Preparing for the Health Care Innovations Summit, Washington DC 25-26/1/2012

Tomorrow is the Health Care Innovations Summit in Washington, DC. The event is organized by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), West Wireless Health Institute and and Health Affairs. THe summit itself on January 26th is over subscribed and there is a packed agenda. Fortunately Kaiser Permanente is lending a hand and helping to make the day more productive for attendees. Today, Wednesday January 25th, Kaiser Permenanente's Center for Total Health is hosting a pre-event networking day and tomorrow the center hosts a viewing party for people that can't get to the Summit event at the Renaissance Hotel. You can still register for the viewing party here:

http://summitviewingliveatkp.eventbrite.com

Today I am working with Danielle Cass and Ted Eytan to facilitate the networking day. It is set to be both fun and informative. The objective of the day is to turbo charge the summit experience for participants, helping them to connect with others of like mind and to share innovation ideas. There are also some fascinating discussions organized throughout the day. 

For those of you that watch my tweets, I know I have been lying low for a few weeks. But over the next few days I will be live tweeting and blogging from the summit - so watch out for a stream of blogs and tweets. 

The reason for me lying low is that I have been working with Community Education Group (CEG) in Washington DC to help them submit a proposal for a CMS Health Innovation Award. CEG is a leader in HIV Education and Support and for 18 years has focused outreach to the disadvantaged communities in Washington DC. This has involved bringing together some amazing partners to implement an innovative community-based medical home for patients in disadvantaged communities living with life long chronic conditions. There will be more to come on this subject, including some exciting partnerships with some great organizations.

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Students demonstrate innovative iPad book page flip | TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

One major complaint about reading an eBook is the experience; holding an iPad is just not the same as holding a book and thumbing through the pages. This complaint may lose some of its weight if the folks at the KAIST Institute of Information Technology Convergence can get their patented Smart E-Book Interface Prototype out of the lab and into the wild.

The interface uses the private Apple API for the page flip and turns it upside down and inside out. Not only do you get a beautiful page flip like the one in iBooks, you also get page flipping that lets you scan 20 or 30 pages at a time, multiple page flips that are controlled by the speed of your finger swipe, and a way to hold your thumb on one page and flip through the book with your fingers. You can see it in action in the video below to marvel at how the interface mimics the way most people flip the pages of a softcover book.

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Very cool animation.

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#ReginaHolliday asked me where my Walking Gallery Jacket has been...

In May of this year Regina Holliday painted my favorite leather jacket. Since then my Jacket has been well travelled... Regina asked where it had been. So let's try to put together a list. Here goes....

May 2011:

@reginaholliday artwork hanging at Nottingham Contemporary #hcdc #thewalkinggallery

The WallaceSpace at St.Pancras, London for a UK mHealth brainstorming day

June 2011:

Washington DC Health Innovation Week, June 2011

The Press Conference at the Kaiser Permanente Center For Total Health

The Walking Gallery

HealthCampDC

Health Data Palooza at the National Institutes of Health

Washington DC Health 2.0 Developer Challenge 

Health Informatics Pulse in Washington DC

Baltimore Wordpress Meetup

July 2011:

Washington DC Quantified Self Meetup

HealthCamp Florida

MoDevDC Meetup

MobiHealth DC Meetup

August 2011:

Health2STAT in Washington DC

Edelman Meetup in NYC

September 2011:

SocialHealth meetup in NYC

Putting the I in HealthIT ONC event in Washington DC

#DCTech Meetup

#SXSH in Philadelphia

EPatient Connections in Philadelphia

HealthCamPSFBAY

Health 2.0 Developers Challenge, San Francisco

Patients 2.0

In the making of the Rainbow Button Initiative Rap Video

Health 2.0 including being on stage with the ONC team

And being painted in to the Health 2.0 mural by @Lygeia Ricciardi

October 2011:

Ignite Baltimore

University of Maryland - Fall 2011 Health IT Research Summit

HealthCamp Oregon

Baltimore Tech Breakfast (multiple times over the course of the year)

