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Harry's guest John Glaser, senior vice president of Population Health at Cerner, speculates on how business models in healthcare are changing and how artificial intelligence and EMR systems will work together in the future.

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Transcript

Harry Glorikian: Welcome to the Money ball medicine podcast. I'm your host Harry Glorikian, this series is all about the data-driven transformation of the healthcare and life sciences landscape. Each episode we dive deep through one-on-one interviews with leaders in the new cost-conscious, value-based healthcare economy. We look at the challenges and opportunities they're facing and their predictions for the years to come.

My guest today is John Glaser, who is the senior vice president of Population Health at Cerner. Cerner is a health IT company that is one of the largest suppliers of electronic health record systems in the United States. John joined Cerner in 2015 as part of the Siemens health services acquisition, where he was the chief executive officer. Prior to Siemens, John was vice president and chief information officer at Partners HealthCare. He also previously served as vice president of information systems at Brigham and Women's Hospital.

John received his PhD from the University of Minnesota, he has written over 200 articles and three books on the strategic application of IT and health care. Including the most widely used textbook on the topic, “Healthcare information systems a practical approach for health care”. John is on the faculty of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, the medical university of Southern Carolina, the School of biomedical informatics at the Texas Health Science Center and the Harvard School of Public Health.

John focuses on strategic relationships with Cerner clients and advancing Cerner's population health solutions and services. John, welcome to Moneyball medicine, it's great to have you here.

John Glaser: Harry, it's a pleasure.

Harry Glorikian: John, tell me what does it mean to be vice president of Population Health. What is Population Health?

John Glaser: Well, it's a fuzzy term in some ways but basically the idea is that there are organizations. They'd say I'm accountable for the health care and the health of a group of people, it might be an employe