Author Archives: Connie Chen

Wrapping up the CI Summit with a Health Affairs Chat

The Care Innovations Summit wrapped up with a fireside chat, and moderator Susan Dentzer observed that there hadn’t been much discussion about the Medicaid population throughout the day, even though the summit was co-hosted by the Centers for Medicare and … Continue reading

Basic science, clinical data, and the personal desires of the patient

Despite spending $150B a year on cancer diagnosis and treatment in the United States, the statistics are bleak: 85% of lung cancer patients die within a year and 15% of new cancer diagnoses are incorrect. In trying to learn where … Continue reading

Case Studies in Primary Care Innovation

Dr. Lonny Reisman, Chief Medical Officer, for Aetna described how Aetna is leveraging HIT solutions to facilitate improved care delivery. Their acquisition of Medicity has allowed them to create an health information exchange to power functionality needed to create ACOs, … Continue reading

“Transformation driven by a tide of grassroots innovation mojo has already begun”

Rick Gilfillan Director of CMS Innovation Center opened his speech with the declaration, “its a wonderful time to be in health care and to be a health care innovator.” He defined innovators broadly, calling on all business people, investors, entrepreneurs, … Continue reading

Welcomes & Intros at the Care Innovations Summit

Don Casey, Chief Executive Officer of West Wireless Health Institute, Susan Dentzer, Editor-in-Chief of Health Affairs and Marilyn Tavenner, Acting Administrator and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services welcomed an audience of more than 2,000 live and live-stream attendees. Rapid … Continue reading

News & Updates

Kaiser Permanente has released a new mobile app for Android devices with an iOS version to be released in coming months. 9 million Kaiser patients will have 24/7 access to lab results, diagnostic information, direct and secure email access to … Continue reading

News & Updates

With more and more time each day spent in one’s car, Ford is collaborating with Microsoft and Healthrageous to study how connected health devices can be embedded within vehicles. At CES last week, Ford debuted a prototype system developed by … Continue reading

News & Updates

With CES underway, new consumer health care devices are center stage this week. Withings debuted a new WiFi and Bluetooth-enabled baby and toddler scale. They also unveiled a new health and wellness cloud platform and online dashboard that integrates data … Continue reading

News & Updates

Farzad Mostashari, the National Coordinator for HIT, just named Health 2.0′s Investing in Innovations (i2) Program among the year’s top five most notable developments in the world of health information technology. The Investing in Innovations Program is the first-of-its-kind government … Continue reading

News & Updates

Keas, a social game for the workplace that promotes wellness and healthy living, announced that it had raised an additional $6.5 million in Series B financing led by Atlas Venture and Ignition Partners. KEAS offers a corporate wellness and morale … Continue reading

News & Updates

Surgeon General Regina Benjamin announced a new Healthy Apps challenge at the mHealth summit to facilitate the development of fitness, nutrition and integrative health apps to help people stay healthy and active. Swimtag has developed a new swim sensor that … Continue reading

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