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Building Secure Healthcare Systems
As systems become more interconnected, new challenges emerge around data handling, authorization, governance, and workflows. The greatest risks often arise not from technology itself, but from the interactions between systems, teams, and tools.
Join tech leaders from thoughtbot and Merck for a discussion on how teams are building modern healthcare platforms while maintaining trust and compliance.
What you'll learn:
Managing architectural complexity in modern healthcare systems
Learn how APIs, integrations, and interconnected platforms can create hidden data risks.
Enabling AI innovation while maintaining governance
Explore how organizations are adopting AI-assisted development and agent-based workflows while establishing appropriate controls for sensitive data.
Creating secure "happy paths" for engineering teams
Discover how automation, standardized workflows, and platform design can help teams move faster while reducing risk.
Balancing speed, usability, and compliance
Understand how to navigate tradeoffs between innovation and governance.
Your panelists
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Clarissa Borges, Development Team Lead, thoughtbot
Clarissa is a Senior Developer at thoughtbot specializing in platform engineering and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). She has helped teams build and modernize healthcare software, with recent work spanning AI-enabled features and an open source observability project for RubyLLM.
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David Pace, Executive Director, Merck Research Labs IT, Enablement and User Experience, Merck
David is an IT leader at Merck with over 20 years of experience driving business results. He leads technology initiatives that help teams innovate while navigating the governance, security, and organizational complexity of a global healthcare enterprise.
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Joël Quenneville, Principal Developer, thoughtbot
Joël is a Principal Developer at thoughtbot who helps organizations modernize complex software systems. He has led healthcare software projects ranging from legacy platform modernization to architectural redesign and is widely known for his conference talks, technical writing, and co-hosting The Bike Shed podcast.