Keynote: Dr. Francisco R. Velázquez, also known as Frank, M.D., SM serves as the Chief Executive Officer and President at Pathology Associates Medical Laboratories, LLC. Mr. Velázquez served as Treasurer of Valley Laboratory and Alpha Medical Laboratory. Dr. Velàzquez served as the Managing Director for the Quest Diagnostics Nichols Institute, and Vice President for Focus Diagnostics, in San Juan Capistrano and Cypress, California respectively. He has been a Director at Washington Biotechnology & Biomedical Association since July 1, 2014. Dr. Velàzquez trained at the Mallory Institute of Pathology in Boston, the Boston University Medical Center and is Board Certified by the American Board of Pathology. Subsequent to his training, Dr. Velàzquez obtained a Masters in Health Care Management and Policy at Harvard University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts. He is nationally known Pathologist, Dr. Velàzquez has extensive experience as a Physician Executive specifically in system integration, regionalization, mergers and acquisitions and financial turn arounds in Healthcare Systems, IDN's and large Academic Medical Centers. Break Out Sessions Joel French, CEO of SCI Solutions, the health industry s leading patient access and care coordination software firm, has more than 25 years experience in healthcare technology leadership. Prior to joining SCI, Joel founded, led, or provided consulting on behalf of various publicly traded and privately held technology services firms serving health systems, health plans and life sciences companies. He has been an active contributor to the growing body of health industry knowledge as a widely published author and conference faculty, speaking at healthcare trade conferences, management retreats and client board meetings. He received a BA in Economics from Pacific Lutheran University. Shilpa Batra, a consultant with Propeller in Portland, OR, is a management professional with 10 years of progressive experience in project management, process excellence, and quality systems and procedure development, software implementation, and streamlining corporate operations, most recently at Cambia Health Solutions and Medtronic. She holds a Masters degree in biomedical engineering from Cornell University and an MBA from Harvard University. She has previously spoken at conferences for Medical Device Quality Management Systems, National Society of Women Engineers, and Harvard Entrepreneurship.
Jeff McGeath is Senior Vice President of Software Solutions at Iatric Systems, Inc. He has a history of creating solutions that connect disparate systems and improve patient care by giving healthcare providers immediate online access to patient data. He has 17 years of healthcare IT experience, including eight years dedicated to medical device integration. Jeff is a member of Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (a/k/a IHE), and he was recently co-chair of IHE s Patient Care Device Integration Committee. TJ Bauer is the Healthcare Sales Director, North America for System Maintenance Services the global leader in IT Infrastructure Support and Services helping companies reduce OPEX & CAPEX to improve IT delivery. For the past 12 years, TJ has worked with Health IT leaders at many of the major health systems across the country with enterprise best-practices to help them deliver better IT services so their care teams can deliver better care Panel on Security Moderator: Chris Dalton Chris Dalton is an information security executive with backgrounds in healthcare, technology, Federal Government, insurance, retail, manufacturing, real estate & financial industries. Chris approaches security as an element of enterprise risk, driven by the business, not technology vogue. Prior to his role as Practice Director of Security at Base2 Solutions, Chris held leadership positions at ServiceNow, EMC, VMware and Group Health Cooperative. He has helped customers in various projects ranging from Life Science FDA evidence preparations to FedRAMP certification of a SaaS Cloud Service. In his current role, Chris is focused on helping healthcare and biotech customers stay safe from today s threats impacting patient care. Panelists David Schoolcraft has worked for more than 20 years at the intersection of healthcare, law and technology. He is a Partner and Chair of the Health Law Group at Ogden Murphy Wallace in Seattle. He provides strategic guidance to healthcare provider organizations and technology companies seeking to drive health system transformation. Dave has a national practice advising clients on technology licensing, data governance, health information privacy and security issues.
