4th Wednesday of each month 

4:00-5:30 PM (eastern)

Da Vinci Community Roundtable

The goal of the new Community Roundtable is to increase public awareness among payers, providers and vendors of the resources and progress coming out of Da Vinci’s efforts.

The 90-minute virtual sessions, which will be open to members and the public, will highlight how members leverage the Da Vinci use cases and IGs in action in workflow. 

Typically, two or three organizations will showcase their work and answer audience questions, allowing for a vibrant discussion and fostering industry understanding of the Da Vinci work products and resulting market solutions. Sessions are anticipated to be recorded and available online for viewing after the event.

Next session: June 28th 4 - 5:30 p.m. ET

Details and Registration Link Coming Soon

Henderson, NV: https://www.hl7.org/events/

Henderson, NV: https://www.hl7.org/events/

The Intersection of Federal Regulation and The HL7 Da Vinci Project

With the issuance of the new federal prior authorization and attachments rule proposals last month, the innovative interoperability work advanced by the HL7 Da Vinci Project is once again being recognized as a path forward for game-changing industry transformation that will reduce burden, increase automation and improve care. Join us for Da Vinci’s January Community Roundtable and hear an overview and frequently asked questions about the rules and their accompanying RFIs first-hand from CMS officials. Then Da Vinci leaders will share an overview of the Implementation Guides that are suggested in the proposed rules and how they meet the rules’ objectives. You will learn how to access the resources, participate in community feedback and start getting involved. 

Robert Dieterle
HL7 Da Vinci Project Sr. Advisor and Burden Reduction Lead

Dr. Mary Greene
Director of the Office of Burden Reduction & Health Informatics, CMS

Daniel Kalwa
Acting Director, National Standards Group, Office of Burden Reduction and Health Informatics, CMS

Jocelyn Keegan
HL7 Da Vinci Project Program Manager

Alexandra Mugge
Director and Deputy Chief Health Informatics Officer, CMS

Viet Nguyen, MD
HL7 Da Vinci Project Technical Director and HL7 Chief Standards Implementation Officer

Advancing Interoperability via FHIR APIs: An Industry Discussion on Progress, Proposed Rules and the Value of Automation

The adoption of HL7 FHIR over the past 11 years has paved the way for healthcare transformation using open APIs, the same kind of evolution experienced over the years in travel, commerce and finance. As a key to meeting the new federal rules, the HL7 Da Vinci Project’s Implementation Guides are paving the way for industry to move and achieve true automation that will ultimately reduce administrative burden through streamlined workflows that provide data to users when they need it in the format they desire.  This month, hear about the latest thinking regarding the proposed rules, discover the resources available from the HL7 Da Vinci Project that will help you automate your processes, and learn how provider and payer innovators who have not waited for regulation are already reaping the benefits of FHIR APIs in their real-world business transformations.

Kirk Anderson, Chair, HL7 Da Vinci Project Steering Committee, and Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Cambia Health Solutions

Alix Goss, HL7 Da Vinci Project PMO, Vice President and Senior Consultant, Imprado

Christol Green, Clinical Data Exchange Co-Lead and E-Solutions Senior Business Consultant/Advisor, Elevance Health

Viet Nguyen, MD, Technical Director, HL7 Da Vinci Project, Chief Implementation Officer, HL7 and Clinical Informaticist, Stratametrics, LLC

Denise St. Clair, Research Manager, Acumen, LLC

Virtual: Da Vinci Video Presentations

March 6 - 8, 2023 

Tuesday, March 7, 10:45am - 11:45am.

Interoperability, SDoH, Opportunities for Program Improvement

Several states are leading the way in implementing person-centered care models and piloting interventions for Medicaid enrollees using SDoH data, and coordinating services through their MCO (Managed Care Organization) partners and CBOs (Community Based Organizations). At the same time, states are implementing the information-blocking rule and payer-to-payer data exchange models in order to be compliant with CMS rule-making. The convergence of these efforts, and the maturation of services being provided through HIEs, which are emerging as critical public health utility partners, promise to provide a trusted HHS data exchange framework that will not only improve the coordination of beneficiary services but address the needs of communities, as a long term strategic imperative.

