2023 Executive Forum

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?

Guest Experts:

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?

Guest Experts:

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?

Guest Experts:

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?

Guest Experts:

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.

Guest Experts:

Essentials: The Role of Culture, Process, & Technology in Interoperability

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:

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?

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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?

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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:

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):

Interoperability Tomorrow

December 14, 2023

Join us as we look at recent ONC and CMS regulatory activity and how they impact interoperability in the future.

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