Our CEO Featured in Interoperability Podcast
Kristopher Vilamaa is featured in the podcast series “Critical Conversations in Medicaid”, discussing interoperability. The series is led off by the Director of the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC), Dr. Don Rucker. Episode 3 features our CEO. Kris discusses his perspective on interoperability and how we can best move forward on this important issue.
The podcast series is sponsored by Intersystems.
I had the pleasure of attending the ONC Annual Meeting in Washington, DC last week. We heard from Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar, ONC Director Dr. Donald Berwick and many other leaders in the field of health information technology.
Of course, the news making comments were around the response from Secretary Azar to the efforts by Epic and others to oppose the interoperability rule and specifically the information blocking prohibitions within that rule. The mood of the room was definitely one of strong support for patient access to their medical data. Many speakers touched on the rights of patients to get their information and the audience cheered on many of these comments.
The breakout sessions also covered many valuable and timely topics with expertise and excellent questions abounding. I always enjoy the opportunity to connect with partners, clients, thought leaders and friends who work in this space and ONC gave another excellent opportunity to do just that.
If you didn’t have a chance to attend the event or watch the webinars of the plenary sessions live, they are available here: http://events.tvworldwide.com/Events/ONC-Annual-Meeting-2020/VideoId/-1/UseHtml5/True
Looking Forward to the 2020 ONC Annual Meeting
The 2020 ONC Annual Meeting will be in Washington, DC next week and we are looking forward to catching up with old friends and making new connections in the world of Health IT. The meeting is kicking off Monday the 27th with what looks to be an excellent discussion on Unique Patient IDs. We are also excited about the presentation on “Electronic Clinical Decision Support for Opioid Prescribing”, the sessions on Social Determinants, of Health, Health IT Strategies to Support Value-Based Payment Models and many others. If you are going to be in attendance, we hope to see you there!
