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In this episode, Sandy Vance interviews Dominique Gross, the CEO of Hart, Inc. Hart was started in Irvine, California with the mission of building a healthcare API for other healthcare community members to develop on. Dominique explains Hart’s niche as a healthcare API with an open standards approach, and how this approach fills in the gaps that other APIs cannot. She also explains Hart’s role in...

Summary : In this conversation, Sandy Vance discusses the pivotal role of mobility in boosting clinical efficiency and ensuring patient safety, while discussing best practices for optimizing and adopting shared mobile devices for workforces, and utilizing identity and access management solutions to navigate complex workflow and security challenges with Dr. Sean Kelly, Chief Medical Officer and Sen...

In this episode, Host Sandy Vance is speaking with Duncan Weatherston, the Co-Founder and CEO of Smile Digital Health. Smile Digital Health is an enterprise-level data platform that uses AI and automation to parse its vast collection of data. Duncan explains how AI acts as an accelerator in healthcare delivery, how increased data access allows AI to produce more accurate results, and the challenge...

Today Sandy is joined by two key figures from Santech—President and CEO Neeraj K. Sharma and Chief Growth Officer David Van Houtte . Together, they’ll explore how Santech is driving forward interoperability in healthcare through cutting-edge solutions and automation. Tune in to discover how Santech is reshaping data management by enhancing better provider-payer interactions, and building a more co...

Check out today’s podcast as Sandy chats with Corrine Micklos ( dbMotion at Altera ) and Al Kinel ( Strategic Interests LLC ) about the evolution of HIEs over the past decade, the current challenges they face, and the future direction. They'll discuss how Altera addresses these challenges, meeting unmet needs by aggregating and harmonizing discrete data from hospitals and communities across re...

The last time Sandy talked with Bevey Miner (in episode 38, “ Clarity in the Cloud ”), they chatted about how Consensus Cloud Solutions is solving the problem of creating structured documentation from unstructured documents.  Today, they delve into the impact of these advancements on health equity across the nation. They also explore the role of the EVP of Healthcare Strategy & Policy at Conse...

Introduction:  In this episode, host Sandy Vance chats with Jason Sherwin , Senior Director of Healthcare Business Development at CLEAR , and Alex MacLeod , Director of Healthcare Solution Innovation at InterSystems . With the partnership between CLEAR and InterSystems, the future of interoperability looks much more tangible and streamlined. Today, Sandy, Jason, and Alex discuss the implications o...

For over a decade, DirectTrust has been committed to establishing trust in a connected world. Learn more about how they've grown, and what's next. Today Sandy is chatting with Kathryn Ayers Wickenhauser, the chief strategy officer for DirectTrust. Their conversation centers around how DirectTrust has grown and what the future holds for the company and the world of app accreditation and sec...

In this episode, host Sandy Vance and guests Dr. Peter Schoch and Therasa Bell from Kno2 dive into the evolving landscape post-TEFCA/QHIN and explore the critical importance of achieving end-user adoption, particularly at the edge of healthcare systems.  Their discussion centers on the critical challenge of achieving widespread user adoption in healthcare, emphasizing the complexities of fostering...

In this episode, host Sandy Vance is joined by Jason Barr the VP of Healthcare at ID.me & Kyle Neuman the former DirectTrust Identity Lead to share insights about federated identity and its importance within the digital healthcare workflow.    As more and more health data becomes available digitally, it is important to provide an efficient and secure means of identifying individuals in order t...

The road to compliance with HTI-1 and other ONC mandates is a bumpy one. Darena is trying to help patch the potholes and create a smoother ride for health IT companies, healthcare organizations, and providers.  Previously, Sandy spent some time behind the mic with the President and Chief Information Security Officer of Darena, Patrick Scheiss about efficient FHIR enablement . Today Sandy chats wit...

In this exclusive interview, Sandy discusses cutting-edge advancements in healthcare interoperability with Joe Warbington , the Healthcare Industry Principal at Snowflake . Following a previous conversation with Todd Crosslin , another industry expert from Snowflake, Sandy delves deeper into how Snowflake's innovative platform is revolutionizing data sharing in healthcare. By eliminating the n...

