This collaboration brings medical and dental data together to better understand patient journeys and support more integrated care
CareQuest Institute for Oral Health®, a national nonprofit focused on creating a more accessible, equitable, and integrated oral health system, today announced a new partnership with Innovaccer, a leading health care AI company, to integrate medical and dental data. The collaboration aims to help providers, payers, and policymakers better understand the impact of oral health on overall health outcomes.
Despite growing evidence linking oral health to conditions such as heart disease and diabetes, pregnancy outcomes, and overall health and well-being, medical and dental care data remain largely siloed. This fragmentation limits visibility into the full patient journey, making it difficult to identify opportunities for earlier intervention, coordinated care and improved outcomes for providers, payers, and policymakers.
Through this partnership, CareQuest Institute and Innovaccer will link medical and dental claims and clinical data through Innovaccer’s Humbi platform, drawing on Innovaccer’s expertise in unifying complex health data at scale. By creating a more complete, longitudinal view of patient health, the collaboration will support deeper insights into how oral health influences overall patient outcomes and total cost of care. The collaboration will also explore how these insights can inform interventions that improve care coordination and support more effective, person-centered health care delivery.
“Oral health is an essential part of overall health, yet our systems and data have long treated it as separate,” said Wade Rakes, Chief Executive Officer at CareQuest Institute. “By partnering with Innovaccer to integrate medical and dental data, we’re working to better understand patient journeys across the health system and help advance care models that reflect the reality that oral health and overall health are deeply connected.”
“True integration is what enables autonomous health care, systems that don’t just store data, but actively surface insights and coordinate action across the care continuum,” said Abhinav Shashank, cofounder and CEO of Innovaccer. “CareQuest Institute brings deep expertise and credibility in advancing oral health equity, and together we’re building the data foundation needed to connect medical and dental care in a way that improves outcomes, reduces cost, and reflects how care actually happens in people’s lives.”
This partnership aligns with CareQuest Institute’s broader mission to advance oral health equity and strengthen the health care system through data, research, integration, and innovation.