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Tory Cenaj
Founder and Publisher Blockchain in Healthcare Today and Telehealth and Medicine Today Partners in Digital Health
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FEATURING KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Joe DeVivo
President Hospital and Health Systems, Teladoc Health

Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO)

John Halamka, MD
President, Mayo Clinic Digital Platform

Alex Harris
Partner, McKinsey & Company

WASHINGTON, DC USA -- HEALTHCARE UPDATE NEWS SERVICE™ -- FEBRUARY 23, 2021: Did you miss the ConVerge2Xcelerate (#CONV2X) 2020 live event?

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Discover how blockchain technology, telehealth, AI and converging technologies create a new era of patient care with digital transformation - and compare and contrast various business, strategic, and technical models.


SYMPOSIUM AGENDA:
Part I
7AM - 7:10AM Opening Remarks
Tory Cenaj, Founder and Publisher, Partners in Digital Health
7:10AM - 8:00AM Regulation and Governance
Technology - Current and Future Progress
Moderator, Technology: Gil Alterovitz, PhD, Director of AI, US Department of Veterans Affairs, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School, USA
  • Jorge A. Ferrer, MD, MBA, LSA, FAMIA, Adjunct Assistant Professor, UT Health School of Biomedical Informatics, Health Informatics Subject Matter Expert, US Department of Veterans Affairs, USA
  • Praveen Gedam, MD, Addl. Chief Executive Officer, National Health Authority, Government of India
  • Marloes Pomp, International Strategy at Dutch Blockchain Coalition & National AI Coalition, Netherlands
  • Melanie Nuce, Senior Vice President, GS1, US
8:00AM - 10AM Regulation and Governance
Interoperability Current and Future Progress
Moderator, Telehealth: Amar Gupta, PhD, MIT’s Institute of Medical Engineering and Science (IMES), Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Labs (CSAIL) and Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. USA
  • Paul De Raeve, Secretary General, European Federation of Nurses (EFN), European Union
  • Mario Hyland, Sr, Vice President, AEGIS.net, Inc. and Founder, AEGIS Canada
  • Prof. Sergio Pillon, CIRM Medical Director, San Camillo-Forlanini Hospital, Rome, European Public Health Alliance (EPHA), VAS Representative Work-Group, Digital Health, National Coordinator of the Committee for Telemedicine Development, Italian Ministry of Health, Italy
  • Prabhakaran Dorairaj, MD, DM (Cardiology), MSc, FRCP, FNASC, Vice President, Research and Policy, Director, Centre For Control Of Chronic Conditions, Public Health Foundation of India
  • Liz Ashall-Payne, Chief Executive Officer, ORCHA, UK
7:10AM - 8:00AM Regulation and Governance
Technology - Current and Future Progress
Moderator, Technology: Gil Alterovitz, PhD, Director of AI, US Department of Veterans Affairs, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School, USA
  • Jorge A. Ferrer, MD, MBA, LSA, FAMIA, Adjunct Assistant Professor, UT Health School of Biomedical Informatics, Health Informatics Subject Matter Expert, US Department of Veterans Affairs, USA
  • Praveen Gedam, MD, Addl. Chief Executive Officer, National Health Authority, Government of India
  • Marloes Pomp, International Strategy at Dutch Blockchain Coalition & National AI Coalition, Netherlands
  • Melanie Nuce, Senior Vice President, GS1, US
10:00AM-10:40AM Keynote
Democratizing Healthcare: Accelerating Virtual Care Adoption to Transform Care Delivery
Joe DeVivo, President, Hospital and Health Systems Teladoc Health

