VLAB

Extreme Telemedicine: Critical Care Goes Virtual
2005-10-18 18:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | CA
Extreme Telemedicine: Critical Care Goes Virtual

Speaker:
Brian Rosenfeld MD, Co-founder, Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer,
VISICU
Moderator:
Molly Coye, Founder and CEO,
Institute for the Future Health Technology Center
Panelist:
Thomas McKinley, Co-founder and Managing Partner,
Partech International
Arnold Milstein, US Healthcare Thought Leader,
Pacific Business Group on Health
Sean Wieland, Managing director and Senior Research Analyst,
Health Care IT at Piper Jaffray
Event Description:
Futuristic visions of the use of information technology in medicine have been promoted for decades. In spite of this, true innovations in the delivery of health care have only recently been introduced on a broader scale. Brian Rosenfeld M.D., co-founder of VISICU, will present the technology and business model for the ultimate electronic ICU. The panel will explore where the next health care IT innovations will come from, what obstacles stand in the way of their availability and what needs to be done to ensure that the use of information technology in medicine delivers on its promises.

Speaker:
Brian Rosenfeld MD
Co-founder, Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer
VISICU
Dr. Rosenfeld has practiced critical care for more than fifteen years and is currently an adjunct associate professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine, medicine and surgery at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. Prior to founding VISICU, Dr. Rosenfeld was medical director of two critical care units at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. He received the Shannon Award and grants from the National Institutes of Health for his research on stress-induced changes in blood coagulation and he was principal investigator on numerous ICU clinical research trials. He has published over fifty peer-reviewed articles and book chapters and numerous scientific abstracts. He developed the first application of a smart monitoring system that provides hospital-wide management of patients with myocardial ischemia and co-developed a comprehensive personnel and equipment triage system for evacuating critically ill soldiers for the U. S. Air Force.
Dr. Rosenfeld graduated magna cum laude, special honors, biology from the University of Pittsburgh in 1975. He graduated from Temple University School of Medicine in 1980 and then trained in internal medicine, pulmonary medicine, anesthesiology, and critical care. He was selected chief resident while at Johns Hopkins during his anesthesiology and critical care fellowship. He has been inducted as a fellow in both the College of Critical Care Medicine and the College of Chest Physicians.
Moderator:
Molly Coye MD, MPH
Founder and CEO
Institute for the Future Health Technology Center
Molly Coye, founder and CEO of the Health Technology Center (Health Tech), a not-for-profit research organization, is a distinguished innovator and leader in both the public and private sectors of healthcare. HealthTech is dedicated to advancing the use of beneficial technologies for healthier people and communities. Through Dr. Coye’s oversight, HealthTech provides its Partners with independent trusted information and tools about the impact of technologies in health care so that they may make appropriate decisions about advancing and improving their delivery systems.
Prior to HealthTech, Dr. Coye served as health director for two states, executive in health delivery system and health software development firm, and advisor to investors in emerging healthcare technologies, has been leader looking for opportunities to innovate and improve healthcare. Dr. Coye is currently a member of the Board of Trustees of the Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH) and most recently appointed to the American Hospital Association Board of Directors.
Dr. Coye is also a member of the Institute of Medicine, was a member of the IOM Committee on the Quality of Healthcare in America, and chaired the IOM Committee on Access to Insurance for Children. A former trustee of The California Endowment and the China Medical Board Dr. Coye has received a variety of honors. A sought after speaker, Dr. Coye has presented to health care and hospital leadership as well as provided testimony for state and national government initiatives.
Fluent in Spanish and Chinese, she has also served as a consultant with the World Health Organization and the Pan American Health Organization. Dr. Coye received both the Doctor of Medicine and Master of Public Health degrees from Johns Hopkins University.
Panelist:
Thomas McKinley
Co-founder and Managing Partner
Partech International
Tom McKinley, Managing Partner and Co-Founder
Tom is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Partech International and has over 25 years of investment experience with a successful track record of helping several entrepreneurs build successful technology companies. His past investments include Ascend Communications (ASND acq. by Lucent Technologies), Medicode (acq. by Ingenix) and VeriFone (PAY). Most recently Tom has led the firm’s investment activities in the healthcare IT and financial services sectors.
He also currently serves on the boards of U.C. Berkley’s Entrepreneurs Forum and the World Venture Summit. Tom is an active member of the Health Management Academy (HMA) and an active supporter of the University of San Francisco’s Entrepreneurship Program. As an alumnus, Tom maintains close ties with Stanford Business School as well as Harvard University, where he serves as class secretary.
Tom sits on the board of directors of current portfolio companies Decisionview, Radianse and VISICU.
Tom received an undergraduate degree in Economics from Harvard University, an MS in Accounting from New York University and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Arnold Milstein MD, MPH
US Healthcare Thought Leader
Pacific Business Group on Health
Arnie Milstein is the Medical Director at the Pacific Business Group on Health and the National Health Care Thought Leader at William M. Mercer Inc. His work focuses on improving managed care programs for large purchasers and government.
Dr. Milstein’s 30 book chapters and published articles have centered on managed care program design. A member of NCQA’s national committee to develop HEDIS and the Performance Measures Coordinating Committee, Business Insurance magazine selected him as “one of the 20 people who has made a difference in employee benefits management in the past 20 years.” Last year’s New England Journal of Medicine’s series on employer sponsored health insurance described him as a “pioneer” in employer efforts to advance quality.
In January 2002 Dr. Milstein was named to the Strategic Advisory Council of the National Quality Forum (NQF).
Dr. Milstein holds a medical degree from Tufts University and a master’s degree in health services planning from the University of California, Berkeley. He received a bachelor’s degree in economics from Harvard University. He is an Associate Clinical Professor at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center and a Worldwide Partner at Mercer.
Sean Wieland
Managing director and Senior Research Analyst
Health Care IT at Piper Jaffray
Sean Wieland is a managing director and a senior research analyst at Piper Jaffray, focusing on health care information technology and health care services. Wieland has 13 years’ experience in health care information technology, including six years on the sell-side. Prior to joining Piper Jaffray in 2005, Wieland was a senior research analyst at WR Hambrecht and Prudential Securities. Prior to joining the sell-side, he spent seven years in the industry, working in multiple roles at IDX Systems Corporation, most recently as a senior sales executive, where he learned firsthand about the need for technology in the health care setting. Wieland earned his master’s degree in business administration and his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Vermont.

