2023 ONC Annual Meeting
Agenda
Agenda
THURSDAY DECEMBER 14 AND FRIDAY DECEMBER 15, 2023
Agenda
NEW IN 2023: Don’t miss a pair of mainstage sessions, Rooting out Racial Bias in Health Care AI, hosted by Dan Gorenstein, host and executive editor of the award-winning health policy podcast Tradeoffs, building off their in-depth reporting on this issue.
Celebrate this significant milestone where we will recognize the first set of designated Qualified Health Information NetworksTM joining TEFCASM. In Part 1, hear directly from federal and congressional leaders about this important step in implementing the 21st Century Cures Act.
- Andrea Palm, Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- Micky Tripathi, PhD, MPP, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
- White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
- Senator Bill Cassidy
Celebrate this important milestone where we will recognize the first set of designated Qualified Health Information Networks joining TEFCA. In Part 2, we’ll discuss how an operational TEFCA can change health care nationwide and celebrate the designated QHINs.
- Micky Tripathi, PhD, MPP, ONC (Moderator)
- Jonathan Blum, MPP, Principal Deputy Administrator & Chief Operating Officer, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
- Mandy Cohen, MD, Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Steve Posnack, MS, MHS, ONC (Moderator)
- Rosalyn Tso, Director, Indian Health Service
- Mariann Yeager, CEO, The Sequoia Project (Moderator)
- Additional speakers to be announced
- Micky Tripathi, PhD, MPP, ONC
ONC Rulemaking Education Session
Come learn about ONC’s latest rulemaking activities.
Leading Edge Acceleration Projects: Cutting Edge Health IT Tools for Healthcare and Healthcare Research
This session will highlight recently completed projects through the Leading Edge Acceleration Projects (LEAP) in Health IT program. LEAP is a cooperative agreement funding opportunity by ONC, with the goal to address well-documented and fast emerging challenges inhibiting the development, use, or advancement of well-designed, interoperable health IT, which are scalable across the health care industry. During this panel presentation, the awardees will share their tools developed for making electronic health record data clinical care and research ready, producing common data model for artificial intelligence training and research, and developing a platform leveraging bulk data to support research and learning. A question & answer session and discussion from the audience will follow the presentations.
- Lolita Kachay, ONC (Moderator)
- Andy McMurry, Boston Children's Hospital
- Kristen Miller, MedStar Health Research Institute
- Wilson Pace, DARTnet Institute
- Burak Serdar, Cloud Privacy Labs
Perspectives from the Field: Public Health Data Modernization at the Local, State, and Federal Level
This session will include short presentations and a robust discussion from key partners involved in the CDC Data Modernization Initiative (DMI). Join to hear updates about progress made so far towards key strategic goals, and to hear about new initiatives coming soon.
- Jennifer Fritz, MPH, Minnesota Department of Health, Center for Health Information Policy and Transformation
- J.T. Lane, MPH, ASTHO
- Devin McGraw
- Abigail Viall, ScD, MA, CDC
Exploring the Relationship between Payment Models and Documentation Burden
This session will explore how the use of EHRs outside of traditional fee-for-service environments may play a role in documentation burden experienced by clinicians. This session will also review a summary of current knowledge on the variation in documentation burden within different payment environments.
- Andrew Gettinger, MD, FAMIA, Dartmouth (Moderator)
- Nate C. Apathy, PhD, MedStar Health
- A Jay Holmgren, University of California - San Francisco
- S. Trent Rosenbloom, MD, MPH, FAMIA, FACMI, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
- Sarah Rossetti, RN, PhD, FAAN, FACMI, FAMIA, FIAHSI, Columbia University
- Anna Taylor, MS, CIPCT, MultiCare Connected Care
Perspectives on Information Blocking: Insights from National Surveys and Claims Received by ONC
This session will discuss insights from three data sources, each of which reflects individuals’ or organizations’ perceptions of information blocking: a nationwide survey of health information networks/health information exchanges, an ONC-supported survey of hospital leaders, and ONC’s publicly released information blocking ‘Quick Stat’ data. Presenters will discuss how the information and perspectives expressed in these data reflect trends related to information blocking in the healthcare delivery system, and the additional questions these data raise related to the prevalence of information blocking.
- Jordan Everson, ONC
- Dan Healy, ONC
- Vaishali Patel, ONC
ONC Rulemaking Education Session
Come learn about ONC’s latest rulemaking activities.
Transforming Cancer Data Collection and Use: Aligning Cancer Health IT Standards for Use Across Research, Health Care, and Public Health
This session will focus on how ONC is supporting Cancer Moonshot goals to synergize cancer health IT standards and support health care and research transformation. ONC is working to establish the foundational support for standardized health data exchange via open, consensus-based standards, moving towards the next generation of “real world cancer data” for use in research, health care, and public health. ONC’s United States Core Data for Interoperability Plus (USCDI+) initiative supports identification and establishment of domain or program-specific data element lists that extend the existing United States Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI). This session will focus on USCDI+ Cancer work and its application to research, health care, and public health.
