Agenda

The Allure and Peril of a Healthcare AI Sidekick
Peter Loforte

Market Innovations in Trust & Data Exchange

Trust by Design: How Health Literacy Makes AI in Healthcare Work
Karen Komondor 

Chief AI Officers on Innovation

Data privacy and artificial intelligence are critical issues facing healthcare right now. This panel of chief AI officers will discuss the state of the industry, how they’re addressing these challenges, and how they are innovating with AI.

Moderator: J. Marc Overhage, Founder & Principal, The Overhage Group

Speakers: 

Daniel Vreeman, Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer, HL7 International

Micky Tripathi, PhD, Chief Artificial Intelligence Implementation Officer, Mayo Clinic

Michael J. Pencina, PhD, Senior Vice President, Chief AI Scientist, UnitedHealth Group

Resilient Systems, Trusted Care: The Future of Healthcare Cybersecurity

Who do you trust with your health data? In today’s high-stakes cybersecurity landscape, trust can be built—or broken—in an instant. Join one of the nation’s top cybersecurity attorneys as they sit down with a nationally recognized healthcare cybersecurity leader for an unfiltered conversation on what really drives confidence in the system. This isn’t about check-the-box compliance. It’s about the policies, partnerships, and oversight that separate resilience from risk. Walk away with insider insights on how trust is won, why it’s lost, and what it takes to keep patients—and providers—safe in an increasingly complex digital world.

Speakers:
Erik Decker, VP & Chief Information Security Officer, Intermountain Health;
Rita Heimes, Senior Counsel, Cybersecurity & Privacy, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld

Speaker:
Amy Gleason, Acting Administrator, US DOGE Service and Strategic Advisor, US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

The Intersection of AI and Privacy Policy at the Federal Level

In an intimate conversation, key regulators at the US Department of Health & Human Services who are working on policies to advance data interoperability will address how trust plays a role in the federal government’s efforts to support innovation while protecting patient privacy.

Moderator:

Nicholas Uehlecke, Principal, Todd Strategy Group

Speakers:

Amy Gleason, Acting Administrator, US DOGE Service and Strategic Advisor, US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Thomas Keane, MD, Second Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy, Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT

Trust Talk: It Takes Trust to Tango: Preserving Privacy, Trust, and Patient Autonomy in a Digital Health Ecosystem

Today’s patients have the right to get and share copies of their own health data and even use AI to understand the information if they want. This right is part of HIPAA’s 25-year-old trust framework that patients recognize as baseline privacy and security protections for their health information, even if not always well-understood. And because HIPAA imposes responsibilities on the healthcare entities, the burden of managing privacy and security does not fall to the individual. When patients migrate their health data out of traditional healthcare settings, they might expect that their health data will be treated with the same privacy and trust? Will patients be unaware of how others might use their data, for what purposes, with what privacy protection? How will broadening the use and reach of patient-directed exchange risk ripping HIPAA’s core trust fabric? Two people who trust each other enough to have passionate but different views on these topics discuss those differences in an intimate conversation, almost as if you were sitting at their dinner table with them—and yes, they’ve been married for 35 years.

Speakers:
Lucia Savage, Chief Privacy & Regulatory Officer at Omada Health;
Mark Savage, Managing Director, Digital Health Strategy & Policy, Savage & Savage LLC

As the industry seeks to promote legislation and regulation to foster innovation while protecting healthcare data privacy, how exactly is that accomplished? Get an inside view from former Hill staff on how they worked with committees and individual members of Congress to educate on issues surrounding health IT, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and interoperability to advance data access, privacy, and trust.

Moderator:

Aliza Silver, Senior Director, Healthcare Policy and Government Affairs, Oracle

Speakers:

Jordan Lacrosse, Partner, Avenue Solutions

Brett Baker, Partner, The Nickles Group

Where Artificial Intelligence and Regulation Meet

Moore’ s Law posits that computing power increases exponentially over time—a proxy for innovation. But drug development, in terms of efficiency, is following “Eroom’s Law” (“Moore’s” spelled backward)—in other words, declining precipitously. In an exploration of how AI can help us streamline drug discovery, Dr. Fakhouri will address the data access and trust issues that arise, and how privacy and transparency can be maintained.

Speaker:
Tala Fakhouri, PhD, MPH, AI & Digital Policy, Real-World Research, Vice President Consulting, Parexel

Navigating State Trends: Making Sense of Data Privacy and AI Legislation

Ensuring compliance with regulatory and legislative efforts by individual states can feel chaotic and overwhelming. One approach that may be helpful in making sense of the chaos is identifying themes in state legislatures and creating linkages to the issues that matter to your organization. This expert panel will cut through the noise by discussing what we saw in state legislatures last year on data privacy and AI laws, how the themes are recurring this year, and the problems this poses.

Moderator: David Stauss, Partner, Troutman Pepper Locke

Speakers:

Alya Sulaiman, Chief Compliance & Privacy Officer, Datavant

Frank Meyers, Director, Regulatory Innovation & Member Services, Federation of State Medical Boards

Nabil Mai, Specialist, Technology Policy & State Legislative Affairs, Consumer Technology Association

Learn about the recently released Guidance on Responsible Use of AI in Healthcare issued by the Joint Commission and the Coalition for Health AI. Hear from speakers some likely scenarios on how this new guidance will be applied and implemented in hospitals and health systems; and how all stakeholders will benefit from increased clarity around the use of AI.

Moderator: Jodi Daniel, Partner, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Speakers: Jennifer Holloman, Director of Policy, American Hospital Association

Kathryn Spates, Executive Vice President for Public Policy & Government Relations, Joint Commission

Representatives from graphic facilitation firm The Grove and our sponsor organizations will review the agenda and process for Wednesday’s collaborative work session.