Health Care by the Numbers: Lynn Barr, Founder and Executive Chair at Caravan Health
On this inaugural episode of Health Care by the Numbers, host Todd Searls sits down with Caravan Health Founder and Executive Chair Lynn Barr. Lynn has led the development and implementation of nationwide programs that result in better patient care and help health care providers achieve sustainable financial success. Lynn is one of Modern Healthcare’s top 25 innovators for 2020, as well as one of UC Berkeley’s top 16 women who changed health care. Under Lynn’s leadership, Caravan Health has helped hundreds of community health system make the transition from traditional fee-for-service to value-based accountable care. Caravan Health uses a proven methodology to help providers transform care delivery and meet financial and care quality goals. Caravan Health supports more than 25,000 primary care providers and approximately 250 community hospitals with affordable, resourceful solutions and innovative technology that deliver considerable results. Prior to forming Caravan Health, Lynn shepherded four start-up companies and 12 medical inventions before dedicating the remainder of her career to health care reform. Some highlights of her career prior to Caravan Health include directing the California Health IT and Exchange Strategic Planning Team under California Health and Human Services, forming the Rural Health Information Technology Consortium, and assessing the health IT status of California Rural and Critical Access Hospitals. In her early work in accountable care, she also formed the National Rural ACO and led the first rural health payment reform movement in the country designed to transition rural providers to value-based payments. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen/