Thank you for being part of the 2022 Annual Meeting
We’d like to thank all participants of this year’s Annual Meeting, this year’s success is due to your participation and commitment to Carequality. This was our first in-person meeting following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, and it was wonderful to see so many new and familiar faces, that we hope to see again next year. Finally we’d like to send out a special thank you to our speakers and panelists who dedicated their time and expertise to help make this year’s meeting truly memorable.
Although the annual meeting may be over, there are still a slew of important things happeing at Carequality. We’ll be posting videos from this year’s annual meeting in a couple of weeks, along with other important information you’ll want to receive.
Carequality Board of Director’s Chairman Seth Selkow will open the annual meeting share the latest developments and upcoming priorities for 2023.
From federal agency connectivity to push notifications and patient access, 2022 was a year of achievement! We’ll also look ahead to planned 2023 activities.
As Executive Director of Carequality, Alan Swenson guides the development and implementation of the Carequality Interoperability Framework, the leading, nationwide trusted exchange framework enabling health data sharing across and among different types of networks and service providers. First implemented in July 2016, the framework now supports the exchange of more than 300M documents a month across more than 4,200 hospitals and 50,000 clinics. Alan also leads Carequality in supporting The Sequoia Project as the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s (ONC’s) Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) Recognized Coordinating Entity (RCE). Alan has spent more than a decade focused on health IT interoperability. Before leading Carequality, he helped lead an exponential increase in patient record sharing through direct collaboration with hundreds of healthcare systems and provider organizations, EHR vendors, HIEs, HISPs, PHRs, payers, government agencies, and other digital health platforms. He has also volunteered with The Sequoia Project, National Association for the Support of Long-Term Care (NASL), CommonWell Health Alliance, DirectTrust, National Quality Forum, and HIMSS, among other industry interoperability initiatives.
This year the Payment and Operations Workgroup focused on care coordination. As we near publishing the policy for feedback, co-chairs will preview the critical details including requirement to respond to queries.
Matt is the Vice President of Interoperability at Kno2, where his focus is on improving interoperability across the entire continuum of care. He is responsible for overseeing specific projects aimed to extend interoperability into hard-to-reach markets, and groups not previously part of government incentive programs to drive interoperability, such as LTPAC, behavioral health, EMS and more. Matt actively volunteers and contributes to standards development and rulemaking. He is an elected member of the Carequality Steering Committee. He also participates with CommonWell, DirectTrust™, HIMSS, NASL, PAICO Project, The Sequoia Project, and 360X Referral Management Protocol among other industry interoperability initiatives.
Justin McMartin is the Manager of the Clinical History and Direct Product team at Surescripts. He focuses on expanding the impact of our clinical history solutions, Care Event Notifications, Record Locator & Exchange and Clinical Direct Messaging.
Justin has 15 years of experience in health information technology and has served in roles leading product development, marketing, implementation and support of interoperability solutions. He also plays an active role in the trust framework community by participating in various DirectTrust and Carequality workgroups and committees. For fun, Justin is in his second year of law school at Mitchell Hamline School of Law and enjoys raising his small herd of Shorthorn cattle in rural Minnesota with his family.
Bryan is an innovator that leads Clinical & Interoperability Data Products across the CVS Health enterprise including Pharmacy, Aetna, Caremark, Specialty, and other lines of business.
He believes that serving patients and members requires curating the person’s individual clinical records, health measures, SDOH considerations, and a variety of preferences to deliver quality, effective, and cost-efficient care. His mission to overcome barriers in clinical data exchange between organizations, and within CVS Health, to measurably improve Patient/member experiences and TPO use case performance.
He is on the Carequality Advisory Council and an advocate for broad adoption of clinical data exchange between covered entities. He also holds multiple US Patents covering clinical algorithms and secure patient messaging.
Senior Vice President of Product Development Derek Plansky joined Health Gorilla in May and guides product vision, strategy, design, and development. Previously, Plansky was president and founder of Informatic Ideas, a consultancy firm. Prior to that, he was Vice President of Product Innovation at Sandlot Solutions, a SaaS-based HIE solution, and Director of Solutions Architecture at MedPlus, now Quest Diagnostics. He was also the Director of Solutions Engineering at Seisint, where he productized an early-stage big data solution that is now the core of LexisNexis’ Risk Information and Analytics division.
