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Our next Let’s Get Technical webinar/discussion will be the first of two deeper-dive conversations about Project Unify, which is our new proof-of-concept designed to advance interoperability between the Health and Human Services domains, each of which primarily uses a different standard (FHIR and NIEM, respectively). Specifically, the session this Friday will examine the work of two of our partner projects – Interoperability Land™ and HSLynk™ – for enabling interoperability between these two currently separate standards. The presenters for both our Feb. 7 and Feb. 14 sessions will include Dave Walsh, who heads Project Unify; Eric Jahn, Chief Technology Officer of HSLynk and co-lead of Project Unify; and Mary Kratz, Executive Vice President of Interoperability Institute. 

Interoperability Institute provides a cloud-hosted digital collaboration platform – called Interoperability Land – designed to power the future of multi-organization development, integration, acceptance and testing of innovative technologies and open standards. This simulation environment enables organizations to learn, build and test healthcare applications and services (with no risk of PHI disclosure) using highly realistic, clinically relevant, synthetic patient data. HSLynk is an open-source, API-driven platform for communication with third-party apps, person records matching, client consent enforcement, fine-grained access control, and external push notifications. HSLynk serves as the proxy model for non-clinical human services systems in the Project Unify proof-of-concept.  

• The NIC webinar/discussion on Feb. 7 will provide a detailed look at Interoperability Land, HSLynk and Project Unify as individual projects and how they will work together.
• The session on Feb. 14 will highlight technical aspects of the work, including cybersecurity topics such as identity and authentication, through a review of system architecture approaches.
• The goal is to enable the Project Unify trust network by utilizing the capabilities of Interoperability Land, HSLynk and other partners on this proof-of-concept, thereby creating a path for interoperability between the Health (FHIR) and Human  Services (NIEM) domains.

About the Presenters

Dave Walsh, Chair, MITA TAC

Dave Walsh brings over twenty years of innovation and leadership to the Medicaid and healthcare community. He has a comprehensive understanding of the complexities of healthcare, including the Medicaid and CHIP programs. He is a highly regarded healthcare consultant in leading various organizations with his vast knowledge and numerous entrepreneurial successes in the field. Dave believes in the value of collaboration and technology in addressing the challenges facing the Medicaid community. He continues to be an active participant in the community, including serving on board of the Private Sector Technology Group (PSTG) for many years and also the NMEH API industry group. In an effort to promote MITA principles, Dave co-founded and co-chairs the MITA Technical Architecture Committee (MITA-TAC). He has also developed a number of technical solutions in the public sector for many states. Currently, he is leading an effort in developing a cloud-based framework upon which the interoperable Medicaid modules will be defined and built going forward.  

Eric Jahn, CTO, HSLynk

Eric has been working to enable human services web interoperability since 2002, participating in the development of numerous human services web data standards. Moreover, open source implementation of these standards continues to be a primary focus of his work, to create sustainable, transparent, and maintainable resources for communities to better serve the public. hslynk.com is his latest effort: an open source human services Platform as a Service, for powering a marketplace of real-time human services apps. Eric received a Masters in Public Administration from The Mark Hatfield School of Government in Portland, Oregon, and a BA from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

Mary E. Kratz, Executive Vice President, Interoperability Institute

Mary Kratz is the Executive Vice President of the Interoperability Institute, an affiliate organization of the Michigan Health Information Network. Mary is a leader in the field of biomedical informatics, working at the intersection of interoperability, telemedicine and business development. Previously, as a senior Health Informatics Advisor to the US Department of State, Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator and Health Diplomacy, Department of Defense HIV/AIDS Prevention Program, Mary implemented health information systems in over 40 countries. She has also worked with the World Health Organization, International Telecommunication Union, United States Agency for International Development, Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention, National Institutes of Health, and National Academies of Science Institute of Medicine on enabling interoperability across a variety of public and private organizational missions. 

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