At the heart of healthcare innovation lies the strategic integration of Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) into health insurance models. The presentation will explore the transformative potential of PETs in crafting new, dynamic insurance models that leverage qualitative, privacy-sensitive patient data. By focusing on the alignment of PETs with VBHC principles, we will uncover the pathways through which these technologies facilitate personalized, outcome-based patient care while ensuring data privacy and security. Attendees will gain insights into implementation, challenges overcome, and the possible impacts on both the quality of patient care and the sustainability of health insurance operations.
Gilles Burnier
Dr Michael Seavers
Dr. Michael Seavers is the Vice-Chair of the Harrisburg University Faculty, Department Chair and Program Lead, and Assistant Professor of Healthcare Informatics at Harrisburg University. Dr. Seavers has a varied background in IT, business, and healthcare spanning many decades. Dr. Seavers began as a programmer analyst at Shared Medical Systems and later at General Electric in their Aerospace Division. Dr. Seavers then worked in IT management in the pick-pack-and-ship industry being employed at companies like Book-of-the-Month Club (Time Warner) and Hanover Direct during the .COM expansion.
As the .COM industry went bust, Dr. Seavers moved to the healthcare industry. Dr. Seavers worked at Capital BlueCross for nearly two decades. The first decade was as a Senior Manager in the IT department and the second decade as the Senior Director of Claims and later the Senior Director of Enrollment and Billing. Dr. Seavers focus was automation of labor utilizing software robotics for healthcare.
After a varied career background and various formal degrees, Dr. Seavers is very pleased to be teaching at Harrisburg University.
Los Alamos National Laboratory's (LANL) has a diverse set of High Performance Computing codes. Analysis of many of these codes indicate they are heavily memory bound with sparse memory accesses. High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) has proven a significant advancement in improving the performance of these codes but the roadmap for major (step function) improvements in memory technologies is unclear. Addressing this challenge will require a renewed focus on high performance memory and processor technologies that take a more aggressive and holistic view of advancements in ISA, microarchitecture, and memory controller technologies. Beyond scientific simulations, advancements in performance of sparse memory accesses will benefit graph analysis, DLRM inference, and database workloads.
Galen Shipman
Galen Shipman is a computer scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). His interests include programming models, scalable runtime systems, and I/O. As Chief Architect he leads architecture and technology of Advanced Technology Systems (ATS) at LANL. He has led performance engineering across LANL’s multi-physics integrated codes and the advancement and integration of next-generation programming models such as the Legion programming system as part of LANL's next-generation code project, Ristra. His work in storage systems and I/O is currently focused on composable micro-services as part of the Mochi project. His prior work in scalable software for HPC include major contributions to broadly used technologies including the Lustre parallel file system and Open MPI.