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June 2 - 4, 2009 - Chicago, IL USA
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TUESDAY, June 2, 2009 EXECUTIVE SUMMIT PLENARY (Single Track)
0830 - 0900 Conference Welcome
Richard Mark Soley, PhD Executive Director, SOA Consortium and Chairman & CEO, Object Management Group
As Chairman and CEO, Dr. Soley is responsible for the vision and direction of the world's largest consortium of its type. Dr. Soley joined the nascent OMG as Technical Director in 1989, leading the development of OMG's world-leading standardization process and the original CORBA® specification. In 1996, he led the effort to move into vertical market standards (starting with healthcare, finance, telecommunications and manufacturing) and modeling, leading first to the Unified Modeling Language (UML®) and later the Model Driven Architecture (MDA®). Previously, Dr. Soley was a cofounder and former Chairman/CEO of A. I. Architects, Inc., maker of the 386 HummingBoard and other PC and workstation hardware and software. Prior to that, he consulted for various technology companies and venture firms on matters pertaining to software investment opportunities. Dr. Soley has also consulted for IBM, Motorola, PictureTel, Texas Instruments, Gold Hill Computer and others. He began his professional life at Honeywell Computer Systems working on the Multics operating system. A native of Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A., Dr. Soley holds the bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
0900 - 1015 Keynote: Who Defines the 'Service' in SOA
The Honorable James B. Peake, M.D. Lieutenant General, USA (Ret)
James Peake, M.D., was nominated by President George W. Bush to be Secretary of Veterans Affairs on October 30, 2007. He was unanimously confirmed by the Senate on December 14, 2007, and served from December 2007 through January 2009. Dr. Peake was the principal advocate for veterans in the U.S. government and directed the nation's second largest cabinet department, responsible for a nationwide system of healthcare services, benefits programs, and national cemeteries for America's veterans and dependents. During his tenure, VA employed more than 280,000 people at hundreds of medical centers, nursing homes, benefits offices, and national cemeteries throughout the country. One of Dr. Peake's major responsibilities and accomplishments was the assembly of VA's budget for fiscal year 2009, considered the most representative budget to support veterans' needs since the early 1950's. Dr. Peake is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, Society of Thoracic Surgeons, and the American College of Cardiology. He has been honored with the Order of Military Merit; the "A" Professional Designator; and the Medallion, Surgeon General of the United States.
SESSION 1 - 1015 - 1100 1015 - 1100 An Evolutionary Approach to SOA in Healthcare Enterprises
Wes Rishel Research Vice-President and Distinguished Analyst, Healthcare Provider Team of Gartner
Wes Rishel is a vice-president and distinguished analyst in Gartner's healthcare provider research practice. He covers electronic medical records, interoperability, health information exchanges, the nationwide health information network and the underlying technologies of healthcare IT, including application integration and standards. Rishel is a commissioner of the CCHIT, a past chair of HL7 and has served on the boards of WEDI and HIMSS. He was the primary author of the Gartner report summarizing the NHIN Prototype Architecture contracts of the NHIN.
1100 - 1130 Morning Refreshments SESSION 2 - 1130 - 1230 1130 - 1215 Driving Healthcare Vendors to a Services Paradigm
Steve Wretling Executive Director, Kaiser Permanente Enterprise Architecture, Application and Integration Architecture
Stephen Wretling is an information technology professional who has led the architecture, design and development of numerous large-scale enterprise systems using Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). He has much experience in highly scalable, distributed application architecture and development including the areas of Telecommunications and Healthcare. Most recently, he has directed the development of the SOA Strategy and Enterprise Architecture for Kaiser Permanente. Mr. Wretling's experience includes a seat on the Colorado Regional Health Information Organization (CORHIO) Technical Advisory Panel helping to direct the state's approach on Health Information Exchange.
1215 - 1230 The Role of SOA in Business-IT Alignment Cross-Enterprise Interoperability
Ken Rubin Chief Architect, Federal Healthcare, EDS
Ken Rubin is the Chief Healthcare Architect, responsible for EDS, an HP Company's Civilian Government & DoD Healthcare Portfolio. Ken provides direction of strategy in the areas of health informatics and enterprise architecture. Ken is an active member of the standards community, holding positions as co-chair of the Object Management Group Healthcare Domain Task Force, the Health Level Seven (HL7) Service-Oriented Architecture Special Interest Group and the Healthcare Service Specification Project.
1230 - 1330 LUNCH SESSION 3 - 1330 - 1500 BUSINESS TRACK 1330 - 1430 Federal NHIN Connect Overview
Craig Miller Chief Architect, FHA CONNECT Initiative, Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (US) Miller is the chief architect for CONNECT, a SOA-based solution that connects federal agencies into nationwide health information exchanges. As a strategic advisor to the Federal Health Architecture (FHA) program, he guides the development of CONNECT and other federal solutions based on his expertise in electronic health information exchange, electronic health records and service-oriented architecture. Miller has more than 12 years of enterprise architecture experience at the director level, working with agencies such as HHS, CMS, FDA, USDA and OMB. He was the lead enterprise architect for HHS' department- wide enterprise architecture initiative, and He led the development of versions 2.0-2.2 of the OMB EA Assessment Framework and was responsible for developing the structure of the Federal Transition Framework .
Tim Cromwell PhD, RN Director, Standards & Interoperability CHIO, Dept. of Veterans Affairs Tim Cromwell is the Director of Standards and Interoperability for the Chief Health Informatics Office at Veterans Health Administration. He is the main point of contact for the NHIN activities within VA. Cromwell has served in a number of posts in 25 years of service at the VA, including staff nurse, nurse manager, clinical applications coordinator, senior project manager and program manager. He resides in Salt Lake City with his wife in an empty nest.
