Thank you for attending and making this year memorable

This year’s annual meeting in San Diego, CA was a huge success, and we can’t thank our participants enough. eHealth Exchange is nothing without its participants, and we appreciate your continued commitment to the eHealth Exchange. We’d also like to thank this year’s speakers and panelists who generously gave up their time to provide us with insightful presentations and discussions. Please take some time to view this year’s session videos or download the presentation slides below. 

Meeting Agenda

Session

1

Welcome and Opening Remarks

Duration: 30 Minutes

eHealth Exchange Coordinating Committee Chair will open the annual meeting with the Coordinating Committee’s perspective of the network, including progress highlights and the path ahead.

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Coordinating Committee Chair
Dr. Matthew Eisenberg
Stanford Health Care

Matthew A Eisenberg MD FAAP

Associate Chief Medical Information Officer - Stanford Health Care

Dr. Matthew A. Eisenberg joined Stanford Health Care in early 2013 and is the Associate Chief Medical Information Officer. Stanford Health Care is a not-for-profit academic healthcare system with leading edge clinical capabilities that is part of Stanford Medicine. Stanford Health Care seeks to heal humanity through science and compassion one patient at a time and its mission is to care, to educate, and to discover. In his role at Stanford Health Care, Dr. Eisenberg focuses on interoperability and health information exchange as well as government and regulatory reporting, health care analytics, patient reported outcomes and other uses of technology to meet our strategic initiatives.

Session

2

State of the Network

Duration: 30 Minutes

eHealth Exchange Executive Director shares the annual state of the network, including accomplishments of 2023 and roadmap for 2024.

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Jay Nakashima
Executive Director

Jay Nakashima

Executive Director - eHealth Exchange

Jay Nakashima leads the eHealth Exchange, the nation’s largest health information network which operates in all 50 states.  Incubated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in 2006 as an ONC initiative, the eHealth Exchange is now an independent non-profit dedicated to the public good.

After years in leadership roles at providers, payers, and health IT vendors, Jay now focuses on improving interoperability to improve patient care.

Session

3

Keynote Address

Innovation: Buzz Word or Action Word?

Duration: 30 Minutes

Hear from the first Chief Technology Officer of the United States (’09-’12) and the fourth Virginia Secretary of Technology (’06-’09) and author of this 2014 book, “Innovative State: How New Technologies can Transform Government” as he shares his thoughts on innovation in health IT. 

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Aneesh Chopra
CareJourney & Author

Aneesh Chopra

President - CareJourney

Aneesh Chopra is the President of CareJourney, an open data membership service building a trusted, transparent rating system for physicians, networks, facilities and markets on the move to value. He served as the first U.S. Chief Technology Officer under President Obama (’09-’12) and in 2014, authored, "Innovative State: How New Technologies can Transform Government.” He serves on the Board of the Health Care Cost Institute, the New Jersey Innovation Institute, and earned his MPP from Harvard Kennedy School and BA from The Johns Hopkins University.

Session

4

Trickle Down TEFCA

Duration: 45 Minutes

Regional and State HIEs are preparing now to participate in the anticipated eHealth Exchange TEFCA QHIN. As TEFCA’s go-live spreads from QHINs to Participants (like HIEs) to Subparticipants (like health systems), what are the challenges, hopes, and expectations for these traditional users of health information exchange?

Panelists
Moderator
Lisa Bari
Civitas Networks for Health

Lisa Bari, MBA, MPH

CEO - Civitas Networks for Health

Lisa Bari is the CEO of Civitas Networks for Health, the national nonprofit organization with a mission to support community and data-led health improvement and information exchange to address health outcomes and provide the infrastructure for health equity. Civitas Networks for Health counts more than 180 regional health improvement collaboratives, regional and statewide health information exchanges, and affiliated organizations as members.

Lisa previously served as the interim CEO of the Strategic Health Information Exchange Collaborative, the health IT and interoperability lead at the CMS Innovation Center working on primary care payment models, and earlier in her career, part of the executive leadership team of an electronic health records company. She holds an MBA from Purdue University and an MPH in Health Policy from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Phil Beckett
C3HIE

Phil Beckett

CEO - C3HIE

Phil Beckett is currently CEO at C3HIE, a regional Health Information Exchange based in San Antonio, Texas. Phil joined C3HIE in September 2015 as CIO to deliver HIE services in Dallas/Fort Worth, north Texas and west Texas. Phil served for the previous 3 years as the Chief Technology Officer and Privacy and Security Officer with Greater Houston Healthconnect.

