In this episode of the HealthTech with Purpose podcast, Ayush Jain interviews Jack Hysell, Director of Integrations and Digital Partnerships at Primary.Health. Jack discusses his non-traditional career path from hairstyling to computer science, and how he landed his current role at Primary.Health.

Primary.Health was founded during the pandemic to address the rapid need for testing and vaccination services. Their cloud-based platform allows providers to manage testing and vaccination programs at scale, and integrates with labs and public health information exchanges.

Here are the key discussion points:

-Mission-driven healthcare: Primary.Health focuses on ending the spread of disease and reducing the severity of illness by powering simple and affordable diagnostics, immunizations and preventive care at scale.

-Health equity: Primary.Health builds scalable solutions to serve underserved communities and public health.

-Importance of interoperability: Primary.Health is working on establishing an interoperability network with one of the nation's largest public health lab networks.

-Favorite partnership story: Jack discussed the ability to reach into communities that might not have access to affordable testing in San Francisco.

-AI in healthcare: The discussion explores the potential of AI in predicting health with better workflows.

Connect with Jack on:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jackhysell/

Connect with Ayush on:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ayushj/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/IM_AyushJain