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Futuristic visions of the use of information technology in medicine have been promoted for decades. In spite of this, true innovations in the delivery of health care have only recently been introduced on a broader scale. Brian Rosenfeld M.D., co-founder of VISICU, will present the technology and business model for the ultimate electronic ICU. The panel will explore where the next health care IT innovations will come from, what obstacles stand in the way of their availability and what needs to be done to ensure that the use of information technology in medicine delivers on its promises.
Speaker:
Brian Rosenfeld MD 
Co-founder, Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer
VISICU
Dr. Rosenfeld has practiced critical care for more than fifteen years and is currently an adjunct associate professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine, medicine and surgery at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. Prior to founding VISICU, Dr. Rosenfeld was medical director of two critical care units at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. He received the Shannon Award and grants from the National Institutes of Health for his research on stress-induced changes in blood coagulation and he was principal investigator on numerous ICU clinical research trials. He has published over fifty peer-reviewed articles and book chapters and numerous scientific abstracts. He developed the first application of a smart monitoring system that provides hospital-wide management of patients with myocardial ischemia and co-developed a comprehensive personnel and equipment triage system for evacuating critically ill soldiers for the U. S. Air Force.
Dr. Rosenfeld graduated magna cum laude, special honors, biology from the University of Pittsburgh in 1975. He graduated from Temple University School of Medicine in 1980 and then trained in internal medicine, pulmonary medicine, anesthesiology, and critical care. He was selected chief resident while at Johns Hopkins during his anesthesiology and critical care fellowship. He has been inducted as a fellow in both the College of Critical Care Medicine and the College of Chest Physicians.
Moderator:
Molly Coye MD, MPH
Founder and CEO
Institute for the Future Health Technology Center
Molly Coye, founder and CEO of the Health Technology Center (Health Tech), a not-for-profit research organization, is a distinguished innovator and leader in both the public and private sectors of healthcare. HealthTech is dedicated to advancing the use of beneficial technologies for healthier people and communities. Through Dr. Coye’s oversight, HealthTech provides its Partners with independent trusted information and tools about the impact of technologies in health care so that they may make appropriate decisions about advancing and improving their delivery systems.
Prior to HealthTech, Dr. Coye served as health director for two states, executive in health delivery system and health software development firm, and advisor to investors in emerging healthcare technologies, has been leader looking for opportunities to innovate and improve healthcare. Dr. Coye is currently a member of the Board of Trustees of the Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH) and most recently appointed to the American Hospital Association Board of Directors.
Dr. Coye is also a member of the Institute of Medicine, was a member of the IOM Committee on the Quality of Healthcare in America, and chaired the IOM Committee on Access to Insurance for Children. A former trustee of The California Endowment and the China Medical Board Dr. Coye has received a variety of honors. A sought after speaker, Dr. Coye has presented to health care and hospital leadership as well as provided testimony for state and national government initiatives.
Fluent in Spanish and Chinese, she has also served as a consultant with the World Health Organization and the Pan American Health Organization. Dr. Coye received both the Doctor of Medicine and Master of Public Health degrees from Johns Hopkins University.
Panelist:
Thomas McKinley
Co-founder and Managing Partner
Partech International
Tom McKinley, Managing Partner and Co-Founder
Tom is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Partech International and has over 25 years of investment experience with a successful track record of helping several entrepreneurs build successful technology companies. His past investments include Ascend Communications (ASND acq. by Lucent Technologies), Medicode (acq. by Ingenix) and VeriFone (PAY). Most recently Tom has led the firm’s investment activities in the healthcare IT and financial services sectors.
He also currently serves on the boards of U.C. Berkley’s Entrepreneurs Forum and the World Venture Summit. Tom is an active member of the Health Management Academy (HMA) and an active supporter of the University of San Francisco’s Entrepreneurship Program. As an alumnus, Tom maintains close ties with Stanford Business School as well as Harvard University, where he serves as class secretary.
Tom sits on the board of directors of current portfolio companies Decisionview, Radianse and VISICU.
Tom received an undergraduate degree in Economics from Harvard University, an MS in Accounting from New York University and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Arnold Milstein MD, MPH
US Healthcare Thought Leader
Pacific Business Group on Health
Arnie Milstein is the Medical Director at the Pacific Business Group on Health and the National Health Care Thought Leader at William M. Mercer Inc. His work focuses on improving managed care programs for large purchasers and government.
Dr. Milstein’s 30 book chapters and published articles have centered on managed care program design. A member of NCQA’s national committee to develop HEDIS and the Performance Measures Coordinating Committee, Business Insurance magazine selected him as “one of the 20 people who has made a difference in employee benefits management in the past 20 years.” Last year’s New England Journal of Medicine’s series on employer sponsored health insurance described him as a “pioneer” in employer efforts to advance quality.
In January 2002 Dr. Milstein was named to the Strategic Advisory Council of the National Quality Forum (NQF).
Dr. Milstein holds a medical degree from Tufts University and a master’s degree in health services planning from the University of California, Berkeley. He received a bachelor’s degree in economics from Harvard University. He is an Associate Clinical Professor at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center and a Worldwide Partner at Mercer.
Sean Wieland
Managing director and Senior Research Analyst
Health Care IT at Piper Jaffray
Sean Wieland is a managing director and a senior research analyst at Piper Jaffray, focusing on health care information technology and health care services. Wieland has 13 years’ experience in health care information technology, including six years on the sell-side. Prior to joining Piper Jaffray in 2005, Wieland was a senior research analyst at WR Hambrecht and Prudential Securities. Prior to joining the sell-side, he spent seven years in the industry, working in multiple roles at IDX Systems Corporation, most recently as a senior sales executive, where he learned firsthand about the need for technology in the health care setting. Wieland earned his master’s degree in business administration and his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Vermont.
