Larry Garber, MD, Internist and Medical Director, Informatics, Reliant Medical Group (formerly Fallon Clinic)

Larry, who has decades of experience in medical informatics, is chair of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative’s Executive Committee, a member of the Massachusetts State Health Information Technology Council and a member of ONC Policy Committee’s Health Information Exchange Workgroup and Privacy & Security Tiger Team. He has been principal investigator on $3.5-million AHRQ and HHS/ONC grants to develop innovative health information exchanges.

Larry co-chairs the ONC S&I Framework Longitudinal Coordination of Care Workgroup, which used an evidence-based approach to update the HL7 Consolidated CDA to better meet the needs of care transitions and planning.

He received the 2010 eHealth Initiative eHealth Advocate Award and the 2011 Health Data Management EHR Game Changer Award. He is also an ONC Health IT Vanguard Fellow, and led the HIMSS 2011 Davies Award-winning implementation of Reliant’s HIMSS stage 7 EHR system.

Presentation Topic: Big Data driving change in Healthcare: Saving Lives, Saving Money HIMSS Stage 7 Organization

The United States healthcare system is in the process of migrating from a Fee-For-Service payment model to a Value-Based Reimbursement model.  Learn how Atrius Health, a 1000-physician multispecialty group practice and Accountable Care Organization in Massachusetts, has used an electronic health record, patient-engagement and home monitoring tools, health information exchange, clinical decision support, and robust big-data analytics and reporting tools to improve the quality, safety and efficiency of healthcare while reducing costs.  Follow Atrius Health’s strategies and you too can thrive in any reimbursement model.

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