sales, societal impact, advancing the field, and business relationships. Lessons for working with strategic partners.
Moderator:
Mark Blatt, Manager, Healthcare Strategies, Intel Corporation
Panelists:
Mark Leavitt, VP of Clinical Initiatives, GE Medical Systems Information Technologies
Bill Crounse, Global Healthcare Industry Manager, Microsoft Corporation

Summary and Closing Reception

Sponsors and Participants for Future Summits

If your organization is interested in sponsoring the next Summit, please send an email to Tom Eng's attention: info AT ehealthinstitute.org.