Tone Southerland
Founder & Principal Consultant
Healthcare IT Expertise.
Spring Hill, TN • tone@anscott.io • +1 (615) 392-0194
Services
Healthcare Interoperability Strategy
Help navigating the array of health IT standards and initiatives. I work with implementation and business teams to interpret standards and design pragmatic implementation approaches that fit your organization and product.
Solution Architecture
Assessment of current architecture and future-state roadmaps. Guidance on incorporating FHIR, moving off legacy systems, and leveraging cloud-native, event-driven, and microservice-based designs.
Product & Project Management
Support for product strategy, product–market fit, delivery planning, and sustainability. I help teams align timing, value, and execution so health IT products can succeed and scale.
Experience
Healthcare IT Standards & Initiatives
- Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE)
- HL7 FHIR
- TEFCA / QTF
- Meaningful Use and related US programs
- Authoring & interpreting standards specifications
- Book chapter author and technical reviewer
Leadership, Architecture & Business
- Team leadership in small, large, and volunteer orgs
- Executive-level and board experience
- Systems design: distributed messaging, microservices, cloud architectures
- .NET/C#, SQL, Java, and modern integration tooling
- RFP/RFI responses and executive/technical liaison
- Contract negotiation and partner management
About
I've worked in healthcare interoperability since 2007 across EHRs, clinical data registries, consumer health, and infrastructure. I've served as engineer, architect, leader, subject matter expert, standards author, and board member. If you need to navigate the realities of health IT standards and get working solutions into production, let's talk.