Karthik Ranjan was appointed director of healthcare and emerging technologies in October 2015. Based in Seattle, Karthik is responsible for driving ARMs strategy in healthcare vertical. His remit is helping the healthcare industry to utilize ARMs low-power, high efficiency technology in developing new services and increasing operational efficiencies. Karthik was recently named in list the Top 100 influencers leaders in Health Tech by Hotwire. Prior to this Karthik led ARM s global carrier relationship team. Karthik has more than 16 years experience working in the consumer electronics industry with companies such as Intel, Microsoft, and Amino. Throughout his career he has been instrumental in driving standardization efforts around emerging broadband technologies including g.lite & DOCSIS and major IPTV deployments. Ralph Walker National Practice Director Cyber Security, Zones, Inc. As the National Director of Security Services at Zones, Mr. Walker offers over seventeen years of expertise developing complex, high-value security practice strategies. His diverse portfolio, passion and results orientated approach leads the development of enterprise wide IT Security architecture, design, practices and procedures which balances, enables and supports business goals. Break Out Sessions Siddharth Mahapatra is the Director of the Epic Clinical Optimization Program of Providence Health and Services. Under Siddhartha s leadership, the ECO program has made great strides advancing its capabilities around IS governance and clinical transformation for the bed side caregivers. He has been instrumental in advancing regional and system wide strategic priorities by processing a 50% increase in complexity of requests with the same resource capacity. Before joining PHS, he was a IS and Process Improvement leader with University of California San Francisco medical Center for 8 years. While there, Siddharth helped lead UCSF s Epic implementation and helped revamp the medication management process. Prior to joining UCSF, he held key roles at Cincinnati Children s Hospital. Siddharth has multiple degrees, including a Master s of Science from Virginia Tech in Industrial & Systems Engineering as well as a Master of Chemical Engineering from University of Akron and a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering (Gold Medalist) from National Institute of Technology, India. Geoffrey A. Griebel serves as the President, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer of Eoscene Corporation. Mr. Griebel is responsible for the vision and long-term planning of Eoscene's growth in vertical markets. With twenty years of experience, he has held key leadership positions at GE, Boeing and Penwest Pharmaceutical Co. He serves as a Director for the College of Business and Economics' Center for Management Excellence at Western Washington University. Mr. Griebel holds a Masters of Science in Finance from Seattle University and a Bachelors of Arts degree in Business and Computer and Science from Western Washington University.
Panel on BI Moderator: Jeff Cunio Jeff Cunio, Vice President, Strategic Accounts, oversees the recruiting and business development efforts and ensure exceptional service to both our clients and consultants. First worked at DCS from January 1996 and until 2006, then recruited back in 2010 to lead the Healthcare IT and general IT practice. Expanded HIT division focusing on expanding our Epic expertise. This strategy was very successful and rewarded the company with exceptional growth. We work with the best Epic talent to service the best hospitals. DCS currently serves more than 300 hospitals Nationwide and has extended its HIT practice to include Cerner and other EMR vendors. Panelists Dr. Nichols is a board certified orthopedic surgeon by training who has 20 years of experience full time in health information technology. He has given over 250 presentations nationally related to Healthcare data and coding on behalf of providers, payers, vendors and CMS. He is an AHIMA approved ICD-10 coding trainer. He has received multiple merit awards from WEDI (the work group for electronic data interchange) for service as a cochair on the coding and translation sub-workgroup Thomas Harlan has been a SQL consultant with Iatric Systems since 2012. He has more than 25 years of SQL experience (including Microsoft, Oracle, Informix, and MySQL), as well as 10+ years of healthcare reporting experience, extracting data from a variety of HIS systems including Epic, Cerner, MEDITECH, Lawson, PeopleSoft, and Siemens Invision. His IT positions have ranged from Programmer to Manager to Chief Technology Officer. Jeff Liddell, M.Div., M.S.W., L.C.S.W. is a licensed clinical social worker who has worked in emergency psychiatric services for the past 21 years. Prior to that developed community based education for Nursing and Social Work Programs. Currently consults for Harmony Healthcare IT to develop enterprise wide solutions for legacy EMR systems
Panel on Genomics Moderator: Yong Choi Yong K. Choi is a PhD Student in the division of Biomedical and Health Informatics at the University of Washington. His research focuses on designing appropriate technologies to support health and wellness management of older adults. Dr. Crosslin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education at UW. He also has an affiliate faculty appointment at GHRI, and an adjunct faculty appointment in the Department of Genome Sciences, UW. His research program focuses on translational bioinformatics with a combination of bioinformatics, statistical association analyses, and computational tools development for applied research. Specifically, his research focuses on interpreting genetic variation and integrating these results into the electronic health record for clinical decision support Professor Mooney has spent his career as a researcher and group leader in biomedical informatics. He now leads research IT for UW Medicine and is leading efforts to support and build clinical informatics platforms as its first Chief Research Information Officer (CRIO). He is a professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education at the University of Washington. Previous to his CRIO role, he was an Associate Professor and Director of Bioinformatics at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging. As an Assistant Professor, he was appointed in Medical and Molecular Genetics at Indiana University School of Medicine and was founder and director of the Indiana University School of Medicine Bioinformatics Core. In 1997, he received his B.S. with Distinction in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He received a Ph.D. in 2001 at the University of California in San Francisco, and then an American Cancer Society John Peter Hoffman Fellowship at Stanford University Dr. Patrick Mathias is an Acting Assistant Professor in the Department of Laboratory Medicine at the University of Washington. He is a board certified clinical pathologist with training in clinical informatics and serves as the Associate Director for the Informatics Division of Laboratory Medicine. His research focuses on applying informatics to prevent laboratory-associated diagnostic errors and establishing best practices for clinical decision support that optimizes laboratory testing for patient care.
