Healthcare interoperability · Since 2007

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Tone Southerland

Tone Southerland

Founder & Principal Consultant

Location
Nashville, TN
Email
tone@anscott.io
Phone
+1 (615) 392-0194

What I help with

Services

01

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.

02

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.

03

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.

Where I've gone deep

Expertise

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

Tone Southerland

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.

In healthcare interop since
2007
Standards worked in
IHE · FHIR · TEFCA
Book chapter & technical reviewer
Author

Writing

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Interoperability Is More Than a Technology Problem

We have the standards and the APIs. The hardest interoperability problems today are about workflow, ownership, and collaboration across organizations.

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