Rob Wonderling
As people return from lunch, the 2nd session of the eHealth Summit gets introduced by Mark Stevens, which has a focus on “Meds & Eds” and he introduces Rob Wonderling, President and CEO, Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce.
He talks about the eleven county region that spans across Princeton, NJ to the greater Philadelphia area and further describes various trade related metrics. Wonderling states that the greater Philadelphia region has a very good IT backbone with providers such as Comcast, Verizon and others. He points out 5 elements to encourage Health IT innovation and ends with a question to the audience “Why not set a date for global international competition, to bring the next ‘killer app’ for health IT.”
Tony Iantoro (Left) | Joshua Lawson (Right)
The next keynote is presented by Tony Iantorno, Founder, Accelero Management Consulting and Joshua Lawson, Associate Partner, SECOR Consulting. Both are based out of Canada and Lawson starts the keynote with an overview of the Canadian health care system, how it is funded and what the expenditures are. He further talks about the “Enablers of Innovation”, which is the overlaps of three circles (Government, Business, Research). Iantorno takes over to talk about “Primary Care IT”, which is an initiative to invest $250 million to encourage the adoption of an EHR in Ontario. On the business side of the three circles, Iantorno talks about the regions of Ontario and introduces the MaRS concept. Lawson wraps the keynote up with the key challenges in all three areas, Government, Business and Research.
Session II Panel
The 2nd Session Panel is being moderated by Elliot Sloane, PhD/Drexel & DVHIMSS and consists of:
a.) JoAnn Klinedinst/HIMSS and PAeHI
b.) Dr. Thompson Boyd/Hahnemann University Hospital
c.) Dr. John Cacciamani/Temple University Hospital
d.) Dr. Gary Kurtzman/Safeguard Scientifics
Editor’s note: This series of live blog posts on the 2nd Annual Canada-Philadelphia eHealth Summit were reported and photographed by Marvin Sugirin, solutions architect and my colleague, of BluePrint Healthcare IT. — Mike Squires
