David Bensema
Chief Information Officer
Baptist Health
Jen Covich Bordenick
Chief Executive Officer, eHealth Initiative & Foundation
For over 20 years, Jennifer has focused on quality and innovative technology solutions to transform healthcare. As CEO, she provides leadership for research, education and advocacy components of eHealth Initiative and Foundation (eHI). Convening senior executives from every group in healthcare to discuss, identify, and share best practices that transform the delivery of healthcare.. Focus areas: improving health and wellness through innovative solutions; interoperability; privacy concerns; artificial intelligence; payment models to support innovative care; and tech tools for chronic care. She led development of dozens of national surveys and published groundbreaking reports. As part of her work with the Foundation, she led grants with California Health Care Foundation, Commonwealth Fund, Aetna Foundation and Bristol Meyers Squibb Foundation. Jennifer is co-chair of the Federal HIT Policy Committee’s Strategy and Innovation Workgroup; member of the HL7 Board of Directors; and a member of the Diabetes Collaborative Stakeholder Panel. Jennifer is a faculty member for the MHA and MHIA graduate programs at George Washington University. Prior to joining eHI, Jennifer headed up the strategic marketing at OpenNetworks, Inc., focusing on security solutions for the healthcare industry. She led healthcare industry relations at MicroStrategy, Inc., focusing on data-mining solutions for the pharmaceutical and healthcare industry. She spent four years at the National Committee for Quality Assurance as Director of Policy and Product Development, helping develop national quality standards for healthcare organizations. Jennifer began her career at the George Washington University Hospital, Medical Center and Health Plan working on quality management initiatives, clinical pathways and healthcare administration. Jennifer earned a master's in Human Resource Development,completed coursework in health administration doctoral program at GWU, and resides in Maryland with her husband and two children.
Francis Devlin
Director of North American Healthcare Solutions in the Janssen Healthcare Innovation, Johnson & Johnson
Currently leading the Janssen Healthcare Innovation (JHI) Care4Today Connect digital health platform design and development, as well as channel sales in Retail, Integrated Delivery Network and Payer customer segments. Care4Today Connect is intended to be used by Patients and Healthcare Providers (HCPs) to enable better connectivity and pathway transparency between patients, healthcare teams and caregivers through digital and mobile technologies in order to help improve patient outcomes, empowering patients to take a leading role in their own healthcare beyond the traditional office experience.
Cathy DuRei
Product Innovation Lead, ConnectiveRx
Health IT and medication adherence professional with 20+years of innovative program experience - expertise in new product development, strategic alliances, contracting, and cross-functional collaboration across pharmaceutical, insurer/HMO, clinical provider, pharmacy and health IT sectors. Columbia University Health Information Exchange/Meaningful Use certificate holder, Wharton MBA & Dartmouth BA degrees. Passionate about the use of information technology to improve the US healthcare system's quality, safety, and efficiency
Joxel Garcia, MD
MBA Executive Director at MD Anderson Cancer Center, Moon Shots Leadership
Dr. Garcia is executive director of the cancer prevention and control platform at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and a member of the leadership team for the institution’s bold Moon Shots Program, which aims to speed the translation of scientific discoveries into clinical and population-oriented advances that significantly reduce cancer deaths. Under Dr. Garcia’s leadership, the cancer prevention and control platform implements and disseminates evidence-based, community-focused programs to advance cancer prevention, screening, early detection and survivorship. The platform provides policy, education and services to achieve a measurable and sustainable reduction in the cancer burden, especially in the underserved population for whom cancer and cancer risk factors predominate. This effort is taking what is known about diet, exercise, sun protection, tobacco avoidance, human papillomavirus (HPV) and cancer screenings beyond the walls of MD Anderson to reach people throughout Texas, the nation and the world. Dr. Garcia is an internationally recognized health care leader with experience and success in a number of health care settings. He began his medical career as an obstetrician/gynecologist and then became the commissioner for the State of Connecticut Department of Public Health. After serving as the deputy director for the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization in Washington, D.C., he moved into the corporate sector. There he worked as a senior vice president and senior medical officer at Maximus Federal Services Inc. President George W. Bush appointed Dr. Garcia as the 14th U.S. assistant secretary for health. At the same time, he was appointed as a four-star admiral for the United States Public Health Service and as the U.S. Representative to the World Health Organization. During this time, and as our nation’s highest ranking medical and public health official, Dr. Garcia led more than 6,220 U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps officers in the U.S. and 88 countries in the protection, promotion and advancement of health.
