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Interactive Health Technologies, which develops digital fitness systems, is putting Sony's NFC Dynamic Tag to work in school gym programs, enabling the tracking and evaluation of students' physical activity.

Digitized health data is the first step toward better care, and a range of technologies are emerging to integrate that data so it can be put to better use.

The chief of the cardiology department at 400-bed Boca Raton Regional Hospital in Florida has developed software for controlling heart devices remotely using an iPad. The hospital's executives say the technology could revolutionize the way physicians reprogram pacemakers.

Open Health Tools, a multi-stakeholder open source community whose chief health informatics officer is Robert M. Kolodner, MD, the former national coordinator, is joining with the Georgia Institute of Technology on a public-private initiative designed to accelerate the adoption of health information technology.

Whether the doctor or the patient will be the driving force behind mobile healthcare, remains debatable after a spirited discussion Tuesday at mHealth Summit in the nation's capital.

Lynne Thomas Gordon: AHIMA CEO Previously associate vice president for hospital operations and director of the Children’s Hospital at Rush University Medical Center, Chicago Rush University faculty, health systems management, graduate program

Robert M. Tennant: Senior policy advisor, MGMA Focused on federal legislative and regulatory health information technology issues

Mac McMillan: President and CEO of CynergisTek Chair of the HIMSS Privacy & Security Steering Committee Former Chair of the HIMSS Information Systems Security Working Group

Dogu Celebi: Chief medical officer, payer and government solutions at OptumInsight Formerly developed disease and care management programs for CIGNA

George C. Halvorson: Chairman, CEO of Kaiser Permanente Convened the Care Connectivity Consortium Member of the Institute of Medicine Roundtable on Value & Science-Driven Health Care