Steve Steffensen, MD LCDR, MC USN, CMIO Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center Dr. Steffensen is a board certified active duty Navy Neurologist who currently works for the Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC) as Chief of the Advanced Information Technology Group (AITG). He has been involved in numerous health IT projects related to the Armed Forces Health Longitudinal Tracking Application (AHLTA) and is recognized across the Military Health System as a physician advocate in electronic medical record business process integration and innovation. Prior to his military career, Dr. Steffensen was the cofounder and lead programmer for an online electronic medical record company supporting the needs of physicians in remote under-served communities. In addition to clinical duties, his current military responsibilities include serving as the Department of Defense lead for the Nationwide Health Information Network CONNECT initiative.
1430 - 1500 The Business Side of SOA
Fred Cummins Fellow, EDS
Fred Cummins is an EDS Fellow with a long career in the development of information systems and information systems consulting. Throughout his career, Fred has worked in the fields of distributed systems architecture and integration, object-oriented systems, knowledge-based systems, and strategic planning. He has developed systems or functioned as a technical advisor across multiple industries including manufacturing and distribution, financial services, transportation, insurance, healthcare and government. Fred continually utilized leading edge technologies and has had significant influence on application development and business modeling technology through representation of EDS/HP and co- chair of the Business Modeling and Integration task force at OMG (Object Management Group) Fred is the primary inventor on 11 patents and has an additional 10 patents pending. He has authored three books, most recently Building the Agile Enterprise with SOA, BPM and MBM (Elsevier, 2009).
TECHNICAL TRACK 1330 - 1400 SOA in an Electronic Health Record Product Line
Sholom Cohen Senior Member Tech. Staff, Carnegie-Mellon Software Engineering Institute
Sholom Cohen is a member of the Research Technology and System Solutions Program of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI). He has authored major technical reports and conference papers on product lines, including: asset development, product development, linkages to SOA, and variation management. Mr. Cohen has supported product line development and acquisition for both DoD and industrial organizations in the areas or Architecture Definition and Evaluation, Understanding Relevant Domains, Scoping, Configuration Management, Building A Business Case, and others. These engagements included support for product lines systems in computer based training, hardware diagnostics, command and control, and medical devices. Mr. Cohen is also an adjunct professor of software engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. He received his BS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an MA in Library and Information Science from the University of Michigan, and an MS in computer science from Columbia University (New York).
1400 - 1430 The HL7 Services-Aware EA Framework (SAEAF): Introduction, Overview, and Governance
Charlie Mead, M.D. Senior Associate, Booz-Allen Hamilton, National Cancer Institute
Dr. Mead is a Senior Associate with Booz Allen Hamilton with over 30 years of experience in digital signal processing and algorithm development, complex software systems and architectures, and healthcare and life sciences informatics. Dr. Mead has experience in clinical trials methodologies and data management systems, application of the Unified Process, and fundamental healthcare and life sciences informatics issues including terminology management, application of the Health Level Seven (HL7) Reference Information Model (RIM), use of Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) standards such as SDTM and ODM, the JANUS data model, and Oracle's HTB development framework. Dr. Mead serves as a Subject Matter Expert and Senior Technical Advisor to the National Cancer Institute's caBIG™ project.
1430 - 1500 Integrating Patient Information with SOA
Mike Rosen Editorial Director, SOA Institute
Mike Rosen is Chief Scientist at Wilton Consulting Group, which provides expert consulting on Enterprise Architecture, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), and model driven systems. Mr. Rosen is also Director of Enterprise Architecture for the Cutter Consortium and Editorial Director of SOAInstitute. He has 10+ years of experience consulting in the architecture and design of applications for global corporations in Finance, Insurance and Telecom and 20+ years of product development experience in distributed technologies. He frequently speaks at industry symposia, contributes to industry journals and is the author of several books including Applied SOA: Architecture and Design Strategies.
1500 - 1530 Afternoon Refreshments SESSION 4 - 1530 - 1600 BUSINESS TRACK 1530 - 1600 Myths vs. Reality: The Role of Open Source in Commercial, Production, and High Quality Healthcare Systems
Skip McGaughey Executive Director, Open Health Tools Skip McGaughey is Executive Director of Open Health Tools. Open Heath Tools is a collaborative open source effort between national health agencies, major healthcare providers, researchers, academics, international standards bodies and companies from Australia, Canada, United States, United Kingdom and Europe. Its goal is to develop common healthcare IT products and services and provide software tools and components that accelerate the implementation of electronic health information interoperability. Skip was co-founder of Eclipse. Eclipse is a multi-language, multi-vendor open source platform for tool integration. There are over 800,000 organizations and over four million developers using Eclipse. Eclipse pioneered the linkage between building open source software and enabling successful and profitable ecosystems to deliver technology to customers.
Ken Lunn, Ph.D. Director of Data Standards and Products, Technology Office, NHS Ken Lunn is Director of Data Standards and Products for the NHS Technology Office. He is responsible for a broad range of standards, including HL7 message specifications for the NHS Spine, the UK edition of SNOMED CT, and the NHS Data Dictionary. He is a member of the HL7 Board and the IHTSDO Technical Committee. Ken has a Ph.D. in Distributed Computing, and he has held senior roles in academic and leading industrial organisations before joining the NHS.
TECHNICAL TRACK 1530 - 1600 Integrated Requirements Design: a Proven Methodology for Architecting Service- Oriented Solutions
Wendell Ocasio, M.D. Chief Medical Officer, Agilex Technologies
Dr. Wendell Ocasio is a board-certified surgeon with extensive experience as an enterprise architect in complex settings. He leads Agilex Technologies healthcare sector strategy as its Chief Medical Officer and manages an integrated team of consultants, clinicians and architects supporting a number of major healthcare programs. He served as the Lead Architect of the contract support team for the U.S. Military Health System's Chief Enterprise Architect, where he implemented the Integrated Requirements-Design methodology. He serves as a member of the HL7 Architecture Review Board. As a prior Air Force Medical officer, he was the Chief Architect for the DoD worldwide longitudinal electronic health record program. Since leaving the military, he served as the lead architect for one of the initial NHIN architecture prototypes.
