8:00 - 8:30 am

Registration & Breakfast
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8:30 - 8:40 am

Welcome and Opening Remarks

Tim Wong

President NEHIMSS

Director Application Services, Emerson Hospital

8:40 - 9:40 am

All-Payer Claims Databases: Current Status and Future Direction

Jo Porter, MPH

Director for the Institute for Health Policy and Practice

University of New Hampshire

9:40 - 10:10 am

Break

Sponsor Table Visits

10:10 - 11:00 am

Embracing Technology to Address the Triple Aim of Healthcare

Kendra Seavey, MPH

Clinical Administrative Director

care.coach

11:00 - 11:50 am

Improving Quality Measure thru Data Abstraction

Cheryl L. Rowe

Operations Manager, Health Information Services, Community Group Practices

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

11:50 - 1:00 pm

Lunch & Networking
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Sponsor Table Visits

1:00 - 2:00 pm

Beyond the Hospital:  Improving Population Health

Sally Kraft, MD, MPH

Vice President Community Health

Population Health Management Division

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

Mary Beth Eldredge, MHA, MHCDS

Director, Regional Information Systems

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

2:00 - 2:20 pm

Break
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Sponsor Table Visits

2:20 - 3:20 pm

CIO Panel

Dirk Stanley, MD, MPH

Chief Medical Information Officer

UConn Health

David Briden, CHCIO

Chief Information Officer

Exeter Health Resources

Ralph Johnson, CHCIO, FHIMSS

Regional Chief Information Officer

Maine Health

3:20 - 3:30 pm

Wrap up/Feedback

Jeff Loughlin

President Elect NEHIMSS

Principal Consultant

Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative

David Briden, CHCIO

Chief Information Officer

Exeter Health Resources

David Briden, CHCIO has been the Chief Information Officer for Exeter Health Resources, Exeter NH since 1993.  Exeter Health  Resources consists of Exeter Hospital (100 bed Magnet-designated community hospital), Core Physicians (160 providers in 15 locations) and Rockingham VNA and Hospice, serving patients throughout Rockingham and Strafford Counties.  Exeter has been honored as a Most Wired organization eight times since 2010.  Previously, David spent 14 years working in Information Technology in higher education.

Mary Beth Eldredge, MHA, MHCDS

Director, Regional Information Systems

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

Mary Beth Eldredge is the Director of Regional Information Systems at Dartmouth-Hitchcock where she is interconnecting the organizations within Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health’s extended enterprise. Ms. Eldredge is responsible for the development and execution of Dartmouth Hitchcock’s Affiliate information systems strategy with DHH Affiliate Members throughout northern New England. She oversees health information exchange development and relationships, the DHconnect physician portal, and all aspects of information sharing between Dartmouth Hitchcock and external information trading partners. Prior to her information systems role, Mary Beth served as the Director of Referring Physician Services at DHMC, where she led her team in handling access and communication for over 5,500 referring providers.

Ralph Johnson, FHIMSS, CHCIO

Regional Chief Information Officer

MaineHealth

Ralph Johnson currently serves as the Regional Chief Information Officer for MaineHealth.  Ralph previously served as the CIO and Vice President of Quality at Franklin Community Health Network in Farmington Maine.  Ralph has worked in the healthcare information technology field for 35 years, most of that time in leadership positions at Maine hospitals.  Ralph has led major patient safety initiatives to improve patient safety.  Franklin Memorial Hospital was named to the Most Wired Hospital List for the past 8 years, recognizing the organizations adoption of advanced information technology.  Ralph is recognized as a Certified Healthcare Chief Information Officer by the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME), and recognized as a Fellow of the Health Information Management Systems Society.  Ralph has been appointed by the Governor to serve on the board of the Connect ME Authority, advancing the adoption of broadband technology in rural areas of the State of Maine. 

Sally Kraft, MD, MPH

Vice President Community Health

Population Health Management Division

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

Dr. Sally Kraft, MD, MPH is VP of Population Health at Dartmouth Hitchcock where she leads a multi-disciplinary team dedicated to improving the health of populations and communities across the region served by Dartmouth Hitchcock faculty and affiliates.  She has worked with the High Value Healthcare Collaborative on disseminating evidence-based practices in health systems across the US.  Dr. Kraft served as the Medical Director of Quality, Safety and Innovation at the University of Wisconsin Health system from 2007-2014 where she led system-wide initiatives to redesign ambulatory care.  She received her MD and MPH degrees from the University of Michigan, completed a residency in internal medicine at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center and fellowships in Pulmonary and Critical Care medicine at Stanford University. She has practiced pulmonary and critical care medicine in Stanford CA and Madison WI.    

Jo Porter, MPH

Director for the Institute for Health Policy and Practice

University of New Hampshire

Jo Porter, MPH, serves as the Director for the Institute for Health Policy and Practice at the University of New Hampshire.  She also co-chairs the All-Payer Claims Database Council (APCD Council), a learning network collaboration between IHPP and the National Association of Health Data Organizations. Jo serves on the Governor’s Commission for Medicaid Care Management in New Hampshire. Jo represents UNH in its participation in the Academy Health State-University Partnership Learning Network, and is a steering committee member for that group. Jo has over 15 years of health care-related policy and analysis experience in a variety of sectors. She spent several years at Health Dialog, Inc., a care management firm and was formerly in the Bureau of Health Statistics and Data Management in the NH Department of Health and Human Services. Jo has a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology, with a minor in Health Management and Policy, graduating Summa Cum Laude from the University of New Hampshire. She earned her Master of Public Health, with honors, with dual concentrations in Epidemiology/Biostatistics and Social and Behavioral Health from Boston University.

Cheryl L. Rowe

Operations Manager, Health Information Services, Community Group Practices, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

Cheryl L. Rowe is a native of New Hampshire, where she has worked in the HIM field for the past 33 years. Ms. Rowe has spent all of those years at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Centers Community Group Practice outpatient facilities, where she started her career as a medical record clerk and is now the Operations Manager overseeing three HIM departments and project manager for the patient portal. She is known for her out-of-the-box thinking in using technology to leverage the HIM department as a key player in assisting and providing quality patient care. Ms. Rowe received her Bachelor of Science in Health Information Management, Summa Cum Laude, from Rasmussen College.

Kendra Seavey, MPH

Clinical Administrative Director,

care.coach

Kendra Seavey is the Clinical Administrative Director at care.coach. In her role, she is responsible for clinical and program development and customer deployment and relations across the East Coast. Kendra has 15+ years of experience working with older adults and most recently worked for a PACE Health program in Massachusetts. Her function included working with the clinical department leaders to integrate creative solutions to improve care and support for community dwelling older adults. She was the team lead in launching the care.coach avatar program for Element Care PACE in 2017 and was recognized by LeadingAge Massachusetts for the project. She also recently accepted an award, on behalf of care.coach, from Massachusetts Governor, Charlie Baker, for the work that care.coach is doing to address social isolation and loneliness. Kendra holds a bachelor’s degree in Recreation Therapy from Gordon College and a Master’s in Public Health from the University of New England.

Dirk Stanley, MD, MPH
Chief Medical Information Officer
UConn Health

Dirk Stanley, MD MPH is a Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO), workflow designer, blogger, board-certified clinical informaticist, and passionate patient safety advocate. He is one of the recipients of the 2010 New England HIMSS Physician of the Year award, and has earned recognition for engaging clinical staff in workflow design discussions, and his redesign of some high-risk clinical workflows. He currently serves as the CMIO at UConn Health in Farmington, CT.