GE Healthymagination

At GE, we realize that impacting health is complex. Collaboration is essential to identifying the best ideas and driving innovation that results in meaningful change. Inside GE, we are creating a healthy work environment that helps employees make healthy choices at work and at home while keeping healthcare costs low. In our communities, such as Cincinnati, Ohio, we are collaborating with community leaders and other local corporations to catalyze citywide, comprehensive approaches to reducing costs and improving quality of and access to care. We are committed to building lasting success that leads to better health for more people. GE works to help cure the world.

Kaiser Permanente

The Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health

The Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health is an interactive learning destination for the public, policymakers and the health care industry. Located near Union Square in Washington, D.C., the center is a place for the nation to gather to discuss the future of health care, and demonstrate what Kaiser Permanente and others have done and are doing to advance health care in the United States. 
Sharing best practices, telling stories of innovation through voices of patients, community members and clinicians, and creating new venues to learn from others and collaborate, Kaiser Permanente is continuing to improve the health of its members and the communities it serves.

What is Total Health?

Johnson & Johnson

Caring for the world, one person at a time... inspires and unites the people of Johnson & Johnson. We embrace research and science - bringing innovative ideas, products and services to advance the health and well-being of people. Employees of the Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies work with partners in health care to touch the lives of over a billion people every day, throughout the world. Johnson & Johnson has become the world’s largest and most broadly based healthcare company.  Our Family of Companies comprises:

• The world’s sixth-largest consumer health company
• The world’s largest and most diverse medical devices and diagnostics company
• The world’s fifth-largest biologics company
• And the world’s eighth-largest pharmaceuticals company

We have more than 250 operating companies in 60 countries employing approximately 114,000 people. Our worldwide headquarters is in New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA.

In 2013, Johnson & Johnson celebrates 127 years of caring and the 70th anniversary of Our Credo, the values that guide our decision making.  Crafted by founding chairman, Robert Wood Johnson, put simply, Our Credo challenges us to put the needs and well-being of the people we serve first.  Our Credo is more than just a moral compass. We believe it’s a recipe for business success. The fact that Johnson & Johnson is one of only a handful of companies that have flourished through more than a century of change is proof of that. 

Panasonic

Panasonic designs and manufactures a variety of medical devices and systems for both consumer and clinical uses, from blood glucose monitors, heart rate/blood pressure cuffs, vital signs monitors and hearing aids to high-performance ultrasound, high resolution imagers and displays, and hospital healthcare robots, convertible bed-wheelchairs, and lightweight but ruggedized computer tablets. And for some fifty years it has also built and operated retirement and assisted living communities providing basic, accessible support as well as advanced healthcare facilities to their residents. Panasonic is proud to support TEDMED in seeking ever more effective ways to support individuals and the healthcare community in the diagnosis, development and delivery of successful healthcare solutions.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

As the nation's largest philanthropy devoted solely to the public's health, we have a unique capability and responsibility to confront the most pressing health and health care problems threatening our society. Our efforts focus on improving both the health of everyone in America and their health care—how it's delivered, how it's paid for, and how well it does for patients and their families. As we invest in improving systems through which people receive care and in fostering environments that promote health and prevent disease and injury, we expect to achieve comprehensive, meaningful, and timely change.

We are guided by a fundamental premise: we are stewards of private funds that must be used in the public's interest. Our greatest asset isn't our endowment; it's the way we help create leverage for change.

We create leverage by building evidence and producing, synthesizing and distributing knowledge, new ideas, and expertise. We harness the power of partnerships by bringing together key players, collaborating with colleagues, and securing the sustained commitment of other funders and advocates to improve the health and health care of all Americans.

