Where Healthcare Policy Is Headed | • The Heart of Healthcare | We want guardrails so that Al can flourish where it's safe, it's efficacious, it's reasonable, it's necessary. Spotify

💥90% of U.S. healthcare remains fee-for-service even after TWO DECADES of reform.

What’s one to do?

🎙️Listen in to Chris Klomp’s superb insights here. 👇🏽

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Where Healthcare Policy Is Headed | Chief Counselor at HHS, Chris Klomp Spotify video

🎙️“Deregulation in #AI is NOT about removing all regulations, it’s about guardrails.”

Chris Klomp is the silver lining in this administration around #healthcare. Listen in to his passionate views on #healthpolicy!

#HDPalooza @academyhealth.bsky.social

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This just in: Kat McDavitt and @andrewmibrahim.bsky.social are officially our co-chairs for the 2026 #hdpalooza! Save the date: Sep 24-25 in DC. More info coming soon: buff.ly/RCe4NqD

Me, wearing a button I got made that says: Data Are Sexy. In Washington DC.

“Data are sexy”

This is both factually, AND grammatically correct.

At Health Datapalooza 2025.

#HDPalooza @academyhealth.bsky.social #healthdata #healthpolicy #pinksocks

Closing Plenary: Where Do We Go From Here? Unpacking a Day at Health Datapalooza and Major Changes for Health Data and and Award Presentation: Transforming Cancer Navigation with Open Data & APIs Challenge Location : Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, Atrium Hall Date : Friday, Sep 5 4:30 PM Duration : 45 minutes In this closing session, Aneesh Chopra will reflect on a day of learnings at Health Datapalooza as well as the recent major announcements about CMS’ Health Tech Ecosystem initiative and the Living Open Health Data plan. He will connect dots on the trajectory of the open data movement, revisit the “power formula” for delivery transformation, and engage with developers to discuss how we can build and govern an open data-fueled ethical and effective health care system that improves the health and well-being for all. Prior to his remarks, Mr. Chopra will present the "Transforming Cancer Navigation with Open Data & APIs Challenge" Award to the first place winner, Vladislav Bellous, for his Heal & Hope software. Show Less Speakers Speakers Aneesh Chopra Arcadia Speakers Vladislav Bellous Heal and Hope Speakers Kristen Valdes b.well Connected Health Speakers Ron Urwongse Defacto Health Speakers Ryan Bramble CRISP Shared Services

Closing Plenary: Where Do We Go From Here? Unpacking a Day at Health Datapalooza and Major Changes for Health Data and and Award Presentation: Transforming Cancer Navigation with Open Data & APIs Challenge Location : Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, Atrium Hall Date : Friday, Sep 5 4:30 PM Duration : 45 minutes In this closing session, Aneesh Chopra will reflect on a day of learnings at Health Datapalooza as well as the recent major announcements about CMS’ Health Tech Ecosystem initiative and the Living Open Health Data plan. He will connect dots on the trajectory of the open data movement, revisit the “power formula” for delivery transformation, and engage with developers to discuss how we can build and govern an open data-fueled ethical and effective health care system that improves the health and well-being for all. Prior to his remarks, Mr. Chopra will present the "Transforming Cancer Navigation with Open Data & APIs Challenge" Award to the first place winner, Vladislav Bellous, for his Heal & Hope software. Show Less Speakers Speakers Aneesh Chopra Arcadia Speakers Vladislav Bellous Heal and Hope Speakers Kristen Valdes b.well Connected Health Speakers Ron Urwongse Defacto Health Speakers Ryan Bramble CRISP Shared Services

