Aaron Aston
TELUS Health, Head of Engineering
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Wednesday, April 20 2022 | 9:30 AM - 10:15 AM (EST)
SmileCDR as a Service: Simplified Management of Smile CDR on Kubernetes Using Operators
Aneesh Chopra
CareJourney, President
Aneesh Chopra is the President of CareJourney, an open data service that helps providers, payers and pharma market leaders make smarter decisions in the move to value. He co-founded its parent company, Hunch Analytics, a “hatchery” incubating ideas that improve the productivity of health and education markets; served as the first U.S. Chief Technology Officer (’09-’12) and the fourth Virginia Secretary of Technology (’06-’09). His public service focused on better public/private collaboration as described in his 2014 book, "Innovative State: How New Technologies can Transform Government.”
In 2017, he joined the Board of the Health Care Cost Institute, a non-partisan, non-profit organization focused on complete, accurate, unbiased health care utilization and cost information. In 2015, he served as the inaugural Walter Shorenstein Media and Democracy Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School; in 2011, Modern Healthcare named him to its list of the 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare; and in 2008, Government Technology magazine named him in as one of its top 25 "Doers, Dreamers, and Drivers.”
He earned his master's degree in public policy from Harvard Kennedy School in 1997 and his bachelor's degree from The Johns Hopkins University in 1994.
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Wednesday, April 20 2022 | 1:30 PM - 2:15 PM (EST)
The Era of Physician Designated Apps
Anu Kuga
Smile CDR Inc., Senior UX Designer
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Tuesday, April 19 2022 | 11:30 AM - 12:15 PM (EST)
Using UX to Achieve Better Outcomes for You and Your Patients
Alec Laws
IDENTOS, Chief Technology Officer
Alec Laws is currently IDENTOS Chief Technology Officer, and with 10 years of experience as a talented mobile developer and solutions architect, Alec has been the driving force and architect behind the IDENTOS FPX product suite. Alec leads a team of over 20 developers, ensuring sound development practices are followed and that our technical team is constantly learning and improving their trade.
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Tuesday, April 19 2022 | 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM (EST)
Integrating Care & Clinical Research of Paediatric Diabetes
Alix Goss
Imprado, Vice President and Senior Consultant
Throughout Alix Goss’s career she has led game-changing initiatives with enthusiasm and integrity to strengthen organizations, public policy and national standards to achieve healthier and more productive people. Her leadership roles include developing national health care standards, implementing and complying with federal and state regulations, and aligning business strategies, systems integration and operations management in both private and public sectors of health care.
In addition to client projects, Alix currently serves as chair of HL7 International’s Policy Advisory Committee, is an Executive Steering Committee member and the Directory, Versioning, and Scale Tiger Team co-lead of The Office of the National Coordinator’s (ONC) FHIR at Scale Taskforce (FAST) and supports workforce development through masters’ level guest lectures and advisory board roles.
Alix co-chaired the Intersection of Clinical and Administrative Data Task Force (ICAD), in 2020, charged by ONC’s Health Information Technology Advisory Committee with producing a report on the convergence of clinical and administrative data to improve data interoperability to support clinical care, reduce burden and improve efficiency using prior authorization as an exemplar.
Alix served two four-year terms as a member of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS). NCVHS is the statutory public advisory body on health data, statistics, privacy, and national health information policy. Her roles included co-chair of its Standards Subcommittee and its Review Committee focused on Administrative Simplification provisions of HIPAA and the Affordable Care Act.
Alix’s efforts to bring the industry together to solve its many challenges has been recognized over the years including the 2020 ONC ‘Fabulous Partner Award’ for her HITAC ICAD leadership and the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange’s (WEDI) 2019 ‘HIT Government Champion Award’ for her NCVHS contributions and the 2020 ‘Health IT Champion - Louis Sullivan Award’ in recognition of her distinguished career of leadership, vision and achievements to advance the efficiency of health care.
Prior to joining Imprado, the managerial consulting arm of DynaVet Solutions, Alix was named the executive director of the Pennsylvania eHealth Partnership Authority in January 2014 after serving as the state’s health information technology coordinator and program director of the statewide health information exchange (HIE) initiative. She advanced the state’s HIE strategy and related health and human services initiatives. In her various roles, she guided Pennsylvania’s efforts to improve quality, safety and efficiency of health care by working with stakeholders to create and build a sustainable, statewide HIE network through her expertise in governance, stakeholder engagement and interoperability policy and standards.
