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Clinicians Driving Interop: Insights from HL7 Da Vinci Project Clinical Advisory Council (CAC)
In this episode of The Dish on Health IT, POCP CEO and host Tony Schueth sat down with Dr. Julia Skapik (SVP & CMO at PurpleLab, practicing physician, member of the HL7 Da Vinci Clinical Advisory Council, and outgoing HL7 International board chair) and Dr. Steven Waldron (Chief Medical Informatics Officer at the American Academy of Family Physicians and Co-Chair of the Da Vinci Clinical Advisory Council). Together, they explored how clinicians are shaping interoperability and standards development through the HL7 Da Vinci Project’s Clinical Advisory Council (CAC). -
From Mandate to Momentum: How Health Plans Can Align Compliance, PA Reduction Pledge, & Org Goals
Webinar recording of a panel discussion held on September 11, 2025.
Host & Panelist: Brian Dwyer
Moderator: Vanessa Candelora
Panel:
- Alix Goss
- Kendra Obrist
- Lauren Bedel
- Lenel James
Topic:
Health plans and their health tech partners are facing three major priorities at once:
- Meeting compliance requirements under CMS-0057
- Responding to the new CMS and payer pledge to reduce prior authorization burdens across government and commercial plans
- Advancing their own interoperability roadmaps to improve provider collaboration, operational efficiency, and member experience
Too often, these efforts are managed in silos. This webinar explores how health plans can connect the dots, leveraging investments made for CMS-0057 compliance to also support the industry’s prior authorization commitments and accelerate broader strategic goals. -
FQHCs: Undervalued, Misunderstood—and Essential
In this episode of The Dish on Health IT, Tony Schueth and Rob Dribbon are joined by Neikisha Charles Director of Quality Improvement and Risk Management of Bedford Stuyvesant Family Health Center (Bed-Stuy), a federally qualified health center (FQHC) in Brooklyn, NY. Together, they dig into common misconceptions about FQHCs and shine a spotlight on the opportunities they present for strategic engagement across the healthcare ecosystem—especially for health IT and life sciences organizations. -
Dish on Health IT - Consent Management: Why It’s Not as Simple as You Think
In this episode of The Dish on Health IT, host Tony Schueth sits down with two of the industry's sharpest minds leading the charge to fix one of health IT’s most persistent headaches: digital consent management. Janice Reese, Senior Consultant at Point-of-Care Partners and Program Manager for the FHIR at Scale Taskforce (FAST), and Mohammad Jafari, Co-Lead of FAST’s Consent Work, offer an unflinching look at why consent is still so messy—and what it’ll take to make it scalable, interoperable, and actually work for patients. -
The Dish on Health IT Podcast: Inside Peek at Kaiser Permanente’s Health IT Playbook with Rob Alger
In this episode of The Dish on Health IT, host Tony Schueth and payer interoperability expert Kendra Obrist sit down with Rob Alger, SVP of Health Plan Technology at Kaiser Permanente, for a candid and sweeping conversation about payer interoperability, AI, FHIR, and the realities of health IT innovation at scale. -
The Dish on Health IT: HIMSS25 Recap
In this special HIMSS25 recap episode of The Dish on Health IT, host Tony Schueth, CEO of Point-of-Care Partners (POCP), is joined by co-hosts Brian Bamberger, POCP’s Life Sciences Lead, and Vanessa Candelora, Senior Consultant and Program Manager of the HL7 Gravity Project. Together, they break down the biggest themes from the conference, covering interoperability, artificial intelligence (AI), FHIR adoption, and the growing focus on improving data quality in healthcare innovation. This video version of this episode also contains bonus interview footage on consent managment. -
Pharmacy Interoperability: Challenges, Opportunities, and Urgency
In this episode of The Dish on Health IT, host Tony Schueth leads an engaging discussion on pharmacy interoperability, a topic at the center of a recently published POCP white paper funded by the NCPDP Foundation and supported by Surescripts. Joining Tony as guests are, John Hill, Executive Director of the NCPDP Foundation, and Larry King, Director of Intelligent Prescribing at Surescripts, to unpack the white paper’s findings and explore the future of pharmacy’s role in patient care. -
Bridging Divides: Interoperability & Payer-Provider Collaboration. Guest, Anthony Murray, CIO, MRO
In this episode of The Dish on Health IT, Host Tony Schueth, CEO of Point-of-Care Partners (POCP), and Co-host, Kendra Obrist, Payer Strategy Senior Consultant with POCP, welcome Anthony Murray, Chief Information Officer of MRO, to tackle one of health IT’s most pressing topics: payer-provider data exchange and interoperability.
