Jean Drouin, Clarify Health, on the new data stack.

By MATTHEW HOLT Clarify Health has linked (but anonymized) data on about 300m Americans, including their claims, lab, (some) EMR data and their SDOH data. They then use it to help providers, plans and pharma figure out what is going on with their patients, and how their doctors et al are behaving. CEO Jean Drouin, a French-Canadian who incidentally at one point ran strategy for the NHS in London, explained to me what Clarify does, how it’s going to help improve health care, where these data products are going next–and why they needed to raise $116m in March to build it out. Jean thinks about creating a single source of truth, and I asked him a couple of tricky questions about whether his customers would want to know the answer. A fascinating discussion. (Full transcript below) Matthew Holt: Hi, Matthew Holt here with another THCB Spotlight. And I’m with Jean Drouin, who has a French Canadian name, but is an American who’s lived in London–a bit like me–who is the CEO of Clarify Health. So Jean, Clarify Health is one of the new startups. You guys raised over a $110 million a couple of weeks back, which I guess is a small round these days considering what everyone else is doing. But essentially you are one of the new companies who are doing data analytics in a different way for the health care industry, by putting together a lot of different sources of data on a lot of people. So I hope I haven’t garbled that too mu...
Source: The Health Care Blog - Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Tags: Data Health Tech Clarify Health Health Data Jean Drouin Matthew Holt Source Type: blogs