Previously, Alix served as chair of the ASC X12 Insurance Subcommittee, an accredited-standards development organization of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), where she promoted understanding and consistency in the development of property/casualty and health care standards, and championed initiatives resulting in improved collaborative relationships with affiliated standard-setting and industry organizations and federal regulators.
Early in her career, Alix worked in Medicare Part B operations management before moving into staff consultancy roles where she led the implementation of HIPAA. In addition, she created and chaired Medicare Part B and DMERC Electronic Data Interchange Functional Work Group (EDI FWG), which consisted of standard system maintainers, Medicare contractors and CMS’s Medicare EDI coordinators. .
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Tuesday, April 19 2022 | 9:30 AM - 10:15 AM (EST)
How the HL7 Da Vinci Project Advances Interoperability
Attila Farkas
Canada Health Infoway, Sr. Director Solution Management and Advisory Services
Attila Farkas is a HIT professional with decades of experience in design and development of state-of-the-art solutions for the healthcare industry, from MRI and CT diagnostic imaging acquisition consoles to surgical navigation systems assisting deep brain stimulation. Attila held technical leadership positions throughout the industry. After joining Canada Health Infoway, he worked tirelessly to improve distribution and access to digital health standards and shape the interoperability landscape for Canada using modern, 21st century solutions.
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Tuesday, April 19, 2022 | 1:30 PM - 2:15 PM (EST)
International Patient Summary and Canada's Role in It
Ben Cushing
Red Hat, Chief Architect, Federal Health
For two decades, Ben Cushing has been a leader in emerging technology solutions across multiple industries and is committed to radical innovation in healthcare. Before joining Red Hat, he served as the Chief Technology Officer for MDLogix, a behavioral health IT firm supporting Johns Hopkins Medicine. There he architected and brought to market a behavioural health cloud platform for use with employer, healthcare, and education markets.
In addition to supporting analytics and operations at the National Institutes of Health for 6 years, Cushing had the opportunity to practice a scaled agile framework with Accenture where he led the technical architecture and design for the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) Electronic Health Management Platform, an industry-leading Health Management and Care Coordination platform serving 9 million patients.
His tenure at Accenture began with the acquisition of Agilex, where he designed LSI solutions, developed systems to automate the Post-9/11 GI Bill, and supported in-theatre data collection and analytics tools. While at Agilex, Ben architected and led the development of a mobile Software Development Kit, still in use today by the VA to produce more than 60 applications.
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Tuesday, April 19, 2022 | 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM (ET)
Combatting Sepsis with AI automation at the edge
Dr. Cait O'Donnell
Smile CDR Inc., Manager of Research and Insights
Cait is Manager of Research and Insights at Smile CDR. Before joining Smile in 2020, Cait completed her doctorate in Palliative Care at the University of Waterloo. Her thesis, "Supporting Palliative Care in a Post Carter World," understood the systems and policy changes – at the Provincial and Federal levels -that are needed to support Palliative Care (it's clinicians and patients) in Canada. Cait's doctoral research was inspired by her 1O+ years of working closely alongside Palliative Care teams, establishing and leading a multi-disciplinary research team that sought to understand the impact of medical assistance in dying (MAID) on PC in Canada, as well as her work as a hospice ethicist. Her passion for supporting clinicians, improving patient care, and advancing the delivery of healthcare has always been the driving factor behind her work. Since joining Smile, Cait has headed the Research and Insights Team, focusing predominantly on the legislation driving interoperability in U.S. healthcare and how technology can support better global health.
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Wednesday, April 20, 2022 | 10:30 AM - 11:15AM (EST)
Let's be Transparent Understanding Price Transparency: What We Know and What We Don't
Chris Stoten
Smile CDR Inc., Director, Enterprise Architecture
Chris has been in the technology sector for over 20 years, the last 16 within healthcare. He's thrilled to be part of the Smile CDR team helping organizations liberate their health data.
