*This is a drafted schedule and subject to change.

Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Innovation Spotlight: Northeast Valley Health Center and LANES: Revisioning Patient Care for Disadvantaged Communities

Senior leaders from Northeast Valley Health Center in Los Angeles and LANES (Los Angeles Network for Enhanced Services (LANES), a health information network, have been successful at reducing unnecessary ED and inpatient visits for diabetic and asthmatic patients, through a partnership that is modeling better data-sharing and optimized care management. Find out what they’ve learned on their journey into healthcare’s future.

Stephen Gutierrez, CIO, Northeast Valley Health Center
Jasmine Galindo, Director of Quality, Health Equity and Innovation, Northeast Valley Health Center
Diego Emestica, Chronic Disease Program Manager, Northeast Valley Health Center
Ali Zadeh, M.D., Chief Medical Officer, LANES
Cynthia Cooper, Clinical Implementation Manager, LANES

Clinical Transformation Spotlight : UC San Diego Health

Join Christopher Longhurst, M.D., Chief Medical Officer at UC San Diego Health, as he and other UCSD Health leaders share with the audience the intensive work they’ve been doing around clinical transformation of care delivery, the implementation of advanced clinical information systems, advances with artificial intelligence, and other key advances inside their health system.

Payer-Provider Collaboration: California’s Leading-Edge Initiative

Earlier this year, the leaders of Health Net joined with provider leaders at Dignity Health and Vivant Health, to lead an initiative to reduce unnecessary hospital inpatient days, through advanced care coordination, on behalf of higher-risk Medicaid members. Anshul Dixit, M.D., Supervisory Medical Director at Health Net, will share what’s being learned from that pioneering initiative, and the future of payer-provider collaboration around care management.

The Future of Health IT Development and Leadership: What’s Next

Trey Dye, Research Director at KLAS Research, will lead a panel of CIOs and other senior health IT leaders, to discuss the latest trends healthcare IT leadership and governance, and the ongoing evolution of healthcare IT in the current operational landscape in U.S. healthcare.

Federal Healthcare Policy Insight: Looking at the Road Ahead

Jeff Coughlin, Assistant Director, Federal Affairs, at the Washington, D.C.-based American Medical Association, will parse the current policy, payment, and regulatory landscape on the federal level, and how what’s happening right now in official Washington will impact the leaders of patient care organizations nationwide.

Cybersecurity: What We Know in This Fraught Moment

International cybersecurity expert Richard Staynings will lead a panel of cybersecurity leaders to discuss the most important cyber threats facing patient care organizations in the current cyber landscape.

Richard Staynings, Professor, University of Denver
 Deb Muro, CISO, El Camino Hospital
 Lucia Savage, Chief Privacy and Regulatory Officer, Omada Health
MK Palmore, Director, Office of the CISO, Google Cloud