New in 2022, Carequality is encouraging more peer-to-peer collaboration and learning with unconference sessions. Attendees can choose from a variety of topics for participant-driven discussions in small groups facilitated by staff and guest experts.
Thanks to our tireless workgroup volunteers, the FHIR implementation guide (IG) received significant updates in 2022, which will particularly appeal to the payer community. A showcase of those revisions and implementers interested in pursuing FHIR with Carequality.
Jason Vogt, Manager and Technical Project Manager at MEDITECH, leads the FHIR API and Structured Documents Interoperability Development Team, championing the vision for APIs and interoperability.
He has served as the Chair of CommonWell’s Standards, Technology, & Implementation Group (STIG), which develops functionality to advance the alliance’s vision of accessible health data, since 2018. He is a member of many CommonWell committees and workgroups, including Data Quality and FHIR. As an active member of FHIR related workgroups and accelerators including Argonaut, FAST and Carequality, Jason focuses on advocating for increased interoperability and use of FHIR standards.
Bringing boundless positive energy to everything she takes on, Marilee is passionate about using interoperable technology to improve the lives and health outcomes for patients.
Marilee has thirty-two years of experience in the healthcare information technology sector, currently as President of Zen Healthcare IT, a company she co-founded in 2015. Under her leadership over the past seven years, Zen has become a trusted interoperability technology partner working with a diverse set of healthcare stakeholders including leading regional and national health information exchanges, healthcare IT / digital health vendors, provider groups, and managed care organizations.
She believes that collaboration is the key to removing interoperability barriers, and is active in a number of industry workgroups, including the Carequality Advisory Committee and the HIMSS Interoperability and HIE Committee.
David has been working with Healthcare IT in the EMEA, U.S.A. and other regions providing technical design, strategic advice and training for organizations and governments for over 15 years. David is a subject matter expert in HIEs and health IT standards including FHIR, privacy and security. David is a trainer on FHIR and FHIR implementation guide creation, the technical architect of the TEFCA QHIN Technical Framework, Facilitated FHIR IG and SOPs and author of public and private FHIR Implementation Guides. He is aco-chair and member of technical workgroups for healthcare IT standards development organizations including IHE and HL7. As an active member of HL7 International, David is a member of the Technical Steering Committee, a Project Lead on the FHIR Consent Resource project and co-chair of the Community-Based Care and Privacy Workgroup.
Labib has spent the past decade as a product manager, shipping products as varied as Wall Street trading platforms, enterprise-grade hardware from Shenzhen, and experiments in pharmacy automation at the Hospital das Clínicas in São Paulo. He holds a B.S in Biomedical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University. Labib has returned to his roots in healthcare technology at Particle Health, where he leads the Particle API and integrations team.
Jennifer Blumenthal is the Co-Founder and CEO of OneRecord. OneRecord is a digital health company that empowers consumers to access, aggregate, and share their healthcare data with the people and organizations that they trust.
Ms. Blumenthal has become an expert in everything related to FHIR, Patient-Mediated Interoperability, and the 21st Century Cures Act. Ms. Blumenthal is actively involved in HIT industry initiatives including but not limited to her roles as a board member of The Sequoia Project, Chair of Consumer-Facing Technology on Carequality's Steering Committee, Chair of the Privacy and Security Committee at the CommonWell Health Alliance and an active role at the CARIN Alliance promoting patient access and consumer directed-exchange.
This past September, OneRecord was acquired by Milliman IntelliScript®, an insurtech company with risk assessment solutions for life and health insurers.
An in-depth discussion of how patient requests work within Carequality, including important updates about requirements to respond.
Jennifer Blumenthal is the Co-Founder and CEO of OneRecord. OneRecord is a digital health company that empowers consumers to access, aggregate, and share their healthcare data with the people and organizations that they trust.
Ms. Blumenthal has become an expert in everything related to FHIR, Patient-Mediated Interoperability, and the 21st Century Cures Act. Ms. Blumenthal is actively involved in HIT industry initiatives including but not limited to her roles as a board member of The Sequoia Project, Chair of Consumer-Facing Technology on Carequality's Steering Committee, Chair of the Privacy and Security Committee at the CommonWell Health Alliance and an active role at the CARIN Alliance promoting patient access and consumer directed-exchange.
