Join us for the May 20th HIMSS NCA webinar on Consumer and Patient Engagement!

The 21st Century Cures act and the ONC rules for its implementation require health care systems to share more of patients’ records with them than ever before, and to make information accessible through specific exchange standards, namely FHIR based APIs. Benefits providers are beginning to use these standards to speed up claims as the claimant can obtain and send them data electronically. On this panel, we will talk with the leaders implementing these technologies in MHS, VHA, and HHS.

Panelists: 

David Mazik, IT Product Owner, Department of Veterans Affairs (Confirmed) - Dave Mazik is the Director of the VA Lighthouse API program in the Office of Information and Technology at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. The Lighthouse program's mission is to provide high-impact, high-quality applications to Veterans and VA with the delivery of best-in-class digital platforms and APIs using modern Agile and Human-Centered Design practices. Before joining VA, Mr. Mazik led the gloabl software team for Qualcomm's small cell product line culminating in the successful commercial launch of several products at major North American and international mobile operators. In addition, Mr. Mazik has diverse startup experience in various technologies and products. 

COL Kevin Peck, Chief Information Officer, Hawaii Market, Defense Health Agency (Confirmed) - Kevin A. Peck is the Chief Information Officer for Tripler Army Medical Center in Honolulu, HI, the Chief Digital Officer for the Military Health Systems Hawaii Market, and the Chief Information Officer for the 18th Medical Command that serves as the Theater Medical Command for the Indo-Pacific Command. He is directly responsible for the daily operations and improvement of a Level-II Trauma center, multiple small hospitals and ambulatory clinics along wtih all Dental, Veterinary, Preventive Medicine, and Surveillance activities for the Market. Direct reports include information technology, facilities, human resources, budget, health information management, and managed care. COL Peck is a Certified Healthcare Chief Information Officer (CHCIO) and Certified Information Systems Manager (CISM). Throughout his career as a Medical Service Corps Officer in the US Army, COL Peck has consistently been chose to serve in leadership positions significantly senior to his rank and experience and has excelled at every turn both in Department of Defense In-Patient and Out-Patient Fixed facility healthcare settings while serving as the CIO for operations in the Republic of South Korea, the Regional CIO for all Army Healthcare East of the Mississippi and Puerto Rico, or as the Chief Information Officer for Iraq, Kuwait, and Qatar. 

Aaron Seib, Chief Strategy Officer, Onyx Health (Confirmed) - Aaron Seib is a Health IT policy and interoperability expert with 25+ years of experience in health IT, including experience in the payer, clinical research, HIE and consumer directed exchange domains. Aaron is currently Chief Strategy Officer of Onyx Health where - for the last 3 years - he has led the development of SAFHIR - the health interoperability platform that helps clients realize the promise of interoperability leveraging a standards-based platform that is a cloud first API first modular solution. He currently serves as the ONC's FHIR At Scale Taskforce (FAST) Tiger Team for Security and the Gravity Project's Executive Committee. The Gravity Project is a FHIR Accelerator focused on Social Determinants of Health. He has worked across the healthcare ecosystem with managed care organizations, disease management programs, and clinical research organizations including work at the Duke Clinical Research Institute, National Cancer Institute, and Johns Hopkins. Aaron's work experience at federal and state agencies includes work with the National Cancer Institute, the ONC, and the state of California, as well as award winning work related to the CMS Blue Button 2.0 API. 

Lorraine Tunis Doo, Policy Advisor, Health Informatics and Interoperability Group, Office of Burden Reduction and Interoperability, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services - Lorraine Tunis Doo is Policy Advisor for the Health Informatics and Interoperability Group in the Office of Burden Reduction and Interoperability at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). She prepares regulations and guidance on standards such as HL7 FHIR and APIs for patients, payers, and providers, to help move the needle on interoperability. Lorraine also leads the inter-agency collaboration on interoperability at CMS, and serves on several inter-agency work groups on standards. She is the lead staff for the Standards Subcommittee of the National Committee for Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS), the Federal Advisory Committee (FACA) to the Secretary. In the past, Lorraine launched the agency's foray into Personal Health Records and the BlueButton for Medicare, which has grown to become the MyHealthData initiative, providing access to personal health data to millions of beneficiaries through health apps. Previously, she had been working as an advisor and rule writer for standards for the division of National Standards, working on the Health Insurance Portability Act of 1996 (HIPPA) and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA) - specifically the transaction standards, code sets, identifiers and operating rules exchanged between providers and health plans to conduct business operations. 

Moderator:

Mr. Sam Lambson, Vice President of Interoperability, Cerner (Confirmed) - Sam Lambson is Cerner's Vice President of Interoperability and has responsibility over strategy and products for Interoperability across the healthcare industry and globe. Sam rejoined Cerner from Intermountain Healthcare, where he was serving on the Community-Based Care leadership team, overseeing clinical initiatives across the medical, homecare, population health, and wellness groups. In his time with Intermountain, Sam implemented strategies to drive Intermountain's transition to value-based care. Prior to Intermountain, Sam held a variety of roles across Cerner. He spent several years in Interoperability, during which he launched the Ignite API's, CODE program, and the App Store. He then transitioned to an executive role directly aligned to Intermountain Healthcare as a Strategic Value Executive, embedded with the client's Executive Leadership Team as a senior advisor to the SVP, Chief Physician Executive, and President of the Intermountain Medical Group. 

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