Are you Ready for the Future of Healthcare?

As your 3rd party regulatory and certifications services provider for the health sciences we know how important it is to keep you informed of upcoming industry issues.  Home healthcare is one of these topics.  As a testament to UL's commitment to support you as you develop regulatory strategies for placing your devices in people's homes, UL's PDE, Joe Murnane participates in the IEC Technical Committee for IEC 60601-1-11.

Medical electrical equipment - Part 1-11: General requirements for basic safety and essential performance - Collateral Standard: Requirements for medical electrical equipment and medical electrical system used in the home healthcare environment.

We are always scanning the environment for events that our customers may have an interest in and have found one that deals with home healthcare.  We have also negotiated a special discount for our subscribers.

Partners HealthCare's Connected Health Symposium 2009
"Up from Crisis: Overhauling Healthcare Information, Payment and Delivery in Extraordinary Times"
Oct. 21- 22, 2009
The Boston Park Plaza and Towers, Boston, MA

Who's speaking?

• Nicholas Christakis, MD, PhD, MPH, Professor of Medical Sociology, Harvard Medical School, and TIME magazine's 2009 choice, The World's 100 Most Influential People; and co-author with James Fowler, PhD of Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives.
• Jason Hwang, MD,  Executive Director of Healthcare, Innosight Institute, and co-author with Clayton Christensen, PhD, of The Innovators' Prescription:  A Disruptive Solution for Health Care (2009).
• Stuart Altman, PhD, Professor of National Health Policy, The Heller Graduate School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University
• Angie Hicks, MBA, Founder and Chief Marketing Officer, Angie's List
• Joseph Kvedar, MD,Director, Center for Connected Health, Partners HealthCare
• John Glaser, CIO, Partners HealthCare
• John Halamka, MD, CIO, CareGroup Health System; Dean for Technology at Harvard Medical School; Chair of the US Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP)

What's up for discussion?
Sessions include:

• The Amazing Effects on Health of Personal Social Networks -- and How to Harness Their Power to Help Patients
• Payment Reform, the Role of Information Technology, and the Implications for IT Business Models
• Limits to the Wisdom of Patients and the Wisdom of Crowds?  Implications from Behavioral Economics
• Remote Monitoring in 2014: What'll Be Different in Five Years about the Technology, the Data and the Incentives?
• Health Games: All Set to Play?
• Coordinating Care: What's Really Involved and Who's Really Going to Do It?

You'll spend time with over 1,000 healthcare and technology leaders world-wide, from hospitals, clinics, home health agencies, large employers and health plans.  You'll exchange ideas with tech entrepreneurs, business execs, investors, government officials and patient organization representatives.

Registration
To all Underwriters Laboratories colleagues and business associates, Partners extends a special opportunity to register for October's Symposium for $795; that is $100 off the regular rate.  To obtain the discount, register as "general public" at http://www.connected-health.org and type in "Underwriters" in the invitation code box.  Then continue the registration process until finished.

As part of our global certifications and 3rd party regulatory services for the medical industry, UL offers certifications and testing manufacturers can use in their technical files for regulatory submissions.  For more information, visit our website at www.ul.com/medical.

If you are unable to attend the conference and are interested in learning more about UL's integrated certification and 3rd Party Regulatory services for the medical industry, contact your local UL Health Sciences Account Representative.  A list of contact information for UL's global locations is located on our website at: 
http://www.ul.com/global/eng/pages/corporate/contactus/