How Helpul are Mobile Health Apps?

When:
Thursday, Apr 24, 2014 6:00p -
8:00p

Where:
MIT Campus, Building E62 Room 262
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139

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FREE

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This session will incorporate a panel of speakers from varying positions in the healthcare industry and will aim to address the many uses of mobile health apps and their role in patient's and clinician's care plans.


Currently there is an overabundance of apps for patients, but about only a small percentage of mobile apps are created for clinician use. This session will incorporate speakers that can address both the pros and cons of mobile health apps and their use and also, from a clinicians perspective, what a useful mobile health app would look like to them.


In this session we also want to explore the role of mobile health apps in a patients care plan, and their use in possibly replacing live human interaction. We will discuss privacy issues, and how creators of mobile health apps are addressing issues in protecting patients health information.


Speakers:



Arielle Carpenter, USA Marketing Manager at Withings


Arielle holds a Masters in Public Health in Nutrition from Tufts University School of Medicine & a Masters in Business Administration from Collège des Ingénieurs. She is currently the USA Marketing Manager for Withings. In this role, she travels around the country representing Withings at various trade shows, conferences, and speaking opportunities, as well as serving as the contact point for all public relations, advertising, and general communications. Withings is an innovative company that creates smart products and apps to help people around the world take control of their overall health and well-being. Their product line includes the Smart Body Analyzer wifi scale, Pulse activity tracker, Wireless Blood Pressure Monitor, and Smart Baby Scale & Monitor.



Jennifer M. Joe, MD, Medstro CEO and C0-Founder, Editor-in-Chief MedTech Boston


Jennifer Joe, MD, is CEO of Medstro.com, a new collaborative physician community for finding new traditional and non-traditional research and job opportunities, and Editor-in-Chief of MedTech Boston, a local and national source for health IT and innovation news. MedTech Boston is hosting the first ever Healthcare Google Glass Challenge on the East Coast, working in collaboration with The White House Innovation Fellows, MIT Hacking Medicine, and the major academic hospitals. Recently, she had the honor to speak at South by Southwest Interactive about “Hacking Medical Training through Innovation.” She is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society Committee on Communications and is the Information Technology Director for the American College of Physicians Massachusetts Chapter. She finished her nephrology fellowship at the joint Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital Program and continues to practice clinical medicine in the Boston VA Emergency Room. She loves mobile apps and consumer-facing healthcare technology and feels the natural next steps are to bring them into the Doctor’s Office.



Laurent Adamowicz, Founder and CEO of Bon'App


Laurent is a serial entrepreneur and former food industry executive. Previously Chairman and CEO of Fauchon, a leading Paris-based luxury food company that he grew in both product and global reach with 650 food stores and restaurants in 34 countries, Laurent also served on the board of several not-for-profit organizations, the Supervisory board of Van Cleef & Arpels, as Managing Director of Banque Paribas and Rothschild, and a Group Product Manager at Beatrice Foods. Laurent earned a BA from ESCP-Europe in Paris, France, an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and acquired an MA in socio-cultural anthropology from Columbia University in the City of New York. He is a 2011 Senior Fellow of the Harvard University Advanced Leadership Initiative where he launched Bon’App. Laurent is also a member of the Nutrition Round Table of the Harvard School of Public Health.


Helen Figge, VP of Clinical Integrations, Alere


Helen Figge is the Vice President of Clinical Integration at Alere ACS. She has experience in various healthcare aspects including academics,clinical practice andclinical practice management,industrial sales and healthcare practice workflow processes and optimization. She has been engaged and versed in the various government initiatives including workforce development programs,regional extension centers and Health Information Exchange initiatives. She has developed and supported nationally recognized client loyalty programs and helped to develop clinical process work flow optimizations, best practices and supporting health reform clinical initiatives providing strategic business management guidelines for healthcare oversight. She has supported various quality outcome projects and best practices and has published in both the clinical and health information technology arenas.

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