Legislation

Sales Director at CenTrak and South Florida HIMSS president Kendall Brown talks about the bridge between her sales experience and state-policy advocacy.  

Patricia MacTaggart, program director and teaching instructor at George Washington University and 2024 Changemaker Award winner, discusses how Medicaid’s innovative use of telehealth as a care modality influenced Medicare and other payers.  

Tom Leary, SVP and head of government relations at HIMSS, discusses anticipated U.S. health IT advancements, including EHR modernization for the VA and the Indian Health Service, as well as ARPA-H's $2.5 billion healthcare technology initiative.

Robert Havasy, HIMSS senior director of informatics strategy, relays how the nonprofit works with governments to move healthcare and AI forward and the need to improve interoperability as artificial intelligence progresses in healthcare.

Dr. Don Rucker, chief strategy officer for 1upHealth, discusses TEFCA going live, ONC's Health IT Certification Program, key takeaways from the final HTI-1 and how ONC's certification rule may burden both providers and vendors.   

Brigid Bondoc, partner and life sciences attorney at Morrison Foerster, discusses government priorities pertaining to federal regulation of AI, where complications may arise, and concerns she has heard related to policy decisions.  

Dr. Michael Howell, Google's chief clinical officer, discusses what federal regulators should consider while configuring rules around AI use in healthcare and how the company ensures health equity within its medically tuned LLM, Med-PaLM.  

According to Daniel Stein, president of Stewards of Change, a fully interoperable central consent registry will allow everyone in the U.S. the right to choose how, and with whom, their personal and health data is shared.  

Ann Maxwell, deputy inspector general for evaluations at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General, discusses the case for making the pandemic-related CMS telehealth expansion permanent.