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The Best Communicators Capture & Create Data To Activate and Influence Research and Business Communities

How to design easy-to-read, logically structured visualizations using complex or simple arrays of information. Solve the problems of structuring and explaining information. The best presentations and graphics communicate logically. Learn tips and tricks to construct data visualizations and illustrations for statistical data so that they are meaningful and impactful.

Maxim Gorbachevskiy, CEO, Infographer

AI Governance in Healthcare: Best Practices, Solutions, and Unresolved Issues

What challenges are presented by AI adoption in healthcare? What role should AI governance play in regard to the opportunities and risks for generative AI (large language models like ChatGPT-4, etc.) in health? How do we responsibly evaluate new technology and ensure guardrails for its deployment, but without stifling innovation? How do we address societal fears and biases? What level of reliability and robustness should algorithms achieve before being adopted with confidence across healthcare? How can AI support health equity and expand access? We will explore these questions and more with some of the nation’s leading experts on these topics.

Learning Objectives

  • Understand key opportunities and challenges for AI governance in healthcare, particularly in regard to rapidly emerging generative AI applications
  • Discuss various responsible AI and AI governance frameworks that seek to ensure safety and efficacy in AI adoption
  • Explore the role of government, legislation, and regulators in supporting safe and equitable adoption of AI in healthcare
  • Explore opportunities for government, industry, and academic partnerships to accelerate AI validation, development, and adoption of safety standards
  • Consider the potential impact of AI on the healthcare workforce and provider and patient experiences
  • Identify the risks we should be most concerned with and what approaches can we take to mitigate those risks?
  • By the end of the presentation, participants should have a sense of the opportunities and challenges of adopting AI in healthcare, key risks and frameworks for mitigating them, and the potential role of government, academia, and industry in addressing these issues

Generative AI application examples

  • Patient Communication and Engagement
  • Intelligent chatbots interacting with patients, answering their queries, providing health advice, and helping them manage their conditions
  • Mental Health Support
  • Provide psychological support to patients, helping them manage stress, anxiety, depression, and other mental health issues. Provide interventions based on CBT and other therapeutic techniques
  • Automated Medical Documentation
  • Note-taking can allowing doctors to focus more on patient care
  • Education and Training
  • Create educational content and personalized training for medical students and healthcare professionals, potentially simulating things like patient cases and providing guidance on diagnosis, etc.

Synthesis and Summarization of Medical Research

  • Make it easier for people to keep up with the latest developments
  • Public Health Communication
  • In a public health emergency, help craft health messages, FAQs, and timely and accurate updates for the public
  • Generative AI challenges and limitations
  • Ensuring the accuracy of AI-generated information
  • Maintaining patient privacy
  • Handling the ethical implications of AI and human-machine interactions in healthcare
  • “Hallucinations” (false or inaccurate information) can occur when model has limited knowledge of a particular domain
  • “Distraction” (losing track of earlier inputs) can occur when inputs go beyond allowable token count for model “context window” and models start to produce responses not relevant to queries and context.

Calvin Lawrence, Distinguished Engineer – Responsible AI , Member of AI Ethics Board and Academy of Technology, IBM
Seth Dobrin, PhD, Founder and CEO, Qantm AI 
Gil Alterovitz, PhD, Director, Biomedical Cybernetics Laboratory Harvard Medical School, Member of CHAI
Yoav Schlesinger Architect, Ethical AI Practice, Healthcare Salesforce
Dennis Chornenky, Chief AI Advisor UC Davis Health and CEO, Domelabs AI, Moderator

Virtual Primary Care and Generative AI Limitations and Useful Implementation

Virtual healthcare can benefit from the recent advances in generative AI, because information in patient interactions digitally captured can be summarized for AI to interpret, and offer guidance and alerts, based on voice, video, transcribed text, clinical documentation text, images, test results, treatments, etc, while large language models summarize information and automate administrative tasks. AI can assist in providing guidance and clinical decision support to clinicians alleviating current burdens, while digital data can enable refinement and improvements in performance.

Geoffrey Rutledge, Chief Medical Officer and Co-founder, HealthTap

The Future of Women’s Telehealth: Unlocking Innovation

This panel will explore the exciting potential of telehealth for women’s health, and how innovation is transforming the field. Join industry leaders discuss the future of women’s telehealth and innovative solutions that are unlocking better care for women, including how patients connect with providers for virtual consultations, receive prescriptions, order birth control, and access at-home STI testing.