Dr. Ocasio completed his surgery residency at the NYU Medical Center. He earned his M.D. at the Harvard - MIT Health Sciences and Technology program, where he specialized in advanced technology and research.
SESSION 5 - 1600 - 1700 1600 - 1700 PANEL DISCUSSION: The Perfect Storm - How Do Policy, Public Sector, Private Investment, and SOA Align? Moderator: Dipak Kalra, MD, PhD Clinical Senior Lecturer in Health Informatics, University College London Panelists: Richard Mark Soley, PhD Executive Director, SOA Consortium, Chairman & CEO, Object Management Group Steve Flammini Chief Technology Officer, Partners Health Care The Honorable James B. Peake, M.D. Lieutenant General, USA (Ret)
WEDNESDAY, June 3, 2009 0830 - 0845 Welcome - Opening Remarks
Charles (Chuck) Jaffe, MD, PhD CEO Health Level Seven
0845 - 0930 Keynote: Making the SOA Business Case to Support Clinical Care and Public Health
Theresa Cullen, M.D., M.S., RADM U.S. Public Health Service, Chief Information Officer, Indian Health Service (IHS)
Theresa Ann Cullen, M.D., M.S., is the Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Director of The Office of Information Technology for the Indian Health Service (IHS), an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services as well as a practicing family physician. As CIO, Dr.Cullen oversees a diverse range of agency functions in health information systems planning, development, and management. She has overseen the successful development, implementation and deployment of multiple health information technology applications, including clinical quality reporting, population health management and bidirectional data sharing. These applications are part of RPMS, the health information system for Indian Health Service. The Clinical Reporting System won the HIMSS Davies Award for Public Health in 2005 and 2008. Prior to her current position, she served the IHS as the OIT Senior Medical Informatics Consultant from 1999- 2006.
SESSION 1 - 0930 - 1000 0930 - 1000 Collaboration That Worked: A Federal Architecture Solution to Achieve Health Information Exchange
Vish Sankaran Federal Health Architecture (FHA) Lead, US Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (US)
1000 - 1030 The Business Case for SOA and the Critical Role of Architecture in the Interoperability Challenge
Lynn Vogel, Ph.D. VP and CIO, MD Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas
Lynn Vogel, Ph.D., is Vice President and Chief Information Officer and Associate Professor of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center (UT-MDACC), and Adjunct Professor of Management at The University of Texas School of Public Health, both in Houston. UT-MDACC is a $3B+ clinical, research and teaching institution that is the world's largest and consistently one of the highest rated facilities devoted to the care and cure of cancer. He serves as the senior IT executive managing a 700+ person IT division, and is leading the in-house development of UT-MDACC's Electronic Medical Record (EMR). He also serves as a faculty member for the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) CIO Boot Camp experience. In 2007, he was named as one of Computerworld's Premier 100 IT Leaders, and was awarded one of ten "Best in Class" designations for his work in bridging clinical care and research through information technology (IT).
1030 Demonstration Area Opens 1030 - 1100 Morning Refreshments in Demonstration Area SESSION 2 - 1100 - 1200 BUSINESS TRACK 1100 - 1130 Lessons-Learned on Implementing a SOA at VA
Brandt Welker Director, Solutions Analysis and Architecture, Dept. of Veterans Affairs
1130 - 1200 Continua Health Alliance: Personal Telehealth
Rich Rogers Healthcare IT Standards, IBM Rich Rogers, IBM, HL7 SOA co-chair, Continua Technical Working Group, Open Health Tools. Contributor to HSSP "Practical Guide to SOA in Healthcare". Rich leads the healthcare standards group in IBM's Software Strategy and technology organization.
Randy Carroll Wintergreen Technologies Randy Carroll, Wintergreen Technologies, Continua Technical Working Group, Open Health Tools. Recognized Continua Health Alliance key contributor. Co-author, "Continua: An Interoperable Personal Healthcare Ecosystem".
TECHNICAL TRACK I - (SOA PLANNING & ADOPTION TRACK) 1100 - 1130 The Importance of SOA in a Large Cancer Center IT Environment
Charles Martinez Manager Clinical and Research Integration Development, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Charles currently is responsible for managing Information technology for both clinical and research for the University of Texas MDAnderson Stem Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapy Department. Charles is also responsible for managing Information technology for both clinical and research for the University of Texas MDAnderson Clinical Research Information Department. Major focus is on the integration of clinical and research data for the optimization of productivity and translational research. Charles formally was the Technical Director of Informatics for the University of Colorado Cancer Center and Director of Informatics for Bone Marrow Transplant, University of Colorado. Charles has over 20 year of IT and Informatics experience. Charles has worked at the national level in the development of strategies for electronic data transfer from University Hospitals to the National Institute of Health, National Cancer Institute and Cancer Center groups such as Southwest Oncology Group and other medical institutions.
1130 - 1200 SOA for Healthcare - The Promise and Pitfalls
Dennis Smith Lead, System-of-System Practice Initiative, Carnegie-Mellon University Dennis Smith is a Senior Member of the Technical Staff and Lead of the System of Systems Practice Initiative at Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute (SEI). This initiative focuses on developing and applying methods, tools and other technologies that enhance the effectiveness of complex networked systems and systems of systems. It addresses both organizational and engineering issues that are emerging in a system of systems environment. His recent work has focused on the development of an SOA research agenda. He has co- organized a series of international workshops to get broad discussion of the basic issues, including recent workshops at ICSE 2007 and ICSM 2007. He has co-developed SMART, a method for migrating legacy assets to SOA. Dr. Smith is a Senior Member of IEEE (Computer Society). He has been on program committees and steering committees of international conferences has organized a number of international conferences and workshops. He holds an M.A. and PhD from Princeton University, and a B.A. from Columbia University.
