InteropNow! Podcast

About InteropNow! Podcast

The InteropNow! Podcast features conversations about healthcare interoperability and the technology solutions that will transform the business of healthcare through better data sharing. As the industry transitions to APIs, we will share highlights from innovative projects, thought leaders and healthcare providers who are paving the way forward for better health services. InteropNow! is a live demonstration at the ViVE Event where the brightest minds and best solutions in healthcare interoperability will show you how to take your business to the next level by creating maximum data availability.

Publisher

CHIME and HLTH

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

7 Jan 2022

Latest episode

23 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

99 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   23 Sept 2026

   Healthcare Interoperability Is the Foundation for AI

   Healthcare organizations are under increasing pressure to make better use of data, AI, and automation but none of those technologies can reach their full potential without reliable access to the right patient information. In this episode of Interop Now, host Sandy Vance chats with Dima Goncharov (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dimagoncharov/), co-founder & CEO of Metriport (https://www.metriport.com/), about the evolving healthcare interoperability landscape, health information exchanges, FHIR, QHINs, and the challenge of bringing fragmented clinical data together. They discuss why interoperability is becoming table stakes in modern healthcare, the limits of building connections in-house, and how a stronger data foundation can help providers move from simply exchanging information to using it to improve care. They also explore how AI and large language models answer complex patient questions in real time when the underlying data is trustworthy, accessible, and properly organized. In this episode, they talk about: Why healthcare interoperability continues to evolve and why connecting to a single network still isn't enough to create a complete patient picture. How health information exchanges, national networks, and emerging frameworks such as TEFCA fit into today's interoperability landscape. Why healthcare data transformation, patient matching, record location, and deduplication remain major challenges even after connectivity is established. Why Metriport believes interoperability should be treated as table-stakes infrastructure, rather than a project healthcare organizations have to continually build and maintain themselves. How clean, accessible longitudinal patient data creates the foundation for AI, automation, and modern care models. Why AI and LLMs could help providers synthesize complicated healthcare data and answer patient-specific questions in real time. Real-world examples of interoperability helping providers surface previously unavailable information, avoid unnecessary testing, and make faster treatment decisions. A Little About Dima: Dima Goncharov is the Co-Founder and CEO of Metriport, an open-source platform transforming healthcare data exchange. With a background as a software engineer, Dima has built everything from aerospace and defense mission systems to highly available cloud database services at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Dima’s passion for transparent, secure, and accessible health data solutions is evident in Metriport’s mission and the APIs they’ve developed for seamless medical record retrieval. Dima is an alumnus of both British Columbia Institute of Technology and of Y Combinator’s S22 cohort. Now based in San Francisco, he leads Metriport’s efforts to modernize and open up healthcare interoperability for providers everywhere.

2. 

