CONNECT Seminar 2009
Seminar Agenda and Presentation Downloads
General Sessions
- CONNECT: Laying the Foundation for Health Information Exchange
- Keynotes: Dr. David Blumenthal, Aneesh Chopra, The Honorable W. Scott Gould
- The Human Side of HIE: The Experiences of the Wife of a Wounded Soldier
- The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology Panel: Insight into Emerging Policy
- CONNECT and Innovate! Building the CONNECT Community
- Business Case for Adoption: The Federal Perspective, The Perspective of the Private Sector and States, The Vendor Community
- Building Tools for Trust for Nationwide Information Exchange
- Security and Privacy Requirements to Support the Exchange of Health Information
- Production Environment Lessons Learned: Authorized Release of Information for Disability Claims
- CONNECT Solution and Core Services Overview
- CONNECT Architecture Overview
- CONNECT Installation and Configuration
- Testing the CONNECT System
- Building a CONNECT Adapter
- Content Payload
General Sessions
CONNECT: Laying the Foundation for Health Information Exchange
Presenter: Vish Sankaran, Federal Health Architecture, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, Department of Health and Human Services
Keynote: Dr. David Blumenthal
Presenter: Dr. David Blumenthal, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, Department of Health and Human Services
Keynote: Aneesh Chopra
Presenter: Aneesh Chopra, Chief Technology Officer and Associate Director for Technology, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President
Keynote: The Honorable W. Scott Gould
Presenter: The Honorable W. Scott Gould, Deputy Secretary, Department of Veterans Affairs
The Human Side of HIE: The Experiences of the Wife of a Wounded Soldier
Presenter: Sarah Wade, Wife of Retired Sergeant Ted Wade
Retired Sergeant Ted Wade suffered many complex injuries following the explosion of an improvised explosive device (IED) while serving our country in Iraq. Sarah Wade will share her and her husband's experiences as they fight to overcome the many hurdles that are being experienced by returning soldiers who are challenged to get the care and services they need. This session will highlight the role that health information exchange can play in improving the lives of our wounded warriors.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology Panel: Insight into Emerging Policy
Quality Improvement Opportunities using CONNECT: A Proof of Concept for Changing the Traditional Methods of Data Exchange
- Dr. Carol Bean, Acting Director, Office of Interoperability and Standards, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, Department of Health and Human Services
- Kelly Cronin, Director of Programs and Coordination, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, Department of Health and Human Services
- Jodi Daniel, Director, Office of Policy and Research, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, Department of Health and Human Services
- Dr. John Glaser, Senior Special Advisor, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, Department of Health and Human Services
- Rachel Nelson, Special Assistant to the Deputy National Coordinator, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, Department of Health and Human Services
- Ginger Price, Program Director, Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN), Office of the National Health Coordinator for Health Information Technology, Department of Health and Human Services
As the CONNECT project grows in use and participation, what can be learned from other successful open source communities? How do other communities structure their processes, tools and governance to make the most of every resource available? How can the CONNECT community create a "virtuous circle" of innovation and evolution on a pace and scale necessary to make a difference? This session will address these questions and will provide perspective on what made projects like Apache, Mozilla and others successful as well as what pitfalls to avoid. Attendees will also hear how the lessons learned and ideas generated from these successful open source projects might map to the CONNECT project and to healthcare IT in general.
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Business Track Sessions
Business Case for Adoption: The Federal Perspective
Quality Improvement Opportunities using CONNECT: A Proof of Concept for Changing the Traditional Methods of Data Exchange
Presenter: Michael Reinhold, Acting Deputy Group Director Information System Group, Office of Clinical Standards and Quality, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Presenters:
- Dr. Robert Bencic, Senior Quality Assurance Officer, National Disaster Medical System
- James Garvie, Deputy Director, Division of Information Resources, Indian Health Service
- Dr. George Komatsoulis, Deputy Director, National Cancer Institute Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology
- Dr. Taha Kass-Hout, BioSense Program Manager, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Justine Piereman, Senior Advisor to the Deputy Commissioner for Systems, Social Security Administration
- Dr. Steve Steffensen, (LCDR, MC, USN), Chief Medical Information Officer, Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center, Department of Defense
- Agencies will discuss their experiences setting up and demonstrating their CONNECT implementations in test environments. They will discuss their future production plans, and SSA will highlight its existing experience using CONNECT in limited production.
