This episode of the InOn Health podcast introduces Troy Bannister, Founder, and CEO of Particle Health. He discusses the digital innovations occurring in the healthcare space, including how his company aims to improve data access for health consumers by simplifying the data sharing process to serve people and their health needs.
Show Notes
In this episode of the InOn Health podcast, KP welcomes Troy Bannister, Founder, and CEO of Particle Health, a platform enabling healthcare companies with secure and comprehensive access to medical data. Troy begins the conversation by sharing his experiences working in an ambulance throughout college, which ultimately paved his career in the digital health space and inspiration to launch Particle Health.
Troy reveals insights about the traditional barriers often encountered when patients attempt to access their medical records, including the challenges of maintaining organization within the documents. Troy discusses how he examined other tech companies, such as Stripe and Twilio, and their approaches to solving three major issues—fragmentation, privacy insecurity, and data standardization. These insights served as the key foundations for transitioning traditional medical data processes into an electronic experience.
Particle Health enables providers to see the full scope of patients’ history via data automation, making it easier to build treatment plans and create clear follow-ups. Troy addresses the Anti-Information Blocking Rule (prohibits the restriction of medical information, with patients having the right to access data how they want feasibly) and how this led to initiating Particle Health’s beta program with consumer-facing applications.
Troy explains that if Particle Health can attain data outside of traditional healthcare spaces like hospitals and clinics and emerge into new technology, that same technology can exist outside of the current healthcare system, resulting in greater competition, cheaper prices, and more innovative thinking. He further explains how this evolvement would unleash a new ecosystem of healthcare. Ultimately, this change would create greater choice for everyone and provide more solutions and easier access to underserved populations.
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Health equity issues in our country have been around for decades – largely impacting communities of color and rural areas. When it comes to economic and racial disparities in health the evidence is clear. This is more than a hot topic. Covid-19 has exposed the underbelly of how social determinants of health and racial disparities play out in our country. What we need now is to impart lasting change.
Welcome to the InOn Health podcast. I’m your host Kaakpema Yelpaala, and I’m the co-founder and CEO of InOn Health.
In this podcast we’re going to be talking about health equity. We’ll be talking to entrepreneurs, thought leaders, investors, and other industry experts in healthcare and public health. The topics we’ll cover will range from racial disparities in health to digital innovation for diverse populations, and ultimately how we build better policy to more inclusively serve everyone around their healthcare needs.
Join me on this podcast series to not only be inspired by our leaders but also to get insight on how we can all take action.