Future of Health Technology Summit 2006 - Program - Schedule
September 25 - 26, 2006
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Faculty Club
  
Part I: Inspiration - Monday 9/25/2006 - Morning
7:30 - 8:00  Introductions and Breakfast 
   
8:00 - 8:30 Opening - Future of Health Technology Summit 2006
Remarks on the 2006 European Ministers of Health Meeting in Malaga, Spain
New book announcement – “Future of Intelligent and Extelligent Health Environment “ 

Renata Bushko
Director, Future of Health Technology Institute 
   
8:30 - 9:00 The Future is Global
Julia Royall
Chief, International Programs
Director, Multilateral Initiative on Malaria Communications Network 
U.S. National Library of Medicine
“A look at the colonial conundrum of international development as it relates to science and public health and how small steps of collaboration can benefit us all”
   
9:00 - 9:30 Grand Challenges Revisited: Reflections from the 25th Anniversary Symposium of the Decision Systems Group 
Professor Robert Greenes 
Professor of Radiology and of Health Science & Technology, Harvard Medical School
Professor of Health Policy & Management, Harvard School of Public Health
Distinguished Chair in Biomedical Informatics and Director, Decision Systems Group
Brigham and Women's Hospital
   
9:30 - 10:00 Designing Medical Experience
Brian Stonecipher
Senior Human Factors Engineer
Design Continuum
How would you describe your last medical experience as a medical consumer? Were you scared? Confused? Positive and confident? In this presentation I explore how Continuum develops an understanding of the perceptions and emotional needs of patients and caregivers, and how we use those findings to design products that deliver a better experience.
     
10:00 - 10:45 Part I of the Disaster Preparedness Panel
Future of Adaptive Affective Action
(to be continued on 9/26)
Chair: 
Gloria Rudisch
Director of Child Health
Town of Brookline, Health Department
Clinical Instructor in Pediatrics
Harvard Medical School and Children's Hospital of Boston

Town and state level:
Don Sibor 
Director, Emergency Preparedness
Town of Brookline, Health Department

National level:

Michel McDonald Dr.PH.
CEO, Global Health Initiatives, Inc. 

Introductions of Part II Session leaders:

Chris Hobson
Clinical Director
Orion Systems International

Jeff Sutherland
Chief technology Officer
Patient Keeper Inc.

Jeff Mason
CEO
Healing Homes, Inc.

Stephen R. Balzac
Expert/Consultant
Gaming 
     
10:45 - 11:15 DEMONSTRATION #1
Technological Inspiration Series: 
Revolution in Lightning - Example of Innovation
Light to 1.6 Bilion People without Electricity

Sheila Kennedy, AIA
Principal: Kennedy & Violich Architecture, Ltd.
Director of Design & Applied Research: MATx KVA Kennedy & Violich Architecture, Ltd.
Kennedy will present the Portable Light Project, a non profit initiative which provides portable, self contained and sustainable textile based lighting to support education and adult literacy, cottage industry and community based health practices for rural communities without access to electricity.
Energy efficient high brightness semi-conductors (HBLEDs) and flexible photo-voltaics are integrated into a versatile textile form factor that is small, smart and shippable. Kennedy will demonstrate Portable Light prototypes, discuss her ongoing work with Portable Light in the Mexican Sierra where flexible electronics are integrated with traditional Mesoamerican weaving traditions, and address the potential impacts of energy harvesting and light emitting textiles both in the “third” world and in the United States.
    
11:15 - 11:30 Break
    
11:30 - 12:00 Future Healthcare Innovations: Converge or Die.
Theodore J. Torphy, Ph.D. 
Vice President and Corporate Officer 
Head, Corporate Office of Science & Technology 
Johnson & Johnson
The emerging healthcare environment threatens to upend the business models of today's pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers. Our customers are changing, as are their expectations. Unless we deliver true value to the healthcare system by incorporating new technologies and business models, the pharmaceutical and device industries risk going the way of big steel.
    