Putting the IT in Transitions at ONC Session at KPCTH

#73Cents session at Kaiser Permanente Center For Total Health

TedXPennQuarter

MobiHealthDC

November 2011:

HealthCa.mp/LA

Presenting RainbowButton at Baltimore Tech Breakfast

Health2STAT impromptu Rainbow Button presentation

SocialChocolate at #KPCTH in Washington DC

December 2011:

mHealth Summit in Washington National Harbor

Baltimore Tech Breakfast

Yes, it has been a busy year and I am sure I have forgotten a few of the places where I have worn my RainbowButton HealthCamp jacket with pride.

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viktor hertz: honest logos

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Excellent interpretation of Corporate Logos and images to tell the story behind the logo. Enjoy...

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Off to practice on the backside @skilibertymtn

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Google+ Is Going To Mess Up The Internet

I am fed up with Google+ on Mac OS X. If I try to assign someone following me to a circle I get the error that I have reached my daily limit. This is even if I haven't assigned anyone to a circle in days or even weeks. Adding to circles doesn't work on Mac Desktop browsers. It has rarely if ever worked, all they have done is change the error message.

If I can't assign people to a circle what use are circles?  And without the ability to post to Google+ from other sites Google+ is an isolated island.

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From the ReadWrite Web Article: Google+ Is Going To Mess Up The Internet by Jon Mitchell http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_is_going_to_mess_up_the_internet.php

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Seniors and health IT: A match made to avoid heaven! - All Things HIT

Dec 30 2011   6:46PM GMT

Seniors and health IT: A match made to avoid heaven!

Posted by: Patrick Howard
Senior care, telemedicine, eRx, Senior Citizens League, Cost of care

Last week I wrote a ceremonious, empathetic, “Christmassy” blog about being reminded how effective ”no tech” methods can be in achieving better medical outcomes, increasing medication compliance, and so on and so forth. Well after reviewing the results of a most recent study by the Senior Citizens League, one of the largest nonpartisan seniors advocacy groups in the USA, based in Alexandria, Virginia, I’m back on the health IT soapbox. 

The study reviewed how the financial concerns of senior citizens affect their behavior when it comes to visiting the physician’s office, taking their medications and approaching their end of life care.  The study surveyed 1200 seniors and revealed the following:

• 50% of respondents postponed filling prescriptions
• 61% postponed visits to dentists, opticians, or hearing specialists
• 44% postponed filling prescriptions or chose to take a lower dosage than prescribed
• 44% are spending at least $300 per month on medical expenses
• 10% are spending at least $750 per month

I admit, the results weren’t that surprising.  Anytime a person has less money and/or no health insurance, they will put off visiting the doctor, dentist, and even not-comply with their medication.  What was astounding to me, however, was the metrics’s large percentages and the high out-of-pocket monthly cost (points four and five above).  After reviewing the results, I couldn’t help but think about solutions that, not surprisingly, were in the health IT realm!  How can e-prescribing systems with a generic pricing default reduce the cost of the prescription? How can a clinical decision support systems be used for prevention, possibly eliminating that office visit and/or prescription?  I thought about how we can use telehealth appointments, in lieu of physical office visits, and hence increasing visit compliance, as this would reduce their costs and is more convenient, especially for those in rural communities.  Seniors wouldn’t have to get dressed, get driven, and spend valuable gas dollars visiting the doctor office.  

While I know this is utopian, our seniors definitely deserve these impactful technologies, especially towards the end of life.  The costs associated with care and the mere inconvenience of an office visit during the time when a person is the least mobile seems inhumane when these barrier-breaking technologies exist. Although there are some “no tech” solutions that could address theses concerns, such as lowering prices, this seem less likely than implementing the technologies. Yes, health care IT and seniors can truly be a match made to avoid heaven.  

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Seniors are not as averse to technology as we often believe. They are connecting with their grandkids on Facebook and using technology to stay in touch with family. This is something that kids and grandkids can encourage. Using technology with them can help them become comfortable with using that same technology to help maintain their health.

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