>> My name is Eric Sullivan.
I'm a Senior Vice President of Innovation and Data Strategies
for a healthcare software technology firm located outside of Washington, DC.
So at Inovalon, we really are focusing on working with the health plans, hospitals,
physicians, and pharmaceutical companies, life science companies, medical device companies,
kind of all of the stakeholders in the healthcare ecosystem, and trying to figure
out how to bring them all together.
You know, kind of -- there's healthcare data that's being transmitted
about patients all over the country.
And how you synthesize that all together into a set of patient profiles that can be analyzed.
One area that we focused on at Inovalon in the last --
probably five years ago was really focusing on what's called interoperability.
So physicians all operate within electronic health records.
When you go to your physician, and your physician's --
you know, she's entering things into, you know, a --
the laptop, that's part of their electronic health record.
And that information, until recently, has just kind of remained at your physician's office.
To my example of when you show up in emergency room is, you know,
interoperability is a technology mechanism to ensure that data makes it
from your primary care doctor to hospitals in your area, to cardiologists.
And interoperability is the electronic means to bringing all that data together,
because otherwise it's very fragmented.
And I also have responsibility for all of data strategies for the company.
And data is the lifeblood of what Inovalon does.
It's the lifeblood of kind of analytics.
And the more data you can consume and make sense of, the better.
So my day is typically spent, you know, meeting with new potential partners,
new technology partners, continue to advance relationships with existing technology partners,
but also to step back in meeting with stakeholders within our company
and understanding how we can leverage data, technology to advance what they're doing, right.
So it's not just about connecting Inovalon and other companies all together
to advance healthcare in the United States, but you know, part of my role in my day-to-day life
at Inovalon is to also help leverage technology, data to improve how we as a company operate,
make ourselves more efficient, which drives more value to our clients.