In this episode, Sandy Vance interviews Dominique Gross, the CEO of Hart, Inc. Hart was started in Irvine, California with the mission of building a healthcare API for other healthcare community members to develop on. Dominique explains Hart’s niche as a healthcare API with an open standards approach, and how this approach fills in the gaps that other APIs cannot. She also explains Hart’s role in helping healthcare systems through mergers and acquisitions and the future of Hart as it moves into helping clients beyond data access. Episode Notes Sandy and Dominique begin by discussing Hart’s open standards approach, which allows it to provide information on non-standardized areas of data like notes. This approach makes Hart uniquely equipped to help healthcare systems through mergers and acquisitions; aggregating data and driving access on the physician side. Sandy and Domonique also explore hart’s work in quality metric reporting and discuss Hart’s future in helping its clients make sense of the data. In this episode, they discuss: How Hart’s open standards approach works, and how it allowed Hart to carve out a niche in healthcare API The unique challenges that healthcare organizations face during mergers, and how Hart helps them with data accessibility through those challenges Data management and access during mergers from the physician side The system interactions and lack of standardization that Hart addresses Trends like consolidation in private equity The evolution of quality metric reporting, and Hart’s role in helping clients with reporting How Hart provides healthcare systems with a complete picture by fully representing the complexities and grey spaces of the data A little about Dominique: Dominique Gross is a seasoned executive and leader with extensive experience in the healthcare industry, known for scaling businesses and driving growth through strategic, customer-centric marketing. With a background in mechanical engineering and an MBA in Technology, she combines technical expertise with business acumen to launch innovative products and lead cross-functional teams. As the CEO of Hart Inc., Dominique Gross leads a company known for being a trusted healthcare IT partner, leveraging a tech-first approach to deliver cost-effective and time-efficient data solutions. Hart's offerings include data migration, continuous data feeds, cloud migrations, and archival services, all designed to ensure data is secure, compliant, current, and easily accessible. Under Dominique's leadership, Hart focuses on maximizing resources through streamlined data transformation technologies that reduce costs and minimize the time required from healthcare teams, enabling clients to close care gaps, deliver precise analytics, and efficiently manage data, all while enhancing patient care.