Target

Better Health for All
We aim to help our guests, team members and their families reach their well-being goals by providing convenient, healthy choices at affordable prices. Learn more about our resources, partnership and support in the following areas:

• Healthy communities
• Healthy products
• Health care services
• Team member well-being

What we stand for:

A legacy of giving and service
Supporting communities through giving has always been a cornerstone of our business and a belief that guides so many of our decisions. Each year, we’ve given 5 percent of our profit to communities, which adds up to more than $4 million each week. We also believe that donating our time, talent and resources is equally important as the income we give. Our team members give hundreds of thousands of hours volunteering in their communities every year.

Strong, healthy, safe communities
In order to build the strong, healthy and safe communities we want for our team members and guests, we work closely with partners and organizations. In fact, we've challenged ourselves to meet corporate responsibility goals in the areas of education, environment, team member well-being and volunteerism. These goals will be our road map in the years to come.

A great place to work
We’re devoted to helping our more than 365,000 team members throughout the world live well and achieve their goals, knowing that their diverse perspectives, talents and commitment make both our company and our communities the best they can be. We support team members’ paths to health and well-being through resources, services and benefits programs for eligible team members, spouses, domestic partners and other dependents. And we develop leaders and invest in team members’ futures through career development and networking opportunities.

Xerox

Healthcare today must deal with two businesses in one: taking care of people, while taking care of the bottom line. No one understands this better than Xerox. By applying our deep healthcare expertise and heritage of innovation expertise across virtually every member of the healthcare ecosystem – providers and payers, employers and government agencies, we help you focus on what matters: the real business of improving people’s lives. When healthcare is more accessible, affordable and delivered with higher quality, it leads to better health and wellness for everyone. Headquartered in Norwalk, Conn., we are the world’s leading enterprise for business process and document management with 140,000 people serving clients in 160 countries, and generating nearly $23 billion in annual revenue. Teaming with us, healthcare professionals optimize resources and re-engineer healthcare data management processes. We help identify new ways to work, transforming patient data and documents into intelligence that colleagues can access and share seamlessly. This helps healthcare professionals make more informed decisions that drive healthy patient outcomes and foster business success. For more information about us, visit www.xerox.com/freedomtocare.

The California Endowment

Level 3

Effective healthcare requires actionable information and collaboration.  Providing the healthcare ecosystem with secure, reliable and powerful communications solutions drives us.  Level 3 is dedicated to improving access to critical information and enhancing care quality.  We’re thankful to partner with TEDMED 2013.

nurture by Steelcase

We are surrounded by a vast range of environments and situations as part of our lifelong health and wellness journeys. Sometimes we have control over a portion of that environment. But more often, we rely on others to make decisions on our behalf before we arrive. What should a hospital room look like? How should an infusion bay feel? Where will my family sit and rest while I am undergoing treatments?

Nurture by Steelcase brings insight-led design to those important healthcare moments where people, technology and space come together. We observe real-life connections between clinicians and patients to anticipate their needs within physical environments. We encourage you to join us at TEDMED 2012 to bring the future of healthcare to everyone and every place.

Fitbit

Fitbit is dedicated to helping people lead healthier, more active lives. We take a common sense approach to fitness, and believe that the key is to make it easier for consumers to be more active, eat smarter, and get enough sleep — in short, that small changes to your daily routine can add up to big results. To that end, we aim to create innovative, inspiring products and online services that harness the power of new technologies to make people more aware of their everyday activities and motivate them to do more.

The Breakaway Group

The Breakaway Group, A Xerox Company, is committed to making a difference in healthcare.

We aim to literally “change the game” in terms of how healthcare professionals choose to develop new skills in their quest to adopt technologies in Healthcare. In the near future we will have educated over 1 million healthcare professionals using our research-based method. When we reach this important milestone we believe the associated results will propel healthcare leaders to change the way they approach IT implementations and their overall expectations of long-term adoption.



In pursuit of our mission, we help healthcare professionals adopt new software applications faster and more effectively than ever imagined.

• In the process we’re giving back critical time for providers to care for patients;
• We’re guiding clinicians and support staff toward measured levels of proficiency and confidence;
• We’re helping healthcare executives achieve needed financial outcomes;
• And we are reducing the overall stress on those undertaking the implementation of technologies in healthcare.

