When I sat down with Jeff Sponaugle to talk about his role as Chief Technology Officer at Surescripts, one thing was clear: he’s fueled by curiosity. A true engineer, Jeff is all about learning how things work, why people do what they do and finding a better way to… <<insert just about anything <here>>.

All of our solutions rest on the power of the Surescripts network, built to maintain industry-leading reliability, security and scalability. Jeff’s team builds out our network infrastructure that includes the technologies, standards and practices that make it possible to securely deliver actionable intelligence across the nation at great scale and speed.

It’s 2030. What are you most proud of having helped accomplish in healthcare?

When you sit down to lunch or have a coffee with colleagues who are working on technology, what topics, trends or advances are you talking about lately?

How would you talk about healthcare technology at a cocktail party?

Not counting colleagues at Surescripts, who do you consider influencers, innovators or leaders in the field of technology?

Elon Musk

Richard Feynman

Who or what inspires you?

In addition to building our network infrastructure, Jeff’s also building a new house that he designed with, “lots of cool, high-tech stuff,” and is chronicling the project on social media. Features include music that follows you as you move from room to room and a long driveway with reactive lights that are sequentially triggered by the car’s passage.

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