51. Uncorking Success: Where Wine Making and Interoperability Intersect with Will Tesch from HealthLX

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 providers. Listen in as Will soothes your spirit with his soulful voice and shares his passion and knowledge about the health IT industry. Not only does he share valuable information on how data is stored today, but he also shares a few of the barriers that keep data from getting to where it needs.  If you have some questions or need a little guidance in navigating the changes in regulations, reach out to Will and the HealthLX team by emailing them at [email protected].  In this episode, they talk about: How wine and the health IT industry can be both simple, different, and compelling Wine making and interoperability being similar in that we need to handle the variables involved in these complex processes HealthLX’s vital role in helping FHIR implementation move forward Encapsulating business logic to be reused is important to be able to scale and solve the data-exchange problems in health care. The challenges that provider organizations run into when getting data into the FHIR format, and exposing data The exciting partnership between HealthLX and SMILE How Will and his team will help healthcare payers and providers as regulations change A Little About Will: Will Tesch is an accomplished leader whose career in information technology innovation spans more than 30 years across healthcare, supply chain, manufacturing, and more. He is currently the founder and CEO of HealthLX, bringing composable automation solutions that solve data exchange and healthcare interoperability for payers, providers, and HIT vendors.