Agenda: 2017 Boston Health IT Summit

Panel Discussion

Policy Update – What the 21st Century Cures Act and Other Key Policy Changes Mean for Your Organization

As providers we're operating in a time of policy uncertainty. Our new administration is promising massive changes to the Affordable Care Act, payment reimbursement for MACRA are still in question and we know the 21st Century Cures Act will have significant impact on our technology partners., but how?

Join our panelists and discuss the impact of the new administration on healthcare policy, how previously enacted legislation is currently affecting providers and technology partners; and receive important policy updates for our ever-changing market. Topics include:

Policy change forecasts with the new administration and their impact on the delivery of healthcare in the US
Life after MACRA - the rule's nuances, challenges, and how IT has carved out a role in context with this policy mandate
The 21st Century Cures legislation impact on you and your EHR partners

Moderator:

John Halamka, MD, MS, Chief Information Officer, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Panelists:

Jeff Coughlin, Senior Director, Federal & State Affairs, HIMSS

David Levin, MD, Co-founder and Chief Medical Officer, Sansoro Health

David S. Szabo, Co-Chair, Healthcare Practice Group, Locke Lord LLP

Micky Tripathi, President and Chief Executive Officer, Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative

Dan Tsai, Assistant Secretary of Health, Executive Office of Health and Human Services, Commonwealth of Massachusetts

T2 Talk

Intelligent Surveillance: Quantifying Patient Condition

How would healthcare change if a patient’s condition could be quantified, if acuity level and stability could be computed on a continuing basis? Would it prevent unobserved deterioration? Would it allow for more effective handoffs between caregivers? And most importantly, would it effect outcomes? We will be describing work on a new quantification of patient condition, the Rothman Index (RI), named in memory of Florence Rothman, who died an avoidable death in a hospital in 2003. The RI is computed from data extracted from the hospital’s electronic medical record, is recalculated each time new data is entered, is integrated with all major EMR systems and is displayed in the form of a simple graph, showing condition versus time. It uses vital signs, lab test results and importantly data from nursing assessments, and has been widely validated in the literature (25 peer-reviewed articles) and at hospitals (70+ across the US). With the RI, patient acuity and stability becomes viewable and communication between caregivers about both patient condition and trends in patient condition, are enhanced. The system, when integrated with nursing workflow, provides a safety net. Unobserved deterioration is reduced, and with it, in-hospital mortality in general and sepsis mortality in particular.

Michael Rothman, PhD, Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer, PeraHealth

Panel Discussion

Advancing Your Telehealth Strategy to Deliver Value-Based Care, Better Serve At-Risk Populations and Increase Efficiencies

Telehealth solutions are rapidly advancing and provide tremendous opportunities for providers to deliver care in a way they never have before. As legislative hurdles are crossed and new technology emerges more providers are using telehealth solutions in their population health strategies, to create new lines of service, provide value-based care and increase the number of patients they are able to serve.

Panelists will share how they use telehealth solutions in their systems, how they implemented the solutions, the opportunities they see for growth and what you need to know to improve your telehealth strategy. Topics include:

How to overcome reimbursement, legislative and technological barriers to telehealth adoption
Tips for building a care culture that maintains positive patient/provider relationships and creates better quality of life for patients
How they are using telehealth solutions to fulfill value-based care initiatives and create opportunities for physicians to care for more patients
Investment strategies for telehealth technology and how investment in telehealth solutions allow providers to meet the consumerization demands of healthcare

Moderator:

Mark Hagland, Editor in Chief, Healthcare Informatics

Panelists:

Charles Podesta, Chief Information Officer, UC Irvine Health

Suleima Salgado, MBA, Director of Telehealth & Telemedicine, Office of Chief of Staff, Georgia Department of Public Health

Sarah Sossong, Director, TeleHealth, Massachusetts General Hospital

Lori Posk, MD, Medical Director - MyChart, Cleveland Clinic

Helen Waters, Executive Vice President, MEDITECH

Daniel Nigrin, MD, MS

Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Boston Children's Hospital, and

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

In early 2014, the activist hacker group Anonymous launched an all-out attack on Boston Children's Hospital. The assault was aggressive and attempted to penetrate the hospital’s network through spear phishing emails and direct attacks on exposed ports and services. In his forum case study, Senior Vice President and CIO Daniel Nigrin, MD, will recount the attack with all its twists and turns. He’ll explain how his team combatted it, and share best practices and lessons learned in real time. These include understanding your organization’s dependence on email and developing workarounds if it has to be shut down; and planning for the possibility of losing internet connectivity. Keys to successfully rebuffing such an attack include:

A well-trained and dedicated staff
Support of a multidisciplinary team
The resources and expertise of your internet service provider and 3rd party partners

T2 Talk

The Digital Health Success Framework: How Organizations are Triumphantly Transforming Healthcare with New Technologies

Going from concept to scale is not easy in any industry. In healthcare, it's uniquely complex. In this talk Dr. Travis Good, Co-founder and CEO of Datica, will discuss the key ingredients to a successful digital health product across the spectrum of healthcare.

