The most up-to-date, comprehensive, and accurate source of data. Your organization can access profiles of every active provider in the U.S.—over 6 million.
See how we’ve helped leading healthcare organizations achieve significant cost savings, improve data accuracy, and enhance patient care. Here, you will find our results, research, reports, and everything else our scientists are testing in the Veda Lab – no lab coat required.
At Veda we understand that every data point is an opportunity to improve the healthcare experience. And we can see the potential when data is no longer a barrier.
Simple, Clear Provider Data For Fast Decision-Making
Reliable provider data enables confident goal attainment in your healthcare business, streamlining operations and facilitating the pursuit of new strategic ventures.
Reliable Provider Data for Digital Health Organizations
In this scenario, your digital health organization aims to connect patients to behavioral health specialists within 24 hours of contact. How can you accomplish this goal? By finding and partnering with plenty of providers who perform online appointments and having reliable data to refer patients quickly.
Watch this example of how Vectyr Profile Search identifies specific providers who conduct telehealth appointments:
Then, you can compare your search findings with your current provider database to easily contract with those you’re not currently working with. The best part? Peace of mind that the information is up to date and accurate—no more making several dead-end calls when one will do.
Pro Tip: Provider profiles are detail rich. Look for providers that are accepting many different types of insurance if that is a plus for your organization.
Reliable Provider Data for Health Plans
Let’s say you want to recruit more pediatric cardiologists for your health plan in Illinois to carve out a competitive advantage and meet your members’ needs.
Use Vectyr Profile Search to curate an exportable list of providers to contact:
The best part? Addresses are practice locations and not just P.O. boxes, so you can be sure your network reflects where providers are actually practicing.
Pro Tip: Check provider profiles for languages, cultural competencies, licenses, and more. By aligning patients with the right providers, you’ll enhance care quality and drive better retention.
Reliable Provider Data for Provider Organizations
What about when you’re onboarding new providers and want to enroll and credential them faster? You can streamline the onboarding process with the initial data entry of provider information, ensuring accuracy from the start.
Watch as the Vectyr Profile Search serves up-to-date and complete information—no more costly and time-consuming manual searches and verification of credentials:
Pro Tip: With Vectyr’s detail-rich profiles, you can spot or bulk-check credentials to ensure enrollment is completed correctly the first time without relying on self-reported data.
Try Our Provider Data
Veda’s Vectyr Profile Search features a comprehensive and constantly growing dataset that drives value for many healthcare businesses. Our data offering is always expanding to ensure that no matter how deep the use case, we have the data to support it.
If we can speed up end-point to end-point connections of the healthcare lifecycle and remove additional steps in the clerical process, it will result in improved patient experiences.
However, simplifying workflows isn’t enough unless the data driving the information is accurate and timely.
In the fast-paced world of healthcare, sluggish provider data is a liability, not a luxury. Backlogged rosters pile up, decisions stall, and resources drain away. But what if provider data moved faster?
How Veda’s Speed Redefines Provider Data Management
Imagine what is possible when automation delivers provider rosters at unprecedented speeds. That’s the power of Veda. We’re not just automating data; we’re redefining it. In the future of provider data, speed isn’t just a goal – it’s how we connect health systems and payers to solve complex healthcare data challenges.
Manual provider data approaches are specifically troublesome when handling large provider rosters, some containing hundreds of rows. Handling the volume of data created in healthcare every day is unfeasible without AI.
Where AI Comes In
One of the main benefits of AI is the ability to quickly wrap up tasks—especially when compared to manual methods and reduced processing times free up resources for other meaningful tasks.
Large, unruly provider rosters or atypical formats? Not a problem with robust and reliable (and patented) AI. When data quality is maintained by automation, it also means rosters don’t need addressing or fixing again later.
AI also delivers on what we call “synthetic attestation.” This is an attestation that occurs with no provider intervention or effort. While this is important in all specialties, it’s especially impactful for behavioral health when providers do not have precious moments available to pick up the phone and self-attest. Synthetic attestation uses the data providers are already creating in their day-to-day workflows.
