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46: Simplifying Primary Care with Dr. Jeffrey Gold, Founder of Gold Direct Care!

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 1, 2016


Listen as Dr. Jeffrey Gold shares his vision for the future of primary care and passion for delivering care the way it was intended - through trust, openness, and investing in the doctor-patient relationship. The ModernMD: Dr. Jeffrey Gold Dr. Jeffrey Gold is the Founder of Gold Direct Care, one the first Direct Primary Care practices in Massachusetts. A family physician by training, he attended the University of Massachusetts Medical School. After completing his residency in Arizona, he moved back home to Massachusetts and worked for the North Shore Physicians Group. Jeff was continuously frustrated with the traditional system and with a passion for improving care deliver and patient experience he launched Gold Direct Care. Success Quote: “If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.” - Milton Berle White Coat to Business Suit: Jeff never saw himself as an entrepreneur, but grew up in small retail business family and was inspired by his parents and grandparents. Jeff completed his residency training in family medicine and joined a traditional primary care practice after graduation. During his work in the traditional system he saw the role of doctors as assembly line worker with limitations to perform their greatest skills of creative problem solve and building strong patient-doctor relationships. Jeff was frustrated with the current system and decided to launch Gold Direct Care! Why Direct Primary Care (DPC)? Traditional system of primary care is complex with increased demands on coding and shorter visit times. Direct primary care lets you build a high quality practice with simple payment, longer visit times, and better doctor-patient relationships. Advice for launching DPC practice: Physicians are not well training in the business of medicine. Surround yourself with people who you trust and can provide complementary skills and knowledge. Admit when you don't know something. You must have your WHY but you might need help with the HOW! Build two models scenarios when you are getting started:  Your Best & Worst case scenarios. If it does not work out... You will always have a JOB. DPC Big Insights: Insurance does not mean healthcare. A large portion of healthcare is expensive, but not primary care. Healthcare economics is complex and the goal should be to find simple solutions to complex problems. DPC has a strong “heart beat” and will require a ground up approach for success. Idea to Venture: The Idea: Gold Direct Primary Care (DPC) - Committed to delivering primary care as it was intended! Listen as Jeff shares his entrepreneurial journey launching one of Massachusetts first DPC practices. Challenges: Jeff shares some of his challenges launching his practice including: Negotiating and navigating state laws and polices on insurance, financial viability, scalability, and concerns of quality and oversight. Insights: Health is accomplished through a reliable and trusting partnership between physicians and patients. Success: Studied and modeled his practice using other successful Direct Primary Care practices in the country. Jeff uses innovative technology platforms to enhance and improve care including: RubiconMD an e-consult specialists platform and Twine Health a collaborative care platform. Business Rounds: Best Advice: Nothing good comes easy! Daily Success Habit: Admit the things you don't know on a day to day basis. Focus on your strengths but continue to educate yourself on your weakness. Healthcare Trends: On-Demand Care: Patient having access to on demand care with trusted primary care doctor. Individualized Care: Personalize care to meet your patients needs. Old School: Just simple old school medicine = Patient + Doctor! Links:  http://www.golddirectcare.com/ Follow: @GoldDirectCare DoseUP: Thanks for all your incredible support. We are grateful and blessed to all our listeners who support physician entrepre...

45: Talking “Health on Demand” in the Digital Age with Dr. Ramesh Subramani!

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 12, 2016


Dr. Ramesh Subramani shares his passion for patient driven care, exciting work at Analyte Health, and insights from his new book "Health on Demand". The ModernMD: Dr. Ramesh Subramani Dr. Ramesh Subramani is the Chief Medical Officer at Analyte Health, a digital diagnostics triage company with a doctor-guided digital system that helps patients get convenient, faster, and cost-effective care. Dr. Subramani is the author of “Health on Demand”, an Amazon Best Seller. Previously, Ramesh served as Vice President of New Leaf Venture Partners, Strategy Consultant at McKinsey & Company, and Assistant Professor & Directory of Global Health - Emergency Medicine at Northwestern University. Success Quote: “Don't just go through any open door, open the doors that you want to walk through.” - Ramesh White Coat to Business Suit: Dr. Ramesh Subramani's career blends his work in emergency medicine, venture investing, McKinsey strategist, and digital health disruptor. His passion for technology started at an early age with computer programing and robots. He saw the opportunity for how technology could fit into healthcare. What does it mean to be a doctor? How can technology hack healthcare? Ramesh transformed his thinking from one-one patient care to healthcare system level transformation and focused on how technology could hack healthcare. In medical school, he completed both his MBA and MPH to broaden his system level knowledge and better understand the different aspects of healthcare. He initially pursed a traditional track completing his residency in emergency medicine and becoming an Assistant Professor. Listen as Ramesh shares his journey from traditional medicine to the entrepreneurial world. What was your mindset as you left traditional practice? Ramesh honored clinical practice and enjoyed the art of taking care of patients. He left clinical medicine to make a bigger impact into healthcare nationally and globally. Listen as he shares his baseball analogy for hitting a grand slam in healthcare! Idea to Venture: The Idea: Analyte Health + “Health on Demand”!! Analyte Health: How do you break down barrier to healthcare? How can you help consumers find actionable path to wellness? Listen as Dr. Subramani shares the mission and vision for Analyte health to discover the ways you can get diagnosed and tested. “Health On Demand”: Insider Tips to Prevent Illness and Optimize Your Care in the Digital Age of Medicine. Want to take control of your health? Get an insiders perspective as Dr. Subramani shares his exciting insights from his new Amazon best seller. How does technology allow patients to access and engage in their care? Ramesh shares how we can bridge the gap between how we currently practice medicine and meet the wants of our patients. Ramesh shares the roadmap to faster, better, and smarter care. How do physicians become more digitally savvy? iTunes: Search iTunes medical applications in your speciality. Get digital updates with: http://www.imedicalapps.com/, http://www.medpagetoday.com/, http://mobihealthnews.com/. Redesign how you take care of patients: Be digitally active with text messages and coaching. Your goal should be to make patients happy and doctors productive. Get your digital prescription now and read Health on Demand! Business Rounds: Best Advice: Ask for help! Get advice from mentors who you admire that are 5 to 10 years ahead in their career. Ask these mentors: “If they could do it all over again what would they do differently?” Daily Success Habit: Cross things out and take them off your schedule and create a sense of focus. Healthcare Trends: Machine learning and predictive algorithms: Creating large data sets that will have the ability to correlate. Patient-centered: Patients are becoming a bigger influence in the healthcare ecosystem and leading what happens in healthcare. Links:

44: From Internet Sensation to Improving Physician Credentials with Dr. Miles Beckett, CEO of Silversheet!

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 20, 2016 21:43


Listen as Dr. Miles Beckett shares his creative entrepreneurial journey from starting a YouTube sensation to exciting work streamlining physician credentialing at SilverSheet! The ModernMD: Dr. Miles Beckett Dr. Miles Beckett is the Co-Founder and CEO of Silversheet, a company dedicated to developing software solutions that transform the way healthcare facilities and providers collaborate and connect. Previously, Miles was the Co-Founder and CEO of the social entertainment company, EQAL, and was the Co-Creator and Executive Producer of the web series lonelygirl15 and KateModern. Miles holds a B.S. in Neuroscience from the University of California at Berkley and an M.D. from the University of California at San Diego. Success Quote: “If you are going through hell keep going.” - Winston Churchill “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” - Winston Churchill White Coat to Business Suit: Miles always had a passion for entertainment and during medical school he pursued this interest as the founder and co-editor of The Pulse, a UCSD Medical School newsletter and The Inhuman Condition, a UCSD Medical School underground comedy newsletter as well as the Design Editor and staff writer for The Heuristic Squelch, the UC Berkeley humor magazine. After graduating from medical school and entering a plastic surgery residency at Loma Linda University Medical Center, Miles' created lonelygirl15, a serialized drama that became a pop culture phenomena and online interactive show. Listen as Miles shares his journey on why he dropped out of his plastic surgery residency to follow his passion in online video, build EQAL, and create communities around entertainment and consumer brands while building his own brand recognition. Round Two - What are the biggest lessons starting your second company Silversheet? Planning: Improved ability to scope, design, and develop software. Capital: Raising funding, negotiating term sheets, and selecting the right investors partnerships. Operations: Learning and operating business and structuring the corporate governance, insurance, board structure. Idea to Venture: The Idea: How do you simplify physician credentialing? What is the big vision of Silversheet? SilverSheet helps streamline physician credentialing and empowers physicians to keep their qualifications up-to-date. SilverSheet believes healthcare should be about patients, not paper work! Success: Launching with surgical center market, with core focus on credentialing and privileging process. Lesson Learned: Build an awesome product with beautiful design and have empathy for your users! Business Rounds: Best Advice: “Never to give up” - Paras Maniar, Board Member Silversheet Daily Success Habit: Miles reviews weekly his list of goals and breaks them down into concrete tasks. He has a daily list of items and makes sure to complete at least one major item each day. Healthcare Trends: Listen as Miles shares why he believes the healthcare world is going digital for storage of documents and workflows. Mining the data to drive more evidence-based outcomes. Health Kit APIs - Devices measurements, synchronization Mobile workflows in healthcare. More ability to do job from mobile device. Links: https://silversheet.com/ @mbeckett @silversheet DoseUP: Thanks for all your incredible support. We are grateful and blessed to all our listeners who support physician entrepreneurship and innovation. Be innovative - Subscribe, share the love, and write an iTunes review at TheModernMD.com/review Dream Big and Make it Happen, Dr. Goodman

43: Life-Saving Innovation with Dr. Ariel Drori, Co-Founder of ThoraXS!

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2016 15:24


Dr. Ariel Drori shares his entrepreneurial journey, inspiring story in the battle field, and exciting work Co-Founding ThoraXS! The ModernMD: Dr. Ariel Drori Dr. Ariel Drori is the Co-Founder of ThoraXS, a single step, rapid life saving solution for treating pneumothorax. ThoraXS is a one-handed thoracic portal opener that shortens the procedure time of chest-tube insertion from minutes to less than 30 seconds. Dr. Drori is an Attending Internal Medicine physician at Hadassah University Medical Center and graduate of The Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Success Quote: "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." - Albert Einstein White Coat to Business Suit: Ariel is a practicing Internal Medicine physician at Hadassah University Medical Center. He also is a reserve medical doctor in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). During one of his military services, a soldier was shot by his sniper suffering a chest trauma and a pneumothorax. Listen as Ariel shares his battle field story that inspired the creation of ThoraXS. Idea to Venture: The Idea: Pneumothorax is a medical emergency caused by chest trauma and is responsible for about one-third of preventable deaths on the battle field. Listen as Dr. Drori share his inspiration for the creation of ThoraXS and big vision for saving lives. Success: Rapid medical innovation through BioDesign! Ariel shares the value of BioDesign program that brings the best and brights together to solve medicines most challenging problems. What is BioDesign: A multi-disciplinary, team-based approach to medical innovation, created by Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Hadassah Medical Center in partnership with Stanford University. Success: ThoraXS has simple mechanism that allows for an innovative one-handed solution that shortens the chest tube procedure time. Business Rounds: Best Advice: Never quit! Don't take “No” as an answer. Daily Success Habit: Ariel has busy schedule and wakes up early to review and plan his day. Healthcare Trends: Information Technology: How can we best organize and transfer patient data? Healthcare is moving into an information technology era with large amount of patient data accumulating. Patient Safety: How can we improve patient safety and quality care? Patient expect excellent high quality care and have less tolerance for mistakes. Links: Join the movement and help support ThoraXS team on their mission to save lives! Check out: http://www.thoraxs.com/ For more on BioDesign: http://www.biodesignisrael.com/ DoseUP: Thanks for all your incredible support. We are grateful and blessed to all our listeners who support physician entrepreneurship and innovation. Be innovative - Subscribe, share the love, and write an iTunes review at TheModernMD.com/review Dream Big and Make it Happen, Dr. Goodman

42: Medical Entrepreneurship with Dr. Vishaal Virani, Co-Founder of Doctorpreneurs!