Mars incorporated

In 1911, Frank C. Mars made the first Mars candies in his Tacoma, Washington kitchen and established Mars’ roots as a confectionery company.  In the 1920s, Forrest E. Mars, Sr. joined his father in business and together they launched the MILKY WAY® bar. In 1932, Forrest, Sr. moved to the United Kingdom with a dream of  building a business based on the objective of creating a “mutuality of benefits for all stakeholders” – this objective serves as the foundation of Mars, Incorporated today. Based in McLean, Virginia, Mars has net sales of more than $30 billion, six business segments including Petcare, Chocolate, Wrigley, Food, Drinks, Symbioscience, and more than 70,000 Associates worldwide that are putting its Principles into action to make a difference for people and the planet through its performance.

Cisco

Use the Power of In-Person Collaboration
How do you promote bigger ideas and better innovation? Make it easy for your experts to put their heads together. Cisco TelePresence offers the easiest, most dynamic way for dispersed teams to get together. It's where talent and technology meet.

Not only can you bring experts together to solve problems on the fly, but you can also use the power of TelePresence to unify your supply chain, provide highly engaged customer service, train remote teams, and more. Think beyond the boardroom. Transform your business processes with Cisco TelePresence.

Cisco TelePresence helps you:

Make the Best Use of Employee Time
Frequent video participants report saving at least two hours weekly, with one-third reporting at least one day saved per week.Telepresence solutions have helped them save money, improve work-life balance, increase their competitive advantage, and bring people closer together.

Speed Decision Making
Accelerate business-critical decision making, shorten sales cycles, reduce time to market, and create new forums for collaboration.

Cut Travel Costs
Many customers reduce their business travel by 30 percent or more when implementing TelePresence. In fact, the cost of two international business trips will pay for a video conferencing system. Trygvesta, a large Nordic insurance company with 2 million customers, reduced travel from 180 to 130 trips per month, saving at least $120,000.

Consider the Opportunity Costs
The true cost of travel is not just a plane ticket and hotel. Time on the road could be spent being more productive, bringing new products to market, reducing repair time, or meeting with more clients. 

Transform Business Processes
TelePresence makes it easy for teams to collaborate, innovate, and resolve issues. Now you can bring those benefits to customer service, supply chain management, and training; redefine best practices; and accelerate ROI even more.

Be Greener
Here is another way to reduce CO2 emissions: 100 employees using video once a week instead of commuting would save the equivalent of a forest the size of five football fields.

How to Get Started
We can help you select the right applications and solutions to support your specific business strategy and business models. Cisco can also work with your IT staff to set up pilot programs within important departments. You will be making a transformation to the new way to work on a foundation of quality, reliability, and interoperability across industry standards.

Learn More about the value of Telepresence in Your Industry

Level 3

Effective healthcare requires actionable information and collaboration.  Providing the healthcare ecosystem with secure, reliable and powerful communications solutions drives us.  Level 3 is dedicated to improving access to critical information and enhancing care quality.  We’re thankful to partner with TEDMED 2013.

Booz | Allen | Hamilton

Booz Allen Hamilton is a leading provider of management and technology consulting services to the U.S. government in defense, intelligence, and civil markets, and to major corporations, institutions, and not-for-profit organizations. Booz Allen combines deep technical knowledge with expertise in each client’s core mission to deliver proven results.

As the needs of our clients have grown more complex, Booz Allen has expanded beyond its management consulting foundation to develop deep expertise in technology, engineering, and analytics. Today and into the future, powerful ideas embrace both strategy and technology. Booz Allen Hamilton’s technical, engineering and analytic excellence is backed by strategy, which enables our clients to rest assured that their solution will meet the full mission and business.

