Modernizing the Health Data Ecosystem

Thu, 05/18/2023

The health industry came together at the annual HIMSS conference in Chicago April 17-21 to showcase exciting developments in the realm of data interoperability. Our federal spotlight at the conference saw key discussions in these areas, including more insights on CDC’s latest organizational overhaul, federal electronic health records modernization, data security solutions and more about the vision for public health.

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Featuring

Ryan Argentieri Deputy Director, Office of Technology, ONC
Ryan Argentieri
- Deputy Director, Office of Technology
- ONC
Dylan George Director of Operations, Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics, CDC
Dylan George
- Director of Operations
- Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics, CDC
Dr. Jennifer Layden Acting Director, Office of Public Health Data, Surveillance, and Technology, CDC
Dr. Jennifer Layden
- Acting Director, Office of Public Health Data, Surveillance, and Technology
- CDC
Jennifer Layden, MD, PhD is the Director for the Office of Public Health Data, Surveillance, and Technology. In this position, she is responsible for leading, coordinating, and executing a comprehensive public health data strategy and improving the availability and use of public health data to inform decision-making and action. A primary focus of Dr. Layden’s role is to provide leadership for CDC’s Data Modernization Initiative and serve as an advisor to the CDC Director.

Prior to this position, she served as Deputy Director in CDC’s Office of Science (OS), where she provided strategic leadership in the release of the expanded COVID public use dataset and led strategic efforts to expand and support open data efforts across the agency. She also established and led the strategic science unit within the COVID-19 Response and served as co-lead for the Vaccine Task Force on the response. Dr. Layden is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including CDC’s Charles C. Shepard Science Award.

Before coming to CDC, Dr. Layden served as the Deputy Commissioner and Chief Medical Officer for the Chicago Department of Public Health and as the State Epidemiologist and Chief Medical Officer for the Illinois Department of Public Health. Dr. Layden played key roles in public health responses to COVID-19, EVALI, Hepatitis A, and synthetic cannabinoid contamination at the state and local level. While at the Chicago Department of Public Health, she helped establish the agency’s first cloud-based data hub to improve electronic health record data reporting and provided strategic vision in developing the agency’s first advanced molecular detection lab through an academic-health department partnership. Additionally, she served on CSTE task forces during both the COVID-19 and EVALI responses, and she has presented at both national and international conferences.

In 2005, Dr. Layden received both her MD and her doctorate in epidemiology from the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she also completed her internal medicine and infectious disease clinical training. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Notre Dame. Prior to transitioning to public health, Dr. Layden held faculty positions at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Loyola University Chicago. During that time, she conducted numerous studies on Hepatitis C virus disease progression, burden, and treatment response, as well as population-based studies of HCV burden in West Africa. Dr. Layden has authored more than 70 scientific publications.
Tom Mason Chief Medical Officer, ONC, ONC
Tom Mason
- Chief Medical Officer, ONC
- ONC
Elisabeth Meyers Deputy Director, Office of Policy, ONC
Elisabeth Meyers
- Deputy Director, Office of Policy
- ONC
As deputy director of the Office of Policy at ONC, Ms. Myers is focused on leading teams implementing the 21st Century Cures Act health IT provisions on interoperability for patient access, information blocking, and health IT for specialty settings and sites of service. She also leads the policy team working on the health IT provisions of the SUPPORT Act of December 2018 which established initiatives for Opioid Use Disorder prevention and treatment. Her portfolio includes supporting health IT policy for HHS partner initiatives including CMS, CDC, SAMHSA and HRSA as well as state health IT infrastructure initiatives.
Travis Rosiek Public Sector CTO, Rubrik
Travis Rosiek
- Public Sector CTO
- Rubrik
Travis Rosiek is a highly accomplished cyber security executive with more than 20 years in the industry. He has built and grown cybersecurity companies and led large cybersecurity programs within the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). His experience spans driving innovation as a cybersecurity leader for global organizations and CISOs to corporate executive building products and services. His impact has helped lead to successful IPOs (FireEye) and acquisitions (BluVector by Comcast). As a Cyber Leader in the U.S. DoD, he has been awarded the Annual Individual Award for Defending the DoD’s Networks.

Travis currently serves as the Public Sector CTO at Rubrik helping organizations become more cyber and data resilient. Prior to Rubrik, Travis held several leadership roles including the Chief Technology and Strategy Officer at BluVector, CTO at Tychon, Federal CTO at FireEye, a Principal at Intel Security/McAfee and Leader at the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). He earned a Certificate from GWU in Executive Leadership and graduated from West Virginia University with Honors while earning multiple Engineering Degrees. He also was one of the first of ten students from across the nation to be awarded a scholarship from the DoD/NSA’s in cybersecurity. His pioneering mindset has helped him better secure our nation and commercial critical infrastructure.

Additionally, Travis is an invited speaker, author (blogs, journals, books) and has also served on the NSTAC, ICIT Fellow, and multiple advisory boards.
Dr. Anne Zink Chief Medical Officer, Alaska Department of Health
Dr. Anne Zink
- Chief Medical Officer
- Alaska Department of Health