Play Episode Listen Later May 16, 2016


Dr. Vishaal Virani shares his entrepreneurial journey, passion for physician entrepreneurship, and exciting work at Doctorpreneurs. The ModernMD: Dr. Vishaal Virani Dr. Vishaal Virani is the Co-Founder of Doctorpreneurs, the global community for medical entrepreneurs with a mission to provide the next generation of entrepreneurs with the insights, network, and opportunities to lead innovative improvements in healthcare. Vishaal graduated from UCL Medical School in 2011 and completed his Foundation Training at William Harvey Hospital and King's College Hospital in London. He then worked at Mansfield Advisors, a startup healthcare consultancy, analyzing business plans for medical technology companies and private hospital groups. Vishaal currently works as a management consultant at OC&C Strategy Consultants, where he specializes in retail, consumer goods and media. Success Quote: “Focus on the journey not the destination.” - Vishaal White Coat to Business Suit: Vishaal practiced as a general practitioner after graduating medical school. He started exploring opportunities outside of the clinical world, and jumped full time into the consulting space. Listen as Vishaal shares his journey jumping off the cliff, his push-pull factors, and the story of Doctorpreneurs. Your Medical Entrepreneur Road Map: Gut Check: Where do you want to be in the next 10-20 years of your career? Are your mentors happy with their career? This is a good way to validate your options and career path. Push-Pull Factor: What are the factors that push you out of traditional practice? What are the exciting features of a career outside of clinical practice that excite you? How do you balance these push-pull factors will help set your path. Path: How do you begin? How do you get into the entrepreneurial world? Build a strong business foundation. Consulting can be a great way to build your on the job MBA and learn core business education and training. Idea to Venture: The Idea: How do you build a global community medical entrepreneurs? Listen to the story of how Doctorpreneurs was founded and their mission to build a sustainable medical entrepreneurship community. Success: Focus on maximizing impact with a strong core focus. The three main features of the Doctorpreneurs offering: Interviews of UK healthcare entrepreneurs, resources and events, and opportunities. Business Rounds: Best Advice: Circumstances make you! You never know when you are going to get good advice - Write it down and capture it. Vishaal believes in the magic of the little black note book! Put your efforts into passions not profits. Daily Success Habit: If you are going to do something daily it should be simple not ground breaking. Vishaal shares two daily success habits: Immediate Email Response: Replies to emails straight away. Take time for Lunch: Get outside the office, take time for lunch, and interact with people not just your computer. Healthcare Trends: Vishaal shares his biggest healthcare trends - Doctors should focus on making these trends more scientifically relevant! Medical Student Entrepreneurship: Medical student increasing becoming interested in entrepreneurship. Their will be a growing number of physician founders and medical start up founded during medical school. Consumer Healthcare: People integrating healthily habits into their daily lives. Exercise is becoming a bigger part of lives with new type of classes and smart exercise wear. Detox Holidays: Travel with the idea of health. Healthy Eating: New focus on healthy eating and wellness. Links: Join Doctorpreneurs community: www.doctorpreneurs.com/join http://www.doctorpreneurs.com/ @doctorpreneurs DoseUP: Thanks for all your incredible support. We are grateful and blessed to all our listeners who support physician entrepreneurship and innovation. Be innovative - Subscribe, share the love, and write an iTunes review at TheModernMD.

41: Transforming Diabetes Care with Dr. Andrew Rhinehart, Chief Medical Officer at Glytec!

Play Episode Listen Later May 2, 2016 22:29


Listen as Dr. Andrew Rhinehart shares his entrepreneurial journey and exciting work at Glytec transforming diabetes care! The ModernMD: Dr. Andrew Rhinehart Dr. Andrew Rhinehart is the Chief Medical Officer at Glytec, a clinical information technology company dedicated to the mission of improving insulin management and glycemic control. Dr. Rhinehart previously served as a diabetologist and the program director of the Johnston Memorial Diabetes Care Center and Johnston Memorial Center for Comprehensive Wound Care in Virginia. He was also the Chairman of the ADA's Primary Care Advisory Group and the first physician to be Board Certified in Advanced Diabetes Management (BC-ADM) by the American Association of Diabetes Educators. Success Quote: “You have to spend money to make money.”-W Scott Rhinehart “You have to learn to loose money gracefully.”-W Scott Rhinehart White Coat to Business Suit: Dr. Rhinehart is an internist by training with a passion for diabetes. Andy always had an entrepreneurial spirit with early influences from his family business. In high school he started a DJ company and after graduating from residency went into private practice. Listens as Dr. Rhinehart shares his entrepreneurial journey. Andy's Innovation Dose: Become an expert, join hospital level committees, increase credibility with credentialing, and speak at national conferences! Idea to Venture: The Idea: How can you transform diabetes care across the continuum? Listen as Dr. Rhinehart shares his work at Glytec, a clinical information technology company dedicated to improving insulin management and glycemic control and their innovative glycemic solutions! Success: Build a cloud based system with algorithms that are physician ordered and nursing driven. Start a glycemic management committee at your hospital. Lesson Learned: Inpatient glycemic control is important with physician practice change as your biggest hurdle. Develop a team based interdisciplinary approach with goal of preventing hypoglycemia. Business Rounds: Best Advice: Listen as Dr. Rhinehart shares his best life advice. 1) Purse your passion to become successful. 2) Produce the best possible product or service. 3) Work hard play hard - Can't be business all the time! Daily Success Habits: 1) Fit body and fit mind. 2) Use lists to focus on your top priorities. 3) Surround yourself with great people. Healthcare Trends: Population Management: Team based approach to provide excellent care. Patient Engagement: The successful office of the future has an empty waiting room. Patients are engaged before they need your help. Healthcare Delivery/Payment Models: Value based and quality payment system. Data: How do we leverage big data? Use actionable data and make clinical changes based information. Links: @ASRhinehart https://www.glytecsystems.com/ @Glytec DoseUP: Thanks for all your incredible support. We are grateful and blessed to all our listeners who support physician entrepreneurship and innovation. Be innovative - Subscribe, share the love, and write an iTunes review at TheModernMD.com/review Dream Big and Make it Happen, Dr. Goodman

40: Accelerating Life-Saving Care with Dr. YiDing Yu, Chief Medical Officer of Twiage!

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 9, 2016


Listen as Dr. YiDing Yu shares her entrepreneurial journey, passion for healthcare innovation, and exciting work at Twiage and Atrius Health. The ModernMD: Dr. YiDing Yu Dr. YiDing Yu is a practicing physician, researcher, innovator, and entrepreneur with a passion for improving health care delivery. Dr. Yu is the Chief Innovation Engineer at Atrius Health, the largest nonprofit independent multi-specialty practice in the Northeast. YiDing also is the Founder and Chief Medical Officer of Twiage, a mobile platform that empowers first responders and hospitals to deliver more timely, cost-effective care at the most crucial moments. Success Quote: “You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.” - Woodrow Wilson White Coat to Business Suit: YiDing started her entrepreneurial career in high school founding two internet companies. She always wanted to become a doctor and has focus her career on how to make healthcare better. Listen as she shares her entrepreneurial journey and passion for using technology to save lives. What is your advice for physicians interested in entrepreneurship? Entrepreneurship is not a linear path or process. Below are YiDings steps for crafting your entrepreneurial career. 1) Clinical vs. Non-Clinical: What is your clinical vs. non-clinical breakdown? How do you decided on how much time you want to spend innovating vs. time spent treating patients? Dr. Yu spend 80% of her time on innovation at Atrius Health and 20% on her time treating patients. 2) Problem + Passion: What are you passionate about and what type of problems are you looking to fix? What would you spend your extra time to get right? 3) Navigating and Conversations: Navigating the rest of your career is about having the right conversations. If you are new to the entrepreneurship space, find a small cool start-up that could use your help. Send the founders an email and offer to volunteer your time. In return you will get an opportunity to learn and work with the companies founders and will gain great exposure to other healthcare founder and venture capitalists. Idea to Venture: Idea: How can you leverage technology to close the communication gap between first responders and hospital staff? Listen as YiDing shares the journey of starting Twiage to create a platform between first responders and hospital staff to improve efficient and timely high quality care during those critical moments. Challenge: How do you get all the stakeholders to focus on your very important problem. Sale cycles for selling to hospitals can be very long, even when you have traction! Successes: Make your problem relevant, develop the right referral network, and identify early hospital adopters with innovative leadership. Get the right team on board and work with those that you enjoy spending time with and trust. Lesson Learned: Simplicity is king - Your solution should work for your end user! Business Rounds: Best Advice: “Never leave any doors closed, always keep your eyes peeled for the opportunity. Never hesitate to take the risk, if it strikes your fancy or makes you curious. Don't just take the well worn path and predictable road.”- Dr. Clay Ackerly, Chief Clinical Officer at naviHealth, Inc. Daily Success Habit: YiDing shares her daily success habit organizing her email inbox. 1) Set out clear times to check emails. 2) Be rigorous on what you are going respond to. 3) Make snap judgement about responses - Reply or decline. Healthcare Trends: Listen as YiDing share her exciting healthcare trends. 1) Improving the patient experience in healthcare. 2) Patient satisfaction as larger components of patient quality measures. 3) Organizations and start ups that focus on patient exper...

39: The Future of Psychiatry with Dr. Arshya Vahabzadeh, Director of Digital Health at Brain Power!

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 23, 2016 26:29


Listen as Dr. Arshya Vahabzadeh shares his entrepreneurial journey, exciting work at Brain Power, and the future of Psychiatry. The ModernMD: Dr. Arshya Vahabzadeh Dr. Arshya Vahabzadeh is the Director of Digital Health at Brain Power, a company that builds neuroscience-based software and hardware that transform current wearable computers into neuro-assistive and educational devices for autism. He is the Innovation Officer at the Massachusetts General Hospital Psychiatry Academy and Chairman of the Council on Communications of the American Psychiatric Association. Dr. Vahabzadeh is widely published in clinical neuroscience, digital health, and medical communication. Success Quote: “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.” - Seneca White Coat to Business Suit: Arshya trained as family physician at Royal College of General Practitioners in United Kingdom and was struck by the severe need for behavioral health and mental health services in daily clinical practice. To help large populations with behavioral/mental health, he pursed further training to become an academic psychiatrist in the United States. He completed psychiatry residency training at Emory University School of Medicine and his child and adolescent fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital. Towards the end of his fellowship training, Arshya was looking to explore how to make the biggest impact in his field. Listen as Arshya shares how he balances his full-time clinical role treating patients in emergency room and maximum security prison with his entrepreneurial work in the digital health space. Idea to Venture: The Idea: How can wearable technology address educational and behavioral needs for autism? Listen as Dr. Arshya Vahabzadeh shares his exciting work at Brain Power, a technology company that has developed the world's first wearable educational system for autism which is based on brain science from MIT and Harvard, and built on a hardware-enhanced smart-glass. Insights: Listening to families with children with autism allows for measurement of important outcomes not classically measured.... Such as wondering! Brain Power uses of personalization and on-demand approach with machine learning and customization to best serve their patients. Success: Brain Power leverages smart glass technology, big data, and predictive analytics, to help children learn how their unique brains learns. Lesson Learned: Listen to the people you are trying to serve, obtain advice from the key people in your field, but keep in mind that big discoveries are not being made by people who are not willing to take risks. Business Rounds: Best Advice: Surround yourself with strong, supportive, and top notch people. Daily Success Habit: Exercises daily, eats small regular meals, and brings a two-day food survival kit food with different protein shakes and snacks during long clinical days. Healthcare Trends: Listen as Dr. Arshya Vahabzadeh shares some of the most exciting trends in healthcare including: the future of psychiatry, big data, wearables, patient empowerment, and Neurotechnology. Links: http://www.vahabzadehmd.com/ http://www.brain-power.com/ @VahabzadehMD @BrainPowerASD  

38: Digital Therapeutics with Sean Duffy, CEO of Omada Health!

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 10, 2016 24:56


Listen as Sean Duffy shares his entrepreneurial journey, passion for using design and technology to tackle chronic disease, and exciting work at Omada Health. The ModernMD: Sean Duffy Sean Duffy is the Co-Founder & CEO of Omada Health, a healthcare & technology company pioneering the field of digital behavioral medicine with a mission of inspiring and enabling people everywhere to live free of chronic disease. Omada is one of Fast Company's 50 most innovative companies. Sean believes that behavioral medicine is at an incredible tipping point of innovation. He holds a BS in Neuroscience from Columbia University, was an MD/MBA candidate at Harvard, and formerly worked for Google and IDEO. Success Quote: “We inspire and enable people everywhere to live free of chronic disease”-Mission statement at Omada Health White Coat to Business Suit: After graduating Columbia University, Sean went to Silicon Valley to work at Google. He realized that technology and healthcare was not a binary world, and decided to pursue his MD/MBA at Harvard. He spent his first summer at IDEO and discovered an alarming crisis in chronic disease. After reading a landmark diabetes trial with great scientific evidence, he saw a big opportunity to combine his passions for design, technology, and medicine and founded Omada Health. He always planned to finish medical school, but found a problem he was very excited about and wanted to solve. What is your advice to medical students and residents interested in entrepreneurship and healthcare innovation? Entrepreneurship is a powerful way to scale your skills set. When, or if, should you leave MD/MBA program or residency? Find something you want to solve - You will know when the time is right when you find a problem that you must solve. Ironically when the choice becomes easy, it is the right moment. The key to business success is determination and never giving up. What is a good approach for exploration? Good approach - Education + Build entrepreneurial projects Educational Resources (Must Reads!!): Sam Altman: http://blog.samaltman.com/ Paul Gram essays (read every one): http://www.paulgraham.com/ Build entrepreneurial projects as hobbies to build your entrepreneurial skills and muscles. Idea to Venture: Idea: Chronic disease now kills more people than infectious disease. How can technology and design be leveraged in a scalable ways to inspire lasting behavioral change for those at risk of chronic disease? Listen as Sean shares his entrepreneurial journey and big vision for Omada Health. Biggest Insights: Surprisingly, the greatest adoption rate with older age group! Omada continues to innovate by running small experiments & randomized control trials. Success: Start with science and clinical rigor, build with policy, and design with commercial viability. Business Rounds: Best Advice: To be a leader of a team - Be authentic and be yourself - David Webster, IDEO Daily Success Habit: Structure to-do list in the morning with four categories: urgent, today task, near term, long term. Everyday look at near term and long term, bring into today's tasks and complete today's tasks. Healthcare Trends: Can technology make the biggest impact in healthcare? A wave of technology into healthcare seems incredibly unique and different from what has been tried previously with massive penetration. Listen as Sean shares his thoughts about large scale technology innovation and exciting payment transformation. Links: https://omadahealth.com/ https://preventnow.com/ @seanduffy @omadahealth

37: Stay on the Edge with Dr. David Best, CEO of The Doctor's Channel!