Join our panel of Federal, State, and HIE partners to discuss interoperability, data exchange models and opportunities for program improvement.

Moderators
Scott Dunn
Senior Director, Health and Human Services, Optum

Speakers
Thomas Novak
Senior Advisor State Policy, ONC/HHS

Amanda Van Vleet
Associate Director of Innovation, NC Medicaid

Rachel Heinz, MPH, BSN, RN
Program Manager, Public Health & Social Care, CyncHealth

Jocelyn Keegan
Program Manager, HL7 Da Vinci Project, and Payer Practice Lead, Point of Care Partners

Ryan Howells
Principal, Leavitt Partners

Baltimore, MD: https://healthcareitconnect.com/2023_Summit

Use Case Progress and Patient Matching Success: How to Improve Interoperability and Patient Safety

Join us for the March Community Roundtable to hear the latest news and learn about the progress towards use case milestones, specifically highlighting Clinical Data Exchange (CDex), Price Cost Transparency (PCT) and Member Attribution (ATR).  You will then hear the real-world story of Opala and MultiCare Connected Care, implementers of Da Vinci’s member attribution use case, which resulted in a 10% improvement in patient matching.  This benefit helped MultiCare further improve patient safety by ensuring clinicians have the full picture about their patients in real time.

Presenters: 

Crystal Kallem, Project Manager, HL7 Da Vinci Project, and Senior Consultant, Point-of-Care Partners

Jocelyn Keegan, Program Manager, HL7 Da Vinci Project, and Payer Practice Lead, Point-of-Care Partners

Meghan Quint, Vice President of Solutions and Customer Success, Opala

Anna Taylor, AVP, Population Health & Value Based Care, MultiCare Connected Care

Moderator: 

Alix Goss, HL7 Da Vinci Project PMO, Vice President and Senior Consultant, Imprado 

Nashville, TN: https://www.viveevent.com

AMDIS/HIMSS Physicians’ Executive Forum 2023: The Informatics Inflection Point

Interoperability to Reduce Physician Burden

For physicians, the progress in shifting to electronic medical records has been both a blessing and a curse. More information is available to coordinate care for patients, but the cacophony of different systems and bloated note content to support coding have added complexity and burden to workflows. This panel will explore technical solutions and case studies to simplify the burden of documentation at scale with measurable impact.

Moderator: Milisa Rizer

Chief Clinical Information Officer
The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center

Brett Moran
Senior Vice President, Associate Chief Medical Officer, Chief Medical Information Officer
Parkland Health

Jocelyn Keegan
Payer Practice Lead
Point-of-Care-Partners

Jordan Dale
Chief Medical Informatics Officer
Houston Methodist

Viet Nguyen
Founder
Stratametrics

Chicago, IL: https://www.himss.org/global-conference

Presentation location: McCormick Center, South Building, Level 1, S100 C

Joint Orientation for Volunteers of Da Vinci and FAST

Two sessions scheduled Monday and Tuesday, You only need to attend one.

Chicago, IL: https://www.himss.org/global-conference

Interoperability Showcase Theater, North Building | Hall B | Booth 7946

HL7 Da Vinci Project Open House

Sponsored by Elevance Health, HealthLX, Onyx, Point-of-Care Partners and Surescripts

Chicago, IL: https://www.himss.org/global-conference

West Building, Level 2, Dusable A (CC21A)

Joint Orientation for Volunteers of Da Vinci and FAST

Two sessions scheduled Monday and Tuesday, You only need to attend one.

Chicago, IL: https://www.himss.org/global-conference

Interoperability Showcase Theater, North Building | Hall B | Booth 7946

How Provider-Payer Collaboration Maximizes Value Based Performance Reporting (ID #810)

 The HL7® Da Vinci Project is a multi-stakeholder collaborative effort engaging providers, payers and partners with the goal of accelerating the adoption of HL7 FHIR® (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) as the standard to support and integrate value-based care (VBC) data exchange in real time. As fee for service shifts to value-based care, value-based contracts have emerged as a mechanism that providers and
payers may use to better align their contracting structures with broader changes in the healthcare system.

