BOSTON — CareQuest Institute for Oral Health has partnered with health care AI company Innovaccer to integrate medical and dental data, an effort aimed at improving understanding of patient journeys and supporting more coordinated, person-centered care.
The collaboration seeks to address longstanding data silos between medical and dental care, which have limited visibility into how oral health affects overall health outcomes. Research has increasingly linked oral health to conditions such as heart disease and diabetes, pregnancy outcomes, and broader measures of health and well-being, yet medical and dental data systems have largely remained separate.
Through the partnership, CareQuest Institute and Innovaccer will link medical and dental claims and clinical data using Innovaccer’s Humbi platform. By unifying these data sources, the organizations aim to create a more comprehensive, longitudinal view of patient health that can help providers, payers, and policymakers better assess outcomes and total cost of care.
The integrated data approach is also expected to support earlier interventions, improved care coordination, and more informed decision-making across the health system. The partners said the collaboration will explore how combined insights from medical and dental data can inform new care models that reflect the interconnected nature of oral and overall health.
“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 of 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.”
Innovaccer leadership said true integration goes beyond data storage to enable actionable insights and coordination across the care continuum.
“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. “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.”
CareQuest Institute said the partnership supports its broader mission to advance oral health equity and strengthen the health care system through data, research, integration, and innovation.