12:00 - 12:30 DEMONSTRATION #2
Virtual Nurse and Portable Exercise Assistant

Professor Timothy Bickmore, Ph.D.
College of Computer and Information Science
Northeastern University
Automated healthcare agents are uniquely situated to provide continuity of care and long-term interventions in the management of chronic conditions and lifestyle health behavior change. Project descriptions:
The Relational Agents group at Northeastern University is developing virtual healthcare agents for patient and consumer health education and health behavior change counseling. In a project funded by the National Library of Medicine we are developing a portable exercise advisor that can sense your level of physical activity and intervene at the moment you are deciding whether to go for a walk or not. This animated exercise coach is hosted on a PDA with an integrated accelerometer to sense walking motion. In a second project, funded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, we are developing a virtual discharge nurse that will review patient medications, self-care instructions and follow-up appointments with patients prior to hospital discharge. The system will be evaluated in a 3-year randomized clinical trial at Boston Medical Center, where it will be compared against human discharge nurses and a standard-of-care condition.
  
Part II: Incubation - Monday 9/25/2006 - Early Afternoon
12:30 - 1:15 Networking Lunch
    
1:15 - 1:45 DEMONSTRATION #3
Sounding Depressed

Professor Alex Pentland
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Laboratory
Demonstration – Depression Meter 
Clinical data show that people really do sound different when they are depressed, and we have used this fact to build telephones that analyze the speakers `tone of voice' in order to automatically screen for depression and to track changes due to treatment. A cell phone programmed as a depression meter will allow attendees to experiment with this new capability. 
    
1:45 - 2:30 From Mainframe to Personal Healthcare: 
The Care Convergence through Disruptive Technologies

Eric Dishman 
General Manager & Global Director, Intel Health Research & Innovation Group, Principal Research Scientist, Intel Corporation
National Chair, Center for Aging Services Technologies
    
2:30 - 3:00 Caring for the Caregiver 
Nancy Lewin 
Director, The Caregiver Initiative 
Johnson & Johnson Consumer Products Company
   
3:00 - 3:15 Break
     
3:15 - 3:45 Diffusion of Technology in Health Care
Dean E. Calcagni, M.D.
Director of Medical and Life Sciences Applications
Foster-Miller, Inc.
      
3:45 - 4:30 Mirror Mirror on the Wall, 
What is the Best Implant of them All?

Professor Kevin Warwick
Author of “In the Mind of the Machine”
Cybernetics Department
University of Reading, UK
     
4:30 - 5:00 Reflections on Architecture in Service of Human Health:
Architectural Health for Alzheimer's

Stephen Nemtin - Student of Frank Lloyd Wright School
Founder, Stephen M Nemtin Architect LLC 
The presentation explores ideas that challenge convention with application
for all levels of care.
     
5:00 - 5:15 Break
   
Part III: Insight - Monday 9/25/2006 - Late Afternoon
 5:15 - 6:00 Remarks on the new book “The Emotion Machine”
Professor Marvin Minsky
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
    
 6:00 - 6:30 Synthesis & Reflections
Professor Charles Safran
Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
CEO, Safran Associates

Stephan Wiet, Ph.D.
Director, Consumer Sciences 
McNeil Consumer & Specialty Pharmaceuticals 
    
 6:30 - 9:00 11th Annual Future of Health Technology Dinner
MIT Faculty Club 

Dinner Speaker:
Remarks by Jeffrey D. Miller
Vice President, 
Worldwide-Wide Public Sector, Health, and Education 
Hewlett-Packard Company
  Celebration Music: 
Violin, Yuan-mei Xing
  
Tuesday 9/26/2006 - Morning
8:30 - 9:00 Breakfast
    
9:00 - 9:30 Future of Chronic Disease Management
Chris Hobson
Clinical Director
Orion Systems International
    
 9:30 - 10:00 Future of Robotics in Health: 
Medical Robotics: A Systems-Level View

Salil Patel, MD
Department of Radiology
BJC Hospitals / The Mallinckrodt Institute
Washington University, St Louis
      
 10:00 - 11:30 Continuation of the Disaster Preparedness Panel
Use of Technology to Gain Improvement

Adaptive Process Management 
Jeff Sutherland, Ph.D.
CTO, Patient Keeper Inc.


Healig Homes
Jeff Mason
CEO
Healing Homes, Inc.

Gaming Approach to Disaster Preparedness
Stephen R. Balzac
Expert/Consultant- Gaming
    
 11:30 - 12:00 Conclusions & Planning 
The Worldwide Marathon for Health
International Future of Health Technology Summit 2007
FHT2007
      
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch 
  
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