The KHIT Blog: 2017 Health 2.0 Conference photo gallery recap

Thursday, October 5, 2017

2017 Health 2.0 Conference photo gallery recap

Running way behind this year. First, the Las Vegas mass shooting took the air out of my soul, given my long connection there (none of my many friend were hit, but everyone I know there is traumatized). Then, I encountered WiFi hassles in my Hyatt room, which kept me offline Tuesday night. Turns out they'd taken down their login interface and replaced it with a new one. No more "last name + room number." The new login page, which asks for your full name and email address, finally came up yesterday morning. Too late. Whatever. I'll catch up from home.

My Sunday pre-conference Provider Symposium post is here.

So, I'm home. Left the Convention Center at 1:32 and beat the 680 crush. Home by 3, too tired to do anything.

Gonna now triage my myriad shots and begin uploading them. Then I'll review my copious notes and post my conference takeaways. Lots of great stuff.

Indu set the "looking ahead" agenda at the outset, citing "Five Drivers" going forward:

FHIR and Blockchain;

New modalities and analytics;

New entrants into healthcare, large and small;

Incumbents adopting new stripes;

New environments for health care.

In the interim, before I riff on more detail, I recommend to everyone this poignant THCB post. Reminds me of this one. I totally personally relate to the latter one, given my daughter's Stage IV pancreatic cancer dx.

Stay tuned. Hundreds of shots to review.

But, first, a divergence apropos of HIT, breaking news from STAT:

IBM to Congress: Watson will transform health care, so keep your hands off our supercomputer

To the public, IBM trumpets its Watson supercomputer as the next big thing in medicine, a new kind of machine that melds human expertise with digital speed to give patients personalized treatment advice.

Meanwhile, in the halls of Congress, company executives have been delivering a blunter message: We will revolutionize patient care, so please get out of the way.

Like any new technology, Watson poses unknown risks; for example, what if its advice is wrong and harms a patient? But IBM argues that its machine doesn’t need to be regulated because it’s different from other medical devices. It’s not like a pacemaker or a CT scanner, so the company shouldn’t have to prove to the government that it’s safe and effective.

Now, as federal regulators prepare to weigh in on that issue, a STAT examination shows the lengths to which IBM has gone to shield its prized machine from government scrutiny.

The company’s fingerprints are all over legislation passed last year that exempted several types of health software from FDA jurisdiction…

See my prior post "Watson and cancer." FierceHealthIT is also on the story.

MORE PICS...

HIMSS in the House, Hal Wolf and Stephen Lieber.

HLA Global in the House, Jon Patrick and son.

Triple threat opening Keynotes: Bruce Greenstein, Aneesh Chopra, and David Brailer.

More pics...

Gil Addo, CEO, RubiconMD

Amy Abernethy, MD PhD, CMO, Flatiron

Sandra Hernandez, MD, President & CEO, California Health Care Foundation

BTW, no, I don't have names for everyone I've shot. Stuff goes by too fast, and there's no way to consistently link up names in my notes to shots in the camera, given the volume of shots. More photos on the way...

CONTINUING

Major Underachiever

Indu interviews RWJF's Dr. Michael Painter

I got invited to the Tuesday evening Aetna private reception. Nice. Thanks.

A long day. A ton to assimilate. More shots below coming shortly.

UPDATE

The shutter clicks continue.

I have more, LOL, but you get the idea. Yet another great Health 2.0 Conference. Gotta now spend some time pondering my notes.

UPDATE

MobiHealthNews has excellent comprehensive coverage up.

In-Depth: News and views from Health 2.0 2017

This year was the 11th anniversary of Health 2.0, a yearly health tech conference that explores the newest in digital health with eyes for what’s still to come. This year marked the first Health 2.0 conference since the show was acquired by HIMSS, MobiHealthNews's parent company.

With the four-day event come and gone, MobiHealthNews has collected all of its coverage from the Santa Clara Convention Center below, along with extra conference announcements and speaker discussions that might not have made it to the front page…

I can't top that. Read all of it. Kudos.

