Once again, you are invited to attend the 2023 Sequoia Project Annual Meeting. This year, Carequality will join the Sequoia Project to host a joint annual meeting with a single registration in San Diego, CA.
Our online registration for this year’s Annual Meeting is now open. The Sequoia Project members and Carequality implementers receive a 50% discount automatically applied at check-out. Last year’s meeting quickly sold out, so don’t delay, and complete the online registration today.
Available until 9/30/2023
50% discount applied at check out for members of The Sequoia Project and implementers of Carequality.*
*Registration with a member/implementer business email domain required for discount. Discount may be used with early bird pricing, but no other discounts may be combined.
This pre-conference session for first-time attendees will provide an introductory overview of Carequality as the industry-led trusted exchange framework, and its role in developing ONC’s Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) and supporting The Sequoia Project as the Recognized Coordinating Entity (RCE).
The Sequoia Project’s CEO will open the meeting, sharing the latest developments and upcoming priorities for 2023.
The Sequoia Project’s board chair will present awards to volunteers and staff for exceptional contributions.
Dr. Micky Tripathi will share the journey of TEFCA development and implementation, and their vision as the first candidate QHINs move toward designation and go-live.
Dr. Jennifer Layden, the Director for the new CDC’s Office of Public Health Data, Surveillance, and Technology, will share the unique perspectives and challenges to health information exchange for public health. Following a keynote highlighting the OPHDSTs public health data strategy, she will join other public health data experts for a fireside chat.
Candidate QHINs are preparing to go-live by the end of the year, which is just 45 days away. Our panel of Candidate QHINs will discuss the roll-out plans, prospective participants, and turning their attention to future use cases and FHIR.
Representing the Consumer Voices Workgroup, Shamekka Marty will share her compelling health IT experience as a patient and caregiver. Then she will join members of the Consumer Voices and Consumer Engagement Strategy Workgroups to discuss how today’s patient experience can be improved leveraging existing technology and investments.
People are rightly demanding access and control to their health data. Our panel of experts discuss the challenges and opportunities of serving patients and caregivers their own clinical data – where, when and how they want it.
TEFCA dynamically adjusts to the needs of the community. Our panel of ONC and RCE experts will highlight the changes of Common Agreement v2 and the QHIN Technical Framework (QTF) developed with input from today’s Candidate QHINs.
A lively discussion of the potential and current reality of FHIR today, and the path we are blazing for the future.
Do tools such as Multi Factor Authentication (MFA) or One Time Passwords (OTPs) help or hurt? Are they appropriate for everyone in a healthcare setting, or should they only be deployed only in select circumstances? This panel will discuss how authentication mechanisms need to balance the need for security with the operational reality of providing care to patients.
Join policy and government affairs experts to reflect on health care and health IT legislative and regulatory activity in 2023 and explore what to expect in 2024. Get the latest scoop on Capitol Hill and Administration activities related to interoperability and information sharing, privacy and security, telehealth, and more.
Join us for an evening reception under the stars as we celebrate the year’s accomplishments.
Carequality Executive Director Alan Swenson will open the second day of the meeting.
With so many opportunities for health information exchange, why are organizations making the commitment to implement TEFCA? Candidate QHINs talk about their internal decision making, and why other types of organizations may choose to be participants and subparticipants in this new government endorsed paradigm for exchange.
Exchange for treatment is just the beginning. Health information exchange can and should support healthcare business workflows. Our panel of experts will discuss how the infrastructure of today’s health information exchange can support the payer community and others.
Hear how a newly-forming payer community of practice is thinking about advancing implementation readiness for data exchange among and between payers.
After publishing the first-of-its-kind data usability implementation guide, the Data Usability Workgroup is raising the bar for health IT interoperability content, ensuring clinical data is useful to people and machines in development of implementation guide version 2, which expands to new categories such as laboratories, how systems receive data, and payer data exchange.
Hear from members of a community of practice committed to moving data implementation guidance from paper to production over the next 18 months.
Learn about the approach this new cross-industry workgroup is taking to identify steps to further propel the healthcare community forward around two primary issues: computable consent and data segmentation for privacy.
Interactive peer-to-peer collaboration and learning. Attendees can choose from a variety of topics for participant-driven discussion in small groups facilitated by staff and guest experts.
Interoperability Matters Leadership Council members will discuss ideas to organize the member engagement and governance to better meet the needs of The Sequoia Project membership.
From policy updates to patient access, 2023 was a year of change. Executive Director Alan Swenson will highlight Carequality’s role as the leading the industry-led trusted exchange framework, and the innovations we can expect in 2024.
Interactive peer-to-peer collaboration and learning. Attendees can choose from a variety of topics for participant-driven discussion in small groups facilitated by staff and guest experts.
HINs, developers of certified HIT, and health care providers have been developing compliance strategies to meet the Information Blocking rules since 2020. But now is the time to level up, as the HHS Office of the Inspector General begins enforcement and regulations on the penalties for health care providers are in the offing. This is your chance to hear the latest from The Sequoia Project’s Information Sharing Work Group and the federal experts as information blocking enforcement begins.
Relieve the fear of missing out (FOMO) on the unconference sessions you couldn’t attend. Facilitators of each Unconference Session will join a panel discussion to share insights and highlights of their group discussions earlier in the day.
Join fellow attendees for casual golf at the Riverwalk Golf Club, next door to our hotel, after the annual meeting. Golf will begin at 1:30 p.m. on Friday afternoon. This is not a tournament, but a golf scramble for friendly competition between foursomes. We can accommodate 20 golfers, and will offer a waitlist beyond that.
Beginners, experts and even spectators are welcome.* Golf clubs will be available for rent for an additional fee on the day of the outing.
It’s not too late to add this optional golf event, choose “modify my registration” from your confirmation email, “already registered” on the registration webpage, or email nallen@sequoiaproject.org.
Enjoy a special room rate starting at $200 per night.*
The room block will close on October 14, 2023.
*Prices are before taxes and fees.
Showcase your organizations capabilities at our 2023 Annual Event in November with multiple sponsorship levels available. This year we’ve expanded our sponsorship offerings to include meeting bags, Wi-Fi, lanyards, and charging stations. Sponsorships are limited, so be sure to download the Sponsorship Prospectus and determine the sponsorship that works best for your organization.
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