Health Content on Stage at Data Content 2010

InfoCommerce Group’s annual conference, Data Content 2010 is coming up soon (Oct 26-28).  This is our 18^th annual gathering of data-centric publishers and we include a healthy dose of health content programming this year.  Our speaker line-up includes Dr. Sanjaya Kumar, CEO, Chief Medical Officer of Quantros, a software and services company that works with hospitals to improve quality, performance and patient safety. Quantros’ MEDMARX database and reporting system for adverse drug events and medical errors has been nominated for a Model of Excellence Award from InfoCommerce Group.

Dr. Katrina Firlik, co-founder and Chief Medical Officer, HealthPrize Technologies, joins Dr. Kumar on the agenda and as a Model of Excellence Award nominee.  HealthPrize is an innovative new company that embraces the concept of participatory medicine where patients become actively involved in their own health care.  The initial HealthPrize implementation focuses on medication adherence and its features go beyond providing a smart device that serves as a reminder to take medications; HealthPrize offers a complete system with awards to patients for meeting goals.  From the health content perspective, we are impressed that HealthPrize incorporates relevant information to help patients understand their condition and their medication care plan, along with custom data analytics displays that help put a patients’ health monitoring in perspective.  

We are also pleased to announce that Jason Brown from Canon Communications will speak on the Best Practices panel about Canon’s recently launched Qmed medical device marketplace.  Medical devices play a critical role in producing and connecting health data and we look forward to learning more about Canon’s directory of qualified suppliers to the medical device industry.

Data Content will wrap up with break-out roundtable discussions led by InfoCommerce principals.  I will lead a discussion on Connected Health Data and will kick off the discussion with a revised version of the diagram I used last year to represent the health content industry. 

On another note, I want to announce to the readers of this newsletter that I am now a guest blogger for the HealthTap.  HealthTap is a new company whose objective it is to create a Personal Health Utility that enables individuals to access relevant information, manage data that affects their lives, and make more informed data-based choices about their health and well-being.  Read my first entry, Health IT is Breaking Through on HealthTap.

We are at an important threshold in how medicine is practiced and how healthcare is delivered in the US (and elsewhere).  We at Health Content Advisors are thrilled to include a distinguished group of health industry visionaries on our program at Data Content 2010 this year.  Please join us!