Stanford University
Palo Alto, CA, USA
Stanford University organized the first meeting for healthcare professionals that have gone into IT and vice-versa. It was a successful marriage of Silicon Valley and Medicine. Stanford and the venue, Li Ka Shing Center for Knowledge and Learning, were as impressive as you would think they are. In a nutshell, it was a fantastic venue to learn and network in Health IT.
Lee Aese, the Director of The Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media. The Mayo Clinic is a leader in adopting social media and the institution to follow closely, especially its Center for Innovation.
Antonio Linares is a regional vice president of Anthem (Blue Cross). We had excellent discussions about telemedicine in California and he offered to share more information, even to show me around. Tony could be quite instrumental in ‘cracking’ the telehealth market in future research as he is in charge of telemed reimbursement in California. He directed my attention to two other telemedicine networks: www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/cht and www.caltelehealth.org
Pierre Elias is a senior fellow at The Abramson Center where they developed games for health. Their focus is on chronic diseases and they have an app/game for iPhone named ‘Azmo’ to manage kids’ spirometry. It looks OK and the idea is cool - you do a physical activity (blow into spirometer), and it translates to a virtual movement (you move the dragon around). It is a concept worth further exploring.
Stanford University organized the first meeting for healthcare professionals that have gone into IT and vice-versa. It was a successful marriage of Silicon Valley and Medicine. Stanford and the venue, Li Ka Shing Center for Knowledge and Learning, were as impressive as you would think they are. In a nutshell, it was a fantastic venue to learn and network in Health IT.
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| A PANEL OF EXPERTS ON E-HEALTH |
The event spanned over three days, the first being the Stanford Summit and two other Medicine 2.0 Conference. Stanford Summit gathered the entrepreneurs from the Silicon Valley (and around) that have ventured into healthcare. I will name a few and their products/services.
Lee Aese, the Director of The Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media. The Mayo Clinic is a leader in adopting social media and the institution to follow closely, especially its Center for Innovation.
Parvati Dev, the CEO of Innovation in Learning Inc., a company that builds 3D virtual medical environments for the training of healthcare personnel. I see this as an option for patients to familiarize themselves with procedures and settings.
Ron Gutman is the CEO of Health-Tap, a Silicon Valley company that brings interactive software to medicine. Their HealthTap platform allows patients to get answers from thousands of physicians instead of searching for health-related info on the Web. Looks clean and valuable.
Sean Handel is senior vice president at Epocrates. Besides the services that help practitioners navigate vast information on diseases, treatments, and therapies, an exciting innovation is the so-called ‘Pill Identifier’. As the elderly might not know the proper name of the pill but could recall the look of the pill, there is a simple yet effective solution – a Pill ID.
Jay Parkinson owns the firm called ‘The Future Well’, an innovation consultancy for healthy products, brands and business. He also developed Hello Health, a mixture of secure social network and electronic medical record.
I met and spoke to several interesting people and I will name a few:
Katherina Abello is the head of the Innovation Centre for Mental Health & Technology, Trimbos Institute in the Netherlands. They have developed an easy-to-understand, web-based audio-visual screening instrument that I personally believe can be of real use in PHB, thus omitting tedious and often confusing questionnaires: http://dekeuzearchitecten.nl
Ron Gutman is the CEO of Health-Tap, a Silicon Valley company that brings interactive software to medicine. Their HealthTap platform allows patients to get answers from thousands of physicians instead of searching for health-related info on the Web. Looks clean and valuable.
Sean Handel is senior vice president at Epocrates. Besides the services that help practitioners navigate vast information on diseases, treatments, and therapies, an exciting innovation is the so-called ‘Pill Identifier’. As the elderly might not know the proper name of the pill but could recall the look of the pill, there is a simple yet effective solution – a Pill ID.
Jay Parkinson owns the firm called ‘The Future Well’, an innovation consultancy for healthy products, brands and business. He also developed Hello Health, a mixture of secure social network and electronic medical record.
I met and spoke to several interesting people and I will name a few:
Katherina Abello is the head of the Innovation Centre for Mental Health & Technology, Trimbos Institute in the Netherlands. They have developed an easy-to-understand, web-based audio-visual screening instrument that I personally believe can be of real use in PHB, thus omitting tedious and often confusing questionnaires: http://dekeuzearchitecten.nl
Antonio Linares is a regional vice president of Anthem (Blue Cross). We had excellent discussions about telemedicine in California and he offered to share more information, even to show me around. Tony could be quite instrumental in ‘cracking’ the telehealth market in future research as he is in charge of telemed reimbursement in California. He directed my attention to two other telemedicine networks: www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/cht and www.caltelehealth.org
Pierre Elias is a senior fellow at The Abramson Center where they developed games for health. Their focus is on chronic diseases and they have an app/game for iPhone named ‘Azmo’ to manage kids’ spirometry. It looks OK and the idea is cool - you do a physical activity (blow into spirometer), and it translates to a virtual movement (you move the dragon around). It is a concept worth further exploring.
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| SURGERY SIMULATION ROOM IN LI KA SHING CENTRE FOR KNOWLEDGE AND LEARNING |
Overall, the meeting was a major success: the way they executed it, the topics, the presenters, it was all top-notch. I loved the idea of having guys from Silicon Valley coming together and discussing what they are currently working on. I am not the only one to see a vast potential of such an event at Stanford, so the organizing team will introduce an annual event called Medicine X (neXt) as a nexus for presenting innovative ideas in Health IT in the Silicon Valley. I am confident that Medicine 2.0 (next one at Harvard) and Medicine X, both in September, will be the best academia/industry-related events in telemedicine and the ones worth taking part in.
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