William Seay

Imagine healthcare with no shared transaction standards. No HIPAA. No X12. No FHIR. No common baseline. Even with modern JSON APIs, things would start to fall apart fast: • Every payer would design their APIs differently • Quality would vary wildly • Developer experience would be inconsistent at best Interoperability wouldn’t just be hard — it wouldn’t exist. In this clip, Stedi CEO Zack Kanter and Brendan Keeler, Interoperability Practice Lead at HTD Health and author of the Health API Guy Substack, talk through why standards – even if imperfect – matter. Without them, most healthcare integrations and related innovations simply wouldn’t happen.

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8:47 PM. A patient finally decides to book an appointment. The clinic is closed. Opportunity lost. Today, leading healthcare providers are solving this with AI that answers calls, schedules appointments, and qualifies patients — 24/7. Not replacing staff. Empowering them. Here’s how patient acquisition is being redefined. → Read the blog. https://lnkd.in/gcr3v42B #VoiceAI #HealthcareTechnology #PatientAcquisition #AIInHealthcare #ClinicGrowth

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What if the most profitable change your practice could make… was hiding in plain sight? Most physicians don’t document phone calls. That means no chart, no code, and no revenue—despite real care being delivered. OnCall AI fixes that. It transcribes your call, codes it, and delivers a finished note straight into your EMR. Watch how it works 👇 #healthcare #physicians #telehealth #AIinMedicine #medicalbilling #OnCallAI

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Is your digital health strategy strengthening rural systems—or quietly draining them? The Executive Quick Start Guide outlines how to build rural first regional digital health networks that: ✅ Expand specialty access without exporting patients ✅ Use telehealth, eConsults, and RPM with clear escalation rules ✅ Align multiple organizations around shared outcomes Designed for leaders responsible for regional alignment, not one-off pilots. 📘 Explore the guide https://lnkd.in/gNTPnxMn #RegionalHealth #HealthcareStrategy #RuralHospitals #Telehealth #PopulationHealth #DigitalHealth #RuralHealth #HealthcareLeadership #eConsults #RemotePatientMonitoring #SpecialtyCareAccess

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Discover how real-time, standards-based data exchange is helping close care gaps and improve coordination across the healthcare ecosystem in today's HIMSS 2026 session. We'll explore how standardized clinical data exchange can surface care and diagnosis gaps directly within the provider workflow at encounter close. 📍 Interoperability + SMART Pavilion Stage 🗓️ Wednesday, March 11 ⏱️ 12:15-12:35 p.m. Get more details: https://bit.ly/3MzESBU #HIMSS26 #HL7DaVinciProject #FHIR #HealthIT #Interoperability

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The origin of EHR (Electronic Health Records) traces back to the late 1960s at Massachusetts General Hospital 🏥💻. In 1966–1967, in Dr. Octo Barnett's lab, developers Neil Pappalardo, Robert Greenes, and Curt Marble created **MUMPS** (Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multi-Programming System, now often just called M).  This was born from frustration with slow, expensive assembly-language projects for hospital info systems. MUMPS combined a programming language with a built-in hierarchical database—perfect for handling patient records, lab data, and multi-user access in real-time on minicomputers. 📊🔬 It powered early hospital information systems and became the foundation for many modern EHRs. Descendants and upgrades (like Intersystems Cache) still run massive platforms today—including parts of **Epic** (the dominant US EHR vendor), VA's former VistA system, and others. MUMPS digitized paper charts into structured, queryable electronic form decades before "EHR" was a buzzword. 🚀 From filing cabinets full of paper records → to databases that enabled better sharing, billing, and care coordination. It was a game-changer for scalability in healthcare. Now, do I think EHRs will survive the coming wave of the **singularity** (or AGI/superintelligence era)? 🤖🌌 Short answer: **The current form? Not really! Today's EHRs are mostly glorified databases + clunky UIs burdened by regulations, legacy code (hello, MUMPS roots), and administrative bloat. As we approach AGI-level AI—systems that reason, predict, self-improve, and handle multimodal data far beyond humans, EHRs as static "records" become obsolete.  Instead: 🤭 AI agents will proactively synthesize real-time patient data from wearables, genomics, imaging, sensors, and global knowledge. 🤭 Predictive "health digital twins" could forecast risks decades ahead (early versions already exist!). 🤭 Documentation might auto-generate from voice/context, errors vanish, and care becomes hyper-personalized. 🤭 In a singularity scenario, health "records" could dissolve into dynamic, continuously updated models managed by superintelligent systems—potentially eliminating silos, miscommunication, and even much human admin overhead. But survival depends on adaptation: EHR vendors that integrate deeply with advanced AI (or get disrupted) will thrive; rigid ones won't. Risks like AGI misuse (e.g., hacking/altering records at scale) are real concerns too. ⚠️ Healthcare's filing cabinet era ended long ago. The database era might end next.  I give them 18 months before a foundational model starts eating their lunches, because they would think maybe the 100-250 billion sectors in healthcare might be good to help us start building data centers in space

