CXO Tech Forum: Health IT Modernization

7:30 - 8:30 am Registration and Sunrise Breakfast Views

8:30 - 8:35 am Opening Remarks

8:35 - 9:05 am Fireside Chat: Improving Patient Access to Data

Summary: Health and Human Services proposed new rules to increase interoperability of electronic health information by providing patients secure access to all their medical data, allowing them to move freely from provider to provider and to benefit from innovative health mobile apps.

• Steve Posnack, Executive Director, Office of Technology, ONC, HHS
• Elise Sweeney Anthony, J.D., Executive Director, Office of Policy, ONC, HHS

9:05 - 9:35 am Panel: Precision Medicine

Summary: Technology’s role in the advancement of precision medicine has allowed doctors to improve treatments for a variety of conditions. Programs like the National Institute of Health’s “All of Us” research program will bolster the precision medicine movement with its pursuit of gathering data on 1 million or more participants. Multiple government agencies are using APIs and new interoperability rules to make health data more available to help tailor more treatments to patients.

• Dr. David Patton, Associate Director of Clinical Research Programs, Center for Biomedical Informatics & Information Technology, National Cancer Institute
• Dwight Raum, VP and Chief Technology Officer, The Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Health System
• Dr. Teresa Zayas Cabán, Chief Scientist, ONC, HHS

9:35 - 9:45 am Networking Break

9:45 - 10:15 am Panel: Technology's Role in Combating Opioid Addiction

Summary: Today, doctors and pharmacists are leveraging predictive analyses to reassess

pain levels and flagging high risk patients for opioid addiction monitoring. This panel will discuss the evolution of the technology, process and policy to support this effort as well as opportunities for improvement and replication for preventing and controlling other health crises.

• Chris Chilbert, CIO, Deputy Inspector General for Information Technology, HHS
• Gleb Esman, Senior Product Manager, Fraud Analytics and Research, Splunk
• Dr. Eric Strain, Director, Center for Substance Abuse Treatment and Research, Johns Hopkins Medicine

10:15 - 10:25 am Industry Perspective with Jermon Bafaty, Federal Health Sector Growth Leader, GDIT

10:25 - 10:55 am Panel: Improving Veterans Health Care through Digital Services

Summary: Leaders from the Department of Veterans Affairs and Defense Health Agency will address new programs and technologies to improve digital services and patient care. These officials will discuss the challenges and opportunities provided by these technologies.

• Sonia Arista, National Healthcare Practice Director, Fortinet
• Dr. Neil Evans, Chief Officer for the Office of Connected Care, Veterans Affairs
• Charles Worthington, CTO, Veterans Affairs

10:55 - 11:00 am Closing Remarks

11:00 - 11:30 am Networking