This session provides you with front-row access to HL7 Da Vinci Project’s newest use case that aims to develop an HL7 FHIR Implementation Guide to support value-based performance reporting for quality and risk contracts. Proposed by a provider, this use case seeks to solve challenges around the lack of reporting format standardizations, the resource-intensive process, lack of scalability and the complexities of data
reconciliation.

After a brief high-level perspective regarding the value-based performance reporting component, presenters will highlight the genesis, development, project scope and progress of the use case. The opportunities to tackle the challenges of gathering performance data will be a focus as well as how you can leverage the HL7 Da Vinci project Implementation Guides to improve your reporting.

Semira Singh, Director, Population Health Informatics, Providence 

Teresa Younkin, Project Co-Lead, HL7 Da Vinci Project PMO and Senior Consultant, Point-of-Care Partners

Comply with the Proposed CMS Payer to Payer & Provider Access API with Member Consent & FHIR®

Discover how a holistic approach to an interoperable member consent solution can help payers meet upcoming mandates and solve business problems that nobody is talking about.

Kevin Day, Principal Business Advisor, Edifecs

Sergiu Rata AVP Product Management, Edifecs

Chicago, IL: https://www.himss.org/global-conference

Edifecs In-Booth Presentation: Booth 7746

HIMSS23

Da Vinci Demos: Price Cost Transparency

Join us to see how implementers use our Implentation Guides and take the opportunity to ask questions!

Kevin Day, Edifecs 

Alice O'Carroll, FloridaBlue

Chicago, IL: https://www.himss.org/global-conference

Da Vinci KioskInteroperability Showcase North Building | Hall B | Booth 7946-28 

FHIR Implementations 

A Da Vinci use case is one of three implementations to be showcased in the hour.

Semira Singh

Michael Marchant 

Chicago, IL: https://www.himss.org/global-conference

HL7 Booth - #138

Achieving the 1st Prior Auth Automation via HL7® FHIR: Pt. 1

Evaluate the prior authorization process improvements and interoperability standards (HL7® Da Vinci FHIR®) used to automate and inform clinical decision-making, reduce provider burden, and improve patient outcomes. Attendees will learn about (1) best practices for implementation, (2) payer and provider perspectives on the transformation, and (3) the project’s success metrics.

Raj Godavarthi

AVP, Technology & Interoperability | HITAC Member, MCG Health

Heidi Kriz

Director of Medical Policy and Medical Management; PA Transformation Lead, Regence

Anna Taylor

MS CIPCT | AVP – Population Health & Value Based Care 

MultiCare Connected Care

Chicago, IL: https://www.himss.org/global-conference

Interoperability Showcase Theater, North Building | Hall B | Booth 7946

Evaluate the prior authorization process improvements and interoperability standards (HL7® Da Vinci FHIR®) used to automate and inform clinical decision-making, reduce provider burden, and improve patient outcomes. Attendees will learn about (1) best practices for implementation, (2) payer and provider perspectives on the transformation, and (3) the project’s success metrics.

Raj Godavarthi

AVP, Technology & Interoperability | HITAC Member, MCG Health

Heidi Kriz

Director of Medical Policy and Medical Management; PA Transformation Lead, Regence

Anna Taylor

MS CIPCT | AVP – Population Health & Value Based Care 

MultiCare Connected Care

Chicago, IL: https://www.himss.org/global-conference

Interoperability Showcase Theater, North Building | Hall B | Booth 7946

Da Vinci Demos: Prior Authorization and Attribution 

Join us to see how implementers use our Implementation Guides and take the opportunity to ask questions!

