Welcome and Opening Remarks

• James Hill, Acting Deputy Director
  National Institute of Standards and Technology
• The Honorable Robert Cresanti, Under Secretary of Commerce for Technology, Technology Administration, Department of Commerce
• Eric Dishman, General Manager & Global Director, Intel Health Research & Innovation Group
  Principal Research Scientist, Intel Corporation, and Chairman, Center for Aging Services Technologies
• Larry Minnix, President and CEO
  American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging
• A Vision for the Future: Imagine - the Future of Aging.
  Hear industry experts describe how technologies can potentially improve health care, preserve independence and ensure quality of life for seniors.

Keynote Address

• The Honorable Michael O. Leavitt
  Secretary , U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
• Craig R. Barrett
  Chairman of the Board, Intel Corporation,
  Transforming Aging

Panel I: Market Drivers and Societal Issues

Improvements in information sharing among healthcare devices and products could move home healthcare to the forefront of quality care delivery.With consumer education as well as appropriate regulatory and reimbursement policies in place, the markets for aging related products and services could reach into the hundreds of billions of dollars.

Panelists:

• Moderator: Russ Bodoff, Executive Director, Center for Aging Services Technologies
• The Honorable Robert Cresanti, Under Secretary of Commerce for Technology, Technology Administration, Department of Commerce
• Eric Dishman, General Manager & Global Director, Intel Health Research & Innovation Group, Principal Research Scientist, Intel Corporation, Chairman, Center for Aging Services Technologies
• Wes Rishel, Managing Vice President, Gartner, Inc.

Box lunches will be handed out in the poster session area. This will provide ample opportunity to visit the more than 20 technology demos, case studies and poster presentations. Seating is provided in the NIST Employee Lounge, cafeteria and if the sun is shining, there is comfortable seating in the NIST outdoor courtyard. Blue “badge only” attendees can purchase lunch in the cafeteria.

Panel II: Gaps in the System: Technology

Why the “vision”difficult to implement  today? What gaps and barriers must be overcome? Why will interoperability make a difference?  In-home and self-care health technologies and devices today, implemented as isolated point solutions, fulfill a number of specific needs, but we are still a far way from a network of interoperable solutions that have the potential to revolutionize healthcare delivery systems in the United States.

Panelists:

• Moderator: Marc Wine, Program Analyst, Office of Intergovernmental Solutions, U.S. General Services Administration
• John C. Erickson, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer for Erickson Retirement Communities
• Kurt Hamke, Director, Global Marketing, Growth Initiatives, Integrated IT Solutions, GE Healthcare,
  Filling the Interoperability Gaps
• Julian Goldman, Departments of Anesthesia and Biomedical Engineering, Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School
  Principal Investigator, Medical Device Interoperability Program, CIMIT
• Jose C. Lacal, Leads the Seamless Health Center of Excellence, Motorola

The panel will discuss key efforts and time tables to build  the needed systems interoperability programs. What type of technologies are deemed most important and how will national standards and certification programs come together? Learn about which players need to come to the table and what the impact will be for users of the equipmen.

Possible Panelists:

• Moderator: David Whitlinger, President and Chairman of the Board, Continua Health Alliance
  
• Richard S. Bakalar, M.D.
  Chief Medical Office, Information Based Medicine Innnovation Team, IBM Corporation
• Joseph Ternullo, CPA
  Vice President, Partners Healthcare
  Associate Director of Partners Telemedicine
  A Division of Partners Healthcare
• Deepak Ayyagari, Ph.D.
  Principal Scientist, Sharp Laboratories
• Michael Robkin
  Principal Enterprise Architect, Care Delivery, Kaiser Permanente Information Technology
  Kaiser Permanente and the Kaiser Foundation Hospitals
  

Evening Reception and Poster Session

Sponsored By: Continua Health Alliance

Keynote Speaker

• Dr. Mike Magee
  Director, Pfizer Medical Humanities Initiative and
  Host, Health Politics

Panel IV: Gaps in the System: Standards: For electronic medical and personal health records

The Health and Human Service's Office of the National Coordinator is leading the way to interoperability of electronic health data, facilitating broad adoption of standards and creating a core infrastructure for a national health network. Hear about the current status of electronic medical records and personal health records standardization and how this work will provide a foundation for the efforts to build digital healthcare systems.

Panelists:

• Moderator: Peter Kress, CIO ACTS Retirement Life Communications and
  Chair, CAST EHR/PHR Task Group
• LeRoy Jones, Principal, HITSP Program Manager On Behalf of American National Standards Institute (ANSI),
  Principal, GSI, LLC
• Tom Jones, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Tolven, Inc.
• Peter Elkin, Chair, International Healthcare Continuum at OASIS and Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine

Panel V : Wrap-up; Next Steps

How should a partnership be shaped to accomplish the drive toward interoperability? What needs to happen to coordinate and implement such an effective partnership. What are the priorities?

Panelists:

• James A. St. Pierre, Deputy Director, Information Technology Lab, National Institute of Standards and Technology
• Connie Chang, Research Director, Office of the Under Secretary, Technology Administration, Department of Commerce
• Russ Bodoff, Executive Director, Center for Aging Services Technologies

End of Summit