   15 Jul 2026

   How FHIRplace Is Testing Interoperability at Real-World Scale

   In this episode, host Sandy Vance chats with Timothy Bennett (https://www.linkedin.com/in/timothybennett), the Director of Strategic Healthcare Initiatives at Drummond Group, LLC (https://www.drummondgroup.com/), for his second appearance on the show. With nearly 20 years at Drummond and deep roots in ONC certification testing dating back to 2010, Tim brings a rare long-view perspective to one of the most important questions facing healthcare interoperability today: how do you actually test whether FHIR works at scale in the real world, not just in a proof-of-concept connectathon? This episode introduces FHIRplace, Drummond's new community-driven testing ecosystem, and digs into why business process rules, not just technical standards, are the real challenge standing between FHIR's promise and its production reality. In this episode, they talk about: FHIRplace brings together providers, payers, technology vendors, and intermediaries to test FHIR implementations at real-world scale Testing conformance to a standard is not the same as proving true interoperability between systems Business process rules, like what documentation a health plan requires for prior authorization, sit outside the technical standards but are critical to real-world success Intermediaries are central to FHIRplace's testing model because point-to-point FHIR exchange is not feasible across millions of providers and thousands of health plans FHIRplace captures raw transaction data flowing through intermediaries to evaluate real-world interoperability issues, not just lab conditions HIPAA currently requires X12 for prior authorization, meaning a full replacement by FHIR will take years and likely result in a long-term hybrid approach FHIRplace plans to integrate with conformance tools like Inferno so members can get interoperability testing and standards validation in one place Drummond intends FHIRplace to be a 20-year testing ecosystem, not a short-term solution built around a single regulatory deadline A Little About Timothy: Timothy Bennett serves as Drummond’s Director of Strategic Healthcare Initiatives and leads the development of new testing and certification programs to benefit the national healthcare interoperability strategy. As the former director of the firm’s ONC Accredited Test Lab (ATL), he has been involved in testing electronic health records (EHR) systems since the ONC program's inception in September 2010 and has additionally served as the test lab’s lead technical adviser. Prior to healthcare compliance testing, Timothy facilitated numerous interoperability test programs, specifically the design of secure and private exchange of documents and information using internet and security standards. With a degree in nuclear engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, he has been instrumental in developing, architecting, and testing software systems for more than 30 years. Timothy is a governing board member of Shift, a task force of industry stakeholders working through the barriers of equitable interoperability by addressing the obstacles of privatized patient health data exchange. He is actively developing testing and certification protocols for the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard in order to provide the market with comprehensive FHIR certification across the healthcare ecosystem. He also actively collaborates with industry leaders in the areas of testing and certifying healthcare compliance of pediatrics, patient safety and usability, FHIR and public health. Finally, Timothy was the principal author of the OASIS AS4 standard, a profile of the ebXML Messaging Services v3.0 specification for secure and private exchange of data using web services.

3. 

   17 Jun 2026

   Why EMS Data Is the Most Underutilized Asset in Your Health System

   In this episode of the Interop Now at Vibe series on The Beat Podcast, host Sandy Vance sits down with Joe Graw (http://linkedin.com/in/joe-graw-4240339), Chief Growth Officer at ImageTrend (https://www.imagetrend.com/), for a fascinating and deeply personal conversation about the data gap that exists between the ambulance and the emergency department. Joe has been at ImageTrend for nearly 25 years and brings both an engineer's precision and a genuine personal mission to a topic most health system leaders have never fully considered. With 70 million EMS encounters in ImageTrend's network annually and one in three ED patients arriving via EMS, the pre-hospital data source is too important to ignore. From an automated patient-matching algorithm to transport-pattern analytics that signal demand shifts before hospitals feel them operationally, this episode makes a compelling case that EMS data is the earliest and most underutilized demand signal in all of healthcare. In this episode, they talk about: One in three patients arriving in the emergency department comes from EMS, making pre-hospital data one of the most important upstream data sources in healthcare ImageTrend processes nearly 70 million EMS activations annually across its network The NEMSIS standard is used by 100% of EMS and fire departments that treat patients, making it a universal foundation for pre-hospital interoperability Most EMS to hospital data transfer still happens via PDFs, faxes, face sheets, or portal logins, none of which are usable at the point of care ImageTrend's proprietary patient matching algorithm eliminates the need for deterministic fields like MRN numbers, removing a major workflow barrier for paramedics EMS transport patterns are the earliest demand signal in healthcare, revealing referral leakage, access issues, and capacity problems before hospitals feel them operationally Virginia-based health care organization Carilion Clinic is automating 20,000 EMS transports annually into their EHR using ImageTrend, with outcomes data flowing back to EMS agencies to close the quality loop Health systems that treat EMS agencies as strategic data partners rather than just transport services are better positioned to keep care close to home A Little About Joe: Joe’s passion to learn and explore new ideas in the industry is about more than managing the growth of ImageTrend – it’s forward thinking. Engaging in many facets of ImageTrend is part of what drives Joe. He is dedicated to our community, clients, and their use of data to drive results, implement change, and drive improvement in their industries.

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5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 38 / 100

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Engagement

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