Vertical Search: Show Me The Money!
2005-09-20 18:00 - 20:30
Vertical Search: Show Me The Money!

Speaker:
Scott Rafer, President and CEO,
Feedster
Moderator:
Barney Pell, EIR,
Mayfield
Panelist:
Paul A. Flaherty, VP Product/Strategy,
TalkPlus
Reid Hoffman, CEO and Chairman,
LinkedIn, Ltd
Dion Lim, VP Business Development,
Simply Hired
Event Description:
Remember the heydays of the first generation Internet search engines like InfoSeek and AltaVista and then of course, our darling Google? Vertical Search is now one of the hot new topics buzzing around the Internet industry and the investment community today. It refers to specialized search technologies that focus on narrow niches like a specific industry such as travel or health or new Web-based communication tools like blogs. Users can much more effectively find what they are looking for – be it cheap plane tickets or to find out what the investor community thinks about a certain technology. Businesses have much more effective way to reach their target customers. But the big question, as with first generation search, is Where is the Money? Though there is no question that there is value for vertical search, who is willing to pay for it? At the September 20th VLAB event, Scott Rafer, CEO of Feedster, will present how his company is building a business around providing vertical search for listings, news, and blogs, followed by a panel discussion moderated by Barney Pell, Entrepreneur in Residence at the Mayfield.

Primer: made available from Dave B. Hill, President and CEO, Looksmart, Ltd.
What is Vertical Search? It is a specialized search engine tha mines data for one narrow niche of the marketplace, such as jobs, travel or blogs. Because the data sources are so fragmented, there seems to be an opportunity to massage the data and present it in a manner that is simple to use and easy to consume.
Definition:
Vertical search is about “providing essential (versus exhaustive) search content and related tools for people who have a passion, need or repetitive task,” says Dave Hills.
Bringing together two types of search:
Broad search – need-based without knowledge or opinion of where to find information, products or services; consumer needs to case a wide net.
Vertical search – still need-based, but the consumer has knowledge and needs greater concentration in one form of results.
Vertical search is not new, and has been around for a number of years, starting with travel and real estate. The explosion of services recently is due to the ever growing amount of advertising dollars shifting to search marketing, and the lower cost of development for new entrants. The space will be segmented by content or by audience, and will leverage partially on technology and partially on human editors. These vertical search sites will also provide a valuable service for one aspect of life.

