The Collective Voice of Health IT, A WEDI Podcast

From July's Summer Forum, a session focusing on the work the HL7 FHIR Da Vinci Project is conducting on Payer to Payer Data Exchange. We welcomed Jocelyn Keegan, Program Manager of HL7's Da Vinci Project and Payer Practice Lead for Point-of-Care Partners and Michael Gould, Business Lead-Interoperability with BlueCross BlueShield Association

Matthew welcomes John Klimek, Senior Vice President, Industry Information Technology with the National Council for Prescription Drug Programs (NCPDP). John discusses NCPDP's latest work with real-time transactions, specialty pharmacies and the Universal Patient Identifier (UPI). 

This week we speak with WEDI's Privacy and Security Workgroup Co-Chairs, Marilyn Zigmund Luke from AHIP and Tina Grande from the Healthcare Leadership Council. The workgroup meets monthly to identify and work towards resolution on all implementation issues related to securing, and protecting health information across the industry.. They facilitate the review of privacy and security beyond HIPAA/HITECH in the growing areas of EHR, HIEs, HIX’s and interoperability.    Interested in joining WEDI and/or a workgroup? Visit wedi.org

This week, Matthew welcomes Amy Bassano, Deputy Director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMS Innovation Center) at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Created 10 years ago through the ACA, the Center (CMMI) is tasked to test alternative payment models in Medicare and Medicaid. Amy offers a review of the past 10 years, how the pandemic affected value based care, and addressing the future through innovation, specifically artificial intelligence.   Recently the center completed its Artificial Intelligence (AI) Health Outcomes Challenge. Listen to the winner of the million dollar challenge, ClosedLoop.ai, at WEDI's annual Summer Forum, July 27-29 on Zoom. Register at wedi.org and enter the code PODCAST for 15% off the registration rate. 

This week’s episode comes courtesy of WEDI's virtual event on ransomware held in late 2020. This one day summit highlighted the growing concern of ransomware and other cyberattacks facing the healthcare industry, a concern that continues to this day.  Our keynote for that event was Jeanette Manfra, Global Director of Security and Compliance at Google Cloud. Prior to Google Cloud, Jeanette was the Assistant Secretary for Cybersecurity and Communications for the US Department of Homeland Security.

**USE THE CODE PODCAST FOR A 15% SAVINGS ON REGISTRATION FOR WEDI'S SUMMER FORUM, July 27-29 on Zoom, www.wedi.org for details** We welcome Dr. Tiffany Avery, Chief Medical Officer for NantHealth for a in-depth discussion on the multi-factor nature of healthcare. Looking at Health Equity through the lens of oncology, Dr Avery calls for the industry to use data to not only serve all patients equally, but to understand that one's environment is also key to ensuring a positive patient experience.    Helpful Links to Learn More: https://nanthealth.com/ Their blog: https://nanthealth.com/resources/category/articles/ Follow them on social media: LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/nanthealth/ Twitter @NantHealth Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NantHealth/

On This Week's Best Of: From our National Conference, WEDI's Privacy and Security workgroup co-chairs, Marilyn Zigmund Luke (AHIP) and Tina Grande (Healthcare Leadership Council) host a roundtable discussion on the evolution and challenges of securing patient data in today's healthcare IT environment. The panelists: Lina Walker, PhD, Vice President, Health Security, AARP Mari Savickis, Vice President , Public Policy, CHIME Laura Hoffman, JD, Assistant Director, Federal Affairs, American Medical Association

Learn how the healthcare industry is addressing the broken knowledge/data supply chain through automation, patient data liberation and federal regulations at WEDI's Summer Forum, July 27-29 on Zoom. Enter the code PODCAST for 15% off your registration rate. Learn more at www.wedi.org Matthew welcome CAQH CORE Board Members Tim Kaja (Chair) and Linda Reed (Vice Chair). Tim is Senior Vice President at Optum Care and Linda is the Vice President and Chief Information Officer at St Joseph's Health.  For more than 20 years, CAQH has created shared initiatives to streamline healthcare administration. Today, CAQH technology-enabled solutions, operating rules and research help nearly 1,000 health plans, 1.6 million providers, government entities and vendors connect, exchange information and operate more efficiently. Matthew discusses CAQH CORE's origins, their current rule development efforts and latest pilot and measurement activities 

This special best of episode welcomes ONC's Micky Tripathi, PhD from WEDI's Spring Conference from May. Hosted by WEDI President and CEO Charles Stellar, Dr. Tripathi offers his thoughts as ONC moves forward through the next 6 months of 2021 and beyond. 

This week, WEDI presents a session recorded from our annual spring event, WEDI 2021 with Chief Health Equity Officer Dr. Aletha Maybank of the American Medical Association and Michael Currie of UnitedHealthGroup. Moderated by WEDI Chair Nancy Spector, the two discuss the meaning and objective of their positions, the current climate in the country as it pertains to health disparities and how they address those issues from their unique perspectives.