Agenda

Our Conference Agenda

Look for information about our 2025 conference, including a call for speaker proposals, coming soon!

Below please find a sample of the 2024 DirectTrust Conference agenda, full of sessions focused around “The Future of Trust in Health”.

We have partnered with the Midwest Gateway Chapter of HIMSS to offer HIMSS Continuing Education (CE) credit for this conference.

This program is provisionally approved for CE hours for any HIMSS credential holder for use in fulfilling the continuing education requirements of the Certified Professional in Digital Health Transformation Strategy (CPDHTS®️), the Certified Professional in Healthcare Information & Management Systems (CPHIMS®️), and the Certified Associate in Healthcare Information & Management Systems (CAHIMS®️).

Other professional organizations may accept these sessions for their own Continuing Education credit as well.

The 2024 Agenda

2024 Keynote Speakers

Micky Tripathi, Ph.D., M.P.P.

Micky Tripathi is the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, and Acting Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, where he leads the formulation of HHS technology and data strategy and coordinates technology policies, standards, programs, and investments.

Dr. Tripathi has over 20 years of experience across the health IT landscape. Prior to joining the federal government he served as Chief Alliance Officer for Arcadia, a health care data and software company focused on population health management and value-based care, the project manager of the Argonaut Project, an industry collaboration to accelerate the adoption of FHIR, and a board member of HL7, the Sequoia Project, the CommonWell Health Alliance, and the CARIN Alliance.

Susannah Fox

Susannah Fox is a health and technology strategist whose life’s work has been to explore and map the terrain created by patients, survivors, and caregivers. She passionately believes that open access to information, data, and tools can help patients make better decisions and catalyze health care innovation. Her recent book, Rebel Health: A Field Guide to the Patient-Led Revolution in Medical Care (MIT Press, 2024), showcases how consumers are building up our collective capacity for better health and how the healthcare ecosystem can leverage the power of connection with those they serve.

Susannah is a former Chief Technology Officer for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services during the Obama Administration, where she led an open data and innovation lab and launched Invent Health, an initiative focused on user-driven innovation for medical and assistive devices. As an entrepreneur-in-residence at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation she built project teams to bring patient and caregiver insights into work of the nation’s largest philanthropy dedicated solely to health. Her research has been featured in publications ranging from Pediatrics and the Journal of the American Medical Association to the New York Times and Harvard Business Review.

Greg Garcia

Greg Garcia is the Executive Director of the Health Sector Coordinating Council Cybersecurity Working Group, the government-recognized critical infrastructure industry advisory council of more than 400 healthcare providers, pharmaceutical and medtech companies, payers and health IT entities partnering with government to identify and mitigate cyber threats to health data and research, systems, manufacturing and patient care.

Greg was appointed by President George W. Bush as the nation’s first Assistant Secretary for Cybersecurity and Communications for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Throughout his 32-year career in national service he has influenced and implemented change at the intersection of business, public policy and national security, including executive positions in healthcare, financial services, high technology and the United States Congress.