Steve Gerst
MD, MBA, MPH, CHE, Chief Medical Officer, Telemetrix/Remote Patient Monitoring
Dr. Steven R. Gerst has been an innovator and trusted advisor in healthcare finance, management, medical devices, and developing connected solutions for insurers and large integrated delivery networks. He is formerly Senior Consultant and Regional Medical Director for what is now Price-Waterhouse Coopers, LLP. He was President of Columbia/HCA’s PPO division nationally under Florida’s current Governor, Rick Scott, and Vice President of the corporation (NYSE:HCA). Prior to that, he was Assistant Vice President of Crawford & Company (Atlanta; NYSE:CRDA and CRDB) the world’s largest independent claims management company, with more than 700 offices in 70 countries where he built the first nationwide PPO for AIG, Boeing and other Crawford clients with 1,200 hospitals and 120,000 physicians. Dr. Gerst is heavily involved in the medical device industry, remote patient monitoring and telemedicine and is currently working on projects with Intel, AT&T, Citrix, ADT, Qualcomm, Epic and Cerner developing connected health platforms for large integrated delivery systems and IPA groups.
David Houlding
CISSP, CIPP, MSC, Director, Healthcare Privacy & Security, Healthwise
David is the Director of Healthcare Privacy and Security at Intel Health and Life Sciences (HLS), with more than 23 years of experience in HLS, privacy and security, enterprise architecture, and electronic engineering. He is a thought leader in privacy and security for the HLS industry globally. David is experienced in research through to defining strategy, roadmaps, reference architectures, solution incubation, prototypes, pilots, and sales and marketing field support for the HLS sector. This involves extensive engagement with key customers and partners, providing guidance on best practices to manage risk, how technologies help, and identifying opportunities to add value. Extensive thought leadership through industry collaborations, publication, social media, and public speaking. David is passionate about Internet of Things and is an active maker, and entrepreneur. With several patents granted by the USPTO, David has a proven track record for innovation. David is a CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional), a CIPP (Certified Information Privacy Professional), and has a Master of Applied Science in Data Compression and Digital Signal Processing from Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada. David also has a Bachelor of Science - Electronic Engineering from University of Natal, South Africa. David has presented keynotes and sessions, and participated in panel discussions at numerous major industry conferences including IAPP Privacy Academy, Privacy Identity Innovation, HIMSS, mHealth Summit, Strata Rx, HealthTech NextGeneration, InfoSec, NIST HIPAA Security Conference, iHT2 Health IT Summit, NIST Security Automation Conference, and several other conferences. He has published and contributed to numerous blogs, articles, books, and interviews.
Oliver Lignell
Senior Director, Healthcare Business Consulting, Cognizant
Oliver Lignell is a senior director in Cognizant’s Healthcare Business Consulting organization and leads the national Provider practice. He has more than twenty years of experience in industry, consulting, and vendor roles. He leverages this expertise gained at leading provider and payer healthcare organizations to drive strategic planning, solution development, and program execution. Areas of strong domain expertise include Population Health, Care Management, Patient Engagement, Data Integration, Data Warehousing, IT Governance, EHRs, and Ancillary Systems. Prior to joining Cognizant, Mr. Lignell was an Enterprise Program Manager at CIGNA, Director of Information Management at Kaiser Permanente, and a Senior Manager with Accenture’s consulting practice.
Deven McGraw
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Deven McGraw joined the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) as the Deputy Director for Health Information Privacy on June 29, 2015. She is a well-respected expert on the HIPAA Rules, and comes to OCR with a wealth of experience in both the private sector and the non-profit advocacy world. Prior to joining OCR, she was a partner in the healthcare practice of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP. She previously served as the Director of the Health Privacy Project at the Center for Democracy & Technology, which is a leading consumer voice on health privacy and security policy issues, and as the Chief Operating Officer at the National Partnership for Women & Families, where she provided strategic leadership and substantive policy expertise for the Partnership’s health policy agenda. Ms. McGraw spearheads OCR’s policy, enforcement, and outreach efforts on the HIPAA Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification Rules; as well as lead OCR’s work on Presidential and Departmental priorities on health privacy and security. Ms. McGraw graduated magna cum laude from the University of Maryland. She earned her J.D., magna cum laude, and her L.L.M. from Georgetown University Law Center and was Executive Editor of the Georgetown Law Journal. She has a Master of Public Health from Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health.
