Laura Young

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Join date: Jun 18, 2025

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Laura is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Converge Health, a consulting firm dedicated to advancing the last mile of interoperability in healthcare. With deep expertise in Health Information Exchange (HIE), behavioral health data sharing, and consent management, Laura helps organizations navigate the complex intersections of policy, technology, and implementation. Converge Health provides both strategic consulting and fractional services to HIEs, public agencies, and health tech firms.

Laura brings more than 25 years of IT experience—including nearly two decades of leadership in healthcare IT. She has led major initiatives to integrate behavioral health and social care data into statewide and regional exchange frameworks, improving care coordination and enabling whole-person care. Her previous roles include Executive Director of San Diego Health Connect, as well as Executive Director positions with Alaska’s statewide HIE and a behavioral health HIE in Arizona.

Nationally recognized as a subject matter expert in interoperability and 42 CFR Part 2, Laura is known for her strategic insight and hands-on execution. She currently serves as Vice Chair of the HIMSS Interoperability & Health Information Exchange Community and has held board positions with the Arizona and Alaska HIMSS chapters

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Feb 3, 2026 ∙ 4 min

Patient and Provider Empowerment Through Data Usability: Why “Usability” Is the Next Interoperability Battleground

Interoperability has come a long way. We have national frameworks, mandated standards, data exchange requirements, rules that discourage information blocking, and countless initiatives aimed at helping data move across systems. On paper, we are closer to seamless connectivity than ever before. But ask any clinician or patient whether the data they receive is actually usable, and you will get a very different story. Data may be flowing, but much of it still arrives in formats that are...

Jan 27, 2026 ∙ 7 min

Why Uniform Data Matters: How USCDI Powers Data Liquidity and Better Care

In interoperability conversations, data liquidity often sounds like a lofty technical term. In reality, it means something far more concrete for providers: consistent, trustworthy data when and where they need it. The United States Core Data for Interoperability ( USCDI ) plays a critical role in making data reliable across disparate systems, which in turn helps clinicians make better decisions at the point of care and supports coordinated care delivery. Data liquidity refers to how easily,...

Jan 19, 2026 ∙ 5 min

The Future of Tech Enabled Care in 2026: What It Means for Medicaid, HIEs, and Rural Health Transformation

The future of tech enabled care has never felt more real than it does heading into 2026. We are standing at a moment where statewide interoperability, Medicaid modernization, AI acceleration, and community level transformation are converging to reshape how data supports the people who need it most. The national focus on Rural Health Transformation (RHT) reinforces that progress will not be measured only by new tools, but by whether those tools work for the front lines. As ASTP brings...