By JESSICA DAMASSA
Particle Well being’s CEO Troy Bannister stops by to not solely discuss concerning the API platform firm’s $25M Collection B, however to additionally clarify precisely what’s happening in that affected person information ‘exchange-standardize-and-aggregate’ area that, as of late, seems poised to pop because the twenty first Century Cures Act Info Blocking Rule stands able to make hospitals share information like by no means earlier than.
Troy calls Particle a “community of networks” and what which means is that their API pulls affected person information from organizations and companies which can be already aggregating them (so aggregating the aggregators) to get all of the lab information and medical information a clinician would need to with a view to have a extra full image of their affected person. For shoppers like One Medical or Omada Well being, who ship value-based care and tackle danger, having such a strong historic information set on sufferers – together with a extra full image of their comorbidities – helps enhance resolution making and outcomes.
So, how is Particle Well being working now – and what’s going to change – because the Info Blocking Rule will get applied? Troy’s written about this for Forbes, and explains what has him fired up right here too. Seems their mannequin has room to accommodate a giant pivot: giving sufferers entry to their very own ‘community of networks’ file. Discover out what units Particle off on this new B2B2C course and the way they are going to be utilizing that Collection B funding to construct out deeper analytical instruments to assist everybody make higher sense of what the info in all these information can present us.
Link to Troy’s Forbes piece on Anti Info Blocking Guidelines
Link to Jess’s chat with Micky Tripathi, the Nationwide Coordinator for Well being Info Know-how at HHS, on Anti Info Blocking & TEFCA:
