Big Data Helps Hospitals And Doctors Care For Patients Posted on : Apr 27 - 2015

We saw three macro market trends come together to form the perfect startup opportunity. One was the national regulatory reform around how doctors got paid, and the resulting urgency to reinvent the business model of health care delivery.

The second was the growing data liquidity in the health care space.  Healthcare providers were starting to leave very rich digital data footprints, but we saw that the data were being very poorly utilized in the context of real-time workflows.

Third, we saw the opportunity to do for physicians what Moneyball did for baseball players, in which granular, player-level stats and predictive models helped to optimize team performance. How could we use a similar approach to ensure that doctors were put up to bat for the right patients? How could we help them perform at the tops of their licenses, and assemble the best teams to take advantage of their unique expertise and experience?

The answer was to build a company that helps hospitals build and operate high-performing provider teams by using data.

Can you talk about problems that exist in the current health care system that you are aiming to solve?

One of the major premises of health reform was to move from a fee-for-service model, where doctors are paid for every procedure and visit, to one in which they’re paid for value—for keeping patients healthier and out of the hospital.  View more