This past September, OneRecord was acquired by Milliman IntelliScript®, an insurtech company with risk assessment solutions for life and health insurers.
Genevieve is a health IT policy wonk who leads Change Healthcare’s interoperability strategy for the medical networks team. Prior to joining Change Healthcare, Genevieve worked as an independent contractor for a number of health IT companies, helping them understand the health IT regulatory landscape and build product roadmaps to meet the needs of individuals across the healthcare ecosystem. Genevieve also served as the Principal Deputy National Coordinator, supporting the development of the information blocking regulation. She also developed the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) policy. Genevieve also served as the Chief Health Information Officer for the VA’s Office of EHR Modernization.
With over two decades in health IT, Paul L Wilder has held various roles focusing on imaging, clinical informatics and interoperability. As the Executive Director of CommonWell Health Alliance, he runs the not-for-profit trade association devoted to the simple vision that health data should be available to individuals and caregivers regardless of where care occurs. CommonWell members have deployed CommonWell services across its network in all 50 states, Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C. More than 25k provider sites are utilizing these services daily.
A lively discussion of Carequality’s role in supporting TEFCA, as well as the key differentiators of the government-endorsed TEFCA and the private sector-driven Carequality frameworks.
As Executive Director of Carequality, Alan Swenson guides the development and implementation of the Carequality Interoperability Framework, the leading, nationwide trusted exchange framework enabling health data sharing across and among different types of networks and service providers. First implemented in July 2016, the framework now supports the exchange of more than 300M documents a month across more than 4,200 hospitals and 50,000 clinics. Alan also leads Carequality in supporting The Sequoia Project as the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s (ONC’s) Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) Recognized Coordinating Entity (RCE). Alan has spent more than a decade focused on health IT interoperability. Before leading Carequality, he helped lead an exponential increase in patient record sharing through direct collaboration with hundreds of healthcare systems and provider organizations, EHR vendors, HIEs, HISPs, PHRs, payers, government agencies, and other digital health platforms. He has also volunteered with The Sequoia Project, National Association for the Support of Long-Term Care (NASL), CommonWell Health Alliance, DirectTrust, National Quality Forum, and HIMSS, among other industry interoperability initiatives.
Alexandra Mugge is the Deputy Chief Health Informatics Officer at the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services. She has been with CMS since 2010 and during that time she has worked on multiple CMS quality reporting and value-based purchasing programs, with a focus on health IT.
National Coordinator for Health Information Technology Dr. Micky Tripathi will share the journey of TEFCA development and implementation, and their vision as the first prospective QHINs move toward designation and go-live.
Micky Tripathi is the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, where he leads the formulation of the federal health IT strategy and coordinates federal health IT policies, standards, programs, and investments.
Dr. Tripathi has over 20 years of experience across the health IT landscape. He most recently served as Chief Alliance Officer for Arcadia, a health care data and software company focused on population health management and value-based care, the project manager of the Argonaut Project, an industry collaboration to accelerate the adoption of FHIR, and a board member of HL7, the Sequoia Project, the CommonWell Health Alliance, and the CARIN Alliance.
Dr. Tripathi served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative (MAeHC), a non-profit health IT advisory and clinical data analytics company. He was also the founding President and CEO of the Indiana Health Information Exchange, a statewide HIE partnered with the Regenstrief Institute, an Executive Advisor to investment firm LRVHealth, and a Fellow at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.
He holds a PhD in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a Master of Public Policy from Harvard University, and an AB in political science from Vassar College. Prior to receiving his PhD, he was a Presidential Management Fellow and a senior operations research analyst in the Office of the Secretary of Defense in Washington, DC, for which he received the Secretary of Defense Meritorious Civilian Service Medal.
Since TEFCA was published in January 2022, the broader community has turned its attention to further use cases including aspects of payment and healthcare operations.
