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