HITshow: healthKERI CEO Jared Jeffery says Patient Safety is Cybersecurity

“Patient safety is cybersecurity.”

That’s the bold mission behind healthKERI, and they’re putting it into action with the launch of a fully open source, zero trust architecture for healthcare.
In this HITshow interview, we sat down with Jared Jeffery, CEO and Co-founder of healthKERI, to talk about why open source matters, how zero trust works in real-world healthcare data exchange, and what makes this demo different.

“We’ve done that intentionally. We want to make sure that people have access to what we think is actually going to save patients.”
With a background as both a health IT leader and a cancer survivor, Jared knows firsthand how overwhelming the patient journey can be—and believes cybersecurity should never add to that burden.

“There are a lot of things patients need to worry about—and cybersecurity shouldn’t be one of them.”

So what exactly is healthKERI offering?

A self-serve, zero trust demo built using Mirth (but compatible with any endpoints) that lets you stand up a secure architecture between two organizations—without waiting on a sales call or implementation team.
“When you transact data, you verify that they are who they claim to be… Never trust, always verify.”

For IT teams, this is a hands-on tool designed to be 10x more secure than standard TLS setups. And for anyone in the healthcare ecosystem—HIEs, health systems, vendors—it’s a plug-and-play framework to build real trust into your data exchanges.

Watch the full HITshow interview with Jared to hear why they built this to be open source from day one—and how you can test drive the tech right now.

Demo link: docs.healthkeri.com