Spring Cleaning

A few things I've been meaning to share: roles, communities, navigation updates, and a Veeva setback.

Something a little different today. We’ve been on a big spring cleaning kick over here at Casa Keeler, so I'm using this space today to connect some dots and do some housekeeping:

• Talented people looking for roles

• Communities worth your time

• Updates on Health API Guy’s remodeling

• For subscribers, one small but satisfying update from the Epic Litigative Universe.

Talent

I have a few tremendously talented friends both senior and junior in their careers looking for new roles!

Health Policy

A friend (fairly early in her career) is seeking a role at the intersection of health policy and health technology, whether in consulting, vendor-side regulatory strategy, or association policy work.

She’s a MPH with hands-on digital health experience translating federal health policy and legislation into:

• Market intelligence

• Regulatory positioning

• Go-to-market strategy for health technology companies.

Background spans health communications, policy analysis, and mixed-methods research. Open to relocation anywhere in the continental U.S.

Senior Product Manager

Another friend is looking for her next product management opportunity. She brings 4+ years at an AI-driven patient engagement company, where she grew from Associate PM to PM, so she's got both the strategic chops and the ground-level build experience.

Before that, she worked in consumer research and experience design at a consumer health platform, giving her real fluency in how patients actually interact with their data. She started her career in health data operations at a care coordination startup and has maintained a 12-year commitment to patient advocacy work outside her day job.

Remote or Nashville preferred.

Communities

It’s been a minute since I surfaced the communities I run, so I wanted to highlight those two Slack groups in case they’re beneficial to you, whether you're looking for your next role, just want to hang out with people who get it, or desperately want bulk FHIR to work.

Epic Alumni Community

• What: A 1000+ Slack group of former Epic employees spanning at least 43 states and 14 countries

• Why: It’s fun to reconnect with former colleagues and friends. There’s great banter about industry twists and turns (especially with the drama in the last year) and it’s a good way to find talent or new roles. Robert Henehan also leads a periodic group roundtable about AI topics.

• Who: Anyone who worked for Epic at some point (but no longer does)

• How: Make sure to reach out if you’d like to be added!

Bulk FHIR App Community

• What: A small but mighty (~50) Slack group of developers of bulk FHIR (or bulk FHIR curious) application developers.

• Why: Bulk FHIR is a powerful tool for any application that needs population synchronization, but needs standardization/doesn’t want to deal with the messiness of reporting database integrations. However, it’s still fairly raw, so we’re working to improve it by sharing experiences, wins and challenges.

• Who: Anyone who develops a bulk FHIR application (or if you have tried but switching to hammering transactional FHIR APIs due to EHR limitations)

• How: Make sure to reach out if you’d like to be added!

Where to Find Everything

An astute reader pointed out that the welcome email is a bit out of date, pointing to a 2024 Table of Contents post with nothing in the past two years. Fair point, and thanks for flagging it.

When I started writing a lot more frequently in late 2024 and 2025 on LinkedIn and other platforms, I summarized all content across platforms last year in monthly updates.

Since September, all content I publish lives on the Substack and is organized into a few sections:

• Daily Ping: A post per day. Quick hits, observations, and analysis.

• Health API Guy: Longer, deeper articles. Generally free.

• The Information Exchange: Periodic podcast by the HTD team.

• Court Cases: Summaries of the bigger cases with the “so what” and links to relevant posts.

I’m currently backfilling older 2025 posts and plan to tackle major 2024 content next. Ironically, Substack has no API for content migration, so the process here has been prolonged. Once that’s done, the organization will get a lot tighter and I can focus on new content (as well as reorganization).

Referrals and Group Subscriptions

I wanted to highlight two features that Substack supports that a few of you would benefit from using.

1. Referrals: A few of you have shared my content in various ways. If you use the link from the Leaderboard page here, you can benefit from earning a free subscription for yourself. You can also append the referral parameter from that link to any article to get credit.

2. Group Subscriptions: A few companies have 5+ employees signed up for the paid subscription. If that’s the case, you may want to consider a group subscription, which you can find here.

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