Global Healthcare Leaders Return To Massachusetts State House For E.U.-U.S. ehealth Marketplace & Conference

On Tuesday, October 21st and Wednesday, October 22nd, public and private sector health care innovators from across Europe and the United States will convene at the Massachusetts State House in Boston for the 5^th E.U. – U.S. eHealth Marketplace and Conference, a two-day event designed to generate business opportunities and relationships among participating companies, organizations, and countries.

Conference keynotes and panels will tackle ways healthcare technology can address critical issues, including:

• How informatics and genome sequencing can help combat deadly pathogens such as ebola;
• The innovative healthcare solutions made possible through Big Data and advanced computing analytics; and
• The ways eHealth technology is driving efficiency and patients’ access to health data.

Massachusetts’ standing as a global health innovation hub will be on display to an international audience at the event, as attendees will include public and private health care innovators, many of the Commonwealth’s healthcare systems, eHealth companies, academic institutions, medical device and life science industry associations, and several public agencies. In addition, global business connections will be enhanced through matchmaking sessions and panels which will identify shared economic opportunities.

The event, part of Connected Health Week in Massachusetts, was inspired by the E.U. – U.S. Memorandum of Understanding on eHealth and is designed to capitalize on the potential collaborative eHealth opportunities contained within the joint marketplace, which contains over 800 million consumers. The conference was formally announced at the BIO 2012 International Conference by Massachusetts State Senate President Therese Murray, and members of NIMAC, the informal organization established in 2009 by Massachusetts as the gateway for European nations to access the United States healthcare market. This will be the fifth E.U. – U.S. eHealth Marketplace and Conference, with the inaugural event held at the Massachusetts State House in October 2012 and follow up events which took place in Ireland, Boston, and Greece.

More information, a full speakers list, and a detailed agenda are available on the conference website https://www.b2match.eu/eu-us-ehealth-marketplace-2014.

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WHAT: 5th - E.U. - U.S. eHealth Marketplace & Conference

WHEN: Tuesday, October 21, 2014 – Wednesday, October 22, 2014 8:00 am – 5:00pm each day

WHERE: Massachusetts State House 24 Beacon Street, Boston, Mass. 01233

WHO: Healthcare innovators from more than 14 countries

Keynote Addresses include:

• “The Ebola Crisis” - Dr. Michael Wong, Senior Medical Director, Infectious Diseases – Sarepta Therapeutics & Beth Israel-Deaconess Medical Center Transplant Infectious Diseases Director
• “Growing and Sustaining our Innovation Ecosystem” - Dr. Jeffrey Leiden, M.D., Ph.D., Chairman, President, and CEO, Vertex Pharmaceuticals

Massachusetts government, policy, and health care leaders, including:

• Senate President Therese Murray, Massachusetts State Senate
• Speaker Robert DeLeo, Massachusetts House of Representatives
• Mayor Martin Walsh, City of Boston
• Secretary Gregory Bialecki, Executive Office of Housing and Economic Development
• State Senator Stan Rosenberg, Majority Leader, Massachusetts State Senate
• Pamela Goldberg, CEO, Massachusetts Technology Collaborative
• Dr. Susan Windham-Bannister, President & CEO, Massachusetts Life Sciences Center
• Steve Strassman, Chief Technology Officer, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
• Naomi Fried Ph.D., Chief Innovation Officer, Boston Children's Hospital

National and international policy leaders, including:

• Dr. Douglas B. Fridsma, Director of the Office of Science and Technology at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC)
• Brian O’Connor, Chair, European Connected Health Alliance/NIMAC
• Nichola Mallon, Lord Mayor of Belfast, Northern Ireland