Formerly trained in biochemistry and metabolism at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, Phil came to Houston as a post-doctoral fellow to study protein metabolism at the Children’s Nutrition Research Center. At Texas Children’s Hospital he developed a rapid amino acid assay used to perform protein clamps and measure insulin sensitivity in children with diabetes.

Phil kickstarted his IT career in the neonatal ICU writing interfaces to capture data electronically from monitoring systems around the concept that quality is driven by data. He cofounded a startup, RosettaMed as a developer for patient data capture applications with interfaces to electronic health records. He led the sale of the company to Kryptiq Corporation and worked there on secure clinical messaging before joining Baylor College of Medicine to lead their clinical information systems implementation (Epic, iSite PACS). Phil joined Healthconnect in May 2012 and served as a pioneer for interoperability in Houston and the Southeast Texas region. During his tenure as CTO, Healthconnect went live in April 2013 when CHRISTUS Health and Legacy Community Health Services became the first organizations connected to the Healthconnect network. Since that first connection, over 280 healthcare organizations have signed on to exchange information through the network; the entire Beaumont MSA hospital community is live and sharing data. Phil introduced and integrated diagnostic image sharing using DicomGrid into Healthconnect with the goal of reducing duplicate tests and reducing patient’s exposure to unnecessary radiation.

At C3HIE he has continued to expand HIE services through collaboration with community partners and a focus on value and delivery through account management. Phil has a major focus on usability after many years working with physicians – if it isn’t easy they won’t use it – and on patient engagement. He believes that consumers will drive the future of healthcare.

Erica Galvez
Manifest MedEx

Erica Galvez

CEO - Manifest MedEx (MX)

Erica Galvez is CEO of Manifest MedEx (MX), California’s largest nonprofit health information organization, and has extensive experience in health information exchange (HIE) and interoperability. She has been with Manifest MedEx since 2017, previously serving as Chief Strategy Officer and Chief of Staff. She has been instrumental in guiding the organization’s growth and expansion while ensuring MX delivers increasing value to participants. Erica has helped MX achieve a 500 percent increase in health records shared across the health data network. MX now shares information for 34 million Californians across more than 125 hospitals, 13 health plans, and 1800 ambulatory providers. Erica came to the HIE space through years of healthcare quality and patient safety research at The Joint Commission.

Before joining MX, Erica led the HIE efforts at Aledade that tripled the company’s hospital connectivity and evolved the use of health information to reduce avoidable hospitalizations and emergency department encounters. Prior to Aledade, she led the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s (ONC’s) Interoperability Portfolio, held a leadership position as one of the directors of ONC’s State HIE Program, and served as the program manager for AHIMA’s State-Level HIE Consensus Project.

Craig Behm
CRISP Shared Services

Craig Behm

CEO - CRISP Shared Services

As President and CEO, Craig is the lead executive responsible for developing and executing the strategic plan as well as ensuring strong financial controls and high-quality services. His focus is on driving interoperability and innovation by expanding Health Data Utilities through CRISP and member Health Information Exchanges across the country. He manages the senior team with an emphasis on fostering collaboration while advocating for the mission, vision, and values of both CRISP and CRISP Shared Services. Craig is also an instructor at the University of Maryland Baltimore County Master’s program in Health Information Technology. Prior to supporting health IT efforts, Craig led the start-up and operations of three physician-led, Advance Payment Medicare Shared Savings Program Accountable Care Organizations. He has a Master of Business Administration from Loyola University.

Melissa Kotrys
Contexture

Melissa Kotrys

CEO - Contexture

Melissa is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Contexture (contexture.org), the umbrella organization of CORHIO, a leading health information exchange (HIE) in Colorado, and Health Current, the Arizona HIE.

Through her vision and leadership, Contexture is celebrated as a model for aligning the healthcare community with the possibilities of connected electronic health information to advance individual and community health and wellbeing.

