Chief Medical Officer, Community and State; Senior Vice President for Population Health and Social Care
UnitedHealthcare
About ALEX BILLIOUX
Dr. Alex Billioux is the chief medical officer (CMO), Community and State, and senior vice president for population health and social care at UnitedHealthcare. As CMO, he is responsible for the individual care, population health and provider partnership strategies for UHC’s Medicaid plans. He also leads UHC’s enterprise-wide strategy and capabilities to address individual health-related social needs and community social drivers of health. He is an internal medicine doctor focused on supporting whole-person health by delivering coordinated physical, behavioral and social care, and advancing cross-sector population health strategies and sharing data to foster coordinated, learning health systems. Dr. Billioux was formerly the assistant secretary for the Office of Public Health and a senior advisor and division director at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation. Dr. Billioux was a 2015 - 2016 White House Fellow, serving at the Department of Health and Human Services under Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell. He received his MD from Johns Hopkins University and his DPhil in clinical medicine from the University of Oxford.
Alice O’Carroll is the lead digital interoperability product manager on the Digital Transformation team at Florida Blue/GuideWell. In this role, Alice is responsible for leading the organization’s digital interoperability strategy and coordinating efforts across the organization to maximize the opportunities the CMS/ONC Interoperability mandates have created for the industry. With over 13 years’ experience in the healthcare industry, Alice has served as the COO for large multisite pediatric primary care practices where she was responsible for the strategic direction and operations of the organization. She is an expert in medical practice operations with a focus on integrating innovative solutions. Additionally, she spent two years leading a team of trainers for a large healthcare IT organization. Alice has served on the University of North Florida (UNF) Health Administration Programs Advisory Board since 2017 and is also an honorary member of the University of North Florida Health Administration Alumni Board. She is a guest lecturer for several courses in the UNF Health Administration program, including the private practice overview class, healthcare finance class and health policy class. Alice has been a member of the Board of Directors for the Northeast Florida Medical Group Management Association since 2011 and was the 2014 president. She is currently the Academic Outreach Chair. Alice also chairs the Interoperability Work Group for the Florida MGMA chapter and is a Co-Chair of the HL7® Da Vinci Patient Cost Transparency workgroup.
Amy Mattingly is a product leader at Humana, responsible for utilization and case management interoperability. She develops reusable technology to connect Humana and providers, improving and simplifying the complex world of authorization management. Her team has led the delivery of two direct EHR connections for authorization submission and manages the usage of FHIR® technology across many partners. Before the focus on interoperability, Amy led provider contracting, supported provider relationships, and delivered other clinical technology initiatives.
Vice President, Value Base Care and Population Health Management
MultiCare Connected Care
About ANNA TAYLOR
Anna Taylor is the Associate VP of Population Health and Value-Based Care for MultiCare Connected Care (MCC). She leads the portfolio team in executing on value-based products and strategic initiatives, as well as oversees the Digital Health Ecosystem that enables the work of population health and value-based care.
Anna has been with MultiCare Health System for 14+ years and has held positions in the Institute for Learning and Development, Information Services & Technology, and Strategy. She holds a B.S. from the UW School of Engineering in Technical Communication (now known as User-Centered Design and Engineering) and an M.S. in Clinical Informatics and Patient-Centered Technology from the UW School of Nursing & Medicine.
She was a recipient of the 2020 FHIR Champion Award from the DaVinci community and is highly engaged in building, implementing, and advocating for FHIR capabilities within Population Health and Value-Based Care.
Dr. Jaffe is the Chief Executive Officer of Health Level 7 International (HL7). He completed his medical training at Johns Hopkins and Duke Universities and post-doctoral training at the National Institutes of Health and the Lombardi Cancer Center. At NIH, he worked in the Laboratory of Clinical Investigation of NIAID. He has served in various academic positions in the Departments of Medicine and Pathology, as well as in the School of Engineering. Prior to joining HL7, he was the Senior Global Strategist at Intel. In addition, he led a national research consortium, founded a consultancy for research informatics, served as the VP of Medical Informatics at AstraZeneca, and the VP of Life Sciences at SAIC. Currently, he is the Visiting Scholar at the University of California San Diego. Charles has been the contributing editor for several journals and has published on clinical management, informatics deployment, and healthcare policy. He has been honored as a Fellow of numerous global healthcare and informatics organizations. For nearly two decades, he has been an invited speaker at three dozen programs annually. For more than 10 years, he has been the voice of HL7 FHIR, which is transforming healthcare data interoperability on a global scale. In the US, FHIR is mandated in regulation by ONC and CMS, and is utilized by NIH, CDC, FDA, and the VA. FHIR has been implemented in 50 countries for patient care, research, and public health.