Learning objectives
• Learn how telehealth is used to improve access to women’s health services, including OB/GYN care and family planning in a hybrid environment using an integrated platform
• Learn how telehealth provides personalized care to women through a comprehensive, holistic approach that addresses physical and mental health
• Explore telehealth support for new mothers with breastfeeding, including virtual lactation consultations and personalized care plans

Bronwyn Harris, CEO, Carbon Health
Andrea Ippolito, CEO, and Founder SimpliFed
Aditi Joshi, Founder, Nagamed Digital Consulting
Matt Sakumoto, Professor, USCF, Moderator

How Does New Era Health Marketing Incite New Era Health Activism? (45 min.)

This panel will discuss the role of new-era healthcare technology in creating awareness and promoting health activism and “Healthusiasm.”  The panellists will share insights on how social media, telemedicine, wearables, and other technologies have transformed how people access and interact with healthcare and research. 

The panel will discuss the future of healthcare technology and health activism. The panellists will share their vision for how technology can continue transforming healthcare and how health activism can drive change, and what technology’s impact across industries beyond healthcare.

Christophe Jauquet, Author, Healthusiasm
Grace Vinton, Patient Advocate, Digital Health Influencer, and Award-Winning Healthcare Communications Professional, Amendola Communications
Matthew Holt, Founder, The Healthcare Blog

Complex Behavior Change Interventions for Community Health

How can community health professionals connect with resident health consumers to encourage positive self care? This goes beyond encouraging physical activity to encompass a range of life style behavior changes with a tailored approach that engages those least engaged with health and wellness and potentially most at risk from acute health risks and longer term conditions such as Type 2 Diabetes. Is the answer purely digital, or does a network of health service managers help drive engagement and better outcomes? This session explores how a data driven, dynamically adaptive approach and adding an “administrator portal” shapes targeted incentives and messaging, adjusting parameters of rewards and behavioral triggers for personalized content. The speaker will present a case use from Hounslow and Buckinghamshire in the UK, where healthcare is optimized through self learning systems.

Learning objectives:
• Insight into own practices and the balance between acute and preventative care
• Understand how smartphone technology, combined with incentives, can be used to engage community residents in their own self care
• Learn how to baseline existing behavior and measure change over time
• Gain insights from smartphone derived data and understand how it can be used to identify barriers to change

Hannah McCarthy, COO, BetterPoints Ltd

Digital Health Implementations Using Tokenomics and Building Stakeholder Support for New Technologies

Case Use 1:
 How data is stored, shared and monetized connecting an entire ecosystem with benefits.

Case Use 2:
EHRs, genomic DNA, wearables, pharmacy and social determinants of health data and accelerated access to de-identified, tokenized, real-time data.

Dr. Igor Korolev, Digital Health Consultant
Stephan Manoryk Community Leader DeHealth
Ardy Arianpour, CEO, Seqster CEO
Jim St. Claire, COO & Advisor, Multiple Companies, Moderator

Defining a New Immersive Reality in Healthcare

Immersive technology innovation/remote clinical pilots, deploying VR headsets across the nation and collaborating with agencies embracing whole health. Learn how the VA is advancing care with new content for clinical implementation, education and training platforms that benefit our veterans.
 

Anne Lord Bailey, PharmD, BCPS Director of Clinical Tech Innovation and Co-Lead for Extended Reality (XR) Network Veterans Health Administration (VHA)

AI-Driven Health Care: The Virtual Physician Assistant

There are limitless opportunities for the new generation of AI technologies to improve healthcare, and especially to improve the availability of, and access to, qualified and experienced primary care doctors. In addition to improving the efficiency of clinical documentation and billing, AI can now function as an automated physician assistant, using its deep knowledge of medical information to ask questions and collect critical history information for the doctor. In the future, we can look forward to AI also providing the doctor with comprehensive differential diagnoses, and suggesting appropriate and data-driven and guideline-based treatment recommendations.

Geoffrey Rutledge, Chief Medical Officer and Co-founder, HealthTap

Holographic Teleportation Demo Video

The future has arrived in telementoring, training and more! View a real world stroke physical evaluation and physical therapy demonstrated by NASA innovation Award recipient Aexa, where holographic two way teleportation is well underway between physicians and patients. You don’t have to spend thousands of dollars on hardware – this application is agnostic, and designed to use on a smartphone, laptop, and across devices already on the market! These are components of our future in healthcare. Are you ready to move the field of medicine into the next frontier?

