FEATURED SPEAKERS

Welcome and Keynote Session

Solving Clinical Challenges through Better Integration: A Visionary’s Perspective
Saturday, June 1, 12:30-1:30 pm

James Mault, MD, FACS
Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Qualcomm Life, Inc.

Don’t miss this opening keynote address by one of the most widely known visionaries in the medical field today. James Mault, is the Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of Qualcomm Life, as a result of their April 2013 acquisition of HealthyCircles, a care coordination and remote patient monitoring software platform company founded and led by Mault since 2009.

Over his 25 years in both the medical device and pharmaceutical industries, Mault founded five medical device and health monitoring service companies, raising more than $100 million in working capital, including a successful NASDAQ public offering in 2002. He has led these companies in developing novel technologies, securing FDA approvals, and establishing strategic partnerships with dozens of Fortune 500 companies.

Mault’s exceptional knowledge, astute insight, and unparalleled perspective on the critical role of technology in the future of healthcare will keep your undivided attention as he talks about leading edge technologies that can help resolve some of the issues associated with the rapid evolution of clinical practice. His ideas have practical applications for any health organization focusing on ARRA requirements and ways to formalize a connected health strategy.

(Sponsored by Qualcomm Life)

Dwight E. Harken, MD, Memorial Lecture and AAMI Awards Luncheon

The Future of Health Information Technology and Medication Safety
Sunday, June 2, 11:15 am - 12:45 pm

David W. Bates, MD, MSc
Chief Quality Officer and Senior Vice President, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Chief, Division of General Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Medical Director of Clinical and Quality Analysis, Partners Healthcare

David Bates has been recognized for several years by Modern Healthcare magazine as one of the “100 most powerful” individuals in U.S. healthcare. He is an internationally renowned expert on patient safety and the use of information technology to improve care, quality of care, cost effectiveness, and outcomes assessment in medical practice.

A practicing internist, Bates directs the Center for Patient Safety Research and Practice at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.  He is a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, and a professor of health policy and management at the Harvard School of Public Health.  He serves as external program lead for research in the World Health Organization’s Global Alliance for Patient Safety. He has been elected to the Institute of Medicine, the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the Association of American Physicians, and the American College of Medical Informatics, and was chairman of the board of the American Medical Informatics Association.

At this annual luncheon, Dr. Bates will draw upon his vast experience to explain the interconnections of health information technology and medication safety and describe what he believes the future holds for these interconnections.

The lecture will take place during the AAMI Awards Luncheon, where you also can enjoy lunch with your colleagues and honor the achievements of your peers. The event honors Dwight Harken’s substantial contributions to medical science & technology.

(The lecture is sponsored by PSICOR.)

General Session

Changing the Culture of Medicine—A Father’s Powerful Message
Monday, June 3, 8:30 am - 9:30 am

Christopher Jerry
President & CEO, The Emily Jerry Foundation

Christopher Jerry lost his two-year-old daughter, Emily, after a fatal medication error in March of 2006. After that tragic loss, he created The Emily Jerry Foundation to increase public awareness of systemic problems in medicine, and to address key patient safety issues by identifying the technologies and best practices that are proven to minimize the “human error” component of medicine.

Jerry is a relentless patient safety advocate, who spreads a message of hope, change, forgiveness, compassion, and collaboration—and who has worked to turn a personal tragedy into a way of honoring Emily by inspiring positive change in the nation’s medical facilities.

Over the past seven years, Jerry has learned much about patient safety and the human error component of medicine. He discovered that most patient safety issues are systemic, and that in order to effectively make our nation’s medical facilities safer for everyone, we all need to join together to positively change the underlying culture of medicine in the United States.

Jerry will share his heartfelt story and what he has learned over the last seven years, and will provide his insights into the possible role that healthcare technology management can play in further enhancing patient safety by improving the systems and procedures within healthcare facilities.