Kaiser Permanente

The Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health

The Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health is an interactive learning destination for the public, policymakers and the health care industry. Located near Union Square in Washington, D.C., the center is a place for the nation to gather to discuss the future of health care, and demonstrate what Kaiser Permanente and others have done and are doing to advance health care in the United States. 
Sharing best practices, telling stories of innovation through voices of patients, community members and clinicians, and creating new venues to learn from others and collaborate, Kaiser Permanente is continuing to improve the health of its members and the communities it serves.

What is Total Health?

Johnson & Johnson

Caring for the world, one person at a time... inspires and unites the people of Johnson & Johnson. We embrace research and science - bringing innovative ideas, products and services to advance the health and well-being of people. Employees of the Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies work with partners in health care to touch the lives of over a billion people every day, throughout the world. Johnson & Johnson has become the world’s largest and most broadly based healthcare company.  Our Family of Companies comprises:

• The world’s sixth-largest consumer health company
• The world’s largest and most diverse medical devices and diagnostics company
• The world’s fifth-largest biologics company
• And the world’s eighth-largest pharmaceuticals company

We have more than 250 operating companies in 60 countries employing approximately 114,000 people. Our worldwide headquarters is in New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA.

In 2013, Johnson & Johnson celebrates 127 years of caring and the 70th anniversary of Our Credo, the values that guide our decision making.  Crafted by founding chairman, Robert Wood Johnson, put simply, Our Credo challenges us to put the needs and well-being of the people we serve first.  Our Credo is more than just a moral compass. We believe it’s a recipe for business success. The fact that Johnson & Johnson is one of only a handful of companies that have flourished through more than a century of change is proof of that. 

Panasonic

Panasonic designs and manufactures a variety of medical devices and systems for both consumer and clinical uses, from blood glucose monitors, heart rate/blood pressure cuffs, vital signs monitors and hearing aids to high-performance ultrasound, high resolution imagers and displays, and hospital healthcare robots, convertible bed-wheelchairs, and lightweight but ruggedized computer tablets. And for some fifty years it has also built and operated retirement and assisted living communities providing basic, accessible support as well as advanced healthcare facilities to their residents. Panasonic is proud to support TEDMED in seeking ever more effective ways to support individuals and the healthcare community in the diagnosis, development and delivery of successful healthcare solutions.

Xerox

Healthcare today must deal with two businesses in one: taking care of people, while taking care of the bottom line. No one understands this better than Xerox. By applying our deep healthcare expertise and heritage of innovation expertise across virtually every member of the healthcare ecosystem – providers and payers, employers and government agencies, we help you focus on what matters: the real business of improving people’s lives. When healthcare is more accessible, affordable and delivered with higher quality, it leads to better health and wellness for everyone. Headquartered in Norwalk, Conn., we are the world’s leading enterprise for business process and document management with 140,000 people serving clients in 160 countries, and generating nearly $23 billion in annual revenue. Teaming with us, healthcare professionals optimize resources and re-engineer healthcare data management processes. We help identify new ways to work, transforming patient data and documents into intelligence that colleagues can access and share seamlessly. This helps healthcare professionals make more informed decisions that drive healthy patient outcomes and foster business success. For more information about us, visit www.xerox.com/freedomtocare.

The California Endowment

Royalty Pharma

Since its inception in 1996, Royalty Pharma has expanded the traditional parameters that define a pharmaceutical company. By focusing on intellectual property - the key to premium pricing and profits in the pharmaceutical industry - Royalty Pharma has become the global leader in the acquisition of royalty interests. Royalty Pharma has assembled a well-diversified and well-balanced portfolio of royalties in leading biopharmaceutical products achieving rapid and profitable growth with a managed risk profile.