- Aneesh Chopra, CareJourney (Moderator)
- Su Chen, MD, CodeX
- Kyle Cobb, ONC
- Jennifer Goldsack, MChem, MA, MBA, OLY, Digital Medicine Society
- Joseph Rogers, CDC
- Umit Tolaloglu, PhD, FAMIA, NCI
Patient and Clinical Perspectives and Approaches on the Documentation, Exchange and Use of Social Needs and SDOH Data: Implications for Clinical Care and Downstream Use
This session explores patient and provider perspectives on the collection, exchange and use of social needs and SDOH data and describes the current state of providers’ documentation and use of social needs and SDOH data using nationally representative survey data. The panel will discuss the implications of these results for standards development, patient consent and data segmentation, and support for using social needs data in clinical care and with community-based organizations.
- Catherine DesRoches, DrPH, Open Notes Initiative
- Sarah Downer, CMS Innovation Center
- Hannah K. Galvin, MD, FAAP, FAMIA, Cambridge Health Alliance
- Chelsea Richwine, ONC
Improving Patient Access to Health Information with Patients as Partners
Health care works best when patients can access their health data, understand their conditions and choices, and be actively engaged in their care. Patient education promotes patient-centered care and increases understanding and adherence to medication and treatments, as well as facilitates decision-making for informed care choices. This session will highlight successful approaches to engage and educate patients, being responsive to their needs and preferences as partners in their care.
- Shally Madan, Luminate Health
- Sharlene Newman, PhD, Alabama Life Research Institute, The University of Alabama
- S. Trent Rosenbloom, MD, MPH, FAMIA, FACMI, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
- Shannon West, Datavant
Using Technology in Behavioral Health from Adoption to Integration: Moving Beyond Disparate Systems
Join us for an opportunity to hear from leading experts about successes, opportunities, and challenges related to technology use in the behavioral health setting. This interactive session will feature a brief update on the current state of aligning and integrating primary care with behavioral health care including appropriate exchange of health data via a health information exchange (HIE), and identifying and using technology systems for interoperability in a meaningful way. Finally, we will pose audience questions for feedback on real world implications of adoption, integration, and interoperability.
- Tanzeem Choudhury, Optum Labs, UnitedHealthGroup
- Melissa Kotrys, MPH, Contexture
- Michael Lardieri, LCSW, Core Solutions, Inc.
- Jorge Petit, MD
Session description coming soon.
Developers, providers and regulators can all agree that racial bias should be kept out of clinical AI tools as much as possible. But what will it take to make that a reality? And how can regulators and those they regulate work together to reach this goal? Dan Gorenstein, host and executive editor of the award-winning health policy podcast Tradeoffs, will moderate this dicussion, building off Tradeoffs in-depth reporting on this issue.
- Dan Gorenstein, Tradeoffs (Moderator)
- Suchi Saria, Bayesian Health and Johns Hopkins University
- Troy Tazbaz, Food and Drug Administration
Plenary Session: Rooting Out Racial Bias in Healthcare AI – Part 2: A Conversation with the National Coordinator for Health IT
Developers, providers and regulators can all agree that racial bias should be kept out of clinical AI tools as much as possible. But what will it take to make that a reality? And how can regulators and those they regulate work together to reach this goal? Dan Gorenstein, host and executive editor of the award-winning health policy podcast Tradeoffs, will moderate this dicussion, building off Tradeoffs in-depth reporting on this issue.
- Dan Gorenstein, Tradeoffs (Moderator)
- James Ellzy, MD, Oracle Health
- Micky Tripathi, PhD, MPP, ONC
Developers, providers and regulators can all agree that racial bias should be kept out of clinical AI tools as much as possible. But what will it take to make that a reality? And how can regulators and those they regulate work together to reach this goal? Dan Gorenstein, host and executive editor of the award-winning health policy podcast Tradeoffs, will moderate this dicussion, building off Tradeoffs in-depth reporting on this issue.
- Dan Gorenstein, Tradeoffs (Moderator)
- Jenny Ma, JD, HHS Office for Civil Rights
- Mark Sendak, MD, MPP, Duke Institute for Health Innovation
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ONC Rulemaking Education Session
Come learn about ONC’s latest rulemaking activities.
PHIT for Duty: Expanding the Nation’s Public Health Workforce – Case Studies in Training Future Leaders in Public Health Informatics and Technology
ONC is helping expand the nation’s public health workforce by training a new, diverse cohort of health IT professionals to strengthen the nation’s ability to fight future public health emergencies. Come hear students and consortium representatives discuss their experiences and lessons learned through the Public Health Informatics and Technology (PHIT) Workforce Development Program.
