Lighting the path
to the future of healthcare
Compass
A data stewarding mechanism enabling an Uber-like match between consented requests for Dark Data and healthcare providers such as nurse practitioners and physician assistants to improve, expand and complete a patient’s entire medical record. Match the Dark Data requests from patients or healthcare researchers with nurse practitioners and physician assistants from consent to completion.
Lumos
A data improvement mechanism that uses natural language understanding (NLU) and assisted artificial intelligence (AAI) to break down any non-structured format of health data into its constituent elements and reassemble it into a concept-based machine-readable structure. Add light to Dark Data from clinical settings such as hospitals, specialty clinics and health information exchanges.
Sonar
A data sourcing mechanism to identify, extract, track and transform Dark Data in healthcare. A proprietary Extract, Track, Transform and Load (ETTL) capability layered onto NPI databases. A format-agnostic data finding platform that uses multiple forms of communication from fax automation to real time APIs to manage the searching, retrieving, tagging, tracking and tracing of Dark Data in healthcare.
The Problem
In medicine, our ability to generate data stands in constant opposition to our capacity to understand it. We spend billions developing drugs, but don’t fully understand the ailments they treat, we respond to illness quickly, but often fail to measure outcomes over time, we rely on doctors to treat patients, but don’t give them the information they need to do so. We operate healthcare partially blind.
To learn what works in medicine, we measure, reflect and improve – Doctors inherently do this because their goal is to make us feel better. However, to make medicine faster, we only classify, simplify and organize but never seek to understand – the health system does this inherently because its goal is administrative efficiency.
Now, in spite of our ability to generate massive amounts of data about our health, up to 80% of all healthcare data remains shrouded in darkness, inaccessible to patients, providers, and researchers, alike. When we ignore this “Dark Data”, medical practice suffers, blinded to the meaningful context that is required in order to learn what treatments work best, for whom, when, and why.
To transform healthcare, we must add light to the 80% of healthcare data that is currently dark.
For Individuals
Even though you are the only stakeholder with the right to access ALL of your health information, the overwhelming complexity of the health system prevents most of us from trying to collect it all in one place. The fact is that patients, people (all of us) are not motivated to collect all of our health data because the burden of doing so outweighs the perceived potential benefit.
Betterpath makes the benefit of health data ownership clear. We help you track down all your health data from all its sources and build a complete medical record for you to control, enabling doctors to understand who you are, and researchers to figure out what treatments work best for you.
For Providers
As health data becomes easier to access in digital form, patients are finding ways to build knowledge about themselves and their families in an effort to be more informed healthcare consumers. However, at the point of care, both patients and their doctors lack the means to access the long-term clinical data needed to make evidence-based treatment decisions.
Betterpath finds this long-term data and empowers both patients and providers with access to a comprehensive lifetime medical record, giving patients peace of mind and helping doctors be fully informed.
For Researchers
In the current dark health data paradigm, learning what treatments work best for different people with similar diagnoses is nearly impossible. This is because instead of describing a person’s health through data, our systems are designed to categorize a person’s health to make it easier for reimbursement purposes. The lack of an ability to see the Dark Data reduces the likelihood that multibillion programs such as precision medicine, preventative care, and digital heath will be successful.
Betterpath enables a new approach; one focused on capturing, structuring and learning from the Dark Data that’s thus far been ignored by large-scale analytics efforts. We believe that complete, harmonious data is inherently valuable to healthcare research, and that health data represents the pinnacle of value in our information economy.
Intellectual Property
US Patent 9,202,066: “Integrated Healthcare Systems and Methods”
- Proprietary method for identifying best clinical practices in ANY disease based on comparative treatment effectiveness in phenotypically similar patients
- Utilizes complete, interoperable information to support a processing engine that uses cost as a vector for determining long-term treatment outcomes
Book Mentions
— Dr. Josh Luke
“As it relates to employers directly, there are organizations offering consumer-centric machine learning programs. One industry leader, Betterpath, describes its platform as ‘harmonizing disparate healthcare activities simply by getting all of one’s patient data in one place.”
— Adam Tanner
In this seminal book on data privacy and security, Adam Tanner highlights Betterpath’s unique commitment to transparency, identifying Betterpath as one of the only healthcare data brokers that clearly outlines how patients are protected directly in its Terms of Service.
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