Jude Odu, author of the upcoming book Model Optimal Care and Founder of Health Cost IQ, who is an expert in helping self-funded and self-insured organizations eliminate waste, prevent fraud and abuse, and curb unnecessary health spending joins Enterprise Radio.
Listen to host Eric Dye & guest Jude Odu discuss the following:
- Why do you think healthcare waste has become so normalized in the U.S., yet no one really knows this problem exists? How can employers, health systems, and consumers be more vocal about this $1.6 trillion crisis?
- Can you talk more about your framework Model Optimal Care, and how can it be applied to help alleviate healthcare waste?
- After 25 years of experience in this space, what do you think is often the biggest mistake organizations make when developing health plans?
- You talk about how technology, AI and data can make an immediate impact in eliminating waste. What does these tools look like in practice?
- If Model Optimal Care were adopted, what would employer health plans look like in the next 10 years?
Jude Odu is the Founder of Health Cost IQ and currently serves as its President and Chief Product Officer. He leads product strategy for the company’s enterprise SaaS platform, which applies AI models and intelligent algorithms to help self-funded and self-insured organizations eliminate waste, prevent fraud and abuse, and curb unnecessary health spending.
Jude is a healthcare data expert, technology leader, and strategist. He is the author of the upcoming new book Model Optimal Care, a playbook for using technology and non-technology approaches to curb waste and inefficiency within U.S. healthcare, particularly within self-funded, self-insured health plans.
In this book, Jude introduces a brand-new concept that represents an evolution beyond Value Based Care, and he outlines concrete steps for using this concept to achieve a modern, technology-enabled, cost-efficient healthcare delivery system.
A healthcare technology veteran of over 25 years, Jude’s career spans acute-care hospitals, commercial payers, software, and academia. Before Health Cost IQ, he founded Health Data Intelligence (acquired by TrendShift), where he later served as Chief Product Officer. Earlier, he led clinical analytics and decision support at University Hospitals health system and worked as a founding healthcare SME at Health Care DataWorks (acquired by HealthCatalyst).
He has taught health informatics and healthcare administration courses as adjunct faculty at various colleges in Northeast Ohio. Jude founded Health Cost IQ in 2018 after his doctoral research into waste and inefficiencies across both government and employer-sponsored health plans revealed a persistent, systemic, trillion-dollar problem that seemingly defied solution.
Jude holds a B.S. in Health Care Administration (Summa Cum Laude) from Ursuline College and an M.S. in Health Science (Cum Laude) from The George Washington University and is All But Dissertation in the Education Ph.D. program at Cleveland State University. Over the years, his work has been recognized with industry credentials and awards.
Websites: https://judeodu.com | https://judeodu.com/book
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