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 29, 2016 33:17


Listen as Dr. David Best shares his entrepreneurial journey, passion for living on the edge, and the creative genius behind The Doctor's Channel. The ModernMD's: Dr. David Best Dr. David Best, MD, MBA, is the Founder and CEO of The Doctor's Channel, a website for doctors with pointed, accurate, and brief content. David is the Co-Founder and CEO of MDea, a medical education company known in the pharmaceutical and biotech industry as one of the most creative medical education companies. Dr. Best is also the Co-Founder of BESTMSLs, a contract medical science liaison (MSL) company that was the very first scientifically credentialed MSL team. Success Quote: “Stay on the edge, more happens there.” - Dr. David Best “If you give the client what they already want, someone else will give them what they never dreamed possible.” - Dr. David Best White Coat to Business Suit: Dr. Best went down the standard medical path pursing a residency in Otolaryngology. During residency, David lost interest in day-to-day clinical practice and on a whim decided to write letters to top medical advertising agencies. Listen as Dr. Best landed a position on Madison Avenue in NYC working in the heart of the medical advertising world, building the first Medical Science Liaison teams, and founding of The Doctor's Channel. Idea to Venture: The Idea: With the age of media snacking, David wanted to give doctors what they wanted. Listen as David shares his journey founding The Doctor's Channel.   Doctors like fun and love exciting content! Success: Learn to have big belief in your yourself, your ideas, and take risks to make those ideas succeed. Lesson Learned: Be fast, flexible, and quick to respond. Make sure to adequately test your ideas, and not with family/friends. In the early days of a start-up, it is hard to maintain a work-life balance. Business Rounds: Best Advice: Get your MBA after having experience in the business world. It will give you credibility the business industry. Daily Success Habit: Bring your dog to work - it raises office moral and is a great marketing tool! Healthcare trends: There will be a rise in number nurse practitioners, with doctor's spending more time behind screens with focus on delivering telemedicine. Links: http://www.thedoctorschannel.com/ http://www.mdeany.com/ http://www.bestmsls.com/ @BestMD

36: EMR Automation with Dr. Charbonneau and Dr. Crews, Founders of Fluent Systems!

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 18, 2016 33:17


Dr. Gabe Charbonneau and Dr. Kirk Crews share their entrepreneurial journey of creating innovative tools, Fluent Systems that allow doctors to spend less time on the computer and more time with patients. The ModernMD's: Dr. Gabe Charbonneau and Dr. Kirk Crews Dr. Gabe Charbonneau and Dr. Kirk Crews are the Founders of Fluent Systems, EMR Automation platform, and small start-up in rural Montana. Gabe and Kirk are both family medicine doctors with a passion for helping other physicians in a new chapter of medicine that we call ‘the EMR era' and preserving the ‘art of medicine'. Success Quote: “Opportunity has knocked and I Answered”- Jim LeFevre White Coat to Business Suit: Dr. Charbonneau joined a family medicine practice in rural Montana where Dr. Crews was working and discovered early on that they wanted to optimize their work at a family medicine clinic to make it more efficient. It was a spontaneous journey to the business world as they started a “friendly competition” to see who could create better automation commands using Dragon to improve efficiency in the office. As these doctors profoundly believe problem solving is at the heart of medicine, listen as their quest to answer simple questions such as, “How can we input data better to reclaim patient based care?”, sparked the creation of Fluent Systems. Advice for medical students and residents interested in Entrepreneurship: We encourage students and residents to keep practicing in their fields to focus on solutions that help doctors and nurses do their jobs better. Hear why Dr. Charbonneau and Dr. Kirk believe that doctors need to live the problems in order to create the most optimal doctor-centric solutions. Idea to Venture: The Idea: How can Electronic Medical Record (EMR) use automation tools? How can we better automate data input to reclaim patient based care? Listen to how this Fluent team built Swiftwire, by physicians for physicians, which uses a customized EMR toolbar for efficient data input. Failures/Challenges: Listen to hear how a major set back focusing on Dragon software was the impetus for Swiftware's creation and success. Also pay attention to why both doctors believe that carving time to focus on innovation while maintaining your practice is a difficult but essential step to improving the medical field. Success: Dr. Charbonneau and Dr. Crews value hearing how doctors are once again able to have great interactions with patients and preserve the joy in helping others, which is why most doctors enter medicine. Lesson Learned: Hear why Dr. Charbonneau and Dr. Crews recommend taking a step away to gain perspective and then coming back refreshed with new ideas. Business Rounds: Best Advice: We have just as much ability to change the world as anyone else and we need to present. Daily Success Habit: Gabe and Kirk share their biggest daily success habits including 1) Exercising 2) Writing down strategies for being happy and grateful. 3) Being a scientist Healthcare Trends: What are the biggest healthcare trends? Listen to why both doctors are excited that the pendulum is swinging back to a healthcare system that focuses on people, not data, emphasizing patient care. Links: Download a FREE 30 day trial: http://fluent.systems/download.html

35: Can your Electronic Health Record Think Like a Doctor with Dr. Henry Chueh at Pri-Med?

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 1, 2016 21:02


Dr. Henry Chueh shares his entrepreneurial journey, passion for using informatics to transform healthcare delivery, and his exciting work at Pri-Med. The ModernMD: Dr. Henry Chueh Dr. Henry Chueh, MD, MS, is Chief of the Division of Biomedical Informatics at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). His research focuses on innovations in specialized electronic health records and the use of informatics to transform the delivery of health care. Henry is in on the clinical advisory team for Pri-Med InLight EHR, a completely new type of EHR that thinks like a doctor. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Medical School and is a practicing internist. Success Quote: “A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.” - Wayne Gretzky White Coat to Business Suit: Dr. Chueh was always intrigued by the power of information technology to transform healthcare delivery and pursed a fellowship in clinical informatics at Massachusetts General Hospital. Henry became the Director of the Lab of Computer Science at Massachusetts General Hospital and led many system level Electronic Health Record (EHR) innovation projects. Dr. Chueh saw the potential of a start-up vehicle to translate these innovations from the lab and make them more broadly available.  Listen as he shares his exciting journey launching Pri-Med InLight EHR!  What is your advice to academics physicians interested in healthcare innovation and entrepreneurship? Step outside of academic setting and to broadly scale your innovations! Idea to Venture: The Idea: Can an electronic health record really think like a doctor? Listen as Dr. Henry Chueh shares his innovative work at Pri-Med InLight EHR as they build a new type of problem based EHR with smart decision support that learns how your practice and helps your more efficiently treat patients. Challenges: Translating and building the initial core feature sets for all different physician practice models. Success: Building EHR that efficiently works in Direct Primary Care, Fee-For-Service and Concierge models. Insights: Most physicians treat patients with a problem based approach. The most important feature set for fee-for-service is EHR that allows you to use the problem-based approach to effectively and efficiently bill. Direct Primary Care and Concierge care are driven by the prized patient-doctor relationship and care more about efficient documentation. Business Rounds: Best Advice: In life, there are two kinds of balls, the kinds that bounce and the kinds that shatter. Never loose attention on the glass balls that shatter. Daily Success Habit: Sets aside morning quite time to focus on tackling his most challenging problems and uses first principles with no assumptions or constraints to think outside of the box. Healthcare Trends: Direct Primary Care: Delivering primary care in a direct fashion to patients and consumers without the third party insurer model. Consumer: Empowering patients to drive outcomes outside of the doctors office that focus on prevention.  Technology: Interoperability within in healthcare with more openness.  Links: http://www.inlightehr.com/ http://www.pri-med.com/ @InLightEHR  

34: The Future of Behavioral Healthcare with Dr. Thomas Tsang, CEO and Co-Founder of Valera Health!

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 11, 2016


Dr. Thomas Tsang shares his entrepreneurial journey and exciting work in behavioral healthcare at Valera Health. The ModernMD: Dr. Thomas Tsang Dr. Thomas Tsang, MD, MPH, FACP, is CEO and Co-Founder of Valera Health, an innovative behavioral healthcare company that offers an end-to-end service solution model for leveraging population analytic, digital personalized care plans and integrated approach to behavior health activation. Previously, Dr. Tsang was Chief Medical Officer of Merck Health Service Solutions, Congressional staffer, Medical Director at the Office of the National Coordinator, and Advisor to the Governor of Hawaii. Success Quote: “Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” - Robert Kennedy White Coat to Business Suit: Dr. Tsang shares his career evolution from starting an internal medicine private practice, leading and building a community health center, his national and state healthcare policy work, and then his shift into the private sector at Merck and Valera Health. What is your advice for medical students, residents, or physicians interested in healthcare innovation and entrepreneurship? Build a network of role models and believe you can do anything. Idea to Venture: The Idea: How do you integrate primary care and behavioral healthcare? Listen as Dr. Tsang shares exciting work at Valera Health as they revolutionize behavior healthcare delivery with personalized solutions to benefit patients, payers, providers, and employers. Early Insights: Traction with new payment models and risk based group. Building a high touch and high tech approach with patient facing content and data to help patients best manage their disease. Business Rounds: Best Advice: The most optimal career involves one-third civil service, one-third non-profit, and one-third private sector work. Daily Success Habit: Rule of three - Do something for another person, do something for your company, and do something for yourself. Healthcare Trends: Healthcare is at a pivotal moment with delivery system reforms, payment reforms, and the availability of technology. Listen as Dr. Tsang shares his insights on healthcare innovation. Links:  http://www.valerahealth.com/

33: Three Biggest Mistakes Physician Entrepreneurs Should Avoid!

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 17, 2015


Dr. Gregory Goodman, Founder & Host, shares some of his best insights to help you on your entrepreneurial journey. The ModernMD: Dr. Gregory Goodman Success Quote: “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” - Albert Einstein My Journey: Dr. Gregory Goodman shares some exciting updates on his current journey as an internal medicine resident and entrepreneur. Three Biggest Mistakes: People: Great companies are built with great people - learn to build excellent teams that are passion your vision. Problem: Work on the biggest problems in healthcare and solve your customers biggest problems. Perfection: Entrepreneurship rewards movement not perfection. Business Rounds: Daily Success Habit: The sprint - Listen to my new success habit! Healthcare Trends: As a future primary care physician, I am excited about the promise of  Direct Primary Care. Support Us: Thanks for you continued support -  Show The ModernMD some love and share your comments below! Submit an iTunes review: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-modern-md/id997010340?mt=2 Follow up on Twitter: @Modern_MD

32: Why do Medical Students need a Voice with Ajay Major, Founder and Editor-in-Chief, of in-Training?

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 30, 2015


Ajay Major shares his entrepreneurial journey and passion for helping medical student share their voice and change healthcare! The ModernMD: Ajay Major Ajay Major is an entrepreneur, medical student activist, and aspiring physician-journalist. He is Founder and Editor-in Chief of in-Training, the online magazine by medical students and for medical students, at in-training.org. He also Founded in-House, the online magazine for residents and fellows, at in-housestaff.org.  He was a nominee of MedTech Boston's 40 Under 40 Healthcare Innovators Awards. Ajay is currently a 4th year medical student at Albany Medical College. Success Quote: “Know when to put it all aside” - Ajay White Coat to Business Suit: Ajay was selected for the Leadership in Medicine Program, an eight-year combined BS/MBA/MD program with Union Graduate College and Albany Medical College.  His passion for journalism started with his work as the Editor-in-Chief of the Concordiensis, Union College's weekly student newspaper. As he started medical school, he saw an opportunity to combine his passion for journalism and Founded in-Training, an online magazine by medical students for medical students, as a platform for experimentation and expression.  Idea to Venture: The Idea: Why is it important for medical student and residents to have a voice? Listen as Ajay shares his vision for creating a spectum of publications that span the medical education journey and his exciting work at in-Training and in-House! Lesson Learned: Do you homework before you launch your venture. Make sure to build a structure for continuity. Continue to write chart your progress with a structure in place that will allow you to stay ahead of the game.  Business Rounds: Best Advice: Find a partner in crime, who understands you, and is willing to fully participate as well as operate on your same level. Daily Success Habit: Before bed, review your email inbox and make a list of what needs to get accomplished in the next 24 hours. Review your list the next morning, and stay mindful of the process.  Healthcare Trends: Medical school is going through a major revolution which will favor new models to train and educate the next generation of medical students. Physicians will be trained not just clinically but also in new roles of such as advocacy, information technology, quality improvement.  Links: http://in-housestaff.org/ http://in-training.org/ http://in-training.org/pager/publications.html

31: Revolutionizing Healthcare with Dr. Samir Qamar, Founder and CEO of MedLion and MedWand!