Faster Data, Faster Care
With accurate data that quickly gets to where it needs to be, providers are displayed correctly, decision-making is improved, and patients have faster access to care.
Meghan: When we founded Veda, we set out to create lasting infrastructure in the healthcare industry that allows accurate data to flow automatically between payers and providers. That meant inventing new ways of processing data that were both secure and accurate, and then publishing our work through the patent process. Ten years later, we are staying true to those objectives— we’ve built AI tools to modernize healthcare and we’ve shared our discoveries through the patent process so our solutions can fuel further innovation.
Bob: We needed to bring a fresh perspective to the problems surrounding provider data that have remained stagnant for over four decades. By creating wholly new approaches to the trillion-dollar data administration problem in healthcare, we knew that our solutions were innovative and unique. So we began early in our company’s history with the patenting of Veda’s technology—protecting our inventions in the short term, while also benefitting all of us in the long run.
Veda’s patents protect our entity resolution engine, AI modeling engine, ML training data process & platform, and web-scale data collection.
How else has Veda committed to AI development?
Bob: I’m an astrophysicist and I built AI tools in radio astronomy before founding Veda. Scientists have been building innovative AI tools for decades and have a cultural rigor that drives them to test and publish their findings.
We’ve recruited a team of PhD scientists—from physics to molecular genetics and astronomy—who help build and test Veda’s in-house LLM technology, train our machine learning models, and develop the infrastructure that is the foundation for Veda’s patented systems.
What makes your AI systems different from others in the industry?
Bob: Our AI is trained on Veda’s proprietary training data, which is ethically sourced and high quality. Our training data is used to fine-tune Veda’s models and help solve critical healthcare-specific tasks with the highest possible performance.
Plus, Veda’s AI models are entirely owned by Veda with no external dependencies. Our application of AI differentiates us from others in the industry because it leverages LLMs and contextual understanding but does not produce hallucinations. We allow the model to select correct answers, not to invent free-form text.
Meghan: Our company is founded on scientific rigor and was built specifically for healthcare from Day 1. We have over 80 combined years of AI expertise, and our commitment to science and data integrity compels us to approach problems differently. It hasn’t always been easy. We did the hard work upfront. We threw out the rule book and asked ourselves, “How do I ensure I can access care?”
Putting ourselves in the patients’ shoes is how we began to turn these challenges on their heads and look at them differently—we’ve calibrated our success to the patient’s ability to use the data to access care. What does that mean technologically? It means our AI systems must provide hallucination-free, predictable, and measurable results because that is what our customers expect and it is what patients deserve.
Bob: It was essential we build the system in a new way. The blend of patents is what makes our AI systems so unique. The patented technology works together, in parallel, to accomplish complex data curation challenges with speed and accuracy that was previously thought impossible.
Which provider data problem is Veda’s AI solving?
Bob: All of them. But the one I’m particularly excited about, and that our most recently granted patent underscores, is our ability to automate intake at scale.
Meghan: Veda’s technology isn’t just a single model. It offers many capabilities working in tandem towards one comprehensible function. There are several foundational data challenges that our technology solves. One of the unique benefits of our patented technology is that it can be assembled in different ways to address many kinds of healthcare industry problems.
Bob: For example, our patented entity resolution system efficiently matches the identity of healthcare providers. The special challenge in this problem is that healthcare providers change lots of their information over the course of their careers, so the system needs to connect their identities while allowing for a normal amount of drift in some fields over time.
Why do you need AI to solve provider data problems?
Meghan: Veda’s AI can cut through data barriers and ensure that people can access care when they need it the most. That’s why we founded Veda—because everyone deserves access to accurate, up-to-date information that empowers them to get the care they need.
What are the risks of using AI in healthcare and how can they be mitigated?
Meghan: While everyone is looking to AI and automation for solutions, in healthcare the AI isn’t living up to the hype. In a race to reduce costs, many have lost sight of the problem they are trying to solve and have left out foundational components of professional services, actual results, and rigorous testing. In fact, I think the irresponsible development of some AI tools could negatively impact the companies that are taking a transparent and tested path.
