The Latest from WCI: Welcoming Regis Charlot and Scaling AI Readiness
The WCI Briefing
West Coast Informatics is moving fast into the second half of 2026. From strengthening our leadership with the appointment of Regis Charlot to our Board of Directors, to the official launch of AutomapAI™, we remain committed to providing the shared language and foundational infrastructure necessary for a healthier, more equitable future.
Below are the key highlights of our recent accomplishments:
Leadership Expansion: Welcoming industry veteran Regis Charlot to help guide our strategic growth
AI Readiness: General availability of AutomapAI for automated clinical data normalization
Platform Updates: Enhancements to TermHub™ and the debut of the Open TermHub
Global Engagement: Recent takeaways from SNOMED in Vienna and HIMSS, and what’s next in Mexico City
West Coast Informatics Appoints Regis Charlot to Board of Directors
We are excited to welcome Regis Charlot to our Board of Directors. Regis will also serve as a strategic advisor, supporting our growth initiatives and market expansion. With over 30 years in healthcare technology and as a founding team member of IMO Health, Regis is a recognized innovator in the architecture and scaling of enterprise healthcare platforms and terminology infrastructure. His strategic insight is a perfect fit for our roadmap as we expand our interoperability solutions to support the growing demands of healthcare data management and AI readiness.
AutomapAI Product Announcement
We recently announced the general availability of AutompAI, an enterprise solution that automates clinical data normalization by transforming local codes, legacy standards, and unstructured text into standards-aligned, AI-ready data. In today’s fragmented healthcare ecosystem, where data rarely arrives clean or standardized, organizations are often burdened by manual mapping that delays integrations and drives costly downstream remediation. AutomapAI addresses these challenges by embedding semantic normalization at any point in your data processing pipeline. By supporting standards such as SNOMEDCT and LOINC, this helps reduce costs, free up expert resources, and enable a consistent, AI ready foundation for analytics.
TermHub Keeps Getting Better
We have delivered major enhancements to TermHub, our FHIR native terminology platform, along with the launch of Open TermHub, a deployable runtime designed to make clinical terminology easier to access, deploy, and keep current across modern health applications. These updates reduce the operational burden of managing complex terminologies by improving content discovery, expanding metadata visibility, and streamlining how standards are deployed and maintained.
With Open TermHub, organizations can now stand up a fully functional terminology server with minimal effort using a containerized environment with automated content syndication.
Global Momentum and Recent Events
WCI Authorities to Shape Healthcare Standards in Mexico City
West Coast Informatics is on-site in Mexico City this week, participating in the Panel de Interoperabilidad y Estándares - an elite gathering of leaders driving the future of health data across Latin America. As healthcare systems in the region rapidly evolve, WCI is at the forefront, establishing the foundational interoperability required for safer care and connected health ecosystems. Representing our team of industry-leading specialists, CTO Brian Carlsen and Chief Medical Advisor Marcos Mireles are on the ground sharing WCI’s deep expertise in clinical terminologies, data architecture, and scalable tooling.
If you are attending, do not miss the opportunity to hear our executive leadership discuss how we build the common language for healthcare data and to learn how WCI can accelerate your own digital health initiatives.
Connect with our experts and learn more about our global engagement.
Recent Highlights
We recently joined the global health terminology community in Vienna for the SNOMED International Business Meetings. It was a productive week spent connecting with partners and contributing to key strategic discussions. A major highlight was the debut of our Mapping Tool 2.0 (MT2) to the Managed Service User Group, which received a tremendous reception.
The WCI team also attended the HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition. This provided a valuable opportunity to continue our engagement with the broader health IT community and discuss the evolving landscape of digital health and data standards.
Terminology Quiz
In SNOMED CT, which "Attribute" is used to logically link the concept "Acute Appendicitis" to the concept "Appendix structure"?
A) Associated morphology
B) Finding site
C) Direct device
D) Pathological process
Recent Blog Posts
General Articles of Interest
https://hbr.org/2026/03/healthcare-uses-specialized-language-it-needs-specialized-ai- too
https://www.ama-assn.org/press-center/ama-press-releases/ama-releases-cpt-2026-code-set
Correct Answer to Quiz: B - Finding site
SNOMED CT uses clinical "Defining Characteristics." While the morphology is "Inflammation," the Finding site specifically points to the anatomical location.