Travis Good, MD, Co-founder, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Privacy Officer, Datica

T2 Talk

Are You Making Too Many Left Turns?

Recognizing that the healthcare industry is unique in many ways, are there lessons to learn from other industries? How is data being leveraged in other spaces to drive business success? This session explores the world of online shopping and delivery service to find opportunities to optimize healthcare delivery in the U.S. as we move towards value-based care.

Jeremy Zasowski, Innovation Manager, Data Informatics, 3M Health Information Systems

T2 Talk

Innovation in Health Information Exchanges: Building A Hassle-Free HIE

Reliant Medical Group, a 500+ provider multispecialty group practice, electronically sends and receives over a million documents a year in order to provide the highest quality, safest, lowest cost care possible. Learn how Reliant has made interoperability hassle-free with all parts of the healthcare system, include acute-care, post-acute care, and soon to include EMS

Larry Garber, MD, Medical Director for Informatics, Reliant Medical Group

Katie Stebbins

Assistant Secretary of Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Executive Office of Housing and Economic Development, Commonwealth of Massachusetts and Co-Chair, Mass Digital Health Council

Ms. Stebbins works throughout the commonwealth of Massachusetts to drive technology adoption that improves the lives of citizens.

She'll share how innovative developments in multiple technology sectors - like cybersecurity, FinTech and EdTech - are benefitting the digital health sector in Massachusetts.

Laurance Stuntz, Director, Massachusetts eHealth Institute at MassTech (MeHI)

Mr. Stuntz will share how Massachusetts has become a leader in sourcing innovation across the commonwealth and how models MeHI and others have put in place incentivize the uptake of new, innovative products in the digital health sector.

MeHI is the designated state agency for promoting Health IT innovation, technology and competitiveness to improve the safety, quality and efficiency of health care. Programs and services focus on accelerating the use of Health IT throughout Massachusetts in all provider settings.

Healthcare Informatics Innovation Lab – Featuring Pulse@MassChallenge

Network and evaluate new technology in the Innovation Lab. This isn’t a sales pitch. It’s an opportunity to experience emerging technologies from some of the world's hottest, most innovative digital health companies right here in Boston.

Presenting companies include members of the 2017 PULSE@MassChallenge innovation program whose winners are announced on June 13 at thr PULSE Finale. Attendees of the Health IT Summit will be the first to learn about the award winning projects outside of the PULSE accelerator program.

The Cybersecurity Forum, at the Health IT Summit, brings together experts in healthcare IT security and privacy issues to discuss key trends in the IT security/privacy sphere, and the top challenges facing the leaders of patient care organizations in this critical area.

Among the many topics our forums will cover are: the latest updates on new IT security threats emerging in healthcare; strategies that have proven effective in patient care organizations on the leading edge; and case studies of pioneering hospitals, medical groups, and health systems, in IT security and privacy.

Featured Presentation
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, The New Wild Wild West

This session will feature insights on the current cyber threat landscape from our nation's top healthcare focused threat data sharing organization, NH-ISAC. The NH-ISAC is the official healthcare information sharing and analysis center, offering non-profit and for-profit healthcare stakeholders a community and forum for sharing cyber and physical security threat indicators, best practices and mitigation strategies.

Josh Singletary, Chief Information Officer, National Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center (NH-ISAC)

T2 Talk

Developing a Roadmap To Address Cyber Security Risk

Today, risks and threats to your proprietary information and IT infrastructure come from everywhere, both inside and outside your organization. The best response to these threats is a comprehensive information security strategy. A good strategy is much more than just technology solutions and should include:

• Comprehensive management program
• Effective information security policies and procedures
• IT Risk assessment and management
• Regulatory compliance
• Incident response
• Education and awareness

With the threat landscape changing frequently and security breaches making the news almost weekly, many organizations struggle to implement a successful information security strategy. Annual vulnerability assessments alone are not sufficient. Preventive, detective, and reactive security controls are not implemented, tested, and/or retested, and risk management efforts are not effectively tracked.

