EP156: Letting HIEs Sweat the Interoperability Uphill Battle - At Least in the Short Term, with Don Lee from Glide Health IT & the HCBiz Show Podcast

It's rare you read an article about health tech and not see the word "interoperability" at some point, probably more than once. If that were a drinking game, we'd all be really drunk by now. Today I speak with Don Lee, a fellow podcast host about how Health Information Exchanges, otherwise known as HIEs, can assist us in the short term to get our data integration act together. This is a little bit of a reality check— blockchain and more elegant solutions might be coming, but today, right now, we need to meet quality measures. And you can't meet quality measures without having a handle on the trips to the ER, eye exams, and specialist visits that are transpiring outside the four walls of any given provider office.  Don is an accomplished Health IT expert with a 20-year track record of driving value with technology. Don began his career as custom software developer and eventually built and lead a team of more than 30 engineers.  Later, he was the subject matter expert, product manager and head of sales and marketing for a digital health startup that launched a SaaS-platform focused on administrative simplification in healthcare. Today, Don is President of Glide Health IT, LLC, a consulting firm that helps forward-looking organizations align their Health IT and business strategies. The firm specializes in business and product development with a focus on data aggregation, interop, analytics and quality measurement. Don is also the founder, co-host and Executive Producer of The #HCBiz Show!, a podcast dedicated to unraveling the Business of Healthcare. You can learn more by going to glidehealthit.com or [email protected] or by going to thehcbiz.com to listen to Don's podcast.