Value-based healthcare requires a population health strategy. Meaning, you need to monitor what patients are up to, stratify them by risk, intervene and then track outcomes. Cycle and repeat. Today I speak with Renee Petrie from DatStat, which is a population health management technology platform to make this all happen in a way that is scalable and far faster than old school approaches. You can find DatStat at Datstat.com

I’ve interviewed about 100 entrepreneurs and experts on the podcast at this juncture. So by no means even close to the Malcolm Gladwell’s 10,000 hour rule. So I’m still working on my interviewing game, but I’ll tell you what I have probably put in about 10,000 hours doing – listening to entrepreneurs and experts pitch their companies or their ideas. I thought I might take this inbetweenisode to talk about what I’ve learned good podcast guests always seem to do, and do well.

We’ve had many guests on the podcast talk about tech in physician offices. And many discuss technology for inpatient settings. We’ve talked about technologies that follow the patient from out patient to inpatient and out again. But we’ve never had anyone talk about tech for office-based physicians who happen to be caring for patients in the hospital. Greg Sanders, MD is a practicing cardiologist who knows his way around software development. HybridChart was born out of Greg’s desire to solve the big challenges doctors encounter when rounding.

70% of clinical decisions are based on lab values. The trick is getting those lab values into the workflow when a clinician needs them. Quest Diagnostics has a lot of lab values and integrations with 600 EHR systems. Meanwhile Inovalon has been working hard to amass and analyze data coming from more than 793,000 physicians, 277,000 clinical facilities, covering more than 132 million Americans. Put Quest and Inovalon together and you get real-time, point-of-care analytics; a joint venture called Data Diagnostics. Today I speak with Jason Rose.

Current EHR systems don’t do clinical decision support well. Say a diabetic patient got a foot exam six months ago. Except every time the patient goes to the doctor, an alert pops up that he needs a foot exam. A useless alert. Or the patient does need an exam, and the clinician has to figure out which order set or template to pull up, in the hopes of meeting some quality standard. It gets cumbersome really fast. Today I speak with Noah Weiner, CEO of Avhana Health about the current state of affairs and solutions.