By Dr. Nick van Terheyden aka Dr. Nick
Twitter: @drnic1
Host of Dr. Nick: The Incrementalist – #TheIncrementalist
On this episode I talked to to Sanjula Jain, PhD (@sanjula_jain), SVP Market Strategy & Chief Research Officer at Trilliant Health (@TrilliantHealth), a company focused on healthcare industry expertise, market research, and predictive analytics to create evidence-based direction for Healthcare.
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Sanjula has like many of my guests an interesting background and origin story but in her case set her on a path of greater influence and focusing on the bigger picture and the importance of data and policy to bring about change. Along the way, Sanjula managed to take the keen insights and data approach and update it with more recent claims data that allows for more current insights.
We discuss the challenge of inequity and disparities and the challenges of extracting out these differences with data that can already be biased and as you will hear finding ways to supplement this with other data sets and allowing for proxy inference from other resources
We dive into the process of influence and the use of data and as Sanjula says we need a whole additional hour for this but there is good news – she wrote a book on this area with some co-authors: The New Health Economy: Ground Rules for Leaders so for those as interested as me you can pick up a copy. Leadership is hard and especially so in Healthcare and critical to effective leadership is wide knowledge and understanding of the work gins of healthcare supplemented by data.
Listen in to hear the importance of understandings of the system and components, the inclusion of data in the conversation, and how we can go about bringing about change to our healthcare system by having critical and data-based debates that ask questions and challenge each other.
This article was originally published on the Dr. Nick – The Incrementalist blog and is republished here with permission.
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For years Dr. Nick van Terheyden aka Dr. Nick, has served as a voice on the impact of new technologies on healthcare, earning a reputation as a leading authority on where the future of medicine is going. Combining powers of observation and real world experience, Dr. Nick has seen many predictions come true and makes the case that innovations in healthcare can be accomplished incrementally, not just by moonshot events. Tune in to hear Dr. Nick: The Incrementalist and his guests discuss what the future of healthcare looks like, how we will get there, and what it will take to improve healthcare for all.
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