MCG, Regence, Multicare

Chicago, IL: https://www.himss.org/global-conference

Da Vinci KioskInteroperability Showcase North Building | Hall B | Booth 7946-28 

HL7 Da Vinci Project: FHIR solutions of Interoperability needs (Prior Auth, Attachments, etc.) named in proposed Federal Regulations (NPRM)

Susan Bellile
Principal, Clinical Solutions
Availity

Matt

Chicago, IL: https://www.himss.org/global-conference

HL7 Booth #138

Kirk Anderson, Chair, HL7 Da Vinci Project Steering Committee, and Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Cambia Health Solutions

Chicago, IL: https://www.himss.org/global-conference

HL7 Booth #138

CDex with GuideWell

PDex with Humana and GuideWell

Chicago, IL: https://www.himss.org/global-conference

Interoperability Showcase Theater, North Building | Hall B | Booth 7946 

Da Vinci Demos: Payer Data Exchange 

Join us to see how implementers use our Implentation Guides and take the opportunity to ask questions!

Humana and GuideWell

Chicago, IL: https://www.himss.org/global-conference

Da Vinci KioskInteroperability Showcase North Building | Hall B | Booth 7946-28 

HL7 Da Vinci 101

Join us and learn the basics of the HL7 Da Vinci Project, a private sector initiative comprised of more than 50 industry-leading providers, payers and technology vendors who are working together to accelerate the adoption of HL7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (HL7® FHIR®) as the standard to support and integrate value-based care (VBC) data exchange across communities.  Learn about Da Vinci, its use cases and implementation guides as well as how you can access the free resources and join the community. 

Chicago, IL: https://www.himss.org/global-conference

West Building | Level 1 | Jackson Park A

Overview of Quality on FHIR

Discover the whole ecosystem of quality improvement via FHIR, where you can collect data as it occurs in real-time. Learn the latest regarding how HL7 FHIR standards and the work of the HL7 Da Vinci Project, a collaborative effort of payers, providers and partners, are transforming quality measurement and identification of gaps in care. An overview of the resources available, as well as the challenges and opportunities of digital quality measurement, will be discussed, highlighting how FHIR is improving data exchange and compliance as well as reducing manual work.

Linda Michaelsen, Da Vinci lead, Optum

Anna Taylor, MultiCare 

Chicago, IL: https://www.himss.org/global-conference

West Building | Level 1 | Jackson Park A

A national payer, EHR vendor, and health information network will share lessons learned from their collaborative development of an end-to-end prior authorization process leveraging the Da Vinci Burden Reduction Implementation Guides.

Susan Bellile
Principal, Clinical Solutions
Availity

Amy Mattingly
Director, UM Interoperability Product Management
Humana

Michael Palantoni 
Vice President Platform and Data Services
athenahealth

Chicago, IL: https://www.himss.org/global-conference

Interoperability Showcase Theater, North Building | Hall B | Booth 7946 

Comply with the Proposed CMS Payer to Payer & Provider Access API with Member Consent & FHIR®

Discover how a holistic approach to an interoperable member consent solution can help payers meet upcoming mandates and solve business problems that nobody is talking about.

Kevin Day, Principal Business Advisor, Edifecs

Sergiu Rata AVP Product Management, Edifecs

Chicago, IL: https://www.himss.org/global-conference

Edifecs In-Booth Presentation: Booth 7746

"Gift of Time" - Hooks Approach to Leveraging Da Vinci IG Standards 

We envision a healthcare system that’s liberated from waste, where access to data and a collaborative approach between payers and providers leads to high-quality care at the point of care.

Lorenzo Granato CEO, Founder

Kevin Carroll, Chief Growth Officer

Hook MD

Chicago, IL: https://www.himss.org/global-conference

Interoperability Showcase Theater, North Building | Hall B | Booth 7946 

Da Vinci Demos:  Payer Data Exchange

Join us to see how implementers use our Implentation Guides and take the opportunity to ask questions!

Kevin Day, Sergiu Rata

Chicago, IL: https://www.himss.org/global-conference

Da Vinci KioskInteroperability Showcase North Building | Hall B | Booth 7946-28 

Da Vinci Demos: Prior Authorization 

Join us to see how implementers use our Implementation Guides and take the opportunity to ask questions!

