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Leapfrog Group president and CEO Leah Binder talks with Harry about data transparency and how it helps inform healthcare decisions by putting the right information in the hands of patients and employers.

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Transcript

Harry Glorikian: Welcome to the Money ball medicine podcast, I'm your host Harry glory camp. 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.

So, my guest today is Leah Binder, Leah is the president and CEO of the Leapfrog Group. The Leapfrog Group represents employers and other purchasers of health care who call for improved safety and quality and hospitals. She is a regular contributor to forbes.com, The Huffington Post and The Wall Street Journal expert forum. She was named on Becker's list of the 50 most powerful people in healthcare in 2014, and consistently cited by modern health care among the 100 most influential people and top 25 women in healthcare.

She has served on numerous national boards and councils including the Institute of Medicine collaboration on patient engagement, the Health Care Financial Management Association Leadership Advisory Committee, but Corey healthcare systems advisory panel, AARP champions for Nursing strategic advisory council and the national priorities partnership board. Prior to her current position, she spent eight years as vice president at Franklin Community Health Network an award-winning rural hospital network in Farmington Maine.

he previously worked as a senior policy adviser for the office of mayor Rudolph Giuliani in New York City and started her career at the National League for nursing, where she handled policy and communications for more than six years. Thank you very much for joining me today, good to have you here.

Leah Binder: Well, thank you for having me, it's a privilege.

Harry Glorikian: So, we had spoken quite a bit back when I was putting together the book Money ball medicine but for those people who are not familiar with the Leapfrog Group, can you tell us a little bit about the group its mission and what you feel the biggest impacts are it's made to