Learning Objectives for the Panel Presentation

MODERATOR:  Robin A. Felder, PhD

After attending this activity, the participant will demonstrate the ability to:

1.      Describe the medical insurance reimbursement issues that hinder the rapid adoption of new potentially cost saving diagnostic technologies.

2.      Discuss the culture of medical institutions and how they may be improved through innovation.

3.      List examples of new technologies that are evolving to provide ubiquitous health assessment.

4.      Share with others how our environment, clothing, and bodies may be used to provide passive physiologic monitoring for personalized medicine and wellness.

See R. Felder’s Presentaion – A Brave New World in Diagnostics: Disruptive Ideas that Just Might  Come True

Robin A. Felder, PhD, Professor of Pathology at the University of Virginia,  former Director of the Medical Automation Research Center The University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

G. Terry Sharrer, PhD, Medical Automation.org, former Health Sciences Curator, Smithsonian Institute,
Washington, DC

Robert Jarrin, JD, Senior Director of Government Affairs for Qualcomm Incorporated, Washington, DC

Personalized, Predictive, and Pervasive Wellness; Reimbursement, Access and Efficacy
G. Terry Sharrer, PhD

The rapid implementation of novel cost saving and quality improving health care technologies is hindered by skepticism from insurance companies and the federal health care systems who fear higher costs. Furthermore, healthcare disparities arise from the lack of access to innovative technologies by those whom are least able to afford them.Programs are needed to prove the efficacy of novel health quality and efficiency tools in order to make them morewidely available.

Innovations in Connected Health: In Search of the Tricorder
Robert Jarrin, JD

Health care diagnostic companies have yet to embrace the universe of ubiquitous wireless connectivity. There are a myriad of benefits that will arise from instant access to diagnostic results and interpretation as well as other health information.

Continuous Passive Diagnostic Monitoring: Improving on the Single Datapoint
Robin A. Felder, PhD

Current clinical diagnostics are hindered by a focus on body fluids and tissue samples. More extensive health evaluation can be conducted in-home using passive wellness evaluation technologies such as gait analysis, sleep assessment, socialization metrics, and nutrition assessment. Next generation testing will focus on continuous monitoring and interpretation of health and wellness.

Panel Discussion