In this episode, host Sandy Vance chats with Kelly Sager , the VP & GM, CDS Solutions Business Unit, at Beckman Coulter Diagnostics , a Danaher OpCo. Kelly is building and leading a team to deliver artificial intelligence, machine-learning solutions, and clinical decision support to emergency department clinicians.  There has been a pivot in recent years, to an at-market environment and the sy...

In this episode, host Sandy Vance welcomes Alexa Cushman, MuleSoft ‘s Global Product Industry Marketing Director for Healthcare and Life Sciences. Alexa brings with her Jay Jenkins, Barry Box, and Dr. Adam Resnick from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) to talk about how CHOP has implemented MuleSoft and Salesforce into their dynamic.  They also discuss the importance of the progress i...

Introduction:  In this episode, host Sandy Vance has two special guests: Paul Wilder from the CommonWell Alliance and Maylee Wu from ELLKAY. Paul has joined us before in an episode titled “ CommonWell Health Alliance Powered by ELLKAY ”. After the big announcement that CommonWell would now be powered by ELLKAY, there have been many positive changes and movements in the right direction for smooth i...

Everyone in the health care industry wants the patient experience to get better without the friction we have today. Will technology in the future be able to power frictionless patient, provider and payer experiences?  If EY Nexus for Health and their Head of Growth, Dan Galdenzi , have any say in it, it will. They are making strides in health care interoperability and tech platforms that are avail...

Host Sandy Vance welcomes  Kasey McCreery , the Director of Clinical Documentation at  Phreesia , to talk about race and ethnicity data and how unintentional bias placed into our questions at the bedside can impact data that is important for provider decision making.  Interoperability is one of the key components of efficient and high-quality patient care. Kasey is a nurse and NP who is on a missi...

In today’s episode, host Sandy Vance gets the privilege of chatting with MRO’s brilliant Chief Interoperability Officer Anthony Murray . Anthony knows all about the significance of speeding up clinical data exchange. He talks about the necessity, importance, and various strategies needed to achieve MRO’s goal of helping providers and payer networks share information in a quick, effective way.  San...

In this episode, host Sandy Vance chats with guest Matthew Cunningham , the EVP of Product at Availity . Matthew runs the end-to-end authorization product and strategy for Availity. He has a wealth of information about the industry and happily shares that info with Sandy and InteropNow’s loyal listeners. Together, they discuss what Availity has been up to and what they’re doing for the healthcare...

Today host Sandy Vance and Will Tesch explore how curating wine and health information data exchange has a lot of similarities. He emphasizes the care needed in both the making of wine and the curating of data.  As the founder and CEO of HealthLX , Will has some valuable information to share about the partnership between HealthLX and SMILE, and what that will mean for healthcare payers and provide...

Today Sandy Vance chats with Erin Prymas from Smile Digital Health , a company that specializes in delivering compliant data infrastructure as a service to create interconnectivity in healthcare. As the CRO of Smile, Erin shares what makes them stand out in the world of healthcare data technology. They are paving the way for connectivity between systems, patients, payers and healthcare providers. ...

In this episode, host Sandy Vance chats with Timothy Bennett about what Drummond Group has been up to since she talked with John Valutkevich about their certification program . Tim is a technical visionary and the director of strategic healthcare initiatives at Drummond Group LLC. Today he shares his passion and enthusiasm with the podcast. Sandy and Tim do a deep dive into the importance of testi...

Today Sandy Vance and Jason Barr , the vice president of healthcare for ID.me , talk about how ID.me is facilitating interoperability by creating digital identities for their consumers. Jason and ID.me are working to make the identity verification process much more streamlined to remove friction between patients and their health records. Jason talks about the various types of verification, from le...

Everybody is talking about AI in Healthcare – but what can Interoperability do to make AI in Healthcare a reality? Do we have to throw out billions of dollars in legacy software to leverage the potential benefits of AI?  In this episode, host Sandy Vance chats with Joerg Schwarz , the Senior Director for Healthcare Interoperability Solutions and Strategy for Infor . They talk about FHIR Bridge ; h...

In this episode, host Sandy Vance chats with Therasa Bell and Dr. Peter Schoch, MD . When they created Kno2 , they went in with the vision of solving the mess that was connectivity and they wanted to solve that problem with a single API infrastructure. Because of that, they chose to look toward the “overlooked markets.” Since they started, Kno2 has made a lot of great strides toward those goals. ...