Grace Lewis Lead, System-of-System Engineering, Software-Intensive Systems Initiative Grace Lewis is a senior member of the technical staff at the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. Lewis has 20 years of professional software development experience, mainly in industry. Her main areas of expertise include service-oriented architecture (SOA), legacy system migration, COTS-based systems and systems integration. Grace is the lead for the System of Systems Engineering team within the Integration of Software-Intensive Systems (ISIS) initiative. Current projects of this team are;
-Guidelines for Engineering Systems of Systems -Migration of Legacy Systems to Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Environments using SMART -Technology Evaluation using T-Checks -Testing and Compliance in SOA Environments -Identity Management in SOA Environments -SOA Governance Grace is also the lead for the establishment and evolution of "A Research Agenda for Service-Oriented Architecture". Lewis has teaching experience at the graduate and undergraduate level. She is currently a member of the technical faculty and a mentor for the Master of Software Engineering program at Carnegie Mellon University.
TECHNICAL TRACK II - (SOA TUTORIAL TRACK) 1100 - 1200 SOA Enablement and Adoption Strategy for the Healthcare Enterprise (Workshop), Part I
Robert Lario CEO, VisumPoint
Robert Lario is the Founder and Principal for visumpoint, an Atlanta-based enterprise architecture strategy group. With more than 25 years of experience helping Fortune 100 companies position their IT strategy to support their overall business strategy, he has repeatedly demonstrated his ability to plan, develop and deploy cutting edge solutions to address business needs. His domestic and international experience spans a range of industries including transportation, healthcare, banking, defense, and telecommunications. This experience affords him a level of insight and understanding into business, technology, and the complex problems facing today's enterprise. Robert serves on the Board of Directors for the Object Management Group (OMG). He is on the submission team and co-author of the Unified Profile for DoDAF and MODAF (UPDM) and Joint Records Management System (JRMS). Robert has contributed to or supported numerous standards development initiatives including SOA Modeling Language (SoaML), Unified Profile for DoDAF and MODAF (UPDM), Business Process Management (BPM), and Unified Modeling Language (UML). He was a contributing author to the OMG Certified Expert in BPM (OCEB) examination. In addition, he is TOGAF, SEI Architect and SEI ATAM certified. In addition to his role with the OMG, Robert is a member of the Board of Education and Architect Training Committee for IASA (International Association of Software Architects). In this role, he helps develop and manage the official IASA curriculum. Robert has an MBA from The Wharton School of Business, a Masters in Systems Engineering from The University of Pennsylvania, and an undergraduate degree in Computer Science from Old Dominion University.
1200 - 1300 LUNCH SESSION 3 - 1300 - 1500 BUSINESS TRACK 1300 - 1330 Excellence in Practice: Real-World Award Winning Implementation of SOA in Government
Kevin Moore Director/CIO, US Military Entrance Processing Command (MEPCOM)
Kevin D. Moore is the CIO for the US Military Entrance Processing Command (USMEPCOM) at North Chicago, IL. He has over 26 years of leadership experience and has held several senior level positions in the US Department of Defense (DoD). Kevin is a published author, active speaker, and has been interviewed for the successful transformation that is occurring at USMEPCOM. Also, as a result of his leadership, USMEPCOM recently won 2 Top Awards for its BPM and SOA implementation. It won the 2009 OMG Award for BPM Application that Demonstrates the Best Return on Investment (ROI) and the 2008 Gold Global Award for Excellence in BPM and Workflow for the North American Region. Additionally, he is a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve and a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, NY.
1330 - 1400 Three Dimensions of Service Orientation in Healthcare: Organization, Business, IT
Bogdan Motoc Senior IT Specialist, Alberta Health Services
Bogdan Motoc is a Business Process Architect for Alberta Health Services Business Process Engineering group where he is currently engaged in evaluating Service Orientation as a strategic approach to AHS business needs. A senior IT specialist with a passion for Business Process Engineering, Bogdan has been part of several initiatives anchored in Organization and Process Optimization in Healthcare and other Industries. He is a firm believer in the value of differentiation and integration as modern business patterns. Prior to joining AHS, Bogdan has occupied senior roles as IT Architect and Technical Executive with several Corporations in IT (IBM), Online Media (Toronto Star) and Healthcare Vendors (MediPattern). Mr. Motoc holds a M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, a post-graduate degree in AI and is author of patents in cognitive interfaces and cancer detection.
1400 - 1430 Practical Experience in Deploying a SOA Base Product for Hospital Patient Quality of Care Improvement
Craig Cunningham COO, OntoReason LLC
Mr. Cunningham is a graduate of California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo in Computer Science. He worked twenty years developing expert system technologies for the National Intelligence Community. Mr. Cunningham has been working in Health Care and Public Health for the last seven years.
Mr Cunningham is a founding member of OntoReason LLC., a company dedicated to building advanced reasoning solutions for the Health Care Community. OntoReason was founded in 2006 and works within the public and private health care sectors, integrating intelligent systems into enterprise wide IT infrastructure. 1430 - 1500 Integrating Communities of Practices for Collective Healthcare Intelligence
Othel Rolle Senior Manager, Pfeizer, Inc .
