News Details

Contact

Rachel Darwin, Senior Manager, Public Relations

[email protected], 267-622-6624

Are We Ready for the Moonshot?

NCCN Policy Summit to Address the State of HIT on June 27 in Washington, D.C.

FORT WASHINGTON, PA — White House Cancer Task Force Executive Director Gregory Simon will join a broad array of stakeholders at the National Comprehensive Cancer Network^® (NCCN^®) Policy Summit: Emerging Issues and Opportunities in Health Information Technology to address the state of health information technology (HIT), including the role and readiness of HIT systems in implementing the National Cancer Moonshot Initiative. The summit will take place at The National Press Club in Washington, D.C. on Monday, June 27, 2016, from 8:30 AM – 3:30 PM. For press credentials, contact NCCN Communications Manager Katie Kiley Brown at [email protected].

Clinical cancer care, related quality initiatives, and emerging coverage models for care continue to evolve; how ready is Health Information Technology (HIT) to support this shifting landscape and other advances, such as personalized medicine? Of issue include a lack of interoperability between systems, varying complexities of systems, and issues of proprietary interest limit the understanding and exchange of information across systems and stakeholders. Panelists will discuss these issues, their role in the cancer care continuum, how they interact with HIT systems, and ultimately how they are developing solutions necessary to move beyond meaningful to make gains in precision medicine and quality care.

This policy summit will gather the many stakeholders—clinicians, government and regulatory organizations, patient advocacy groups, pharma-biotech companies, providers, and HIT companies and vendors—who are crucial to understand the challenges and opportunities in utilizing HIT to improve cancer care.

Clifford Goodman, PhD, of The Lewin Group will moderate the summit, which will consist of short presentations followed by roundtable discussions with lively discourse and ample time for audience questions. An abbreviated agenda is below.

As developers of widely used NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology (NCCN Guidelines^®) that set standards for cancer treatment in the United States and abroad, NCCN is invested in supporting the provision of high-quality, value-based cancer care. In addition to hosting this timely conversation about the emerging role of HIT, NCCN is committed to digitizing its products and ensuring their functionality across multiple HIT systems so that patients with cancer have access to appropriate care.

Agendaⁱ:

Welcome and Introductions
Robert W. Carlson, MD
Chief Executive Officer
National Comprehensive Cancer Network

Moving Beyond Meaningful Use
Alexandra Mugge, MPH 
Deputy Director, Division of Health Information Technology
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services 

Panel Discussion - HIT: Readiness to Support Alternative Payment Models and Reporting 
for Precision Medicine and Quality Care

Panelists

• Amy Abernethy, MD, PhD
  Flatiron Health
• Jonathan Hirsch
  Syapse
• Michael Kolodziej, MD
  Aetna, Inc.
• Mia Levy, MD, PhD
  Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center
• Alexandra Mugge, MPH 
  Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services 
• Marcus Neubauer, MD
  McKesson Specialty Health
• Allen Roeseler
  NantHealth
• Bret Shillingstad, MD
  Epic Systems Corporation

Moonshot Initiative
Gregory C. Simon
Executive Director
White House Cancer Task Force

Panel Discussion – Moonshot Initiative & The Role of HIT

Panelists

• Anthony Coletta, MD, MBA
  Independence Blue Cross
• Mia Levy, MD, PhD
  Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center
• Edith Mitchell, MD
  Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson
• Michael Pellini, MD
  Foundation Medicine
• Allen Roeseler
  NantHealth
• Gregory C. Simon 
  White House Cancer Task Force

Leveraging HIT to Improve Quality of Clinical Care 
Lincoln Nadauld, MD, PhD
Medical Director of Cancer Genomics 
Intermountain Healthcare 

Panel Discussion – Issues, Opportunities, and Patient Impact

Panelists

• Amy Abernethy, MD, PhD
  Flatiron Health
• Stephen Edge, MD
  Roswell Park Cancer Institute
• Joanne Buzaglo, PhD
  Cancer Support Community
• Thomas Farrington 
  Prostate Health Education Network, Inc.  
• Lincoln Nadauld, MD, PhD
  Intermountain Healthcare
• Michael Pellini, MD
  Foundation Medicine
• Kyu Rhee, MD
  IBM Corporation

Wrap-Up and Conclusions

For more information about the NCCN Oncology Policy Program and to register for the event, visit NCCN.org/policy.

ⁱAgenda subject to change.

###