- Erin Hitomi, Orange County Asian and Pacific Islander Community Alliance (OCAPICA)
- Kaylia Johnson, MPH, Oakland County Health Division
- Raja Sengupta, University of California, Berkley
- Allene Stephen
Federal Agency FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) Adoption: From Vision to Reality
HL7® Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources® (FHIR) has evolved from a novel idea for exchanging health data in 2011 to a mandatory standard cited in regulation today. Aligning agency efforts around development and use of FHIR at the federal level will strengthen health data exchange, support innovative applications, and promote improved health outcomes nationwide. This session will detail ONC’s vision for FHIR’s role in improving the health of individuals and populations and perspectives from key partner agencies.
- Adam Wong, ONC (Moderator)
- Paula Braun, ONC and CDC
- Lynda Rowe, MBA, MPH, CDC
Coordinating An Approach for the Use of AI To Support Health and Healthcare
The White House recently released an Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence alongside an Office of Management and Budget memo. Together these documents outline a coordinated strategy to optimize the use of artificial intelligence (AI), including predictive algorithms and generative AI, across every sector of the United States economy. During this session attendees will hear from ONC and a panel of key Federal officials to learn about the specific ways ONC and our HHS partners are working together to ensure that our health care system can get the full benefit of responsible and trustworthy AI.
- Greg Singleton, HHS Office of the Chief Information Officer
- Troy Tazbaz, Food and Drug Administration
- Dana Wolff-Hughes, PhD, National Institutes for Health
The Future of Pharmacy Interoperability
During this session industry experts will discuss perspectives on topics ranging from real-time inventory transparency to AI-enabled pharmacy workflows. Panelists will also reflect on the recent recommendations of the HITAC Task Force on Pharmacy Interoperability and Emerging Therapeutics, discussing how this work may advance the exchange of pharmacy data across healthcare settings.
- Tricia Lee Rolle, ONC (Moderator)
- Samm Anderegg, PharmD, MS, Docstation
- Brian Fung, PharmD, MPH, Verily
- Meg Murphy, PharmD, Surescripts
- Rick Sage, NCPDP
- Lisa Schwartz, PharmD, RPh, NCPA
ONC Rulemaking Education Session
Come learn about ONC’s latest rulemaking activities.
Strategies for Enhanced Laboratory Data Interoperability
This panel discussion will delve into the laboratory data exchange landscape and how advancements in standards play a pivotal role in ensuring the harmonious exchange of laboratory information. Distinguished experts will discuss trends and barriers to seamless data exchange, including pilots and modern approaches to sharing orders and results across the ecosystem. Additionally, ONC will share their laboratory interoperability initiatives, including ONC’s collaborative efforts with federal partners and standards development focused on laboratory interoperability, laboratory data elements in United States Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI) version 4, and emerging UCSDI+ public health data elements.
- Michelle Miegs, APHL
- Marjorie Rallins, Regenstrief Institute
HHS Health IT Alignment Policy: Promoting Health IT Standards Alignment Across the Department of Health and Human Services
The HHS Health IT Alignment Policy, led by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), is a Department-wide management policy to ensure alignment of health IT-related activities across all relevant HHS funding and regulatory/guidance actions. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) instituted this policy to ensure HHS agencies align and coordinate health IT-related activities. The policy sets out to eliminate program and data silos, support HHS interoperability goals, and advance the effectiveness and efficiency of Department programs and policies. During this panel, ONC and other HHS agency staff will discuss the progress made on implementing the policy so far and where they plan to go next to optimize alignment of health IT activities across the Department.
- Peter Banks, ONC (Moderator)
- Bridget Calvert, CMS
- Janal Parham, Health Resources and Services Administration
- Tara Ramanathan Holiday, CDC
- David de Voursney, MPP, SAMHSA/CMHS
USCDI + : Extending Beyond the USCDI
Two years ago, ONC launched the USCDI+ initiative to address gaps between USCDI and federal programs and drive alignment and harmonization across federal agencies. The first project for USCDI+ focused on work with CMS to support their quality measure program digital transformation to FHIR based reporting. Now USCDI+ initiatives have expanded across additional domains and use cases. In this session, we look to provide an overview of current USCDI+ initiatives and discuss the impact USCDI+ has had within our partner federal agencies.
- Liz Turi, ONC (Moderator)
- Joel Andress, CMS
- Nahida Chaktoura, NIH/NICHD
- Talisha Searcy, SAMHSA
- Alek Sripipatana, HRSA
- Abigail Viall, ScD, MA, CDC