*Errata notice: We regret that the attribution for Dave Hills’ quote, which was used in the flyer that we handed out at the September 20th event on Vertical Search, was inadvertently omitted during the production process. The text of the primer has been corrected and we have added the text of the primer to this web site above. We have also made the correction on the flyer. We offer our sincere apologies to our esteemed colleague Dave Hills and his team at Looksmart, Ltd. – Louise Velazquez, Chair, MIT/Stanford Venture Lab (VLAB), September 30, 2005.

Speaker:
Scott Rafer
President and CEO
Feedster
Scott Rafer is President and CEO of Feedster, a fast-growing blog search engine and advertising network. Feedster delivers more relevant, and timely information by continuously collecting data from over 13 million RSS content feeds. Before Feedster, Rafer co-founded WiFinder, the Wi-Fi hotspot directory; BookBroadband, the broadband hotel finder; Fresher Information, RSS indexing way too early; and FotoNation, a creator of connected photography solutions. Previously, Rafer led the Internet products group at Kodak Hollywood and worked in investment banking at Needham & Company. For school, Rafer graduated from the Management of Technology program at the University of Pennsylvania.
Moderator:
Barney Pell PhD
EIR
Mayfield
Dr. Barney Pell is currently an Entrepreneur in Residence at Mayfield, a Venture Capital Firm based in Silicon Valley. He is exploring and evaluating early-stage companies in the areas of search, information management, human interfaces and social software. Prior to joining Mayfield, Barney was Technical Area Manager for the 80-person Collaborative and Assistant Systems (CAS) area within the Computational Sciences Division at NASA Ames Research Center. Dr. Pell received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cambridge University in 1993, where he was a Marshall Scholar, and his B.S. degree in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University in 1989, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa and was a National Merit Scholar. From 1998 to 2000, Dr. Pell was Chief Strategist and Vice-President of Business Development for StockMaster.com, a provider of internet-based stock-market analysis tools. Dr. Pell helped StockMaster.com grow from $500,000 to $5 million in revenue in 2 years, when the company was acquired by Red Herring Communications in July, 2000. From 2000 to 2002, Dr. Pell was Vice President of Strategy for Whizbang! Labs. a provider of advanced text processing and search engine software. Whizbang created Flipdog, an online recruiting site that automatically built the world’s largest jobs database extracted directly from corporate websites, which was acquired by Monster.com.
Panelist:
Paul A. Flaherty PhD
VP Product/Strategy
TalkPlus
Paul A. Flaherty, Ph.D. received his doctorate in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1994, for his work in computer architecture, digital radio communications, radio science and RF engineering. He is considered one of the world’s leading authorities on communications protocol design. After Stanford, Dr. Flaherty joined Digital Equipment Corporation’s Network Systems Laboratory, where he invented and managed the Alta Vista search engine, generating over $4.5 Billion in value for DEC. Since then, he has worked as a corporate strategist and management consultant both independently, and for firms such as Zindigo and Accenture. Author of the forthcoming book, “A Better Mousetrap: Corporate Strategy for Emerging Technology”, Paul has delivered international keynotes for COMDEX, Internet World, DECUS, and other trade shows in the US, Canada, Barbados, Brazil, Argentina, Japan, Australia, Sweden, Denmark, Portugal, and the Czech Republic.
Reid Hoffman
CEO and Chairman
LinkedIn, Ltd
Reid Hoffman was previously EVP at PayPal (Nasdaq: PYPL), where he was in charge of all external relationships and payments infrastructure. Reid serves on the board of directors for Grassroots.com, JumpStart Technologies, Talk To The Future, TreasureGames, SixApart, and the International Media Project and on the board of advisors for EZCab and WeAttract. He is an angel investor in Ironport, Friendster and Nanosolar. Earlier in his career, he worked at Apple Computer, Fujitsu Software Corporation, and SocialNet.com. He holds a B.S. in Cognitive Science from Stanford University and a Master’s in philosophy from Oxford University, and won the Dinkelspiel Award and a Marshall Scholarship while at Stanford.
Dion Lim
VP Business Development
Simply Hired
Dion is the creative spark that plugs us in to the great companies and technology Silicon Valley has to offer. An experienced entrepreneur, his resume reads like a short history of the Internet itself: co-founder of Epinions.com (now Shopping.com), COO at Chinese portal Sina.com, Director of Biz Dev at Quote.com (now Lycos), co-founder of the “dot-com Petri dish” Round Zero, marketing exec at Schwab (ok, we’re pretty sure he’s making up so me of this stuff) and way back when: excel jockey at Morgan Stanley and due diligence grunt at H&Q. In fact, the only startup we know he didn’t have a hand in is Initech… although he does have a certain penchant for red Swingline staplers.
