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2009 Harvard Meeting on a Health IT Platform

DETAILED MEETING SUMMARY AVAILABLE HERE

PRESS RELEASE AVAILABLE HERE

Harvard held, on September 29th and 30th, 2009, an invitational meeting to address the feasibility of a Health Information Technology Platform that supports substitutable applications, considered its design, and identified promising approaches, enabling factors and research questions (see www.chip.org/platform).

The meeting was highly participatory, and structured to foster dialogue on key technology, regulatory, and business issues. We steered that dialogue toward policy-relevant conclusions and propose approaches to continuing our conversation after the meeting.

There were three keynote addresses. An opening keynote was given by Mitch Kapor. The second day began with Clayton Christensen and Regina Herzlinger delivered her address toward the end of the meeting.

Aneesh Chopra, the US Chief Technology Officer and Todd Park, the HHS Chief Technology Officer lead a vibrant conversation on the health internet and opportunities for consumer engagement.

Video of the conference is available below.

Day One

1:00 Welcome (Video-Low Res) (Video-High Res)
    Alexa McCray, Harvard Medical School

1:10 Intro and Opening keynote address (Video-Low Res) (Video-High Res)
    Intro: Kenneth Mandl, Children’s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School
    Keynote: Mitch Kapor, Senior Advisor on Health Information Technology at the Center for American Progress

1:45 Panel #1. Open or closed platform? One or more platforms? (Video-Low Res) (Video-High Res)
    Moderator: Isaac Kohane Children’s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School
    Sean Nolan, Microsoft
    Ben Adida, Indivo project, Children’s Hospital Boston
    Hamish Fraser, OpenMRS project, Harvard Medical School
    David McCallie, Cerner

3:30 Panel #2. Business-government interaction to support a platform (Video-Low Res) (Video-High Res)
    Moderator: Mark Frisse, Vanderbilt University
    Alfred Spector, Google
    Rob Kolodner, National Coordinator of Health Information Technology (former), VA (former)
    David Liss, New York Presbyterian Hospital
    Charles Friedman, Office of the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology


Day Two

8:00am Keynote address (Video-Low Res) (Video-High Res)
    Clayton Christensen, Harvard Business School

9:45 Observations from Day One (Video-Low Res) (Video-High Res)
    Kenneth Mandl, Children’s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School

10:00 Models for adoption of the platform (Video-Low Res) (Video-High Res)
    Moderator: Kenneth Mandl, Children’s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School
    Ahmed Ghouri, Anvita
    Mike Stein, Map of Medicine (UK)
    Henry Chueh, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
    David Kibbe, American Academy of Family Physicians
    Sue Harmon, AthenaHealth

11:15 Framework for Knowledge Sharing (Video-Low Res) (Video-High Res)
    Mary Lee Kennedy, Harvard Business School

11:30 Moderated Discussion on the Healthcare Internet (Video-Low Res) (Video-High Res)
    Aneesh Chopra, Federal CTO, White House
    Todd Park, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services CTO
    Kenneth Mandl, Children’s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School
    Isaac Kohane, Children’s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School
    Mitch Kapor, Senior Advisor on Health Information Technology” at the Center for American Progress

2:00 Closing keynote address and Final statements(Video-Low Res) (Video-High Res)
    Keynote: Regina Herzlinger, Harvard Business School
    Final Statements: Kenneth Mandl, Isaac Kohane, Children’s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School