Othel Rolle is a Senior Manager at Pfizer, responsible for business line architecture. He has over twenty years of experience defining, implementing and managing software and data architectures within the pharmaceutical industry. This experience includes business line and program architect for Global Medical and Commercial Development solutions; defining and implementing strategic roadmaps to align application and data architectures with business strategy and lead architect in the development and management of electronic data capture technology for physician prescribing data. In addition to his architecture expertise, Othel is a Project Management Professional (PMP) and a Six Sigma Black Belt.
TECHNICAL TRACK I - (SOA PLANNING & ADOPTION TRACK - Cont.) 1300 - 1400 PANEL DISCUSSION: Which SOA services are needed to accelerate healthcare integration?
Moderator:
Ronald Schmelzer Managing Partner, ZapThink Ronald Schmelzer, Managing Partner at ZapThink, is a well-known expert in the field of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, and XML-based standards. Ron has been featured in and has written for periodicals, and has spoken at numerous industry conferences and in front of some of the largest busineses in the world. Ron Schmelzer was the lead author of XML And Web Services Unleashed (SAMS 2002) as well as co-author of Service-Orient or Be Doomed (Wiley 2006) with Jason Bloomberg, due to be released in 2006. Ron has served as the chair of the RosettaNet Cluster 1 Workgroup, working group member of CPExchange, member of the UDDI advisory group, and was a member of the CompTIA Electronic Commerce Standards Board (ECSB). Prior to ZapThink, Ron was founder, CTO, and "ePostle of Partners" of ChannelWave Software, as well as founder and President of VirtuFlex Software, and founder and CEO of VirtuMall, one of the first online eCommerce sites in 1994. Ron was named "Geek of the Week" in Internet Magazine and was listed in Boston Magazine's Internet Top 40. Ron received a B.S. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Panelists:
Josh Painter Senior Architect, Intel Dave Shaver CEO, CorePoint Health Brandt Welker Director, Solution Analysis and Architecture, Veterans Affairs
TECHNICAL TRACK I - (SEMANTIC & TECHNOLOGY TRACK) 1400 - 1500 SOA and Terminology Asset Management
Russ Hamm Informatics Consultant, Apelon Inc.
Mr. Hamm is currently an Informatics Consultant at Apelon, Inc., a preeminent health care terminology products and services vendor. In this role he has worked internationally with both private and public sector institutions on the development and utilization of terminology services and terminology service standards.
Russell is an active participant in informatics standards activities, and is a regular participant and co-chair of the HL7 Vocabulary Work Group where he is responsible for maintaining the HL7 vocabulary, developing terminology service specifications and terminology maintenance interfaces.
As an active participant in informatics for over six years, Russell is a respected member of both the business and informatics standards communities. His activities range from designing terminology services specifications, creating on-line terminology authoring interfaces and providing education and guidance surrounding terminology best practices.
TECHNICAL TRACK II - (SOA TUTORIAL TRACK - Cont.) 1300 - 1400 SOA Enablement and Adoption Strategy for the Healthcare Enterprise (Workshop), Part II
Robert Lario CEO, VisumPoint
TECHNICAL TRACK II - (STANDARDS TRACK) 1400 - 1430 HL7 System Design Reference Model (EHR-SD RM) Built on Healthcare SOA Reference Architecture
Steve Hufnagel, Ph.D. Architect/System Engineer, DOD Military Health System Nancy J. Orvis, M.H.A., CPHIMS Dir of National Health Standards Participation and IM/IT Integration DoD(HA)/TMA/IMT&R/SPEAR
1430 - 1500 Using Information Modeling and Model Driven Architecture to Create SOA Interoperability Standards
Galen Mulrooney Principal, JP Systems, Inc.
Galen Mulrooney is the Vice President of J P Systems, and serves as the Lead Information Architect for the Veterans Health Administration under the auspices of the Chief Health Informatics Office. He served as the Lead Modeler for the VHA Health Information Model (VHIM), which is the authoritative semantic standard that will be used to guide all interactions within the VHA and with external partners. Mr. Mulrooney is co-chair of the HL7 SOA Work Group, and is leading modeling efforts at ASC X12 and NCPDP. Mr. Mulrooney's company, J P Systems, is an Information Technology consulting firm specializing in healthcare informatics and enterprise architecture. J P Systems is proud to be a founding member of the Open Health Tools (OHT) foundation.
1500 - 1530 Afternoon Refreshments in Demonstration Area SESSION 4 - 1530 - 1700 BUSINESS TRACK - Cont. 1530 - 1600 Unlocking Clinical Information Assets: a Service-oriented Approach to Integration
Josh Painter Senior Architect, Intel
Joshua Painter is a senior architect with Intel's Software and Services Group in the SOA Products team, where he has a leadership role defining healthcare solutions strategy and architecture for Intel's SOA infrastructure products. Joshua has extensive experience in the areas of distributed computing, integration, enterprise application architecture and security. He spent the past decade working in international markets focused on solutions architecture for the public sector in the US, Europe and the Middle East. During his nine years with Intel, Joshua has held various roles within product development, sales and marketing and IT. He spent the last several years with Intel's healthcare division, where he helped bring Intel's first FDA-cleared in-home medical device to market.