Melissa is recognized as a collaborative partner of hospitals and health systems, health plans, healthcare providers, healthcare associations and other healthcare sectors in Arizona. She serves as the Board Chair of Civitas Networks for Health, a national collaborative comprised of HIEs and regional healthcare improvement collaboratives. She also serves as a member of the Employers Council Board of Directors, Arizona’s State Medicaid Advisory Committee, the Advisory Council of Solari Crisis & Human Services, and the HIMSS Americas Board of Advisors.

Prior to joining Health Current, Melissa worked as a consultant and health policy analyst at Deloitte Consulting. She holds a Master of Public Health in health policy from The George Washington University and a Bachelor of Arts from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Session

5

FHIR for Public Health

Duration: 30 Minutes

In 2023, more than a dozen network participants launched the FDA adverse events pilot on FHIR. Hear how new connections and use cases are going live in record time with the right mix of organizational priorities and technical simplicity.

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Presenters
Featured Speaker
Dr. Hussein Ezzeldin
FDA

Dr. Hussein Ezzeldin

Senior Staff Fellow - FDA

Hussein Ezzeldin earned his PhD in 2012 from the University of Maryland, College Park. He joined the FDA, Office of Biostatistics and Pharmacovigilance (OBPV) in the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) in 2013. Dr. Ezzeldin worked on multiple modeling and risk assessment, policy, and research projects. Dr. Ezzeldin works on advancing the science of patient input as part of the FDA regulatory-science strategic goals, and he is leading the natural history study for metachromatic leukodystrophy, HOME. Currently, Dr. Ezzeldin co-leads the Biologics Effectiveness and Safety Innovative Methods Initiative (BEST IM), which aims to develop new and innovative methods for a semi-automated adverse events (AEs) reporting system for CBER-Regulated Biological Products. Dr. Ezzeldin is the acting CBER Lead for the digital health technology review team (DHT-RT), supporting the use of DHTs in regulatory submissions.

Dr. Ray Duncan
Cedars-Sinai Health System

Dr. Ray Duncan

Executive Director, Tech R&D - Cedars-Sinai Health System

Ray Duncan is a neonatologist, software developer, and author with broad experience in clinical care, software development, technical publishing, and health information technology. He received a BA in Chemistry from UC Riverside and an MD from UCLA School of Medicine, and completed his pediatric residency and neonatology fellowship at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. During the early years of personal computing, he wrote several technical books and hundreds of magazine columns for Microsoft Press, Addison Wesley, PC Magazine, Microsoft Systems Journal, Programmer’s Journal, Embedded Systems Programming, and others, as well running a small consulting firm for embedded applications, and developed multiple PC, Mac, and web-based applications for the neonatal intensive care unit. He served as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for the Cedars-Sinai Health System for seven years during the Cedars-Sinai implementation of the Epic electronic medical record for the full continuum of care. Ray is currently Executive Director of Technology R&D for Cedars-Sinai working with cloud services, device integration, HIE, personal/wearable devices, and mobile applications. Ray’s team is an early adopter of FHIR services for EMR integration and also acts the primary technical mentors and liaison to the healthcare IT startups in the Cedars-Sinai Accelerator. Ray is the administrator of the web site “Neonatology on the Web,” and the moderator of the “NICU Professionals” group on Facebook.

Todd Turner
Veteran Affairs

Todd Turner

VHA OHI CIDMO - Veterans Health Information Exchange (VHIE)

Todd serves as the VHIE Deputy Director, Technical overseeing VA’s Query-Based Exchange, Direct, Exchange Partner Management, Clinical Data Quality Management and Patient Participation Preference program areas. Todd manages relationships with VA’s Office of Information & Technology (OIT); Office of Electronic Health Records Management Integration Office (EHRM IO); Community Partners, eHealth Exchange, CommonWell, Carequality and other VA stakeholders.

Todd has been with the VA since December 2007 serving as a Management and Program Analyst. He is responsible for strategizing, implementing, and managing VHIE program technical goals aligned with VHA’s strategic goals and mission; serves as the primary point of contact when interfacing with stakeholders supporting VA and private sector healthcare providers interested in implementing HIE technologies in their communities. Todd is accountable for tracing functional and technical requirements from business requirements through use cases and test cases, and back to the functional/technical requirements. He provides leadership in the design, development, coordination, and evaluation of health data exchange and clinical data quality improvement activities, which improve organizational performance and healthcare for Veterans.

