Nell Lapres

Nell Lapres is an interface engineer at Epic. Nell leads the COVID-19 vaccination interface response task force at Epic, coordinating customer implementation for public health reporting requirements. Additionally, she has represented Epic in discussions like the Modernizing Public Health Data Exchange: Immunizations Registries convening hosted by The PEW Charitable Trust to develop recommendations for public health regulations and funding. Nell represented Epic as a co-chair of the HL7 Public Health and Emergency Response workgroup for 2 years and participated in the workgroup for 3 years. Nell brought an EHR perspective to the public health realm, creating standards that will allow providers to report to public health quickly and accurately. As a member of the Epic interface team, Nell has experience both developing and implementing interfaces with organizations across the country. She will be able to use this real-world knowledge of how EHRs and hospitals are implementing standards-based interfaces with public health to provide feedback on policy, technical, and infrastructure challenges that guidance from the ONC Public Health Data Systems Task Force could address.