#238 Data & AI for Improving Patient Outcomes with Terry Myerson, CEO at Truveta

Aug 26, 2024

Terry Myerson, CEO and Co-Founder of Truveta, dives into the chaotic world of health records. He illuminates the mess of fragmented data formats across healthcare, which hinders effective analyses and patient care. The discussion highlights the challenges of data privacy and accessibility, especially during the pandemic. Generative AI emerges as a potential game-changer for improving data management and patient outcomes. Terry advocates for comprehensive data integration and innovative solutions like de-identified data sharing to revolutionize healthcare.

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INSIGHT

Healthcare Data Challenges

Healthcare data faces three key challenges: privacy, fragmentation, and unstructured formats.
These issues hinder research and analysis, impacting patient care and healthcare advancements.

ANECDOTE

Data Gap in Pandemic Response

During the pandemic, conflicting information about hydroxychloroquine highlighted the lack of accessible data.
This lack of data hinders informed decision-making about treatments and interventions.

INSIGHT

Balancing Data Utility and Privacy

HIPAA defines de-identification processes, balancing data utility and patient privacy.
Truveta's system maximizes data utility while minimizing re-identification risk by redacting information.

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One of the prerequisites for being able to do great data analyses is that the data is well structured and clean and high quality. For individual projects, this is often annoying to get right. On a corporate level, it’s often a huge blocker to productivity. And then there’s healthcare data. When you consider all the healthcare records across the USA, or any other country for that matter, there are so many data formats created by so many different organizations, it’s frankly a horrendous mess. This is a big problem because there’s a treasure trove of data that researchers and analysts can’t make use of to answer questions about which medical interventions work or not. Bad data is holding back progress on improving everyone’s health.

Terry Myerson is the CEO and Co-Founder of Truveta. Truveta enables scientifically rigorous research on more than 18% of the clinical care in the U.S. from a growing collective of more than 30 health systems. Previously, Terry enjoyed a 21-year career at Microsoft. As Executive Vice President, he led the development of Windows, Surface, Xbox, and the early days of Office 365, while serving on the Senior Leadership Team of the company. Prior to Microsoft, he co-founded Intersé, one of the earliest Internet companies, which Microsoft acquired in 1997.

In the episode, Richie and Terry explore the current state of health records, challenges when working with health records, data challenges including privacy and accessibility, data silos and fragmentation, AI and NLP for fragmented data, regulatory grade AI, ongoing data integration efforts in healthcare, the future of healthcare and much more.

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