Jude Odu, Founder of Health Cost IQ and author or the new book Model Optimal Care, a data-driven guide that works to eliminate healthcare waste in America joins eHealth Radio and the Healthcare and Health News Channels.

Listen to host Eric Dye & guest Jude Odu discuss the following:

Your research dives deep into the main pillars of healthcare waste and why it has been a consistent problem for years. In your perspective, can you talk about where you see inefficiencies in the system most, despite decades of reform?
Your new book, Model Optimal Care, is now available for purchase. Can you walk listeners through what inspired you to write this book, and how will it serve as a meaningful source for American healthcare?
Speaking of your book, can you talk specifically about the Model Optimal Care framework itself and how it will benefit both employers and consumers?
What is the main takeaway you hope readers get from reading your book?
For employers listening today, what’s the first actionable step they can take tomorrow to reduce waste in their health plans?

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.

Website: https://modeloptimalcare.com

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