Dr. Fernando De La Peña Llaca, CEO & President, Aexa

Exploring the Ethical Frontier: Navigating the Intersection of AI and Ethics in Healthcare

In our rapidly advancing technological landscape, artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a powerful tool with the potential to revolutionize healthcare, telehealth, and medicine. However, alongside its immense potential come critical ethical considerations that must be addressed. Delve into the ethical dimensions of AI in these domains and the complex challenges and dilemmas that arise through real-world case studies highlighting the
ethical implications of AI in healthcare delivery, telehealth services, and medical decision-making, ethical challenges of using AI algorithms in diagnosing diseases, determining treatment plans, patient privacy and informed consent, and the socioeconomic impact of AI in healthcare, such as job displacement, access to care, and disparities in health outcomes.

Further, panelists will examine existing ethical frameworks and explore the challenges of integrating AI into existing healthcare systems while maintaining human-centered care and preserving the doctor-patient relationship.

Learning Objectives

  • Understand the ethical challenges and considerations that arise from the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare, telehealth, and medicine.
  • Examine real-world case studies highlighting the ethical implications of AI in diagnosing diseases, determining treatment plans, and ensuring patient privacy and informed consent
  • Explore the potential socioeconomic impact of AI in healthcare, including job displacement, access to care, and disparities in health outcomes
  • Gain insights into the importance of developing responsible AI systems in healthcare that prioritize patient well-being, equity, and privacy
  • Discuss the need for transparent and explainable AI algorithms, as well as the ethical considerations surrounding data privacy and security in the context of telehealth and medical records
  • Understand the significance of multidisciplinary collaboration involving healthcare professionals, technologists, policymakers, and ethicists to ensure the ethical and responsible integration of AI in healthcare.
  • Examine existing ethical frameworks and guidelines applicable to AI in healthcare and explore their implications for preserving human-centered care and the doctor-patient relationship.
  • Foster critical thinking and encourage active participation in shaping ethical guidelines and policies surrounding AI in healthcare, telehealth, and medicine.
  • Promote a future where AI technologies are harnessed ethically to enhance healthcare delivery, improve health outcomes, and prioritize the well-being of individuals and communities.
  • By the end of the talk, attendees will have a comprehensive understanding of the ethical challenges and opportunities surrounding AI in healthcare, telehealth, and medicine, empowering them to navigate the complex intersection of AI and ethics and contribute to the responsible and ethical development of AI technologies in the field of health.

Case Examples:

  • Medical image analysis: AI algorithms have been developed to analyze medical images such as X-rays, CT scans, and MRIs. These algorithms can assist radiologists in detecting abnormalities, identifying tumors, and providing more accurate diagnoses.
  • Predictive analytics for disease diagnosis: AI models can analyze vast amounts of patient data to identify patterns and risk factors associated with various diseases. This can help in early detection, prediction, and prevention of conditions such as cardiovascular diseases, cancer, and diabetes.
  • Virtual assistants and chatbots: AI-powered virtual assistants and chatbots are being utilized in healthcare settings to provide personalized patient support, answer common medical queries, and offer triage services. These technologies help streamline patient interactions, reduce wait times, and provide access to healthcare information.
  • Drug discovery and development: AI algorithms can analyze large datasets and accelerate the process of drug discovery and development. By predicting the efficacy and safety of potential drug compounds, AI can help identify promising candidates for further investigation, potentially speeding up the delivery of new treatments.
  • Remote patient monitoring: AI-enabled wearable devices and sensors can continuously monitor vital signs, activity levels, and other health parameters remotely. This allows healthcare providers to track patient health in real-time, detect changes or anomalies, and provide timely interventions.
  • Precision medicine and personalized treatment plans: AI can analyze genomic data and clinical information to provide personalized treatment recommendations based on an individual’s unique characteristics. This approach supports precision medicine, tailoring therapies to maximize effectiveness and minimize side effects.
  • Health risk assessment and population health management: AI algorithms can analyze population-level health data to identify trends, predict disease outbreaks, and assess health risks within specific communities. This information can aid in resource allocation, targeted interventions, and public health planning.

Asha Saxena, Founder and CEO, Women Leaders In Data & AI (WLDA)
Dr. Keng-Yen Huang, Associate Prof, Population Health & Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, NYU School of Medicine
Cortnie Abercrombie, CEO and Founder, AI Truth
Dr. Besa H. Bauta, Adj. Assistant Professor, New York University

Exponential Leaps in Medicine with XR – Regulatory Challenges vs. Clinical Solutions

Tune into this dynamic session on Exponential Leaps in Medicine with XR, and discover how XR technologies are revolutionizing healthcare, from surgical simulations to patient care. Explore the regulatory challenges and clinical solutions associated with adopting XR in medicine. Gain insights from the speakers on their experiences and leave inspired by the transformative potential of XR in healthcare.

