In this episode of Tuning Healthcare, Aneesh Chopra discusses how the lack of data transparency and interoperability has crippled the ability for the U.S. to respond to the COVID-19 public health crisis. Aneesh is the President and Cofounder of CareJourney, a data and analytics company focused on the move to value-based care, and was also the former first Chief Technology Officer of the United States, serving under President Obama from 2009 to 2012. He also discusses how the move to value-based care may accelerate as a result of this crisis, and how revitalizing our nation’s healthcare IT infrastructure could speed up improvements for providers, payers and consumers.

“We may emerge with a different cost structure in the healthcare delivery system, that's more asset light. That may be disruptive to organizations that generate the big institutional revenue, but we're going to work our way through that change. That would have come anyway through value-based care, but this will just accelerate. And then you'd ask the question, "If I can treat this group of patients at home, in a much lower cost setting, with this remote monitoring, with physicians checking in at this time period and we get similar or better outcomes, remind me again why we're not doing that today?"
– Aneesh Chopra, President of CareJourney and former Chief Technology Officer of the United States

In this episode, Aneesh and Lumeris Senior Vice President Nigel Ohrenstein discuss:
• The lack of data transparency and interoperability in healthcare and its impact during the COVID-19 crisis
• How the move to value-based care may accelerate in the post-pandemic era
• What the new normal of healthcare could look like from a care delivery and infrastructure standpoint
• What a fully informed provider and patient experience could look like
• How data transparency and consumer apps can help speed up interoperability

Cited works:
• Text Message Alert 1 Sound. Available at http://soundbible.com/2154-Text-Message-Alert-1.html.
• ECG Sound. Available at http://soundbible.com/1730-ECG.html.
• AM Radio Tuning Sound. Available at http://soundbible.com/2099-AM-Radio-Tuning.html.
• Intro music. Gordon Household. August 2019. WAV File.