An explosion of knowledge that is increasingly available through mobile devices and an array of telehealth and telemedicine technologies is linking the marvels of medicine to more patients and providers separated by geography.The February 2014 thematic issue of Health Affairs, “The Rise Of Connected Health,” examines these disruptive technologies and innovative services and their promise for improving health and access to care; potential for cost savings; rates of adoption and impact; and challenges of privacy, liability and regulatory policy.Please join Health Affairs Founding Editor John Iglehart on Wednesday, February 5, at the Kaiser Family Foundation in Washington, DC, for a Health Affairs briefing at which we unveil the issue. Panels will spotlight:
- What Is Telehealth; Where And How Is It Used?
- Privacy And Liability
- Connected Health In Rural States
- Practice Settings
Among the confirmed speakers are:
- David Grabowski, Professor of Health Care Policy, HarvardMedicalSchool
- Joseph Kvedar*, Founder and Director, Center for Connected Health, Partners Healthcare
- Joseph Lorenzo Hall, Chief Technologist, Health Privacy Project, Center for Democracy and Technology
- Curtis Lowery, Chair, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
- Ateev Mehrotra, Policy Researcher, RAND Corporation
- Julia-Adler Milstein, Assistant Professor, School of Information, Assistant Professor, Health Management and Policy, University of MichiganSchool of Public Health
- Keith J. Mueller, Gerhard Hartman Professor and Head, Department of Health Management and Policy, University of Iowa
- Shantanu Nundy, Managing Director for Program Innovations, Evolent Health
- Robert Pearl, Executive Director and CEO, Permanente Medical Group
- Shelley Stingley, Program Director, Rural Health, Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust
- Y. Tony Wang, Associate Professor, College of Health and Human Services, GeorgeMasonUniversity
The thematic issue and event are supported in part by generous grants from California HealthCare Foundation, Kaiser Permanente, AT&T, Helmsley Charitable Trust, Intel-GE Care Innovations, and the Carlos Slim Foundation.
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