William Crawford

Will has been developing web-based enterprise applications since 1995, including one of the first web-based electronic medical record systems and some of the first enterprise-level uses of Java. Somewhat more recently, he was the Director of the Informatics Solutions Group at Children’s Hospital Boston, where he and his team developed a wide variety of eHealth applications, from personal health records to EHR interfaces to research and collaboration tools.

Before returning to Children’s Hospital, Will was a policy staff member for eHealth issues at the US Department of Health and Human Services. He continues to be a thought leader in Personal Health Records, and has been involved with several high profile initiatives, advising Fortune 500 companies, the Federal Government, and launching the highly successful PCHRI conference series. Prior to his government career, Will was Principal Software Architect at Perceptive Informatics, Inc., and Chief Technology Officer of Invantage, Inc.

Will is the co-author of Java Servlet Programming, 2nd Edition, Java Enterprise in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition, and J2EE Design Patterns. He has a degree in history from Yale, an MBA from MIT and an MS from the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology – none of which prevents him from rolling up his sleeves when required.

Jonathan Abbett

Jonathan has leveraged his strong computer science background to create a systems approach to design: comprehensively integrating graphic design, behavioral design, code, and business strategy. The goal of his approach is nothing short of delighting users while simultaneously advancing discovery, increasing ROI, or saving lives.

Jonathan’s two-hatted perspective as a designer/developer helps him bridge the gap between idea and implementation, where many projects often stumble or fail.

For over five years, Jonathan designed and built web-based software for patients, healthcare providers, and researchers at Children’s Hospital Boston, including work on the open-source personal health record platform, Indivo. During his tenure, he jumpstarted the hospital’s first goal-directed research and design process.

His prior work includes the development of voice-driven, phone-based interfaces for interactive health communication, for which he shares a patent. In all, Jonathan’s experience spans the life of the web.

Evan Pankey

Evan aspires to blend his combined backgrounds in clinical medicine, human psychology, and information technology to rapidly improve healthcare delivery.

His passion for health care improvement emanates from unique experiences spanning two decades. Once a study subject in a longitudinal Johns Hopkins childhood asthma intervention. Evan has since been a researcher in a community based smoking cessation trial at the University of Kansas Medical Center and is currently a co-investigator in a women’s health study at Brigham & Women’s Hospital.

Evan is a graduate of Harvard Medical School, where he combined traditional clinical training with in-depth elective experiences in preventive medicine and clinical informatics. His graduate work includes hypertension research at Brigham & Women’s Department of General Medicine, development of a personal health record at Massachusetts General Hospital’s Laboratory of Computer Science (MGH LCS), and the design of stochastic models of clinical diagnostic decision support at MGH LCS and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Over the last two years, as a member of Beacon 16 and the Children’s Hospital Boston Informatics Solutions Group, Evan has worked collaboratively to combine his clinical, research and technology perspectives in the research, design and implementation of employer-based personally controlled health records, an innovative grant-writing professional networking application, a delirium prevention intervention, a HIPAA-compliant electronic research platform, and a ground-breaking pediatric provider portal.

Evan is the the co-author of several peer reviewed manuscripts and presentations.