Daniel J. Vreeman serves as the Chief Standards Development Officer for HL7. Dr. Vreeman is a physical therapist, biomedical informatician, and expert in health data standards. His work aims to create a global health ecosystem where data is available with open standards that unlock the potential for information systems and applications to improve health decision-making and care. Dr. Vreeman has developed internationally adopted health data standards, implemented them in multi-institutional health IT systems, evaluated their use, and provided strategic advice to interoperability initiatives of numerous U.S. federal agencies and national eHealth efforts in other countries.
Dr. Vreeman previously served as Senior Clinical Data Standards Lead at RTI International where he led the development and evaluation of interoperability projects. From 2006 to 2019, Dr. Vreeman was the Director of LOINC and Health Data Standards with the Regenstrief Institute, Inc. and the inaugural Regenstrief–McDonald Scholar in Data Standards at the Indiana University School of Medicine. In those roles, he led the development of LOINC, an open vocabulary standard for health measurements, observations and documents that is now used in more than 185 countries.
Dr. Vreeman has served as principal investigator on 30 externally funded projects totaling approximately $23 million. He has led productive collaborations with international organizations, federal agencies, academic institutions, professional associations, and industry leaders. Dr. Vreeman is a skilled communicator who has written 40 scientific papers, a book, 2 book chapters, numerous technical documents, and has delivered over 275 presentations worldwide on health data standards, interoperability, and health informatics topics.
Dave DeGandi serves as Senior Interoperability Strategist at Cambia Health Solutions, a family of companies headquartered in Portland, Oregon, that company reaches more than 70 million Americans nationwide and is working to create a person-focused and economically sustainable health care system. He has held several roles during his 35 years with Cambia and has been instrumental in advancing interoperability with his work with the HL7 Da Vinci Project.
David Koppel, ‘80s wunderkind, is the Policy Development Lead in the Health Informatics and Interoperability Group at CMS. He works across CMS programs to bring interoperability to Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP and plans on healthcare.gov. Previously, David worked with states on Medicaid systems, beginning with the HITECH Act and EHR Incentive Program in 2010. He was a Presidential Management Fellow and detailed at the White House Office of Management and Budget. He earned a JD from the George Washington University Law School and a BA from the University of California at Davis. He thinks interoperability is pretty cool, but if you see him at happy hour, he’s always looking to exchange literary recommendations or discuss the cinematic genius of Alejandro Jodorowsky.
David has been working with Healthcare IT in the EMEA, U.S.A. and other regions providing technical design, strategic advice and training for organizations and governments for over 15 years. David is a subject matter expert in HIEs and health IT standards including FHIR, privacy and security. David is a trainer on FHIR and FHIR implementation guide creation, the technical architect of the TEFCA QHIN Technical Framework, Facilitated FHIR IG and SOPs and author of public and private FHIR Implementation Guides. He is a co-chair and member of technical workgroups for healthcare IT standards development organizations including IHE and HL7. As an active member of HL7 International, David is a member of the Technical Steering Committee, a Project Lead on the FHIR Consent Resource project and co-chair of the Community-Based Care and Privacy Work Group.
Mrs. Davis is nationally known as a subject matter expert for healthcare standards, interoperability design and strategy for all healthcare stakeholders including consumers, hospitals, physician practices, public health, health information exchanges and vendors deploying health information technology to improve patient safety and quality of care. She is the recipient of the HIMSS 2022 Most Influential Women in Health IT award and the DirectTrust Interop Hero in 2021.
