Opening Keynote

Stephen J. Konya III

Senior Advisor to the Deputy National Coordinator for Health IT,  and Innovation Portfolio Lead, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC)

Stephen Konya serves as the Senior Advisor to the Deputy National Coordinator, and Innovation Portfolio Lead for the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). In addition to shaping the Agency’s long term strategy, he also serves as the primary liaison to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and the external healthcare startup and investor community.

Furthermore, Mr. Konya also leads the Digital Health Innovation Workgroup under the Federal Health IT Coordinating Council, an interagency collaboration community comprised of innovation representatives from 40 other federal agencies. In addition to currently serving as the primary Federal Govt lead and Co-Founder for CancerX, Mr. Konya has previously led several other key federal projects, including the HHS PandemicX Innovation Accelerator, the national Health IT Playbook, the ONC Patient Engagement Playbook for Providers, the SMART App Gallery, the FHIR at Scale Taskforce (FAST) Initiative, and is a founding Co-Chair of the Together.Health Collaborative.

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