Session

6

TEFCA Time

Duration: 30 Minutes

A presentation on TEFCA implementation, including timelines, responsibilities and expectations for the future.

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Presenters
Jay Nakashima
Executive Director

Jay Nakashima

Executive Director - eHealth Exchange

Jay Nakashima leads the eHealth Exchange, the nation’s largest health information network which operates in all 50 states.  Incubated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in 2006 as an ONC initiative, the eHealth Exchange is now an independent non-profit dedicated to the public good.

After years in leadership roles at providers, payers, and health IT vendors, Jay now focuses on improving interoperability to improve patient care.

Steve Gravely
The Gravely Group

Steve Gravely

CEO - Gravely Group

Steve Gravely is the founder and CEO of Gravely Group, provides legal and strategic counseling to the healthcare industry, driven by the unique combination of expertise and experience garnered over the course of his career. He has represented healthcare organizations for over 30 years in a full spectrum of healthcare legal issues. Steve is certified by the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) as a Certified Information Privacy Professional in the United States (CIPP/US).

Session

7

What Public Health Wants

Duration: 45 Minutes

Panelists from federal and state public health agencies share their needs in health information exchange and how network participants can support this critical national infrastructure priority.

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Panelists
Moderator
Debbie Condrey
The Sequoia Project

Debbie Condrey

COO/CIO - The Sequoia Project

Debbie Condrey has over 33 years of experience in information technology, mostly in state government. Her career began as a math teacher in the secondary education. She then moved on to an applications analyst position with the Virginia Department of Transportation where she quickly progressed to the Director of IT for the Department. When the Governor of Virginia made the decision to consolidate all information technology services in Virginia under one Agency, Debbie was named the Director of Customer Relationship Management for the Virginia Information Technologies Agency. In 2009, Debbie moved on to the Chief Information Officer Virginia for the Virginia Department of Health, where her goal to make a direct difference for the citizens of Virginia truly came to fruition. Under Debbie’s leadership, key health information tools such as the All Payer Claims Database, the Health Information Exchange (Connect Virginia HIE) and the Emergency Department Care Coordination Program were implemented. The latter project achieved interoperability among the 122 hospitals in Virginia and payers in Virginia; a key step toward delivering health care to the citizens at the right time and in the right setting. In June 2019, Debbie retired from state government and joined The Sequoia Project, Inc as the Chief Information Officer. In this role, she is responsible for managing and overseeing all IT-related projects for Sequoia and works closely with eHealth Exchange and Carequality. Her background and heart for public service fit perfectly with the mission of The Sequoia Project – advancing health information technology interoperability for the public good.

Chris Baumgartner
Washington State Department of Health

Chris Baumgartner

Deputy Chief Informatics Officer - Washington State Department of Health

Chris Baumgartner is the Deputy Chief Informatics Officer for the Washington State Department of Health. His role includes leading the coordination of the exchange of data through the state health information exchange, overseeing funding requests for interoperability projects, coordinating interoperability work within the agency and with other state agencies, and working with federal/national partners.

Prior to this role he was the Senior Data Exchange Manager helping oversee electronic lab and case reporting and facilitating HIE and HITECH Funding for the agency. During the COVID-19 Pandemic he served as a lead for electronic lab and case reporting for nearly 2 years leading a team of 24 positions.

Prior to this role he was the Drug Systems Director at the Department of Health, overseeing the Prescription Monitoring, Medical Marijuana & Drug Take Back Programs. Prior to his appointment in 2015, he served in various capacities for 10 years, including working for the Department as the Prescription Monitoring Program Director and owning a consulting firm that provided training and technical services to federal and state governments. He also worked for the WA State Department of Social and Health Services as an IT Portfolio Analyst and managed the Prescription Monitoring Program for the State of Maine while with the Office of Substance Abuse.

