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When a Value-Based Healthcare Data Startup Works with the NHS with Dr. Nasrin Hafezparast, Co-founder and CTO of Outcomes Based Healthcare

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What role does data play in patient care? How does it improve the treatment plan that’s offered to patients and how effective will those be in treating certain diseases? Inspired by Michael Porter’s value-based healthcare research, Dr Nasrin Hafezparast and her company, Outcomes Based Healthcare are analyzing large scale patient data in the UK and providing the NHS with insights that can truly improve the organization of care.

Join Denise Silber in this episode of HAE Invites as she speaks with Dr. Nasrin Hafezparast, co-founder and CTO of Outcomes Based Healthcare, about how her company is analyzing health outcomes on one of the largest data bases of electronic medical records in the world. Tune in as she talks about their "hire slow, fire fast" approach to recruitment, how they analyze their data  and OBH’s plans to expand internationally.

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Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll learn: 

  • How Outcomes Based Healthcare started and what they do

  • How OBH gets access to medical records and where they use the segmentation concept developed by Joanne Lynn 

  • How they analyze their data and why they are not considered an AI healthcare company

  • The challenges that OBH has encountered in business and how they keep their data secure

  • Why entrepreneurs need to prioritize problem identification and why they need to tackle the hardest part first 

  • The career trajectory and growth of Dr. Hafezparast and how it led to her business

  • The plans of OBH to expand to other countries and create a data system that’s open to all healthcare systems

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Dr. Nasrin Hafezparast Co-Founder and CTO, Outcomes Based Healthcare

Dr. Nasrin Hafezparast is the co-founder and CTO at Outcomes Based Healthcare in London. OBH is a mission-driven health tech company supporting health system measurement of outcomes. They work to improve the health care system, provide sustainable data, with a long term people-centered outlook. Dr. Hafezparast is an entrepreneur and a firm believer in having a health care system that works to benefit the whole human rather than just their parts. She was selected by Management Today as one of 35 Women Under 35, and she is also part of the 20 Women in Data and Tech: The Female lead and Women in Data.