Registration
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Lunch On Your Own
Enjoy lunch at the hotel restaurant, Bank & Bourbon, or take a walk down to the famous Reading Terminal Market!
Finding An EHR For Your Future: The 2026 OPEN MINDS Best Practices Seminar On EHR Selection, Implementation & Optimization
Joseph P. Naughton-Travers, EdM
Joseph P. Naughton-Travers, EdM, Senior Associate, has more than 30 years of experience in the health and human service field. In this tenure as senior associate with OPEN MINDS since 1998, he has served as lead of dozens of client initiatives, served as editor of OPEN MINDS publications, and is the author of many groundbreaking articles and presentations.
Mr. Naughton-Travers brings to OPEN MINDS a broad range of experiences in private and public sector delivery of behavioral health and social services. He started his career as a behavioral health clinician, working in both child welfare and community mental health clinic settings. Subsequently, Mr. Naughton-Travers held a senior business operations management position for a psychiatric hospital system and its community mental health clinics. Later, he was vice president of a firm specializing in information systems and billing and receivables management for community-based mental health programs.
Since joining OPEN MINDS, Mr. Naughton-Travers has developed business solutions for provider and professional organizations, state and county government, technology companies, and venture capital firms. His primary areas of expertise include strategic planning and metrics-based management, electronic health record (EHR) and technology selection and implementation, operations improvement, and corporate compliance. For the past decade, over half his consulting practice has focused on aiding organizations in technology selection and implementation, including all aspects of strategic technology planning, functional specifications development, request for proposal development, vendor selection, and contracting.
He has written numerous articles, including âWinning the Human Resource Wars: Tried, True and New Strategies for Behavioral Health and Social Service Organizations,â âFive Pillars of Management Competency,â âData Driven Decision Making: Moving to an Organizational Measurement Culture,â âSurvival of the Smartest: What is Your Organizationâs Information Literacy IQ?,â and âStrategic Human Resource Management: Aligning Compensation with Employee Performance and Organizational Strategy.â Mr. Naughton-Travers is also a nationally recognized speaker, having conducted hundreds of executive and professional executive training events around the nation.
Mr. Naughton-Travers received his Bachelorâs degree from Miami University of Ohio and his Mastersâ of Education in Counseling Psychology from Boston University.
Creating A Winning Tech Strategy: The 2026 OPEN MINDS Seminar On Building A Digital Transformation Roadmap
John Falsetti
John Falsetti brings over 25 years of information services management experience in the health and human services field to the OPEN MINDS team. He has deep expertise in technology and analytics management. This includes technology strategy, technology selection and optimization, database development and warehousing, and technology department management.
Mr. Falsetti is currently the Chief Information Officer for Maryville Academy, a non-profit organization based in Des Plaines, Illinois that works to protect children and strengthen families. In this role, he is responsible for strategic planning, budgeting, business intelligence, infrastructure, and process improvement, as well as training and client services. While at Maryville he completed the selection and implementation of an enterprise-wide EHR system, business intelligence reporting system, and help desk software.
Prior to joining Maryville Academy, Mr. Falsetti served as the Senior Vice President of Information Services for One Hope United a multi-state human service organization focused on children and families. While at One Hope United, Mr. Falsetti led a number of projects including, implementation of a web-based business intelligence reporting system, consolidation of 30 computing service locations, and development and implementation of a web-based database system for administrative and clinical use. In this role, he also worked with senior management on strategic planning, authored an in-depth information services roadmap, and negotiated all departmental technology contracts.
Previously, Mr. Falsetti was the Information Technology Manager for Elmhurst Memorial Healthcare/Endeavor Health, a multi-service multi-location hospital system in Illinois. In that role he oversaw a technical staff that managed all aspects of networking, help desk, and systems implementation for the 260-bed hospital.
