Our CEO and Founder, Evelyn Gallego, our Chief Strategy Officer, Sheetal Shah, and our Senior Clinical Informatics Lead, Himali Saitwal, will be in Chicago for HIMSS23. They would love to connect with you in person! Simply drop in on one of our sessions or click the “Connect at HIMSS23” button below to set up some 1:1 face time to discuss topics important to you.

Interoperability and HIE Forum: Advancing Health Equity Through Interoperability

Evelyn Gallego | Monday, April 17 at 2:30 - 3:30 pm CT

Our CEO and Founder, Evelyn Gallego, will join a panel to:

• Discuss how structural racism, sexism, and bias impact health equity and steps that can be taken to dismantle them,

• Identify the complex patient, health care provider and health care system factors that contribute to health care disparities and inequities in our societies,

• Describe major industry efforts to build culturally fitting technology platforms used to build trust and improve engagement, education and health outcomes across all populations, and

• Recognize the value of leveraging health information and technology and interoperable solutions in the effort to better address SDOH and decrease health disparities based on attributes of human difference such as race, sexual orientation and socioeconomic status.

Data for Health Equity: Improving Maternal Health Outcomes Through Interoperability

Evelyn Gallego | Wednesday, April 19 at 2:30-3:30 pm CT

Our CEO and Founder, Evelyn Gallego, joined by Asha Immanuelle, Center for Black Women’s Wellness, and Lenel James, Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, will:

• Define data use cases relevant for addressing the maternal health crisis as it relates to health equity and racial disparities,

• Illustrate how standardized data exchange may address the gaps in care coordination and care provision for maternal health,

• Examine the strengths and weaknesses of the data standards and specifications available for maternal health data use cases, and

• Recommend a path forward for data standards as a way to improve maternal health equity by enabling better care provision and coordination and value-based payment models of maternity care.

Social Care Semantic Consistency: Learnings From Gravity and ACL Projects

Himali Saitwal | Thursday, April 20 at 2:30 - 3:30 pm CT

EMI’s Himali Saitwal and the Gravity Project’s Sarah DeSilvey will:

• Outline and discuss social care data element gathering and standardization process along with developing semantic interoperability across healthcare and social care organizations,

• Discuss lessons learned from testing and piloting social care data element standards in clinical and community-based organizations,

• Discuss semantic interoperability challenges between health and social care data exchange, and

• Present Data, Information, Knowledge (DIK) cycle in context with the Administration for Community Living (ACL) project.