1600 - 1700 PANEL DISCUSSION: How Do Organizations Realize Business Value from Enterprise Architecture and SOA Investments? Moderator: Sorina Vlaicu, Ph.D., MD, MPH George Mason University
Panelists: John Dodd EA Principal and Practice Leader, CSC Samuel Waissman Director Enterprise Architecture, Presbyterian Healthcare Services Andy Bond Director of Interoperability National e-Health Transition Authority (Australia)
TECHNICAL TRACK I - (SEMANTIC & TECHNOLOGY TRACK - Cont.) 1530 - 1600 The Challenges of Designing Terminology Services in an Application Oriented Enterprise
Michael Riben, MD Assistant Professor, Cytopathology, Director of Anatomic Pathology Informatics Department of Pathology Medical Director, Vocabulary/Ontology Services, Department of Data Management and Application Services
Michael Riben is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, and completed his pathology and laboratory medicine residency at Albany Medical Center. After residency, he completed his NLM Medical Informatics Fellowship at Oregon health Sciences University, where he focused his work on Medical Terminology/ontology., before working briefly at Medicalogic (Now GE Medical systems) as a Product Manager and Clinical Knowledge engineer. Following a surgical pathology fellowship at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, and a Cytopathology fellowship at M.D. Anderson he has been an Assistant professor in the Department of Pathology where he practices cytopathology and is the Director .of Anatomic Pathology informatics. In addition, he has been working for the last 3 yrs with the Department of Data Management and Application Services to develop an enterprise vocabulary and ontology services core services group that would support clinical, research and administrative applications.
1600 - 1630 Federated Software Architecture for the Federated Utah Research & Translational Health e-Repository
Oren Livne Senior Software Engineer, University of Utah
Oren received his B.A. in applied mathematics from the Technion in 1994, and Ph.D. in applied mathematics from the Weizmann Institute in 2000. He worked on signal processing algorithms and radar target detection in ELTA--Israel Aircraft Industries, and during his military service in the Israeli Defense Forces. He worked and consulted for Orbotech, Inc. on the development of numerical algorithms for printed circuit board testing. After postdoctoral fellowships in Stanford University and the University of Utah, Oren became the Chief Software Architect of the RUReady, an adaptive college readiness learning and assessment program for mathematics at the Continuing Education Division at the University of Utah, and founded RUReady, Inc. with two colleagues through the U's Technology Commercialization Office. He is currently the Senior Software Architect of the FURTHeR project. Oren has published over 25 scholarly articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals and has a U.S. patent pending. His research focuses on the development of efficient numerical algorithms for chemical, biological and healthcare problems.
1630 - 1700 Survey on Demand System (SODS): An Adaptive and Integrative Architecture for Structured Health Data
Parsa Mirhaji, MD Assistant Professor of Medicine; Univ. of Texas Health Science Center, Houston
Survey on Demand System (SODS): An Adaptive and Integrative Architecture for Structured Health Data
Parsa Mirhaji, MD Assistant Professor of Medicine; Univ. of Texas Health Science Center, Houston Dr. Parsa Mirhai is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Medicine and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Health Information Sciences in the School of Health Information Sciences. Dr. Mirhaji is the Director of the Center for Biosecurity and Public Health Informatics Research, where he has developed predictive epidemiology models and detection methodologies for emerging infectious diseases such as avian flu and a reference architecture for situational awareness for public health preparedness (SARA). Dr. Mirhaji has been an acting committee member on the Texas Hospital Preparedness Program at the Texas Department of Health and Human Services and the Texas Institute for Health Policy Research, a selected member of Technology Subcommittee - Health Information Technology Advisory Commission, Texas Department of Health and Human Services, the chair of the International Defense and Homeland Security Conference 2003-2006, and the chair at the International Conference on Rule Markup Languages for the Semantic Web, 2006.
Dr. Mirhaji and his fellow researchers have been awarded 'Best Practices in Public Health Award- 2003' by the Department of Health and Human Services for establishing 'Defense of Houston' portal only 5 days after September 11 terrorist attacks.
Dr. Mirhaji is the founder and director of the Center for Biosecurity and Public Health Informatics Research with ongoing research activities in the following areas: knowledge engineering and ontology research for public health information systems, architectural designs for Situational Awareness, Context Aware Systems, interoperability and information sharing in distributed environments, applications of artificial intelligence, computer reasoning and knowledge based systems in public health preparedness, knowledge and information representation, information visualization and epidemiological modeling.
TECHNICAL TRACK II - (STANDARDS TRACK - Cont.) 1530 - 1600 The HL7 Service-Aware EA Framework (SAEAF): Behavioral Framework
John Koisch National Cancer Institute Mr. Koisch currently acts as a Senior Technical advisor and Enterprise Architect to the Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG) initiative for NCICB. Under his role, he advises multiple working groups, including the caXchange Enterprise Service Bus initiative and helps guide the overall architecture and informatics focus of the project by providing technical expertise in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) and other bioinformatics solutions. Mr. Koisch actively helps coordinate the interoperability amongst the various initiatives, insuring compliance with national standards and initiatives as well as aligning the various capabilities with industry best practice. He is one of the primary authors and editors of the HL7 Services Aware Enterprise Architecture Framework, the Behavioral Framework, and a co-chair of the HL7 Architecture Board.
Alan Honey Chief Architect, Insurance Institute for Safety in Medicine (II4SM)
1600 - 1630 Putting Standards Into Practice: Lessons Learned While Introducing SOA Into IHE
John Moehrke Principal Engineer, GE Healthcare
John Moehrke is a Principal Engineer specializing in Standards Architecture in Interoperability, Security, and Privacy for GE Healthcare. He is primarily involved in the international standards efforts related to GE's healthcare businesses. He is co-chair of the Security, Privacy and Infrastructure Domain Committee of HITSP. He is a GE representative to ASTM, CCHIT, DICOM, HL7, NEMA/MITA, OASIS, ISO, and IHE. He represents GE on issues of healthcare data security and privacy, IT Infrastructure, and clinical workflow. He has been active in the Healthcare standardization since 1999, during which time he has authored various standards, profiles and white papers.