Jonathan Mahoney, CISA, CISSP, Cyber Security Practice Manager, Presidio

Panel Discussion

Practical Tips for Creating a Cybersecurity Framework that Meets Your Privacy Standards

There is no such thing as a one-size, fits all cyber framework for healthcare privacy and security shops. This session will focus on how providers can create a cyber framework that serves as a foundation of their cybersecurity strategy, improves their risk posture and allows for the development of a clinically-aware security and privacy program. Topics include:

Engaging your board, leadership and peers in creating a cybersecurity culture that is critical to the success of your governance structure and frameworks
The use of frameworks to create a data-centric approach to security, enabling access to sensitive patient data anywhere, any-time, on any device
How to organize and prioritize standardization efforts in order to build and maintain an information security program
How they are using tools from multiple frameworks to move from a traditionally reactive approach to one that is far more proactive

Moderator;

Sriram Bharadwaj, Chief Information Security Officer and Director, Information Services, UC Irvine Health

Panelists:

Leo Scanlon, HHS Senior Advisor for Healthcare and Public Health (HPH) Sector Cybersecurity and the Deputy Chief Information Security Officer, Department of Health and Human Services

Heath C. Renfrow, Cyber Security Program Manager, Army Medical Command HQ, Department of the Army
David Ting, Chief Technology Officer, Imprivata
Axel Wirth, National Healthcare Solutions Architect, Symantec Corporation

Mike Yamamoto, Chief Information Security Officer, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

T2 Talk
Ransomware, Response and Resilience: Avoiding Your Next Cyber Heart Attack

Trauma. Angina. Heart attacks. No, this isn't just another day in your Emergency Department, it's the newest threat to patient safety - cybercrime. From crippling ransomware attacks that leave computers and EMRs inaccessible, to sophisticated social engineering schemes that drain payroll accounts, healthcare has been devastated by wave after wave of criminal activity. For the first time in history - cybersecurity has become life or death.

But just like healthcare, there's hope. The very same issues that make our hospitals, clinics and networks vulnerable may also be our greatest assets - but only if you know how to respond effectively. Thriving in this digital age of cybercrime doesn't require a brain surgeon, it only requires determination and hard work.

Join GreyCastle Security as we define corrective incident response procedures and the cybersecurity tactics that will save patients' lives in the years to come.

Reg Harnish, Chief Executive Officer, GreyCastle Security

Featured Presentation

Medical Device Security: Clinical Inventory, IoT, Shadow IT, Oh My!

Recent demonstrations of hackers manipulating medical device code is proof that medical devices can be exploited to gain access to your networks and lay the foundation for more sophisticated cyber attacks. Panelists will discuss the “here-and-now” dangers of medical device exploitation and how they can be the weakest link on any network. Panelists will discuss:

Digital security challenges presented by a largely unmitigated fleet of connected biomedical devices and how data compromised to medical devices can have a major impact on patient safety
Why data on microprocessor-based medical devices can be both more vulnerable and significantly more difficult to secure than data found on most IT equipment
Best practices, guidelines and tools available to help healthcare delivery organizations identify and mitigate medical device security risks

Speaker:

Kevin Fu, PhD, Director, Ann Arbor Research Center for Medical Device Security (ARCHIMEDES) and Associate Professor, Sloan Research Fellow of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan

T2 Talk

Beyond WannaCry: Vital Steps for Ransomware Preparedness

Since the global WannaCry cyberattack made the word “ransomware” top of mind for millions of people, the need for a proactive approach before the next incident has become paramount. This session will focus on the fundamentals for which organizations should be concentrating to prevent a large scale internal issue from occurring. An emphasis on the “blocking and tackling” of security is the key.

Ryan Patrick, Vice President, Fortified Health Security

T2 Talk

Avoiding the Five Pain Points of Data Protection in Healthcare

The healthcare industry’s demand for cost efficiency, proliferation of healthcare data and concerns about security and ransomware paint a bleak picture for healthcare IT departments. How can they protect patient data, comply with regulations and keep costs down? It starts with IT Resilience. This session will address the five pain points of the healthcare IT department, and present how a resilient IT infrastructure can help avoid some of the most common pain points.

Adam Sekora, Chief Evangelist, Zerto

Panel Discussion

Creating a Cybersecurity Culture in Your Organization

All hospital systems and networks - large and small - can be targets of cybercrime, yet, financial resources are declining and the pressures to increase efficiencies are top of mind. Creating a culture of cybersecurity in the workplace enables hospitals and medical centers to be resistant and resilient, and manage and mitigate cybersecurity risk across the enterprise. Experts will discuss how to effectively reach and communicate with every employee from the break room to the boardroom and to cultivate a culture of cybersecurity.

Identify the driving factors that impact behavior and how to effectively reach and communicate with diverse audiences about cybersecurity
Explain how to access and best utilize community resources and implement effective cybersecurity awareness programs
Developing communication processes and programs to engage your board of directors, peers and the workforce

Moderator:

Sriram Bharadwaj, Chief Information Security Officer and Director, Information Services, UC Irvine Health

Panelists:

Michael J. Corby, Executive Consultant, CGI

Chris Grieco, Chief Information Security Officer, Fort Drum Regional Health Planning Organization
Jon Fredrickson, Chief Information Security Officer, Southcoast Health

James Noga, Chief Information Officer, Partners Healthcare

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Friday, June 16 - Cybersecurity Forum

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