An insider's view of the health and technology industry group's March 11–14 networking event in Portland, OR.

Continua Health Alliance, a nonprofit, open industry organization of healthcare and technology companies joining together to establish a system of interoperable personal connected health solutions, hosts quarterly summits to give participants an opportunity to meet face-to-face with alliance members, check out product demos, hear updates on the alliance's initiatives, and listen to keynotes by industry leaders. The spring 2013 summit was held in Continua's hometown of Portland, OR.

MD+DI editorial advisory board member Brad Thompson, a shareholder at law firm Epstein Becker & Green, was in the City of Roses for the event and documented it with his camera. 

The Oregon Maritime Museum’s steam sternwheeler Portland is moored at the Willamette River in downtown Portland’s Waterfront Park.

All week long I saw people walking around town with bright pink boxes of Voodoo donuts, but the line was never short enough for me to try one.

Clint McCellan (right), Continua Health Alliance's president and chair of the board of directors and senior director of strategic marketing for Qualcomm Life, demonstrates his company’s 2net Platform. The product is a cloud-based system designed to be universally-interoperable with different medical devices and applications, enabling end-to-end wireless connectivity while allowing medical device users and their physicians or caregivers to easily access biometric data.

Continua hosted demonstrations of member products. Here attendees get a good look at Vignet's platform, designed to offer the capability to connect to any wireless device—with the goal of empowered care management with minimal cost to the patient and caregiver.

A closer look at the devices that can connect to the Vignet platform.

Brad Thompson is a member of Epstein Becker & Green in the healthcare and life sciences practice in the firm's Washington, DC, office. There, he counsels medical device and drug companies on a wide range of FDA regulatory, reimbursement, and clinical trial issues. For trade associations, Mr. Thompson serves as counsel to AdvaMed for payment issues, as general counsel to the Combination Products Coalition, and as counsel and secretary for the Indiana Medical Device Manufacturers Council. He has taught food and drug law as an adjunct professor at the Indiana University School of Law. He also serves as cochair of the food and drug law committee of the administrative law section of the American Bar Association. Mr. Thompson earned a BA cum laude and an MBA from the University of Illinois, and received his JD cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School. He was included in MD&DI's 100 Notable People in the Medical Device Industry in June 2004 and has been named a "SuperLawyer" in Indiana. He has been a member of MD&DI's Editorial Advisory Board since 1993.

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