Emerging Technologies (Part 2): Past, Present & Future of Healthcare Interoperability with HTD Health's Brendan Keeler

About this episode

Brendan Keeler discusses his journey and insights into healthcare interoperability and emerging technologies.

Brendan Keeler’s path into healthcare interoperability has been anything but straightforward. After early stints implementing Epic in the U.S. and Europe, he helped hundreds of startups connect to provider and payer systems at Redox, Zus Health and Flexpa before taking the reins of the Interoperability Practice at HTD Health. Along the way, his Health API Guy blog turned dense policy updates into plain-language guides, earning a following among developers, executives and regulators. In ...

People in this episode

Guest: Brendan Keeler

Topics covered

• healthcare interoperability
• emerging technologies
• health APIs

Keywords

• Epic
• Redox
• Zus Health
• Flexpa
• Health API Guy

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Epic, Redox, Zus Health, Flexpa

Books & works: Health API Guy

Places: U.S., Europe

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