1630 - 1700 Consolidation of European AAL SOA Platform
Stale Walderhaug Researcher, SINTEF ICT (Norway)
1700 - 1900 Workshop Reception in Demonstration Area
THURSDAY, June 4, 2009
0830 - 0845 Welcome - Opening Remarks
Skip McGaughey Executive Director, Open Health Tools
Skip McGaughey is Executive Director of Open Health Tools. Open Heath Tools is a collaborative open source effort between national health agencies, major healthcare providers, researchers, academics, international standards bodies and companies from Australia, Canada, United States, United Kingdom and Europe. Its goal is to develop common healthcare IT products and services and provide software tools and components that accelerate the implementation of electronic health information interoperability. Skip was co-founder of Eclipse. Eclipse is a multi-language, multi-vendor open source platform for tool integration. There are over 800,000 organizations and over four million developers using Eclipse. Eclipse pioneered the linkage between building open source software and enabling successful and profitable ecosystems to deliver technology to customers.
0845 - 0915 Keynote: Architecting Data Standards to Enable Service Interoperability
Ken Lunn, Ph.D. Director of Data Standards and Products, Technology Office, NHS
Ken Lunn is Director of Data Standards and Products for the NHS Technology Office. He is responsible for a broad range of standards, including HL7 message specifications for the NHS Spine, the UK edition of SNOMED CT, and the NHS Data Dictionary. He is a member of the HL7 Board and the IHTSDO Technical Committee. Ken has a Ph.D. in Distributed Computing, and he has held senior roles in academic and leading industrial organizations before joining the NHS.
SESSION 1 - 0915 - 1000 0915 - 1000 Singapore's National E-Health Records - an Enterprise Architecture Approach
Peter Tan Executive Consultant, Ministry of Health Holdings, Government of Singapore
Peter has 16 years of experience in IT in public and private sector in a variety of roles, ranging from Education, Internet, e-Commerce, e-Government, and now Healthcare. Peter is currently working on the federated Enterprise Architecture for realizing the National EHR at MOHH, which is responsible for National Health IT strategy and governance. Prior to this, Peter was Assistant Director (eHealth) at the Ministry of Health, responsible for national e-health strategy and implementation. He implemented the EMR Exchange system in 2004, the first live system that facilitated the realtime transmission of medical records on-demand across the public sector healthcare providers.
Leong Seng Ong Executive Consultant (IT Architecture & Standards), MOH Holdings, Singapore
Leong Seng has an extensive background in the design, development and implementations of several large-scale IT projects, in the areas of broadband networking, messaging, Internet/E-Commerce, logistic tracking and healthcare related applications. In his more recent role, Leong Seng is actively involved in driving the Enterprise Architecture program, infrastructure consolidation and technology adoption roadmap within the public healthcare institutions. Concurrently, Leong Seng also manages a development unit that is responsible for the design, development and maintenance of an in-house developed Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) system that has been widely deployed to several public hospitals and polyclinics.
1000 - 1030 Morning Refreshments SESSION 2 - 1030 - 1200 BUSINESS TRACK 1030 - 1100 Healthcare SOA: From Requirements to Deployment; An Example
Demetrios Yannakopoulos Chief Analyst, Perot Systems
Mr. Yannakopoulos with 26 years of experience as a computer scientist, including 17 years as an IT architect, has been involved with SOA since 2001. For the Department of Veterans Affairs, as a member of the Perot Systems, Government Services team, he has developed an architecture-centric framework which establishes an organizational readiness that can implement and maintain service-oriented solutions, and has co- authored the VA's SOA-Governance Framework. Previously, as an IT Director for the Nielsen Company, he led the Enterprise Architecture team and several SOA Delivery teams. He corrected the misalignment between business architecture and IT environments by defining an architecture driven by business, selectively deploying new SOA systems and integrating them with legacy systems. Mr. Yannakopoulos hold a Master of Science in Computer Science from Clemson University and a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from University of Ionnina, Greece, and has spoken in various IT Conferences throughout his career.
1100 - 1130 How to Implement Successful SOA in Healthcare: University of Chicago Medical Center Case Study
K. Scott Morrison Chief Architect, Layer 7 Technologies
K. Scott Morrison is the Chief Architect at Layer 7 Technologies, where he works to scale, simplify and secure Web applications. He has extensive IT and scientific experience in a number of industries, was previously Director of Technology at Infowave Software, and has also held senior architect positions at IBM. Scott has published more than 50 book chapters, magazine articles, and papers in medical, physics, and engineering journals, including ComputerWorld, ZDNet, Web Services Unleashed, Professional JMS, Ajax World Magazine, SOA World Magazine, Communications News, DM Review, and the Business Integration Journal. Scott is also a dynamic and highly sought-after speaker with extensive speaking experience at over 70 shows around the world, including the InfoWorld SOA Forum, JavaOne, ZapThink podcasts, the OMG SOA Consortium, the IDC IT Forum, Web Services on Wall Street, several Gartner events and Networld+Interop. 1130 - 1200 Services Thinking for Health Plans
Renu Pandit Senior Manager, Deloitte Consulting Renu Pandit-Pant is a Senior Manager in Deloitte's Technology practice. She has over eleven years of experience managing complex technology programs, enterprise architecture initiatives, BPM and SOA-enabled integration programs. Renu leads client- service teams in managed care, automotive, financial services and state government agencies in the Health and Human Services area. She is the lead for the Health Care and Life Sciences segment of Deloitte's Services Thinking initiative.
Phil Ruth Director, Deloitte Technology Phil Ruth is a Director in Deloitte's Technology practice with over fifteen years of IT delivery leadership. His experience is focused on large-scale systems implementation including strategic planning, enterprise architecture and application development services, electronic commerce, and multi-channel enterprise services and end-to-end testing. Phil has extensive experience across health care/life sciences, communications/media, and public sector industries. Phil leads Deloitte's technology testing services and is the sponsor of Deloitte's Services Thinking initiative for the Health Care and Life Sciences sector.
TECHNICAL TRACK I - (SECURITY TRACK) 1030 - 1100 Removing Security and Privacy Barriers to Healthcare SOA Deployment
Don Jorgenson CEO, Inpriva Inc.
