New Group Forming for Healthcare Innovators

• Celebrate the kick-off of a new healthcare technology group
• Find out how this new workgroup can support your role in healthcare innovation
• And a special update on leveraging two key aspects of healthcare reform and funding
  

You are invited to join other entrepreneurs, healthcare experts, technology leaders, and healthcare innovators from around the region for this free event.

Special discussion led by: Dr. Allan Goroll

• professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and practicing primary care physician at Massachusetts General Hospital
• nationally respected leader in primary care, medical innovation, and healthcare reform
• a passionate and dedicated force in healthcare advancements
  
• founder of forward-thinking initiatives such as the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative
• recipient of numerous awards for his pioneering work 

At this unique evening event, Dr. Goroll will provide a briefing on key trends and resources related to healthcare reform and stimulus legislation, and the organizing team will introduce a new initiative:  the Collaborative Care Technology Working Group, scheduled to commence activities in September 2010.

AGENDA, Wednesday, June 30, 2010:

Doors open at 6:30 PM.  Although a free event, pre-registration is required as seats are limited.

6:30 - 7:00 PM:  Networking

7:00 - 7:15 PM:  Opening remarks

7:15 - 7:45 PM:  Featured presentation

Dr. Allan Goroll, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School

• Health System Reform: the Big Picture
  • Strengthening the Primary Care Base, Collaboration and Coordination
    

• Updates on Implementation of New Healthcare Legislation, including:
  • the Medicare Innovation Center component of new healthcare reform and stimulus legislation
  • current and upcoming activities of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC)
    
    

7:45 - 8:15 PM: Q&A

8:15 - 8:30 PM:  Overview

Collaborative Care Technology Working Group (CCTWG):  What Is It, and Why Now?

• Tom Iglehart, Pres., Care Commons, Inc.
• Anne Marie Biernacki, Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officer - AdhereTx Corp.
  
  

8:30 - 9:00 PM:  Networking

Join us and like-minded colleagues from around the region
at the IBM Innovation Center in Waltham, Massachusetts
on Wednesday, June 30th from 6:30-9 PM.

Who's coming?...

• HIT entrepreneurs
• HIT technology executives
• HIT product managers and developers
• healthcare practitioners and executives
• health insurers and self-insured employers
• patient advocates
• investors in innovative healthcare technologies

• CCTWG is a new, independent group dedicated to studying the core challenges of designing, developing, and bringing to market technologies that support collaborative, coordinated healthcare.  Examples can range from devices that help consumers better monitor themselves and communicate with caregivers to information "dashboards" for physicians.
  
  
• CCTWG is planned as a year-round series of monthly meetings (starting in Fall 2010) that combine seminar-style presentations by subject matter experts with open discussion, brainstorming, and Q&A to help participants think through product and design strategies.  Online and offline collaboration between meetings will be encouraged and supported.
  
  
• Principal facilitator will be author, professor, and practicing primary care physician Dr. Allan Goroll of Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, joined throughout the year by invited guest experts.
  
  
• Participation in CCTWG and access to monthly meetings and other resources will be on a paid membership basis and by application.
  
  
• CCTWG is intended as a focused group dedicated to intensive study and group collaboration, and so will be limited in size during its first year (up to 30 participants) to facilitate productivity.
  
  
• CCTWG is expected to develop relationships with complementary local and national organizations to support its goals and those of its individual members.
  
  
• A downloadable .PDF on the CCTWG may be found here.

Please join us to find out more at this FREE event
on Wednesday, June 30th from 6:30 - 9 PM in Waltham.