Future of Health Technology Summit 1999 - Program
September 27- 28, 1999
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Laboratory
Keynotes
Keynote:
Affective Medicine - Technology with Emotional Intelligence
Professor Rosalind W. Picard
Author of "Affective Computing", MIT Media Laboratory
Discussion by:
Bernard Glassman
Special Expert in Informatics, NCI, National Institute of Health
Robert Teague, M.D.
Medical Advisor, Compaq
Bruce Karlin, M.D.
Primary Care Physician
Distinguished Lecture & Award Ceremony
Lecture
Distinguished Lecture by Professor Marvin Minsky the author of “The Society of Mind”
FHTI 1999 Awards Ceremony
1999 Future of Health Technology Award Honoree
Michael Fitzmaurice, Ph.D.
Senior Science Advisor for Information Technology
Immediate Office of the Administrator
Agency for Health Care Policy and Research
Presented by:
Albert Sunseri, Ph.D.
Executive Director, AHRMM
American Hospital Association
1999 MD Future of Health Technology Award Honoree
Richard P. O'Brien, MD FACEP
Emergency Medicine Physician
Moses Taylor Hospital
Pennsylvania Chapter President
American College of Emergency Physicians
Presented by:
Gloria Rudisch M.D., M.P.H.
Harvard Medical School & Brookline Department of Health
Future of Health Technology Dinner
Dinner
4th Annual Future of Health Technology Dinner sponsored by the Joint Purchasing Corporation
MIT Faculty Club, September 27, 1999, 6:30PM-10PM
Program 9/27/99
Opening:
Opening of 1999 Summit: Looking into the Future
Renata Bushko
Chair, Future of Health Technology Institute
Barbara Friedman, MA, MPA, FHRMM
Regional Consultant, Joint Purchasing Corporation
Session 1:
Current Promising Health Technology Research Areas - ATP’s Information Technologies in Healthcare-Funded Projects
Richard Spivack, Ph.D.
Economist, US Department of Commerce, NIST, Advanced Technology Program (ATP)
Discussion by:
J. Sean Kenney, Ph.D.
CEO & President, Greater Detroit Area Health Council Inc. 
Henry Lieberman
Research Scientist, MIT Media Laboratory 
George Peredy, M.D.
Director, Clinical Information System
The Kaiser Permanente Medical Group
Session 2:
Automated Fast-response Molecular Medicine – e.g., Immuno-Informatic Computers with Diagnostic Biosensors
Barry Robson, Ph.D.
Strategy Advisor, Life Science
IBM T.J.Watson Re search Center & Computational Biology Center
Session 3:
From Confidential Medical Record to Shared Health Story
Glorianna Davenport
Principal Research Associate , MIT Media Laboratory
Session 4:
Convergence of Evidence-based Medicine, Knowledge Management and Information Technology
Michael McDonald,Dr.PH.
CEO, Global Health Initiatives Inc.
Session 5:
Thought to Computer Communication
Professor Kevin Warwick
Department of Cybernetics, University of Reading
Session 6:
Future of Voice, Speech and Language Technologies
Jo Lernout
Co-Chairman
Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products
Session 7:
Future of Medical Computing – Intelligent Objects
Jeffrey Sutherland, Ph.D.
Chief Technology Officer, IDX Systems Corporation
Session 8:
Future of Non-invasive Visualization: CAT, PET, MRI, Ultrasound…
Glenn S. Fields
Manager, Healthcare Systems Projects, Electronic Systems Laboratory, General Electric Corporate R&D  
Session 9:
Future of Health Information Infrastructure
Chair:
Dr. J. Michael Fitzmaurice
Senior Science Advisor for Information Technology, Immediate Office of the Administrator Agency for Health Care Policy and Research
Panelists:
Dena Puskin, Ph.D.
Director, Office for the Advancement of Telehealth, Health Resources and Services Administration, DHHS
Scott Ratzan, M.D., Ph.D.
Editor-In-Chief, the Journal of Health Communication
David Garets
Vice President/Research Area Director, Healthcare Industry Research & Advisory Services, Gartner Group
Jessy W. Tonks, M.S.
Manager Federal Government Services, 3M Health Information Systems
V. Brewster Jones
Senior Vice President, Healthcare Solutions SMS
Session 10:
Health Information Technology Lab Applied Research Initiative
J. Sean Kenney, Ph.D.
CEO & President, Greater Detroit Area Health Council Inc.
Program 9/28/99
Introduction
Opening Remarks and Introduction
Professor Joseph Bonventre
Co-Director
Harvard MIT Division of Health Sciences & Technology
Robert H. Ebbert Professor of Molecular Medicine 
Harvard Medical School & Professor of Health Sciences 
Session 11:
The Future of Intelligent Agent Software in Medicine
Henry Lieberman
Research Scientist
MIT Media Laboratory
Session 12:
Technology Demonstration "Leap into the Future"
Lernout & Hauspie Speech and Language Products
Session 13:
"Suitable Health Technology": Technology for Worldwide Personal Health
Prof. Alex P. Pentland, Ph.D.
(virtual participation)
Academic Head, MIT Media Laboratory
Session 14:
Seven Most Promising Health Technology Research Areas
Professor Alice Pentland, M.D.
Medical Director
Center for Future Health, University of Rochester
Synthesis
Insights from the Brainstorming Session - Revised Seven Most Promising Health Technology Research Areas
Bernard Glassman
Special Expert on Informatics
National Cancer Institute
National Institute of Health

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