Lorenzo Granato CEO, Kevin Carroll CGO

Hook MD

Chicago, IL: https://www.himss.org/global-conference

Da Vinci KioskInteroperability Showcase North Building | Hall B | Booth 7946-28 

Simplifying Prior Authorization Workflows at the Point of Care

Discussion will cover how the DaVinci CRD implementation guide supports can support accelerated prior authorization workflows requiring only provider, member, and procedure details to support determinations. Gold carding further simplifies processes by removing need to submit a prior authorization for providers with a successful track record of prior authorizations submissions.

Joshua Lamb, Architect, Optum

Chicago, IL: https://www.himss.org/global-conference

Interoperability Showcase Theater, North Building | Hall B | Booth 7946 

HL7 FHIR Accelerator Panel

Featuring Da Vinci, CARIN, Argonaut, and CodeX

Chicago, IL: https://www.himss.org/global-conference

HL7 Booth # 138

Automating Authorization: Impacts of Different Authorization Types

With recent CMS activity around prior authorizations and interoperability, the nuances of automation are a critical focus. Attendees will learn from experts who implemented two types of clinical use cases (elective surgeries and emergent inpatient admissions) and hear how divergent clinical use cases impact business, operations, and technology outcomes.

Brandy O'Diam

Associate Director, Product Management

Danny Cawood

Product Manager

Chicago, IL: https://www.himss.org/global-conference

Interoperability Showcase Theater, North Building | Hall B | Booth 7946 

Da Vinci Demos: Prior Authorization with Home Health Care

Join us to see how implementers use our Implentation Guides and take the opportunity to ask questions!

MCG and Palmetto

Chicago, IL: https://www.himss.org/global-conference

Da Vinci Kiosk Interoperability Showcase North Building | Hall B | Booth 7946-28 

An Introduction to the Value-Based Performance Reporting HL7® FHIR® Implementation Guide

The HL7® Da Vinci Project has initiated a new HL7 FHIR® use case to support and integrate value-based care data exchange in real time.  This session outlines what problem the use case is solving and how the Implementation Guide will support standard value-based performance reporting for quality and risk contracts.

Michael Patwell, Principal Business Advisor, Edifecs

David DeGandi, Sr. Interoperability Strategist, Cambia Health

Semira Singh, Director of Population Health Informatics, Providence

Chicago, IL: https://www.himss.org/global-conference

Interoperability Showcase Theater, North Building | Hall B | Booth 7946 

Da Vinci Demos:  Prior Authorization

Join us to see how implementers use our Implementation Guides and take the opportunity to ask questions!

Maxim Abramsky, AVP Product Management Prior Authorization, Edifecs

Chicago, IL: https://www.himss.org/global-conference

Da Vinci KioskInteroperability Showcase North Building | Hall B | Booth 7946-28 

How HL7 Da Vinci Project enables “True Auth” - A Complete Prior Authorization Solution

With the release of the CMS Proposed Rule it is clear a Da Vinci-enabled authorization solution is the path forward. Join us to explore how the industry will get to an automated solution connecting payers and providers using the Da Vinci IG’s and what a “True Auth” solution would look like.

Andrew Johnson

VP Growth and Innovation, Optum Insight

Nick Radov

Chicago, IL: https://www.himss.org/global-conference

Interoperability Showcase Theater, North Building | Hall B | Booth 7946 

Risk Adjustment Reporting at the Point of Care​

Learn how the Da Vinci Risk Adjustment Implementation Guide supports exchange of risk adjustment gap reports at the point of care and how standard protocols which are payer agnostic enable communication of chronic conditions and simplified workflows. Providers gain ability to share real-time feedback and clinical evidence to address gaps.  

Josh Lamb (Optum)

Linda Michaelsen (Optum)

Michael Palantoni (Athena Healthcare)

Chicago, IL: https://www.himss.org/global-conference

Interoperability Showcase Theater, North Building | Hall B | Booth 7946 

Why Should You Move to APIs and Structured Data?

