Duncan McKechnie, VP and Head of Cardiovascular and Cross-Cultural Marketing at Novartis, announces the Novartis CardioEngagement Challenge to create an interactive solution which enables patients to better manage their cardiovascular health through a customizable, user-friendly interface. The solution should be holistic and help organize and provide easy access to personalized health information, relevant public data, and aggregated content (ie education, treatment, diet, exercise and social network).  The goal is to empower patients to easily and effectively manage their cardiovascular health.

We talked with Zina Moukheiber of Forbes about the biggest challenges, trends and developments in health care technology at the Health 2.0 San Francisco 2011 Fall Conference.

We talked with Yishai Knobel, Director of Mobile Health at AgaMatrix, about the biggest challenges, trends and developments in health care technology at the Health 2.0 San Francisco 2011 Fall Conference.

We talked with Will Yu, Special Assistant at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, about the biggest challenges, trends and developments in health care technology at the Health 2.0 San Francisco 2011 Fall Conference.

We talked with Will Barkis of the National Science Foundation about the biggest challenges, trends and developments in health care technology at the Health 2.0 San Francisco 2011 Fall Conference.

We talked with West Shell, CEO at Healthline, about the biggest challenges, trends and developments in health care technology at the Health 2.0 San Francisco 2011 Fall Conference.

We talked with Wendy Lynch, Founder of Lynch Consulting, about the biggest challenges, trends and developments in health care technology at the Health 2.0 San Francisco 2011 Fall Conference.

We talked with Tom Goetz, Founder of One Plus One Labs, about the biggest challenges, trends and developments in health care technology at the Health 2.0 San Francisco 2011 Fall Conference.

We talked with Tod Fetherling, Chairman and Founder at Stratasan, about the biggest challenges, trends and developments in health care technology at the Health 2.0 San Francisco 2011 Fall Conference.