Shows
The Food Is Health RevolutionLive Demo: Building Your Family Health Dashboard with Claude - Weekly Livestream w/Gene Vestel FHIR Data GuyWe’re going live (here) Tuesday, March 17th at 11:30am ET.I bumped into the FHIR Data guy on Substack after reading his version of a very similar thought experiment with Claude for healthcare last month. I invited him into the show and then we made sure to rendezvous during my breif time at HIMSS in Vegas last week. We managed to record a quick rif and photographic evidence of our meetup and it’s shared above. Yes I look exhausted in this one. Yes the writing is on the wall that I will get hit by a fr...
2026-03-1608 min
Out of the FHIR PodcastEpisode 19 - with Aaron Neiderhiser and Phil BallentineThis week, I’m sharing a special conversation I had with Aaron Neiderhiser of Tuva Health and Phil Ballentine from Atropos Health (together they host the High Dimensional Health Data Podcast) . We’ve been trying to schedule this for months, and I’m glad we finally hit record because we got right into the weeds of why healthcare analytics is still so painful and how we are fixing it.If you’ve followed my work, you know I’m obsessed with the intersection of FHIR and Analytics. But there is often a disconnect between the “high priests” of standards a...
2025-12-1253 min
Out of the FHIR PodcastMichael Westover on the perils of vendor data sharingIn today’s rapidly evolving healthcare landscape, the integration of data between payers and providers has become crucial for delivering value-based care. In this episode of the out of the fhir podcast, FHIR Data guy sits down with Michael Westover , VP of Payer Partnerships and Informatics at Providence, to discuss his journey in healthcare, the challenges of data integration, and strategies for successful value-based care.The Journey to Value-Based CareMichael Westover’s path to his current role began with a strong foundation in healthcare consulting, where he guided states and municipalities on healthcare benefits. His desire to be c...
2025-11-1343 min
Out of the FHIR PodcastEpisode 17 - Eric Melymuk & John DobakWelcome back to Out of the FHIR. This isn’t just any episode. This is a reunion.FHIR Data guy brings together two heavy-hitters from his past, Eric Melymuk Principal Engineer at Progyny and John Dobak Senior FHIR Analytics Engineer at b.Well a trio of veterans who all came up in the “bad old days” of HEDIS and traditional quality measurement.This is the story of a technology stack (and a mindset) that defined healthcare data for decades, and the new stack that’s poised to replace it. They dive deep into the messy, complica...
2025-11-0730 min
Healthcare is Hard: A Podcast for InsidersEmerging Technologies (Part 3): Microsoft’s Chief Architect for Health on the Saga of Interoperability and AIDr. Josh Mandel says his first love was software. But on a whim, while studying computer science and software engineering at MIT, he took a course that opened his eyes to the world of medicine and genetics. It changed the trajectory of his career away from software – but only temporarily. He entered medical school after earning a bachelor’s degree in computer science and began rotating through Boston-area hospitals at the same time Meaningful Use accelerated adoption of electronic health records. With a background in computer science and training as a physician, Josh understood the promise of EHRs...
2025-09-1848 min
PULSEWhat happens when patients get test results before doctors?The PulsePod team are in Brisbane Australia for the annual HIC conference, where there are a number of announcements from large software companies, plus the future of interoperability seems to be FHIR all the way baby!What does Rock Health’s latest report tell us about US investor sentiment in digital health startups?Investing in women founders is so rare, should we refer to that as the real unicorn in start-up land?US based personal genomics company 23andMe – from highs to lows, what’s next for personal genomics?It’s all about th...
2024-08-0853 min