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 in health tech, AI, and how these advances will change the interoperability landscape. CHOP’s team is enthusiastic about the innovation happening in the industry.
In this episode, they talk about:
How the team at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia has been utilizing MuleSoft and Salesforce to break down silos of data
What MuleSoft is doing with APIs and how that is leading to seamless organization
The many use cases that make CHOP’s health system more efficient and effective.
How they have been able to deliver APIs more effectively with MuleSoft
CHOP aims to create multimodal, multi-omic data on behalf of decision support which helps professionals visualize precise personalized care and enable data sharing across medical organizations at a global scale
How the MuleSoft product has enabled CHOP to do the external data sharing needed to provide accurate information to the professionals who need it
How enabling technology also allows for human interoperability
The road map for Salesforce and Mulesoft
A Little About Today’s Guests:
Alexa Cushmanis the Global Product Industry Marketing Director for Healthcare and Life Sciences at MuleSoft. She has made a career of helping organizations improve outcomes through technology and received her Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. She has developed innovative hardware and software solutions, and led high-profile, enterprise-wide, and complex projects, turning business needs into technical solutions.
Jay Jenkins has over 35 years of technical experience, including over 30 years in technology management. His technical and management experience spans data integration, systems integration, software development, and networking systems.
Barry Box, an enterprise architect specializing in healthcare data integration, has a rich educational background with degrees from Baylor University, Texas A&M University, and the United States Military Academy at West Point. His experience spans two decades, during which he has designed secure data-sharing systems for major organizations including the Department of Veterans Affairs and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Before his current role as a Data Integration Architect at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), Barry facilitated successful Salesforce and MuleSoft implementations at Texas Health Resources. At CHOP, he aims to drastically reduce data compilation time for Child Brain Cancer Precision Medicine research.
Dr. Adam Resnick is the Center for Data-Driven Discovery Director in Biomedicine. He is driving many efforts around data sharing to enhance healthcare and outcomes.
If listeners would like to get a hold of them, they can reach Alexa at acushman@salesforce.com, Jay Jenkins at jenkinsj2@chop.edu, and they can find more information and resources at d3b.center.