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Tuesday, April 19, 2022 | 9:30 AM - 10:15 AM (EST)
Smile CDR Tips and Tricks: Insight from Implementations
Christopher Ford
Smile CDR Inc., Associate Vice President, Payer Solutions
Christopher joined Smile CDR in autumn 2021 as the Associate Vice President of Payer Solutions. He has 20+ years in the Health IT industry, as a solutions architect and leading technology and product teams in bringing new opportunities to market. He has worked on a broad range of solutions, including pharmacy, primary care, health benefits management, consumer health, virtual care, jurisdictional HIEs, and digital health interoperability platforms. Christopher has a particular passion for platform design thinking, and the application of digital marketplaces to enable the transformation of health and wellness ecosystems and businesses. As the lead for Payer solutions at Smile, Christopher is very interested in how compliance with CMS rules can provide a foundation for further innovation and drive value for Health Plans and across the ecosystem and enable #betterglobalhealth.
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Tuesday, April 19, 2022 | 11:30 AM - 12:15 PM (EST)
Enabling Digital Transformation for the Payer Community for Better Health Outcomes
Dr. Danny Ammon
Jena University Hospital, Head of Data Integration Centre
Dr. Danny Ammon heads the Data Integration Center at Jena University Hospital. He has been active for more than 10 years in the areas of processing, transmission and technical standardization of documentation in healthcare institutions. He also actively participates in the German country representations of international standardization organizations such as IHE and HL7 on specifications for interoperability in healthcare.
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Wednesday, April 20 2022 | 11:30 AM - 12:15 PM (EST)
Building a Data Integration Center with FHIR
Dr. David C. Rhew
Microsoft, Global Chief Medical Officer (CMO) and VP of Healthcare
Dr. David C. Rhew is the Global Chief Medical Officer (CMO) & VP of Healthcare for Microsoft. He is Adjunct Professor at Stanford University; holds six U.S. technology patents that enable authoring, mapping, and integration of clinical decision support into electronic health records; and has been recognized as one of the 50 most influential persons in healthcare by Modern Healthcare. Dr. Rhew received his Bachelors of Science degrees in computer science and cellular molecular biology from University of Michigan. He received his MD degree from Northwestern University and completed internal medicine residency at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. He completed fellowships in health services research at Cedars-Sinai and infectious diseases at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has served as CMO and VP for Samsung; SVP and CMO at Zynx Health Incorporated; clinician/researcher at the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System and RAND; and Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at UCLA. Dr. Rhew has served on the National Quality Forum’s Executive Committee for Consensus Standards and Approval, Chaired the Consumer Technology Association Health Technology Board, and sits on the Governing Committee for NESTcc (National Evaluation System for health Technology coordinating center), the medical device advisory group for the FDA, CMS, and NIH.
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Wednesday, April 20, 2022 | 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM (EST)
Major Trends and Opportunities in Digital Health
Denis Gagné
Trisotech, CEO & CTO
Denis Gagné is CEO and CTO of Trisotech, a leading Standard Based Low-Code Intelligent Automation enterprise software vendor. For more than two decades, Denis has been a driving force behind the majority of international BPM standards in use today. For the Object Management group (OMG), Denis is a member of the steering committee of the BPM+ Health Community of Practice, where is also leads the Ambassador program. He is Chair of the BPMN Interchange Working Group (BPMN MIWG) and an active contributing member to the Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN), the Case Management Model and Notation (CMMN), and the Decision Model and Notation (DMN).
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Wednesday, April 20, 2022 | 1:30 PM - 2:15 PM (EST)
Optimizing Preoperative Assessments: From Rules to Decisions and Decisions to Value
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Dariush Zomorrodi
Blanc Labs, CIO
Dariush is the Chief Innovation Officer at Blanc Labs. He collaborates with business and technology leaders to imagine and build the next generation of digital solutions for enterprise organizations and scaleup companies. Dariush uses his creative and entrepreneurial approach to innovate solutions that leverage emerging technologies in support of new business models, which makes clients more competitive in the fast pace digital world. Dariush has expertise in several industries including financial services, healthcare, and e-commerce.
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Wednesday, April 20, 2022 | 9:30 AM - 10:15 AM (EST)
Duncan Weatherston
Smile CDR Inc., Chief Executive Officer
Duncan Weatherston has been an IT professional and entrepreneur for 30 years, with a multidisciplinary background in business development, systems integration and support. As Smile CDR CEO, he is responsible for overseeing the senior team and providing leadership and vision for the company. Working with his co-founder, who is co-chair of the FHIR committee at HL7 and the maintainer of HAPI—the premier open source FHIR library in Java, Duncan has built an international business with clients in Australia and Europe, as well as North and South America. His extensive career includes lead roles with organizations that revitalize the healthcare management industry. Duncan has been a key architect in the delivery of longitudinal health records for the Province of Ontario as well as the design and delivery of integrated laboratory, hospital and medication records, shared Electronic Health Record (EHR) services, and identity and security services. He was the Technical Lead for the Ontario Digital Health Drug Repository (ODHDR), a database with over billions of records containing critical medication history of Ontarians. In addition to his experience in Health Systems Design, Duncan has a long history of technical service leadership, delivery and implementation stretching back to the late 1980s.
