As the incredible work of the Office of the National Coordinator’s (ONC) national Beacon Community Program wraps up this fall, Janhavi Kirtane from the ONC, and representatives from Beacon communities around the country tshare their lessons learned and how their achievements will shape future directions and community collaborations. The presentation also provides an overview of their new learning guide that distills the experiences and lessons learned from Beacon Communities, such as goal-setting, community engagement, technology investments, and quality measurement.
Director for the Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery - Project Management Office, Mayo Clinic
Lacey A. Hart, MBA, PMP® Mayo Clinic; Director for the Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery - Project Mangemement Office. Ms. Hart is a Project Management Institute certified project manager with a Masters in Business Administration. She directs a large portfolio of research programs including the HHS/Office of the National Coordinator for Healthcare IT (ONC) Strategic health IT Advanced Research Projects (SHARP) on Secondary EHR Data Use and the Beacon grant for Southeast Minnesota in addition to a CMMI Health Care Innovation Award, the NIH/NHGRI (eMERGE) and National Cancer Institute (NCI) caBIG projects.
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Director of Policy and Business Development, HealthBridge
Trudi Matthews is Director of Policy and Business Development with HealthBridge in Cincinnati, Ohio. HealthBridge is a not-for-profit corporation that supports health information technology (HIT) adoption, health information exchange (HIE), and innovative use of information for improved health care outcomes. For well over a decade, HealthBridge has been recognized as one of the nation’s largest, most advanced, and most financially sustainable health information exchanges (HIE). read more
Acting Director for the Beacon Community Program, Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT
Janhavi M. Kirtane Fritz, MBA, is the Acting Director for the Beacon Community Program at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT in the Department of Health and Human Services. She provides over all leadership for the program and supports execution, innovation and learning collaborative efforts related to clinical interventions. read more