Mr. Falsetti started his career as an Electrical Engineer for Bio-Imaging Research, where he designed a 16-bit data acquisition system for CT imaging. He moved into network management as a Senior Network Specialist for DePaul University in Chicago and then became the Departmental Information Services Administrator for Loyola University Medical Center. In this role he supervised daily MIS operations for all sub-specialty surgery departments and developed clinical/administrative client-server systems for each program unit.
Mr. Falsetti earned his Bachelor of Science in Electronic Engineering Technology from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.
Grand Opening Of The Exhibit Hall
Join us for an unveiling of all of our great exhibitors! Unwind from the day and enjoy cocktails and hor âdoeuvres with your peers and thought leaders.
Executive Breakfast & Registration
If you havenât registered yet, check in with us at the registration desk and then enjoy breakfast in the exhibit hall!
Thought Leader Discussion
Join our keynote for an interactive discussion where you can take time to ask your own questions and continue the conversation.
Lunch On Your Own
Enjoy lunch at the hotel restaurant, Bank & Bourbon, or take a walk down to the famous Reading Terminal Market!
Apple-A-Day Giveaway
They say an apple a day keeps the doctor awayâand today, it just might keep the post-lunch slump away! Visit the exhibit hall from 1:45 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. on Wednesday to enter our raffle and have a chance to win an Apple product. The lucky winner will be revealed during the raffle prize drawing on Thursday, October 28, at 1:45 p.m.âdonât miss your chance to take a bite out of something big.
Executive Networking Reception
End your day by unwinding with your peers, colleagues, thought leaders, and vendors. Join us in the exhibit hall and enjoy a cocktail and hors dâoeurvres!
Executive Breakfast
Start your day off right with breakfast, served in the exhibit hall. Take this time to speak with our great exhibitors and talk to peers about what youâve heard this week!
Keynote
Thought Leader Discussion
Join our keynote presenter for an interactive discussion where you can take time to ask your own questions and continue the conversation.
Lunch On Your Own
Enjoy lunch at the hotel restaurant, Bank & Bourbon, or take a walk down to the famous Reading Terminal Market!
Raffle Prize Drawing
Donât miss the much-anticipated raffle drawing at 1:45 pm and come see if youâve won any of the great prizes provided by our generous sponsors! (Must be present to win!)
Closing Keynote
Monica E. Oss
Monica E. Oss, M.S. is the founder of OPEN MINDS and serves as its chief executive officer, executive editor of its publications and websites, and executive lead of its consulting engagements. For the past three decades, Ms. Oss has led the OPEN MINDS team and its research on health and human service market trends and its national consulting practice. She is well known for her numerous books and articles focused on the strategic and marketing implications of the evolving health and human service field â and its focus on the verticals of the field serving consumers with chronic conditions and complex support needs.
Ms. Oss has extensive experience in developing and implementing growth strategies for a wide array of organizations in the field. She has expertise in industry trend analysis, reimbursement and rate setting, and creating actionable plans for market success. In her role, she has led numerous engagements with state Medicaid plans, county governments, private insurers, and health plans, service provider organizations, technology vendors, neurotechnology and pharmaceutical organizations, and investment banking firms â with a focus on the implications of financing changes on delivery system design.
Prior to founding OPEN MINDS, Ms. Oss served as an executive with a nationally managed behavioral health organization, responsible for market development, actuarial analysis, and capitation-based rate setting. She also held a position as vice president of the U.S. risk management and underwriting division of an international insurance company.
Ms. Oss has been the keynote speaker at the conferences of dozens of national associations and has been published in a wide range of professional journals and trade publications. She has provided Congressional and state legislative testimony on issues as diverse as the financial impact of parity and payer medication access policies.
Ms. Oss has led a range of industry research and consultation initiatives, serving as principal investigator on research projects that include the examination of national managed care enrollment and service patterns, development of provider rate structures for government entities, creation of return-on-investment models for technology investments; design of performance-based compensation models within public and private health plans; and analysis of the economic impact of changes in benefit design, adoption of evidence-based practices, and new technologies.