Best Buy to share story of mhealth product launch at VITAL 2010

Vital – The Consumer Digital Health Event is scheduled for Wednesday, October 6, 2010 at the JW Marriot in San Francisco. This one day interactive think tank brings together key stakeholders shaping the revolution in personal digital health technologies including health plans, providers, employers, retailers and innovators. These stakeholders join forces to evaluate consumer preferences, the future of personal mobile health technologies and the impact these technologies will have on health outcomes.

As Best Buy rolls out digital health devices in more than half of their stores nationwide, you can join us next month to hear more about this groundbreaking step in retail with:
• Sandra Elliott, Director of Consumer Health Technology, Meridian Health
• Kurt Hulander, Senior Director, Health Platform, Best Buy

This one day think tank will also feature:
• Thomas Goetz, Executive Editor, Wired Magazine, Author, "The Decision Tree: Taking Control of Your Health in the New Era of Personalized Medicine"
• Mitchel S. Harris, Director, Health Industries Advisory, PricewaterhouseCoopers
• Rick Cnossen, President and Chairman of the Board, Continua Health Alliance (invited)
• Monique Levy, Senior Director of Research, Manhattan Research
• Craig Lipset, Director, Health Technologies, Pfizer, Inc.
• Paul Puopolo, Director of Consumer Innovation, Humana
• Lynn Redington, DrPH, MBA, Senior Program Director, Center for Technology and Aging
• Kevin Riley, Vice President, Innovation and Consumer Health Solutions, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida
• Harry Wang, Director, Health and Mobile Product Research, Parks Associates