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LiveBlog from tonight’s Transforming Healthcare Summit

We’ll be updating regularly from the Transforming Healthcare Summit at the Seaport Hotel in Boston tonight. Start checking for updates around 5:30PM. You can also access an RSS feed of Twitter updates from the summit here.

6:29 pm: Meet and greet just ended. Lots of people and ideas. About to start with tonight’s speakers

7:20 pm: Panel is very lively. Discussing the top pritities for reform that am incoming secretary of HHS should take on

7:55 pm: Live questions from the audience about how comparative effectiveness results for treatments will loop back to treatment coverage

8:13 pm: Question about impact and support for patient online social networking and supporting this trend

8:18: An interesting question is on table now about role of open source software in electronic health data interchange and interoperability. Response generally was that it is the data which would matter – that is what needs to move freely

8:37 pm: A physician proffered that a potential significant area of cost savings would be the ability for a physician’s office to follow the compliance of a discharged patient to their prescription for recovery. The panel agreed violently

9:18 pm: networking session afterwards is lively. A lot happening.

I am 5 foot, 11.75 inches tall; I enjoy helping clients and people I work with to achieve their objectives; believe that technology is a great enabler for the improved delivery of health care in the world, as it can be for so many other things.