Mr. Baumgartner currently serves on the steering committee for the FHIR Accelerator for Public Health (Helios). Mr. Baumgartner has also served on the Prescription Monitoring Information Exchange Architecture Governance Body and the S&I Framework for PMP Interoperability with Electronic Health Records. He is also spent many years with the Department of Health’s Overdose Response Workgroup and the Agency Medical Director’s Opioid Dosing Guideline. He has presented at numerous local and national conferences. Throughout his tenure with public health, Mr. Baumgartner has played an active role in a variety of initiatives to promote patient safety and help improve interoperability between public health and healthcare.

Mr. Baumgartner holds a Bachelor’s of Science Degree from the University of Idaho in Computer Engineering with a Computer Science minor. In 2016 he completed a fellowship with the Informatics Training in Place Program overseen by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In 2018 he completed a fellowship for Applied Informatics Team Training overseen by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Dan Pollock
Clifton Corridor Consulting

Dan Pollock

CEO - Clifton Corridor Consulting

Daniel Pollock is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Clifton Corridor Consulting, LLC, an Atlanta-based company that provides strategic and operational guidance for organizations engaged or seeking to engage in innovative efforts to improve public health surveillance systems. Prior to the company's launch in 2022, Dr. Pollock worked at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as a medical epidemiologist in the agency's infectious diseases, informatics, injury prevention, and environmental health programs. He led the CDC unit responsible for national surveillance of healthcare associated infections from 2004-2021, and he served in CDC's COVID-19 emergency response in the spring of 2020 as Deputy Incident Manager for data and surveillance. His clinical experience is in internal medicine and emergency medicine.

Alexandra Woodward
ASTHO

Alexandra Woodward, DrPH, MPH

Senior Advisor, Public Health Data Modernization - ASTHO (Association of State & Territorial Health Officials

Alex Woodward is the Senior Technical Advisor on ASTHO’s Public Health Data Modernization & Informatics team, supporting state and territorial health agencies in their data modernization activities through the CDC’s Public Health Infrastructure Grant. With over 12 years of experience in infectious disease epidemiology, Alex has previously worked with the U.S. Department of Defense on enhancing international disease surveillance and epidemiologic capabilities in global settings, with a focus on modernizing approaches to public health data exchange. She has also worked with The Pew Charitable Trusts on federal policy related to interoperability and public health data modernization. Alex holds a DrPH in Health Security from the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and an MPH in Infectious Disease Epidemiology from Columbia University.

Rick Hawes
CDC OPHDST

Rick Hawes

Associate Director in the Office of Public Health Data - OPHDST CDS

Rick Hawes is an Associate Director in the Office of Public Health Data, Surveillance, and Technology (OPHDST) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). OPHDST is responsible for coordinating and executing a comprehensive public health data strategy and improving the availability and use of public health data to inform decision-making and action. In OPHDST, Rick leads the Technology Strategy Office and serves as the chief architect for the office. Rick comes to the CDC from the United States Digital Service, where he was assigned to CDC projects, including many projects that are now part of the OPHDST. Before joining the federal government, Rick worked in various engineering leadership roles in the private sector, including long stints at Microsoft and Yahoo.

Session

8

Payer and Provider Burden Reduction using FHIR (and preparing for TEFCA)

Duration: 45 Minutes

CMS regulations require FHIR APIs for Patient Access, and will soon require FHIR for Prior Authorizations, as well as Payer-to-Payer and Payer-to-Provider exchanges. Panelists representing payers, providers and health information exchanges (HIEs) will describe their specific market needs and solutions which leverage FHIR to gain workflow efficiencies (and how this all fits into their respective 2024 roadmaps).

Panelists
Moderator
Bill Howard
eHealth Exchange
Board Chairman

Bill Howard

Board Chairman - eHealth Exchange

Bill Howard is the current board chair of eHealth exchange and has been involved with eHealth Exchange, The Sequoia Project and Carequality since 2016. Bill has more than 30 years of Health IT experience ranging from lab instrument interoperability (3M, Roche), establishing a nationwide EDI claims clearinghouse (GE, IDX), and experience implementing HIE and Population Health solutions globally (GE, Microsoft). Recently Bill became an independent consultant after 7 years with Audacious Inquiry where he led product strategy and was hands-on with deployments in ~10 states.

