This lunchtime webinar will explore how the federal health government leaders are progressing on interoperability of HIT systems and how health interoperable exchange is a key piece of building a health system that empowers patients and providers and delivers better care at a lower cost. There will be discussion on these top goals in TEFCA: Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement - provide a single “on-ramp” to nationwide connectivity; ensure electronic information securely follows you when and where it is needed; and support nationwide scalability for network connectivity.

Speaker (s):

Dr. Don Rucker
National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

Dr. Don Rucker 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. Rucker has three decades of clinical and informatics experience.  He started his informatics career at Datamedic Corporation, where he co-developed the world's first Microsoft Windows-based electronic medical record. He then spent over a decade serving as Chief Medical Officer at Siemens Healthcare USA. Dr. Rucker has also practiced emergency medicine for a variety of organizations including at Kaiser in California; at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; at the University of Pennsylvania's Penn Presbyterian and Pennsylvania Hospitals; and, most recently, at Ohio State University’s Wexner Medical Center. Dr. Rucker is a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, with board certifications in Emergency Medicine, Internal Medicine and Clinical Informatics. He holds an MS in Medical Computer Science and an MBA, both from Stanford.
 

Jeffrey E. Anderson, MD MS
Director, Veterans Health Information Exchange
Clinical Informatics & Data Management
Office of Health Informatics, Veterans Health Administration

Dr. Anderson currently serves as the Director, Veterans Health Information Exchange for the Clinical Informatics and Data Management Office within the Office of Health Informatics for the Veterans Health Administration.  As Director of VHIE, Dr. Anderson provides leadership for community partner engagement/onboarding, the design and implementation of information sharing modalities/systems, VA clinician communication and workflow deployment, Veteran outreach and communication, community data quality assessment/management, and analytics pertaining to information sharing performance and outcomes. Dr. Anderson previously served in CMIO and CIO roles for both a university healthcare system and an investor-owned healthcare system. In these roles he served as the executive responsible for the successful implementations of two patient-centric EHRs entailing an enterprise master patient index, optimized acute/outpatient/ambulatory user workflows to foster clinical excellence, quality and cost metric analytics to support population health management, patient portals to foster patient engagement, and interoperability with other EHRs utilizing health information exchanges.  Dr. Anderson has also served in multiple, clinical management executive roles and has conducted research concerning an individual’s immunoregulatory status. Dr. Anderson is an ABIM certified physician who has practiced emergency and urgent care medicine. He holds a MS in Computer Science and is an ABPM Diplomate in Clinical Informatics.

Dr. Andrew Holdaway, MD, MS
Clinical Data Manager
Federal Electronic Health Record Modernization (FEHRM)

Dr. Holdaway is a Physician, informatician and commissioned officer in the United States Army for fifteen years. Currently dedicated to the configuration of joint federal electronic health record, the modern platform based primarily on Cerner Millennium being adopted across the Department of Defense and Department of Veterans Affairs. Since beginning work on this project 5 years ago, major responsibilities have included chair of the Design Decisions Work Group, co-chair of joint VA/DoD terminology standards work group, solution owner for clinical documentation as well as health information exchange and currently as the clinical data manager for the joint record. These opportunities have developed technical expertise in terminology standards and ontologies, and backend understanding of the joint record. This work has led to a results-oriented, adaptive and consistent leadership style that incorporates thorough technical understanding and broad stakeholder engagement resulting in a well-configured experience for end-users and patients.

Dr. Gregory Pappas, MD, PhD
Associate Director for National Surveillance
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
 

Dr. Pappas MD PhD has a leadership role in establishment of the Biologicals Evaluation and Safety System (BEST) through innovative partnerships, a real-world evidence approaches to generation of evidence, including the including of
national specialty society registries. He is on the Sentinel Executive Committee, the CDER RWE Workgroup for Registries, and the Executive Board of MDEpiNet. Dr. Pappas had also played a leadership role in establishment of NEST (National Evaluation System for health Technology), for CDRH (Center for Devices and Radiological Health) working with broad set of stakeholders including other government agencies (ONC, CMS, NIH, AHRQ), industry, researchers, patient
groups, clinical specialty societies and their registries.

Before coming to FDA Dr Pappas directed the HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis, STD, and TB Administration for the District of Columbia, Department of Health. He has worked in over 30 countries with WHO, USAID, and CDC. He served a Professor and Chairman, Department of Community Health Sciences Aga Khan University. He was an author of the PEPFAR Five Year Plan. He served as Senior Policy Advisor to the Assistant Secretary for Health/Surgeon General, David Satcher. He directed the Office of International and Refugee Health, HHS, serving on the Executive Board of UNICEF and PAHO, and as a delegate to the World Health Assembly. Dr.Pappas received his MD and PhD (Anthropology) from Case Western Reserve in Cleveland, Ohio. He came to Washington DC, for a fellowship in Epidemiology, then as a scientist at NCHS/CDC. He is author of numerous articles, including his work in the NEJM “The increasing disparity in mortality between socioeconomic groups in the United States “and his book with Cornell University Press, “The Magic City: unemployment in a working class community.” He has served on the faculty of the Bloomberg School of Public Health, the GW School of Public Health, and Howard Medical School. Dr. Pappas was a member of the Executive Board of the American Public Health Association. His Megacities and Global Health (APHA Press 2012) with Omar Khan.

Moderator:

Sarah Tully
Product Manager
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

Sarah Tully leads CMS’s Beneficiary FHIR Data Server, a FHIR API that supports CMS programs that share Medicare claims data external to CMS including Blue Button 2.0, the Beneficiary Claims Data API, Data at the Point of Care, and the Claims Data to Part D Sponsors API

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