8th DoD/ VA and Gov Health IT Summit

Held since 2011, DSI's  Health IT Summits are a unique forum that allows for personnel from DoD, VA, Federal and State agencies to convene in one location along with leaders from Industry and Academia that support them. Our "Town Hall" format is designed to encourage challenging discussion and dialogue amongst all in attendance.

By keeping our forum off-the record and non-attribution, we allow for a level of stream of consciousness and shared ideas and thoughts to flow freely. Our agendas cover the most current priorities for our Military and Government health IT communities, and strive to achieve actionable takeaways for all in attendance.

Early subject areas to include but not limited to:

1. What should an interoperable health IT ecosystem really consist of and be able to achieve?
2. How do you pull the IT Infrastructure together at this point for an improved health IT ecosystem for Military Health, and what are all the 'moving parts' that are involved?
3. Enhancing the use of "third platform" technologies for improved patient engagement
4. Tackling the demand for big data and analytics capabilities in an effective and efficient manner
5. Improving care coordination for remote patients in the VA
6. Shared health services within DHA
7. Capturing and connecting the purchased care component
8. EHRs will be approached with topics such as external connectivity (connecting to purchased care components, outside hospitals and providers…), data access management, clinical and non-clinical requirements, governance, and consolidating and reducing redundancies
9. Update on contracting and acquisition priorities in the VA, DoD, and HHS