46. Effective and Meaningful Communication and Connections with Kno2's Therasa Bell and Dr. Peter Schoch, MD

In this episode, host Sandy Vance chats with Therasa Bell and Dr. Peter Schoch, MD. When they created Kno2, they went in with the vision of solving the mess that was connectivity and they wanted to solve that problem with a single API infrastructure. Because of that, they chose to look toward the “overlooked markets.” Since they started, Kno2 has made a lot of great strides toward those goals.  Today, Sandy, Therasa, and Peter talk about how Kno2 helps with communication connectivity and how they are trying to meaningfully change the industry. What does that mean? What will happen to the field and technology involving interoperability in the next five years? How will AI help in these efforts? All of these questions and more are answered in this episode. In this episode, they talk about: How interoperability solves healthcare’s biggest problems How Kno2 is meaningfully changing the industry  A forgotten element: meaningful communication The primary problem that they are solving Why connectivity is important in the healthcare system The advancement of capabilities in the next five years The greatest challenges for the QHINs TEFCA implementation and becoming a QHIN The strategic advantage and value that Kno2 can offer by having started with the edge systems How AI will help optimize the exchange of information A Little About Therasa: As Co-Founder, President, and Chief Technology Officer, Therasa defines the business vision for Kno2 and paves a clear path of execution for the staff. She is responsible for Kno2’s innovation, vision and engineering, and holds two patents for unstructured clinical content under the company. She believes that the combination of people and the company’s clear purpose makes Kno2 unstoppable. For close to a decade, Therasa has been a thought leader in the healthcare information technology field, serving as a co-chair or member of healthcare IT standards committees that influence national and international standards for sharing clinical information. In 2009, she defined and pushed through a healthcare IT protocol for unstructured clinical content, which passed as part of legislation for the Meaningful Use Stage 2 section of the HITECH Act. A Little About Peter: Dr. Peter Schoch, is a board-certified internist and accomplished physician executive whose passion and life’s work is to drive value to those who consume, provide and purchase healthcare. Through his service of 20 years in clinical practice as an Internal Medicine physician and the better part of the last two decades serving as a physician executive leading 2 major health systems through transformational change in care delivery, practice transformation, network development, and home-based services, he has driven impact through improved clinical, financial and consumer outcomes.  As the Chief Health Officer at Kno2 he is leveraging his experience in healthcare as both a provider and executive to transform Kno2 from an excellent technology company into a meaningful technology company focused on the application of their patented communications API to drive impact in healthcare.