INTELLIGENT HEALTH DATA SYMPOSIUM

THOUGHT LEADERSHIP SESSION

Dr. Paul Ziemer | MedX Health, General Manager

Naman Demaghlatrous |  MedX Health, CEO

Dariush Zomorrodi | Blanc Labs, CIO

In this presentation, you will hear how multi-disciplinary teams of design, engineering, and product at MedX and Blanc Labs embarked on a journey to develop an AI-based teledermatology screening platform leveraging Smile CDR’s high performance and secure FHIR-based clinical data repository. This is an outstanding example of close collaboration and innovation between thought leaders of tech and healthcare to develop a solution for detecting disorganization of a suspicious skin mole or lesion allow

THOUGHT LEADERSHIP SESSION

Timothy Bennett | Drummond Group, Director of Strategic Healthcare Initiatives

Sandy Vance | Counterpoint Solutions, President and Founder

Lorraine Doo | Senior Policy Advisor, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) included guidance in their interoperability rules to advance implementation guides for payer and patient access to healthcare data. The roadmap, which started in 2019 has required an army of support to meet the mission, and there is more work to be done.

Join this interactive panel discussion to hear how testing and certification for the Da Vinci and other implementation guides helps organizations implement the interoperability rules, ensures best practices, and save a lot of cost and effort.

TRAINING SESSION

Michael Buckley | Smile CDR Inc., Staff Software Developer

Learn about new search and storage directions for FHIR.

VENDOR SHOWCASE

Aaron Aston | Telus Health, Head of Engineering

Tim Sweet | Omara Health Exchange, Lead Architect

Over the last three years, TELUS Health has built the Omara Health Exchange as the foundational digital health platform in our ecosystem. At the centre of the Omara Health Exchange is the Clinical Core which includes the Omara Health Data Services and Omara Identity modules. TELUS Health selected the Smile CDR to be central to these modules and has developed unique capabilities that simplifies the design, deploy and management of a digital health ecosystem.

Technically, Omara integrates software packages from a number of vendors into a cohesive toolkit that may be applied to solve a wide range of healthcare IT problems. Each Omara module functions “as-a-Service”. This allows operators to deploy fit-for-purpose solutions on demand, possibly integrated with online portals with on demand provisioning capabilities. The “as-a-Service” features of Omara are implemented using Kubernetes Operators. A Kubernetes Operator is Kubernetes-native software that ‘knows’ how to deploy and manage other software on the cluster.

This session will provide an overview of Kubernetes Operators, discuss the TELUS Omara (Smile CDR) operator, discuss and demonstrate the use of the Smile CDR operator, and discuss the operational benefits and challenges of operators.

THOUGHT LEADERSHIP SESSION

Dr. Cait O'Donnell | Smile CDR Inc., Manager of Research and Insights

In the past few years, there has been a seismic shift in attitudes around the need to enable patients to understand the cost of their healthcare better. Concerned about the lack of price transparency and rising costs of healthcare, as well as the crippling medical debt that resulted from surprise medical bills, legislators realized a need to enact legislation to promote greater transparency around the cost of healthcare services. Subsequently, several laws have been enacted to promote "Price Transparency" in the United States. Confusion around "Price Transparency" comes from it not being a single solution, product, act, or piece of legislation. The term Price Transparency does not refer to a specific piece of legislation; instead, the term Price Transparency is an umbrella term that refers to a series of different laws and acts intended to achieve the legislative goal of making healthcare prices more transparent. This talk seeks to mitigate some of the confusion around "Price Transparency" by disentangling the laws and providing detailed insights into the aims and requirements of each piece of legislation. In this talk, Cait will discuss the specific laws enacted to achieve Price Transparency in the United States, focusing on the known requirements unique to each and highlighting where uncertainties remain. Cait will shine a light on the importance of these laws and their relevance to stakeholders, including patients, providers, payors, vendors, and solution developers.

TRAINING SESSION

Mark Iantorno | Smile CDR Inc., Director of Strategic Healthcare Initiatives

Learn about FHIR subscriptions, what they are, why they are important, and the best practices Smile CDR uses.

VENDOR SHOWCASE

Dr. David C. Rhew | Microsoft, Global Chief Medical Officer (CMO) and VP of Healthcare

Major trends in healthcare will determine which digital innovations are here to stay. Dr. Rhew will describe four (4) major trends in healthcare: (1) Health equity, (2) Consumerism, (3) AI/ML, and (4) Virtual care (next generation). He will then provide clinical examples of how each of these major trends create new opportunities for digital innovations that will transform healthcare.

