Rick Geimer

Rick Geimer

Chief Innovation Officer, Principal
"Our students are interoperability black belts."

Rick Geimer has over 30 years of experience in software engineering, healthcare information technology (IT), and electronic document management and publishing. He created the first online CDA Validator, an innovation used widely for prototyping standards compliance validation. He is an expert in Health Level Seven International’s (HL7) Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) and Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) implementations, enterprise content management for clinical documentation, and software development standards used for healthcare interoperability.

Rick provides oversight and sets technical direction for Lantana’s engineers, architects, and analysts. He is an expert in developing standards-compliant healthcare IT (HIT) systems and serves as lead engineer and architect on projects for clients such as the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Rick is a committed member of the HL7 community. He is a an HL7 John Quinn fellow, co-chair of HL7’s FHIR Infrastructure Working Group (FHIR-I), a member of the HL7 Technical Steering Committee (TSC), and a member of the ONC FHIR at Scale Task Force (FAST).