Description: Dr. Micky Tripathi will discuss the ambitious TEFCA ramp up plans for 2025, celebrate the pioneering QHINs and their Participants and Subparticipants, and share ASTP’s vision for the future.

Description: Is the definition of treatment as a purpose for information exchange changing? Should the definition evolve to meet the needs of innovative and whole-person centered use cases that weren’t imagined 30 years ago when it was first established in HIPAA? This panel will explain the Treatment Exchange Purpose in TEFCA and debate whether treatment should be redefined when used to compel query responses in frameworks and networks.

Description: As consumers’ access to their own health data expands, what do patients and caregivers need to know about their rights? What are the challenges and how can we, as a community advancing interoperability, better support and protect patients?

Description: The CDC and ASTP want Public Health agencies to have data sharing capabilities on a par with the private sector. What are the challenges, and how do we expedite Public Health interoperability for the greater good?

Description: 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.

Description: Leaders from The Sequoia Project, Carequality, and TEFCA present recommendations to bolster trust in interoperability across all networks and frameworks.

Description: What can we expect from the new Congress and Administration? Policy and government affairs experts to reflect on healthcare, health IT, and interoperability legislative and regulatory activity in 2024 and explore what could be on tap for 2025.

Description: Interoperability initially focused on sharing clinical data between hospitals and doctors. How can we advance interoperability to connect everyone on the care team working to keep us well? A panel will discuss pharmacies, laboratories, telehealth, and others that need to collaborate for better, cost effective and coordinated care.

Description: Which QHIN likes getting caught in the rain? Join us for Dating Game style lighting rounds to get to know the Candidate and Designated QHINs and their service offerings.

Description: The dispute within Carequality was the first of its kind. In today’s tension between the need to share and the need to safeguard patient data, anyone may find themselves in a disagreement. Panelists will share the complexities, lessons learned, and framework and process enhancements.

Description: Interoperability Matters Steering Committee members will share big plans for changes coming in 2025 to ensure this popular flagship program continues to deliver value for Sequoia members and the interoperability community at large.

Description: As the value of health data has grown, so too has the tension between patient privacy and the need to enable health information sharing. This panel will discuss how we can better align the beneficial outcomes of data sharing with appropriate exchange that meets patients’ privacy expectations.

Description: How do I locate the data that I need? This panel will explain how directories, sometimes called “phonebooks”, function, what they do, and their purpose beyond powering health information exchange. The panel will discuss best practices for using directories across all frameworks and networks.

Description: There’s nothing like breaking news of a healthcare data breach to create a chilling effect for health data interoperability. TEFCA CISO Johnathan Coleman will host FBI Special Agent Daniel Polk in a fireside chat about the anatomy of an attack using real world examples.

Description: FHIR deployments for health data interoperability are gaining ground with Providers and Heath Plans, in preparation for CMS 0057 F, HTI-2 and other regulations. This panel will discuss the expansion of FHIR in TEFCA and elsewhere as Payers and Providers ramp up exchange. Learn more about the Payer to Payer FHIR API workgroup and the TEFCA FHIR Implementation Advisory Group and connectivity plans for payer-to-provider and payer-to-payer exchange using FHIR.