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


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