Janet Kennedy

Carrie Nixon – NCHICA Conference Speaker

NCHICA’s 24th Annual Conference will be held October 8-9, 2018 in Charlotte, NC. We are launching a new podcast series featuring speakers from our upcoming Annual Conference. Our first podcast features Carrie Nixon of Nixon Law Group, who will be speaking on Monday, October 8 on The 21st Century Cures Act and the Future of Healthcare.

Carrie Nixon is Managing Member of Nixon Law Group and CEO of Nixon HealthNexus, a healthcare reform and innovation consultancy. She is an expert in law and policy issues relating to value-based delivery/reimbursement, including Accountable Care Organizations, Alternative Payment Models, MACRA and MIPS reporting, and mHealth/telemedicine. She earned her law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law.

Our podcast host is Janet Kennedy of Get Social Health.

Gerard Scheitlin: NCHICA Conference Speaker

NCHICA’s 24th Annual Conference will be held October 8-9, 2018 in Charlotte, NC. This is the second podcast in our series featuring speakers from our upcoming Annual Conference.

Gerard Scheitlin, Founder & President of RISQ Management LLC, will speak at the NCHICA Annual Conference on Tuesday, October 9 on “Implementing Technical Security is Not Enough to Adequately Protect PHI.” He will discuss how to organize and implement a Risk Management Organization focused on clinical, privacy, compliance, information security and quality risks. He will walk through the creation of this organization, including board involvement, cybersecurity certifications (including HITRUST), metrics/reporting, and improvement tracking.

Janet Kennedy of Get Social Health serves as the podcast host.

Robert Furberg NCHICA Member Spotlight

NCHICA’s 24th Annual Conference will be held October 8-9, 2018 in Charlotte, NC. This is the third podcast in our series featuring speakers from our upcoming Annual Conference. Robert Furberg, Senior Clinical Informaticist at RTI International, will discuss the Add Health Consumer Wearable Ancillary Study.

The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) is a longitudinal study of a nationally representative sample of U.S. adolescents in grades 7-12 during the 1994-95 school year. Add Health is jointly administered by UNC-Chapel Hill’s Carolina Population Center and RTI International. The study subjects (“cohort”) are being re-interviewed throughout 2016-2018 to collect social, environmental, behavioral and biological data with which to track the emergence of chronic disease as they enter their fourth decade of life.

The Add Health Consumer Wearable Ancillary Study has surveyed 13,000 individuals drawn from the cohort to capture data on smartphone and consumer wearable device ownership. Hear more about the study and Robert’s work.

Our podcast host is Janet Kennedy of Get Social Health.

Iltifat Husain – NCHICA Conference Speaker

NCHICA’s 24th Annual Conference will be held October 8-9, 2018 in Charlotte, NC. This is the fourth podcast in our series featuring speakers from our upcoming Annual Conference. Dr. Iltifat Husain, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Wake Forest School of Medicine, discusses his presentation on Transforming Validated Clinical Research into a Cerner and EPIC FHIR Application.

Learn how researchers at Wake Forest School of Medicine were able to take a validated cardiovascular pathway and create a SMART FHIR app by utilizing the new Cerner App Store and EPIC App Orchard Store. The new FHIR protocols enable researchers and hospitals to implement clinical pathways in a cost-effective and timely manner that was never possible before.

Our podcast host is Janet Kennedy of Get Social Health.

Bonnie Britton: NCHICA Member Profile

NCHICA’s 24th Annual Conference will be held October 8-9, 2018 in Charlotte, NC. This is the fifth podcast in our series featuring speakers from our upcoming Annual Conference. Bonnie Britton, Executive Director of Reconnect4Health, discusses her presentation on Deciphering Reimbursement for Remote Patient Monitoring.

Bonnie is a nurse and Telehealth pioneer, having dedicated the past 21 years of her career to advancing the adoption and implementation of Telehealth, particularly remote patient monitoring. Learn more about the four CPT codes you can use to bill for remote patient monitoring services.

Our podcast host is Janet Kennedy of Get Social Health.

Jonathan Langer- Medigate: NCHICA Sponsor

NCHICA’s 24th Annual Conference will be held October 8-9, 2018 in Charlotte, NC. This is the sixth podcast in our series and features one of our Diamond Sponsors: Jonathan Langer, Co-founder and CEO of Medigate.

Medigate is the only dedicated medical device cybersecurity platform that enables IT, IS and BioMed teams to identify, monitor and secure every medical device on the clinical network. Learn about how Medigate was founded and how their platform works.

Our podcast host is Janet Kennedy of Get Social Health.