Beyond Better Data: What Actually Changes Healthcare?
15 Years After Better Data for Better Care, a New Book Examines What Actually Changes Healthcare
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Beyond Better Data:
What Actually Changes Healthcare?
A new book from TLI Founder Bill Oldham on what truly drives meaningful change when data alone is not enough
At a time when healthcare is generating unprecedented volumes of information, Beyond Better Data challenges readers to look beyond data collection and focus on what truly drives meaningful change: disciplined thinking, leadership, collaboration, and responsible innovation.
Better Data
Health Care?
For more than a decade, TLI's guiding principle has been Better Data. Better Care. Now Bill Oldham asks the harder question that comes next.
Fifteen years after Transforming Health Care: Better Data for Better Care helped shape the national conversation around health information technology, the field has invested billions in systems designed to collect, organize, and transmit information. Beyond Better Data reflects the principles that have guided TLI since its founding: intellectual curiosity, scientific rigor, partnership across disciplines, and a relentless commitment to improving lives through better ideas and better information. The real work is human. The real work is now.
A more practical, human-centered vision for innovation and impact
Why has healthcare invested billions in technology while meaningful improvement in care remains so difficult to achieve? Beyond Better Data explores how organizations can move beyond collecting information to using data in ways that improve systems, strengthen collaboration, and create meaningful human outcomes.
Drawing from decades of experience across healthcare, disability services, nonprofit leadership, and public-sector transformation, Bill Oldham challenges traditional approaches to measurement and reporting while offering a more practical, human-centered vision for innovation and impact.
Through compelling case studies and deeply human insight, Oldham shows how data can move beyond accumulation to become a tool for better decisions, stronger collaboration, and improved patient outcomes. Challenging conventional thinking around interoperability, standardization, and value-based care, he presents a practical vision for healthcare systems built on trust, purpose, and actionable intelligence.
Timely, provocative, and grounded in experience, this book is essential reading for healthcare leaders, policymakers, innovators, and anyone working to shape the future of care.
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Bill Oldham introduces Beyond Better Data: why he wrote it, what has changed, and what the healthcare field must do now.
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What leaders are saying
“Better data is essential, but data alone doesn't transform healthcare. People do. Leadership does. Collaboration does. The real challenge is turning information into action that meaningfully improves lives.”
“Bill has spent his career asking difficult questions and bringing together diverse perspectives to solve them. Beyond Better Data captures not only his experience but also the philosophy that has shaped TLI's work: innovation should always be purposeful, evidence-informed, and focused on improving patient outcomes.”
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Launching June 26, 2026
Available wherever books are sold. Purchase links will be activated on launch day.
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