Healthcare IT Today January 14, 2026
Sending data over the wire is just the start of health care data interoperability. Other critical tasks include identifying the right destination (in other words, a directory), identifying the patient and other security practices, and getting patient consent. In this video, we hear about these topics from two co-chairs of the HL7 FHIR at Scale Taskforce (FAST): Jason Teeple, Senior Director Enterprise Architecture and Interoperability Strategy, Evernorth and Duncan Weatherston, CEO at Smile Digital Health.
Teeple says that up to now, for any two organizations to set up health data exchange, they would require three to five months of looking over the standards they use and setting up a connection. He says this process must be reduced to a few...







