Chronic disease management (DM) has become a worldwide health and healthcare issue. By 2015, Forrester Research predicts a $34 billion market for Healthcare Unbound technology, defined by Forrester as "technology in, on and around the human body that frees care from formal institutions.” Forrester notes 80% of this exploding technology market relates to chronic disease management.

A wide range of players are jockeying to participate in the Healthcare Unbound market: health plans, providers, DM companies, technology companies, pharma, employers, and patients themselves. This is a trend that healthcare IT professionals must prepare for today as they create their next strategic plans to stay ahead of the competiton and meet the needs of payers.

Learn about key trends and technologies in this dynamic market:

• Promising applications: What are they? Are we reaching the tipping point?
  
  • Personal health records (PHRs)
  • Remote patient monitoring (RPM)
  • Secure messaging between patients and physicians
  • Mobile/cell phone technologies
    
    
    
• Integration is becoming a key market driver
• Next generation technology — “You ain't seen nothin' yet!”
• Personalization technologies will allow patients to “Have it your way”
• Breakthrough opportunities: updates and commentary on high-profile initiatives:
  
  • Medicare disease management demonstration projects: Medicare Health Support, the Medical Home demo
  • PHRs: the AHIP/BCBS Association and Dossia PHR models
  • Continua Health Alliance
    
    
• Implications for major players: health plans, providers, DM companies, others

Training Objectives

Participants in this training program will be able to:

• Understand emerging DM technologies and trends
• Integrate understanding and application of clinical, technology and business strategies
• Examine "road kill autopsies" — mistakes made in others' DM approaches
• Explore critical success factors for the future

Who Can Use This Program?

• CIO
• HIT director
• IT Manager
• Nursing IT Manager
• Chief Medical Officer
• Finance Office Personnel
• Other C-Level Executives
• Marketing
  
  

About the Speaker

		Vince Kuraitis JD, MBA is Principal and founder of Better Health Technologies, LLC (www.bhtinfo.com). BHT consults to companies in developing strategy, partnerships and business models for chronic disease management and eHealth applications delivered in homes, workplaces, and communities.
BHT's clients are both established organizations and early-stage companies, including: Intel Digital Health Group, Philips Electronics, Joslin Diabetes Center, Samsung Electronics, Siemens Medical Solutions, Medtronic, Varian Medical Systems, Disease Management Association of America, and many others. Vince brings 23 years health care experience in multiple roles: President, VP Corporate Development, VP operations, management consultant, and marketing executive. His consulting and work projects span 100+ different health care organizations, including hospitals, physician groups, medical devices, pharma, health plans, disease management, e-Health, IT, and others. He speaks frequently at industry conferences and corporate events. He was the opening keynote speaker at the Healthcare Unbound conferences in 2004, 2005 and 2006 and has spoken at about 35 conferences in the past 3 years.

 

 

What Is Included?

The CD includes the audio of the presentation, the slides prepared by the speaker and a .pdf file of the slides for printing. Your computer does need an audio component to use this CD.