Episode 7 - "Plaid" in Healthcare with Brendan Keeler & Jason Kulatunga - Part 2

Out of the FHIR – Special Edition: Plaid for Healthcare, Part 2 Episode Title: The Infrastructure Awakens: From Interop Dreams to Data-Driven Reality

In Part 2 of our special double-header episode, Eugene Vestel dives even deeper into the bold vision of a connected healthcare ecosystem with two of the industry's sharpest minds:

* 🧠 Brendan Keeler – Interoperability Practice Lead at HTD Health

* 🚀 Jason Kulatunga – Founder of Fasten Health, Techstars NYC '24

We go beyond the buzzwords and into the infrastructure truths that will define the next decade of healthcare:

🔹 Why the FHIR movement is both essential and already obsolete in some ways 🔹 The brutal reality of building consumer-first health tech in a system that wasn't designed for it 🔹 How we might look back in 3–5 years and think, "What were we thinking?" 🔹 Lessons from Plaid’s playbook and what not to copy in healthcare 🔹 The emergence of an autonomous data layer that lets AI act without human crutches

This isn’t hype. It’s the kind of grounded, uncomfortable, and ultimately liberating conversation we need to have if we want to break through the ceiling of digital health and actually build something better.

🔥 If Part 1 sparked the idea, Part 2 sets it on fire.