Learning objectives
• Provide an overview of the current state and applications of medical extended reality (XR) technologies in healthcare.
• Discuss the benefits and challenges of the state of XR in medicine.
• Explore the future potential and ethical considerations of medical XR in healthcare.
• Gain insights on how medical XR can be used in current and future healthcare environments.
• Understand regulatory frameworks that could be put in place to ensure consumers and end-users are appropriately protected.

Mark Zhang, DO, MMSc, FAMIA, Associate Chief Medical Information Officer – Digital Innovation Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Dan Scarf, CEO, XRAI Glass
Claude Pirtle, CMIO, Walmart Health, Moderator

Generative Intelligence: Keeping Up With the Pace of Applied Intelligence Near Term

In an era where technology is transforming every facet of our lives, the healthcare sector stands to gain immensely. The presentation addresses intelligence and the ability to acquire knowledge, through experience, and apply that to future decisions, data, beating human benchmarks, and cost & time, In addition, th speaker will explore the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in revolutionizing healthcare over the next three to five years using images to illustrate transformation and engagement with AI, accelerating the human creative, comfort and confidence with iteration, and the benefit of AI invented algorithms. We stand at the brink of a new age where every timestamp, notation, and piece of ‘digital exhaust’ could potentially contribute to our health assessment and longevity. The advent of ‘in perpetuum’ tools promises a future where AI will shape a new health economy.

Benjamin Taylor, Chief AI Strategist, Dataiku

Translational Application of AI in Healthcare

How do we evaluate large language models for use in healthcare? What are the trusted frameworks for value assessment? Is automation through GPT successfully addressing the healthcare administrative and workforce crisis? What about clinical decision making? Expect a candid discussion from these experts on the implications of LLM’s and AI in Primary Care in the US and around the globe.

Learning Outcomes
• Acquire knowledge of the fundamental principles of large language models
• Understand how these models are trained and deployed in a healthcare context
• Learn how to assess the efficiency and effectiveness of large language models in healthcare
• Understand the measures used in determining the success of these models, such as improved patient outcomes, efficiency in operations, and patient satisfaction
• Learn to apply evaluation or translational frameworks in assessing the value of large language models
• Gain insights into how automation, specifically through GPT, is helping to solve healthcare administrative challenges
• Learn about the use of large language models in clinical decision-making
• Understand the strengths and limitations of these models in making clinical decisions, administration, and the ethics

Sandeep Reddy,Director, MBA(Healthcare Management), Deakin School of Medicine
and Chairman, Medi-AI
Alexandre Lebrun, CEO, Nabla
Adam Chee, PhD, Chief, Smart Health Leadership Centre, Institute of Systems Science National University of Singapore
Dimitris Kalogeropoulos, CEO, Global Health and Digital Innovation Foundation, Moderator

Balancing Privacy With Data Sharing for the Public Good

Governments and technology companies are increasingly collecting vast amounts of personal data, prompting new law, myriad investigations, and calls for stricter regulation to protect individual privacy. Yet despite these issues, economics tells us that society needs and is demanding more data sharing rather than less, because the benefits of publicly available data often outweigh the costs. Better economic data could vastly improve policy responses to the next crisis. Data increasingly powers innovation, and it needs to be used for the public good, while individual privacy is protected. This is new and unfamiliar terrain for policymaking, and it requires a careful approach. The pandemic has brought the increasing dominance of big, data-gobbling tech companies into sharp focus. From online retail to home entertainment, digitally savvy businesses are collecting data and deploying it to anticipate product demand and set prices, lowering costs and outwitting more traditional competitors. This session features three experts who will discuss the challenges of balancing citizen and patient privacy with open data sharing for the public good and improved population health.