Scott Motejunas
MBA
Scott Motejunas has a passion for helping innovative businesses define and execute their growth strategies. Within the Product Innovation team at Surescripts, he is responsible for driving new and existing products along the product lifecycle, and he currently focuses on solutions aimed at improving medication management for patients. Prior to Surescripts, he has held various healthcare strategy and investment roles, most recently working on the corporate strategy team at Humana, a leading Medicare Advantage plan. He received a BA from the Johns Hopkins University with Honors in Economics and an MBA from the Darden School of the University of Virginia.Dan Munro
Health Innovation Contributor
Forbes Magazine
With an enterprise software engineering background, Dan covers the intersections between technology, innovation, and policy that are unfolding inside one of America’s largest industries – healthcare. First appearing in Forbes as a Contributor in 2011, he’s written for a wide range of global brands and print publications. His first book – Casino Healthcare – released earlier this year and he’s also a Top Writer (4 consecutive years) on the globally popular Q&A site Quora. Twitter handle is: @danmunro Dan is a writer, international speaker and author on the topic of U.S. healthcare. His first book (Casino Healthcare) released in April of 2016 and he’s been writing about healthcare innovation and policy as a Forbes Contributor since 2011. Other global brands that Dan has written for include Re/Code, TEDMED, Cisco, GE Capital, Health Standards, and The Health Care Blog. Dan is also a Top Writer (4 consecutive years) on the globally popular Q&A site known as Quora. Dan is a regular speaker and moderator at healthcare industry events including the Digital Health Summit, Our Future Health, SAS, AHIP, The Marketing Forum and via online events hosted by major industry sponsors like Dell, Xerox, and TEDMED. Dan graduated from the International School of Brussels before completing undergraduate degrees in Computer Science and Communications (with a minor in Journalism) at the University of Redlands.Jayne O'Donnell
Healthcare Policy Reporter
USA Today
Jayne O’Donnell is the healthcare policy reporter for USA TODAY, an author, TV contributor and freelance writer. At USA TODAY – where she’s worked for two decades - Jayne’s reporting focuses on healthcare policy. She has covered the implementation of the Affordable Care Act and related healthcare issues since September 2013, she also has covered subjects as varied as unsafe cosmetic surgery practices, the risks of crib bumpers and the promise of high-tech car safety features. Jayne has had several stand-out healthcare stories, including an investigation of potential Medicare fraud in Brooklyn that included a database analysis of referrals among a group of chiropractors, occupational and physical therapists with some of the largest payouts in the fields. She also reported on Obamacare’s impact in Kentucky and Georgia and revealed federal efforts to conceal surgical mishaps from the public. The latter article lead regulators to agree to release the data. In late 2014, Jayne was also awarded an Association of Health Care Journalists fellowship to study the experiences in states that did and didn’t expand Medicaid and that project continues through 2015. Jayne has won many public service and journalism awards for her work alerting the public to auto safety hazards. They include Detroit Press Foundation first-place awards for her 2005 series on teen driving and, in 1997, for exposing the dangers air bags posed to children. Jayne’s reporting on air bags in the mid- to late-1990s is widely credited with prompting the government’s actions to make them safer, including the “smart" air bags and warning labels now in every new vehicle. In August 2005, the Governors Highway Safety Association made Jayne the first journalist to win its "Chairman's Award” for her "dedication to improving highway safety.”J. Marc Overhage, MD, PhD
Chief Medical Informatics Officer
Cerner Health Services
J. Marc Overhage is currently the Chief Health Informatics Officer at Cerner Corporation. He was previously the President and CEO of the Indiana Health Information Exchange, a Professor of Medicine at the Indiana University School of Medicine, and a Senior Scientist at the Regenstrief Institute, Inc. He has spent over 25 years developing and implementing scientific and clinical systems and evaluating their value. Working with Dr. Clement McDonald, one of the pioneers of medical informatics, he has created an electronic patient record (called the Indiana Network for Patient Care) containing data from many sources including laboratories, pharmacies and hospitals in central Indiana. The system currently connects nearly all acute care hospitals in central Indiana and includes inpatient and outpatient encounter data, laboratory results, immunization data and other selected data. In order to create a sustainable financial model, he helped create the Indiana Health Information Exchange, a not-for-profit corporation. Over the last five years, he has played a significant regional and national leadership role in advancing the policy, standards, financing and implementation of health information exchange. Dr. Overhage is also an expert in clinical decision support including inpatient and outpatient computerized physician order entry and the underlying knowledge bases to support them. Dr. Overhage is a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics and the American College of Physicians. He received the Davies Recognition Award for Excellence in Computer-Based Patient Recognition for the Regenstrief Medical Record System. Dr. Overhage received his BA, with High Honors, in Physics from Wabash College and his PhD in Biophysics and MD from Indiana University School of Medicine. Dr. Overhage was a resident in internal medicine, a medical informatics and health services research fellow and then Chief Medical Resident at the Indiana University School of Medicine. After completing informatics fellowship training he served as an information advisor at Eli Lilly and Company and then joined the Regenstrief Institute.Hon S. Pak, MD FAAD