For instance, imagine a business trying a new product for the first time, and it doesn’t go well. It breaks, it’s costly, and leaves a negative impression. After that bad experience, you might be reluctant to try another product in that category. This can happen with AI too—if one company delivers poor results, people might dismiss AI solutions altogether and revert to outdated methods, which ultimately hurts innovation.
Bob: We succeed with AI when it is effective, robust, and focused on responsibly making an impact. While there is a risk posed by poorly designed and underperforming tools, I see an opportunity for Veda to prove our integrity to the industry. We’re proud to showcase our patented AI and machine learning solutions, which were developed and tested with an unwavering commitment to scientific rigor and ethical, security-forward principles.
Ready for Veda’s provider data solutions? Contact us.
ViVE 2024 brought together health tech innovators, vendors, investors, and media. What did Veda bring? Engaging discussions around Medicare Advantage, AI in healthcare, ghost networks, and rural health. Not to mention some heavy media coverage announcing our Humana partnership. Plus, a little fun with a certain famous car to showcase Veda’s ghost network-busting abilities. (We were in Hollywood after all.)
Rural Healthcare and Data
“The way for rural healthcare to succeed is to make it easy to find a doctor, to be a doctor and to pay a doctor,” said Dr. Bob Lindner, Chief Science & Technology officer at Veda during a panel on the challenging rural healthcare landscape. “All of these three things have challenges that can be traced back to the data.”
Bob presented data as a tool that rural health systems can utilize to access accurate information on traveling doctors, a unique offering in rural areas. As rural health faces more hits and challenges, data has the answers.
Veda will use its patented automation technology to analyze, verify, and standardize Humana’s data to ensure the information is accurate and comprehensive, along with real-time scoring of data quality.
Whether you were building a mini-fig or entering to win an ECTO-1 replica, plenty of fun was found at the Veda booth. With a page taken from a beloved movie franchise, Veda showed off its ‘ghost-busting’ abilities and talked ghost networks.
Ghost networks are provider networks that appear robust and full of available providers but actually contain bad data and thus, much more limited availability and unreachable providers. These “ghosts” are no longer practicing, not accepting new patients, are not in-network, or have errors in their contact information.
Veda’s accurate data eliminates ghost networks, improves member satisfaction, and stays ahead of emerging regulations.
The Humana and Veda partnership was announced at the ViVE 2024 health tech conference. Here is what the media had to say. . .
This move bodes well for Humana as it spends a good chunk of time in calls to confirm provider data. Inaccurate and inconsistent data from provider directories will cause friction in the process of finding a provider, thereby increasing administrative work for providers, health plans and seniors. -Nasdaq
Maintaining up-to-date provider directories, including accurate phone numbers, addresses and panel status of in-network practitioners, is critical to helping seniors make informed choices about their healthcare. -Fierce Healthcare
Lawmakers have pressed insurers to improve their provider directories. In October, Sens. Thom Tillis, Ron Wyden and Michael Bennet introduced the Requiring Enhanced & Accurate Lists of (REAL) Health Providers Act, which would strengthen requirements for Medicare Advantage plans to maintain accurate directories.
WATCH: Meghan Gaffney Shares Insights on HealthTech Industry
Interview by Dennis Dailey of HIT!Show at ViVE 2024. Watch to hear Meghan Gaffney insights on Healthtech industry trends.
“We’ve finally made the jump from AI as an idea to AI really moving the needle for plans and providers,” remarks Meghan Gaffney, Co-Founder and CEO of Veda, during our video interview at the event.
“At Veda, we like to say, ‘We build technology that helps people, help people,‘” Meghan continues, reflecting on her background in public policy and the company’s mission to tackle healthcare infrastructure challenges.
Meghan shares insights into Veda’s partnership with Humana, highlighting their efforts to enhance provider directory accuracy for Medicare Advantage members.
“The complexity is that there are six million healthcare providers… We really focus on using technology to make the entire exchange of information easy for both the provider and the payer,” she explains.
