Fil Southerland is the Director of Healthcare Solutions at Yardi Systems, Inc., one of the nation’s largest health information technology developers serving Independent, Assisted Living, Memory Care and LTPAC providers. Fil was appointed to the Federal HITAC Committee in 2021 by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and was recently reappointed to an additional 3-year term to represent health information technology perspectives for the LTPAC sector to the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy (ONC/ASTP).
Mr. Southerland co-founded one of the first EMRs in the Assisted Living space and is a Kno2 TEFCA QHIN Governance Council member, where he focuses on interoperability advancement for senior living health care providers. He also serves as a commissioner for the LeadingAge Center for Aging Services Technologies, is an active HL7 member, a member of Choctaw Nation, and a Sequoyah Fellow of the American Indian Science and Engineering Society. He received his Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from California Polytechnic State University, is a father to two amazing boys, and hopes to see earth from space one day.