Friends & family have been asking me to explain what Explorys actually does. My explanation is that we work with hospitals and healthcare organizations to help them provide better patient care.
We take electronic medical records, from doctor's offices, pharmacies, anywhere you encounter a health care provider, we take all that data (and there is a ton of it) and provide ways for providers to improve patient care.
That is our main goal. To help healthcare providers help their patients. To get people the best healthcare possible. The 100 or so people I work with are passionate about this.
The government is also telling providers that they need to improve patient care. Because in this country, we spend the most money on healthcare, but our results are poor. Our mortality rates are higher then other countries who spend less money.
The government mandate is for healthcare organizations to do better. To help their patients get the most out of available healthcare. This is basically what people are calling "Obama Care". Providers are now paid a certain amount, and if they are able to show improvements in patient care, they will make a profit. If they fail they lose money.
Explorys gives providers access to huge amounts of real data, and then we give them ways to research the data, to understand how to better serve patients. We can help them track patients who are missing blood work appointments, or to track patients with diabetes who are also gaining weight, so that doctors can proactively reach out to those patients to help them understand the risks of comorbidity.
Here is a story that explains what "big data" means to healthcare, and it features Explorys. If I'd started this job a week earlier I would have been on camera. Thank god I missed that!
The part about Explorys is at the end.
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