Microsoft Healthcare Cloud Interoperability Roundtable

Leap Orbit founders, Mrinal Bhasker and David Finney, are joined by Clifford Goldsmith, Chief Medical Officer and Kathleen McGrow, Chief Nursing Information Officer, #Microsoft for our next Interoperability Roundtable! We're looking forward to an open discussion covering the latest in healthcare interoperability, including:  


-What are the top three data interoperability/exchange challenges facing Microsoft's healthcare customers? 
How is Microsoft helping customers tackle them? 
What's Microsoft Healthcare Cloud and what can it do for healthcare institutions? 
What's your five-year vision for what amazing use cases true healthcare interoperability and open data exchange will enable? 
What is Microsoft doing to empower healthcare innovators? 
What's new and exciting in the FHIR standards world?  

Clifford Goldsmith brings a unique experience to Microsoft as a physician who also has over 33 years of know-how envisioning, designing, developing, and selling high-performance solutions for the healthcare industry. He has been with Microsoft’s Health and Life Science team for more than 20 years. In his current role of US Chief Medical Officer, he designs and executes Microsoft’s strategy for the US Healthcare Provider Industry. Dr. Goldsmith has focused on numerous areas of healthcare information technology including value-based payment models, AI and ML for Health, rare diseases, clinical trials, medical devices and embedded systems, clinical process improvement and patient engagement. He has also served as Chief Medical Officer of Aptima Corporation, where he led a team in transitioning well-tested concepts on human-centered engineering from aviation and the military into healthcare. Prior to joining Microsoft in 1998, Dr. Goldsmith worked for Harvard University’s Department of Medicine and the Center for Clinical Computing, developing and managing various aspects of IT for both Beth Israel and Brigham and Women’s Hospitals. During this appointment, he pioneered full, remote access electrocardiograph (ECG) integration with the EHR. He founded and managed LINK Medical which delivered a commercial product that integrated ECGs and other waveform diagnostics into the EHR. He joined the HL7 (Health Level 7) Committee in its early years and collaborated on both the Order Entry and Results Reporting standards. He is also a long-standing member of HIMSS. Dr. Goldsmith received a B.S. and a MBBCh (MD) from the University of Witwatersrand, Johnannesburg, South Africa.  

Kathleen McGrow serves as Chief Nursing Information Officer for the Microsoft Health & Life Science Industry Team. In this role, Dr. McGrow advises organizations on how the innovative use of technology can support their digital transformation imperatives of consumer engagement, provider enablement, analytics for population health and cognitive computing to support a learning health system. Her expertise in data, analytics and artificial intelligence is used to educate organizations on how to enhance clinical, operational, and financial performance, maximize capacity and patient experience, and transform to new care models and paradigms. Dr. McGrow has led, planned, and directed programs and strategic initiatives for organizations including implementation of an evidence framework for best practices. She most recently has published two articles about Artificial Intelligence. Artificial Intelligence: Essentials for Nursing and Transforming Clinical Data into Wisdom: Artificial Intelligence Implications for Nurse Leaders. Both written to engage strategic thinking about current and future use of AI for clinical use cases and improve patient outcomes.