Getting Value out of Electronic Health Records, with Verana Health

<p>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.</p><p>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 fields, cleans it up, analyzes it, and pulls out insights that could be useful—both for clinicians who want to increase the quality of the care they’re providing, and for pharmaceutical companies who need new ways to measure the effectiveness of their drugs and better ways  to find patients for clinical trials. Here to explain more about all of that are Verana’s CEO, Sujay Jadhav, as well as its senior vice president of clinical and scientific solutions, Shrujal Baxi. (If you’re a longtime listener you might remember that we had Shrujal on the show once before, back in 2018, when she talked about her previous company Flatiron Health.) </p><p><strong>Please rate and review The Harry Glorikian Show on Apple Podcasts! </strong>Here's how to do that from an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch:</p><p><strong>1. </strong>Open the Podcasts app on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac. </p><p><strong>2. </strong>Navigate to The Harry Glorikian Show podcast. You can find it by searching for it or selecting it from your library. Jus