7:10AM - 8:00AM Regulation and Governance
Technology - Current and Future Progress
Moderator, Technology: Gil Alterovitz, PhD, Director of AI, US Department of Veterans Affairs, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School, USA
  • Jorge A. Ferrer, MD, MBA, LSA, FAMIA, Adjunct Assistant Professor, UT Health School of Biomedical Informatics, Health Informatics Subject Matter Expert, US Department of Veterans Affairs, USA
  • Praveen Gedam, MD, Addl. Chief Executive Officer, National Health Authority, Government of India
  • Marloes Pomp, International Strategy at Dutch Blockchain Coalition & National AI Coalition, Netherlands
  • Melanie Nuce, Senior Vice President, GS1, US
11AM - 12PM Privacy, Security and Hacking
  • Moderator: Joyce Hunter, Executive Director, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology (ICIT), and CEO, Vulcan Enterprise
  • Chris Roberts, vCISO, Advisor, Hillbilly Hit Squad
  • Lynn Sessions, Partner, Cybersecurity and Data Breaches, Baker Hostetler Healthcare
  • Mitch B. Parker, Chief Information Security Officer and Executive Director, Indiana University Health
12PM - 12:15PM Integrating Telehealth with Emerging Technologies: AI, Blockchain, VR
Ingrid Vasiliu-Feltes MD MBA, FACHE, MDMBA, Chief Quality & Innovation Officer, MEDNAX

12:15PM - 12:45PM Creating a Seamless Patient Journeys across Virtual and In-Person Care
Leslie Basham, President and Chief Operating Officer, Surgical Directions

10:00AM-10:40AM Keynote
Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
Director - General, World Health Organization (WHO)


1:05PM Keynote
John Halamka, MD
President, Mayo Clinic Digital Platform


2PM - 3PM Virtual Health
Tools & Services, Hardware & Software
Platforms
Telehealth vendors share pre-, current and post-Covid-19 market impact of platforms
Moderator: Lyle Berkowitz, MD, FACP, FHIMSS, CEO of Back9 Healthcare Consulting
  • Jamey Edwards, CEO, Cloudbreak
  • Ram Fish, CEO, 19Labs and GALE
  • Aashima Gupta, Director, Global Healthcare Solutions, Google Cloud
  • Yulun Wang, PhD, Fellow, Teladoc Health
3PM - 4PM Diagnostic Tools
New and restructured telehealth triage and diagnostic tools to support virtual health Covid-19 encounters
Moderator: Lyle Berkowitz, MD, FACP, FHIMSS, CEO of Back9 Healthcare Consulting
  • Don Bauman, CEO, Isabel
  • Kira Radinsky, CEO, Diagnostic Robotics
  • John Bertrand, CEO, Dx.Ai
  • Paula LeClair, US GM, Healthy.io
  • Brian J. Caveney, MD JD MPH, President, Labcorp Diagnostics and Chief Medical Officer, Labcorp Holdings
4PM - 5PM Software PowerUps
New tools to improve standard telehealth platforms
Moderator: Lyle Berkowitz, MD, FACP, FHIMSS, CEO of Back9 Healthcare Consulting
  • Robert Budman, MD, MBA, CDI-P, Chief Medical Information Officer, Nuance
  • Krishna Kurapati, CEO & Founder, QliqSoft
  • David Maman, CEO and Founder, Binah.ai
  • Ted Schwab, Strategist and Innovation Executive
5PM - 5:40PM Pharmacy Integrated Solution to Assist Hospital Pharmacy Providers in Managing Drug Shortages
  • Todd Nolan, General Manager, IBM Micromedex Solutions, IBM Watson Health
  • Adam Orsborn, CEO, OrbitalRX
6PM - 7PM The Future of Digital Health Reimbursement and Compliance
  • Toni Elhoms, CCS, CPC, CRC, AHIMA, President, AACP, Chief Executive Officer, Alpha Coding Experts and President, Orlando AAPC Chapter
  • Ken Wolstenholm, COO, Sevaro Health
  • Jan Ground, MBA, Former Director, Virtual Care, Kaiser Permanente Colorado
  • Christian Milaster, Founder & President, Ingenium Digital Health Advisors
  • Anjali Dooley, Managing Partner, Law Office of Anjali B. Dooley, LLC
7 PM -9 PM Design Thinking
Embedding technologies into systems, achieving business growth and scaling agnostic initiatives
Moderator: Sweta Sneha, PhD, Executive Director of Healthcare Management Informatics. Professor of Information Systems, Coles College Of Business, Kennesaw University
  • Amaresh Tripathy, SVP & Analytics Business Leader, Genpact.ai
  • Charlie Northrup, Founder, Neurosciences
  • James Wieselman Schulman, Global Design Lead, Innovation Hub, International Markets, Cigna
  • JD Pollak, Co-founder and Chief Architect, The Commons Project and CTO and Prof at Cornell Tech
  • Jodi Cutler, Design Lead and PM, IBM Watson Health
  • Srikanth Velamakanni, Co-founder, Group Chief Executive & Vice-Chairman, Fractal Analytics
Part II
7AM - 7:10AM Opening Remarks
Tory Cenaj, Founder and Publisher, Partners in Digital Health

