Tuesday, August 15
9:15 AM – 9:45 AM: Welcome/Opening Remarks
- Steven Posnack, MS, MHS, Director, Office of Standards and Technology, ONC
- Don Rucker, MD, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
9:45 AM – 11:00 AM: Interoperability Context in 2017: Business Cases and Information Blocking
- John Fleming, MD, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health Technology Reform, ONC
- Elise Sweeney Anthony, JD, Director, Office of Policy, ONC
- John Heil, CEO, Imalogix
- Jordan Everson, Associate Professor, Vanderbilt University
11:00 AM – 11:15 AM: Break
11:15 AM – 12:30 PM: Semantics: Progress, Challenges, and the Hard Problems Still Yet to Solve
- Jamie Ferguson, Vice President, Health IT Strategy & Policy, Kaiser Permanente (moderator)
- Swapna Abhyankar, Associate Director of Content Development for LOINC, Regenstrief Institute
- Keith Campbell, Director of Informatics Architecture, U.S. Veterans Health Administration
- Stan Huff, MD, Chief Medical Informatics Officer, Intermountain Healthcare
- Robert McClure, MD, Owner/President, MD Partners
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM: Lunch Break
1:30 PM – 3:00 PM: Interoperability Networks and Nationwide Infrastructure
- Micky Tripathi, President & Chief Executive Officer, Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative (moderator)
- Eric Heflin, Chief Technology Officer / Chief Information Officer, The Sequoia Project/Texas Health Services Authority (representing Sequoia)
- Luis C. Maas III, MD, PhD, Chief Technology Officer, EMR Direct
- David Kendrick, Chief Executive Officer, SHIEC, MyHealth Access Network
- Chas Fuller, Director of Product Development, RelayHealth (now Change Healthcare) representing the CommonWell Health Alliance
- Monica Farah-Stapleton, PhD, Chief Engineer, PM DHMSM, DoD/VA Interagency Program Office (IPO)
- Tara Dragert, Director, Product Innovation, Clinical Interoperability Services, Surescripts, LLC
3:00 PM – 3:15 PM: Break
3:15 PM – 4:30 PM: Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) + Patient and Provider Applications (Apps)
- Stanley Crane, CTO, InteliSys Health (moderator)
- Dan Gottlieb, Technical Lead, SMART Health IT Project, Boston Children's Hospital
- Vik Kheterpal, MD, Principal, CareEvolution, Inc.
- Laura Heermann Langford, Chief Operating Officer, Healthcare Services Platform Consortium (HSPC)
- Janet Campbell, Vice President of Patient Experience, Epic
4:30 PM – 5:30 PM: Third Party Uses: Data Availability, Aggregation, and Services
- Wayne Kubick, Chief Technology Officer, HL7 (moderator)
- Scott Iverson, Chief Operating Officer, Optum Clinical Solutions
- Nijay Patel, Senior Vice President of Product, Redox
- Adam Aaseby, Chief Information Officer and Assistant Director of the Division of Enterprise Technology Services, Washington State Health Care Authority
- Tim Pletcher, Executive Director, Michigan Health Information Network Shared Services (MiHIN)
- Joe Miller, Director of IS Strategy and Innovation, The AmeriHealth Caritas Family of Companies (in place of Andrea Gelzer, MD, Senior Vice President & Corporate Chief Medical Officer)
5:30 PM: Adjourn Day 1
- Steven Posnack, MS, MHS, Director, Office of Standards and Technology, ONC
Wednesday, August 16
9:15 AM – 9:30 AM: Opening Remarks
- Steven Posnack, MS, MHS, Director, Office of Standards and Technology, ONC
9:30 AM – 10:45 AM: Fit for Purpose? Identifying the Right Standard(s) for the Right Job
- Hans Buitendijk, Director, Interoperability - Industry Strategy, Cerner (moderator)
- Keith Boone, Principal Architect and Product Manager, Interoperability for Clinical Business Solutions, GE Healthcare
- Walter Suarez, Executive Director, Health IT Strategy and Policy, Kaiser Permanente
- Carolin Spice, Manager of Clinical Program Evaluation and Analysis, University of Washington
- Dirk Stanley, Chief Medical Information Officer, UConn Health
- Phillip Burgher, Director of Software Development, Data Platforms and MIPS, Philips
10:45 AM – 11:00 AM: Break
11:00 AM – 12:15 PM: Addressing Interoperability Needs Across the Care Continuum
- Andrew Wiesenthal, Director, Deloitte Consulting (moderator)
- Terry O'Malley, Physician, Massachusetts General Hospital, Partners Healthcare System
- Leslie Kelly Hall, Consulting Executive, Policy, Healthwise
- Lisa R. Nelson, Medical Informatics Consultant, Life Over Time Solutions, LLC
- Dan Levene, Director, Cerner Behavioral Health, Cerner
12:15 PM – 1:00 PM: Summary Panel: Reactions and Reflections
- John Halamka, Chief Information Officer, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (moderator)
- Clem McDonald, Director, Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- Walter Sujansky, MD PhD, President, Sujansky Associates
- Aneesh Chopra, President, CareJourney
1:00 PM – 1:30 PM: Open public comments
1:30 PM: Closing
- Steven Posnack, MS, MHS, Director, Office of Standards and Technology, ONC