Brendan Keeler is Interoperability Practice Lead at HTD Health and author of the Health API Guy Substack.In this episode, Brendan explains why healthcare standards are actually a good thing, how HIPAA and X12 enable interoperability, the history of FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources), how information blocking and related laws are changing health tech, and how AI may reshape the healthcare standards and regulation.

Caroline Loy is Principal Product Strategist at Turquoise Health. In this episode, she explains what health plan design is, the decisions employers make when designing or buying plans, and how plan design affects care.