Chief Medical Officer
3M Health Information Systems
A seasoned physician, corporate executive, researcher, and senior consultant with more than 25 years of healthcare strategic leadership in health information technology across both public and private sectors. Dr. Pak is an innovator who has a proven track record in steering sustainable, profitable rapid growth and value creation in small and large organizations through his vision and team based leadership. He has a passion for transforming organizations to identify and leverage healthcare technologies to improve outcomes and create sustainable value in a new value-based healthcare delivery model using innovative technologies. A problem solver who has led several innovative healthcare companies/organizations through many operational and strategic transformations, he has held key transformative healthcare leadership roles in the last fifteen years. He naturally gravitates toward settings that are rapidly evolving and characterized by uncertainty where he uses his clinical, leadership and Health IT skills to design a strategy and lead a team to transform an organization. Over the last 12 years, he has designed, led and transformed small and large complex organizations. He has served as President and member of boards of directors for several public and private organizations and is internationally recognized as a leader and innovator in healthcare IT and telemedicine. Specific accomplishments include: As Chief Medical Officer of 3M Health Information Systems, Dr. Pak is a key member of the Senior Executive team, engaged in defining the broad business strategy and direction of the organization. He leads the overall clinical vision and direction for the Health Information Systems division. He is also providing medical oversight, expertise and leadership to ensure the delivery of quality healthcare software solutions to 5,000+ US customers. Specific responsibilities include oversight of the Clinical and Economic Research Group and Clinical Terminology Group while leading the development and implementation of innovative clinical programs, including collaboration with strategic business partners. He is currently leading a strategic initiative focused on unstructured data, combining Healthcare Data Dictionary and Natural Language Processing to provide real solutions which abstract and organize unstructured data for healthcare stakeholders.David Pittman
eHealth Reporter
POLITICO Pro
Before joining POLITICO in May 2014, Pittman served as the lone Washington reporter for the health news website MedPage Today, covering nearly all aspects of health policy from Medicare and Medicaid to the Affordable Care Act and Capitol Hill. He has also covered science and regulatory policy for trade newsletter company FDAnews and the weekly newsmagazine Chemical & Engineering News. Pittman got his start in journalism covering healthcare for the daily newspaper in the West Texas town of Amarillo.Stuart Portman
Legislative Assistant
Senator Orin Hatch
Stuart Portman serves as the Senior Healthcare Legislative Assistant for Senator Orrin G. Hatch. In this role, he provides policy recommendations on a variety of health matters ranging from disease research and pharmaceutical development to health information technology and health coverage for persons with disabilities, among others. Stuart also serves as deputy to the Medicaid adviser for Chairman Hatch, linking the Utah perspective to broader policy debates and working collaboratively on pressing Medicaid issues across the country. Stuart received his Master of Public Health degree specializing in health policy from the Milken Institute School of Public Health at The George Washington University.Christopher Ross
MBA, Chief Information Officer
Mayo Clinic
Christopher Ross is Chief Information Officer for Mayo Clinic, joining in 2012. He has 29 years’ prior experience in healthcare, technology, and government. Mr. Ross was formerly the Executive Vice President and General Manager of Clinical Interoperability at Surescripts, which operates the e-prescribing network for the U.S. Previously he served as Chief Information Officer and Executive Vice President for Products and Services for MinuteClinic. Prior to joining MinuteClinic, he was CIO for Optum Behavioral Health, a division of UnitedHealth Group. He is a member of the Health IT Standards Committee for the U.S. Department of Human Services. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in economics from the University of Minnesota and MBA degree from the Yale School of Management. Confirmed SpeakersAnthony Scheuth
CEO & Managing Partner
Point-of-Care Partners (POCP)