Presenters:
- Dr. Tim Cromwell, Director, Standards and Interoperability, Office of Health Information, Veterans Health Administration
- Jamie Ferguson, Executive Director of Health IT Strategy and Policy, Kaiser Permanente
The Department of Veterans Affairs and Kaiser Permanente will provide a case study and lessons learned to date in moving to an NHIN-based, production-level health information exchange.
Download Session Presentation: PDF (14.5 MB) and PowerPoint (12 MB)
Business Case for Adoption: The Perspective of the Private Sector and States
Representatives from the states and from private care facilities will discuss how they are beginning to use CONNECT to support their health information exchange needs. This session will highlight the business cases for using CONNECT - from establishing an internal health information exchange to support electronic health records within a facility, to participating in local, regional and national health information exchanges. Panel participants will discuss how CONNECT addresses their needs and promotes more effective information exchange.
- Ann Kitchen, Executive Director, Integrated Care Collaboration, Improving Access to Healthcare in Central Texas
- Linh Le, Research Scientist, New York State Department of Health
- Dr. Charles Magruder, Senior Advisor, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Sandy McCleaf, Program Management Office Director, MedVirginia
- Dr. Michael McGill, Director of Health Sciences, Internet2
Business Case for Adoption: The Vendor Community
Health IT vendors that have begun to create solutions based on CONNECT will provide details about these solutions and describe their rationale for deciding to innovate using this open-source gateway. This session will highlight the value CONNECT delivers to vendors, and ultimately to their customers, by providing a solution based on harmonized standards.
- Daniel Berlin, Staff Software Engineer, Google's Open Source Programs
- Deanna Cagney, Director of Product Marketing, Initiate Systems
- David Dobbs, Program Manager, Science Applications International Corporation
- Catharine Evans, Director, Federal Health IT, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
- Jeanne O'Kelley, Senior Vice President, Technology Excellence Center, Vangent
- Dr. Bart J. Harmon, Chief Medical Officer, Harris Corporation
- Chris Ingersoll, Director, Interoperability Product Management, RelayHealth
- Greg Pippin, Customer Solutions Architect, Cisco Federal
- Gary Teichrow, Vice President, Chief Architect, Mirth Corporation
- Brendon Unland, President and Founder, Jericho Systems Corporation
- Building Tools for Trust for Nationwide Information Exchange
- Security and Privacy Requirements to Support the Exchange of Health Information
- Production Environment Lessons Learned: Authorized Release of Information for Disability Claims
Panelists will discuss the key tenets for trust needed to foster information exchange, including the legal and policy framework and governance that underscore this trust relationship. Panelists will share insights into the issues that public and private entities considered in developing a trust agreement for the Nationwide Health Information Network(NHIN), including a status of the work in progress.
Moderator: Mariann Yeager, NHIN Policy and Governance Lead, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, Department of Health and Human Services
Presenters:
- Dr. Ashley Corbin, Federal Security Strategy Co-Chair, Director, DRAV, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
- Stephania Putt, Director, Information Access and Privacy Office, Office of Health Information,Veterans Health Administration
- Steve Gravely, MHA, JD, Troutman Sanders LLP, Legal Counsel MedVirginia
This session will provide an overview of existing and planned CONNECT security and privacy constructs. Speakers will provide insight into the security and privacy issues that arise due to differences in regulations between the public and private sectors with regard to the exchange of health information. Attendees will hear discussion of the critical issues that need addressing and will learn about the work being accomplished by the Federal Security Strategy Working Group in its efforts to resolve key security and privacy challenges.
Presenters:
- Jodi Daniel, Director, Office of Policy and Research, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
- Julie Boughn, Chief Information Officer and Director, Office of Information Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
- Dr. Ashley Corbin, Federal Security Strategy Co-Chair, Director, DRAV, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
- Suzanne Lightman, Lead Policy Analyst, Office of Management and Budget
This session will discuss the lessons learned in the exchange of patient summary of care documents between providers and the Social Security Administration (SSA) to facilitate disability determinations. SSA and MedVirginia will discuss the process they followed that made it possible for the organizations to share live data in a limited production environment to help speed disability claims for citizens.
