Physician rating sites are a common starting point for patients after a new diagnosis or referral. Unfortunately, many of them miss out on the whole-patient journey and focus on isolated stats.

Embold Health uses sophisticated attribution models that allow them to start at the beginning of a patient’s journey. While evaluating physician performance is necessary and interesting, the basic standards are insufficient.

Host Brian Urban talks to Embold Health’s CCO, Brad Kimler, about expectations and ways of rating healthcare providers, focusing on local data.

● The technology and data behind Embold Health.

● Changing the healthcare economy and improving performance for providers.

● How to transform healthcare in the US.

Kimler uses the example of arthroscopic surgery in the knee to describe Embold’s Approach. “It’s really important to understand who does it disproportionately relative to others in the marketplace. Meaning have you tried more conservative treatment methodologies? Are you doing other things to help coach the other person through? In order to do that, you need to go upstream to the initial point of diagnosis and find out who’s been involved all the way through. It’s a fairly sophisticated model.”

Brad Kimler came out of retirement to join the Embold Health team as Chief Commercial Officer. Before his retirement, he worked at Fidelity. He also advised large employers on managing costs and delivering employee benefits. Kimler is a graduate of Brown University.

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