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HealthCampBoston+SocialPharmer will take place on Tuesday, April 21, 2009 at Microsoft Research New England at One Memorial Drive in Cambridge, MA. Detailed directions to the facility are at http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/labs/newengland/visit.aspx .

If you are driving to HealthCampBoston+SocialPharmer, parking is available in the facility’s basement parking garage. If the garage is filled when you arrive, we recommend parking at any of several other parking garages within a few blocks of the facility (listed here in increasing distance from the venue):

• 1 Broadway
• 4 Cambridge Center (Entrance on Ames St. or Broadway)
• 5 Cambridge Center East Garage (Ames St./Broadway)
• 7 Cambridge Center West Garage (Ames St./Galileo Way),
• 10 Cambridge Center North Garage (Binney St. off Broadway)

The HealthCampBoston+SocialPharmer organizers have prepared a four page PDF file that provides more details about parking facilities, driving directions, photos of the facilities, and a venue floor plan.

Sandhya Pillalamarri

Do you use Twitter?

Yes, follow me @sspillalamarri.

Do you have a website?

http://www.design.philips.com

Why are you attending HealthCamp?

I am attending HealthCampBoston to meet and network with thought leaders in the healthcare, medical devices, healthcare product and user interface design, home healthcare, and healthcare IT areas.

I am interested to learn about new and potential technologies to make providing and administering healthcare enjoyable and easily accessible.

If you were to lead a session what would it be about?

Healthcare User Experience Strategies. To understand the people who work for and in the Healthcare field.

Share a random fact about yourself

I love to sing classical music and learn about global cuisines!

Who would you like to meet at HealthCamp?

Healthcare Strategists and Designers

Jim Kauffman

Why are you attending HealthCampBoston?

As we try to transform health care, I want to make sure that those on the front lines, those who pick up the pieces on the street, those who still make house calls and who manage large scale multiple casualty incidents, are plugged into the vision and the process.

If you were to lead a session what would it be about?

Lurking just below our dreams for transforming healthcare is the reality that when things really start to go wrong and someone dials (or some day twitters) 911, patients and their advocates enter a system totally removed from the vision of next-generation, technology-rich central planners.  

With a single 911 call, even the most sophisticated system of private healthcare and managed care provider preferences begins to unravel — as the fire department and EMS providers assume statutory command and control of the patient.

As we focus on the software and network elements for integrating social and health care systems, we have to address one of the biggest silos of them all: the public safety and homeland security forces who are “the authority having jurisdiction” outside the hospital and doctor’s offices.

If these folks aren’t cranked into the vision, all of our expensive, technology-rich systems disintegrate into irrelevancy when you’re lying on your back staring up at the guys in rubber boots asking you for your medical history.

Share a random fact about yourself:

I’m a futurist and a technology evangelist locked inside a fire helmet. I like to cook.

Who do you want to meet at HealthCamp?

Those who want to focus on building intelligent gateways to emergency care.

Do you Blog?

No.

Do you use Twitter?

Yes, Follow me at @djjules

Why are you attending HealthCampBoston?

I am am involved in various consumer health and personalized medicine initiatives; would like to network with others in the field to learn about new opportunities. You can find me at http://www.djjules.com.

If you were to lead a session what would it be about?

personal genomics.

David Harlow - @HealthBLawg

Do you Blog?

Yes, http://healthblawg.typepad.com

Do you use Twitter?

Yes, Follow me at @healthblawg

Why are you attending HealthCampBoston?

I am a health care lawyer, consultant and blogger interested in exploring current and future points of contact between health care providers, health care consumers, health care information and health care communication, and ways in which these connections can improve both processes and outcomes. You can find me at http://www.harlowgroup.net.

If you were to lead a session what would it be about?

The promise of interoperable patient-centered and provider-centered health records, and social media, and the potential collision with “new and improved” HIPAA and related privacy rules in the HITECH Act.

Share a random fact about yourself?

I enjoy long-distance bicycling, ride weekly in good weather, and ride at least a few centuries (100-mile rides) each summer including fundraisers (see my blog for links if you’d like to help me out in support of cancer research and treatment or environmental causes).

Who would you like to meet at HealthCampBoston?

People trying to look around the corner.

@ChuckRehberg

Do you Blog?

Follow Chuck’s blog at
http://semanticinsights.com/wordpress/

Do you use Twitter?

Follow Chuck on Twitter at @ChuckRehberg

Why are you attending the event?

I want to apply my skills, experience, and resources to improving health care outcomes. This is my first event of this type.

If you were to lead a session what would it be about?

Collected assessments of treatment outcome as a means of determining efficacy of treatments, diagnostics, and providers”

The SF-36 is one means of assessing outcomes normalized for gender, age, and ethnicity. Collected correlations of outcomes could provide insights into which treatments; diagnostics, protocols, and providers statistically have better patient outcomes as normalized to severity of disease.

Since Health Insurance Companies have a profit incentive to insure healthier patients, why aren’t they interested in measuring patient outcomes correlated with treatments?

Share a random fact about yourself?

I’m section hiking the Appalachian Trail – At my current rate, I have about 20 more years to go.

Who would you like to meet at HealthCampBoston?

People passionate about improving in our healthcare system.

@ekivemark HealthCamp Instigator

Mark re-ignited the HealthCamp movement last year. HealthCamps are now popping up all over the world. Check out http://barcamp.org/HealthCamp for other events.

Do you Blog?

Check out Mark’s blog at http://ekive.blogspot.com

Do you Twitter?

Yes, you can follow me at @ekivemark

Why are you attending the event?

I want to further the discussion around the transformation of a broken health care model using Social Media, Open Standards and the best of Web and Mobile technology. I see the HealthCamp movement as a call to action to make change happen in Health Care.

If you were to lead a session what would it be about?

Personal Health Records afford an opportunity to place the consumer at the center of Health Care and spark essential innovation across the industry. Let’s make it happen!

Who would you like to meet at HealthCampBoston?

I am keen to meet everyone that is passionate about making change happen in HealthCare.

At the recent Web 2.0 Expo I was lucky enough to spend time with JayParkinson and hear about the innovations coming from HelloHealth. I would love to see Jay share his passion for better health care with everyone at HealthCampBoston.

Share a Random fact about yourself

This year I became a ski instructor.

Stefan Evers of BigBad

Stefan is a blog watcher and can be found on Twitter as @BigBadStefan. He works at BigBad where they design and build some of the worlds best known healthcare web sites.

Why are you attending HealthCamp?

I  want to meet my peers and learn as much as possible about what is cutting edge with social media, web properities and healthcare.

If you were to lead a session what would it be about?

BigBad designs and builds some of the worlds best known healthcare web sites. I would lead a session on the ROI of social media for healthcare web properities

Tell us a little known fact about yourself?

I have the Indiana Jones theme as the ring tone on my cellphone. My kids love it.

Who would you like to meet at a HealthCamp?

Stefan would love to meet John Halamka at HealthCampBoston.