Diego Kaminker is a globally recognized interoperability expert and implementer in the field of healthcare information technology. He is the Founder and Owner of Kern IT with specialties in integration, software development and project management. Kaminker has been a member of the HL7 community for twenty years and has served multiple terms as the Chair of HL7 Argentina as well as an Affiliate Director of the HL7 International Board of Directors. He has defined, implemented and maintained hundreds of HL7 interoperability projects throughout the course of his career. As a prominent HL7 educator, he has led hundreds of training courses and created the self-paced online HL7 Fundamentals Course, which has attracted over 6,000 students worldwide. He is also a founding member of HL7 Argentina and the HL7 FHIR Foundation and has participated in the Argentina National Digital Health Network and has served as a guest faculty member at Columbia University in the United States.
“I have always advocated for the implementers in HL7, as I am one as well. I want to help close the chasm between standards and how to implement them,” says Kaminker. He continues “I am thankful to the HL7 board for this opportunity and to work closely with Dr. Nguyen to launch new programs and contribute to the widespread adoption of HL7 standards worldwide.”
Dr. Donald Rucker is the Chief Strategy Officer of 1upHealth. As National Coordinator of Health IT at The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) from 2017 to 2021, Dr. Rucker led the writing of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology’s (ONC) 21st Century Cures Act Interoperability Rule, which enabled the modern healthcare app economy by requiring EHRs to have standardized FHIR APIs and provided patients with secure actionable electronic access to their data by implementing the Congressional prohibition of “information blocking.”
A board-certified physician with broad clinical experience including time at Kaiser Permanente, Beth Israel Deaconess, and the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Rucker is a physician leader with national clinical informatics success. With a strong scientific, computational, and practical background in medical computing and decision sciences, he is the co-developer of the first Microsoft Windows-based electronic medical record in the world. Additionally, he designed the computerized physician order entry module that won the 2003 HIMSS Nicholas Davies Award as the best hospital computer system in the US. He holds a BA from Harvard, an MD from the University of Pennsylvania, and an MBA and MS in Medical Computer Science from Stanford.
Gillian is an experienced product leader who for the last 10 years has been delivering high-quality customer outcomes for clinical and revenue cycle workflows at athenahealth. As a director of product management, she’s most recently led efforts to scale athenahealth’s Authorization Management product by leveraging emerging technology to streamline the authorization process to reduce provider burden and unblock patient care. Prior to her time at athenahealth, Gillian held various roles in fundraising operations at Harvard University where she developed products and reporting tools for ongoing analysis of fundraising activity.
Gurbinder is a forward-thinking leader and strategist with 15+ years of success designing innovative and value-enhancing products for the healthcare industry with single objective of connecting different silos of healthcare industry to improve patient care. Skilled at bridging the gap between business vision and technology capabilities and collaborating with stakeholders to transform ideas into reality. Career spans include management, advisory and consulting roles, complemented by entrepreneurship.
Heidi is director of medical policy and medical management at Regence, where she leads strategy and execution of medical policy and prior authorization decisions. Heidi completed her Master of Public Health with a focus in epidemiology and healthcare administration and is a registered dietitian. Heidi serves as the chair and business lead for the Prior Authorization Transformation Program, directing several initiatives for electronic and auto authorization workflows, EHR interoperability, automation using artificial intelligence, and selective applications of prior authorization. More recently, Heidi was recognized with the HL7® Da Vinci Project 2021 Community Champion award and her work helped Regence earn a finalist recognition for the 2022 Gartner Eye on Innovation awards for implementing the first in the nation HL7® FHIR® Prior Authorization Support Standard.
Payer Practice Lead / HL7 Da Vinci Project Program Manager
Point-of-Care Partners
About JOCELYN KEEGAN
Jocelyn Reardon Keegan is a senior health information technology consultant and Payer/Practice Lead with Point-of-Care Partners (POCP) with 25 years of extensive product management and software development lifecycle experience across multiple industries. She has expertise in payer/provider collaboration, prior authorization workflows, specialty pharmacy, and software product development.
