Description: This fireside chat will provide an overview of the data modernization and data exchange occurring in Defense Health Agency with electronic records and will also set the stage for the following panel discussion.
Holly Joers, Acting Program Executive Officer for the Program Executive Office, Defense Healthcare Management System
William Tinston, Director, Federal Electronic Health Record Modernization Office (FEHRM), Defense Health Agency
Description: This presentation will focus on the health information initiatives, standards, and exchange of health information being presented by the newly appointed Coordinator under the new Administration direction.
Micky Tripathi, PhD, Coordinator for Health Information Technology, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, Department of Health and Human Services
Combiz Abdolrahimi, Esq, Emerging Technology and Innovation Leader, Deloitte Consulting
Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, Chair of the Congressional Coronavirus Task Force
Description: As the White House sets vaccination goals and more accessible distribution pathways to obtain vaccines, the keynote will provide an overview of the process at hand, how to incorporate the primary care physician, challenges encountered and plans for the future.
Bechara Choucair, MD, Vaccination Coordinator, White House COVID-19 Response Team, Office of Chief of Staff, Executive Office of the President
Description: The keynote presentation will include an overview of the changes and enhancements made by Veterans Administration (VA) during the pandemic related to patient access, service and support; emerging technologies that improve operational support to both VA and the patient; innovations; and any improvements in data exchanges, internally and externally, and with Department of Defense. This presentation will also provide VA's planned strategies and improvements post pandemic.
Carolyn Clancy, MD, Acting Deputy Secretary, Department of Veterans Affairs
Case Study Presentation: HHS Waters Blckchain Platform: COVID-19 Immutable Test Results and Analysis
Description: The intent of the platform is to be an information superhighway for COVID-19 data, securing the information in a shared single source of truth through blockchain. This presentation will provide an overview of what the tool has accomplished to date.
Mark Rakhmilevich, Senior Director, Blockchain Product Management, Oracle
Dr. Kelly Blasco, Team Lead Mobile Health Clinical Integration, Defense Health Agency
As VA, DoD, and USCG continue to modernize their infrastructure and health data strategy, the agencies are investigating how to leverage the power of its large, collective data sets to help drive interoperability between federated and private data sources and develop more informed medical research and population health initiatives. This panel will discuss their vision to use data to predict and inform more responsive care designed to improve the quality of life for American Veterans and Service members. The panel will also discuss the health record data migration that is currently underway with each legacy health record. In addition, FEHRM will provide an overview of the health information exchange which is improving care via health record data sharing with community partners and providers as well as their vision for standardizing delivery of healthcare IT for federal agencies.
Julie Stoner, Vice President Government Services, Cerner, Moderator
Holy Joers, Acting Program Executive Officer for the Program Executive Office, Defense Healthcare Management Systems
Lance Scott, Assistant Program Manager, Interoperability and Data Systems Branch, Defense Healthcare Agency
John Short, Chief Technology and Integration Officer, Office of Electronic Health Record Modernization, Department of Veteran Affairs
William Tinston, Director, Federal Electronic Health Record Modernization Office (FEHRM), Defense Healthcare Agency
Case Study Number One: The convergence of accelerating technologies is enabling the re-invention of solutions across the healthcare continuum. XPRIZEs are designed to accelerate innovative solutions to audacious but achievable problems through competition and cooperation. The XPRIZE Pandemic Alliance was created with a number of industry and academic partners to share information, data, and research, to work together, and to get answers sooner and faster. This presentation will discuss the inception, design, and winners in the XPRIZE for Fast, Frequent, Cheap and Easy COVID-19 Testing and implications for leveraging incentive prize models across biomedicine.
Daniel Kraft, MD, Chair of XPRIZE Pandemic Alliance Task Force
Case Study Number Two: Health Prism The Health Prism tool, originally used for Opioids, had been re-engineered and deployed to help state decision makers better understand populations most at-risk for COVID-19 complications and hospitalizations. The Health Prism solution provides insight into inequities and disparities due to social determinants of health factors that are prevalent within a selected population. The case presentation will discuss how data is gathered, analyzed and utilized for COVID and how it will be used in the future.
Jamie Howgate, MD, Specialist Leader, Deloitte Consulting
Jonathan Jaffin, MD, Specialist Executive, Deloitte Consulting
Maggie Little, Health Prism Analyst, Deloitte Consulting
Description: The panel comprised of industry and government will discuss the current and future applications for technologies such as artificial intelligence, 5G, cloud-based applications and others related to supporting the ongoing pandemic and future digital health efforts. In addition, the panel will provide examples and outcomes of what emerging technologies are being used in today's health market.
Lisa Gardner, Senior Director, Business Development & Strategy, Leidos Health Group
Daniel Jernigan, MD, Acting Deputy Director for Public Science and Surveillance, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Department of Health and Human Services
Ben Lanius, Chief Executive Officer, HighPoint Global
Andrea Norris, Chief Information Officer, National Institute for Health, Department of Health and Human Services
Anindita Saha, Assistant Director, Digital Health Center of Excellence, Food and Drug Administration, Department of Health and Human Services
Sanjay Sardar, Senior Vice President Digital and IT Modernization, Strategic Growth and Innovations, SAIC
Brian Weaver, Senior Manager Business Development, Federal Healthcare Team, Verizon
Description: Health equity is achieved when every person has the opportunity to "attain his or her full health potential and no one is disadvantaged because of the social position or other socially determined circumstances". The panel will discuss the various inequities and how to achieve a true health equity by eliminating health disparities.
Elizabeth Smith, Senior Vice President, Maximus, Moderator
Joneigh Khaldun, MD, Chief Medical Executive for the State of Michigan and Chief Deputy Director for Health in the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. Member of the President's COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force
Dr. Kimberly Myers, Principal & Lead Client Service Partner for Health & Science Non-profit, Deloitte Consulting LLP
Secretary Courtney Phillips, MD, Louisiana Department of Health
Kyu Rhee, MD, Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Aetna at CVS Health
Case Study #1 - COVID-19 Outreach Digital Assistant (C.O.D.A.)
Description: The COVID-19 Digital Assistant is a chatbot that was created as a response to the pandemic. The Chatbot is an interactive tool that screens end users with CDC approve questions and provides recommended actions based on the responses. This case study will provide an overview of its current and future capabilities.
Swathi Young, Chief Technology Officer, Integrity Management Services
Case Study #2 - Intelligent Vaccine Impact Solution
Description: Google Cloud's Intelligent Vaccine Impact Solution is a set of core technologies to help regional and local governments deliver successful COVID-19 public health strategies, ranging from vaccine information and scheduling, to distribution and analytics, to forecasting and modeling COVID-19 cases, and more. This solution includes machine-learning that combines AI with a foundation of epidemiology.
Christopher Haas, Strategic Business Executive, Google
Description: The health of the U.S. population can be affected by public health threats or events across the globe. Improving global health in the U.S. and extending outreach and availability globally, by responding to infectious disease threats quick and more efficiently and by promoting health abroad, can foster stability and economic growth. This diverse panel will share what they are doing to foster improved health her in the U.S. and globally.
Dr. Anthony Cristillo, Senior Vice President, Health Information Systems for Medical Science & Computing, Moderator
Carla Cartwright, JD, Senior Director Global Regulatory and Digital Policy, Johnson and Johnson
Katie Fullerton, Senior Advisor for Surveillance and Data Modernization for CDC Deputy Director for Infectious Disease, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Department of Health and Human Services
Kody Kinsley, Operations Lead, DHHS COVID-19 Response, Chief Deputy Secretary for Health, North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services
Anthony Zolezzi, Chief Executive Officer, Diomics Company