Zoe Barber has a decade of experience working to advance health IT adoption, health information exchange, and interoperability. She currently serves as Policy Director for the Sequoia Project where she leads the organization’s government affairs and industry relations strategy on the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA), information blocking, and other legislative and regulatory activities impacting the health IT landscape. Previously, she served as Senior Manager of Federal Policy at the New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC),NY’s State Designated Entity charged with the governance, coordination, and administration of the Statewide Health Information Network for New York (SHIN-NY). Zoe also worked as a SeniorPolicy Advisor at the HHS Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC)on nationwide health information network initiatives. She holds a Master’s Degree in Public Health from the George Washington University and a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science from Lehigh University.
With over two decades in health IT, Paul L Wilder has held various roles focusing on imaging, clinical informatics and interoperability. As the Executive Director of CommonWell Health Alliance, he runs the not-for-profit trade association devoted to the simple vision that health data should be available to individuals and caregivers regardless of where care occurs. CommonWell members have deployed CommonWell services across its network in all 50 states, Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C. More than 25k provider sites are utilizing these services daily.
Genevieve is a health IT policy wonk who leads Change Healthcare’s interoperability strategy for the medical networks team. Prior to joining Change Healthcare, Genevieve worked as an independent contractor for a number of health IT companies, helping them understand the health IT regulatory landscape and build product roadmaps to meet the needs of individuals across the healthcare ecosystem. Genevieve also served as the Principal Deputy National Coordinator, supporting the development of the information blocking regulation. She also developed the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) policy. Genevieve also served as the Chief Health Information Officer for the VA’s Office of EHR Modernization.
Dr. Matthew A. Eisenberg joined Stanford Health Care in early 2013 and is the Associate Chief Medical Information Officer. Stanford Health Care is a not-for-profit academic healthcare system with leading edge clinical capabilities that is part of Stanford Medicine. Stanford Health Care seeks to heal humanity through science and compassion one patient at a time and its mission is to care, to educate, and to discover. In his role at Stanford Health Care, Dr. Eisenberg focuses on interoperability and health information exchange as well as government and regulatory reporting, health care analytics, patient reported outcomes and other uses of technology to meet our strategic initiatives.
A discussion about the principles to secure exchange and the expectations for QHINs and participants.
Johnathan Coleman currently serves as the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for the TEFCA Recognized Coordinating Entity (RCE)and provides SME support to the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health IT and the Defense Health Agency (DHA). He previously worked as Coordinator for the ONC Standards and Interoperability (S&I) Framework and led several projects including the Data Segmentation for Privacy (DS4P)and Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) Data Tagging projects. Johnathan has a BEng in Aeromechanical Systems Engineering from the Royal Military College of Science in UK, maintains professional security certifications including CISSP, CISM and CRISC, and co-chairs the Community Based Care and Privacy workgroup at Health Level 7 (HL7) International.
As the first QHINs prepare to go-live, the RCE is turning its focus on addressing the need to support exchange for public health purposes. This panel features experts who will highlight specific challenges facing public health data sharing and plans to expand interoperability.
Debbie Condrey has over 33 years of experience in information technology, mostly in state government. Her career began as a math teacher in the secondary education. She then moved on to an applications analyst position with the Virginia Department of Transportation where she quickly progressed to the Director of IT for the Department. When the Governor of Virginia made the decision to consolidate all information technology services in Virginia under one Agency, Debbie was named the Director of Customer Relationship Management for the Virginia Information Technologies Agency. In 2009, Debbie moved on to the Chief Information Officer Virginia for the Virginia Department of Health, where her goal to make a direct difference for the citizens of Virginia truly came to fruition. Under Debbie’s leadership, key health information tools such as the All Payer Claims Database, the Health Information Exchange (Connect Virginia HIE) and the Emergency Department Care Coordination Program were implemented. The latter project achieved interoperability among the 122 hospitals in Virginia and payers in Virginia; a key step toward delivering health care to the citizens at the right time and in the right setting. In June 2019, Debbie retired from state government and joined The Sequoia Project, Inc as the Chief Information Officer. In this role, she is responsible for managing and overseeing all IT-related projects for Sequoia and works closely with eHealth Exchange and Carequality. Her background and heart for public service fit perfectly with the mission of The Sequoia Project – advancing health information technology interoperability for the public good.