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Tuesday, April 19, 2022 | 8:30 AM - 9:15 AM (EST)
Jayn and Her Care Team in a Post Interoperability World
Florin Negoita
Smile CDR, Inc., Technical Implementation Lead
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Wednesday, April 20, 2022 | 11:30 AM - 12:15 PM (EST)
Learn About the International Patient Summary Implementation Guide
Igor Sirkovich
Smile CDR Inc., Senior FHIR Implementation Consultant and Senior Integration and Solution Architect
Igor Sirkovich is a Senior FHIR Implementation Consultant and Senior Integration and Solution Architect with 25 years of experience. His work experience includes senior consulting roles at Smile CDR, Ministry of Health of Ontario (Canada), Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, Ministry of Health of Israel, TELUS Health Solutions, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama, eHealth Ontario and dbMotion. Mr. Sirkovich is a chair of the Canadian FHIR Solution Architecture group and a lead of the Canadian FHIR Baseline Medications and Immunizations streams. In Canada, he had created FHIR Implementation Guides and led design and development of FHIR APIs for public health, pharmacy / medication management, client registry, laboratory, diagnostic imaging, referral, patient summary and other clinical domains. In the US, Igor led implementation of FHIR APIs based on the Da Vinci PDEX Payer Network (Plan-Net) specification and co-authored CARIN Consumer Directed Payer Data Exchange (CARIN for Blue Button®) FHIR Implementation Guide.
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Wednesday, April 20, 2022 | 1:30 PM - 2:15 PM (EST)
James Agnew
Smile CDR Inc., Chief Technology Officer
James Agnew is the Chief Technology Officer for Smile CDR. With more than 15 years of healthcare technology development and health informatics experience, he has built a reputation for being one of the top industry thought leaders. Over his career, he has built enterprise medical communication systems, integration platforms and mobile health apps that reduce barriers between information and care outcomes.
As an expert open-source advocate, and project lead for The HAPI Project, James has overseen the implementation of HL7 standards that are used in projects around the world. In addition, he was Lead Architect and Development Manager for eHI, a mobile health technology lab where he managed a team of software developers, UI/UX specialists, product owners, and a QA team for the creation of a suite of technologies for the management of chronic conditions.
When James was an Architect and Development Manager with Toronto’s University Health Network (UHN), he was instrumental in building a real-time, messaging and communication tool called UHN Whiteboard, which enabled care facilities and different disciplines within the network to communicate seamlessly. James was also the integration lead for the GTA (Toronto) HIAL and Provider Portal project for ConnectingGTA. In this role, he led the specification design for interoperability in an emerging regional health information exchange.
James holds a diploma in Computer Science from Algonquin College of Applied Art and Technology, as well as several professional certifications. He is also a co-chair with HL7.
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Wednesday, April 20, 2022 | 2:30 PM - 3:15 PM (EST)
Coming Soon
Blazing a Trail Towards the Internet of Health
Dr. John Svirbely
Trisotech, Chief Medical Information Officer
Board-certified pathologist with fellowships in Medical Microbiology and Biomedical Computing. Primary interest in medical algorithms.
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Wednesday, April 20, 2022 | 1:30 PM - 2:15 PM (EST)
Optimizing Preoperative Assessments: From Rules to Decisions and Decisions to Value
Laurie MacDougall Sookraj
Smile CDR Inc., Staff Software Developer
Laurie is a staff software developer at Smile CDR, with 13+ years experience in healthcare IT and a computer science degree from University of Toronto.
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Wednesday, April 20 2022 | 11:30 AM - 12:15 PM (EST)
How to Make Your FHIR Data Ingestion Smooth Like Butter
Lorraine Doo
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Senior Policy Advisor
Loraine Doo works on the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services Health Informatics and Interoperability group (HIIG) overseas CMS interoperability efforts, promoting the secure exchange, access, and use of electronic health information to support better informed decision making and a more efficient healthcare system. Their vision is a secure, connected health care system that empowers patients and their providers to access and use electronic health information to make better informed and more efficient decisions.
