Explorys: Big Data interview with CEO Stephen McHale

[audio mp3="https://healthbb.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/hbdew0023-david-e-williams-interviews-explorys-ceo-steve-mchale.mp3"][/audio]Explorys is a "big data" company that was spun off from the Cleveland Clinic five years ago. The company offers solutions for clinical integration, population health management, cost of care measurement and pay-for-performance contracts.In this podcast interview conducted at the Center for Connected Health Symposium #cHealth14, co-founder and CEO Steve McHale and I discuss:

1. What Explorys actually does
2. The relationship between the company and the Clinic
3. The 3 Vs of  big data: volume, velocity, variability
4. Whether further provider consolidation is inevitable
5. (Big) garbage in (big) garbage out

—By healthcare business consultant David E. Williams, president of Health Business Group.