Hearings » Overcoming Rural Health Care Barriers: Use of Innovative Wireless Health Technology Solutions

Subcommittee on Health

Overcoming Rural Health Care Barriers: Use of Innovative Wireless Health Technology Solutions

Opening Statements

Witness Testimonies

  • Panel 1
  • Joseph M. Smith, M.D., Ph.D., Chief Medical and Science Officer, West Wireless Health Institute, La Jolla, CA
  • Darrell M. West, Ph.D., Vice President and Director of Governance Studies, and Director, Center for Technology Innovation, Brookings Institution
  • David Cattell-Gordon, M.Div., MSW, Director, Rural Network Development, Co-Director, The Healthy Appalachia Institute, and Faculty, Public Health Sciences, Nursing, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA

  • Panel 2
  • William Cameron Powell, M.D., FACOG, President, Chief Medical Officer and Co-Founder, AirStrip Technologies, San Antonio, TX
  • Rick Cnossen, President and Chair, Board of Directors, Continua Health Alliance, and Director of Personal Health Enabling, Intel Corporation Digital Health Group, Hillsboro, OR
  • Kent E. Dicks, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, MedApps, Inc., Scottsdale, AZ
  • Huy Nguyen, M.D., Chief Executive Officer, Cogon Systems, Inc., Pensacola, FL
  • Dan Frank, Managing Partner, Three Wire Systems, LLC, Vienna, VA, Also on behalf of MHN, A Health Net Company, San Rafael, CA, on the VetAdvisor® Support Program
  • John Mize, Director, LifeWatch Federal, LifeWatch Services, Inc., Rosemont, IL

  • Panel 3
  • Kerry McDermott, MPH, Expert Advisor, Federal Communications Commission
  • Colonel Ronald Poropatich, M.D., USA, Deputy Director, Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center, U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, Department of the Army, U.S. Department of Defense
  • Gail Graham, Deputy Chief Officer, Health Information Management, Office of Health Information, Veterans Health Administration, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
  • Accompanied By:
  • Adam Darkins, M.D., MPHM, FRCS, Chief Consultant for Care Coordination, Office of Patient Care Services, Veterans Health Administration, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
  • James Breeling, Deputy Executive Director, Office of Information and Technology, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

  • Panel 4
  • Submissions for the Record 

  • Lincoln T. Smith, President and Chief Executive Officer, Altarum Institute, Ann Arbor, MI
  • Robert Bosch Healthcare, Inc., Palo Alto, CA
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