Don Jorgenson has more than twenty years of experience leading embedded system and software development projects in energy management, telecom and healthcare. Over the last eight years, his focus has been on healthcare information system interoperability, security and privacy. He serves as lead of the HL7-SOA PASS (Privacy, Access and Security Services) work group, leads the Open Health Tools openPASS project and has been active in Eclipse, IHE, and ASTM. Don holds a BS degree in Engineering Science and an MS degree in Electrical Engineering from Colorado State University. He is CEO of Inpriva, Inc.
1100 - 1130 Making Regulatory Compliance Happen for SOA in Healthcare
Ulrich Lang, Ph.D. CEO, ObjectSecurity
Ulrich is co-founder & CEO of ObjectSecurity. He founded ObjectSecurity as a spin-out from his PhD in information security at University of Cambridge in 2000. ObjectSecurity is the leader in model-driven security and business-driven compliance management. The company offers the acclaimed (e.g. "Cool Vendor" by Gartner) OpenPMF security policy management product. OpenPMF is an easy-to-use, cost-saving application / BPM development tool add-on. OpenPMF automatically generates technical security policies for your applications and processes at the click of a button (e.g. for BPM, SOA, Cloud, SaaS, PaaS, Web 2.0). It also automatically enforces and monitors security, and it uniquely minimizes the security maintenance cost for agile applications and workflows. Ulrich is a renown SOA/middleware/modeling security expert. Ulrich also has received: an M.Sc. in Information Security Royal Holloway (Uni London); Business Marketing Strategy, Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern Uni); computer science & management Uni Munich and Royal Holloway; Book author, conference speaker.
1130 - 1200 OASIS-HITSP Privacy, Consent, Access Control Advanced Technology Demonstration
David Staggs Standards Security Technical Lead (SAIC), Department of Veterans Affairs Mr. Staggs has been providing technical leadership in all aspects of application and computer security for more than twenty years, five of which has been in support of the Veterans Health Administration (VHA). Mr. Staggs currently supports the VHA office of Standards and Interoperability Offices in the development of the Cross-enterprise Security and Privacy Authorization (XSPA) model. The XSPA model fills a security access control standards gap identified by the Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP). Mr. Staggs is the co-chair of the XSPA TC and an author of the XSPA profile of SAML and the XSPA profile of XACML, recently demonstrated at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Conference. Mr. Staggs is the author of four international security standards and is a licensed patent attorney.
Brendon Unland President and Founder of Jericho Systems, BBA Mr. Unland founded Jericho Systems in 2002. He provides strategic vision, leadership, and technical management to Jericho Systems. Jericho Systems provides next-generation SOA based security products, specializing in security policy engineering and attribute based access control (ABAC). Their XACML based product, called the EnterSpace Decisioning Service (EsDS), is deployed in the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community. The EsDS also enables robust, standards compliant, patient privacy and security. Mr. Unland focuses on articulating, demonstrating, and delivering upon the benefits of the company's product and service offerings especially as they interrelate with: Service Oriented Architectures, open source, open standards, identity management, privilege management, and attribute based decisioning. Mr. Unland was previously the Founder and Co-owner of Dallas Technology Group, a multi-million dollar technology firm specializing in real-time, distributed software consulting to Fortune 100 clients in the telecommunication and e-business arenas.
TECHNICAL TRACK II - (SOA INFRASTRUCTURE TRACK) 1030 - 1100 Immunization Reporting and Clinical Decision Support Via a Service Oriented Architecture
Michael J Suralik Senior Project Manager, HLN Consulting
1100 - 1130 Service Oriented Architectures in European HealthGrid Projects
Richard McClatchey Professor, University of the West of England
Prof. McClatchey has been research active for the past 25 years and has led many projects funded by industry and by the EC in the areas of large-scale distributed data and process management and database modelling and in systems design and integration. Currently a Fellow of both the British Computer Society and the Institute of Engineering and Technology with a PhD in Physics (Sheffield, 1982) and DPhil in Computer Science (West of England, UWE 1999). McClatchey has published over 150 papers and has held the Chair of Applied Computer Science at UWE since and current expertise lies in Grid data and knowledge management and particularly in its application to medical applications. He currently leads the Centre for Complex Cooperative Systems at UWE and is active in collaborative computing projects at CERN, and with many international partners in three EC projects: Health-e-Child, SHARE and neuGRID.
1130 - 1200 The 'Big SHINNY Bus' - An SOA Infrastructure for New York Healthcare
Vincent Lewis Principal Architect, GSI Health
1200 - 1300 LUNCH SESSION 3 - 1300 - 1400 1300 - 1400 PANEL DISCUSSION:
Fostering Health IT transformation and SOA's Role: A Government and International Perspective Moderator: Sorina Vlaicu, Ph.D., MD, MPH George Mason University
Panelists: Dennis Giokas, PhD CTO, Canada Health Infoway Ken Lunn , PhD Director, Standards and Products, National Health Service (UK) Peter Tan Executive Consultant, Ministry of Health Holdings Singapore
SESSION 4 - 1400 - 1500 1400 - 1430 Locknote: Reflections on the Conference: Thoughts on Making Your SOA Initiative Successful
Dennis Giokas, PhD CTO, Canada Health Infoway
As the Chief Technology Officer for Canada Health Infoway, Dennis Giokas is charged with fueling the national transformation of the Canadian e-Health system into an open, interoperable environment that is being based upon a service-oriented architecture. In this session, Mr. Giokas will surface themes that have arisen during the Conference and blend them with his experiences in Canada to offer insights of relevance to organizations undertaking their own SOA initiatives.
1430 - 1500 Conference Wrap-Up 1500 - 1530 Afternoon Refreshments