Let's Connect! Pacific Region Chapters Networking & Education Event
December 15, 2021 | Chapter Event
~ Special Event ~
We are partnering across six states with 6 HIMSS Chapters for this special event. Each Chapter has a session agenda (see below) and attendees are welcome to participate in all of the sessions. View the exciting Chapter sessions and agendas here.
Join us on Wednesday, December 15, 6:00pm-7:30pm PST to network with healthcare professionals in six states: California, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Hawaii, Alaska
~ Northern California Chapter Session ~
Clinician Roundtable & Networking
Moderators
- Dr. Howard Landa, MD, Vice President of Clinical Informatics and EHR, Sutter Health
- Dr. Justin Graham, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Gyant
6:15pm-6:45pm -- AMA How to Measure the Value of Virtual Health Care & The New Virtual Care Balanced Scorecard
Presenters & Discussion Leaders
- Meg Barron, Vice President, Digital Health Strategy, AMA
- Stacy Lloyd, Director of Digital Health & Operations, AMA
6:45pm-7:15pm -- The Impacts of Anti-Information Blocking
Presenter & Discussion Leader
- Dr. Steven Lane, MD, MPH, FAAFP, FAMIA, Clinical Informatics Director, Privacy, Information Security & Interoperability, Sutter Health, HIMSS 2021 Physician of the Year & Clinical Professor, Family & Community Medicine, University of California San Francisco
Wednesday, December 15, 6:00pm-7:30pm PST
REGISTER
~ Pacific Region Chapter Session Topics ~
Southern California: Membership & Academic Alliance
- About SoCal Chapter - Memberships & Organizational Affiliates (AO) - Academic Alliance & Academic Organizational Affiliates (AOA) - Advocacy
Hawaii-Alaska: Workforce Development - How do we fix skilled worker shortages in our industry?
- This will be an open forum for Pacific Region Chapter members to share their experiences of Skilled Labor sh ortages in their organizations and ideas/solutions being implemented to fix the skilled labor shortages. The hope of this session is to learn new ways, given our geographic diversity, to solve this widespread issue affecting all of us. A September 2021 National poll by Morning Consult revealed that: 18% of health care workers have quit their jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic 12% have been laid off 31% have considered leaving 79% of health care professionals said the national worker shortage has affected them and their place of work.
Nevada: Mentoring, Healthcare Scattergories Game, Wine Tasting
- 6:15-6:30pm - Best of Nevada Chapter - Mentoring 6:30-7:00pm - Scattergories for Healthcare 7:00-:7:15pm - Wine Drinking
Oregon: Welcome, What's New, Network
- For this session, we'll spend the first 20 minutes introducing our Board of Directors and sharing highlights from our strategic plan. You'll also hear from our Advisory Council Chair, who will recognize the efforts of our incredible healthcare IT community over the past 18+ months. After that, we'll shift into breakout rooms, where there will be a mix of "Two Truths and a Lie" plus topics for discussion/sharing/networking. Each break out room will be moderated by a member of the Board. In addition, we'd love to hear your thoughts on future programming for the year. We're gathering this feedback via an interactive poll during the session.
Washington: Trivia Game Night with Prizes
- A fun game night with HIMSS Trivia and Prizes, Prizes, Prizes
ABOUT OUR SPEAKERS
Dr. Howard Landa, MD
Vice President, Clinical Informatics and Electronic Health Records, Sutter Health
An accomplished C-Suite Executive with proven record of leveraging innovation, technical expertise and operational knowhow to deliver Healthcare Information Technology (HIT) solutions. Industry recognition including 20 years as Vice-Chair of the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems; Two years as the chairmen of the HIMSS Physician Community, and a Modern Healthcare’s top 25 Medical Informaticists award recipient 2010, 2011 and 2012. LinkedIn Profile.
Dr. Justin Graham, MD
Chief Medical Officer, GYANT
Justin Graham, MD, MS, is a senior physician executive and digital health product innovator with over 25 years' experience in medicine, infectious disease, informatics, electronic health records, and healthcare operations. Since 2020 Dr. Graham has been the Chief Medical Officer at GYANT, a digital health start-up specializing in complex medical conversational AI. As CMO, Dr. Graham helps lead product strategy and oversees the development and management of the complex set of clinical triage algorithms that power GYANT's virtual assistant.
Meg Barron
Vice President, Digital Health Strategy, American Medical Association
Meg is passionate about driving change by collaborating with physicians, technology leaders and solution innovators to improve health care. She has served in product development and business development leadership roles at the AMA and most recently is responsible for driving the roadmap of initiatives that support the AMA’s digital health and medicine strategy. In addition, she has led partnerships and innovation related initiatives, such as the inaugural AMA Healthier Nation Innovation Challenge, the establishment of the AMA Interaction Studio at MATTER, the AMA Physician Innovation Network that enables entrepreneurs and physicians to collaborate on the development of new solutions, the AMA Digital Health & Telehealth Implementation Playbook series, national digital health research and The Telehealth Initiative and Immersion Program with collaborators. She participates on the Advisory Board for MedTech Color, MATTER, MassChallenge HealthTech, HealthTech Arkansas, Together.Health and previously as a TEDMed Research Scholar. She also participates on the Editorial Review Board of The Telehealth and Medicine Today Journal. Prior to AMA, Meg worked in the Consumer Product & Retail vertical at Capgemini and at SmithBucklin Corporation for various business and health care clients. Profile.
Stacy Lloyd
Director of Digital Health & Operations, American Medical Association
Stacy is the Director of Digital Health and Operations at the American Medical Association. In this role, she helps lead operations and management for various initiatives focused on ensuring health care technologies, including digital health solutions and telehealth, meet the needs of physicians, patients and care teams. Prior to joining the AMA, Stacy held various roles in finance and practice operations at leading health systems including Northwestern Medicine and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
Stacy graduated with a Bachelor of Business Administration with concentrations in Finance and Economics from Duquesne University. She earned her Master of Public Health in Health Policy and Administration from the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health. She is also a Board-certified Patient Advocate and is Vice Chair of the Board of Directors for the VHL Alliance, a non-profit focused on awareness, education, and research for Von Hippel Lindau disease. Profile.
Dr. Steven Lane, MD, MPH, FAAFP, FAMIA
Clinical Informatics Director, Privacy, Information Security & Interoperability, Sutter Health
& Clinical Professor, Family & Community Medicine, University of California San Francisco
Passionate about improving patient care, public health and medical research by securely getting the RIGHT information to the RIGHT users at the RIGHT time in the RIGHT format with the RIGHT supporting functionality and workflows. Steven Lane is a practicing primary care family physician and clinical informaticist at Sutter Health, in Northern California, where he serves as Clinical Informatics Director for Privacy, Information Security & Interoperability. He serves on the ONC's Health IT Advisory Committee (HITAC) and as Chair of the USCDI Taskforce, as Board Chair for the Sequoia Project, as Steering Committee Chair for Carequality, as a member of numerous regional and national interoperability-focused committees and working groups, and as Clinical Professor of Family & Community Medicine at UCSF. Profile.