TEFCA in a Nutshell: How it May Affect HIEs and Interoperability

Dan Golder, DDS, MBA Larry Katzovitz Dan Golder, DDS, MBA, Principal, and Larry Katzovitz, Senior Advisor, Impact Advisors. Dan and Larry examine the recent draft specifications for the "Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement" (or TEFCA) and provide a high-level look at how it may affect HIEs and interoperability going forward. They also review the […]

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ONC Talks About What is Next for TEFCA

Zoe Barber, MPH Zoe Barber, MPH, Special Assistant, Principal Deputy National Coordinator for Health IT, ONC.  The 21st Century Cures Act directs ONC to develop or support a trusted exchange framework and common agreement to address policies and practices between health information networks nationally. On January 5, ONC released a draft Trusted Exchange Framework (TEF) for […]

New Technology Options for EHR Desktop Delivery at Sentara

Dale Smith Erik Gerard Dale Smith, IT Director, Sentara Healthcare, and Erik Gerard, Principal, Impact Advisors. Until recently, the choices of products capable of delivering electronic health record (EHR) applications to the desktop were limited. There are now several supported options that can successfully accomplish this task, each with its own trade-offs relative to cost, ease […]

Addressing the Current Healthcare Cybersecurity Challenges and Threat Landscape

Mac McMillan, FHIMSS, CISM Mac McMillan, Chief Executive Officer, CynergisTek, Inc. 2017 was an unprecedented year for breaches and ransomware attacks on healthcare organizations and is continuing to be a significant challenge in 2018. In this session, Mac discusses how healthcare got to where it is in terms of privacy and security, why it is […]

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Medical Device Security and Security Services

Colin Buckley Dan Czech, Analyst Cyber-security, and Colin Buckley, Senior Analyst, KLAS. In 2017 KLAS uncovered that only 16% of healthcare systems felt they had a well-developed security plan. Fast forward to 2018, and how has that changed, what strategies are being deployed regarding Cyber security, particularly medical device security? Join Dan and Colin as they […]

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Managing Cyber Threats and Protecting Patients: An HHS and Industry-led Response

Erik Decker Erik Decker, Chief Information Security & Privacy Officer, University of Chicago Medicine, and Julie Chua, Risk Management Branch Chief, HHS Office of Information Security.  Learn about mitigating common threats to the healthcare industry through a deep dive of the 405d cybersecurity guidance document. This guide (written for small-, medium- and large-sized organizations) posits […]

Cybersecurity Investment Strategy at Partners HealthCare

Jigar Kadakia Jigar Kadakia, CISO/CPO, Partners HealthCare System.  Cybersecurity does not generate revenue, and this makes it difficult to assess how much money to allocate to a cybersecurity budget or predict the economic impact of a successful cyberattack or major breach; but it’s not impossible. In this session, Jigar explains that while there is no […]

GDPR: So You Think it Doesn’t Apply?

Scott D. Dresen, MBA, FACHE, FHIMSS, CISSP, CISM Scott Dresen, FACHE, FHIMSS, CISSP, CISM, Senior VP & CTO/CISO, Leah Voigt, JD, MPH, Chief Privacy & Research Integrity Officer, Spectrum Health System, Christy Wheaton, Chief Information Privacy & Security Officer, and Liz Callahan-Morris, Deputy General Counsel, Henry Ford Health System. The European Union’s General Data Protection […]

TEFCA in a Nutshell Part II: Updated Proposed Rule and What It May Mean for Orgs and Providers

Dan Golder, DDS, MBA Dan Golder, DDS, MBA, Impact Advisors. This session examines the April 2019 update to the Draft Specifications for TEFCA - the "Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement." This proposed rule builds on HHS’ earlier proposed rule on TEFCA, and Dan reviews this new proposed rule, some of its important provisions, and […]

DevSecOps at Spectrum

Sean Henkel Sean Henkel, Director IS, and Barry D. Nowak, Senior Domain Architect, Spectrum Health.  In this discussion Barry and Sean share Spectrum Health’s 4-year DevSecOps journey.  The effort emerged in 2015 with the creation of an automation team supporting agile fixed teams which led to the emergence of lean scaled agile teams in April […]

Cyber Student Staffing Boosts Productivity at Sentara, Part II

Dan Bowden Daniel Bowden, VP & CISO, Sentara Healthcare.  Dan discusses some of the very positive impact that the student staffing program has had. Sentara’s cybersecurity program has made major improvements to training, process documentation, and drastically improved on-boarding time for not only new students, but all new team members. Further, the security team’s capabilities […]

Managing Your Expanding Remote Workforce During COVID-19 and Thereafter

Shefali Mookencherry, Principal & VCISO, and Erik Gerard, Principal & VCTO, Impact Advisors.  Shefali and Erik discuss the tactical approaches many organizations have taken to quickly scale a large remote workforce. They provide observations and recommendations on how to stabilize and secure the existing deployments and move toward a new enterprise standard for remote workforce […]

Migrating from MS Office to Google G-Suite at SCL Health

Steven Michaels, VP & CTO, SCL Health System.  The discussion centers around the advantages of selecting a strategic partner like Google and aligning organizational change culture with the benefits of the G-Suite platform. Steven also discusses embracing the agile benefits of the Google relationship and putting into action meaningful solutions that expand beyond G-Suite (i.e. Google Cloud, Pixels).

Move Faster in Your Digital Journey: Best Practices for Avoiding Common Missteps in Linking Digital to Strategy

Michelle Conger, Chief Strategy Officer, OSF HealthCare, and Jeanette Flom, SVP Client Engagement - Central, AVIA.  Building a point of view for what digital health success should look like is easy. Michelle Conger Jeanette Flom Where many health systems stumble is in the next several steps - connecting a digital point-of-view to the organization’s overall […]

Enterprise Management of Drug Inventory, Drug Shortages, and Drug Diversion at SCL Health

Jennifer Davis, PharmD, MBA, MISM, BCPS, FASHP Jennifer Davis, PharmD, MBA, MISM, BCPS, FASHP, System Director of Pharmacy & Technology Initiatives, SCL Health.  Managing medication supply and inventory effectively across a health system is a constant challenge due to drug shortages, incongruent data structures across procurement and clinical systems, and the constant threat of drug […]