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Jude Odu is the Founder of Health Cost IQ and currently serves as its President and Chief Product Officer. He leads product strategy for the company's enterprise SaaS platform, which applies AI models and intelligent algorithms to help self-funded and self-insured organizations eliminate waste, prevent fraud and abuse, and curb unnecessary health spending.

Jude is a healthcare data expert, technology leader, and strategist. He is the author of the upcoming new book Model Optimal Care, a playbook for using technology and non-technology approaches to curb waste and inefficiency within U.S. healthcare, particularly within self-funded, self-insured health plans.

In this book, Jude introduces a brand-new concept that represents an evolution beyond Value Based Care, and he outlines concrete steps for using this concept to achieve a modern, technology-enabled, cost-efficient healthcare delivery system.

A healthcare technology veteran of over 25 years, Jude’s career spans acute-care hospitals, commercial payers, software, and academia. Before Health Cost IQ, he founded Health Data Intelligence (acquired by TrendShift), where he later served as Chief Product Officer. Earlier, he led clinical analytics and decision support at University Hospitals health system and worked as a founding healthcare SME at Health Care DataWorks (acquired by HealthCatalyst).

He has taught health informatics and healthcare administration courses as adjunct faculty at various colleges in Northeast Ohio. Jude founded Health Cost IQ in 2018 after his doctoral research into waste and inefficiencies across both government and employer-sponsored health plans revealed a persistent, systemic, trillion-dollar problem that seemingly defied solution.

Jude holds a B.S. in Health Care Administration from Ursuline College, an M.S. in Health Science from The George Washington University, and is ABD in the Education Ph.D. program at Cleveland State University. Over the years, his work has been recognized with industry credentials and awards.

Healthcare Career Experience
• Deep understanding of workflow within clinical and administrative environments in healthcare, including within provider and payer networks and systems.
• Extensive, hands-on experience with healthcare datasets and healthcare-related IT systems, defining quality metrics and performance measures.
• Hands on experience with defining business requirements for healthcare software, including software used within provider and payer systems.
• Hands-on experience with defining requirements building for AI models, machine-learning-enabled predictive models, and intelligent algorithms used for cost containment within healthcare payment systems.

Check out my upcoming new book Model Optimal Care in the Book section. The book will equip you with proven, data-driven, and technology-enabled strategies you can implement immediately to lower costs, improve care, and turn your health plan into a modern, optimized, cost-efficient, and high-performing plan.