The origins of Royalty Pharma can be traced to the 1980s when certain members of Royalty Pharma’s Investment Committee and Management Team pioneered the use of royalty interests to fund the clinical development of several leading biotechnology products through “Research & Development Partnerships.” In 1993 and 1994, when these R&D partnerships started earning royalties, two product-specific "proof of principle" acquisition vehicles were established to acquire royalty interests in Neupogen® and ReoPro®. The success of those efforts led to the founding in 1996 of Royalty Pharma’s predecessors: Pharmaceutical Royalties, LLC (Delaware, USA) and Pharmaceutical Royalty Investments, Ltd. (Bermuda). Subsequently in 2003, Royalty Pharma was established as an Irish Unit Trust, to consolidate the operations of its predecessors and to facilitate a new business model for the Company. 

Florida Blue

Florida Blue has a long history of providing health-related solutions. Today, the focus remains primarily in the health industry, but Florida Blue is more than a health insurer. In response to a vastly changing marketplace, Florida Blue is involved with companies to meet the diverse needs of the health industry overall.

Through the parent company, its family of subsidiaries and joint ventures, Florida Blue offers a broad choice of affordable products and services. It also actively collaborates to find innovative solutions that address key consumer concerns such as costs, care access and health information technology. 

Understanding and having a position on the issues and related laws, bills, regulations, and/or governmental proposals that affect the health care and insurance industry, our family of companies, and most importantly, our members, is something Florida Blue takes seriously.

The organization responds to these external forces in a proactive way by meeting directly with lawmakers, regulators, trade associations and nationally recognized public policy leaders, giving them our position - and the facts to back them up - on the issues at hand. It also engages members and other consumers to communicate with their representatives the impact proposed legislation would have on their families, their businesses and their employees. 

Cancer Treatment Centers of America

We have been fighting complex and advanced cancer for decades with Care That Never Quits®

At Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA), we believe there isn't one way to beat cancer - there are hundreds. For nearly 30 years, we've been committed to finding the right combination of personalized cancer treatments for our patients.

Together with you and your caregivers, we develop an integrated treatment plan that's right for you. A dedicated team of oncologists, surgeons and other specialists deliver advanced cancer treatment - including safer, more effective radiation therapy; new targeted drug therapies; and minimally invasive surgical alternatives. At the same time, we support you with therapies to boost your immune system, reduce pain and improve quality of life.

Our national network of fully-accredited hospitals earned the Full Standards Compliance from the Joint Commission. Each hospital provides state-of-the-art cancer care in a welcoming environment, where you and your family can focus on healing.

At CTCA, we never give up. We give you advanced treatment options, so you can take control of the disease.

Celgene

Celgene is a global biopharmaceutical company committed to improving the lives of patients worldwide.

At Celgene, we seek to deliver truly innovative and life-changing drugs for our patients. Our mission as a company is to build a major global biopharmaceutical corporation while focusing on the discovery, the development, and the commercialization of products for the treatment of cancer and other severe, immune, inflammatory conditions.

There are more than 300 clinical trials at major medical centers using compounds from Celgene. Investigational compounds are being studied for patients with incurable hematological and solid tumor cancers, including multiple myeloma, myelodysplastic syndromes, chronic lymphocyte leukemia (CLL), non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL), myelofibrosis, small cell lung cancer and prostate cancer.

As committed as we are to clinical accomplishment, we are equally committed to patient support, which is a guiding principle at Celgene. We believe all who can benefit from our discoveries should have the opportunity to do so. Celgene puts patients first with industry-leading programs that provide information, support and access to our innovative therapies.

Our History
Explore Celgene's history - from our modest beginnings to our current position as a globally integrated and culturally diverse biopharmaceutical company.

Our People
Celgene employs more than 4,500 employees worldwide. Learn about the values that define our people.

World Map
Our commitment to patients extends around the world. Find a comprehensive listing of domestic and international Celgene offices.

Intellectual Property
Discover Celgene's deep and diverse intellectual property portfolio - a variety of novel scientific targets and approaches.