Prior to joining POCP, Jocelyn led integration teams to implement authorization workflows using X12, NCPDP, and HL7 standards. This included Product Management leadership on the NCPDP ePA draft standard pilot with CVS Caremark, CoverMyMeds, and Surescripts. She also provided tactical and strategic advisement to the leadership team at NaviNet/NantHealth on how to move NaviNet from a custom development organization to a SaaS product company.
Jocelyn has worked extensively with key regulatory and standards organizations: HL7, X12, CAQH, NCPDP, CMS, and ONC. Her roles required her to assess and advise on potential impacts to product strategy for key constituents; providers and medical health care payer organizations on topics ranging from feedback to ONC on regulatory requirements around provider data management, to the possibilities of emerging standards like FHIR to advance authorizations workflows, and to the impact of MACRA and shift to value-based care on existing X12 standards.
Senior Director for Global Healthcare Interoperability Solution Strategy
Infor
About JOERG SCHWARZ
Joerg Schwarz is currently Senior Director for Global Healthcare Interoperability Solution Strategy at Infor with over 25 years of experience in the global Healthcare Industry and in the interoperability space specifically. Prior to Infor, Joerg worked as a Global Director at GE Healthcare and Agfa Healthcare, designing and implementing solutions for medical image- and document- exchanges as well as integrated care. He also worked at boutique Healthcare firms such as NextGate (EMPI) and Audacious Inquiry (ADT Data Intermediary), and he built and directed a $500M Healthcare & Life Sciences Line of Business at the Fortune 500 company Sun Microsystems until it was acquired by Oracle.
Besides Healthcare IT, his passion is Business Intelligence and Data Analytics. Joerg teaches Business Analytics as a Distinguished Adjunct Professor at Golden Gate University’s Ageno School of Business in San Francisco since 2009. He holds a Master of Science degree in Information Systems from the University of San Francisco and a business administration and management degree equivalent to an MBA from the Technical University of Cologne in Germany.
After 20 years in Healthcare IT, Justin Howe now leads a series of Product teams at Availity that are focused on interoperability use cases centered on clinical data acquisition and driving FHIR adoption. Having worked in implementation, support and technical services roles in both an EDI clearinghouse and clinical data warehouse environments, Justin is a passionate advocate for reducing the overall burden on both providers and payers who rely on thoughtful approaches to solving difficult challenges.
Kim Boyd is a Senior Consultant and Regulatory Resource Center (RRC) Lead for POCP. In her role as Senior Consultant, Kim serves as a subject matter expert on federal and state interoperability policy and standards (NCPDP/HL7) as well as on strategic consulting projects. As RRC Lead, Kim works closely with POCP’s regulatory team to develop innovative regulatory solutions and educate stakeholders about the evolving regulatory landscape and the availability of new solutions. She also co-edits the Interoperability Outlook subscription service.
Kim has over 25 years’ experience in healthcare. She specializes in health care policy, market intelligence, strategic planning, interoperability, HIT and standards. Over her career, Kim has developed and executed on Federal and state healthcare policy, legislative and regulatory advocacy, stakeholder and industry engagement, and standards engagement across several healthcare priorities.
Kim is also on the NCPDP Board of Trustees, is Co-Chair of NCPDP’s Strategic Planning Committee and the use case coordinator for the Prior Authorization in Oncology Use Case in the HL7 Accelerator CodeX.
Kim lives in Nashville, TN with her family. In her free time, she enjoys hikes with her dog and honing her paddle boarding skills.
Kevin is a Principle Business Advisor at Edifecs and is driven by increasing patient wellness while reducing cost. Having worked with over a dozen State Medicaids, commercial and managed care organization, he provides advisory insight in order to optimize their process integrations through interoperability based modernization while maximizing existing investments. He also serves as the Co-Lead for the HL7 FAST FHIR Accelerator's Consent Project. Kevin has a passion for the advancement of healthcare process optimization, including his community contribution through HL7's Da Vinci Project AndFAST's Implementation Guide development helping clients adopt industry standards and the practical application of those to both conform to Federal/State regulations as and leveraging for business optimization by both Providers and Payers with patient care and cost reduction at the core.
Linda Michaelson is an HL7 Interoperability Subject Matter Expert with over twenty years of experience in clinical and administrative electronic data interchange.
Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC)
About LIZ TURI
Elizabeth (Liz) Turi is the Care Coordination & Collaboration Branch Chief within the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT's (ONC's) Office of Technology.
Matt Schuller is the director of health IT & industry standards for the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) in Chicago. As a member of the business solutions management team, he supports the success of the 34 independent and locally operated BCBS companies with primary responsibilities on strategic interoperability initiatives. Schuller’s current position represent a commitment to the promotion of quality health information for consumers, provider communities, and users of clinical data. In other leadership roles @ BCBSA, Schuller has championed initiatives related to accelerating provider performance measurement in support of consumer transparency and partnering with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) on a nationwide campaign to reduce patient harm. Before joining BCBSA in 2006, Schuller served as quality & safety services director for NMH Medicine - Central DuPage Hospital, during which time he received his master’s degree in public administration from DePaul University. Earlier in his career, he was the lead quality initiatives for the MBGH/EPIQual program where he led pioneering efforts to improve the cesarean section rates and paired local hospitals with self-insured employers to reduce the incidence of employee cardiovascular disease. Today, Schuller is a founding member of the HL7® FHIR® Da Vinci Accelerator and a member of the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) Payer Advisory Council. He remains an active member of AHIMA and served on the AHIMA Foundation board of directors. His current volunteer endeavors include leadership on the Illinois State University Health Information Management (HIM) Curriculum Advisory Committee and as a mentor to aspiring HIM students.
Michael Gould is Associate Vice President, Interoperability Strategy at ZeOmega. Michael has responsibility for the HealthUnity line of products for payer and provider interoperability. In this role, Michael defines and drives product strategic vision, creates and sustains partnerships, streamlining of product roadmap, and represents ZeOmega in industry evolution of an interoperable ecosystem to advance healthcare improvement.
Prior to joining ZeOmega, Michael was Business Lead, Interoperability at the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association. There he led interactions across 33 Blue Cross Blue Shield Plans – including the Federal Employees Benefit Plan in concert with the Association – as interoperability regulations were finalized and Plans moved into implementation. Michael also led clinical data exchange expansion with BCBS Plans to support care management – including members whose care was provided outside the geography of their BCBS Plan.
Additionally, Michael has served as Lead Data Architect at Independence Blue Cross (IBC). In this role, he led efforts to integrate clinical data with claims data and had primary technical responsibility for Independence’s relationship with HealthShare Exchange, the regional platform for health information exchange.
Michael’s portfolio also includes telemedicine and electronic medical records implementation to support patient health and well being.
Michael brings over 20 years experience across the payer and provider segments of healthcare. Michael has served in industry accelerators such as the Da Vinci Project to influence the development of standards for healthcare data exchange and the architecture of new systems based on the HL7 FHIR standard.
Michael Marchant has been in various roles in healthcare technology for more than 25 years. In those roles he led his organizations through the implementation of complex technology implementations, to include specializing on integrating systems in his senior leadership roles. Michael has worked with and for vendors, provider organizations, and government contractors leading business and technical teams delivering multifaceted solutions, advancing technology, improving workflows, and facilitating system interoperability within his organization and others locally and nationally. Michael serves as the Co-Chair for the Carequality Advisory Committee and is also a member of the Epic’s Care Everywhere Governing Council, HIMSS Interoperability Committee, and is an advisor for Equideum Health, CYBX and Patientory. His involvement with these groups provides insight to his commitment in helping shape those organizations’ technology direction, interoperability policy, development of informational content and messaging, helping to raise awareness of emerging trends and interoperability technologies in healthcare. Michael’s role as director of interoperability and innovation for UC Davis Health gives him the opportunity to address the organization’s complex technology and interoperability challenges as well as address state and federal regulations (i.e., 21st Century Cures) for UCDH and his community. He is enthusiastic about continuing to move the interoperability paradigm forward where patients are at the center of their care and provides the opportunity to connect them with all their health information, including a consent mechanism that provides visibility into how access to their health data is provisioned in all cases.
