A guide to interoperability at HIMSS17
Interoperability is among the HIMSS conference’s hottest topics for the last several years running. And that will certainly be the case at HIMSS17 in February again this year.
The show floor features the HIMSS17 Interop Showcase, for instance, while many sessions and forums will highlight the hardest challenges, promising innovations and the big potential of health data interoperability.
Here is our rundown of interoperability events to expect:
Using innovation to advance interoperability
Experts will outline progress by the Center for Medical Interoperability to drive changes that improve patient safety, care quality and outcomes, as well as reducing clinician burden and waste. They will also detail innovative approaches CMMI is applying to connecting health IT and devices with the end goal of improving real-time information flow.
Speaker: Kelly Aldrich, Chief Clinical Transformation Officer, Center for Medical Interoperability
When: February 19, 2017 at 2 PM – 3 PM
Where: Tangerine Ballroom, F3
The Interoperability Roadmap in practice
This session provides an update on progress made on the Shared Nationwide Interoperability Roadmap (published by the Office of the National Coordinator ONC, HHS) and will offer an assessment of policies including payment reform in context of MACRA rule.
Speaker: Josh Mandel, MD, Health IT Ecosystem Lead, Verily
When: February 19, 2017 at 08:15AM EST - 09:15AM EST
Where: 331A
Interoperability testing and certification
Semantic interoperability and meaningful health information exchange and integration relies on consistent interpretation and adoption of health-IT standards. This session describes methods that EHR vendors, HIEs and healthcare organizations can use to improve certification of health-IT products for Meaningful Use and MACRA. The session also provides lessons learned from previous certification activities and identifies testing tools that facilitate consistent adoption of standards such as C-CDA.
Speakers: John Donnelly, President, Interpro Solutions
Elliott Sloane, President, Center for Health Information Research and Policy
Robert Snelick, project lead for conformance tooling, NIST
When: February 19, 2017 at 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Where: 331A
The impact of interoperability on patient populations
Health information exchanges can impact the health of a population with their work to move data from one point to another, thereby enabling them play a vital role in communities and healthcare organizations. Two successful health organizations are practicing HIE to improve the health of their populations.
Speakers: Micky Tripathi, MPP, PhD, CEO, Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative
Larry Garber,, MD, Medical Director for Informatics, Reliant Medical Group
When: February 19, 2017 at 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM
Where: Regency Ballroom R
Overcome challenges and obstacles to achieving interoperability
Now that meaningful use has sparked near-ubiquitous implementation of electronic health records, providers, policymakers and technology vendors are focusing on enabling interoperability more than ever. This session addresses the definitions of interoperability, realistic outcomes and gaps, as well as formal structures already in place. Speakers will share implementation steps and challenges.
Speakers: Kathleen Sheehan, Director, UHS, Inc.
Sindhu Kammath, MD, Clinical Informaticist, UHS, Inc.
When: February 21, 2017 at 10 AM – 11 AM
Where: 311A
Interoperability matters: Impact on mammography outcomes
This interactive, educational session will share an interoperability use case in mammography, discuss how this model can be applied to other imaging-intensive specialties and how to develop enterprise-friendly medical image-sharing implementations that will pay dividends for patient outcomes.
Speakers: Kathryn Pearson, MD, Breast Imaging Radiologist and Women’s Imaging Consultant, LifeIMAGE
Wyatt Tellis, Director of Imaging Solutions, University of California San Francisco
When: February 23, 2017 at 10:30 AM - 11:30AM EST
Where: 303A
Tearing down interoperability barriers: Real life impact on business, technology and people
Panelists will address real world examples of interoperability in action, share insights about the impact on provider workflow and on individuals. The discussion will include a look at how and why these examples have worked and the technologies that are critical to making that happen.
Speakers: Shaun Grannis, MD, MS Interim Director and Investigator, Regenstrief Center for Biomedical Informatics
Dick Thompson, Executive Director and CEO, Quality Health Network
Aaron Seib, CEO, National Association for Trusted Exchange
Stanley Huff, MD, Chief Medical Informatics Officer, Intermountain Healhtcare
Kashif Rathore, Senior Director of Interoperability, Cerner
When: February 21, 2017 at 7:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Where: HIMSS Interoperability Showcase Theater [a part of the Tangerine Ballroom on the Exhibition Floor]
Driving superior outcomes through consumer-facing interoperability and data exchange
Patient-generated health data is on the rise. But determining which information and sources are useful and, from there, building a way to collect the data and make it part of doctor’s decision-making processes is a formidable task. Industry experts will discuss trends in PGHD, offer advice on overcoming the challenges and outline innovations that are enabling providers to activate patients.
Speakers: Lygeia Ricciardi, President, Clear Voice Consulting
Steven Lane, MD, Clinical Informatics Physician Director, Sutter Health
Michael Kirwan, VP, Continua, Personal Connected Health Alliance
When: February 19, 2017 — 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM
Where: 331A
State Medicaid agency interoperability
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT and other agencies have issued interoperability guidance that are opening opportunities to enable a nationwide interoperability model for Medicaid. Experts during this session will outline those and share tips about leveraging health information exchanges to accelerate interoperability at the state leves.
Speakers: David Hill, Principal, The Mitre Corp.
Martin Rice, Director of State Systems at CMS
When: February 22, 2017 4 PM — 5:00 PM
Where: Room 303A
Related HIMSS17 guides:
⇒ A guide to precision medicine at HIMSS17
⇒ A guide to cybersecurity at HIMSS17
⇒ A guide to population health at HIMSS17
⇒ A guide to Women in Health IT happenings at HIMSS17
HIMSS17 runs from Feb. 19-23, 2017 at the Orange County Convention Center.
This article is part of our ongoing coverage of HIMSS17. Visit Destination HIMSS17 for previews, reporting live from the show floor and after the conference.