Break Out Sessions Sue Merk runs the operations of the state s HIE which currently supports Medicaid s Clinical Data Repository project, national ESRD reporting and a variety of other clinical information exchange initiatives. This gives Sue a unique perspective on what EHR vendors able to do today to export/ import standardized clinical documents. Sue blends this current knowledge with technical, clinical and business insights acquired over the last thirty plus years of experience locally and nationally in HIT leadership roles. Neil Rawlins, MD graduated from University of Utah medical School. He did his OB/GYN residency at Madigan Army Medical Center. In his last year of medical school he took the first informatics course offered at that school by pioneering Informaticists, Homer Warner. Informatics was part of his career from then on. In 2006 he began to do informatics half time and became CMIO in 2012. Much of his informatics work has been centered around provider efficiency and effectiveness for documentation and diagnostic efficiency. Fatima Osman has currently completed her master s degree in Information Systems in London, UK. But before that she worked in various jobs in healthcare and academia. While she was doing that, she saw how Health IT can transform patient care and the health industry as a whole. Therefore, she decided she needed to equip herself with the technical experience and the qualifications. Since then she has worked on multiple projects that were responsible for analyzing user business problems to be solved with information systems through the definition of the problems, capturing requirements and system specifications. She enjoys and loves the challenge, development, growth and responsibility of this role, especially the ability to collaborate with diverse teams to achieve a common goal Laura Kneale is a PhD candidate at the University of Washington in the Biomedical and Health Informatics program. Prior to joining the University of Washington, Laura was a healthcare consultant with an expertise in clinical quality improvement, systems engineering, and publically reported quality measures. Her dissertation explores whether a personal health record can improve care transitions for homebound older adults and their caregivers. Laura plans to graduate during the summer of 2017
Keynote: Mark Long; PhD., VP Digital Innovation, Providence Health System is committed to disrupting business as usual and make the shift from a place to go when one is ill, to a partner in health. Mark was asked to create the Digital Innovation Group, an internal start-up within Providence to reimagine the digital experience for consumers, patients and clinicians to enable this shift in care. Current efforts are focused on improving access, convenience, and personalization of care both at retail and primary care, helping patients navigate to the right venue of care, and improving access to specialists through telehealth. Mark started his career at NASA s Jet Propulsion Laboratory working on robotics R&D. He then transitioned to the commercial sector holding the top technical leader role in 2 startups which were successfully sold. Mark lead the turn-around of the product and technology organization at Zynx Health. His team launched the first natural language processing product for evidence based clinical orders. He was awarded CTO of the Year by the Los Angeles Business Journal. Mark then worked at Amazon.com before being recruited to Providence. Mark studied engineering at Lehigh (B.S.), Stanford (M.S.), and Caltech (Ph.D.) Break Out Sessions Adam Kaufman, PhD, President & CEO, Canary Health Adam is a pioneer of self-management support technology and solutions that drive patient behavior change and promote improved outcomes while reducing healthcare utilization. He combines a unique expertise in program design and deployment with health economics and a keen insight into what drives value-based healthcare. He has led the development, rollout and evaluation of solutions currently used by dozens of healthcare organizations that touch tens of thousands of patients daily. An expert in Health Economics, Adam speaks to audiences nationwide on the accelerating trend of chronic illness and the financial tipping point that threatens the margins and mission of American healthcare organizations. Alon Ban-Ari, MD, is the acting Chief Health Information Officer at the Puget Sound VA Health Care System. Dr. Ben-Ari is a fellowship trained, practicing anesthesiologist and an Assistant Professor at Washington University. He underwent bioinformatics training at Stanford University and University of Washington. He underwent medical training at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) and Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center. His academic research and operational goals focus on impacting clinical care using computational methods such as simulation, machine learning and natural language processing