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Wednesday, April 20 2022 | 9:30 AM - 10:15 AM (EST)
Implementation Grit: Testing and Certification of Interoperability Rules
Mark Iantorno
Smile CDR Inc., Engineering Manager
Mark has been a developer for well over a decade, with the majority of that time spent in the Healthcare space, building software to empower patients and clinical care providers. When he's not programming, Mark enjoys gardening, making cheese, and herding cats.
Wednesday, April 20, 2022 | 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM (EST)
Meagan Peat
Smile CDR Inc., UI/UX Designer
Meagan is a user experience designer with Smile CDR. She is passionate about making accessible and usable applications and is always happy to talk about inclusive design and how to pick text colours that are readable by everyone. She enjoys running and participating in workshops to improve user experiences. Meagan hopes to keep helping Smile CDR continue to improve patient, practitioner, admin, and implementer experiences in the healthcare space. Having worked in medical reception in the past, she hopes FHIR will one day defeat the fax machine.
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Tuesday, April 19, 2022 | 11:30 AM - 12:15 PM (EST)
Using UX to Achieve Better Outcomes for You and Your Patients
Michael Buckley
Smile CDR Inc., Staff Software Developer
An experienced technologist, building new search solutions for FHIR.
Tuesday, April 19, 2022 | 9:30 AM - 10:15 AM (EST)
Elasticsearch and High Volume FHIR
Naman Demaghlatrous
MedX Health, CEO
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Wednesday, April 20 2022 | 9:30 AM - 10:15 AM (EST)
Neil Hsieh
Smile CDR Inc., Software Developer
Neil is a frontend developer creating Smart on FHIR applications to bring growth and adoption of FHIR across the world.
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Tuesday, April 19, 2022 | 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM (EST)
Nick Zamora
Healthchain Inc., CEO
Nick is the CEO of HealthChain Inc. which leverages advanced technologies to enable collaboration and accuracy for optimal medication management. Throughout his career, he has worked with global companies to bring practical digital solutions to market that address healthcare efficiency, quality, and safety issues. His diverse background includes roles as a clinician, hospital administrator, consultant and entrepreneur. Nick also consults with Smile CDR as their Market Development Lead.
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Wednesday, April 20, 2022 | 1:30 PM - 2:15 PM (EST)
Connected Medication Management
Omar Hoblos
Smile CDR Inc., Technical Implementations Lead and SMART App Developer
A true jack of all trades, Omar has accumulated a broad range of experience from many sides of the healthcare space - from developing case management systems to architecture & identity management. His passion lies with web development, figuring out how new features & application designs can be used to further improve his craft. Though, as a consequence of working with SMART apps, he's earned himself the nickname "OIDC guy". When he's not at his desk solving the next healthcare challenge, he's travelling around the city, playing card games with friends, or messing around with his cat Lilith.
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Tuesday, April 19, 2022 | 1:30 PM - 2:15 PM (EST)
Testing Your Federated OIDC setup with Swiss on FHIR
Dr. Paul Ziemer
MedX Health, General Manager
Dr. Paul Ziemer has been involved in clinical practice management and medical devices for over 20 years. He is committed to improving the patient experience through the use of new and emerging technologies that allow for clinicians to do their job easier and faster. Paul is now the General Manager at MedX Health and is leading the clinical implementation of DermSecure worldwide.
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Wednesday, April 20 2022 | 9:30 AM - 10:15 AM (EST)
Dr. Rebecca Jacobson
Astrata Inc., President
Dr. Rebecca Jacobson is President of Astrata, a software and analytics company that is changing the way that healthcare quality is measured. With more than 25 years of experience in Health Informatics and Natural Language Processing in academics, healthcare and industry, Dr. Jacobson takes the long view of change in healthcare. Working with SMILE CDR, Astrata is one of a handful of companies at the cutting edge of the digital quality transformation, using FHIR, CQL and NLP to help payers and providers improve the quality of healthcare they deliver.
