Julie Smith’s career might look like a zig zag on paper. She studied communications in college before pivoting to become an emergency room nurse focusing on safety net populations and disaster relief. She then moved to education before landing at her current role as a clinical product leader of InterSystems’ Healthshare, the company’s advanced interoperability platform, where she guides product development for the longitudinal health record, serving some of the largest health care organizations and government-sponsored entities in the world.
Smith’s nursing background is a critical part of her success over the last two decades of her career as a strategic and operational healthcare technology leader. She brings the frontline perspective of a nurse to the design of health IT systems, ensuring technology reduces the clinical burden rather than adding to it. She is an expert in interoperability and passionate about health equity, having sat on both sides of the table as both a nurse and technology manager. Smith often emphasizes why nurses must have a seat at the interoperability table, because connected systems should support care delivery, not just compliance or billing. Her goal is to improve the system as a whole and build something deeper - trust, alignment and shared accountability between patients and the healthcare industry.
Smith holds her BS in nursing from UT Austin and her MS in health informatics from the University of South Florida.
*submitted with permission on behalf of Julie by Torch Communications (Isabel Agricola)
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