Shapiro Porch, BWH

Monday June 22, 2015

5:30-7:30 pm

Register online(open to BWH employees)

Snacks & Refreshments will be served

Event Description: Machine learning is a rapidly growing field in computer science with exciting and diverse applications in healthcare. Machine learning evolved from the study of pattern recognition and computational learning theory in artificial intelligence (AI). Machine learning explores the construction and study of algorithms that can learn from and make predictions on data. Predictive algorithms operate by building a model from example inputs in order to make data-driven predictions or decisions. Machine learning includes natural language processing which can promote healthy behavior by understanding user goals and providing alerts, targets and rewards for meeting goals.

Our Microsoft Idea Lab at BWH features Microsoft machine learning experts and BWH clinicians coming together to brainstorm on impactful applications of machine learning in healthcare. BWH clinicians will share pressing clinical challenges including population health management, analyzing electronic medical records (EMR) and developing 3D printing for personalized healthcare. Microsoft’s machine learning experts will present about supporting MS technologies in each area, including Microsoft Azure Machine Learning and Azure Cloud Integration.

Shapiro Breakout Room, BWH

Wednesday May 20, 2015

12 :15-1:45 pm

Register online (open to the public)

Short Kick-off Presentation, Brainstorming & Idea Pitching – Lunch Provided.

Participate in an “Idea Lab” lunch session on “Shaping the Future of Food Allergies” – hosted by Brigham Innovation Hub. According to Food Allergy Research & Education (FARE), up to 15 million Americans have food allergies and they affect 1 in 13 children. These numbers continue to rise and not only affect quality of life in persons affected, but can be potentially fatal through anaphylaxis.

Currently, the only way to prevent reactions from food allergies is avoidance and the only treatment for anaphylactic shock is an Epi-pen. What opportunities lie in the overlap of digital health and food allergies? How can we more accurately diagnose food allergies and identify the populations at risk?

Please join us for lunch:

• Hearfor a brief kick-off presentation from Dr. Jessica Savage, Director of Brigham’s Food Allergy Center
• Brainstorm in small groups on potential applications and innovative uses
• Share new ideas and thoughts in pitches at the end of the session.

THEMES

1. Diagnosing food allergies

2. Genetic partnerships

3. Detecting food allergens

4. Wearables & food allergies

5. Preventing food allergies

6. Treatment of food allergies

Speaker: Dr. Jessica Savage, MD, MHS

Division of Rheumatology, Immunology, and Allergy

Director, BWH Food Allergy Center

Shapiro Breakout Room, BWH

Wednesday April 15, 2015

12 -1:30 pm

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

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 as we 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. Cardiometabolic Disorders
3. Immunology
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

Shapiro Breakout Room, BWH

Wednesday April 15, 2015

12 -1:30 pm

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

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 as we 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. Cardiometabolic Disorders
3. Immunology
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.

Themes for brainstorming: 

1. Reducing Readmission

2. Healthy Lifestyle – Physical Fitness

3. Healthy Lifestyle – Mental Health

4. Home Care & Chronic Disease Management

5. Clinical Communications

6. Acute Care

Speakers:

Nina Kominiak

Consulting Engineer – Apple

Adam Landman, MD

Chief Medical Informatics Officer (CMIO)

for Healthcare Innovation & Integration, BWH

Shapiro Breakout Room, BWH

Monday, January 12, 2015

5- 6:30 pm

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

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