Sample Agenda Below 12:00-12:25 pm
Welcome
Opening Remarks
Steve Posnack, MS, MHS, Deputy National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
Keynote Remarks from the National Coordinator
Micky Tripathi, PhD, MPP, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
12:30-1:30 pm
Breakout Sessions I
Efforts to Reduce Clinician Burden: Success, Partial Success, or a Future Not Yet Realized
This panel will feature real-world input from clinicians discussing how the evolving regulatory landscape and advances in technology contribute to clinician burden reduction.
Andy Gettinger, MD, ONC, Moderator
Tom Mason, MD, ONC, Moderator
Peter Basch, MD, MACP, MedStar Health
Jackie Gerhart, MD, FAAFP, Epic and The University of Wisconsin
Yaa Kumah-Crystal, MD, MPH, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Sarah Collins Rossetti, RN, PhD, FAAN, FAMIA, Columbia University Medical Center
Promoting Equitable Access and Innovations in Artificial Intelligence for Health Care
This session will explore the opportunities and challenges ahead for making use of artificial intelligence (AI) in health care. Speakers will discuss what it takes to apply AI for real-time clinical decision-making and increases in operational efficiency; the ethical challenges of AI-driven health care; and how AI can be used to fight racial biases in health care or reinforce them. The conversation is sure to be future looking and lay a foundation for the considerations ahead for AI in health care.
Allison Dennis, PhD, ONC, Moderator
Adam Wong, MPP, ONC, Moderator
Yindalon Aphinaynaphongs, MD, PhD, New York University Langone Health
Sara Gerke, MA, PhD, Harvard Law School
Ziad Obermeyer, MD, MPhil, Berkeley School of Public Health
Education Session: Understanding ONC’s Draft United States Core for Interoperability v2 and Standards Version Advancement Process
In March 2020, ONC published the first version of the United States Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI) and established a predictable, transparent, and collaborative expansion process, allowing health IT stakeholders to submit new data elements and classes for future versions of USCDI. After the first cycle of submissions were evaluated, ONC published the Draft USCDI version 2, which is available for public comment until April 15, 2021. This session will highlight the development of USCDI as a new health IT standard, the process of expanding it with newer versions, and how the Standards Version Advancement Process (SVAP) flexibility for ONC-Certified Health IT relates to the use of future versions of standards like USCDI.
Papia Paul, MS, MPA, ONC
Al Taylor, MD, ONC
1:30-1:45 pm
Break
1:45-2:45 pm
Plenary Session: Public Health Data Modernization and Advancements in Health IT During a Pandemic
This panel will explore federal, state, and local initiatives currently underway advancing the use of electronic health information during public health emergencies with an emphasis on defining an ideal future state. Panelists will also discuss the actions their organizations and states are taking to address health equity and will explore how the modernization of data collection and utilization for disease detection, contract tracing, and immunization can help mitigate inequality and improve health outcomes.
Micky Tripathi, PhD, MPP, ONC, Moderator
Dan Jernigan, MD, MPH, CDC
Marcella Nunez-Smith, MD, MHS, U.S. COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force
Norm Oliver, MD, State of Virginia
Anne Zink, MD, State of Alaska
2:50-3:50 pm
Breakout Sessions II
Social Determinants of Health Information Exchange: Innovation, Consent, Referrals, and Equity
This session will explore innovative efforts for SDOH information exchange and interoperable referrals, along with considerations for consent and equity. The session will highlight initiatives from 1) CyncHealth, describing the use of HIE to enhance SDOH collaboration in Nebraska 2) San Diego Health Connect, noting relevant take-aways from their 2019 LEAP Project for consent and reducing health disparities 3) Ohio Health Information Partnership, describing their efforts on SDOH referrals 4) Bronx RHIO, discussing community-based health IT efforts to address SDOH and 5) The Gravity Project to provide an update on progress toward SDOH core data for interoperability and standards-based information exchange.
Brett Andriesen, ONC, Moderator
Elizabeth Palena Hall, MIS, MBA, RN, ONC, Moderator
Evelyn Gallego, MBA, MPH, CPHIMS, Gravity Project
Mohammad Jafari, PhD, San Diego Health Connect
Kathryn Miller, MS, Bronx RHIO
Dan Paoletti, Ohio Health Information Partnership
Melanie Surber, MSN, RN, CyncHealth
Data Tagging and Consent of Sensitive Health Data: Stakeholder Led Efforts and Activities
Data Tagging and consent are important for improving interoperability while protecting privacy and choice. Data tagging can support various use cases including for social determinants of health data (SDOH) use and interoperability. Multidisciplinary, stakeholder led activities are focused on advancing data tagging adoption and use, in part to help eliminate disparities and improve health equity, and to support the interoperability of sensitive health data including, in certain instances, for SDOH. This session will inform attendees of current ONC and external stakeholder activities for moving sensitive health data to support holistic person centered health. Presenters will share progress on different SDOH use cases and the value of data tagging and consent efforts for advancing health equity and addressing health disparities.
JaWanna Henry, MPH, ONC, Moderator
Samantha Meklir, MPP, ONC, Moderator
Elisabeth Myers, MBA, ONC, Moderator
Hannah Galvin, MD, Protecting Privacy to Promote Interoperability (PP2PI)
Amber Patel, Security Risk Solutions Inc.
Chethan Sabaru, MD, PP2PI
Education Session: Unlocking Electronic Health Information: How the Information Blocking Regulations Support Care Delivery
Got questions about what to do on April 5, 2021 and why information sharing is so important? Learn about the information blocking provisions in the Cures Act Final Rule, including exceptions in the law. ONC speakers will focus on what is information blocking, what information needs to be shared, and who is impacted by the law and other requirements to help you prepare for information sharing.
Elise Sweeney Anthony, JD, ONC
Michael L. Lipinski, JD, ONC
Rachel Nelson, JD, ONC
3:50-4:00 pm
Break
4:00-5:00 pm
Health IT Consumers Tech Showcase
Close out Day 1 of the ONC Annual Meeting with an action packed showcase of solutions and toolkits, each of which designed to improve a user’s experience when interacting with healthcare technology. Through this rapid fire format, we will feature a total of 7 individual presentations including recent STAR HIE Award winners, provider and patient facing solutions, and those designed to meet the needs of local community health centers.
Stephen Konya, ONC, Emcee
Yurkio de la Cruz, NACHC
Morgan Honea, CORHIO
Melissa Kotrys, Health Current
Craig Limoli, WellSheet
Nate Maslak, Ribbon Health
Michael Perretta, Docket Health
Kristin Rising, Jefferson Healt