Learning objectives
• Explore how open data can improved efficiencies and reduced costs
• Learn how increased transparency can increase accountability and lead to less corruption
• Consider how open data has the potential to bring people together who are working on similar
issues who can exchange ideas, findings, discuss challenges, and encourage data collaboration
rather than competitiveness
• Appreciate the hazards and costs for incorrect use of data and missing data

Lorenzo Cristofaro, Partner, Panetta Law
Dr. Paul Barach, Professor, Thomas Jefferson University
Dr. Osama El-Hassan, Health Informatics Specialist, Dubai Health Authority

AI for Patient Centric Care: Symbiotic Relationship Founded on Participation and Reciprocity

The pressures applied to health and healthcare during the pandemic exposed global health systems lacking in fundamental resilience and most of world’s population neglected or underserved regarding their fundamental healthcare needs. Despite significant technological advances, assessing equity, inclusion and resilience has traditionally relied upon manual approaches which over the years have compounded a “wicked” policy problem and innovation predicament for health and healthcare where the pace of technology-creates risks and complexities increases faster than the pace at which technology addresses these risks. With recent breakthrough advances in the AI techniques that underpin NLP, there is a unique opportunity to accelerate buy-in, cooperation and care innovation, and to enable AI synergies for patient-centric care. Based on a relationship of reciprocity enabled by AI applications for data and knowledge value capture, and with access to real-world evidence founded in equity and inclusion, new inroads are made to empower the healthcare workforce of the future and to deliver the necessary agility and resilience in the face of future crises and unmet patient needs.

Dr. Dimitrios Kalogeropoulos, CEO, Global Health and Digital Innovation Foundation

Challenges in Digital Health: from Telemedicine to AI

This panel will address relevant aspects of the use of artificial intelligence in telemedicine, the opportunities, and threats of AI in health and the assessment of the digital maturity of organizations. Experiences and views on these topics will guide the presentations.

Claudio Giulliano Alves da Costa, MD, MSc, PhD, CPHIMS
Gustavo Meirelles, Chairman of the Board, iDr
Jefferson G. Fernandes, MD, Vice President, AMP – Brazil Telehealth & Telemedicine Association

Challenges in Digital Transformation of Health Care  in the Most Populated Country –INDIA  

Providing Universal Health Coverage to 17.7% of the planet’s population using digital transformation may appear science fiction. Future ready steps initiated by the National Digital Health Mission and the Ayushman Bharath program will be highlighted. While data privacy and access to health data is no doubt important, the primary goal is making available quality affordable health care to anyone, anytime , anywhere. A solution for India is a solution for the world.

Dr. RS Sharma, IAS® Chairman, Geospatial Data Development Committee (GDPDC) and Former Secretary to Govt. of India
Dr. Krishnan Ganapathy,  Director, Apollo TeleHealth Services and Past President, Telemedicine Society of India

ConV2X Ignition Pitch Competition

Winners

  • Bloqcube Inc for Blockchain in Healthcare
  • Veta Health for AI & Teec in Telehealth

All Contestants

  • Bronwyn Bridges, Founder, PragmaClin Research Inc
  • Daniel Uribe, CEO, Genobank.io
  • Paniz Jasbi, Founder, Theriome Inc
  • Rama Rao, CEO, BloqCube
  • Ryan Wright, Founder, Nvelope LLC
  • Seth Dobrin, PhD, Founder & CEO, Qantm AI
  • Tanvi Vattikuti Abbhi, Co-Founder, Veta Health

Judges

    • William Taranto, President,
    • Merck Global Health Innovation Fund
    • Nisa Amolis, Managing Partner, A100x Ventures
    • Dr. Shayan Vyas, Executive Physician/Medical Leader
      Health Systems
    • Dr. Sweta Sneha, Executive Director of Healthcare Management Informatics. Professor of Information Systems, Coles College of Business, Kennesaw University
    • Ruby Gadelrab Tudor, CEO, MDsrupt
    • Dr. Fernando De La Peña Llaca, CEO & President, Aexa
    • Shwen Gwee, Former VP and Head of Global Digital Strategy, Bristol Myers Squibb – MODERATOR

In-Person (LIVE)

This program is in person only. No open access proceedings will be offered - you must be present to participate and get side by side access to speakers, fellow peers, and leaders.

Your registration includes a special New Orleans Musical Network Reception the night before, Sept 21, from 5 - 8 pm.

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Sept 22, Friday, AM Sessions

7:30 AM – 8:30 AM Breakfast & Welcome

8:40AM | Telehealth and the Metaverse: Live Holographic Keynote

Pioneer’s first hand perspective in exploring how 3D holographic technology can be used and applied to enhance outcomes in a variety of clinical settings around the globe and space. Dr. Schmidt is a highly decorated flight surgeon with a distinguished career. He is one of the first humans to be “holoported” into space, visiting the International Space Station, contributing to the design and development of Web3, where telehealth and medical training will accelerate creating a new dimension in medicine.

 Maj. Gen. (Dr.) Josef Schmid III, NASA Flight Surgeon and Major General (retired), Mobilization Assistant to the Surgeon General of the Air Force” NASA

Dr. Josef Schmid is a Flight Surgeon at NASA. His patients are current and past Astronauts and their family members, and include an X-15 pilot, Shuttle, Space Station and Apollo Astronauts who have walked on the Moon. He became an aquanaut during a 12 day mission to NOAA’s undersea Aquarius habitat during NASA’s NEEMO 12. Dr. Schmid has been a crew surgeon for shuttle missions STS-116, STS-120, STS-126 and for multiple long duration missions supporting the International Space Station including Soyuz launches and landing operations in Kazakhstan for expeditions 18, 24, 29, 39, 48, 56, and 63. He serves as the Lead for Medical Operations for the new Orion vehicle and Artemis Missions that will return humans to the Moon. Dr. Schmid is the previous lead for Space Medicine Training, responsible for training medical students, other flight surgeons, astronaut crew medical officers and biomedical engineers, former Co-director for the Aerospace Medicine Residency at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston. He has led missions teaching life saving surgical skills in Nepal, Rwanda, Mexico, Romania, Bosnia and Sri Lanka. He is a qualified flight crewmember for NASA’s supersonic T-38 jet trainer, Shuttle Training Aircraft, Microgravity flights and ISS Direct return G3 and G5 missions.

9AM | Virtual Nursing: The Transformation That Will Save Hospitals

The #1 workforce challenge on the hospital CEOs list:

Nurses are leaving in record numbers, hospitals are bleeding cash, and patient care is suffering. This isn’t a storm that will simply pass. Hear how nurses are delivering transformation with quick fire virtual nursing programs that lay the pathway for the wired hospital of tomorrow, while we solve problems creating today’s crisis. 

Rebecca Love, RN, MSN, FIEL, Chief Clinical Officer, IntelyCare, Former President, SONSIEL
Bre Loughlin, Founder and CEO, Nurse Disrupted

9:30AM | Next-Gen Employee Engagement with AI-powered Data Ecosystems

Join real world engagement partners from Mercy Health and Maryville University, and take a deep dive into how the BurstIQ workforce engagement solution addresses nurse burnout, turnover, and helps organizations build a culture of trust.

Panelists will discuss

  • Employee-owned data
  • Verifiable credentials
  • AI learning pathways to help fill skills gaps and support career growth
  • Marketplaces & Communities

Frank Ricotta, CEO, BurstIQ
Phil Komarny, Founder, My LifeTrek Network, and CIO, Maryville University

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10:10AM | Regulation and Reimbursement in Telehealth: The New Frontier

As telehealth is hard coded into the mainframe of the healthcare delivery system, the US and broader international markets are urgently passing new digital health and AI regulations and legislation, creating a revolutionary shift in global economic development and opportunity for healthcare.

Panelists will discuss:
• Learn how the US and international communities are sparking adoption, utilization, and growth in reimbursement mechanisms through regulation
• Understand how alignment of new AI and telehealth regulation is creating new business models and use cases
• Discuss and evaluate strategic and competitive implications of current and expanding markets
• Review resources to mitigate fraud and risks associated with leveraging new technology. (e.g. OIG/HHS toolkit-US)

Bryan T. Arkwright, MHA, CSSBB, Founder, Cromford Health; Principal, Impact Advisors, Adjunct Faculty, WFU & OU
Christa Natoli, Executive Director, cTel
Bobby Shah, CEO, DocBox
Joseph McMenamin, MD, Principal, Christian & Barton LLP

 

10:40AM | Access, Equity, and a Better Primary Care Experience Through Telehealth

This panel will explore how telehealth can improve access to quality primary care for patients, while addressing issues of equity and affordability. Our panelists are executives at companies that are leading the charge in telehealth innovation, each with their unique approach and insights.

Topics include delivering virtual care services to underserved communities, reducing the burden on primary care providers, and how building a virtual and digital healthcare ecosystem will enable providers to offer personalized care that is accessible, affordable, and scalable. Finally, we will discuss how data-driven insights can help improve the quality of care for patients and support telehealth innovation.

Join us to hear from these industry leaders as they share their perspectives on the transformative potential of telehealth for access, equity, and a better primary care experience.

William Cherniak, CEO, Rocket.Doctor
Dolly Moorhead, Chief Product Officer and former White House and Surgeon General’s Office, Mediportal
Lyle Berkowitz, MD, CEO, KeyCare
Waqas Ahmed, MD, CEO, American Telephysicians
Matt Sakumoto, Professor, USCF, Moderator

11:10AM | Future and Adoption of AI in Digital Health- The Physicians Perspective

AI is revolutionizing healthcare and its adoption will become a necessity rather than a choice. What will it actually do for a physician’s day to day job ? Will it replace them? Learn more about AI’s practical utilization and implications. what physicians need to know about the utilization of AI for their medical practices (both outpatient and inpatient settings), its potential scope, limitations, as well as a forecast of adoption trends .

Waqas Ahmed, MD, CEO, American Telephysicians

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11:30AM | Trusted Generative AI & LLMs in Healthcare and LifeSciences – Opportunities & Challenges

The session will explore AI and monetization of health data, including blockchain technology, the use of tokenomics, and its impact in telehealth and across consumer healthcare.

Ganesh Padmanabhan, CEO, Autonimize AI

12PM | We Don’t Have a Shortage of Physicians, Just a Shortage of Using Them Efficiently! 

We are looking at the physician shortage all wrong! The real problem is not a shortage of physicians, but rather a shortage of utilizing them efficiently.  By automating and delegating routine work to tech-empowered, virtual care teams, we can optimize resource allocation to shift the narrative away from scarcity and towards a world of abundant, efficient, and high-quality care.  In this world, patients will have convenient online access for routine care, while office-based physicians will have more time to focus on complex cases and overseeing their growing patient panels.

Lyle Berkowitz, MD, CEO, KeyCare

12:30 PM Lunch

Sept 22, Friday, PM Sessions

1:10PM | Holographic Teleportation Demo

NASA Innovation Award Recipient, and collaborator, Aexa, takes us into a new frontier of remote care with low to no cost agnostic software for everyone to access across the globe. What are the design basics and how does blockchain technology enable safe and private interoperable execution. From telementoring, to remote physician assistance, to completing a virtual physical examination, you will see, touch, utilize and experience, first hand, what sophisticated technology that is designed for simplicity and ubiquitous use, can do to help patients and doctors from a distance, enhancing care and outcomes everywhere!

Dr. Fernando De La Peña Llaca, CEO & President, Aexa

1:30PM | Using Telehealth to Improve Population Health

The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the transition to telemedicine, defined as the diagnosis and treatment of patients through telecommunications technology. In the eagerness to adopt telemedicine, it is crucial to not lose sight of the key principles of quality as well as the unique risks, opportunities, and potential unintended consequences of virtual care. Improving population health is a major priority for healthcare systems, particularly among patients with chronic diseases, which are highly prevalent and are the leading drivers of the nation’s high cost of care. Health systems and providers will need guidance to successfully implement safe, high-quality telemedicine services. How can virtual care strategies be used to strengthen population health and chronic disease management? This session features three experts who will discuss effective virtual care strategies, such as telehealth optimization, to support health systems in the management and improvement of chronic disease care delivery and overall population health.

Questions include
• Discuss three examples of how telehealth applications are affecting patient care
• Discuss 2-3 current barriers to the adoption of telehealth applications and detail some of the possible solutions
• Telehealth includes new models of care that can assist patients in the communities in which they live. What are the limitations to addressing health issues in a population in a traditional ‘go to the doctor model’ that home monitoring may resolve?
• Credentialing by proxy for telehealth also affects the referring hospital. What are some potential concerns for the referring hospital? In your opinion, what are 1-2 ways in which these concerns could be addressed?
• Given the potential use of telehealth applications to bring together new healthcare teams, how do you envision using telehealth to better care for patients?

Lyle Berkowitz, MD, CEO, KeyCare
Beau Raymond, CMO, Ochsner Health
Asif Ali, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor, The University of Texas Health Science Center
Paul Barach, Professor, Thomas Jefferson University, Moderator

2:10PM | “A Seat at the Table”: Reimbursement Trends and Opportunities for Telehealth Providers and Digital Health Technology Vendors

This presentation will discuss the top issues affecting the future delivery and reimbursement of telehealth and technology-based services, including (i) integrating with hospitals and health systems under value-based care payment arrangements in compliance with federal fraud and abuse laws; (ii) negotiating with commercial health plans and self-insured employers to offer bundled service models with partnering providers; and (iii) how legislatures and government agencies at the federal and state levels are responding in the aftermath of the pandemic to implement permanent changes in telehealth adoption.  This presentation will provide valuable insights to startups and existing telemedicine practices, digital health technology companies, and private investors seeking to understand strategic planning to achieve market success and increase compensation.