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 20, 2015


Dr. Samir Qamar shares his entrepreneurial journey building a new model of primary care, and revolutionizing telemedicine with MedWand! The ModernMD: Dr. Samir Qamar Dr. Samir Qamar is a board certified Family Medicine physician who is an expert in the fields of Direct Primary Care, concierge medicine, and telemedicine. He is Founder and CEO of MedLion, the nation's largest Direct Primary Care provider, which manages Direct Primary Care practices in 27 states. Dr. Qamar also serves as Founder and CEO of medical tech startup MedWand, having created a revolutionary telemedicine device that allows providers to remotely perform physical examinations via secure Internet connections. He is Board Chairman of DPC United, a national DPC medical association, and is a faculty member and DPC consultant for the American Academy of Family Physicians.   Success Quote: “The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.” - Michelangelo White Coat to Business Suit: Dr. Qamar completed his medical training at Lancaster General Hospital in Pennsylvania, and during residency realized that the current fee-for-service healthcare system was failing.  Samir started the first concierge medical practice in central California and served as the house doctor for the famed Pebble Beach Resorts.  Listen as he shares his journey from concierge medicine to building one of the nations largest Direct Primary Care practices and founding a medical technology start-up. What is your advice to medical students or resident interested in entrepreneurship? Be insatiably curious about all fields directly outside of medicine, widen your horizons, and explore the business of medicine. Idea to Venture: The Idea: Why don't we charge $50 a month per patient for as much primary care as we can give them? How can you examine a patient remotely during a telemedicine video visit? Listen as Dr. Qamar shares his journey starting MedLion, the nation's largest Direct Primary Care provider, and MedWand Digital Health a revolutionary telemedicine device. Lesson Learned: Nothing is easy, and it takes time to change a culture especially in healthcare.  Stay the course, be persistent, and continue to get up with each failure. Business Rounds: Best Advice: Never give up, keep working, and maintain a good balance. Daily Success Habit: Samir must accomplish three things daily, one for each company, to keep forward progress. His successful day: Get up early, eat well, stay heathy, and sleep 8 hours a night. Healthcare Trends: Biggest shift in healthcare in 25 years with major shift in primary care, and exciting time for healthcare technology investment. Listen as Dr. Qamar shares his insights into the future of healthcare. Links: http://medlion.com/ http://medwand.com/index.html

30: Achieving Greatness with Dr. Shaan Gandhi, Chief Medical Officer of Wellable!

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 6, 2015


The ModernMD: Dr. Shaan Gandhi Dr. Shaan Gandhi is the Chief Medical Officer of Wellable, a Boston-based startup focused on mobile incentives to promote health and wellness. Shaan is fascinated by the promise of IT solutions to enhance access, improve quality and reduce cost in health care. During medical school, he was a consultant at the TriZetto Corporation, a health care analytics firm focused on developing IT products for payers and providers.  Dr. Gandhi received his doctoral degree in medical oncology from the University of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and MD/MBA joint degree from Harvard Business School and Harvard Medical School.  Dr. Gandhi is currently a resident physician in Internal Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital.  Success Quote: “Everyday I organize my actions and to make sure I can point to one person that I helped today.” -Shaan Gandhi White Coat to Business Suit: Shaan's passion for entrepreneurship was inspired by the work of his Principle Investigator during graduate school. Dr. Gandhi believes that entrepreneurship is integral to medicine and to drive improvements to the next generation of therapies for tomorrow patients.  Dr. Gandhi makes enjoys balancing clinical practice and thinking about the broader aspects of medicine.  What is the best advise to medical students or residents interested in entrepreneurship? Being in the medical system, you get to experience and see first hand the everyday challenges. Stay open minded and find a challenge that resonates with you. Explore other industries for solutions to healthcare biggest problems. Idea to Venture: The Idea: Wellable is focused on increasing access to health and wellness programs for everyone.  Listen as Dr. Gandhi shares Wellable big mission to get people more active and empowered them to stay healthy and fit. Lesson Learned: Things always take longer and require more work then you expected. The sales cycle can be up to 12-18 months so it is important to stay in close contact with prospects and continue to show the product value to their mission and work. Business Rounds: Best Advice: How do you create a great career?  Think about it like a venn- diagram with three circles: World class performance, passion, and create something that society values.- HBS professors Daily Success Habit: When do you feel most productive? Align your schedule when you are most productive to work on project that are most important to you.  Listen to Shaan's secrets about world class performance! Healthcare Trends: Extreme personalization: With a deeper understanding of biomedical science, each person is more unique than medicine has treated us. As we begin to develop detailed personalized profiles, we can tailor our approach and products treatment. Universality: Physicians will be able to treat all aspects of someones health and create a more holistic approach! Links: https://wellable.co/

29: Patient Driven Care with Dr. John Moore, Co-Founder and CEO of Twine Health!

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 27, 2015 22:16


Dr. John Moore shares his entrepreneurial journey, passion for empowering patients to lead their care, and the story of Twine Health. The ModernMD: Dr. John Moore Dr. John Moore, MD, PhD is Co-founder and CEO of Twine Health, a software platform that empowers patients to lead the management of their chronic diseases through a revolutionary new model of collaboration with clinicians. John is physician and technologist passionate about empowering patients to take the lead in their care and making it delightful for clinicians to support them in reaching their goals. Dr. Moore received his Medical Degree from Boston University School of Medicine and his PhD in Health Information Technology from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Success Quote: “What do I want in a doctor? Perhaps more than anything else - a friend with special knowledge.” - John Steinbeck White Coat to Business Suit: John was a biomedical engineer before going to medical school, with a dream of becoming a specialized retina surgeon. After transitioning from internship to residency, he realized that most care was managing chronic diseases in an visit-based system. John decided to leave clinical medicine to build a new type of continuous care and improve the relationship between the patient and physician. Listen as Dr. Moore shares his journey from physician to technologist and his goal of pushing the limits of patient lead care. Idea to Venture: The Idea: How can care be more collaborative and continuous? Listen as Dr. Moore shares the journey of Twine Health and their big vision. Success: Successful collaborative care is about establishing a relationship, improving a patients ability to receive and digest information, and building short feedback loops to reinforce actions and outcomes. Lesson Learned: Twine's platform allows the patient to do a lot of the daily work and improve target goal time, outcomes, and cost. Listen as John shares some exciting data and insights.  Business Rounds: Best Advice: “ When you are an entrepreneur trying to do something disruptive in healthcare, you will get a lot of attention from a lot of people. The trick is not to get tempted by the huge opportunity that you are not prepared for.” - Jonathan Bush CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors of athenahealth Daily Success Habit: It is really about achieving success one day a time and building on that success. The key is having a strong philosophy in what you do. Healthcare Trends: Patient Driven: The future of medicine is about patient driven care; Allowing patients to better understand their disease process, learn about their health, and measure success. Links: http://www.twinehealth.com/

28: Quantifying the Science of Medicine with Dr. Bradley Hennenfent, Founder of Treatment Scores!

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 19, 2015 12:58


Dr. Bradley Hennenfent shares his entrepreneurial journey and his big vision with Treatment Scores to quantify the science of medicine. The ModernMD: Dr. Bradley Hennenfent Dr. Bradley Hennenfent is the Founder of Treatment Scores Inc, a start up helping to quantify the science of medicine. Bradley is on a mission to invent the Science of Medicine system for the quantification of the Science of Medicine behind all medical treatments and clinical decisions. Before retiring from clinical medicine, Dr. Hennenfent was Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians. Success Quote: The most important quality of a successful physician is impermeability - Dr. Clifford Pilz, University of Illinois College of Medicine. White Coat to Business Suit: Brad grew up on a farm with love for science and passion for invention. Listen as he shares his journey accidentally going to Northwestern, graduating medical school, and running and staffing emergency departments. Idea to Venture: The Idea: How can we quantify of the science of medicine? Listen as Dr. Hennenfent shares how Treatment Scores improves a patients ability to understand complex medicine, statistics, and the net benefit for particular medical treatment. Lessons Learned: Do you understand how your doctor makes treatment decisions? Patient have their health and life at stake and want to be empowered with shared decision making and transparency to make the best medical decisions. Business Rounds: Best Advice: Always do the right thing, keep learning, and read nonfiction books and autobiographies. Daily Success Habit: Organization, organization, organization! Brad uses databases, lists, and notebooks to stay organized. Healthcare Trends: Brad stays up to date with healthcare trends using twitter. @TreatmentScores Links: http://treatmentscores.com/tutorial.php   *** Please note a minor correction to the podcast recording, Dr. Hennenfent is not a current Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians.***  

27: Episodes of Pain with Dr. Paul McCurry, Founder of axial healthcare!

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 14, 2015


Dr. Paul McCurry shares his entrepreneurial journey, insights starting axial healthcare, and his big vision for changing the pain management space. The ModernMD: Dr. Paul McCurry, MD Dr. Paul McCurry is the Chief Medical Officer and Founder axial healthcare. The axial journey began in 2012 when Paul began assembling literature and developing best practice solutions to address the core drivers that are fueling poor clinical outcomes and the rapidly escalating cost of pain management in the U.S. Prior to his work at axial, he was the Medical Director at Medsolutions and a consultant at Quorum. He completed residency and became a diplomat of the American Board of Anesthesiology and followed later with a fellowship in interventional pain management. Success Quote: “Not all those who wander are lost.” - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring White Coat to Business Suit: Paul received his MBA before entering medical school and began his medical career as a general anesthesiologist. With a passion for entrepreneurship and practice management, he pursued his fellowship in pain management. Listen as Paul shares his journey from corporate healthcare to starting axial healthcare. Idea to Venture: The Idea: How can we better manage acute and chronic pain episodically to improve outcomes, enhance the patient experience, and eliminate needless expenses? Listen as Dr. McCurry shares the axial story and their big vision to dramatically improve the pain space. Insights: Axial's initial focus was on interventional pain procedures, creating an efficient platform for pre-authorization approval, and building a network of pain specialists. With further exploration and new literature on rise of opioids, the big pain opportunity was discovered. Listen as Dr. McCurry shares some exciting insights. Lessons Learned: Stay open minded and listen to your business partners. It is all about episodes of pain!! Business Rounds: Best Advice: Stay the course if this something you are passionate about and believe in! If you don't do it, someone else will do it if is that good of an idea. Hire really smart people and get out of their way. Daily Morning Routine: Exercise, Google alerts, and a daily to-do list with focused priorities. Healthcare Trends: Paul shares his excitement for the fields of addition medicine and genomics. Links: http://axialhealthcare.com/http://treatmentscores.com/tutorial.php

26: MDUnit Special Operations Teams at The ModernMD with Dr. Goodman!

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 6, 2015 10:11


Dr. Gregory Goodman shares some exciting updates with MDUnit, special operation MD teams committed to driving healthcare innovation.  The ModernMD: Dr. Gregory Goodman Dr. Gregory Goodman, Founder and Host of The ModernMD, shares MDUnit, a new approach to leveraging MD entrepneurs and innovators, to solve today's biggest healthcare problems. Success Quote: “The only way to win is to learn faster than anyone else” - Eric Ries White Coat to Business Suit: How can physicians become entrepreneurs? Listen as Dr. Goodman shares his approach to helping physicians learn entrepreneurship in a similar model to clinical training or residency. Idea to Venture: Listen as Greg shares his exciting plans to partner with the best and most promising healthcare start ups and help connect them the most innovative MDs swat teams to help them learn faster, scale quickly, and create impact.  Special Thanks: Big thanks to all my listeners - Be innovative and share your thoughts on MDUnit below!

25: What's Next at The ModernMD with Dr. Goodman!

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 28, 2015


Dr. Gregory Goodman shares his exciting journey launching the podcast, highlights from the first twenty-five shows, and the next big moves at The ModernMD! The ModernMD: Dr. Gregory Goodman Dr. Gregory Goodman, Founder and Host of The ModernMD, shares his journey back into clinical, some insights from his first four months of residency, his new success habits, highlights from the shows, and the next big moves at The ModernMD! Success Quote: Greg shares his some of his favorite quotes: Dr. Ron Greeno, Chief Strategy Officer at IPC Healthcare: “And those that were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.” – Friedrich Nietzche Dr. Win Whitcomb, Chief Medical Officer at Remedy: “Eighty percent of success is showing up.” – Woody Allen Dr. Josh Umbehr, Founder of AtlasMD: “Try not to be come a man of success, but rather man of value.” – Albert Einstein   White Coat to Business Suit: Is there a standard path or blueprint to becoming a successful physican entrepreneur? Greg shares advise, highlights some commons themes and pathways for a successful transition. Idea to Venture: Listen as Dr. Goodman shares his exciting plans to launch an Innovation Fellowship at The ModernMD and his next big moves. Business Rounds: Best Advice: What is the best business advice from the show? Listen to Wayne Gretsky - “You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.” Best Daily Success Habit: Dr. Anthony Nguyen, MD, MBA is the Chief Medical Officer of Cognizant, morning surfing session. Dr. Goodman shares his new success habits including meditation, exercise regimen, clinical study habits, and plant power protein shakes! Special Thanks: Big thanks to the entire Podcasting Press team for all their efforts helping produce the show! http://www.podcastingpress.com/

24: Master Productivity with Dr. Nizar Taki, CEO of Chronability!

