Forbes February 24, 2023
Ashish Kachru is President and General Manager of the GuidingCare division of HealthEdge Software.
A popular debate among healthcare data nerds over the years has been whether clinical data or claims data hold the key to driving cost-saving, health-promoting change in our fragmented system. As CEO of a technology company, I have heard this conversation a time or two!
On the one hand, clinical data—collected at the point a healthcare service is delivered—is deep, but it is also narrow, reflecting the condition of just one patient at a time. Clinical data manifests in rich conversations between providers and patients, but the unstructured portions of it hold a great value that is often missed. Sentence fragments and empirical observations make it...
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