**Free to MHDC members only**
All Executive Forum Events are held on the second Thursday of each month at 9am ET.
What Is Interoperability?
January 12, 2023
Interoperability is a buzzword. What does it actually mean and why is everyone talking about it? How is it the mechanism that makes everything else in healthcare work and how does it enable improvements in patient care?
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What Is Interoperability? End Goals
February 9, 2023
What does a future enabled by interoperability look like? How can it improve healthcare, especially in the areas of health equity and patient experience?
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What Is Interoperability? Use Cases
March 9, 2023
How does interoperability help us achieve our goals? What specific use cases help improve health equity and the patient experience? What are other organizations doing in these areas?
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Foundations: Data Standards
Apr 13, 2023
What data standards underlie interoperability? Why is conforming to them essential, particularly for health equity and improved patient experience?
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Foundations: Exchange Standards
May 11, 2023
How can data be exchanged? What regulations mandate its exchange? How do industry-accepted exchange standards help promote equity and improve the patient experience?
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The Health Data Economy: The App Ecosystem
June 8, 2023
How will consumers use third party apps to interact with their health data? What is the current state of the app ecosystem? How are apps regulated today and how will they be regulated in the future? How will apps impact
your work, and promote health equity and the patient’s experience.
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Essentials: Overview
Jul 13, 2023
What's needed to implement data exchange within an organization? Are you examining your business processes and looking at other non-technical requirements for success? What's on your radar and is most important to you?
Guest Experts:
Lorraine Doo
Patrick Murta
Essentials: Identity & Authentication
Aug 10, 2023
What are Identity, patient matching, and authentication? Why are they key components of successful data exchange? What emerging industry standards are a fit with your health interoperability goals?
Guest Experts:
Ryan Howells
Kyle Neuman
Carmen Smiley
Essentials: Privacy & Consent
September 14, 2023
Privacy and consent are important for a good patient experience around data and interoperability. How can we protect against data loss or misuse? How can we collect and enforce patient sharing preferences using consents? How do you collect and share sensitive health data that patients might be reluctant to provide?
Guest Expert(s):
Hannah Galvin, MD
Seth Proctor
Essentials: Security & Compliance
October 12, 2023
How do you ensure data being exchanged is secured and interoperable systems protected from intrusions and other bad acts? When do regulations say you can refuse to exchange data because of security concerns and how do you apply these rules within your own organizations?
Guest Expert:
Adam Greene, JD, MHP
Uses of AI
November 9, 2023
What are illustrative applications of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and automation? How does interoperability advance the effectiveness of artificial intelligence in healthcare, especially with respect to health equity and the patient experience?
Guest Expert(s):
John Halamka, MD
Stephen Konya
Success Stories
December 14, 2023
How do you ensure data being exchanged is secured and interoperable systems protected from intrusions and other bad acts? When do regulations say you can refuse to exchange data because of security concerns and how do you apply these rules within your own organizations?
Guest Expert(s):
TBD