Moving Data Isn’t Enough: Building the Foundation for AI-Ready Healthcare
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Summary
As healthcare organizations invest in APIs, FHIR, automation, analytics, and AI, many are running into the same problem: connectivity alone does not create a trusted data foundation. Moving messages between systems is important, but it does not automatically deliver clean, consistent, contextualized data that can support better decisions, smarter workflows, or future innovation.
Join us for a practical discussion on the shift from data movement to data usefulness. We’ll examine why modern interoperability requires more than endpoints and interfaces, and how healthcare IT teams can build the integration foundation needed to support innovation at scale. Attendees will hear practical examples and lessons from real-world implementations, with a focus on what it takes to make healthcare data more connected, trusted, and ready for what comes next.
Speakers
Amanda Merritt
VP, Services Industries Product & Innovation
Infor
Amanda Merritt is a healthcare interoperability and product leader at Infor, serving as Senior Director, Product Management, where she helps shape the strategy and roadmap for interoperability-driven solutions. With a strong focus on technical innovation and product vision, she is known for translating complex standards and integration requirements into capabilities health systems and payers can operationalize.
Amanda brings deep expertise in data exchange and industry standards—actively participating in efforts such as the HL7 Da Vinci Project and helping organizations use regulatory change (including CMS interoperability and prior authorization requirements) as a catalyst for modernization. Her work emphasizes breaking down silos across clinical and operational platforms to enable more resilient, data-driven performance—improving visibility, reducing friction, and accelerating measurable outcomes.
Jesse Evans
Product Director
Infor
Jesse Evans is Director of Product for Infor FHIR Services at Infor, a Koch company. His career spans nearly two decades in healthcare, beginning at UPMC supporting Cerner clinical systems and master patient index platforms, then at UPMC Enterprises leading cloud architecture. Over ten years at Infor, he now leads product strategy across the interoperability portfolio: FHIR Bridge, Cloverleaf FHIR Server, and the cloud-native IFSx Platform. He pairs FHIR with generative and agentic AI on patient-first use cases that turn existing data into immediate care value: readmission risk scoring, gaps in care, population health, and value-based care.
Shahram Shahpouri Arani
Product Director
Infor
Shahram Shahpouri Arani, M.D., is a Product Director at Infor, where he leads the Population Health Analytics platform. A medical doctor with 25 years of experience spanning clinical informatics, EMR design, and enterprise healthcare architecture, he brings a rare combination of medical grounding and deep technical expertise to healthcare data. Before moving into product leadership, Shahram spent nearly a decade as a Principal Healthcare Data Architect, building FHIR-based interoperability ecosystems, semantic data models, and terminology systems at scale. He holds professional certificates in AI, reflecting his continued focus on applying AI to transform healthcare data from retrospective reporting into real-time clinical intelligence.
