We are awash in data. In health care, we (and our doctors) are constantly generating medical data from our health apps, connected devices, electronic health records, labs, images and treatment plans. Yet, very little of it is used or interpreted in a way that produces meaningful insights… or helps us predict or prevent a problem before it starts.

In this episode of Ahead in Health, host Jodie Lesh talks to Dr. Ashwini Zenooz and Paul Meyer, two people who are revolutionizing how patient data is used, and modernizing an industry that still uses fax machines and CDs to convey crucial patient information. Together they discuss how to get our records into our hands – and phones – so that we can get seamless care anywhere. That future is closer than you think.

Dr. Zenooz is the CEO of Commure, where she has created a platform that makes it easy for companies to build the next generation of healthcare applications. And Paul Meyer is founder and president of The Commons Project. They’re the ones behind the SMART Health Cards that make COVID-19 vaccination and testing records easy to access on our smartphones. 

A note about this episode: Kaiser Permanente takes a robust, consistent, transparent data privacy approach to patient health data privacy. To learn more about our policies in this area, click here.