Thought Leaders in Healthcare IT: CareJourney CEO and President Obama’s CTO Aneesh Chopra (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: In this use case that you mentioned, what are they doing with that information?

Aneesh Chopra: Establishing contracts. Physicians negotiate contracts with insurance companies on a fee-for-service basis. If I see a patient, will you pay me $100? In parallel, there is a related network function to say, “I’m not as interested in what your unit price will be when I see a patient. What I’d rather do is take responsibility for the full expected spend on that patient for the year or three years.”

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Thought Leaders in Healthcare IT: CareJourney CEO and President Obama’s CTO Aneesh Chopra (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: I want to close this segment of our discussion with a question. What, in your mind, are some of the open problems that you would like startups to go solve?

Aneesh Chopra: Let’s go through the healthcare discussion we’ve had and identify a few examples along the way. In my dream world, there should be a series of entrepreneurs competing on the development of a digital health advisor or what I call a health information fiduciary.

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Thought Leaders in Healthcare IT: CareJourney CEO and President Obama’s CTO Aneesh Chopra (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What is your analysis of their potential to weave them into society?

Aneesh Chopra: We are going to continue down the curve on the cost side. Early in the Obama administration, it cost roughly $2,000 to sequence a genome. We set a goal to get that profitably delivered for under $100 and we’re well on the way to democratizing gene sequencing.

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Itai Sadan is the Co-founder and CEO of Duda, a company that turns desktop websites into mobile sites. When we spoke in 2013, Itai had over 10 years of experience in business development, partner management, program management, and development. Prior to founding Duda (formerly DudaMobile), Itai was a director at SAP, where he managed the SAP Discovery System program and was in charge of relationships with IBM, HP, and Fujitsu.

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