Innovating Health Plan Provider Directories: We're Not at AI Yet | Ari Tulla, CEO Quest Analytics

Here's a reality check on where we're at with the transformation of healthcare: there's still work to be done digitizing the provider directory that's core to the way that health plan participants find their doctors. Yikes! Ari Tulla, CEO of Quest Analytics, assures us that we're close to cracking the way basic information like doctor's phone numbers, addresses, and office hours are recorded, with process improvements (and even some CMS incentives) helping drive that change. Why is this so hard? Ari explains why tracking docs is harder than it seems, and why health plans need to move past matters of provider network 'accuracy' -- and on to evaluating their networks for 'adequacy' in terms of meeting patient needs -- sooner rather than later. As the Big Tech companies bring their data, search, and analytics capabilities into healthcare, will they finally be able to help us with the 'find a physician' features in our health insurance? Tune in to find out!

Filmed at HLTH 2019 in Las Vegas, October 2019.

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