Objectives

  • Update on key pending legislation and reimbursement policy changes impacting telehealth and technology-based services.
  • Understand growth opportunities under value-based care and reimbursement models
  • Understand growth opportunities under decentralized clinical trials with remote study management and off-site monitoring.
  • Know how to identify and address the regulatory hurdles to deal structure and payment arrangements.
  • Learn how government enforcement agencies are assessing and planning to act on vulnerabilities to curtail fraud and abuse.
Charles C. Dunham, IV, Principal Shareholder, Greenberg Traurig, LLP
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2:40PM | Digital Health: Igniting Sustainability in Universal Healthcare Systems

A thought-provoking discussion on Universal Healthcare and its role in promoting degrowth. Learn about how this inclusive and equitable system can benefit our society by ensuring basic human rights and reducing healthcare costs through preventive care. The implementation of a Universal Healthcare system prioritizes prevention and community-based care, leading to a sustainable society. Join us in discussing the progressive taxation system to fund healthcare resources and distribute them fairly. Don’t miss this opportunity to be part of the conversation about the future of healthcare and how it can contribute to degrowth practices. Digital health has the potential to support degrowth by reducing waste in healthcare, promoting preventative care, and improving access to healthcare resources. As we continue to embrace the idea of a more sustainable future, it is important to recognize the important role that technology can play in supporting this transition. By leveraging the power of digital health, we can help create a world where healthcare is more efficient, accessible, and sustainable for everyone.

 

Ryan Paul, PhD, Founder, Holden Fitzgerald

3PM | Artificial Intelligence and Personalized Medicine

Explore the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and personalized medicine with leaders in the field of AI-driven healthcare innovation.

Adeel Malik will discuss how Clearstep’s AI-powered triage platform is helping healthcare providers to deliver personalized care that is both efficient and effective. The platform uses machine learning algorithms to analyze symptoms and patient data, providing tailored recommendations for care that can be accessed from anywhere.

Beth Rogozinski will share how Oncoustics is using AI to improve cancer diagnosis and treatment through the analysis of ultrasound data. The company’s platform uses advanced algorithms to identify and interpret subtle changes in tissue structure, enabling earlier and more accurate detection of cancer. The possibilities for at-home cancer screening are tremendous.

Learn what the challenges and opportunities presented by AI are in the context of personalized medicine. Speakers will explore how AI can help to deliver more precise, targeted care, while also addressing issues of equity and access.

Join us to learn about the latest innovations in AI and personalized medicine and how they are transforming healthcare delivery.

Beth Rogozinski, CEO, Oncoustics
Adeel Malik, CEO, Co-Founder Clearstep
Matt Sakumoto, Professor, USCF

3:30PM | Living a Longer Healthier Life with AI and RPMs

The growing aging population, the new developments from scientific research and the troves of data and insights coming from RPM (remote patient monitoring) devices with embedded algorithms are fueling the growth towards longer healthier life spans. The aging population is growing faster than human resources can accommodate with a growing demand to age at home. In this session, we will cover:

1. The role of technologies that enable dignity for aging in place.

2. The AI backed techno-scientific developments that further longer, healthier life spans.

3. The role of the future of telehealth will contribute to this growing demand

Dr. Sangkyu Kim, Bioinformatics Core Director, Tulane University Center for Aging

Oleg Teterin, Founder InTime Biotech LLC (Dba. Longevity InTime)

Maria  Palombini, MBA, Director, Healthcare & Life Sciences Practice Lead, IEEE SA

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4:10PM | Regional and National Equity Issues and Challenges in Healthcare and AI

Shelina Davis, CEO, Louisiana Public Health Institute, and former VP at the National Behavioral Health Council
Calvin Lawrence, Distinguished Engineer – Responsible AI , Member of AI Ethics Board and Academy of Technology, IBM
Jim St. Clair, COO & Advisor, Multiple Companies, Moderator

4:40PM | Correlations Between Public Health, Telehealth, and Technology

Ritesh Patel, Senior Partner, Finn Partners
Courtney Philips, Secretary, Louisiana Health Department
James Cravens, MD, President, FMOL Physician Group
Julie Henry, MBA, Chief Operating Officer – Ochsner Digital Medicine

5PM | Meeting Adjournment

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