Closing Plenary: Where Do We Go From Here? Unpacking a Day at Health Datapalooza and Major Changes for Health Data and and Award Presentation: Transforming Cancer Navigation with Open Data & APIs Challenge Location : Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, Atrium Hall Date : Friday, Sep 5 4:30 PM Duration : 45 minutes In this closing session, Aneesh Chopra will reflect on a day of learnings at Health Datapalooza as well as the recent major announcements about CMS’ Health Tech Ecosystem initiative and the Living Open Health Data plan. He will connect dots on the trajectory of the open data movement, revisit the “power formula” for delivery transformation, and engage with developers to discuss how we can build and govern an open data-fueled ethical and effective health care system that improves the health and well-being for all. Prior to his remarks, Mr. Chopra will present the "Transforming Cancer Navigation with Open Data & APIs Challenge" Award to the first place winner, Vladislav Bellous, for his Heal & Hope software. Show Less Speakers Speakers Aneesh Chopra Arcadia Speakers Vladislav Bellous Heal and Hope Speakers Kristen Valdes b.well Connected Health Speakers Ron Urwongse Defacto Health Speakers Ryan Bramble CRISP Shared Services

Closing Plenary: Where Do We Go From Here? Unpacking a Day at Health Datapalooza and Major Changes for Health Data and and Award Presentation: Transforming Cancer Navigation with Open Data & APIs Challenge Location : Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, Atrium Hall Date : Friday, Sep 5 4:30 PM Duration : 45 minutes In this closing session, Aneesh Chopra will reflect on a day of learnings at Health Datapalooza as well as the recent major announcements about CMS’ Health Tech Ecosystem initiative and the Living Open Health Data plan. He will connect dots on the trajectory of the open data movement, revisit the “power formula” for delivery transformation, and engage with developers to discuss how we can build and govern an open data-fueled ethical and effective health care system that improves the health and well-being for all. Prior to his remarks, Mr. Chopra will present the "Transforming Cancer Navigation with Open Data & APIs Challenge" Award to the first place winner, Vladislav Bellous, for his Heal & Hope software. Show Less Speakers Speakers Aneesh Chopra Arcadia Speakers Vladislav Bellous Heal and Hope Speakers Kristen Valdes b.well Connected Health Speakers Ron Urwongse Defacto Health Speakers Ryan Bramble CRISP Shared Services

🚀The “power formula” for delivery transformation x #AI

Amazing closing plenary at #hdpalooza on how we can build and govern an #opendata-fueled ethical and effective health care system that improves the health and well-being for all.

@academyhealth.bsky.social #healthpolicy #healthdata #medsky

🎯“Lean into hard; and look for the opportunities!”

Only at #hdpalooza do you see the perfect intersection of public, private, policy AND PATIENT.

How are YOU bringing in the patient perspective into your key strategic priorities?

@academyhealth.bsky.social #healthpolicy #healthdata #AI #pinksocks

Breakout: Frameworks for Trust: Evaluating and Governing Digital and AI Innovation Tools Location : Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, Atrium Ballroom B Date : Friday, Sep 5 3:30 PM Duration : 45 minutes Learn how two leading frameworks—DiMe and CHAI—support validation and governance of Digital and AI tools in healthcare. This session covers when and how to apply each model to ensure clinical readiness, technical rigor, and responsible use. This panel will help product, clinical, and system leaders to navigate procurement and adoption decisions with confidence.

🔥Heard at #HDPalooza on #AI:

“I can’t imagine another investment class where so many checks have been written with so little strategy!”

~ Jennifer Goldsack, CEO of Digital Medicine Society (DiMe)

@academyhealth.bsky.social @aaronecarroll.bsky.social #digitalhealth #healthpolicy #healthdata

Innovation & impact’s greatest accelerant is trust.

And TRUST begins with the power of connections, empathy and action. That’s where #pinksocks comes in.

#HDPalooza @academyhealth.bsky.social @pinksocks.bsky.social

pinksocks.life

The FOMOpalooza is real. This sounds like an excellent conversation based on your real-time readout! #hdpalooza

"What are the trust milestones that get us to the change you want to see?" panelist Danielle Yang asks.

Trust needs to be built into the infrasture, he says.

"Which is why accountability and reliability need to be included in each step," Grace Cordovano responds during the #hdpalooza plenary

We don't have a culture of safety as it relates to technology -- especially when it comes to AI - Lisa Bari says at #hdpalooza

Grace Cordovano at #hdpalooza highlights the need for patient-led AI patient sandboxes driving the development and testing & the need to involve the end users in the development of this technology

"Our data is being used so I want to be cut in" -Lisa Bari from Innovaccer said at #hdpalooza during the afternoon plenary on designing digital health & bridging the trust gap

How are we building trust between patients and providers when AI is used?

