First AMA-IEEE EMBS Medical Technology Conference on Individualized Health Care

23-23 March 2010, Renaissance Mayflower Hotel, Washington, DC

Program

CME Credit

The American Medical Association is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The American Medical Association designates this educational activity for a maximum of 12.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Sunday – March 21, 2010

18:30 – 19:30
Welcome and Keynote Speaker
Grand Ballroom
Joe Kvedar “Connected Health and Personalized Medicine: The Time is Now”
19:30 – 21:30
Reception
Chinese Room

Monday – March 22, 2010

8:45 – 9:00
General Session
Grand Ballroom

Welcome Message from the Conference Chairs,

Nitish Thakor and Edward Abrahams

Brief Introduction to the Program by the Program Chair,

Paolo Bonato

9:00 – 10:00
Keynote on Point-of-Care Technology
Grand Ballroom
10:00 – 10:45
Morning Poster Session and Coffee Break
Grand Ballroom
10:45 – 12:30
Breakout Sessions on Point-of-Care Technology
Grand Ballroom
Session 1: Medical Devices and Systems
Georgia Room

Kevin Bennet “Imagining Medical Technology: Creating Patient Centered Innovations”

Courtney Harper “FDA Perspective: Translating POC Technology from Research into Clinical Use”

Session 2: Clinical Decision Support and Software Applications
Rhode Island Room

Adam Seiver “Point-of-Care Decision Models”

Nicolas W. Chbat “A Comprehensive Cardiopulmonary Simulation Model for the Analysis of Hypercapnic Respiratory Failure”

Session 3: Usability: Patient-Specific and Location-Specific Applications
Pennsylvania Room

Elise Berliner “Evaluating the Clinical Benefit of Point-of-Care Technologies”

William Maisel “The Changing Landscape of Medical Device Usability”

12:30 – 13:00
Lunch Break
13:00 – 14:15
Connected Medical Informatics for Personalized Healthcare
Georgia Room

Chair: Tsong-Ho Wu

Dave Cavalcanti, Dong Wang and Monisha Gosh

“Wireless Connectivity for Personalized Healthcare Applications: Emerging Technologies, Regulation and Standards”

Philips Research Labs – North America

Archan Misra and Ben Falchuk

“MediAlly: Pervasive Context Monitoring and Collection for Personalized Healthcare”

Telcordia Technologies Applied Research

Feipei Lai

“The Application of Telecare for Patients with Cardiovascular Disease”

National Taiwan University Hospital and Medical Informatics Institute

Chi-Ren Shyu and Jason M. Green

“Fusing Overwhelming Information for Personalized Healthcare – from Molecular Signatures, Sensor Signals, to Therapeutic Decisions”

Informatics Institute, Computer Science Department, University of Missouri – Columbia

13:00 – 14:15
Privacy and Security for Wireless Communication in Healthcare
Rhode Island Room

Chair: Tom Jepsen

Tom Jepsen “Wireless and Mobile Technologies for Healthcare: Ensuring Privacy, Security, and Availability”

Neil W. Buckley “Managing Wireless Medical Device Security Challenges in Today’s Enterprise HealthCare”

Donald M. Witters “Building Pathways to Safe, Secure, and Reliable Wireless Healthcare”

Kevin Stine “NIST’s Role in Securing Health Information”

13:00 – 14:15
Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation
Pennsylvania Room

Chair: Richard Schrenker

A Smattering of Opportunity-Rich Problems: Seeds for AMA and IEEE Participation in Clinical Engineering

Panel discussion with Paul Frisch (slides), Steve Grimes, and David Kibbe (slides)

14:30 – 15:00
Keynote on Connected Health
Grand Ballroom
15:00 – 16:00
Panel Discussion on Connected Health
Grand Ballroom

Joe Kvedar “Diabetes-Connect and Hypertension-Connect: Examples of personalized medicine for the early 21st Century”

Roy Schoenberg “Online Care – Using Technology to Redistribute Healthcare Services”

Adam Darkins “Telehealth: Increasing Access to Care and Reducing Costs”

16:00 – 16:45
Afternoon Poster Session and Coffee Break
Grand Ballroom
16:45 – 18:00
Panel Discussion on Connected Health
Grand Ballroom

John Zaleski “Biomedical device interoperability as an enabler for multi-parameter, real-time clinical decision making”

Zohara Cohen “Informatics and Image Analysis in Service of Individualized Healthcare”

Yuan-Ting Zhang “Wearable Medical Devices and Body Sensor Networks for Connected Health”

Bernard Merkel “Current actions and perspectives in the European Union”

Matthew Hein “The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Role in Promoting International Trade”

Tuesday – March 23, 2009

9:00 – 10:00
Keynote on Electronic Medical Records and Personal Health Records
Grand Ballroom
David Blumenthal “Bringing Health Information to Life: the HITECH”
10:00 – 10:45
Morning Poster Session and Coffee Break
Grand Ballroom
10:45 – 12:30
Panel Discussion on Electronic Medical Records and Personal Health Records
Grand Ballroom

Walter Suarez (moderator)

Jan Oldenburg “PHRs and Transactional Patient Portals: What, Why & How”

Piet de Groen “Colorectal Cancer Screening by Colonoscopy: Document the average performance of the physician or the quality of care individual patients actually receive”

Jim Cimino “Personal Health Records: Past as Prologue”

12:30 – 13:30
Afternoon Poster Session and Lunch Break
Grand Ballroom
13:30 – 14:30
Keynote on Personalized Medicine in the Delivery of Care
Grand Ballroom
14:30 – 16:30
Panel Discussion on Personalized Medicine in the Delivery of Care: Promises and Challenges
Grand Ballroom

Edward Abrahams (moderator)

Greg Downing

Katherine Johansen

Felix Frueh

Dietrich Stephan

16:30 – 16:45
Closing Remarks
Program Chair, Paolo Bonato