7:10AM - 10:30AM Economic Impact
Including fireside chats, politics, values, culture, infrastructure, investment and ROI post Covid-19
Moderator: Jose Arrieta, Former CIO, US Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS)
  • Combiz Abdolrahimi, US Technology Innovation Leader, Deloitte
  • Jason Cross, Chief Strategy Officer, Rymedi
  • David S. Hanekom, MD, FACP, CMPE, Chief Medical Officer and Regional President North America, SolveCare
  • Domenique Hurley, VP, Strategy & Innovation, HealthVerity
  • Ben Taylor, Founder and CEO, LedgerDomain
11:00AM - 11:40AM What You Should Know About Interacting with a Telehealth Resource Center
Elizabeth Krupinski, PhD FSPIE, FSIIM, FATA, FAIMBE, Co-Director, Southwest Telehealth Resource Center (SWTRC)

12PM - 12:45PM Keynote
Virtual Health: The Next Frontier for Healthcare
Alex Harris, Partner McKinsey & Company
Moderator: Jose Arrieta, Former CIO, US Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS)

2PM - 3PM Virtual Health
Impact on Providers, People & Process
Advocacy and Regulatory
Advocacy and regulatory perspectives on current and future legislation affecting virtual health
Moderator: Lyle Berkowitz, MD, FACP, FHIMSS, CEO of Back9 Healthcare Consulting
  • Ceci Connolly, President & CEO, ACHP
  • Michael Barr, CMO, NCQA
  • Brendan Smith, Principle Software Systems Engineer and Department Leader - Telemedicine, The MITRE Corporation
  • Krista Drobac, Partner, Sirona Strategies
3PM - 4PM Health Systems
How health systems have responded to virtual health in 2020 and what they plan to do in the future
Moderator: Lyle Berkowitz, MD, FACP, FHIMSS, CEO of Back9 Healthcare Consulting
  • Karen Abrashkin, Medical Director, House Calls Program, Northwell Health
  • Sylvia Romm, MD, Interim Health Lead, Virtual Care, Cityblock Health
  • Steve Ommen, Associate Dean, Center for Connected Care; Medical Director, Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Clinic, Mayo Clinic
  • Jason Peoples, Director of Innovation/Technology, Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital
  • Shayan Vyas, MD, MBA, VP & Medical Director, Clinical Operations, Teladoc Health
4PM - 5PM Payors and Employers
How are payors and employers using virtual health to manage members and employees
Moderator: Lyle Berkowitz, MD, FACP, FHIMSS, CEO of Back9 Healthcare Consulting
  • Naren Singh, Sr. Director, Specialty Telehealth & Virtual Care, Anthem
  • Taralynn Romero, VP, Innovation, Cigna
  • Aleata Postell, Sr. Director, Health and Wellness Market Insights & Business Analytics, Walmart
  • David Michel, CEO, Catapult
5PM - 5:30PM Virtual Care: IEEE SA Exploration and Challenges for Technology Standards
  • John D. Griffith, Principal AI Engineer, AI and Autonomous Systems Department, MITRE Corporation
  • Michael Carter, Senior Manager, Information Systems, Virtual Care, Mass General Brigham
6PM - 7PM Pitch Competition: BHTY - DMV Ambassador Chapter Rebroadcast

7 PM - 10 PM Trusting Health Science and Emerging Health Tech Data: Real-world Impact, Implementation and Results for Real Lives!
Moderator: Jim Nasr, CEO and Founder, Acoer
  • Mance Harmon, CEO, Hedera
  • Ken Mayer, CEO, Safe Health Systems, a Mayo Clinic Partnership
  • Chris Richardson, Deputy CIO, Arizona State University
  • Blaine Mincey, MongoDB, Principal Solutions Architect, Southeast