We have a consumer technology that's finding its way into a commercial enterprise -- Daniel Yang from Kaiser Permanente during the afternoon plenary at #hdpalooza

Vladislav Bellous, the winner of the 2025 Health Datapalooza Challenge: a White House Cancer Moonshot-affiliated initiative, is a systems architect and bionanotechnology researcher dedicated to solving complex global challenges. He is now channelling this success into developing HealthOS: a new kind of operating system designed to build a single, unified picture of an individual's health by connecting their entire journey—from routine check-ups to their deep molecular profile. His unique background spans from large-scale industrial automation to bioinformatics and protein engineering—an art of combining disciplines that proved advantage in his victory. This expertise is focused on a single mission: democratizing access to both health and science through intelligent systems.

Vladislav Bellous, the winner of the 2025 Health Datapalooza Challenge: a White House Cancer Moonshot-affiliated initiative, is a systems architect and bionanotechnology researcher dedicated to solving complex global challenges. He is now channelling this success into developing HealthOS: a new kind of operating system designed to build a single, unified picture of an individual's health by connecting their entire journey—from routine check-ups to their deep molecular profile. His unique background spans from large-scale industrial automation to bioinformatics and protein engineering—an art of combining disciplines that proved advantage in his victory. This expertise is focused on a single mission: democratizing access to both health and science through intelligent systems.

Vladislav Bellous, the winner of the 2025 Health Datapalooza Challenge: a White House Cancer Moonshot-affiliated initiative, is a systems architect and bionanotechnology researcher dedicated to solving complex global challenges. He is now channelling this success into developing HealthOS: a new kind of operating system designed to build a single, unified picture of an individual's health by connecting their entire journey—from routine check-ups to their deep molecular profile. His unique background spans from large-scale industrial automation to bioinformatics and protein engineering—an art of combining disciplines that proved advantage in his victory. This expertise is focused on a single mission: democratizing access to both health and science through intelligent systems.

Vladislav Bellous, the winner of the 2025 Health Datapalooza Challenge: a White House Cancer Moonshot-affiliated initiative, is a systems architect and bionanotechnology researcher dedicated to solving complex global challenges. He is now channelling this success into developing HealthOS: a new kind of operating system designed to build a single, unified picture of an individual's health by connecting their entire journey—from routine check-ups to their deep molecular profile. His unique background spans from large-scale industrial automation to bioinformatics and protein engineering—an art of combining disciplines that proved advantage in his victory. This expertise is focused on a single mission: democratizing access to both health and science through intelligent systems.

Vladislav Bellous, winner of 2025 Health Datapalooza Challenge

HealthOS: a new kind of operating system designed to build a single, unified picture of an individual's health by connecting their entire journey—from routine check-ups ➡️ deep molecular profile.

#hdpalooza @academyhealth.bsky.social

Afternoon Plenary: Bridging the Trust Gap: Designing Digital Health and AI’s Credibility Roadmap This panel will explore the question, “What strategies can we employ for ensuring safety, effectiveness, and fairness across a range of health care environments and communities?” We lack a trusted…

How do we build the trust gap in digital health and AI? Join the #hdpalooza plenary “Real World Challenges and Solutions to Implementation and Evidence Generation” at 1 pm to learn strategies for building safety, effectiveness & fairness into innovation. Learn more: buff.ly/nTsYekS

Real dialogue with real pathways forward. Great panel at #hdpalooza on critical strategies, challenges, and insights driving safe, effective AI implementation across health care environments

Real dialogue with real pathways forward. Great panel at #hdpalooza on critical strategies, challenges, and insights driving safe, effective AI implementation across health care environments

Real dialogue with real pathways forward. Great panel at #hdpalooza on critical strategies, challenges, and insights driving safe, effective AI implementation across health care environments

Real dialogue with real pathways forward. Great panel at #hdpalooza on critical strategies, challenges, and insights driving safe, effective AI implementation across health care environments

Real dialogue with real pathways forward.

