Time

Topic

Speaker

7:30 am – 8:00 am

Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:00 – 8:15am

Introduction

Tim Wong
President, New England HIMSS

Director, Application Services, Emerson Hospital

8:15 – 9:00am

Clinical Interoperability and Its Impact on Practice Transformation

Larry Garber, MD
Medical Director of Informatics, Reliant Medical Group

9:15 – 10:00am

Overview of 2018-2019 Massachusetts Health Policy

Senator Harriette L. Chandler
(D-Worcester), Massachusetts Senate President Emerita

10:00 – 11:30pm

Industry Progress Toward Interoperability

Renee Broadbent MBA,

SVP Population Health at Holon Solutions, former AVP Population Health & IT Strategy at UMass Memorial Medical Center
 

John D’Amore, MS
President & Chief Strategy Officer, Diameter Health

11:30 – 12:00pm

Advocacy for Interoperability

Pam Varhol, MS, MBA, CAHIMS, RHIA, CPC
Associate Dean Faculty, Health Information Management, College of Online and Continuing Education (COCE), Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU)

12:00 – 1:00pm

Lunch and Networking

1:00 – 1:15pm

NE HIMSS Announcements and Remarks

Tim Wong
President, New England HIMSS

1:15 – 2:45pm

Regional Innovations in Interoperability

David Whitham
ACIO for Health and Eligibility and CIO for Mass Medicaid at MA EOHHS
 

Allan Hackney CISM, CRISC
Health Information Technology Officer, Office of the Lt. Governor State of CT

2:45 – 3:00pm

Closing Remarks

Jeff Loughlin
President-Elect, New England HIMSS
Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative

Renee Broadbent
Senior Vice President for Population Health
Holon Solutions

Renee Broadbent is the Senior Vice President for Population Health at Holon Solutions. She is a senior level executive with an extensive background in Information Technology and Information Security. She has held the role of Chief Information Officer and Chief Information Security Officer in both hospital health systems as well as Managed Care Organizations (MSO). Most recently, Ms. Broadbent served as AVP of Population Health Information Technology and Strategy at UMass Memorial Health Care in Worcester, Massachusetts and was part of the leadership team that achieved $22 million in savings for the Accountable Care Organization. Additionally, she led the data and analytics team to help Umass Memorial Health Care achieve HIMSS Stage 7 Analytics for both inpatient and outpatient, one of 2% of health systems in the country to achieve this honor.

Senator Harriette L. Chandler
(D-Worcester), Massachusetts Senate President Emerita
 

2147483647. Harriette L. Chandler (D-Worcester) is currently the Massachusetts Senate President Emerita, and previously served as the Senate President from December 2017 to July 2018. She is the chair of the Senate Committee on Steering and Policy, vice chair of the Joint Committee on Higher Education, and also serves as Co-Chair of the Prevention for Health Caucus and Co-Chair of the Legislature’s Oral Health Caucus.

She began her political career when she was elected to the Worcester School Committee in 1991. She served on the Worcester School Committee from 1991-1994, three terms in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1995-2001, and became the first Worcester woman to be elected to the Massachusetts State Senate when she was elected in November of 2000.

She is currently in her ninth two-year term in the Senate. She has moved up through leadership positions in the Senate, starting out as Assistant Majority Whip and then becoming Majority Whip, Assistant Majority Leader, Majority Leader, and Senate President. She was the second woman in Massachusetts history to serve as Assistant Majority Leader, the second woman in Massachusetts history to serve as Majority Leader, and second female Senate President.

John D’Amore, MS
President & Chief Strategy Officer Diameter Health
 

John D’Amore, MS has over fifteen years’ experience providing informatics and strategic insight to healthcare organizations. He is Founder of Diameter Health and is dedicated to improving healthcare quality and efficiency through the intelligent use of data.

Previously, John was Vice President at Eclipsys (now Allscripts) overseeing enterprise performance management solutions. Before then, John worked at the largest health system in Texas overseeing clinical informatics, decision support and business intelligence. During his tenure, Memorial Hermann won accolades for its financial performance as well as the National Quality Forum Award for exceptional clinical care.

John has published on best practices in population health and presented at national forums on how information technology can improve medical outcomes. He is a technical advisor to the National Committee for Quality Assurance and a primary editor of HL7’s standard for care summaries, the Consolidated Clinical Document Architecture. He holds a biochemistry degree from Harvard University and a graduate degree in clinical informatics from the University of Texas, School of Biomedical Informatics.

Larry Garber, MD
Medical Director of Informatics

Reliant Medical Group

Dr. Garber is a practicing Internist, board-certified Clinical Informaticist, and Medical Director for Informatics at Reliant Medical Group, a 500-provider multispecialty group practice. He is Chair of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative, a Board member of DirectTrust, and a prior member of the Massachusetts State Health Information Technology Council, ONC Policy Committee’s Health Information Technology Interoperability Workgroup, Jason Task Force, and Interoperability Experience Task Force. As a proponent of “Hassle-Free HIE” he has been Principal Investigator on $4 Million AHRQ, HHS/ONC and MeHI grants to develop innovative Health Information Exchanges (HIE), and helped update the HL7 Consolidated-CDA to V2 to better support Care Plans.

Reliant now exchanges over 1 million clinical documents each year with other healthcare organizations caring for their patients around the United States. As a result of this care coordination, along with data analytics and real-time clinical decision support, Reliant’s operational and outcome quality metrics are in the top 10% in the nation, while total medical expenditures are 20% lower than other regional healthcare organizations.

Allan Hackney CISM, CRISC
Health Information Technology Officer

Office of the Lt. Governor State of CT

Allan is an outcome-driven, people-oriented leader recognized for developing and executing pragmatic strategies that drive growth, improve efficiency and control risk. He serves as Connecticut’s Health Information Technology Officer within the Office of Health Strategy, a role appointed by Lt. Governor Nancy Wyman to develop and coordinate the implementation of a state-wide health information technology (HIT) strategy, and to build and implement health information interoperability services.

Pam Varhol, MS, MBA, CAHIMS, RHIA, CPC
Associate Dean Faculty, Health Information Management, College of Online and Continuing Education (COCE)

Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU)

Pam is the Associate Dean Faculty, Health Information Management, College of Online and Continuing Education (COCE), Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU). She teaches health informatics and has over ten years working in higher education. Previously she spent nine years volunteering at the Silverstone Living facilities: The Huntington at Nashua and the Hunt Community and working the Lowell Community Health Center.

Pam is the 2018-2019 President for the New Hampshire Health Information Management Association (NHHIMA), the NH advocate for New England Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (NEHIMSS) chapter, and national HIMSS chapter advocacy roundtable chair (CAR).

David Whitham
ACIO for Health and Eligibility and CIO for Mass Medicaid at MA EOHHS

David serves as the Assistant CIO for Health and Eligibility at the Commonwealth of Massachusetts' Executive Office of Health and Human Services (EOHHS). In this role, David works with the Massachusetts Medicaid agency (Mass Health) overseeing the Medicaid Enterprise Systems, including MMIS, Data Warehouse, and MA21, as well as such projects as the Health Insurance Exchange (HIX) and the Massachusetts statewide Health Information Exchange (HIE). He has partnered with both federal, state and private entities to continue the process of enabling healthcare data exchange in a manner that is meaningful and efficient to all participants.

Prior to his service with the Commonwealth David was the CIO for a Federally Qualified Health Center for 10 years where he oversaw both Information Technology as well as Patient Accounts Receivable and the implementation of the agency’s electronic medical records system. In addition, David has been the CIO for a Community Behavioral Health Center assisting that agency in adopting digital technology throughout their enterprise.