Major Health Insurer Ramps Up Usage Of Data Analytics
Executive Summary
Payors have a huge financial stake in the future use of “Big Data” to impact health care outcomes and costs, and Aetna, one of the largest US third-party health insurers, is out in front of this movement. In an exclusive interview with Medtech Insight, Dr. Greg Steinberg, head of clinical innovation at Aetna, detailed the company’s bold plans for harnessing and using health care data, offering up a picture that puts the big payor squarely in the driver’s seat.