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Q&A with Dean Stephens, CEO of Healthline

by Gus Iversen, Editor in Chief | August 06, 2015
Dean Stephens
Healthline's CEO
It's no big secret that the treasure trove of data being generated in health care today is hard to make sense out of. Events like the annual HIMSS meeting are dedicated to raising the bar on meaningfully interpreting the deluge of information at our disposal.

It's a lofty goal, but one that is central to health reform. The benefits of data interpretation are poised to improve not only the physical health of patients, but the economic health of the facilities that care for them.

For Healthline, meaningful data analysis is a full time mission. HCB News reached out to Dean Stephens, the company's CEO, to talk about the progress taking place — and why his company's new Coding InSight application could be a game-changer in risk adjustment and patient population management.



HCB News: For readers who are unfamiliar, can you provide a brief overview of Healthline?

Dean Stephens:
Healthline’s mission is to make the people of the world healthier through the power of information. It does this through two business units – Healthline’s Media Group, which consists of the consumer health website Healthline.com with its 35 million monthly unique users, and Healthline’s Health Information Technology (HIT) Group, which includes a range of search and data analytics solutions built on the company’s market-leading health taxonomy. Healthline currently works with some of healthcare’s largest brands, including AARP, Aetna, Pfizer, Sanofi, UnitedHealth Group, Microsoft, IBM, GE and Elsevier.

HCB News: What is one of the biggest issues in healthcare today that Healthline’s HIT group addresses?

DS:
The electronic capture of patient information is not providing enough value for all the investment we as an industry and as taxpayers have made. Providers put significant effort into contributing patient data to EHRs but don’t see the value coming back. This generates a high level of frustration. We are changing that.

At a high level, a core focus of ours is helping providers and payers analyze big data and extract valuable insights from it to deliver better care. The number of diseases and treatments that healthcare providers must be aware of today is enormous. It’s impossible for an individual physician or a large healthcare institution to deliver effective treatment across all patients without analyzing vast amounts of hard-to-extract, complicated data. As the healthcare market shifts to value-based reimbursement, the importance of information and analysis rises dramatically as providers move from being rewarded for sick care to well care.

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