See also:

Health 2.0 Fall Conference Startup Pitch Competition: Meet the Companies

This week, healthcare technology innovators, thought leaders, and business owners convene in Santa Clara, California for Health 2.0’s 11th Annual Fall Conference. While this year’s event runs from October 2-4, Medgadget was able to participate in the Sunday pre-conference and the annual Startup Pitch Competition.

Evaluating eight “Series A ready” companies, organized into professional solution (B2B) and consumer solution (B2C) tracks, were six judges…

Be up with some of my own conclusions shortly. Of particular interest to me were "Interoperability," 'Big Data & Analytics," "NLP," health care "policy," and "workflow."

UPDATE

Another fine recap, from the PoV of one of the Provider Symposium Day panelists:

Key Takeaways from Another Great Health 2.0
Rasu Shrestha MD MBA

The Health 2.0 Conference gets better every year. I’m so grateful to have engaged with so many industry leaders – both familiar faces and new friends. What a wonderful opportunity to speak on the “Innovation to Implementation to Transformation” panel on Sunday and connect with people behind some of the most up-and-coming health care technology companies at MarketConnect Live. I also really enjoyed engaging with a ballroom full of enthusiastic attendees leading a lunch and learn discussion with my colleagues where we discussed best practices in marrying the competencies of a digital health company with the realities of patient care.

Sunday night’s Traction 2017 pitch competition was a highlight. I saw some promising startups that are using technology to solve long-standing health care problems. From skin cancer detection to new uses for 3D-printers, I saw innovations that reinforce UPMC Enterprises’ belief that technology can be an enabler of better, more efficient, and more affordable care.

While at Health 2.0, I thought a lot about where our industry is going and what each person’s role is in redefining the health care trajectory. I left the conference with three key takeaways I’d like to share with you…

Below, cool, someone had a fish-eye lense. Click the pic to enlarge,

Hmmm... I may need to buy one of those.

Also of note, from Joe Flower's opening Keynote:

"Six Assertions on Knowing the Unknowable Future of Healthcare"

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CODA

I've been mostly offline for a week, under the weather and dealing with my ailing daughter while my wife was in Florida on business. I don't have a lot to add the the assessments of the Conference, except to say that my irascible dubiety toward "interoperability" has been attenuated. I retain some misgivings, but it seems that the FHIR crowd is indeed making significant headway. Beyond that, my skeptical view of "NLP" pretty much remains intact, and I continue to view warily all the exuberant hype around the putative panacea of "big data."
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More to come...

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Brave New Health

Commonwell Health Alliance

Another important read (pdf)

I love this kind of stuff. It sustains and humbles me. "As politicians, advertisers, salesmen, and propagandists for various political, economic, moral, religious, psychic, environmental, dietary, and artistic doctrinaire positions know only too well, fallible human minds are easily tricked, by clever verbiage... Common language—or at least, the English language—has an almost universal tendency to disguise epistemological statements by putting them into a grammatical form which suggests to the unwary an ontological statement. A major source of error in current probability theory arises from an unthinking failure to perceive this."

Quotes

"An economist is a person who sees something that works in practice and tries to figure out whether it will work in theory."

- J.D. Kleinke, medical economist
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"The only person who enjoys change is a baby with a wet diaper."

"Every misspent dollar in our health care system is part of somebody's paycheck.

- Brent James, M.D., M.Stat

“We could do healthcare, at markedly higher quality, for everyone in this country, without rationing or denying anybody the care that they need, without having the government dictate how doctors practice or whether hospitals could expand, at half the cost we do it now.”

- Health Care Futurist Joe Flower

Most of the sciences, unlike parts of medical science, are not concerned with the impossible. There is not complementary and alternative physics, or chemistry, or biochemistry, or engineering. These disciplines compare their ideas against reality, and, if the ideas are found wanting, abandoned."

