Empowered Patient Podcast AI-Driven Platforms Breaking Down Healthcare Data Silos with Ram Sahasranam Fold Health
Ram Sahasranam, President and Co-Founder of Fold Health, has created a platform that integrates with the EHR to create an AI-driven interface that streamlines workflows, improves communication across the care team, and helps better manage patient care. Traditional EHR systems, while effective for documentation, were not built for proactive care and data sharing. With a focus on the patient and providers, Fold Health is integrating data sources and automating redundant administrative tasks helping to reduce clinician burnout and improve patient communication for scheduling and reminders.
Ram explains, "The way to look at it is that empowering providers and patients need to go hand in hand. That is the fundamental reason why we called ourselves Fold Health, which is that healthcare needs to fold around the providers and the team supporting the providers and the patients and the families of the patients who are involved in the care. We have seen healthcare go from $1.6 trillion in spending to $5.3 trillion in spending this year. But in those 15 years, we haven't yet seen it fold around the two most important people, the provider or the patient, in terms of better outcomes or improving the burnout rates that clinicians and their teams face today."
"So the fundamental challenge that we noticed was that multiple people were living in different systems and hence different silos from a data standpoint. So the clinician did not know what was happening with their care teams. The patient was living in a different system. If the patient goes to a specialist, the data comes in a compressed format to the physician in an easily digestible manner, which was a challenge. So what Fold does as a result of getting control of all these different nodes is that data can be used to summarize and provide things for the different teams in a quick, easily digestible manner."
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