Presenters:
- Tom Davidson, Health IT Architect, Social Security Administration
- Nitin Jain, Senior Health IT Architect, IBM, MedVirginia
- Sandy McCleaf, Program Management Office Director, MedVirginia
- Jean McGraw, Chief Operating Officer, MedVirginia
- Marty Prahl, Lead Health IT Technical Architect, Social Security Administration
- Pam Waters, Technical Lead for Health IT, Deputy Commissioner for Systems, Social Security Administration
Technical Track Sessions
CONNECT Solution and Core Services Overview
This panel will be broken into two parts. It will illustrate the value CONNECT delivers to federal agencies and the role it can play in public/private information exchange. This session will open with an explanation of what the CONNECT gateway is from a technical perspective. It will explain the solution's functionality, use cases, and it will highlight the NHIN interface specifications included within the software.
After the introduction, a town-hall style conversation will commence where audience members will be able to ask questions directly of the subject matter experts responsible for writing the NHIN interface specifications.
This session will outline the specifications currently available in CONNECT as well as the production specifications that will be delivered in September 2009.
- David Riley, CONNECT Initiative Lead and NHIN Specifications Chair (Contractor),Federal Health Architecture, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, Department of Health and Human Services
- Craig Miller, CONNECT Chief Architect (Contractor), Federal Health Architecture, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, Department of Health and Human Services
- Christopher Brancato, NHIN Architecture Team Lead (Contractor), Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, Department of Health and Human Services
- Neel Phadke, Senior Consultant, CGI Federal, CareSpark
- Brian Dixon, Health IT Project Manager, Regenstrief Institute, Inc.
- Richard Franck, IT Architect, IBM, NCHICA
- Tony Mallia (Contractor), Office of Enterprise Development, Department of Veterans Affairs
- Erik W. Rolf, CareSpark, President, Deliberaré
- Chris Voigt, Executive Consultant, CGI Federal, CareSpark
- Karen Witting, Senior Software Engineer, IBM, NCHICA
CONNECT Architecture Overview
This session will provide a CONNECT architecture overview and will discuss the components included in the solution. It will cover the components that comprise both the CONNECT Gateway and CONNECT Adapter. It will discuss both CONNECT 2.0 and 2.1.
- Robert Cothren, CONNECT Enterprise Architect (Contractor), Federal Health Architecture, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, Department of Health and Human Services
- Les Westberg, CONNECT Technical Lead (Contractor), Federal Health Architecture, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, Department of Health and Human Services
CONNECT Installation and Configuration
This session will discuss the different methods to install the CONNECT solution. There are currently four installation options: preconfigured GlassFish binary install, full binary install, source code install and Solaris full binary install. This session will describe the differences in the options and then the presenter will demonstrate the source code install option.
Presenter: Les Westberg, CONNECT Technical Lead (Contractor), Federal Health Architecture, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, Department of Health and Human Services
Download Session Presentation: PDF (2.8 MB) and PowerPoint (2.3 MB)
Testing the CONNECT System
This session will discuss the three testing options that are currently available: validating the services, internal self test and outbound self test. These tests are used to verify an installation of the CONNECT software and to verify connectivity to external remote gateways. A demonstration will be given that will show how to run the validation and internal self tests to verify the installation of CONNECT.
Presenter: Les Westberg, CONNECT Technical Lead (Contractor), Federal Health Architecture, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, Department of Health and Human Services
Download Session Presentation: PDF (2.3 MB) and PowerPoint (2.3 MB)
Building a CONNECT Adapter
This session will focus on the steps necessary to modify, extend and customize the CONNECT reference adapter. During this session, the presenter will take one of the adapter components and teach attendees how to create and replace it with a customized component.
Presenter: Les Westberg, CONNECT Technical Lead (Contractor), Federal Health Architecture, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, Department of Health and Human Services
Download Session Presentation: PDF (2.8 MB) and PowerPoint (2.4 MB)
Adapter Customization Instructions Manual (PDF) and Adapter Customization Files
Content Payload Part 1, Content Payload Part 2
This session aims to provide a foundation for understanding the composition of Clinical Document Architecture compliant XML documents including Continuity of Care Document, HITSP C32, C83 and more. Representatives from the Social Security Administration and the Department of Veterans Affairs will discuss their respective experiences utilizing HITSP/NHIN content specifications, the tools they used, the challenges that were encountered mapping and validating the content created, and the lessons learned. Knowledge of XML concepts is recommended for attendants.
- Dr. Omar Bouhaddou (Contractor), Senior Analyst, Office of Health Information, Veterans Health Administration
- David Katz, IT Specialist, Social Security Administration
- Shane Rossman, IT Specialist, Social Security Administration
Download Session Presentation: PDF (14.4 MB) and PowerPoint (12.75 MB)
