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WEDI Announces Sessions for Its 25th Annual National Conference

The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI), a nonprofit authority on the use of HIT to create efficiencies in health care information exchange, recently announced the keynotes and detailed sessions for its 25th Annual National Conference, which will take place May 23-26 in Salt Lake City.

The four-day event will feature an opening keynote from Geeta Nayyar, MD, chief medical information officer at Femwell Group Health and a leader in health care and IT. The session will focus on “Social Media & Patient Engagement — How to Reach the ‘Digital Consumer’ of Today.”

In addition to the keynote, other general sessions include the following:

• “The Power of Design Meets Data to Drive Behavioral Medicine Insights” by Sean Duffy, CEO of Omada Health;
• “How Technology Has Changed the Way We Access Health” by Ron Gutman, founder and CEO of HealthTap;
• “A Review of Concepts From CHIME’s National Patient ID Initiative” by Russell Branzell, CEO of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives;
• “CISO Panel: Developing Cyber Incident Response Procedures for the New Threat Landscape” by chief information security officers Karl West of Intermountain, Thomas Olmstead of the State of Idaho, Daniel Bowden of University of Utah Healthcare, and Paul Calatayud of Surescripts, and Gavin O’Brien, a computer scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology;
• “KLAS EHR Vendor Metrics: The Game Changer” by Bob Cash of KLAS Research; and
• “The Internet of Things in Healthcare” by John Glaser of Cerner.

Beyond general sessions, dozens of breakout sessions and educational workshops will take in-depth looks into everything from patient engagement strategies, telehealth, interoperability, and cybersecurity to Big Data, fraud, genomics, and vendor management. Back by popular demand, this year’s conference will also feature WEDI Think Tanks examining patient matching/patient ID and claims attachment.

WEDI will launch the conference with two preconference summits. The first, in collaboration with the Sequoia Project, will investigate the concepts and outlook for patient matching, while the second will focus on HIT architecture and development.

To download the complete agenda or to register, visit www.wedi.org.

— Source: Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange