Connecting California to Improve Patient Care in 2015

Practical Solutions for Healthcare Information Exchange and Interoperability

Connecting California to Improve Patient Care is an annual conference featuring presentations on electronic health records (EHR) and on the use of national technology standards to establish interoperability for electronic patient healthcare data. Conference presenters will explain practical solutions for securely sharing electronic clinical information between computer systems at unaffiliated health care facilities, such as outpatient practices, hospitals, laboratories, imaging centers, long term care, home health, public health, payers, patient engagement portals and mobile apps. Conference attendees will learn about best practices in health informatics. Speakers will discuss the current status of health information technology in California, national software road maps for data standards, interoperability, patient safety, and emerging tools and opportunities for physician and patient engagement.

PLENARY SESSION CHAIR

    Barbara Filkins - Security Analyst, SANS Institute

PRESENTERS

• Nagesh (Dragon) Bashyam - Technical SME, Data Access Framework, S & I Framework
• Robert M. Cothren, PhD - Executive Director, California Association of HIEs (CAHIE)
• Theresa Cullen, MD, MS - CMIO, US Veterans Health Administration
• William Hersh, MD - Professor, Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology, OHSU
• Michael Hogarth, MD - Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UC Davis School of Medicine
• Kevin D. Isbell - Senior Director, Health Information Exchange, Kaiser Permanente
• Arien Malec - Vice President, Data Platform Solutions, Relay Health
• Wes Rishel - Member of HITSC, Retired Computer Industry Analyst, Co-founder of HL7
• Lucia Savage, JD - Chief Privacy Officer, Office of the National Coordinator, HHS
• Micky Tripathi, PhD, MPP - President and CEO, Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative

California Connects Interoperability Exhibition, hosted concurrently as part of the Redwood MedNet Conference, will feature practical kiosk demonstrations on interoperability. The kiosks will show the secure exchange of electronic health data, including patient engagement with the care team, in a hands on manner that allows one on one interaction with kiosk presenters.