Shapiro Breakout Room, BWH

Monday, January 12, 2015

5- 6:30 pm

Short Kick-off Presentation by BWH Primary Care, Brainstorming & Idea Pitching

Register Online to Attend- Open to all BWH employees

Join us for Brigham Innovation Hub & Brigham Primary Care’s Idea Lab session where we will focus on the topic of “BWH Employee Patient Engagement” and work together to understand the problems facing our employees and identify opportunities for us to improve the way that BWH enables employee patients to engage in their own health and healthcare.

Learn about an exciting area in healthcare that is ripe for innovation, meet new clinicians and researchers, brainstorm innovation ideas in small groups, practice an idea pitch, and receive feedback on your idea. After the event, Brigham Primary Care and Brigham Innovation Hub will work with you to further refine your ideas.

Primary Care will work with you to apply promising ideas in our new primary care practice that we are opening this spring at 800 Huntington Avenue.  The Innovation Hub will provide project management support, business planning and help to connect you with internal and external collaborators.

Themes for Brainstorming:

1. Wellness – Lifestyle & Behavior Change: Diet

2. Wellness – Lifestyle & Behavior Change: Exercise

3. Primary Care – Access

4. Primary Care – Scheduling & Location of Care

5. Primary Care – Care outside the office and between visits

6. Specialty Care Coordination between Primary Care & Wellness

Kick-off Presentation by BWH Primary Care & Population Medicine

Joseph Frolkis, MD, PhD – Director of Primary Care

Associate Chief of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care, BWH

Erika Pabo, MD
Assistant Director – Primary Care
Department of Medicine, BWH

Jason Block, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor

Department of Population Medicine

Harvard Medical School

Shapiro Breakout Room, BWH

Wednesday, January 21, 2015

12:30-2 pm

Short Kick-off Presentation by Partners Healthcare BioBank, Brainstorming & Idea Pitching – Lunch Provided.

Register Online to Attend - Open to all BWH employees

Join us for an “Idea Lab” lunch session on “Big Data – Harnessing Partners Healthcare BioBank” – co-hosted by Brigham Research Institute (BRI) and Brigham Innovation Hub. The Partners Healthcare BioBank is a resource with consented samples from over 17,000 patients that can help transform your research.

“Big Data” is a term we often hear in healthcare today. Come learn about a valuable repository of big data that Brigham scientists and clinicians can readily access and harness to accelerate research and innovation projects. The BioBank provides researchers and clinicians access to high-quality, consented samples to help foster research, advance our understanding of the causes of common diseases, and advance the practice of medicine.  DNA, plasma, and serum from 17,000+ consented patients, associated with rich phenotypic data, are easily accessible through the Research Patient Data Repository (RPDR).

Join us for lunch as we hear a brief kick-off presentation on the Partners BioBank, brainstorm in small groups on potential applications for research and innovative uses and share ideas through practice pitches towards the end of the session.

Themes for Brainstorming:

1. Large-scale Genetic Studies
2. Cardiology
3. Rheumatology
4. Pathology / Radiology
5. Pilot Studies – Leveraging Biomarkers
6. Pilot Studies – Leveraging Genetic Data

Speaker:

Elizabeth Karlson, MD

Co-Director of Partners Biobank

Director of Rheumatic Disease Epidemiology at BWH

BWH Carrie Hall

Thursday, February 12, 2015

5 – 6:30 pm

Short Kick-off Presentation by Apple, CMIO of BWH, Brainstorming & Idea Pitching Session

Register Online to Attend – Open to all BWH employees

Join us for an “Idea Lab” session on “Apple’s HealthKit: Building on a Platform for Digital Health Innovation” – co-hosted by Apple and Brigham Innovation Hub.

What is HealthKit and how does it work? How can healthcare providers collect, analyze, and display consumer health data to provide care for high risk patients and high cost populations? What type of metrics will consumers provide? What is the role of healthcare providers in communicating with and guiding consumers and patients? How will HealthKit integrate with electronic health records (EHR) owned by healthcare providers?  Come learn and discuss all these topics at the Idea Lab.

Join us as we hear a brief kick-off presentation by Apple on HealthKit, a new platform for digital healthcare, and other exciting topics including:

• Apple Watch
• Apple Developer tools: Objective-C and Swift
• iBeacon location services and mapping technology

We will also hear from Adam Landman, our BWH Chief Medical Informatics Officer (CMIO) for Healthcare Innovation and Integration on how BWH can support development of HealthKit.

After the presentations, we will breakout in small groups to brainstorm in small groups on building innovation applications on the HealthKit platform and using Apple’s new technologies to improve healthcare delivery and patient care.

Speakers:

Nina Kominiak

Consulting Engineer – Apple

Adam Landman, MD

Chief Medical Informatics Officer (CMIO)

for Healthcare Innovation & Integration, BWH