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 21, 2015 16:38


Dr. Nizar Taki shares his entrepreneurial journey starting Chronability, productivity secrets, and his big vision to change time management. The ModernMD: Dr. Nizar Taki Dr. Nizar Taki is an Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery resident at Tufts Medical Center and the Chair of the GME Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Committee. He is the Founder and CEO of Chronability, a productivity app for the iPhone and Apple Watch that helps users get the most of their day and seeks to change the way think about time management. Success Quote: “It is better to regret something you've done, than something you did not do.” - Dr. Taki White Coat to Business Suit: Given his limited time as resident and wanting to channel his creative passion and energy, Nizar set out on a path to redefine time and maximize his impact. Listen as Dr. Taki share his journey as full time ENT resident and entrepreneur. What is your advise to medical student or residents who want to purse an entrepreneurial career?  Physicians are perfectly positioned to be entrepreneurs with an ability to perform under pressure, having to make tough clinical decisions, and learning to maximize their time given very busy clinical schedules. Learn to maximize your free time and download Chronability! Idea to Venture: The Idea: How do you maximize your productivity and make a big impact? Chronability is a productive application for the iPhone and Apple Watch which take a new approach to time management with a focus time freedom not task completion.  Big Vision: Build an application to change the concept of time that seamlessly integrates with your day, improves your productivity, and allow for you to have a greater impact on the world.  Failures: Any failure is an opportunity to gain experience and collect data. Lessons Learned: Choosing the best possible people on your team will increase your chances of success. Build something that fulfills a need. Business Rounds: Best Advice: What is the one thing you can't get back - Time! Daily Success Habit: Take control of your day before it gets started. Start your day on your own terms and set an intention for the day. Healthcare Trends: Patient Safety and Quality Improvement: Communication errors are one of the three biggest causes of medical errors and preventable events. Improving communication will dramatically improve our efficiency. Technology: Integration of technology into the patient care experience that will improve efficiency, the patient and physician experience, and make the practice of medicine more fun. Links: http://chronability.com/

23: Bundled Payments with Dr. Win Whitcomb, Chief Medical Officer of Remedy Partners!

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 14, 2015


Dr. Win Whitcomb shares his entrepreneurial journey running the nation's first 24/7 hospitalist program, starting the Society of Hospital Medicine, and his exciting work in bundled payments at Remedy Partners. The ModernMD: Dr. Win Whitcomb Win Whitcomb, MD, MHM, is Chief Medical Officer of Remedy Partners, where he oversees all aspects of the clinical enterprise, and the intersection between clinical, technology, and business areas. A practicing hospitalist for the past twenty years, Win has led the development of the hospitalist specialty since 1994, when he assumed leadership of the nation's first 24/7 on-site hospitalist program. Dr. Whitcomb is cofounder and past president of the Society of Hospital Medicine. Dr. Whitcomb was one of the first three to receive hospital medicine's most prestigious achievement award, the Master in Hospital Medicine, in April 2010. Success Quote: “Eighty percent of success is showing up.” - Woody Allen White Coat to Business Suit: Dr. Whitcomb trained in internal medicine and lead the nation's first 24/7 hospitalist program at Mercy Hospital in Springfield MA. Dr. Whitcomb shares his journey starting the Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM), pioneering the field of hospitalist medicine, and his transition to full time entrepreneur. Idea to Venture: The Idea: Can bundled payments improve quality care and reduce cost? Bundled payments are an innovative new payment model that includes financial and performance accountability in episodes of care. Listen as Dr. Whitcomb shares his work at Remedy Partners and their big vision to improve the efficiency of healthcare delivery, quality of care, and increase patient satisfaction. Biggest Lesson Learned: Physician leadership is critical for any healthcare organization to successfully to transition into value based payments. Listen as Wins shares his insights for physicians looking to lead the charge! Business Rounds: Best Advice: Fail, Fail fast if you are going to fail, and don't be afraid to fail. Take chances, and get a little crazy! Daily Success Habit: Go off the beaten path and read bodies of knowledge related to medicine. The exciting insights and innovations come from connecting these dots at the major intersections.    Healthcare Trends: Empathy: At the core of the medical profession, physicians must be able to deeply connect, understand, and empathize with their patients.  By enhancing our empathy, we can improve the patient experience. Transitional Care: Patient transitions between care setting and venues with limited access to immediate primary care. New payment models and delivery systems are creating a new business case for a transitional care company to create and specialize in outpatient clinics that leverage technology and new care codes to improve transitions of care. Links: http://www.remedypartners.com/ http://zatohealth.com/ http://www.hospitalmedicine.org/

22: Improving Surgical Outcomes with Dr. Jean Nehme, CEO of Touch Surgery!

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 8, 2015 27:08


Dr. Jean Nehme shares his entrepreneurial journey and big vision for globally changing healthcare and improving patient outcomes. The ModernMD: Dr. Jean Nehme Dr. Jean Nehme is the CEO & Co-Founder of Touch Surgery, a mobile surgical simulation App that allows surgeons to learn and rehearse surgical procedures. Touch Surgery's goal is to improve accessibility to the best surgical education for surgeons and patients via 3D stimulation. Jean trained in Plastics and Reconstructive surgery has an honors degree in Surgical Simulation and Technology from Imperial College London. Success Quote: “You are a prisoner of your own beliefs.” - NYC Graffiti White Coat to Business Suit: Why can't medicine and surgery be delivered in a way that is more fun? Why is everyone not the best doctor? Jean went into medicine with the goal of being the best doctor and having fun! During his Plastics & Reconstructive surgery training, he started to think about how to take surgical procedural training, map it out, and simplify the process. Listen as he shares his journey from scrubs to tee-shirt, jeans, and colorful tennis shoes and how he took his passion for gaming and his desire for making medicine fun, and co-founded Touch Surgery. What is your advice to other physician entrepreneurs transitioning? You are going to make mistakes, embrace them, question them, and learn from them. Idea to Venture: The Idea: Why is there so much variability in medical training and education? Can a mobile medical application improve patient outcomes? Listen as Jean shares the big vision for Touch Surgery to improve accessibility to the best surgical education and improve patient outcomes.  Failures: Jean shares some his early mistakes starting Touch Surgery including: thinking that he needed to hire an MBA to run the company, listening to advice from so-called experts, and not correctly allocating resources. Lesson Learned: Admit your mistakes early, and react to them quickly and appropriately. Business Rounds: Best Advice: Listen to everyone who has advice for you and learn to be an active listener. Daily Success Habit: Jean does not have a daily routine, which allows him to think about what he is doing from as many different directions as possible. Healthcare Trends: Listen as Dr. Nehme shares his excitement for healthcare technology in the areas of Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Virtual Reality.  Links: https://www.touchsurgery.com/

21: Revolutionizing Wellness with Dr. Rajiv Kumar, CEO of ShapeUp!

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 31, 2015


Dr. Rajiv Kumar shares his entrepreneurial journey starting ShapeUp and his big vision for using social networking wellness programs to drive the health of large populations. The ModernMD: Dr. Rajiv Kumar Dr. Rajiv Kumar is the Co-Founder and CEO of ShapeUp, a leading global provider of clinically-proven, social networking-based employee wellness programs. ShapeUp has pioneered an innovative approach to behavior change that uses social networking technology to reduce healthcare costs and improve the health of large populations. Rajiv is also the Founder and Chairman of ShapeUp RI, a statewide non-profit organization that he established in December 2005 to help Rhode Islanders improve their health. For his work with ShapeUp RI, Dr. Kumar is one of ten Americans who received the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Community Health Leader Award in 2009. Success Quote: “You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.” -Wayne Gretsky White Coat to Business Suit: Rajiv is a non-practicing physician who has dedicated his life to healthcare entrepreneurship. As a first year medical student, he became very interested in prevention and started exploring opportunities to help his patients improve their lifestyle behaviors and eat healthier. He was struck by the lack of tools at his disposal and the conventional wisdom that his patient would eventually be treated and managed with medications. Rajiv started to review those patients that were successful in reaching their health and wellness goals and realized many of the success stories were from patients who used social networks to help them succeed. Listen as Dr. Kumar shares his journey starting ShapeUp and how he transitioned from medical student to full time entrepreneur.  What would be your advice to other medical students interested in entrepreneurship? Medicine is a hamster wheel - once you get on, it is hard to get off. Medical school is not going anywhere. If you have something you are passionate about, go do it. Learn to hit the pause button in life, take the risk, and go start a company. Idea to Venture: The Idea: How can social networks drive behavior change to improve the health of health of large populations? Listen as Dr. Rajiv Kumar shares his big vision for ShapeUp!  Failures: Rajiv shares war stories with his initial hiring process using Craigslist and initial challenges with their approach to legal council.  Success: From the initial hiring process, they have developed a sophisticated and robust system using psychometric profiling and reference checking. Lesson Learned: Get your feet wet and learn from your mistakes with the goal of making more right decisions than wrong decisions. It is important early on to surround yourself with a team of advisors.  Business Rounds: Best Advice: Two types of people in this world - energy givers and energy takers. Surround yourself with energy givers and get away from energy takers. - ShapeUp Chairman of Board Advice for CEOs: Learn the concept of winning smart, choose your battles, and focus on successfully growing your company with your focus on having the biggest impact on growth. Daily Success Habit: Meditation and be more mindful - Meditation drives a lot of positive change in your life. Rajiv uses the Headspace App (https://www.headspace.com/). Check it out and treat your head right! Exercise - Personal trainer and exercises on a regular basis... Not just because it his business but he believes in it. Healthcare Trends: Wellness - Big disrupter in the space is wearable devices that allow for the collection of continuous data. This data can be harvested by employers, health plans, and physicians. Mobile technology - We can reach people in new ways and have just scratched the surface on what is possible.  Links: http://www.shapeup.com/ http://www.shapeupri.org/

20: Direct Primary Care World Domination with Dr. Josh Umbehr, Founder of AtlasMD!

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 24, 2015


Dr. Josh Umbehr shares his entrepreneurial journey, passion for direct primary care, and his plans DPC world domination. The ModernMD: Dr. Josh Umbehr Dr. Josh Umbehr is the Founder of AtlasMD, a Direct Primary Care Premiere EMR/Practice Management software. Josh is board certified family medicine physician and owner at AtlasMD, a concierge membership based family practice clinic that offers unlimited services at a flat monthly fee. Dr. Umbehr is a leader in Direct Primary Care (DPC) and recently launched http://iamdirectcare.com/ to help other physicians transition to DPC practices.  Success Quote: “Try not to be come a man of success, but rather a man of value.” - Albert Einstein White Coat to Business Suit: Josh's inspiration for a cash only membership practice model was from his experience working with his dad in the trash hauling business. As a high school student, he worked for a top rated plastic surgeon as part of his billing and coding department and quickly realized clinical medicine was just one aspect to running a successful medical practice. Listen as Josh shares his journey transitioning directly from residency to building the AtlasMD dream. How can you transition directly from residency to building a direct care primary business? Josh and his partners built the AtlasMD model during the last nine months of residency with capital from moonlighting.  Listens as Josh shares his tips for residents on a successful transition to direct primary care practice! Idea to Venture: The Idea: What is the big vision for AtlasMD? Listen as Josh shares his journey starting AtlasMD and his world domination strategy for direct primary care.  Failures: Fail fast, fail early, fail often and learn from failure. Success: As an entrepreneur, look for opportunities that no one else sees.  Lesson Learned: Good artist borrow and great artist steal! In the sport of business watch what other are doing successfully and copy it. Business Rounds: Best Advice: Work ethic, be unreasonable, and demand change! “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” - George Bernard Shaw Daily Success Habit: Josh empty's his email everyday and most successful habit is reading. Healthcare Trends: Direct Primary Care: Direct Primary Care is hitting its stride with the model being strongly validated and ready for massive scale and expansion.  Technology: Technology is moving at an exciting speed with wearables, devices, applications will drive large scale healthcare change.  Links: https://atlas.md/ http://atlas.md/wichita/ http://iamdirectcare.com/

19: ‘Dent the Planet' with Dr. Michael Yuz, CEO and Founder of USARAD and SecondOpinions!

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 17, 2015


Dr. Michael Yuz is serial entrepreneur with a fascination for technology, the internet, and medicine. Dr. Yuz shares his entrepreneurial journey, passion for teleradiology and telemedicine, and his big vision of ‘putting a dent in the planet'. The ModernMD: Dr. Michael Yuz Dr. Michael Yuz, MD, MBA is the CEO and Founder of USARAD Holding Inc, an advanced teleradiology and telemedicine company. Michael is also the CEO and Founder of SecondOpinions.com, a medical consultation and second opinion platform, providing second opinion services in all areas of medicine including radiology. Dr. Yuz is double boarded in diagnostic radiologist with extensive training and experience in multiple advanced modalities including MRI and Cardiac CT. Success Quote: “Hard work and persistence are the secret ingredients to any success story.” - Dr. Yuz White Coat to Business Suit: Michael started his entrepreneurial journey with a newspaper route business at the age of 14 which he grew from 20 clients to 1,000 clients in 18 months. During these early years, he learned the value of customer satisfaction, hard work, and persistence. At the end of medical school, he sold the newspaper route business and started two new ventures: domain name trading and real estate. Listen as Michael shares his early business experiences, passion for business, his start in teleradiology and telemedicine. Idea to Venture: The Idea: Create a high quality teleradiology company with a focus on sub-subspecialty services, quick turn around times, and a cheaper price point. Listen as Dr. Yuz shares his journey starting USARAD, an on demand teleradiology platform. After a family event, he expanded his vision and built SecondOpinions, a medical consultation and second opinion platform, to offer medical second opinions globally. Success: Expanded initial teleradiology offering to include additional telemedicine services in multiple specialities. Lesson Learned: Never underestimate anyone, always give people a chance, and never judge. Listen as Dr. Yuz shares his story running into a billionaire from China. Business Rounds: Best Advice: Work hard, be persistent, never give up, ignore the naysayers, and good things will happen. Daily Success Habit: Michael developed a habit which he calls ‘solid state brain' which allow him to be productive and alert 24/7!! Listen for more on his ‘superhuman' habit and how he has trained his brain to work like a hard drive with an on/off switch. Healthcare Trends: Teleradiology and telemedicine will transform the way medicine is practiced with most of medicine being practiced online.  Links: http://usarad.com/ https://www.secondopinions.com/

18: Dr. Sachin Jain, Chief Medical Officer at CareMore, Biggest Healthcare Tip is not what you think!

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 10, 2015 20:10


Dr. Sachin Jain shares his entrepreneurial journey and deep passion for healthcare policy, the business of medicine, and how to improve healthcare. The ModernMD: Dr. Sachin Jain Sachin H. Jain, MD, MBA, is Chief Medical Officer at CareMore Health System, an innovative health plan and care delivery system subsidiary of Anthem. Prior to joining CareMore, Dr. Jain was Chief Medical Information and Innovation Officer at Merck & Co, where he developed global partnerships to leverage health data to improve patient health. From 2009-2011, Dr. Jain pursued government service at the US Department of Health and Human Services, where he was senior advisor to the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and helped launch the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI). He also served as special assistant to the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), supporting the agency's implementation of the HITECH Provisions of the Recovery Act and meaningful use. He is board certified in internal medicine by the American Board of Internal Medicine. He is co-founder and co-editor-in-chief of the Elsevier journal Healthcare: The Journal of Delivery Science and Innovation. Success Quote: “Our relationships with people in our lives are sacred.” - Sachin's life philosophy  White Coat to Business Suit: Sachin has always been interested in using his medical training and skills to improve care on a larger level. Listen as Dr. Jain shares the importance of clinical training, how the business of medicine is driving significant healthcare improvement, and his work in healthcare policy. What is your advice to medical students or resident physicians looking to transitions into the business world? Always maintain a primary identity as a physician, complete a residency, and continue to see patients. The clinical experiences and insights will truly allow you to improve care. Idea to Venture: The Idea: What is the big vision for CareMore? Listen as Dr. Jain shares CareMore's clinical care model with their highly integrated clinical practices, chronic disease management programs, and approach to inpatient medicine. Success: CareMore has a culture of innovation and culture for caring for their members.  Biggest Healthcare Tip: Listen as Sachin describes his biggest healthcare tip... Business Rounds: Best Advice: You are never as good as you think you are and you are never as bad as you think you are. Learn to have a steadiness in your approach and realize that everything is a marathon.  Daily Success Habits: Sachin keeps a running list of his commitments and uses writing as a mode of reflection.  Healthcare Trends: Sachin shares three healthcare care trends that are driving healthcare transformation. Below are some highlights. Common definition: We have common definitions of the healthcare problems that allow us to focus on solutions.  Policy: Improvements in our policy infrastructure have enabled new technology, payments models, and move to value based care.    Talent: New and better talent entering the healthcare system with an excitement and passion for healthcare transformation. Links: http://www.caremore.com/ http://www.journals.elsevier.com/healthcare-the-journal-of-delivery-science-and-innovation/

17: Refer Smarter with Dr. Julien Pham Chief Medical Officer of RubiconMD!

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 4, 2015 25:20


Dr. Julien Pham shares his entrepreneurial journey and passion for bringing specialist knowledge to patient care in a simple and convenient way. The ModernMD: Dr. Julien Pham Dr. Julien Pham, MD, MPH, is the Founder and Chief Medical Officer at RubiconMD. Prior to joining RubiconMD full-time, he was on the faculty at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Julien is the founder of RHINNO (Rapid Health Innovation), the first-of-its-kind internal digital health innovation lab at Brigham & Women's Hospital. Dr. Pham is board certified in internal medicine and nephrology. Success Quote: “You are only as important as the impact you have on others.” - Julian Pham White Coat to Business Suit: Dr. Pham pursed a traditional academic medicine track with focus on translational research.  After facing a major obstacle with grant funding, he started down a new path to pursue his passion in entrepreneurship and hack medicine. Listen as Julien shares how he brought the spirt of hacking to the academic medical center and his journey from academic medicine to full-time physician entrepreneur. Idea to Venture: The Idea: How can you connect primary care physicians with specialist in the most efficient way? Listen as Dr. Pham shares the journey of RubiconMD and their big vision of democratizing medical expertise.  Failures: Challenges with hiring the right talent given the risk and sacrifice required in an early stage start up. Success: Built a strong team of doers.  Lesson Learned: Entrepreneurship is about the journey and experience. Business Rounds: Best Advice: Be passionate about an idea and really go for it! Daily Success Habit: Julien shares his early morning routine which includes responding to emails, staying up to date on current events, and managing the RubiconMD physician network. He also shares his productively ninja tips with online tools and technology to improve his efficiency.    Healthcare Trends: Accountable Care: Healthcare is shifting to accountable care with a focus on improving efficiency, reducing cost, and better understanding a population. Data: Focus on data transfer and interoperability with data being used to help manage populations and Accountable Care Organizations. Links: https://rubiconmd.com/ http://rhinno.partners.org/ http://www.jlpham.com/

16: Just Get Started with Dr. Mitesh Patel Co-Founder of Docphin!

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 28, 2015 17:40


Dr. Mitesh Patel shares his entrepreneurial journey, scientific research in behavior economics and digital health, and passion for improving access to medical research at the point of care.  The ModernMD: Dr. Mitesh Patel Dr. Mitesh S. Patel, MD, MBA, is a board-certified general internist, physician scientist, and entrepreneur. He is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Health Care Management at the Perelman School of Medicine and The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Mitesh is a Co-Founder of Docphin, a NYC-based startup that strives to improve the application of evidence-based medicine into clinical practice. As a physician-scientist, Mitesh studies how we can utilize innovative technology and connected health approaches to passively monitor activity and how we can use health incentives to motivate behavior change. Success Quote: “Just get started” - Unknown White Coat to Business Suit: Interested in medical research and technology in college, Mitesh started working with a health economist to better understand how the healthcare system works and how it fits into the practice of medicine.  During his MBA studies at Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, he started to explore more opportunities in entrepreneurship and behavior economics.  Listen as Dr. Patel shares his entrepreneurial journey. Idea to Venture: The Idea: Can we create a platform to unlock the power of medical research at the point of care? Listen as Mitesh shares the story of Docphin. Failures: Docphin started expanding quickly with an initial web-based platform. With the promise of mobile and launch of the iPhone, they changed directions to focus on a mobile offering.  Lesson Learned: Solve a problem and don't get tied down by a specific solution.  Business Rounds: Best Advice: Know your customer and build ‘a must' not a ‘nice to have' solution. Daily Success Habit:Mitesh creates a To Do List with top to do's that must get done today, this week, and in the next 1-3 months.  Healthcare Trends: 1) Healthcare has shifted outside of the four wall of the hospital with changing incentives and risks. 2) Wellness incentives are increasing which creates exciting opportunities for reward/penalties to drive behavior change.    3) Behavior economics will allow us to design financial and social incentives to motive people to be more healthy.     Links: https://www.docphin.com/

15: Population Health One Patient at a Time with Dr. Benjamin Berk!

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 20, 2015 20:02


Dr. Benjamin Berk shares his entrepreneurial journey and passion for improving healthcare systems and patient outcomes. The ModernMD: Dr. Benjamin Berk Dr. Benjamin Berk, MD, MS&E provides strategic and operational consulting services to innovative payers, providers, health services organizations, and investors.  Benjamin is a Senior Advisor and Content Consultant for Advanced Practice Strategies (APS) and Faculty member for The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice. Previously, Dr. Berk was the Vice President of Population Health for Iora Health and Principle at Boston Consulting Group. Success Quote: “Population health is created one patient at a time.” - Benjamin White Coat to Business Suit: Benjamin started as a software engineer building clinical information systems and clinical decision support software.  As he did not want to spend his career behind a computer screen, he decided to go to Stanford Medical school.  During medical school, he realized he was more interested in the ‘big picture' and made the decision to purse his ‘business residency' at BCG. Listen as Dr. Berk shares his journey, reasons for going into consulting, and his start-up adventures. Idea to Venture: The Idea: How can you transform primary care and improve patient outcomes? Listen as Dr. Berk shares his journey at Iora Health and his passion for transforming primary care. Failures: Benjamin shares his thoughts on the value of failure as a learning opportunity that drives innovation. He also shares insights into fear of failure and success motivators in the US vs. UK healthcare marketplace. Lessons Learned: The buy vs. build technology decision - Learn when buy software and when to build and promote rapid innovation.  Business Rounds: Best Advice: “Opportunity is everywhere.” -  Benjamin's parents Daily Success Habit: Takes personal time daily to relax away from work without distractions.  Healthcare Trends: Value Based Healthcare: Healthcare is moving to larger systems with value based care and accountable care. Healthcare Technology: Clinical dashboards are being brought to the point of care with actionable data. Links: http://tdi.dartmouth.edu/ http://www.aps-web.com/

14: Redefining Clinical Trials with Dr. Brad Pruitt, Founder and Chief Medical Information Officer of nPruv!

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 13, 2015


Dr. Brad Pruitt shares his entrepreneurial journey, work in the digital health space, and his big vision for redefining the clinical trial world. The ModernMD: Dr. Brad Pruitt Dr. Brad Pruitt, MD, MBA, is a physician executive with expertise in digital health, medical device, pharma and contract research (CRO) companies. Brad is the Chief Medical Information Officer and Chairman of nPruv, a health IT company enabling a new era of predictive modeling for clinical trial patient matching and recruitment. Dr. Pruitt is also a Principle at Prucor, a management consulting firm specializing in disruptive digital health technologies, and Lecture Rady School of Management.  Success Quote: “Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.” - Calvin Coolidge White Coat to Business Suit: Brad went to medical school with a business mind and initial interest in building medical practices that would combine western and eastern medicine. During his final year of medical school, he was given a life changing offer from a CEO of Contract Research Organization (CRO). After seeing how unhappy the residents were at his dream surgical residency program, Brad decided to take the offer. Listen as Dr. Pruitt shares his direct transition from medical school into the business world, the reasons he got an MBA,  and his current work in digital health and clinical trials. Should you do a residency if you want to be an entrepreneur? This decision depends on if you want to do anything with patients. There are some opportunities in the business world that require an active medical license such as being a Chief Medical Officer or Medical Director. There are plenty of opportunities that do not and you have to evaluate all the opportunity costs. Idea to Venture: The Idea: How do you create a marketplace to match patient and doctors with available clinical trial opportunities? Listen as Brad shares nPruv's big vision to improve the ‘n' in patient recruitment, create the ‘Match.com' of the clinical trial world, and provide everyone with access to clinical trails. Challenges: It is hard to be a first time MD entrepreneur with no track record. Success: Creating a successful pricing model to get into clinical practices.  Lesson Learned: Spend time working with customers to better understand their needs to push your product forward. Business Rounds: Best Advice: Jim Collins Hedgehog Model - Find something you are the best in the word at, you are passionate about, and drives our economic engine. Daily Success Habit: Keep yourself healthy and sustainable - Block personal time everyday to get away from work.    Healthcare Trends: Dr. Pruitt shares the power finding the knowledge within the data, focusing on data that changes opinions or treatment, and having the right data, at the right time, and that can be shared between the physician and the patient. Links: http://www.npruv.com/

13: Think Outside the Box with Dr. Jordan Shlain, Chairman of HealthLoop!

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 7, 2015 28:08


Dr. Jordan Shlain is practicing primary care doctor who questions everything. Jordan share his entrepreneurial journey, innovative approach to healthcare delivery, and his passion for the atomic unit of healthcare - the doctor and patient relationship. The ModernMD: Dr. Jordan Shlain Dr. Jordan Shlain is a nationally recognized physician for his innovative approach to the delivery of healthcare. Jordan is the Founder and Chairman of Healthloop, a cloud-based platform that automates follow-up care; keeping doctors, patients and care-givers connected between visits with clinical information that is insightful, actionable, and engaging. Dr. Shlain was appointed commissioner by the Mayor to the SF Health Service System Board and sits on the Board of Hope Street Group, a bi-partisan Washington, DC policy think tank. He was named one of the top healthcare innovators by HealthSpottr. Jordan is a frequent speaker at various conferences; Health 2.0, RockHealth, Economist Big Ideas, Futuremed and UC Berkeley's Pre-Med 101, and consults with the investor community as a due diligence expert. Success Quotes: “When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.” - John Muir  “The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.” - Voltaire “It's very difficult to find a black cat in a dark room, especially when there is no cat.” -  Ignorance: How it Drives Science by Stuart Firestein  White Coat to Business Suit: After finishing his training in 1997, Jordan joined a private practice in San Francisco with the promise of taking of the practice in a year. Jordan's deal to take over the practice fell though at the end of the year. He decided to take a walk home that would change his direction as he made an unexpected stop at Mandarin Oriental Hotel. Listen as Dr. Shlain share this life altering experience as he learns the art of five star patient care from the hotel concierge and the story of how he accidentally started HealthLoop.  Idea to Venture: The Idea: How do you digitally enable a five star experience for patients while decreasing the burden of routine processes in a doctors office? Listen to the big vision of Healthloop to improve the patient experience and unburden the doctor from the mundane. Failures: Started with a spreadsheet, a single question, and daily patient phone for real-time tracking. Jordan decided to scale this initial experiment and design a software product that would proactively and asynchronously reach out to his patients. Success: HealthLoop honors the physicians life and respects the patient's journey through their illness. It provides a voice to happy patients and benchmarks physician performance.  Lesson Learned: How do you know what is happening with your patients now? Predictive analytics and claims based big data fail to tell you what is happening. The big opportunity for intervention is the present.  Business Rounds: Best Advice: Take some time off and go see the world. Daily Success Habits: In the morning, Jordan learns two new things that he will keep forever. At the end of each day, he spends five minutes reflecting on his day and what he failed at. Healthcare Trends: Healthcare is moving from a world of interventions to a world of advocacy. It won't just be about what is the matter with you, but what matters to you. Below are some highlights. Access: Large focus has been on healthcare access with the creation of telemedicine, minute clinics, and video visits. Genetics/Personalized Medicine: We are far away from applying this in meaningful way. Exciting opportunities exist with genetic markers and drug therapy. Medical Board Certification/Medical Training: Technology will change medical school training and process for board certification. Artificial Intelligence/Algorithms: Humans can't scale and algorithms can have empathy. There will always be a role for the healing arts. Links:

12: Forward Motion with Dr. Ron Greeno, Chief Strategy Officer of IPC Healthcare!

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 29, 2015


Dr. Ron Greeno, a pioneer of the hospitalist medicine, shares his entrepreneurial journey and his big vision for healthcare. The ModernMD: Dr. Ron Greeno Dr. Ron Greeno, MD, MHM, is the Chief Strategy Officer for IPC Healthcare. Dr Greeno was the Founder of Cogent Healthcare and served as Executive VP for Strategy and Innovation. Dr. Greeno is the co-creator of the Greeno-Hawley Hospital Medicine Index, the industry standard for evaluation of Hospital Medicine programs. Ron is a pioneer in Hospital Medicine and served as founding member of the Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM). He was awarded a Master in Hospital Medicine by SHM. Three times Modern Healthcare has named Dr. Greeno to the “50 Most Influential Physician Executives" and was the first hospitalist physician ever to make this prestigious list. Success Quote: “And those that were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.” - Friedrich Nietzche White Coat to Business Suit: Dr. Greeno was always interested healthcare transformation and recognized the early movement and shift of primary care physicians to hospital based physicians in capitation models before the term ‘hospitalist' was coined. Ron never set out to be an entrepreneur, but with the exciting new hospitalist model he founded Cogent healthcare to scale and build a new model of healthcare. Idea to Venture: The Idea: Started Cogent Healthcare, a hospitalist medicine company. Failures: You learn by doing and from your mistakes. You will learn more from a bad meeting than a good meeting. Listen as Ron share's his first meeting with a venture capitalist! Success: The key to success is forward motion. Continue to move forward, take risks, and be creative. Lesson Learned: Ron shares two important lessons. 1) Make Decisions: Make decisions even if you don't have the answer. The only really bad decision is one you don't make.  Learn to Trust Yourself: If you want to be as successful physician entrepreneur you must learn to trust yourself and have an insider's knowledge and an outsider's perspective.  Business Rounds: Best Advice: Credibility is the currency of leadership - Tell the truth, tell it all, tell it often, and tell it yourself. Daily Success Habit: Take care of your health and exercise daily. Keep running! Healthcare Trends: Listen as Ron shares is vision for healthcare as we shift from fee-for-service to the population health with integrated delivery systems and alternative payment models and the big opportunities for physicians.  Links: http://www.hospitalist.com/ http://www.hospitalmedicine.org/

11: Build Something that Matters with Dr. Trishan Panch, Co-founder and Chief Medical Officer of Wellframe!

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 22, 2015 43:01


Dr. Trishan Panch shares his entrepreneurial journey and vision for building healthcare technology that matters. The ModernMD: Dr. Trishan Panch Dr. Trishan Panch, MD, MPH, is the Co-founder and Chief Medical Officer at Wellframe, a healthcare technology company comprised of engineers, clinicians, and data scientist dedicated to reorganizing healthcare resources around the needs of patients. Dr. Panch is a primary care physician and Harvard trained health systems expert. He was an MIT lecturer in health sciences and technology and the inaugural recipient of Harvard's Public Health Innovator of the Year award in 2012. Previously he served as Clinical Director of Sana Mobile at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Success Quotes: “If you are not feeling like you are at the edge of your ‘license' you are not trying hard enough.” - Dr. Trishan Panch “Starting a company is easy, but building a business is really hard.” - Wellframe Investor White Coat to Business Suit: Where are all the patients coming from? How can we organize our healthcare resources more efficiently? To answer these big questions, Trishan went from practicing primary care in Britain to studying Health Policy and Management at Harvard. Listen as Trishan describes his transition from academic clinical medicine to building Sana Mobile with a student group at MIT, and his big vision to use information systems to better manage patients with chronic diseases at Wellframe.  How can physicians add value in the entrepreneurial space? Physicians can add unique value with their detailed context and understanding of clinical systems, help build and develop detailed specifications for technology products, and drive clinical implementation of new technical solutions. Idea to Venture: The Idea: How can you organize care around each patient's needs using mobile technology? How can you provide patient's with daily feedback, enhance communication, and drive meaning? Listen as Trishan shares Wellframe's big vision for the future. Failures: In healthcare, the person with the problem is generally not the one with the ability to solve it. Dr. Panch shares Wellframe pivot from it's initial product in the consumer health space to its focus on the cardiac rehabilitation space and then the expansion to all chronic diseases. Success: Build quickly and learn from your all successes and failures. Lesson Learned: Don't just have big ideas, but also have little ideas. All the little ideas add up into a big change. It is critically important to have both going on at the same time. Business Rounds: Best Advise: “Stay humble and stay persistent.” - Jacob Sattelmair, CEO of Wellframe Daily Success Habit: Regular physical exercise to help improve focus and mental health. Healthcare Trends: Listen as Dr. Panch brilliantly discusses three major trends in healthcare. Process Science/Standardization - How do we improve process design and allow for massive customization? Reengineering of the Incentives system - How are new payment models and incentive driving change? Technology and Mobile Devices - What is the impact of cheaper device costs and increasing wireless access? Links: http://www.wellframe.com/ http://sana.mit.edu/

10: Make Big Decisions with Dr. Maulik Majmudar, Chief Clinical Officer of Quanttus!

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 15, 2015 24:54


Dr. Maulik Majmudar shares his journey from academic cardiology to the entrepreneurial world and his vision of changing personal heart health and academic innovation. The ModernMD: Dr. Maulik Majmudar Dr. Maulik Majmudar, M.D. is an Associate Director of the MGH Healthcare Transformation Lab, a clinical cardiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, and an Instructor at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Majmudar is a founding member of Quanttus and currently serves as their Chief Clinical Officer. He is an active member of the healthcare innovation and entrepreneurship community, and is a Clinical Advisor to AliveCor and Medical Advisor to Prevently.  Success Quote: “Life is too short to let fear make big decisions for you” - Unknown  White Coat to Business Suit: Completed the traditional medical track and during his postdoctorate in Cardiovascular medicine, he became interested in the changing healthcare economy. Listen as Maulik discusses his career pivot from academic cardiology and basic sciences to spending 85% of his time in healthcare innovation and entrepreneurship. Idea to Venture: The Idea: Can we fundamentally transform how people think about their personal health? Can we for the very first time continuously measure physiology and can we learn something about the individual and how that individual fits into the population? Listen as Maulik shares the story of Quanttus's big vision to solve heart health. The Idea (BONUS): How do you innovate in academic medical centers? Listen as Maulik shares the story of Co.Create, an academic incubator at Massachusetts General Hospital, and its vision to support collaboration among entrepreneurs and the healthcare community to build scalable and sustainable ventures.  Failures: The probability of success is very low with 95% of ventures not making it to the finish line. You can't be a part time entrepreneur and think you will have full time success. Success: How do you drive adoption? You must understand all the different pieces that govern your success and failure. Effective navigation and understanding of the healthcare ecosystem will reduce your market adoption risk. Business Rounds: Best advice: Advise from Bill Aulet, Managing Director of the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship, “You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take” - Wayne Gretzky. Success Habit: Keep your mind open and read things outside of your domain to make important connections. Healthcare Trends: Listen as Maulik shares his thoughts on exciting trends. Next generation of mobile, digital, and wearable technologies that address a specific healthcare need. Digital healthcare transition from consumer and wellness to a focus on clinical and disease based care. Increase in companies seeking FDA clearance. Big Data with a focus on big knowledge and big insights. Links: http://quanttus.com/ http://healthcaretransformation.org

9: Keep Things Simple with Dr. Garry Choy, Co-founder of CredSimple!

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 8, 2015 20:10


Dr. Garry Choy shares his dream to impact healthcare and help healthcare solve problems. The ModernMD: Dr. Garry Choy Dr. Garry Choy, MD, MBA is the Co-founder of CredSimple, a platform that digitizes and automates the currently labor-intensive and manual processes of medical credentialing. Garry is the Assistant Chief Medical Information Officer for Advanced Technologies at Massachusetts General Physicians Organization at MGH. His clinical interests are focused on cardiothoracic, abdominal, and emergency imaging.  Garry is an active faculty member teaching at Harvard Medical School and Harvard College. Success Quote: “Keep things simple” - Garry Choy White Coat to Business Suit: Radiologist by night and business school by day. Garry Co-founded CredSimple during business school and recruited key founding team members to build the venture. Idea to Venture: The Idea: Make medical credentialing simple. Success: Listened to our customers and allocated resources in a smart way. Lesson Learned: Work hard and keep focused on a goal. CredSimple has been successful by distilling the most important features a customer wants and using technology to keep medical credentialing simple. Business Rounds: Best advise: Spend time making sure you are connected to the people that are most important to you in your personal life - Advise from Top Fortune 500 CEO.  Success Habit: Daily cup of coffee and plan/prioritize top three things that must get completed before bed. Healthcare Trends: Population health management - How can we make sure are patients stay health?  How do we take care of more than one patient in an efficient manner? Listen as Garry shares more exciting trends. Links: http://credsimple.com/ @garrychoy

8: Learn Something New with Dr. Sandeep Pulim, Chief Medical Information Officer @PointofCare

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2015 24:34


Dr. Sandeep Pulim shares his journey learning, creating, and building healthcare technology. The ModernMD: Dr. Sandeep Pulim Dr. Sandeep Pulim, MD is the Chief Medical Information Officer at @PointofCare, and Venture Partner of LiftOff Health. Previously, Sandeep Co-founded Health Recovery Solutions, which created a unique mobile platform to engage patients and their families and connect them with providers in hospitals to reduce readmissions. Sandeep is an advisor at the Blueprint Health accelerator. He previously served as Senior Medical Editor at MDLinx, an award-winning, medical information tool that aggregated information from 1,200 medical journal sources to keep healthcare professionals up to date. Success Quote: “Learn something new everyday” – Sandeep Pulim White Coat to Business Suit: After graduating with his MD, Sandeep took a break from the traditional pathway to focus on important family matters and started a digital media company. Sandeep wanted to use his clinical background in a more meaningful way and worked with Stephen Smith, co-founder of Medscape, at MDLinx to build their clinical content, editorial team, and user base.  Below are some highlights: What are the key skills for a physician entrepreneur? Everyone has different talents. To be a successful physician entrepreneur, you must learn new skills and figure out your strengths. Idea to Venture: The Idea: How can mobile tools be used to manage obesity? Created a program that would send a series of daily health challenges to patients that would build and escalate to keep patients engaged.  Failures: Hackatons are a great way to validate an idea, but are not enough to confirm if you have a real business. Sandeep missed the enrollment deadline for for Blueprint Health 2nd class and did get an opportunity to build the company. Success: Joined Blueprint Health as an advisor and met Health Recovery Solutions team. Business Rounds: Best advise: Make sure you are always doing the right thing when no one else is around.    Healthcare trends: Many opportunities are being driven by the Accountable Care Act and the Triple Aim - Better quality, lower cost and better access. Listen as Sandeep breaks down the large healthcare trends which include payment models, delivery, preventive health, data, and mobile. Links: http://atpointofcare.com/ http://betweenthecharts.com/ http://liftoffhealth.com/ http://www.blueprinthealth.org/

7: Reshaping Healthcare with Dr. Anthony Nguyen, Chief Medical Officer of Cognizant

Play Episode Listen Later May 27, 2015 20:06


Dr. Nguyen shares his journey as he reshapes healthcare with technology, global clinical services, and informatics. The ModernMD: Dr. Anthony Nguyen Dr. Anthony Nguyen, MD, MBA is the Chief Medical Officer of Cognizant, and sets the company's clinical direction for the Healthcare Business Process Services (BPS) Practice. Previously, he was a Senior Vice President and Medical Director for WellPoint, and was responsible for all aspects of care delivery 34 million members. Anthony was a partner physician for Kaiser Permanente and served as Vice President of the Medical Staff, Orange County, CA. His accomplishments in the healthcare industry have lead to his recognition as Dorland Health's 2010 Medical Director of the Year. He is also a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and is board certified in Internal Medicine. Success Quote: “Go to work each day not being afraid to get fired” – Anthony Nguyen White Coat to Business Suit: Dr. Nguyen started his career as internist and realized that there was an entire ecosystem supporting care. Anthony decided to get his MBA with the vision of improving healthcare system and helping physicians practice better care. Listen as Anthony shares the importance of physicians taking action, making an impact, and leading in a practical way. Idea to Venture: The Idea: How do we improve our world today? He shares his work at Cognizant with healthcare coaches and personalized care plans. Lesson Learned: With the changing healthcare landscape, it takes a team to manage and support patients. Business Rounds: Daily success routine: Wakes up at 4 am, drinks coffee, and watches news. Anthony then goes surfing and watches the sunrise!!! Best Advise: How do you decommoditize yourself? How are you different from the newly minted board certified physician? It is important to create and bring additional value. Healthcare Trends: Listen as Anthony discusses three trends. 1) Alternative payment models are creating incentives for physicians to work as a team and be accountable for outcomes. 2) Cost of drugs – How can we afford and who should get them? 3) How do we leverage technology? How do we infuse wearable technology into the clinical work? Digital tools or resources: He shares his exciting vision for the use of Artificial Intelligence with social preference data to enable physician to make better-personalized patient decisions. Links: http://www.cognizant.com/healthcare

6: Healthcare Futurist Dr. Rafael Grossmann, First Surgeon to Use Google Glass during a live surgery!

Play Episode Listen Later May 26, 2015 27:46


Dr. Rafael Grossmann shares the future of healthcare with Google Glass. The ModernMD: Dr. Rafael Grossmann Dr. Rafael Grossmann is a healthcare futurist, Google glass explorer, and surgeon. He performed the first documented surgery with Google Glasses on June 20, 2013. Rafael is a national and global keynote speaker and 4 times TEDx speaker. Success Quote: “Smart use of technology to make healthcare and medical education better” – Dr. Rafael Grossmann White Coat to Business Suit: Rafael is a full time general surgeon who pioneered a telemedicine network in Maine. He is a medical futurist and gave his first Tedx talk on the power of iPod touch for telemedicine consultations. Listen as he shares his passion for the smart use of technology and the first surgery performed with Google Glass! Idea to Venture: The Idea: Can Google Glass revolution medicine and medical education? How can we us technology in a smart way? Success: Dr. Grossmann shares a historic moment in healthcare performing the first surgery with Google Glasses! Business Rounds: Daily Routine: Daily patient rounds and shares digital health content on social media. A company you would start using Google Glass: Google Glass is a computer and there is no limit to what you can build. Rafael shares an exciting vision to integrate Google Glass with the Electronic Medical Records (EMR) and use artificial intelligence to improve clinical decision support. Links: Twitter: @ZGJR http://www.rafaelgrossmann.com/

5: Follow your Curiosity with Dr. Joshua Liu, CEO of SeamLessMD

Play Episode Listen Later May 25, 2015 21:16


Dr. Joshua Liu shares his curiosity, passion for improving healthcare, and journey building SeamlessMD. The ModernMD: Dr. Joshua Liu Dr. Joshua Liu, MD is the CEO and Founder of Seamless MD, a patient engagement platform for surgical episodes. Josh is the Founder of SMARTS youth science network and MedHopeful, one of Canada's most popular blogs for students. He co-led a hospital readmissions research project at the University Health Network (UHN) in Toronto and sits on the UHN physician advisory board for primary care follow up after hospitalization. Dr. Liu is a Forbes 30 Under 30 in Science and Healthcare. Success Quote: ‘Does not matter how hard it gets there is always a move…' - Ben Horowitz White Coat to Business Suit: During medical school he worked on research in readmissions and transitions of care. Josh became interested in broader healthcare system challenges and how to use technology to improve the patient experience. Listen as he shares his journey starting SeamlessMD, turning down his residency spot, and going full time into the entrepreneurial world. Idea to Venture: The Idea: How can you use technology to help patient's recovery from surgery? Josh and two other co-founders launched SeamlessMD. Failures: Initial focused on the chronic disease space and quickly found that most physicians valued the problem but did not believe technology could solve the problem. The SeamlessMD team refocused efforts on surgery space. Lesson Learned: The idea of focus applied to company and personal life. Business Rounds: Daily Success Habit: Shares his strong morning routine, which includes waking up early and exercising. He uses Objective and Key Results (OKRs) to set and manage company and personal 3-month goals. Idea that has some promise: Starting a company is the best way to build and scale innovation in the healthcare field. Learn how to take the best local innovations and scale across many healthcare organizations. To advance patient care forward we need an ecosystem with both technology and clinical worlds working together to build great solutions. Digital tools: Uses Slack, an electronic communication platform to improve team collaboration (www.slack.com). Links: www.seamless.md www.joshualiu.ca

4: “The Key is doing what you Love” with Dr. Qi Li, Director of Global Product Innovation at InterSystems

Play Episode Listen Later May 24, 2015 24:32


Dr. Qi Li shares his love for technology, solving problems, and journey building innovative healthcare products. The ModernMD: Dr. Qi Li Dr. Qi Li, MD, MBA is a physician executive and Director of Global Product Innovation at InterSystems. Qi previously held product leadership roles at Harris Healthcare, Partners Healthcare, and several start-up healthcare IT companies. At Partners Healthcare in Boston, Dr. Li led the internal development of Longitudinal Medical Records (LMR) that was adopted enterprise wide by 7,000-plus physicians. Success Quote: “The key is doing what you love” – Qi Li White Coat to Business Suit: Dr. Li shares his journey as world traveler and consultant before medical school. After graduating from Tufts MD/MBA program he transitioned straight into the business world. Listen as Dr. Li shares his experience leading and building breakthrough products for PatientKeeper, Partners Healthcare, Carefx and Intersystem. Below are a few highlights: Was the transition easy? Qi had a background in the consultant and was confident in his abilities to perform in the business world. Have you had any challenges not doing a residency? He always positions himself as a technologist with a clinical background and understanding of top-level healthcare goals. Idea to Venture: The Idea: Are you idea person or operations person? Dr. Li shares his big idea at PatientKeeper to create the best user experience for physicians. Failures: Expect ups and downs and learn to calculate risks. He is conservative with his overall approach to risk but aggressive with pushing product. Lesson Learned: You cannot do everything yourself – learn to let others be responsible for core parts of what you want to achieve. Business Rounds: Books recommend: Blue Print to a Billion: Seven Essentials to Achieve Exponential Growth by David G. Thomson Golden Prescriptions for your Success: Communication is key, learn to sell your ideas, and change your communication style to fit your audience. Daily discipline: Reads The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) every morning. Links: Twitter: @DrQiLi www.intersystems.com

3: Climb The Entrepreneurial Mountain with Dr. Jeffery Hausfeld, Chairman and Founder of Society of Physicians Entrepreneurs

Play Episode Listen Later May 23, 2015 16:48


Dr. Jeffery Hausfeld shares his journey to the top of the entrepreneurial mountain. The ModernMD: Dr. Jeffery Hausfeld Dr. Jeffery Hausfeld, MD, MBA is acclaimed as one of the nation's foremost experts in the fields of Otolaryngology and Facial Plastic Surgery. Dr. Hausfeld is the Chairman and Co-Founder of the Society of Physician Entrepreneurs (SoPE), a global network focused on educating healthcare and life science professionals in Bioentrepreneurship and Innovation. Jeffery is the Managing Director of FMS Financial Solutions, a national debt collection and debt acquisition firm specializing in medical debt collection. Dr. Hausfeld is the President of Memory Care Communities of Illinois, which develops assisted living facilities specializing in Alzheimer's and memory care. He serves as a consultant to several healthcare/life science startups in diagnostics, devices and Health IT. Success Quote: “It is not about the days of your life, it is about the life in your days” – Jeffery Hausfeld White Coat to Business Suit: What is the impact of doing one more surgery? After a very successful surgical career, Dr. Hausfeld decided to climb down the mountain and begin a new journey as an entrepreneur. He discusses his chaos theory and the initial challenges he faced starting Memory Care Communities. Below are a few highlights: Should you get an MBA? If you want to sit at the table with other finance people and deal with high-level strategic players it can't hurt to get an MBA. Idea to Venture: The Idea: Created a patient debt collection business that understands the importance of the physician patient relationship. Failures: How do you make decisions with limited capital resources? Listen as he shares a story of a company he worked with that two-platforms and limited resources. Business Rounds: Success lesson: It takes a team – surround yourself with those that have done it before! Daily discipline: Exercises twice a day – 1h in the morning and 1 hour in the evening. Recommend resources: Society of Physician Entrepreneurs (SoPE) – will give you the resources, experience, and connections to be successful. Links: www.sopenet.org www.FMSfinancialsolutions.com

2: If you want to be an Entrepreneur – Just go do it! Interview with Dr. Arlen Meyers, CEO of Society of Physician Entrepreneurs (SoPE)

Play Episode Listen Later May 22, 2015 24:48


Dr. Meyers shares his journey and how to bridge the gap between patient care and entrepreneurship, and the secrets to an entrepreneurial mindset. The ModernMD: Dr. Arlen Meyers Dr. Arlen Meyers, MD, MBA is President and CEO of Society of Physician Entrepreneurs (SoPE). Arlen is a retired Professor of Otolaryngology, Dentistry and Engineering at the University of Colorado Denver. Dr. Meyer is a Co-founder of Medvoy, a globally integrated doctor-to-doctor referral platform. He has created several other medical device companies and is a consultant to several life science, IT and investment firms. Dr. Meyers is a former Harvard-Macy Fellow, a National Library of Medicine Fellow, a Fulbright Scholar and was named as one of the 50 most influential healthcare executives of 2011 by Modern Healthcare Magazine. Success Quote: “Spend more time on problem seeking than on problem solving” – Arlen Meyers White Coat to Business Suit: Dr. Meyers shares how to bridge the gap between patient care and entrepreneurship and how to think not just about the ‘now but on the new'. Below are some highlights: Should you get an MBA? An MBA offers Connections, Credibility, Credentials, and Content (The 4Cs). If you want to be an entrepreneur – just go do it! Should you do a residency? Dr. Meyer's believes your should get your MBA in medicine. First get your ticket punched, and then go on and purse your entrepreneurial dreams. Idea to Venture: The Idea: Created a device to optically detect cancer. Failures: Dysfunctional team and folded the company. Lesson Learned: Do you learn from failure? Some people learn from failure and other people don't. The key is taking personal responsibility for the failure. Business Rounds: What is the entrepreneurial mindset? An entrepreneurial mindset is a state of mind that is categorized by the pursuit of opportunity with scares resources with the ultimate goal of creating, deploying, and harvesting user-defined value through the deployment of biomedical and health innovation. About 1% of doctors have an entrepreneurial mindset! What is an idea that is important? Don't work on ideas that are interesting – work on ideas that are important. Dr. Meyers is excited about his work with the Society of Physician Entrepreneurs (SoPE), building a global eco-system of care, and targeted therapy. Do you use digital tools? Medscape reference and other point of care references. Links: www.sopenet.org www.medvoy.com

1: Welcome to The ModernMD!

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 6, 2014 10:00


About: The ModernMD hosted by Dr. Gregory Goodman is a weekly podcast interviewing today's most innovative MD's. We share each MD's journey from White Coat to Business Suit, Idea to Venture - highlighting success, failures, and lessoned learned. We close each episode with Business Rounds (not your typical hospital rounds), where each MD provides golden prescriptions for your success, recourses, and advise. The ModernMD is designed for physician entrepreneurs and healthcare innovators who are inspired to transform healthcare. Join us today, get your doctor recommended dose of MD innovation! My Journey: Hey, Dr. Gregory Goodman here, Founder and Host of The ModernMD. Let me start by sharing my journey as a ModernMD.

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