Please join us on June 16th for our final HIMSS NCA monthly program of the 2021/2022 season. Our esteemed panel, featuring leaders from Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the National Coordinator (ONC), Military Health System (MHS), and the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) will discuss the Future of Healthcare - a look-ahead at the challenges, opportunities, and focus areas for growth within Federal Healthcare.

5:30 - 6:15pm - Networking

6:15 - 6:30pm - Welcome & Announcements

6:30 - 7:30pm - Program

Location: LMI Building 7940 Jones Branch Dr. Tysons, VA 22102

Proof of vaccination will be required before admittance into the event.

Speakers:

Colonel (Dr.) Thomas Cantilina, Chief Health Informatics Officer, Military Health System (MHS) and Deputy MHS EHR Functional Champion, Defense Health Agency (DHA)

Col. (Dr.) Thomas J. Cantilina currently serves as the Military Health System’s (MHS) Chief Health Informatics Officer (CHIO) and the Deputy MHS EHR Functional Champion at the Defense Health Agency (DHA). In these roles, he works to integrate the needs of clinicians, healthcare operators, and technologists to increase digital health solution adoption, create a data driven enterprise, and transform care across the MHS, beginning with the implementation of MHS GENESIS.

Previously, Col. Cantilina was the Special Assistant to the AF Surgeon General for Defense Health Management Systems. In this position his duties encompassed a broad set of activities around the implementation of MHS GENESIS to include consultation on system design & configuration, training, data integration, change management and anything else that is needed to help successfully deploy the new system. His expertise in medical informatics is also frequently utilized such as representing the AF Surgeon General at the National Library of Medicine Board of Regents.

Dr. Roshni Ghosh, MD, MPH, Executive Director, Veterans Health Administration Center for Care and Payment Innovation

Roshni Ghosh, MD, MPH currently serves as the Executive Director for the Center for Care and Payment Innovation in the Office of Healthcare Innovation and Learning in the VHA Office of Discovery, Education and Affiliate Networks where she oversees the development and implementation of new and innovative care delivery and payment models. Dr. Ghosh is a graduate of The Rutgers University School of Medicine and received her Masters in Public Health from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health.Dr. Ghosh has also served as a Vice President and Chief Medical Information Officer at multiple healthcare consultancies, and currently sits on the Board of Directors for a non-profit healthcare organization and is an adjunct professor at George Washington University.

John Rancourt, Director, Interoperability Division, Office of Policy, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

John Rancourt serves as the Director, Interoperability Division, Office of Policy, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The Interoperability Division supports health IT policy implementation through such activities as:

• The Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA).
• Public health interoperability, including the COVID-19 and opioid emergencies.
• Strengthening the Technical Advancement and Readiness of Public Health via Health Information Exchange Program (the STAR HIE Program).
• State and Medicaid interoperability efforts.
• Value-based transformation enabled by health IT.
• Consumer engagement and data access.
• Engagement with behavioral health, EMS, and long-term and post-acute care providers.

John joined ONC in 2011 as a Presidential Management Fellow. During his career in health policy, John has worked on Capitol Hill, for pharmaceutical companies, for GAO, for the Institute of Medicine, as a patient advocate, and as a journalist.
 

Moderator:

Dev Nathan Kalyan, MD, JD, Managing Principal, Vandanam LLC

Dr. Kalyan is a former Navy Medical Officer, seasoned clinician, strategic Federal Health systems thought leader and industry-recognized Business Development Executive with more than 15 years of experience serving executive customers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Defense Health Agency (DHA), Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Veterans Health Administration (VHA), Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), and large civilian integrated healthcare delivery systems. Dr. Kalyan, a 2021 FedHealthIT 100 Honoree, specializes in enterprise-level healthcare system transformation, business process redesign, and improved system governance with a focus on enterprise data management and analytics, effective matrixed decision-making, and executive leadership development to deliver patient-centered, high-quality, technology-enabled health services and benefits at scale. 

Dr. Kalyan brings a strong track record of success in US Federal sales leadership through market shaping, capture/relationship management, consultative sales (customer engagement/ sales operations), and program execution across a broad Military and Civilian Health portfolio, creating high-performing teams of servant leaders to support the strategic priorities of the nation’s largest integrated delivery systems. 

In 2021, Dr. Kalyan was recognized as a G2Xchange Disruptive Tech Change Agent for creating executive-level momentum and obligated funding, and leading delivery design, acquisition and implementation support to establish VA’s Covid-19 Nurse Advice Line (NAL). The $30m VA NAL program provided clinical triage and access to Veteran health services as surge support for VHA’s Clinical Contact Centers nationwide in response to the National Coronavirus Pandemic. 

Dr. Kalyan’s industry leadership activities through the HIMSS National Capital Area chapter, the American Council for Technology and Industry Advisory Council (ACT-IAC),  HL7/ Object Management Group, the Healthcare Services Platform Consortium and other influential national groups are aimed at establishing the Health Information Exchange and Interoperability Standards required to support Clinical Quality, Population Health, Care and Disease management, Digital Front Door/ Patient Engagement services, Connected Care (Synchronous/asynchronous virtual care and Mobile Applications), and Revenue Cycle Operations (Program Integrity, Fraud Waste and Abuse, Advanced Payer Analytics).