Thomas M. Keane

What will it take to make healthcare data available securely when and where patients and clinicians need it? How can government reduce regulatory burden while protecting privacy, safety, and trust? And what role should federal standards play as artificial intelligence moves more deeply into clinical care? We'll explore these questions and so much more with my very special guest, Dr.

Thomas Keane, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Tom, welcome to the show.

It's great to have you.

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Welcome back to the Business of Government Hour.

I'm Michael Keegan, your host, and our guest today is Dr. Thomas Keane, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

I'd like to dig a little deeper into the healthcare data liquidity in the TEFCA network.

The next challenge is making all of that data actually move.

In this episode, A16Z's Julie Yu and Colin Rahm sit down with Dr. Tom Keen, National Coordinator for Health IT, to talk about the infrastructure behind the next era of healthcare technology.

Tom explains how the government helped take electronic health record adoption from roughly 15% to 90%, and why the focus has now shifted from digitization to interoperability.

That means giving patients greater control of their data, making it easier for new applications and AI agents to interact with healthcare systems, and reducing regulatory barriers for new entrants.

And finally, Julie asks when AI might help produce a serious new competitor to today's dominant electronic health record companies.

Tom's prediction? Within one to two years.

We are so glad to be here with Dr. Tom Keen, National Coordinator for Healthcare IT in the Office of the National Coordinator, ONC, and my partner, Colin Rahm, here as well.

And we're going to have a wide sweeping conversation about the state of health tech in America.