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One healthcare team spends hours chasing patients for care plan follow-ups, juggling voicemails and missed calls. Meanwhile, the other team uses AI voice agents to automate adherence calls, ensuring patients stay on track and staff focus on care. This HIPAA-compliant solution is capable of: - Integrating with your EHR - Reducing manual call volume - Improving patient experience See how your team can level up here: https://www.brilo.ai/ #BriloAI #aiphoneagent #aiphonecall #aivoiceagent #aivoicecall #customersupport #automation #aicustomerservice #artificialintelligence

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🩺 Behind every safe, efficient patient encounter is an informatics-led workflow—but fragmented tools and ad-hoc staffing create barriers to consistency. A single informatics partner can cut through the complexity: align EHRs with bedside practice, reduce workarounds, improve decision support, and steady patient flow. Grant Mill Healthcare Solutions builds and places the nurse, clinical, and health informatics teams that make technology serve care—so your organization can focus on outcomes, not workarounds. #HealthcareStaffing #WorkforceResilience #HospitalOperations #TalentStrategy #FutureOfCare #HealthcareAI #ClinicalInformatics #PatientFlow #HospitalManagement #DigitalHealth #NursingInformatics #DigitalStrategy #InnovationInHealthcare #HealthIT #HealthcareLeadership #AIinHealthcare

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Disorganized Project Planning Derails System Implementations – How Do You Prevent It ? One of the biggest mistakes in healthcare payer system implementations?  Trying to manage a massive project without a unified plan.  Here’s how it happens: ❌ IT is tracking tasks in DevOps.  ❌ Operations is using Smartsheet.  ❌ Finance is monitoring the budget in their own spreadsheets.  ❌ Leadership is making decisions based on outdated or incomplete reports. Sound familiar?  Without a single, unified program plan, misalignment causes delays, budget conflicts, and project breakdowns. That’s why top healthcare payers ensure all departments operate under one structured implementation roadmap.  MHC Services Group has helped organizations take control of their implementations by establishing centralized program plans that keep stakeholders aligned. Download our free eBook: Learn the 9 critical mistakes that derail system implementations—and how to avoid them.  https://lnkd.in/gJ9EU-CB #HealthcareIT #DigitalTransformation #ImplementationStrategy #HealthcarePayers #ProjectManagement #PayerSystems #HealthcareOperations 

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𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐟 𝐇𝐈𝐏𝐀𝐀 𝐢𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐛𝐢𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐝𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐞? Most healthcare organizations see HIPAA as a restriction. It’s not. It’s a credibility signal. When your marketing team is trained in digital compliance, when your workflows are secure, and when your content respects patient privacy — you don’t just avoid risk. You build trust, and 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬 : • 𝐏𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐜𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 • 𝐑𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐬 • 𝐋𝐨𝐧𝐠-𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐦 𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 • 𝐒𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐭𝐡 Compliance is not a constraint. It’s a competitive advantage. If you want to build a healthcare marketing system that grows without risking reputation, read the full guide here 👇 https://lnkd.in/dgkCh59k #HealthcareMarketing #HealthcareIndustry #DigitalHealth #HIPAA #HealthTech #SocialMediaStrategy #HealthcareLeadership #MedicalMarketing #Averybitsolutions

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