Tony is the CEO & managing partner of Point-of-Care Partners (POCP), a health information technology (HIT) strategy and management consulting firm specializing in the evolving world of electronic health records. A 25-year healthcare veteran, he is an expert in HIT, in general, and several sub-areas. His firm is currently working on engagements in telemedicine, PopHealth/clinical analytics, clinical decision support, clinical messaging, outcomes/real-world evidence, biologics/biosimilars, specialty pharmacy/ePA, patient engagement and ePrescribing of Controlled Substances. What makes POCP unique is that they do work for a variety of different stakeholders from the Federal government to payers, providers, health systems, life sciences and technology companies rather than focusing on one category.Titus Schleyer
DMD, PhD, Research Scientist
Center for Biomedical Informatics
Titus Schleyer, DMD, PhD, is the Clem McDonald Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Indiana University and a Research Scientist at the Regenstrief Institute (http://www.regenstrief.org). He holds DMD degrees from the University of Frankfurt, Germany, and Temple University, Philadelphia, as well as a PhD degree in molecular biology from the University of Frankfurt and an MBA degree in Health Administration from Temple University. Dr. Schleyer has been active in biomedical informatics research since 1989, conducting seminal research on electronic dental records and Internet applications, and workflow and human-computer interaction in dentistry. Dr. Schleyer co-directs the Public & Population Health Informatics Training Program at IU. He founded the Department of Dental Informatics at Temple University, as well as the Center for Dental Informatics at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Schleyer's informatics research is primarily funded by the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Schleyer is a member of the American College of Medical Informatics and also works for hc1.comBret Shillingstad
MD FACS, President and CEO
Telemetrix/Remote Patient Monitoring Inc.
Dr. R. Bret Shillingstad is a board certified General Surgeon and former Director of Clinical Informatics at Epic. For over a decade he has helped hospitals and physicians leverage clinical systems to improve patient outcomes and excited to extend his passion into the field of remote patient monitoring and chronic care management. At Epic he served over 12 years as the Medical Director, in charge of Clinical Informatics. Trained as a surgeon, he joined Epic in 2004 when Epic had 800 employees and $150 million in revenues. Over the past 12 years has been instrumental in building Epic into one of the largest global electronic medical records (EMR) company in the world with nearly 13,000 employees and $3 billion in annual revenues. Thanks to much of Dr. Shillingstad’s contributions, Epic now supplies its EMR software for the majority of U.S hospital beds, physician offices and much of the retail, walk-in clinic market throughout the United States and globally. Prior to his role at Epic, he was co-founder and managing partner of the Alamogordo Clinic and President/Partner of the White Sands Surgical Associates surgical group.John Sotos
MD, Chief Medical Officer
ohn Sotos, MD MS is the Chief Medical Officer in Intel Corporation's Industry Sales Group. He is a transplantation cardiologist (Johns Hopkins), computer scientist (Stanford, Dartmouth), television medical consultant ("House," "Torchwood"), military flight surgeon (Air National Guard), and presidential medical historian (three Lincoln books). Previously, he was Chief Medical Engineer at Healtheon/WebMD and Principal Scientist at DNA Sciences. He is currently the State Air Surgeon for the California Air National Guard and a veteran of two volunteer combat deployments with Air Force Special Operations. He writes as one of the Wall Street Journal's "experts" on healthcare, holds seven patents, and is the unrepentant author of the infamous clinical text, "Zebra Cards: An Aid to Obscure Diagnosis.Tony Soules
Director, Information Security
Amgen
Jon White
Acting Deputy, Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health IT
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Edward You
Supervisory Special Agent
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Edward You is a Supervisory Special Agent in the FBI’s Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate, Biological Countermeasures Unit. Mr. You is responsible for creating programs and activities to coordinate and improve FBI and interagency efforts to identify, assess, and respond to biological threats or incidents. These efforts include expanding FBI outreach to the Life Sciences community to address biosecurity. Before being promoted to the Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate, Mr. You was a member of the FBI Los Angeles Field Office Joint Terrorism Task Force and served on the FBI Hazardous Evidence Response Team. Mr. You has also been directly involved in policy-making efforts with a focus on biosecurity. He served as an active Working Group member of the National Security Council Interagency Policy Committee on Countering Biological Threats and is currently an Ex Officio member of the NIH National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity. He also serves on two National Academies committees, the Institute of Medicine’s Forum on Microbial Threats and the Committee on Science, Technology, and Law’s Forum on Synthetic Biology. Prior to joining the FBI, Mr. You worked for six years in graduate research focusing on retrovirology and human gene therapy at the University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine. He subsequently worked for three years at the biotechnology firm AMGEN Inc. in cancer research.