Healthcare Bootcamp is bringing together national thought leaders in the Government, Academic and Private communities to provide a glimpse into the major shifts taking place in each segment. Join us for a one-day introductory session and learn more about how our system works, and how such a large scale social problem is likely to be disrupted by players on the margins. June 2nd 9AM - 4 PM...
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Healthcare Bootcamp is bringing together national thought leaders in the Government, Academic and Private communities to provide a glimpse into the major shifts taking place in each segment. Join us for a one-day introductory session and learn more about how our system works, and how such a large scale social problem is likely to be disrupted by players on the margins. June 2nd 9AM - 4 PM at 1871 AGENDA Keynote Simmi Singh, Senior Advisor of Healthcare Innovation at Health & Human Services The State of Health in IL & What the Government is Doing To Support the Sector Orlando Saez, Deputy Director of Entrepreneurship, Innovation, & Technology (DCEO) at State of IL Laura Zaremba, Director, Illinois Office of Health Information Technoloy Bechara Choucair, MD, Commissioner of the Chicago Department of Public Health All This Innovation...Who's Going To Pay? Ira Weiss, Managing Director at Hyde Park Angels and General Partner at Hyde Park Venture Partners Kathryn Hyer, Director at Illinois Ventures Donna Williamson, Managing Director at Ceres Venture Fund Adam Koopersmith, Partner at New World Ventures Moderated by David Schonthal, Partner at Fusion Ventures Lunch Pain Points and Gaps for Health IT in Hospitals John Smolen, Project Director at Northwestern Memorial Hospital How Doctors are Paid, Evaluated, and Incentivized Lyle Berkowitz, MD, Medical Director of IT & Innovation, Northwestern Memorial Physicians Group Human Centered Innovation in Healthcare Amy Schwartz, Healthcare Lead at IDEO Challenges For Healthcare Startups Ron Gutman, Founder and CEO at HealthTap SPONSORS SPEAKERS Lyle Berkowitz, MD, FACP, FHIMSS, is a practicing primary care physician, Founder and Director of the Szollosi Healthcare Innovation Program, and Medical Director of IT and Innovation for Northwestern Memorial Physicians Group in Chicago. He is also a serial healthcare IT entrepreneur and the co-founder and Chairman of healthfinch, the “Doctor Happiness” company. He serves on the Governance Board of the Innovation Learning Network, the Advisory Board of the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems (AMDIS) and the Editorial Board of Healthcare Informatics magazine. Dr. Berkowitz graduated with a Biomedical Engineering degree from the University of Pennsylvania and is an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. Bechara Choucair, M.D. serves as Commissioner of the Chicago Department of Public Health. Appointed on November 25, 2009 Dr. Choucair is re-shaping the department to meet the public health challenges of the 21st century. Most recently, with the full support of Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Dr. Choucair unveiled “Healthy Chicago,” the first city-wide comprehensive public health agenda. Healthy Chicago is a call to action for all Chicagoans to work together on a common vision of making Chicago the healthiest city in the nation. Ron Gutman is HealthTap's Founder and CEO. He is responsible for the company's innovation, vision, and product. Prior to founding HealthTap, Ron was the founder and CEO of a leading online consumer health 2.0 company that developed the world's largest community of independent health writers and became one of the largest health sites online, serving more than 100 million users to date (acquired in early 2009). At Stanford University, Ron led a multidisciplinary group researching personalized health and the design of ways to help people live healthier, happier lives, whose work resulted in BeWell@Stanford, one of the most acclaimed employee health and well-being programs in the nation. Ron is also an angel investor and advisor to health and technology companies and initiatives, including Rock Health, Harvard Medical School's SMArt Initiative, and Stanford's MedicineX program. He regularly speaks at leading conferences and his articles on health technology appear in publications likeForbes and the Huffington Post. Adam Koopersmith joined New World Ventures in 2004 and primarily focuses on bringing to market novel SaaS applications, interactive marketing solutions and interactive health applications. Prior to joining New World Ventures, Adam held various senior operating and business development roles at Sportvision (the world’s leader in technology-based enhancements for live sports programming), helping the company grow from the “business plan” stage to eight figures in annual revenue. Adam currently serves on the boards of Advantage Optics, Alliance Health Networks, Firm58, HyperQuest, Kontiki and Sittercity, and works closely Alltuition, Retrofit and Pindrop Security. Adam also serves on the Investment Committee for the Illinois Innovation Accelerator Fund (i2A)