Dave DeGandi
Cambia Health Solutions

Dave DeGandi

Senior Interoperability Strategist - Cambia Health Solutions

Dave DeGandi has 39 years of IT experience, 36 of those living in Salem, Oregon, working for Cambia Health Solutions in the Health Insurance industry. His technology expertise is in the design and implementation of distributed applications and systems integration.

Dave was first introduced to HL7 at the 2014 Phoenix WGM when Cambia sent his entire clinical data team (14) to gain some much-needed foundational knowledge. Dave brought with him a new enthusiasm to increase the payer presence at HL7. He has helped with the formation of the HL7 Payer User Group and planning for the HL7 Payer Summits which eventually led to the formation of the HL7 Da Vinci Project.

Dave is currently a Senior Interoperability Strategist at Cambia Health Solutions and has been engaged in the HL7 Da Vinci project since its beginning. Dave is a Lead on the Burden Reduction, Member Attribution, Value Based Performance Reporting and Notifications Da Vinci use cases. A two-time recipient of the Da Vinci Champions award, he has been successful in developing the internal and external partnerships needed to enable organizational transformation using payer to provider interoperability.

Erica Galvez
Manifest MedEx

Erica Galvez

CEO - Manifest MedEx (MX)

Erica Galvez is CEO of Manifest MedEx (MX), California’s largest nonprofit health information organization, and has extensive experience in health information exchange (HIE) and interoperability. She has been with Manifest MedEx since 2017, previously serving as Chief Strategy Officer and Chief of Staff. She has been instrumental in guiding the organization’s growth and expansion while ensuring MX delivers increasing value to participants. Erica has helped MX achieve a 500 percent increase in health records shared across the health data network. MX now shares information for 34 million Californians across more than 125 hospitals, 13 health plans, and 1800 ambulatory providers. Erica came to the HIE space through years of healthcare quality and patient safety research at The Joint Commission.

Before joining MX, Erica led the HIE efforts at Aledade that tripled the company’s hospital connectivity and evolved the use of health information to reduce avoidable hospitalizations and emergency department encounters. Prior to Aledade, she led the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s (ONC’s) Interoperability Portfolio, held a leadership position as one of the directors of ONC’s State HIE Program, and served as the program manager for AHIMA’s State-Level HIE Consensus Project.

Dr. Jeffrey Anderson
Veterans Health Administration

Jeffrey Anderson, MD, MS

Director - VHIE

Jeffrey E. Anderson, MD, MS, currently serves as the Director, of the Veterans Health Information Exchange (VHIE) Program Office, which reports to the Clinical Informatics and Data Management Office (CIDMO) within the Office of Health Informatics (OHI) for the Veterans Health Administration (VHA). As Director of VHIE, Dr. Anderson provides leadership for external interoperability partnerships, engagement/onboarding, the design and implementation of information sharing modalities/systems, VA clinician communication and workflow deployment, Veteran outreach and communication, community data quality assessment/management, and analytics pertaining to electronic health information sharing performance and outcomes. Currently, Dr. Anderson also serves as the Co-Chair of the VHA Community Data Integration (CDI) Council.

Dr. Anderson previously served in Chief Medical Information (CMIO) and Chief Information Officer (CIO) roles for both a university healthcare system and an investor-owned healthcare system. In these roles he served as the executive responsible for the successful implementations of two patient-centric Electronic Health Records (EHRs) entailing an enterprise master patient index, optimized acute/outpatient/ambulatory user workflows to foster clinical excellence, quality and cost metric analytics to support population health management, patient portals to foster patient engagement, and interoperability with other EHRs utilizing health information exchanges. Dr. Anderson has also served in multiple, clinical management executive roles and has conducted research concerning an individual’s immunoregulatory status. Dr. Anderson is an American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) certified physician who has practiced emergency and urgent care medicine. He holds a MS in Computer Science and is an American Board of Prevention Medicine (ABPM) Diplomate in Clinical Informatics.

Jim Adamson
Arkansas BCBS
Session

9

Information Handling Best Practices

Duration: 30 Minutes

The health information exchange landscape is continuing to evolve and expand at an increasingly rapid rate. Yet, those outside of this niche generally have poor insight into the what, when, why, and with whom of health information exchange. And let’s face it: This stuff is pretty complicated. We differ in so many ways, but for individuals to understand how we handle their health information, we need to tell them. Learn some best practices for how to communicate the way your organization handles information.

