Please join us for an interactive discussion with our expert panel to discuss challenges in Healthcare Interoperability.

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Facilitator

Helmut Oehring – Helmut Oehring is the CIO Ascend Clinical Lab

Helmut Oehring has over 30 years’ experience in healthcare, manufacturing, global supply chain management, marketing, and information technology.  As the CIO for Ascend Clinical, he envisions and implements technology strategies to enhance patient care, grow revenue and improve profitability.  He is responsible for the IT division for the company with locations in California and Colorado.  Helmut’s current initiatives include enhancing a healthcare clinic portal for direct physician and patient access, advanced integrations with clinic EMRs, leveraging AI to gain insights in extensive longitudinal data sets and automating the laboratory with robotics.  Ascend Clinical is a clinical reference laboratory specializing in testing services for kidney disease.

Panelists

Brian Levy - Levy is an Executive Healthcare Physician with deep expertise in creating software and content. He currently works for Cerner on the VA and DoD implementation and focuses on interoperability and terminology. Previously, as the Chief Medical Officer, he helped lead Health Language from a healthcare IT startup to successful acquisition. He continues to practice Telemedicine, using the latest technology in delivering everyday patient care. He also serves as the Colorado HIMSS Advocacy Chair.

Ako Quammie – Ako Quammie is the Vice President of Data Management at COHRIO/Contexture. Ako has over 15 years of experience working with many segments of the health care industry, including health systems, physician organizations, insurance providers, regional provider alliances and clinically integrated networks. His work is concentrated in enterprise and service line strategic planning, partnership/transaction planning and the design and execution of a wide range of Healthcare Information Technology products and services.  In addition, Ako has extensive experience implementing clinical integration programs, electronic health record systems and quality reporting systems focused on population-level health improvement and development of the capabilities required to succeed under value-based payment arrangements.

Herman Oosterwijk – Herman Oosterwijk is President OTech Consulting. Herman is a healthcare imaging and IT consultant with expertise in the area of interface specifications between medical devices and healthcare IT software and systems through his participation of many years in standardization committees and working groups such as DICOM, HL7 and HIE.  He has authored several textbooks and numerous articles about healthcare IT, in particular on the subject of Electronic Health Records (EHR), Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS), Teleradiology, and the Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) standard.  Herman has been asked to serve as an expert witness in legal cases where an opinion and/or assessment is needed in these subject areas.  He recently finished his tour of duty as the Co-Chair of the HIMSS Interoperability & HIE Community.