Clearly understand why the industry is at an inflection point from many different shifts underway: technology advancement, policy and market dynamics. The rising availability of data via APIs, payment transformation to Value Based Care, and increasingly larger populations covered by government programs will fundamentally change how providers and payers engage with patients. Learn about the emerging capabilities enabled by the rise in use of HL7 FHIR, and the patterns and tools from HL7 Da Vinci that can help organizations and their partners fuel their move to real time exchange of data across critical business areas to manage quality, risk, care coordination and prior authorization.

Viet Nguyen, MD

HL7 Da Vinci Project Technical Director, Stratametrics

Chicago, IL: https://www.himss.org/global-conference

InterSystems Booth - #942

Hot Coals – Expanding your FHIR Footprint

This session will discuss how UCDavis Health supports API Connectivity with outside entities and how adding partners like Zeomega is made easier by leveraging industry stands like Da Vinci/FHIR APIs, allowing both organizations to expand our world of API connections – and how quickly it enables connecting to new partners and supports a variety of use cases.

ZeOmega Mike Gould, 

Michael Marchant  
Director, Interoperability

UC Davis Health

Chicago, IL: https://www.himss.org/global-conference

Interoperability Showcase Theater, North Building | Hall B | Booth 7946 

Advancing Da Vinci Use Cases and Implementation Guides within the BCBS System

The BCBS System has made significant investments in the adoption of health IT standards as provider utilization of EHRs has increased, health IT standards have matured, and federal requirements have created urgency.  Learn how the system is implementing Da Vinci best practices in its current and future interoperability strategies.

Panelists:

Satish Padiyar, Div. VP, Platforms & Governance, HCSC

Matt Schuller, Director HIT, BCBSA

Moderator: Karuna Relwani, Business Interoperability Lead, BCBSA 

Chicago, IL: https://www.himss.org/global-conference

Interoperability Showcase Theater, North Building | Hall B | Booth 7946 

FHIR Implementation Progress Leveraging the HL7 Da Vinci Project

Learn about the real-world story of MultiCare Connected Care, an HL7 Da Vinci Project member, and learn how MultiCare is using FHIR and the Implementation Guides to solve problems, streamline workflow and improve data exchange.  For example, MultiCare implemented Da Vinci’s member attribution use case, which resulted in a 10% improvement in patient matching.  This benefit helped MultiCare further improve patient safety by ensuring clinicians have the full picture about their patients in real time.

Chicago, IL: https://www.himss.org/global-conference

HL7 Booth - #138

Chicago, IL: https://www.himss.org/global-conference

Interoperability Showcase Theater, North Building | Hall B | Booth 7946 

Business Value Beyond Compliance: Prior Authorization, AI, and FHIR®

Government mandates can feel like a box to check with little reward. What if you could gain business value by leveraging requirements for strategic business objectives? Leverage AI and FHIR to standardize and automate prior authorization to streamline a shared workflow and improve collaboration, patient outcomes, and member experience.

Maxim Abramsky, 
AVP of Product Management, Prior Authorization, Edifecs

Vaishali Dubey, Sr Manager Guidewell Provider Interoperability, Florida Blue

Chicago, IL: https://www.himss.org/global-conference

Interoperability Showcase Theater, North Building | Hall B | Booth 7946 

Building a FHIR Platform to Support Da Vinci Use Cases

Da Vinci Use Cases leverage the power of FHIR. How do healthcare organizations acquire, manage, compute on, and exchange data using FHIR APIs? We discuss how a number of health insurers have built a holistic FHIR interoperability platform to support healthcare data transactions and the use cases they enable.

Pamela Nasr

Chicago, IL: https://www.himss.org/global-conference

Interoperability Showcase Theater, North Building | Hall B | Booth 7946 

Hilton New Orleans Riverside, New Orleans, LA: https://www.hl7.org/events/

Holly D'Amico, RN, BSN, MBA, FABC, Highmark

Rajesh “Raj” Godavarthi, MCG Health

Heidi Kriz, MPH, RD, Regence