Michael Marchant has spent the last 20+ years working in Health IT in roles with technology vendors, provider organizations and supporting government projects. His expertise in the area of data integration has been built connecting systems in a myriad of standard and non-standard ways throughout his tenure. Michael was a member of the HIMSS Interoperability and HIE Committee and currently serves on the BlockChain Task Force helping HIMSS establish some recommended direction and messaging for HIMSS members and leadership around the Distributed Ledger technologies. His current role as Health Information Exchange and System Integration Director for UC Davis Health keeps him solving the day to day interoperability problems of a leading academic healthcare organization. Michael is actively working to leverage technology to connect patients and partners with their health information through his work on projects in the community to supporting partner organizations, precision medicine initiatives (Genomics & AI), connect mobile health applications (Smart on FHIR/Apple Health) and develop solutions for the organization to better utilize the foundational data found in its EHR or wherever it exists.