Health tech horizons: interoperability, AI and the future of care
With Steven Whittington, Founder and CEO, My Health Match
Steven Whittington has spent his career in the unglamorous, high-stakes part of healthcare: getting systems that were never built to talk to each other to actually share data. In this one we get into interoperability and the FHIR standard, why it matters, and why most of the industry still gets it wrong.
What I took from it though was less about health tech and more about how he runs himself. He talks about being the CEO of your own life, about sustainable growth over the fast kind, and about trust and vulnerability being the real foundation of a team. The AI part is refreshingly grounded too: use it to systemise the repetitive work, keep the thinking human.
Key takeaways
- Interoperability lets health systems exchange data without rebuilding it every time, and the FHIR standard is what makes that exchange seamless.
- Sustainable growth beats fast growth in digital healthcare, and that holds for the founder as much as the product.
- Trust, vulnerability and clear goals are what actually build a team, not process.
- Treat failure as a learning tool, and run yourself like you are the CEO of your own life.
- Use AI to systemise and automate the repetitive work. The critical thinking stays human.
Books mentioned
- Mastering the Rockefeller HabitsVerne Harnish
- Fish!Stephen Lundin, Harry Paul, John Christensen
- The E-Myth RevisitedMichael Gerber
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