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Presenters
Pat Russell
eHealth Exchange

Pat Russell, RN

Director Policy & Governance, Privacy Officer - eHealth Exchange

Pat Russell provides education and leadership related to the DURSA and the Operating Policies & Procedures on behalf of the Coordinating Committee of the eHealth Exchange, the nation’s largest health information network which operates in all 50 states. Incubated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in 2006 as an ONC initiative, the eHealth Exchange is now an independent non-profit dedicated to the public good.

After years in leadership, consulting, and clinical roles at providers, consulting firms, and health IT vendors, Pat now focuses on improving how we work to use interoperability to improve patient care across the continuum.

Cait Riccobono
CRISP Shared Services

Cait Riccobono, Esq., HCISPP

Privacy Counsel - CRISP Shared Services

Cait Riccobono is Privacy Counsel for CRISP Shared Services (CSS), the non-profit technology and managed services organization that provides core services and IT infrastructure to Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) across the United States. In this role, she works as part of an interdisciplinary team on matters pertaining to privacy laws and regulations at the state and federal levels, development of responsible data use policies, and implementation of privacy-by-design health IT solutions.

Cait has extensive experience in the legal requirements and operational implementation of various national networks. Immediately prior to joining CSS, Cait Riccobono was in private practice with Gravely Group, where she rendered legal and strategic counsel to national and state-level health information exchanges and networks, including the eHealth Exchange. Cait also offered legal support to the Sequoia Project, in coordination with ONC, for the drafting of the Common Agreement under the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA).

Finally, Cait’s early years as a skilled nursing and post-acute care social worker allowed her to develop hands-on experience with patient needs. This combined expertise in healthcare delivery, law, and technology allows Cait to view and advise on both the theoretical and practical sides of healthcare data exchange.

Session

10

Keynote Address:

Insights from ONC National Coordinator for Health Information Exchange

Duration: 45 Minutes

Dr. Micky Tripathi will share the progress made with TEFCA and their vision as the first candidate QHINs move towards designation and go-live along with his views on early participation. 

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Dr. Micky Tripathi
ONC

Dr. Micky Tripathi

National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Micky Tripathi is the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, where he leads the formulation of the federal health IT strategy and coordinates federal health IT policies, standards, programs, and investments.

Dr. Tripathi has over 20 years of experience across the health IT landscape. He most recently served as Chief Alliance Officer for Arcadia, a health care data and software company focused on population health management and value-based care, the project manager of the Argonaut Project, an industry collaboration to accelerate the adoption of FHIR, and a board member of HL7, the Sequoia Project, the CommonWell Health Alliance, and the CARIN Alliance.

Dr. Tripathi served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative (MAeHC), a non-profit health IT advisory and clinical data analytics company. He was also the founding President and CEO of the Indiana Health Information Exchange, a statewide HIE partnered with the Regenstrief Institute, an Executive Advisor to investment firm LRVHealth, and a Fellow at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.

He holds a PhD in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a Master of Public Policy from Harvard University, and an AB in political science from Vassar College. Prior to receiving his PhD, he was a Presidential Management Fellow and a senior operations research analyst in the Office of the Secretary of Defense in Washington, DC, for which he received the Secretary of Defense Meritorious Civilian Service Medal.

Session

11

Insights from the Top

Duration: 30 Minutes

eHealth Exchange Board of Directors Chairman Bill Howard will sum up the day’s insights and call to action for participants to enhance their connectivity to improve patient care and outcomes.

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Bill Howard
eHealth Exchange
Board Chairman

Bill Howard

Board Chairman - eHealth Exchange

Bill Howard is the current board chair of eHealth exchange and has been involved with eHealth Exchange, The Sequoia Project and Carequality since 2016. Bill has more than 30 years of Health IT experience ranging from lab instrument interoperability (3M, Roche), establishing a nationwide EDI claims clearinghouse (GE, IDX), and experience implementing HIE and Population Health solutions globally (GE, Microsoft). Recently Bill became an independent consultant after 7 years with Audacious Inquiry where he led product strategy and was hands-on with deployments in ~10 states.

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