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Kickoff

Adam Heller and Roni Garland Brandy Barnette (CMS) welcome welcomes attendees and speak speaks to the significance of Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (AI) for ISG 

and CCSQ. 

A Gold Mining Adventure – Using Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning to find Gold in Unstructured Data 

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Chris Schilstra, Innovation Program Manager at Tantus Technologies, explains how Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning (ML) can

help minimize text interpretation bias.   

Catch Me if You Can – How to Fight Fraud, Waste and Abuse using Machine Learning AND Machine TEACHING (by human)

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Cupid Chan, Chairperson BI & AI, Board of Directors, and Technical Steering Committee at Linux Foundation ODPi, emphasizes the importance of

Machine Teaching, and discusses how we can use AI to help us identify and prevent one of the biggest costs for Insurance, Finance, and Healthcare

industries: Fraud, Waste, and Abuse.

World Usability Day 2020 Playlist

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The AI-inspired playlist provides entertainment during breaks.

How Humans Make AI Work

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Ian Lowrie, Lead User Experience Researcher at Ad Hoc LLC and Hospital Quality Reporting, and Stephanie Warren, UX Content Strategist at

Bellese Technologies and Hospital Quality Reporting, provide practical guidance for UX professionals working with artificially intelligent systems

this year's theme, Our Health, for ISG and CCSQ.

A User-Driven Perspective on the Healthcare Experience  

Marty Gage, VP of Design Research at Lextant, outlines how patients define the ideal healthcare experience, and how to focus on a user-driven definition of healthcare usability.

(S)hameful, (D)epressed, (H)opeless – Did someone just say SDH?

Cupid Chan, CEO of Pistevo Decision, details how a Human-Centered Design (HCD) approach can help Health Equity and Social Determinant of Health (SDH).

An Ounce of Prevention: How Predictable Disasters Redefine Quality Healthcare

Elizabeth Goodman, Vice President of Design & Strategy with A1M Solutions, and Kristine Nixon, Founder & CEO of A1M Solutions, overview how predictable disasters redefine quality health care. 

Lessons from the Medical World: Osteopathic Medicine and Human-Centered Design

Tyler Cymet, D.O., Provost and Vice President of the proposed Maryland College of Osteopathic Medicine at Morgan State University, and Francisco Ward, D.O., Chief of the Division of Occupational Physical and Rehabilitative Medicine at Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital, explore the connection between the body and the creation of tools that make life easier.

Digital Public Health at the Scale of Government: Little Nudges Result in Big Usability Ripples for the Public

Mathias Rechtzigel, Design Technologist and Educator with Digital Service at CMS, is joined by his team members Aayat Ali, User Experience Designer at Digital Service at CMS, and Melissa Eggleston, User Experience Researcher and Educator at Digital Service at CMS, for a panel discussion on their work related to cross-agency Behavioral Health initiatives within CMS.   

Plain Talk: Do People Get What We're Saying?

Rick Allen, Principal Content Designer at Coforma, discusses how to effectively communicate health information to diverse audiences using plain language. 

KindnessRX: A Novel Community Gratitude-Based Approach to Increasing COVID-19 Vaccination Rates and Improving Culture

Crystal Morse, Senior Account Manager with Mountain-Pacific Quality Health, explains how the KindnessRX campaign generated a positive culture change and increased COVID-19 vaccination rates.

Continual User Participation in Human-Centered Research and Design

Shelagh Cully, Senior User Experience Designer with Ventera, and Mana Hayashi Tang and Hyorim Park, Senior User Experience Researchers with Ventera, present a case study on two custom designed and developed CMS products. 

Zero Trust 101

Karlene Stecchi, Executive Vice President of Tantus Technologies, explores Zero Trust compliance and its potential implications for customer experience in health care settings.  

World Usability Day 2022 Playlist

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Giveaways

The wheel of names is spun and the winner of a Custom Zoom Virtual Background is announced.

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Keith McFarland, SVP and Chief Innovations Officer at eSimpilcity LLC, moderates a panel discussion on the inherent data/feature engineering

challenges with Medicaid and Medicare data, and the necessity of human involvement and participation with ML to ensure trustworthiness,

reliability, and safety. Panelists include Bin Shao, Ph.D., Lead AI Scientist and Architect at eSimplicity, Steve Geller, VP Digital Services at eSimplicity,

Combiz Abdolrahimi, Senior Advisor at U.S. Federal Identity Forum (FedID), Darryl Marshall, Director of Consulting at eSimplicity, and Harlan

Krumholz, MD, SM, Director of the Yale New Haven Hospital Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, and the Harold H. Hines, Jr. Professor

of Medicine at Yale University. 

Intermission Activities

Attendees learn more about HCD by watching Satisfy the Cat, have fun with AI with Akinator, and participate in virtual networking during the

intermission.

Attendees have fun with AI by playing an online game, Akinator, during the intermission.

Federated Learning to Collect Mobile Patient-Reported Outcomes

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Dr. Rachele Hendricks-Sturrup, Health Policy Counsel at The Future of Privacy Forum, and Dr. Sara Jordan, Policy Counsel, Artificial Intelligence at

The Future of Privacy Forum, discuss the challenges of ensuring patient privacy in federated learning architectures.

Updates

Live Slack post and a countdown timer provide reminders on what's coming up next.

Using Human-Centered Machine-Learning (HCML) to Improve Data Quality & Data Governance Projects

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Edward F. O'Connor, Director – Solutions Architecture, Health Division at ManTech, walks attendees through the process of combining

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Wrapping Things Up 

Stephanie Ray (CMS) closes out the day by thanking the speakers and attendees.