Martin Pellinat, Chief Executive Officer and Founder, VisionTree Systems

VisionTree is filling in the cracks of health care communications. They’re replacing paper in the communications between patients and doctors in teaching hospitals across the nation, managing multi-site and multi-national clinical trials, and allowing doctors to manage their referral networks. Martin founded the company but you might still bump into him if you make a random visit to UCSF or UCLA.

Ryan Howard, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Practice Fusion

Practice Fusion offers a free ad-supported SaaS-based EMR and practice management system for docs. Ryan founded the company four years ago and they’ve grown to nearly 40,000 users (including 20,000 physicians). In 2010 cloud-computing giant Salesforce.com invested, and PracticeFusion has rolled out sharing and patient-facing applications.

Matt Parker, Vice President, DestinationRx

Matt has been at DestinationRx since 2002, and things really got wild when they won the contract for the price comparison system for Medicare Part D. Here Matt shows us how he developed the Rxaminer therapeutic alternatives product line, and launched the Medicare.gov Plan Finder website and Online Enrollment Center.

Daniel Palestrant, MD & CEO, Sermo

Daniel Palestrant, MD, CEO and Founder of Sermo, demonstrates how the company has brought together thousands of physicians discussing (and voting on) hundreds of clinical cases, and how the data is utilized.

Hugo Stephenson, CEO & Founder, iGuard

Here Hugo speaks about the companies’ expansive service. Launched in 2007, iGuard (now called MediGuard) has over 1.5 million members who benefit from receiving information about interactions and recalls, and are also being recruited for clinical trials and even genomics studies.

Mark Walinske, CEO, Boundary Medical

Mark Walinske is the CEO of Boundary Medical, a company that fulfills a gap of transformation type data by measuring patient reported clinical and functional outcomes both inclusive of the physican as well as the patient. Mark talks about the app they built that is versatile and easy to use.

Jamie Heywood, Co-Founder & Chairman, PatientsLikeMe

Jamie Heywood, the Co-Founder and Chairman of PatientsLikeMe, shares how patient data collection, analysis and presentation have brought together 45,000 users who are tracking and sharing information about 19 conditions in a radically open way.

During this Deep Dive, Dr. Danny Sands and Shawn Carrigan from Cisco will highlight Cisco’s vision for healthcare, and then demonstrate how WebEx for Healthcare helps improve care by eliminating distance as a barrier.

Esther Dyson, chairman of EDventure Holdings, discusses the interaction of Health care and Health 2.0 at Health 2.0’s Spring Fling 2010 in Washington DC.