About the topic

Jesse Thomas will present vignettes from Hawaii to New York City on how health information technology has helped providers improve care and clinical outcomes across the HIV cascade in clinical settings. He will draw on the quantitative and qualitative data collected from multiple Special Projects of National Significance funded by the HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau. High-tech and "high-touch" interventions ranging from cross-agency health information exchange (HIE), quality management dashboards, and patient portals will be presented, including an interactive demo or two. Clinical indicators studied include medical visits, screenings, labs, adherence, and viral loads. Themes presented include patient-facing eHealth tools, the importance of human-centered design, "process over product", and building continuous improvement and sustainability into program development.

About Jesse Thomas

Jesse Thomas is a Project Director at RDE Systems, LLC with over 16 years of Health Information Technology (HIT) experience. He has formed a national public health collaboration, directed multiple HRSA Special Projects of National Significance, and led the web-based development of care coordination, grants management, and quality improvement systems for networks of care and academic medical institutions. Mr. Thomas has served on HHS expert panels, objective review committees, and congressional subcommittees. He is an advocate of using innovative technology and a unique human-centered implementation approach to build sincere user enthusiasm while empowering end-users with actionable information to improve health outcomes, particularly for safety net and underserved patient populations with multiple chronic co-morbidities