Nick Frenzer is an executive at Epic who brings experience leading large-scale software implementations around the country to his work coordinating the company's global support for Population Health strategy and execution. In 2020, Nick led a team that helped health systems add more than 92,000 beds to treat more patients during COVID-19 surges, and later focused on Epic's patient experience and interoperability efforts. Nick graduated from Arizona State University with bachelor's and master's degrees in accounting, and worked in accounting for several years after his service in the United States Marine Corps.
Dr. Raymonde Uy is a physician informaticist at the National Association of Community Health Centers. He leads and supports clinical informatics projects focusing on nationwide health information technology needs of federally qualified community health centers and networks, focusing on clinical terminology normalization, mapping, clinical decision support, EHR optimization and HIT policy. Additionally, he acts as a clinical informatics consultant for academic and industry stakeholders nationally and abroad. He is a visiting professor of health informatics management at the Ateneo de Manila University School of Medicine and Public Health and the Ateneo Graduate School of Business in the Philippines. Dr. Uy is a scientific reviewer for both the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) and the International Medical Informatics Association. He is a member of The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology’s Health Information Technology Advisory Committee, and is involved in working groups within AMIA, HL7®, and the Gravity Project. Dr. Uy graduated with a dual MD/MBA degree, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in biomedical informatics in the U.S. National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine. Moreover, Dr. Uy is a diplomate of the inaugural AMIA Certified Health Informatics Professional class, where he is a commissioner for credentialing and certification.
With an engineering background and over 20 years of medical practice, Dr. Russell Leftwich is Senior Clinical Advisor, Interoperability, for InterSystems and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. He is board certified in internal medicine and clinical informatics.
Ryan Howells is a nationally recognized digital health policy and interoperability expert based out of the Leavitt Partners Washington, D.C., office, who regularly works with the White House, Congress, HHS, and the VHA. Since 2016, Ryan has led the CARIN Alliance, which has advanced consumer-directed exchange using FHIR APIs. CARIN’s work has been implemented in production across the U.S., named as an “industry best practice” in multiple federal regulations, and received a World Changing Idea Award by Fast Company magazine.
Ryan also works with CMS and NCQA to advance digital quality measures, the Utah Governor’s office on their statewide FHIR interoperability pilot, and with CDC and ONC on public health data modernization.
Ryan is a previous General Manager of a digital health product company and current board member for multiple health care companies. He also serves on the CMS MITA Governance Board, Carequality Steering Committee, ONC’s FAST Identity Tiger Team, and the Steering Committee of the Vaccination Credentialing Initiative. Ryan has a MHA from USC and a BA from BYU. He lives in Athens, GA, with his wife Alison and 5 children.
Sam Schifrman is currently the Principle Architect for Innovation at Availity. Over the last 25 years, he has had the honor to work with some truly remarkable teams, in a number of industries. These include Finance, HR, Education, No-code Development Platforms, and Healthcare. During that time, I have worked at companies like ADP, Pearson, Sungard, and many less recognizable names.
In 2019, he joined Diameter Health as Chief Architect. In this role, he helped to design next generation architecture, raise awareness about the product capabilities, support sales, and engaging in research into future initiatives. Diameter Health is now Availity Clinical Solutions and his role has changed to Principal Architect for Innovation and Strategic Initiatives. While he continues to engage in many of the same activities, he now has a greater emphasis on engaging with prospects, customers, and the standards community.
In this role, he has developed a special interest in NLP and healthcare and is currently advancing standards for AI / NLP outputs as well as investigating how Availity Fusion and NLP can complement each other. Additionally, he is interested in the impact of Home Hospital and Wearables on the future of healthcare. All this leads to his passion for the Internet of Health: building effective, responsible partnerships between patients, providers, payers, and loved ones to drive better outcomes for all.
Sarah C. DeSilvey, DNP, FNP, balances practice as a rural family nurse practitioner with advocacy for addressing the social determinants of health (SDOH) in clinical and community practice. In her practice she provides full spectrum primary care with an area of focus on adolescent mental health and trauma. She is a faculty member in pediatrics at the UVM Larner College of Medicine. In addition to clinical practice, she is a terminologist focusing on developing the terminology to capture the process of caring for patients’ social needs. Over the last decade she has collaborated with diverse colleagues on medical and social care integration and interoperability projects. Her work has now evolved into the Gravity Project, a national consensus initiative to develop the data and data standards to address social needs. She serves as the terminology director, helping to weave the practice of social care, community-based approaches, and the literature of social risk into healthcare terminology. In line with her focus on social care terminology, she was the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra’s 2023 selection for the U.S. Health Information Technical Advisory Committee and currently co-chairs the HITAC Interoperability Standards Workgroup.