- Mark A. Crislip, MD

"Q: How much alcohol is too much?
A: More than your doctor drinks."

- a physician I once heard speak during a CME presentation

“Just because science doesn’t know everything, doesn’t mean you get to fill in the gaps with whatever fairy tale most appeals to you.”

- Dara O’Briain

'[I]t is one small step from using the computer for "helping" doctors to monitoring them, judging them, dictating to them what to do, and withdrawing payment for computer non-compliance. The use of computer data is a multi-edged sword. It can be used for the "good," facilitating diagnosis and treatment and making it more accurate and up-to-date, and for “evil,” invading privacy, inviting security breechs, and making decisions based on the opinions of remote authorities rather than those present at the patient-doctor encounter.'

- Richard Reece, MD

“[T]here ARE statistics which are non-political. Just because The Washington Post/Fox News reports the temperature is 75 degrees doesn’t mean it’s really snowing and sunscreen is a liberal/conservative plot. Even if you earn a living being ideological.”

- Michael L. Millenson

"It is a generally a fairly convincing argument that people shouldn’t have to be subsidized to undertake a change which is in their best interest.

The reconciliation seems to be that EHR is not supposed to make a doctor’s practice more efficient and higher quality. It is supposed to make the system of care more efficient and higher quality, which is not the same thing. Those of you who took calc recall that maximizing the total of variables is not achieved by maximizing any one variable and this is a perfect example of that.

Those of you have served in combat certainly noticed that too — if everyone works as a team the unit takes fewer casualties. If you try to save your own hide, you might, but at the expense of more casualties overall."

- Al Lewis

"There are two ideas to keep in mind about Bayesian reasoning and how we tend to mess it up. The first is that base rates matter, even in the presence of evidence about the case at hand. This is often not intuitively obvious. The second is that intuitive impressions of the diagnosticity of evidence are often exaggerated."

- Daniel Kahneman, "Thinking, Fast and Slow"

"Physicians apply advanced scientific knowledge, but they must do so without the favorable conditions that experimental scientists create for themselves. Multitasking is forced on physicians, often in chaotic environments and under severe time and resource constraints."

- Lawrence and Lincoln Weed, "Medicine in Denial"

"It’s time to stop the whining about Obama care and acknowledge we already have universal health care. We just pay for it in the stupidest way possible that ensures problems are that much more disastrous and complicated when they’re finally treated."

- Mark Hoofnagle, MD, PhD

"Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily."

- Thomas Szasz, MD
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"Of course, one reason that process metrics* are so popular is that processes are much easier to define and measure than outcomes."

- The Skeptical Scalpel
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"There is an “illusion of validity” for any random data point, a seductive sense that is colored by what we hope will be true. Mountains of pharmaceutical claims are often made from mere molehills of data."

- Danielle Ofri, MD
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"Joy empowers people. It is a source of energy that enables people to hope and plan and change their lives for the better. Spend some time around someone who is relentlessly negative and how do you feel–drained, right? More and more research shows that joy is not something that just happens to you, like a bolt of lightening out of the blue. Joy is, instead, a habit to cultivate. Negative thinking and despair are the crabgrass of our souls–weeds that take root and spread, sometimes to all areas of life. Joy, in contrast, is a soul’s rose–hardy when cared for, able to put down roots over time and withstand disease and extremes. Like a rose, however, your joy can become blighted from neglect or harsh conditions. We all need to tend to our joy–to prune away the badness, and to know that, even though it may look like a prickly bare root, if you invest time in a joyous outlook, gorgeous things will bloom, even in the harshest conditions."

- Dr. Jan Gurley
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"'Solutions' exist only in mathematics."

- Karen Martin
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"The issue of how to regulate clinical software is, in the long run, indistinguishable from the issue of how to regulate medicine. The only difference is that medicine is practiced in the open, without secrecy, subject to peer review, and under a merit-based state license."

- Adrian Gropper, MD
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"Economist, rope, tree: some assembly required."

- Source unknown

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