The Collective Voice of Health IT, A WEDI Podcast

Michael welcomes 

• Dr. Sandy Rolfe, WEDI’s Genomics Workgroup Chair Clinical Content Lead, InterQual, Optum Insight
• Lesley Berkeyheiser, WEDI's Privacy & Security Workgroup Co-Chair, Assessor with DirectTrust
• Thanh Thien Nguyen, WEDI's Privacy & Security Workgroup Co-Chair, Executive Director, Kaiser Permanente

to discuss their workgroups working together to spotlight the intersection between direct to consumer (D...

Children make up nearly half of all Medicaid enrollees—37 million nationwide—yet their unique needs are too often overlooked in value-based care models. In this episode, Michael sits down with Taylor Beery, Chief Innovation & Administrative Officer and Co-Founder at Imagine Pediatrics, to explore why pediatric value-based care requires its own distinct strategy. From addressing the needs of 14.5 million children with special he...

From WEDI's 2025 Spring Conference, Civitas Networks for Health Interim CEO Jolie Ritzo welcomes three HIE leaders to discuss how they are addressing various data exchange use cases from their unique state and regional perspectives. The panelists:

Melissa Kotrys, Chief Executive Officer, Contexture (Colorado and Arizona)

Phil Beckett, Chief Executive Officer, Texas Health Services Authority

Stephanie Brown, Executive Director, CRIS...

From a WEDI virtual spotlight earlier this summer, hosts and WEDI Privacy & Security Work Group Co-Chairs Lesley Berkeyheiser (DirectTrust) and Thanh-Thien Nguyen (Kaiser Permanente) moderate a conversation with Healthcare Sector Coordinating Council Cybersecurity Leadership and cut through the noise on healthcare cybersecurity. The guests, Healthcare Sector Coordinating Council Executive Director of Cybersecurity Greg Garcia a...

This podcast episode is sponsored by Edifecs, a Cotiviti Business. For over 25 years, Edifecs has been a market leader in healthcare data interchange. Hundreds of health plans, providers, and government agencies rely on their interoperability solutions to unify, normalize, and exchange clinical and financial data. As the healthcare industry has evolved, Edifecs’ solutions have evolved with it. Their cloud-native, AI-powered solutio...

Guest host Denny Brennan (Executive Director, Massachusetts Health Data Consortium and WEDI Board Chair-Elect, welcomes Patrick Lane, President and COO of Health Gorilla. Patrick discusses his recent White House visit for the Make Health Tech Great Again event and addresses the issue of FWA: Fraud, Waste, and Abuse. Patrick sees the solution in the industry embracing LED: Legitimacy, Efficiency, and Development, and offers thoughts...

Learn more about the Sequoia Project's CMS0057F Implementation checklist here- https://sequoiaproject.org/interoperability-matters/payer-to-payer-api-workgroup/ 

Michael welcomes back (Episode 174, Oct 2024) the co-chairs of the Sequoia Project's Payer to Payer API Implementation Workgroup, Nancy Beavin (Medica) and Bob Oakley (Evernorth), to discuss their new work product, a downloadable tool designed to help payers assess their r...

This podcast episode is sponsored by Edifecs, a Cotiviti Business. For over 25 years, Edifecs has been a market leader in healthcare data interchange. Hundreds of health plans, providers, and government agencies rely on their interoperability solutions to unify, normalize, and exchange clinical and financial data. As the healthcare industry has evolved, Edifecs’ solutions have evolved with it. Their cloud-native, AI-powered solutio...

From a recent WEDI virtual spotlight, WEDI's Emerging Technology Workgroup Chair Nick Radov (Stedi) has a great conversation about how providers are leveraging artificial intelligence to improve the industry and the special place guidance plays in ensuring not only innovation, but also responsibility.

The panel:

• Jared Staal, Executive Director, Intelligent Automation & AI, Mayo Clinic, Mayo Clinic
• Newar Shara, PhD, Chief, ...

WEDI's Privacy & Security Workgroup Co-Chair Lesley Berkeyheiser (DirectTrust) speakers with Charles Sweat Jr. MD, Healthcare and Public Health Sector Liaison, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) & Charlee Hess, Director Cybersecurity Division, Critical Infrastructure Protection, US Department Health and Human Services on their organizations' missions, purposes and the resources they have that can help g...

Michael welcomes Linda Travis Macomber, Professor in Practice and National University and a true thought leader in health care technology and innovation. Recently named a HIMSS Lifetime Fellow, Professor Macomber discusses her impressive career in nursing, health care tech development, and academia, addresses the history of AI in the industry, its bright future, and how she is preparing the next generation of health care technology...

From WEDI's March 27th's virtual spotlight on Artificial Intelligence, former WEDI Board Chair Ed Hafner chats with an impressive group of health care professionals about the benefits, challenges, and future of artificial intelligence in health care. The panel:

• Robert Laumeyer, CTO, Availity
• Nick Marzotto, Product Informaticist, Epic
• Andy Chu, SVP of Product and Technology Incubation, Providence
• Peter Clardy, MD, Senior Staff ...

From WEDI's Spring Conference, Michael crashed the Provider Information Workgroup meeting and chatted with workgroup co-chairs Martin Cody, Senior VP of Sales, Madaket Health, and Michelle Barry, Director, Expert Health Plans, Provider Data Management with Availity. They discuss the definition of provider directories, the current issues concerning accuracy, and the incorporation of artificial intelligence with provider information,...

From WEDI's Winter Forum earlier this year, a fireside chat about Health Equity's progress and future. The guests are LaShawn McIver, MD, SVP, Chief Health Equity Officer with AHIP, and Joy Lewis, SVP, Health Equity Strategies and Executive Director,  Institute for Diversity and Health Equity, American Hospital Association. The moderator is Nancy Spector, formerly of the American Medical Association and currently WEDI's Senior Dire...