E216 Yohann Smadja, VP of Data Science at Cedar

Today's guest is Yohann Smadja, VP of Data Science at Cedar in New York. Founded in 2016, Cedar provides a smarter way for hospitals, health systems and medical groups to manage the patient payment ecosystem. Their platform delivers modern intelligence to alleviate collections challenges, dramatically improve billing operations and ensure a personalized billing experience for patients. Together with the leading medical groups and hospitals across the country, Cedar is elevating the patient payment experience.

With 12 years of experience in the field, Yohann leads the Data Science team who is in charge of making sense of the vast amount of data they have available to help achieve the company’s vision. They build analytics for healthcare providers and their teams to inform the product development process. They tell stories about all aspects of the patient journey and analyze patient behavior, as well as build ML models to drive better decision-making at scale on the platform.

In today's episode, Yohann discusses:

How they are impacting the patient experience,

Interesting projects the data science team are working on,

Milestones on his journey with Cedar to date,

Challenges the team needs to overcome to achieve success,

What excites him for the future &

What he looks for when hiring into the team