THOUGHT LEADERSHIP SESSION

Timothy Bennett | Drummond Group, Director of Strategic Healthcare Initiatives

This session will be an in-depth discussion about what both CMS and ONC has already set forth in federal regulations with FHIR, what CMS and ONC have signaled is coming, and peering into the crystal ball of the future of FHIR that could be transformative for payer, provider, and patient users.

TRAINING SESSION

Florin Negoita | Smile CDR, Technical Implementation Lead

International Patient Summary represents an electronic health record containing essential healthcare information intended for use in unscheduled, cross-border care scenarios. An overview of Canadian and international landscape, with a focus on Ontario.

TRAINING SESSION

Laurie MacDougall Sookraj  | Smile CDR Inc., Staff Software Developer

Sophie Tekeste | Smile CDR Inc., Product Developer and Data Modeller

Lessons learned and cautionary tales about data ingestion dos and don'ts. This session will cover topics related to data modelling, testing, and ingestion methods.

VENDOR SHOWCASE

Stoyan Halkaliev | NursIT Institute GmbH, CEO

Danny Ammon | Jena University Hospital, Head of Data Integration Centre

A low-code development platform (LCDP) provides a development environment used to create application software through a graphical user interface instead of traditional hand-coded computer programming. A low-coded platform may produce entirely operational applications, or require additional coding for specific situations. Low-code development platforms reduce the amount of traditional hand coding, enabling accelerated delivery of business applications. A common benefit is that a wider range of people can contribute to the application's development—not only those with coding skills. LCDPs can also lower the initial cost of setup, training, deployment and maintenance. Low code is already being hyped as the solution to the future increased need for IT specialists. Just google "low code" on the web to see that it is not just a trend, but a focused effort.

THOUGHT LEADERSHIP SESSION

Denis Gagné | Trisotech, CEO and CTO 

John Svirbely, MD | Trisotech, CMIO

A patient undergoing surgery may have to undergo many preoperative assessments, which are often manual and time-consuming. Preauthorization has become synonymous with endless forms and delays and with the occasional denial of care that the provider had deemed appropriate. A payer organization must balance quality of care, reimbursement and patient satisfaction, while being compliant with ever changing rules and regulations. In an era of digital transformation, it is possible to completely automate low-risk preauthorizations. This can be done using processes and decisions using visual low-code models that are easily changed to meet changing requirements. The same models can be used to risk stratify patients, to prepare dashboards to quickly visualize data and to prepare data for predictive analytics (AI). Automated BPM+ visual models can help to achieve these goals, with Smile CDR providing and collecting the standardized data. In this session, we will introduce and demonstrate visual modeling and automation for preauthorization based on a set of international open standards called BPM+. We will show how changes to compliance rules can be rapidly and easily traced to modify automation services accordingly, using an example in orthopedic surgery. Take aways :

- Automation of preauthorization is feasible and can meet the challenge of keeping decisions up to date with rules and regulations.

- Process models to risk stratify patients with comorbidities can help to identify patients at risk for postoperative complications.

- Standardized data in context provides better (real time) data for big data predictive analytics.

THOUGHT LEADERSHIP SESSION

Aneesh Chopra | CareJourney, President

Physicians are increasingly taking on "total cost of care" risk, including responsibility for many traditional payer functions via accountable care organizations. These "ACOs" are buying / building technology on the provider side to reduce burdens, and thanks to the CURES Act, are building "SMART on FHIR" apps that natively integrate with EHRs and payers. As we fully implement the CURES Act, I've called this the "era of physician-designated apps.

TRAINING SESSION

Igor Sirkovich | Smile CDR Inc., Senior FHIR Implementation Consultant and Senior Integration and Solution Architect

Learn about the SMART Health Cards Framework and Vaccine Credentials Initiative. We will discuss the main aspects of the Vaccination & Testing FHIR Implementation Guide, and use of Smart Health Cards in Canada.

VENDOR SHOWCASE

Nick Zamora | Healthchain Inc., CEO

Nick will speak on the Medication Reconciliation project that is live at Southlake Regional Health Centre. HealthChain utilizes Smile CDR/FHIR as its core data orchestration engine that facilitates the collection and distribution of medication data. The HealthChain’s platform connects pharmacies and hospitals to enable medication reconciliation and other clinical services to address patient safety risks during transitions of care.

CLOSING KEYNOTE

James Agnew | Smile CDR Inc., Chief Technology Officer