Level 3

Effective healthcare requires actionable information and collaboration.  Providing the healthcare ecosystem with secure, reliable and powerful communications solutions drives us.  Level 3 is dedicated to improving access to critical information and enhancing care quality.  We’re thankful to partner with TEDMED 2013.

nurture

• ELEVATE
  Nurture by Steelcase is committed to understanding the ways in which the physical design of our environments influence human wellness. From the design of acute care patient rooms, to the design of our workplaces and our homes, environments can be tools for healing if we make the right choices. Our cultural and often unconscious connections to the space around us require a systemic, yet uniquely human approach to creating our surroundings. 
  
  ENERGIZE
  In collaborating with TEDMED on designing social spaces, Nurture by Steelcase accessed our years of user-centered research on the ways in which people connect through space and information. Our goal: To encourage connections in spaces that invited serendipitous meetings.  We also designed spaces to offer Delegates an appreciation for the subtle ways in which physical environments color human experiences. Understanding is the first step of the design process – often defining the problem in a new, evocative way.  
  
  ENGAGE
  Asking the right questions can empower anyone to become a design thinker – to see the world differently today with hopes of impacting our future. To this end, Nurture by Steelcase created a space for asking micro-questions as a way for Delegates to find a personal starting point. 
  By tapping into the multiple ways people learn and digest information, the space gave Delegates a chance to use various modes for reflection and connection.
  
  - Delegates who visited the Nurture by Steelcase space and tried on the Ford Third Age Suit – which simulates the aging process –became storytellers for the role of empathy in design. 
  
  - Other Delegates chose to leave messages or questions on a chalkboard-gathering table recounting their impressions on the tremendous thinking from the TEDMED stage. Making inspiration visible helps to make it doable. 
  
  - All Delegates were invited to take a mini-question tile home to continue the conversation, and to photograph visual cues as inspiration for the role objects and spaces could play in the future of health and medicine. 

The Breakaway Group

WHERE DOES HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MEET THE BIG PICTURE FOR HEALTH AND MEDICINE?

The Healthcare Forum and TEDMED.
The best of both worlds.

Imagine enjoying a full day of practical, tech-focused conversations with peers among America’s most influential healthcare executives, technologists and educators, discussing the industry’s most pressing issues and the most innovative HIT solutions.

This one-day event is our famous annual Healthcare Forum. It’s where the top 100 healthcare executives are brought together by The Breakaway Group. Now imagine that after the Forum stretches our minds, we’re not done ... we all join together and walk over to the most exciting health technology “retreat” in the entire world — TEDMED.

We have created a special partnership between the Healthcare Forum and TEDMED. That’s why the Healthcare Forum moved from Denver to Washington, DC, becoming part of TEDMED while retaining its own identity.

The Forum offers an intimate experience of one-on-one networking and speakers who specialize in the future of Health Information Technology.  TEDMED attracts thinkers and doers, from across disciplines, seeking to create a better future in health and medicine.  Combined, it’s an experience like no other.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

The Great Challenges Program is made possible by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

The Great Challenges of Health and Medicine are complex, persistent problems that have medical and non-medical causes, impact millions of lives, and affect the well-being of all of America – beginning with patients, and extending to families and citizens everywhere.

These knotty problems are not susceptible to simple cures, magic bullets or “one-size-fits-all” solutions because they stem from broad, interlocking social, economic and psychological sources as well as from medical or scientific triggers. What’s more, each challenge creates multiple, overlapping effects that may cut across all sectors of society.

The mission of TEDMED’s Great Challenges Program is not to solve these complex problems. Instead, we propose to provide America and the world with an unbiased and broadly inclusive view of these challenges, incorporating thoughtful, multidisciplinary perspectives.

TEDMED believes that through an open, ongoing dialog with our intellectually diverse community, we can move toward a broad-based understanding of each challenge. Such an understanding can, in turn, set the stage for truly effective action.

The Great Challenges Program encourages everyone’s input. Doctors, scientists and researchers, of course – also technology innovators, business and government leaders, patients, legal experts, representatives of the armed forces, and the media. Quite simply, if you have a stake to protect…an idea to contribute…or a cause to promote, we want to hear from you!

To learn more about how the program works, click here.