Rajesh “Raj” Godavarthi has been with MCG Health since 2003, where he oversees a team that is building the key interoperability solutions outlined in MCG’s roadmap for the future. Raj is also MCG’s primary representative in the HL7^® Da Vinci Project, supporting industry stakeholders in developing new HL7^® FHIR^® standards which will allow for improved interoperability and communication between payers and providers.

In July 2021, Raj became a member of the WEDI Prior Authorization Subworkgroup, a leading authority on the use of health IT to efficiently improve health information exchange, enhance care quality, and reduce costs. In September of the same year, he was named the co-lead for the HL7^® Da Vinci Project’s burden reduction use cases in prior authorization support (PAS), coverage requirement discovery (CRD), and documentation templates and rules (DTR).