Overview

July 29

The pandemic was a jumpstart into digital transformation for many health and human services and public health agencies. New capabilities and tools emerged, including cloud-based solutions that agencies could rapidly implement. In some cases, agencies had access to near real-time data, giving them the ability to act quickly as situations changed.

How do we keep the momentum around modernization going, become more resilient and mitigate the risk of undergoing such an intense response to a public health crisis again?

Join Government Technology on July 29 at 10 a.m. Pacific/1 p.m. Eastern for a 30-minute webinar to discuss the art of the future and possibilities when it comes to modernizing IT in public health. We’ll be joined by executives from Salesforce, including Karen Hay, former director of public health I&IT solutions at the Ontario Ministry of Health, who led Ontario’s pandemic technology response through COVID.

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Speakers

Sean Kennedy

Vice President, Health & Life Sciences, Salesforce

As GM/VP of the Global Public Sector Health vertical at Salesforce, Sean brings market-leading public health, healthcare, and biomedical research solutions to market. He also serves as the VP of Interoperability for Healthcare and Life Sciences where he promotes internal alignment to prevailing standards and emerging approaches to sharing data.

Rod Bremby

Vice President, Global Public Sector, Salesforce

Rod Bremby is the Health and Human Services Industry Executive in the Global Public Sector Digital Transformation Team. Rod has more than 30 years of state and local government senior leadership and policy experience. Prior to coming to Salesforce last year, he spent the previous 16 years serving as a Cabinet member for 4 governors while leading two large state agencies. As Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Social Services, he led a successful Medicaid transformation and modernization of enterprise technology and business processes. He previously served as Secretary of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. Prior to state service, Rod was the Assistant City Manager (COO) of Lawrence, Kansas for 10 years.

Karen Hay

Digital Transformation Leader, Global Public Sector, Salesforce

Karen Hay has 20 years of public health experience; prior to joining Salesforce in 2022, she was the Director of Public Health I&IT Solutions at the Ontario Ministry of Health, supporting such provincial digital health assets as the immunization repository and communicable disease case management systems. Her experiences as a newly-minted infectious disease epidemiologist responding to the 2003 SARS outbreak led her down the path of building technology solutions to support public health practice—experiences that were invaluable as she led Ontario’s pandemic technology response through COVID-19.

Jennifer Kent — Moderator

Senior Fellow, Center for Digital Government

Jennifer Kent has more than fifteen years of extensive health administration and policy experience in California that spans over three gubernatorial administrations and encompasses both private and public delivery systems. As Director, Kent oversaw the second largest public healthcare system in the nation with an annual budget of over $100B and serving approximately 13 million Californians. She oversaw the administration of twenty-four managed care plans as well as 56 county behavioral health plans. Kent has also held leadership roles in the Health & Human Services Agency and Governor’s offices as well as experience in the private sector as a lobbyist, consultant and association executive.

Webinar

Reimagining the Art of the Possible in Health IT