Discussing industry trends, Meghan emphasizes the significance of regulations like the Real Provider Act and their impact on ensuring patients’ access to accurate healthcare information. “There’s going to be an increased focus on making sure that every patient has access to the right information to get care,” she adds.
“We’re excited about being a part of that conversation and bringing AI into the mainstream,” Meghan concludes, expressing Veda’s commitment to advancing the potential of AI technology in healthcare.
The way for success in the rural healthcare landscape is to make it easy to find a doctor, to be a doctor and to pay a doctor,” said Bob Lindner during a ViVE 2024 education session on the challenging rural healthcare landscape. “All of these three things have challenges that can be traced back to the data.”
Bob Lindner Chief Science and Technology Officer at Veda Data Solutions
Many rural healthcare organizations are struggling due to current reimbursement models and lack of resources. This can have an impact on patients in rural areas, who often face challenges with care access.
Health IT leaders from different parts of the industry addressed these pain points and what needs to happen to keep rural healthcare organizations afloat.
Data Can Drive Change for Rural Healthcare
Lindner shared a story of an organization that wanted to know why it was so hard for patients to find appointments for addiction medication. He said it was important to analyze the data because the reason could have been that there were enough providers, but they were hard to find on a website; that there weren’t enough providers and the industry needs to recruit more; or that there were enough providers accepting patients, but they were scheduling them out so far, they might as well have been unavailable.
“You don’t want to jump to a conclusion and try to solve something without understanding what your actual problem is,” said Lindner.
Amy Gleason, chief product officer at Main Street Health, said that many rural healthcare organizations are using older electronic health record systems, and some are still using paper charts. Not having a robust EHR setup makes it difficult for these health systems or clinics to determine which patients have missed screenings or other trends in their patient population. Gleason pointed out that while health plans try to provide their own data to rural organizations, they may all do that in a different way with a different portal. Clinicians don’t have the time to log in to different portals or find out how to get into a spreadsheet — and often, their EHR can’t handle that influx of data anyway. Read the full article from HealthTech.
Humana Announces Strategic Partnership with Veda to Improve Accuracy of Provider Directories
Enhancements will help seniors get real-time access to local in-network providers
LOUISVILLE, KY and MADISON, WI (February 26, 2024) – Leading health and well-being company Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) today announced a strategic partnership with Veda, a health technology company specializing in helping healthcare companies solve complex provider data challenges. Humana will partner with Veda to improve the accuracy of its provider information and ensure that seniors have real-time details about in-network providers, making it easier for them to access high-quality healthcare.
Ensuring the accuracy of provider directories has been the source of ongoing challenges for seniors, health plans, providers and policymakers. Maintaining up-to-date provider directories, including accurate phone numbers, addresses and panel status of in-network practitioners, is critical to helping seniors make informed choices about their healthcare. While Humana historically was making millions of calls annually to confirm provider data, ongoing inconsistencies and inaccuracies in these directories can make it harder to find a provider and lead to administrative burden for seniors, providers, and health plans.
ENHANCING EXPERIENCES WITH VEDA’S AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGY
Veda will use its patented automation technology to analyze, verify, and standardize Humana’s data to ensure it is accurate and comprehensive, along with real-time scoring of data quality. Veda’s platform achieves high data accuracy, ensuring quality across networks as measured by the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Veda’s automation will allow Humana to devote more time and resources to enhance the patient experience.
“We want to be a partner with CMS and policymakers in improving the accuracy of provider directories. This collaboration with Veda will enhance not only the experience for our members, but also our provider community,” “We’re committed to delivering an exceptional experience for both, ultimately improving health outcomes and enhancing the overall well-being of our members.”
Robbie Tindall, Vice President, Provider Process Network Operations at Humana
“Accurate provider data is a key component of efficient health plan operations, care delivery, interoperability, and ultimately patient satisfaction,” said Veda co-founder and CEO Meghan Gaffney. “By addressing the challenges that members may face with finding in-network care providers, Humana is ensuring their members have access to the timely, high-quality care they deserve.”
