Jude Odu

A seasoned and respected healthcare professional for over two decades, Jude’s career in the health industry spans acute care hospitals, commercial payers, software, and academics. He spent years managing clinical analytics and decision support systems for University Hospitals, a multi-hospital health system in Northeast Ohio, and worked in the commercial healthcare software industry developing high-impact software solutions for diverse areas such as value based reimbursement, critical care, population health management, healthcare operations, patient risk-adjustment and predictive modeling.

An author of several college-level books, Jude holds a Bachelor’s in Healthcare Administration (Summa cum Laude) from Ursuline College, a Master’s in Health Science from The George Washington University, and is an All But Dissertation (ABD) PhD candidate with research interests in healthcare quality outcomes and their correlations with hospital reimbursement rates. Over the years he has developed and taught college-level courses in healthcare informatics, EHR systems and business intelligence.