Connecting the Care Continuum: Affiliate Strategies for Scalable, Clinician-Centered Interoperability

This panel brings together leaders from Sutter Health, Raleigh Neurology Associates, Epic, and athenahealth to tackle one of healthcare’s most pressing interoperability challenges: how health systems scale connectivity across networks of 50+ affiliated and independent ambulatory practices. Point-to-point integration models often break down at scale, resulting in incomplete patient records and missed care coordination opportunities that undermine both clinical outcomes and network economics.

 
Panelists will explore strategies for moving beyond one-to-one integration toward scalable approaches that enable seamless data flow and more complete longitudinal records—without forcing affiliates to surrender autonomy or imposing unsustainable costs. The discussion will address both the technology architectures that make this possible and the operational realities of implementing them: governance frameworks, change management across diverse practice settings, and workflows that surface the right information to clinicians without adding burden. 

Attendees will leave with actionable insights on building collaborative ecosystems that support value-based care performance, optimized referrals and care transitions, and confident care delivery across sites and settings.