EP315: The Very Unsexy Essential for Technology to Drive Outcomes That Nobody Talks About, With Bob Matthews

In Episode 315, Stacey Richter talks with Bob Matthews, president and CEO of MediSync, about the unglamorous secret to making technology actually improve patient outcomes: process.

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

✅ Why technology alone can't improve outcomes without a process framework around it

✅ Why quality of care regresses to the mean without standardized care processes

✅ How great performers achieve consistency through process, whether or not they realize it

✅ Why team-based care requires a shared playbook of processes

✅ What business reasons are driving practices to level up chronic care management right now

WHY THIS MATTERS

Medical knowledge doubles roughly every 73 days, with 800,000 journal articles published annually — no human, and no piece of technology on its own, can keep up without a framework for using it. Process is what lets a provider organization incrementally improve care instead of watching quality drift back to average, and it's what separates consistently great performers from those coasting on individual talent. It's an unglamorous truth that gets lost in the excitement over flashy new health tech.

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🔗 Healthcare Industry Acronyms and Terms

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00:00 Introduction.

04:47 How do you address concerns about chronic care costs?

06:15 What are the disjunctures in the health system?

07:01 "Very few organizations today know how to do a great job in managing [chronic care]."

09:58 "Some medical group organizations … put the pressure on, but they don't offer much help."

10:09 "There's something inherently difficult about the work, or we wouldn't have this problem."

10:44 What is the increasing pressure on practices to manage chronic conditions?

11:51 "We just simply cannot afford to get the outcomes we need with the system we have."

13:37 "The pressure to improve outcomes is just really now starting to heat up."

14:00 What things need to be focused on to improve outcomes?

17:32 "The only thing you get rewarded for is speed."

19:20 "Just because you start the journey doesn't mean that you're going to succeed."

23:18 "Complexity can only be mastered with process."

25:38 "We do need to work on ways to help patients want to take their own medicines."

29:21 Who is MediSync?