Great panel at #hdpalooza on critical strategies, challenges, and insights driving safe, effective AI implementation across health care environments

@academyhealth.bsky.social

Don’t miss #hdpalooza Pitch Tents! Stop by Meridian D&E on Sept. 5 from 12:15-1 PM for lightning talks on key work and ideas in health data.

Meet and network with organizations working across the health data and health policy spectrum. Visit the display table forum at #hdpalooza on Friday, Sept 5 at the Concourse Level Atrium

Dr Rasu Shrestha with Dr Aaron Carroll at Health Datapalooza

“Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.”

Celebrating the tremendously balanced, intelligent and courageous #leadership of @aaronecarroll.bsky.social at @academyhealth.bsky.social today at #HDPalooza 2025.

What a time to be alive!

#medsky #healthdata #healthpolicy

Health Datapalooza reception with some amazing rockstars in healthcare. “Innovation Unfiltered” There’s still no one place like #HDPalooza - where you have the most meaningful intersection of public, private and policy in healthcare. Connect. Collaborate. Create.

Health Datapalooza reception with some amazing rockstars in healthcare. “Innovation Unfiltered” There’s still no one place like #HDPalooza - where you have the most meaningful intersection of public, private and policy in healthcare. Connect. Collaborate. Create.

Health Datapalooza reception with some amazing rockstars in healthcare. “Innovation Unfiltered” There’s still no one place like #HDPalooza - where you have the most meaningful intersection of public, private and policy in healthcare. Connect. Collaborate. Create.

Health Datapalooza reception with some amazing rockstars in healthcare. “Innovation Unfiltered” There’s still no one place like #HDPalooza - where you have the most meaningful intersection of public, private and policy in healthcare. Connect. Collaborate. Create.

“Innovation Unfiltered”

There’s still no one place like #HDPalooza - where you have the most meaningful intersection of public, private and policy in healthcare.

Connect. Collaborate. Create.

@academyhealth.bsky.social #pinksocks

What are the needs you're facing and how can be incorporate that into our products? Lynne Chou O’Keefe from Define Ventures asks at #hdpalooza, highlighting that we have to think like consultants as we understand the ripple effects of these new technologies

"It's not just the technology -- the human element and how humans interact with the technology is also important." -@aaronecarroll.bsky.social said while moderating the #hdpalooza

Be mindful of your organization’s “clock speed”.

Think: Systems, processes and culture.

#HDPalooza 2025.

Health Datapalooza 2025

At #HDPalooza 2025 today in Washington DC and proudly representing #pinksocks tribe here.

What is your “wedge use case” and gets you to earn your way to possibly even be a platform? ✅Change management ✅Organizational design ✅Creating trust ~Lynne Chou O’Keefe Founder and managing partner of Define Ventures

What is your “wedge use case” and gets you to earn your way to possibly even be a platform?

✅Change management
✅Organizational design
✅Creating trust

~Lynne Chou O’Keefe
Founder and managing partner of Define Ventures

#HDPalooza #healthdata #healthpolicy @academyhealth.bsky.social

"There's more to understand about patients outside of claims and EHR data" - Jen Horonjeff founder of Savvy Cooperative said at #hdpalooza on the importance of considering the full patient experience rather than just going off the data

Opening Plenary: The Evidence Kaleidoscope: What Matters When Innovating in Healthcare?
#AIHealth #DataInnovation #Hdpalooza #HdP25

Panelists at the opening plenary highlight the changing role of AI in health care, patient trust and privacy, and improving care delivery #hdpalooza

“We’ve always assumed that what goes in is what comes out. That’s now not the case with AI and healthcare.” Who cares about the safety and evidence of digital health and AI innovations? What type of evidence and outcomes do they need for their role? Essential dialogue at #HDPalooza 2025.

🔥“We’ve always assumed that what goes in is what comes out. That’s now not the case with AI and healthcare.”

Who cares about the safety and evidence of digital health and AI innovations?

What type of evidence and outcomes do they need for their role?

Essential dialogue at #HDPalooza 2025.