In addition to working with Veda, Humana will continue to apply best practices in ensuring that provider directories are accurate and up-to-date. Humana has also long supported efforts to create a National Directory of Healthcare Providers and Services, and has provided feedback to CMS about how such a national effort can increase patient satisfaction.
Humana Inc. is committed to putting health first – for our teammates, our customers, and our company. Through our Humana insurance services, and our CenterWell health care services, we make it easier for the millions of people we serve to achieve their best health – delivering the care and service they need, when they need it. These efforts are leading to a better quality of life for people with Medicare, Medicaid, families, individuals, military service personnel, and communities at large. Learn more about what we offer at Humana.com and at CenterWell.com.
About Veda
Veda blends science and imagination to solve healthcare’s most complex data issues. Through human-in-the-loop Smart Automation, our solutions dramatically increase productivity, enable compliance, and empower healthcare businesses to focus on delivering care. Veda’s platforms are simple to use and require no technical skills or drastic system changes because we envision a future for healthcare where data isn’t a barrier—it’s an opportunity. To learn more about Veda, follow us on LinkedIn.
Veda Partners with OutCare to Support Health Equity for LGBTQ+ Communities
Partnership with OutCare Health helps patients and plans identify LGBTQ+ affirming providers, improving access to care
Veda, a health technology provider specializing in accurate, curated provider data, has partnered with OutCare Health, a leading organization championing LGBTQ+ health equity.
Among software companies, Veda was ranked 22nd and it was the highest-ranked company on the list from Wisconsin.
The groundbreaking collaboration addresses the unique needs of LGBTQ+ communities by incorporating the data from OutCare Health’s OutList®, the largest, most comprehensive directory of LGBTQ+ affirming providers, into the high-quality provider data that Veda delivers to its health plan customers.
The OutList® features thousands of providers across all specialties nationwide. The collaboration will make it easier for patients to find providers and for health plans to build LGBTQ+ affirming provider networks.
The need for accurate and inclusive provider data has never been more critical. More than half of LGBTQ+ patients experience stigma in healthcare settings, and more than 92% believe it’s crucial to find LGBTQ+ affirming healthcare providers.
“By leveraging OutCare Health’s comprehensive OutList® through Veda’s robust provider data solutions, health plans can make informed decisions, ensure accurate and meaningful referrals, and provide members with timely access to the quality care they deserve.”
OutCare Health Founder and President, Dr. Dustin Nowaskie
“Many of the health plans that we work with are actively looking for ways to ensure their members have access to LGBTQ+ affirming care,” said Meghan Gaffney, CEO and co-founder of Veda. “They know that patients in LGBTQ+ communities report higher rates of negative health experiences and have higher risk for medical and mental health conditions. Our customers are taking action, and this partnership enables us to help health plans in all communities deliver affirming and supportive experiences for their members.”
Recent research by OutCare Health and Healthgrades laid bare the critical need for patients to find informed and supportive doctors. The survey revealed that LGBTQ+ patients are more likely to have skipped care in the past year and less likely than the heterosexual cisgender population to have had important health screenings. Even more troubling, 18% of LGBTQ+ patients have experienced medical trauma, 125% the rate reported by cisgender, heterosexual patients.
Together, OutCare Health and Veda are revolutionizing the healthcare landscape by empowering health plans to prioritize LGBTQ+ health equity and create more inclusive, affirming healthcare experiences for all LGBTQ+ people.
The two organizations will host an America’s Health Insurance Plans webinar on October 25. Visit www.ahip.org/webinars soon to register for the webinar titled Is Your Provider Directory Offering Inclusive Access for LGBTQ+ Members?
About Veda Veda blends science and imagination to solve healthcare’s most complex data issues. Through human-in-the-loop Smart Automation, our solutions dramatically increase productivity, enable compliance, and empower healthcare businesses to focus on delivering care. Veda is simple to use and requires no technical skills or drastic system changes because we envision a future for healthcare where data isn’t a barrier—it’s an opportunity. To learn more about Veda, visit vedadata.com and follow us on LinkedIn.