Semira Singh is director, population health informatics for Providence with 15 years of healthcare experience. She has held several posts at Providence, including manager, product management; senior business analyst, population health; and has served as an internal subject matter expert for regional executives and system leadership for achieving success in risk-based contracts and government programs. Semira earned a bachelor’s degree in political science and government from the University of Washington. As a healthcare leader she is passionate about healthcare interoperability driven by FHIR®, product innovation, healthcare policy, and scaling value-based care. Her efforts led her to be named an HL7® Da Vinci Project 2021 Community Champion.
Srihari Muthyala, Director of Technology for Regence, leads clinical engagement and interoperability strategy. In his current role he works with business leadership and technology teams to create transformative, person-focused solutions. With over 20 years of experience in developing highly scalable consumer-centric products and a background in multiple startup ventures, he pioneers innovations in prior authorization, clinical data exchange, and care management. Passionate about interoperability at scale, improving the delivery of care quality thru automation, and generative AI. Srihari earned his master's in computer science from Bradley University, is dedicated to transforming healthcare through technology.
Dr. Su Chen, MD, is a Clinical Science Principal at MITRE and Steering Committee Chair for the CodeX™ HL7® FHIR® Accelerator. CodeX is a not-for-profit, member-driven community singularly focused on advancing clinical specialty standards so that patients can have the care and research journeys they deserve and should expect. CodeX began with a focus on cancer, and now expanded to genomics and cardiovascular health. She serves on the Technical Review Group (TRG) Committee and the Executive Committee for mCODE (minimal Common Oncology Data Elements), an open-source standard for cancer data exchange. Prior to joining MITRE, Su has been a systems leader with extensive experience directing informatics in varied health settings – from serving as Director of Clinical IT in a nationwide healthcare system, Steward Health Care, to being a Chief Medical Information Officer and Urgent Care Medical Director at the Greater New Bedford Community Health Care Center.
Susan Bellile is the principal of clinical solutions for Availity, where she focuses on issues such as interoperability, clinical data exchange, data standards and FHIR®. She also serves as an advisor for regulatory mandates and proposed rules for the organization.
Vanessa Candelora is a consultant at Point-of-Care Partners (POCP) with over 17 years of experience in professional services, 11 of which are in healthcare technology. She currently serves as the project manager supporting the HL7® Da Vinci Project, a multistakeholder collaborative, as part of the Program Management Office on 11 use cases, including co-leading Patient Cost Transparency. Her work includes facilitating member-led and public community collaboration and advancing the implementation guides, reference implementation, and supplemental guidance development for increased industry adoption of HL7® FHIR® standard interoperability. Prior to joining POCP, she worked for MedeAnalytics as Director of Account Management, leading a team of account managers, program managers, and analysts to drive the increased value of healthcare data analytics products supporting health payers, IDNs, and providers across employer reporting, provider analytics, and value-based performance management solutions. Vanessa is passionate about improving healthcare through data, technology, and business processes. Vanessa holds a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and a minor in Business from Northeastern University.
Zoe Barber has a decade of experience working to advance health IT adoption, health information exchange and interoperability. She currently serves as policy director for The Sequoia Project where she leads the organization’s policy development and strategy on the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA), information blocking, and other legislative and regulatory activities impacting the health IT landscape. Previously, she served as senior manager of federal policy at the New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC), NY’s State Designated Entity charged with the governance, coordination and administration of the Statewide Health Information Network for New York. Zoe also worked as a senior policy advisor at the HHS Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology on nationwide health information network initiatives. There she led policy development of the initial drafts of the TEFCA and contributed to the ONC information blocking regulation and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services interoperability and patient access rule. She holds a master’s in public health from George Washington University and a bachelor’s in political science from Lehigh University.
