Moneyball Medicine

Healthcare is one of those areas where more data is almost always better. And I talk a lot on the show about how data is helping doctors and patients make smarter decisions. But a lot of the data we’d still like to have is stuck in those arcane Electronic Health Record systems or EHRs that medical practices or hospital systems use to track their patients. These systems tend to be closed, proprietary, user-unfriendly, and incompatible with one another. And we've repeatedly made the case here on the show that EHR technology is holding back innovation across the healthcare market.That’s why we like to meet companies that are working to make EHR data more useful. And in this episode we welcome a pair of guests from a company called Verana Health that’s trying to do just that. The company recently brought in $150 million in new venture capital funding to help scale up its data services, which currently focus on the subspecialties of ophthalmology, neurology, and urology. Verana takes data on patients in these fiel