About OutCare Health OutCare Health is a leading 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting health equity for LGBTQ+ communities worldwide. OutCare’s mission is to empower LGBTQ+ people with comprehensive information, resources, support, and education, including an affirming healthcare provider directory, mentorship, training, research, community building, support groups, webinar series, blogs, and much more. OutCare’s vision is to create a world where every LGBTQ+ person has access to quality healthcare and feels empowered to live their healthiest, most authentic life. To learn more about OutCare, visit outcarehealth.org and follow on Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, or Twitter.
Veda Data Solutions, a Madison, Wis.-based company that solves healthcare’s most complex provider data issues was named by Inc. as No. 176 on the 2023 Inc. 5000 list revealed today.
Among software companies, Veda was ranked 22nd and it was the highest-ranked company on the list from Wisconsin.
The Inc. 5000 is an annual list of the fastest-growing private companies in America. The prestigious ranking provides a data-driven look at the most successful companies within the independent, entrepreneurial business segment. Facebook, Chobani, Under Armour, Microsoft, Patagonia, and many other household name brands gained their first national exposure as honorees on the Inc. 5000.
“When we started Veda, we set out to make the healthcare industry more efficient and build a company that we could be proud of,” said Meghan Gaffney, CEO and co-founder of Veda. “Being named to the Inc. 5000 list validates our solution and vision and recognizes the Veda team who works tirelessly each day to help people access the care they need.”
Meghan Gaffney, CEO
The Inc. 5000 class of 2023 represents companies that have driven rapid revenue growth while navigating inflationary pressure, the rising costs of capital, and seemingly intractable hiring challenges. Among this year’s top 500 companies, the average median three-year revenue growth rate ticked up to an astonishing 2,238 percent. This year’s Inc. 5000 companies have added 1,187,266 jobs to the economy over the past three years.
“Running a business has only gotten harder since the end of the pandemic,” says Inc. editor-in-chief Scott Omelianuk. “To make the Inc. 5000—with the fast growth that requires—is truly an accomplishment. Inc. is thrilled to honor the companies that are building our future.”
For complete results of the Inc. 5000, including company profiles and an interactive database that can be sorted by industry, location, and other criteria, go to www.inc.com/inc5000. Veda will also be included in the September issue of Inc. as the magazine highlights the top 500 companies.
About Veda
Veda blends science and imagination to solve healthcare’s most complex data issues. Through human-in-the-loop Smart Automation, our solutions dramatically increase productivity, enable compliance and empower healthcare businesses to focus on delivering care. Veda is simple to use and requires no technical skills or drastic system changes because we envision a future for healthcare where data isn’t a barrier—it’s an opportunity. To learn more about Veda, visit vedadata.com and follow us on LinkedIn.
More about Inc. and the Inc. 5000
About Inc. Inc. Business Media is the leading multimedia brand for entrepreneurs. Through its journalism, Inc. aims to inform, educate, and elevate the profile of our community: the risk-takers, the innovators, and the ultra-driven go-getters who are creating our future. Inc.’s award-winning work reaches more than 50 million people across a variety of channels, including events, print, digital, video, podcasts, newsletters, and social media. Its proprietary Inc. 5000 list, produced every year since 1982, analyzes company data to rank the fastest-growing privately held businesses in the United States. The recognition that comes with inclusion on this and other prestigious Inc. lists, such as Female Founders and Power Partners, gives the founders of top businesses the opportunity to engage with an exclusive community of their peers, and credibility that helps them drive sales and recruit talent. For more information, visit www.inc.com.
Methodology Companies on the 2023 Inc. 5000 are ranked according to percentage revenue growth from 2019 to 2022. To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by March 31, 2019. They must be U.S.-based, privately held, for-profit, and independent—not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies—as of December 31, 2022. (Since then, some on the list may have gone public or been acquired.) The minimum revenue required for 2019 is $100,000; the minimum for 2022 is $2 million. As always, Inc. reserves the right to decline applicants for subjective reasons. Growth rates used to determine company rankings were calculated to four decimal places.
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