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Tuesday, April 19, 2022 | 1:30 PM - 2:15 PM (EST)
How to Stop Failing at Measuring Healthcare Quality
Sandy Vance
Counterpoint Solutions, President and Founder Centre
Sandy Vance is the Health Level Seven International FHIR Connection Administrator who convenes hundreds of stakeholders several times each year to build and test the FHIR specification. Ms. Vance was instrumental in developing the conformance testing process for the DaVinci Project and has managed the CMS FHIR Connection since its inception. Sandy has worked with health IT standards initiatives and the communities that support them for her entire career.
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Wednesday, April 20 2022 | 9:30 AM - 10:15 AM (EST)
Implementation Grit: Testing and Certification of Interoperability Rules
Dr. Shane McNamee
Smile CDR Inc., Chief Medical Information Officer
Clinical Solution Architect, Patient, Doctor, and Payer who is passionately dedicated to designing, building & integrating highly usable, information technology tools that actually improve healthcare quality, efficiency & costs for all key all healthcare participants using open standards and open source health IT ethos.
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Tuesday, April 19, 2022 | 9:30 AM - 10:15 AM (EST)
Healing Healthcare’s Ills Using Open Standard, Event Driven Data Fabrics
Stoyan Halkaliev
NursIT Institute GmbH, CEO
Stoyan Halkaliev, Dipl.-Inf., studied computer science and economics at the University of Hamburg (Germany) and has completed successfully the Advanced Management Program (AMP) at the Harvard Business Scholl (Boston, US). In 2002 he co-founded the MEDNOVO Medical Software solutions and was its CEO until 2015. He has more than 20 years of experience in the field of healthcare software and IT and is an expert in this specific market. Since 2015 he is a co-founder and CEO of the NursIT Institute GmbH, an early adopter of FHIR technologies, a company offering software solutions to optimize the nursing process in hospitals.
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Wednesday, April 20 2022 | 11:30 AM - 12:15 PM (EST)
Building a Data Integration Center with FHIR
Sophie Tekeste
Smile CDR Inc., Product Developer and Data Modeler
Sophie is a FHIR data modelling specialist and product developer at Smile CDR, with a biomedical engineering degree from Ryerson University.
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Wednesday, April 20 2022 | 11:30 AM - 12:15 PM (EST)
How to Make Your FHIR Data Ingestion Smooth Like Butter
Taha Attari
Smile CDR Inc., Associate Front-End Developer
Taha thinks front-end development is about making useful and interesting interactive experiences. For some reason, people keep paying him to make online forms instead. He finds the endless applications of his work in Healthcare fascinating and looks forward to learning more about how he can make Health data truly accessible to the people who create and use it.
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Tuesday, April 19, 2022 | 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM (EST)
Timothy Bennett
Drummond Group, Director of Strategic Healthcare Initiatives
Timothy leads the development of new testing and certification programs to benefit the national healthcare interoperability strategy. As the former director of the firm’s ONC Accredited Test Lab (ATL), he has been involved in testing electronic health records (EHR) systems since the ONC program inception in September 2010 and has additionally served as the test lab’s lead technical adviser. Prior to healthcare compliance testing, Timothy facilitated numerous interoperability test programs, specifically the design of secure and private exchange of documents and information using internet and security standards. With a degree in nuclear engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, he has been instrumental in developing, architecting and testing software systems for more than 30 years. As a member of the ONC FAST (FHIR at Scale Taskforce) Tiger Team, Timothy is currently working on developing testing and certification protocols for the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard. He also is actively facilitating collaborations with various organizations and interested parties in the areas of testing and certifying healthcare compliance of pediatrics, patient safety and usability, FHIR and public health. Finally, Timothy was the principal author of the OASIS AS4 standard, a profile of the ebXML Messaging Services v3.0 specification that specifies the secure and private exchange of data using web services.
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Wednesday, April 20 2022 | 9:30 AM - 10:15 AM (EST)
Implementation Grit: Testing and Certification of Interoperability Rules
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Tuesday, April 19 2022 | 11:30 AM - 12:15 PM (EST)
FHIR in the Spotlight of Federal Regulations
Umair Khalid
Amazon Web Services, Partner Solution Architect - Healthcare and Life Sciences
Umair is a Partner Solutions Architect helping global AWS Partners build healthcare and life sciences solutions in the cloud. Umair has 10+ years of experience in software development and engineering space and is passionate about building frictionless experiences which simplify healthcare delivery for patients.
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Tuesday, April 19 2022 | 1:30 PM - 2:15 PM (EST)