Rachel Abbey, MPH, is a Public Health Analyst with the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. Rachel is currently with ONC’s Office of Policy and supports ONC’s public health, emergency preparedness and Emergency Medical Services and health information exchange activities. Before joining ONC in 2013, Rachel served for nine years as the Project Manager for the Montgomery County, Maryland Advanced Practice Center for Public Health Preparedness. Over the span of her career, Rachel has worked at the national, state and local level for almost 20 years in the areas of environmental health, emergency preparedness, violence prevention, maternal and child health and health information technology. Rachel received her Bachelor of Arts in Peace and Global Studies from Earlham College and her Master in Public Health from the University of Maryland, School of Public Health.
Over the past 25 years Jay Nakashima has designed and implemented EHRs, optimized clinical workflow, and spearheaded data exchange. Jay has worked for health IT vendors, providers, payers, and now leads the eHealth Exchange, the nation’s oldest and largest health information network. Convening industry and government, the eHealth Exchange is dedicated to addressing the challenges of secure, health information exchange to improve patient care.
Jay began his career with IBM Asia Pacific headquarters in Tokyo, specializing in technology research and development, but focused the subsequent 25 years on health information technology. After IBM, Jay earned an MBA, served as the CIO of Colorado's largest health plan, Vice President of Product Management for a major EHR vendor, and joined DaVita to align business needs with advanced technology solutions.
At DaVita, beyond the technology side of interoperability, Jay faced on the healthcare landscape, healthcare regulations, health technology standards, and interoperability best practices. In 2018, Jay joined eHealth Exchange as its Vice President and Executive Director. eHealth Exchange is now the nation's largest health information exchange.
In 2018, Jay joined eHealth Exchange as its Executive Director. Convening industry and government, the eHealth Exchange is dedicated to addressing the challenges of secure, health information exchange to improve patient care. eHealth Exchange is now the nation's largest health information exchange. Over the past 25 years Jay Nakashima has designed and implemented EHRs, optimized clinical workflow, and spearheaded data exchange.
Kyle Russell is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Virginia Health Information (VHI), the non-profit organization which operates the Commonwealth's Health Information Exchange (HIE), Emergency Department Care Coordination Program (EDCCP), All Payer Claims Database (APCD) and several other data collection systems. He joined VHI in 2013 and has previously held roles within the organization overseeing strategic partnerships, analytical reporting and program performance. Prior to joining VHI, Kyle managed revenue cycle operations at Hospital Corporation of America (HCA). He holds a Masters of Science in Decision Analytics and a Bachelors of Science in Finance from Virginia Commonwealth University where he was a Dean's Scholar awardee. He serves as adjunct faculty within the VCU Master of Health Administration (MHA) Program, has been published in several academic journals including Health Affairs and sits on the Board of Directors for the National Association of Health Data Organizations (NAHDO) and Covenant Woods Continuing Care Retirement Community.
Adam Harrell, serves as the Associate Director of the Office of Emergency Medical Services and has 11 years of service at the Virginia Department of Health. He began his career as a Paramedic serving Halifax County, Virginia and later relocated to Fairfax County when he began work with VDH as an EMS Program Representative for the Northern Virginia Region. In his time with VDH Adam has served as an Educational Specialist, Business Manager, and Associate Director.
Adam has presented nationally on Virginia’s Emergency Medical Services data programs; many of which serve as a best practice model for state EMS data registries. He is an active participant and serves as the State of Virginia’s EMS Data Manager with the National Association of State EMS Officials (NASEMSO).
Adam holds undergraduate degrees in management and accounting from Liberty University, a MBA and MPA from Liberty University, a Doctorate of Divinity and is a doctoral candidate in business administration. In addition to multiple specialty certifications in emergency medical services, information technology, data science/analytics, and project management; he is also an ordained minister and adjunct professor for multiple universities.
A 1995 graduate of the US Coast Guard Academy, Mike began his IT career in 2001 and has primarily stayed within healthcare-related IT since then. In 2016 he graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University with a Master’s in Information Systems, concentrating on data issues. Since then, he has focused on the intersection and interplay between Data Governance, Management, Architecture, and Engineering concepts. Mike is currently leading VDH’s initiative to migrate its data environment to GCP.
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