PointHealthTech Podcast

Dr. Nick van Terheyden joined us to discuss his experiences in the early days of healthcare technology, the need for systemic change in U.S. healthcare, and his incremental approach to healthcare transformation.

Dr. Nick brings a distinctive blend of medical practitioner and business strategist to the realm of digital healthcare technology. After several years as a medical practitioner overseas, he was part of the team that developed the first EHR in the early 1990s, was a business leader in one of the first speech recognition companies, and later served as Chief Medical Officer of Dell Technologies.

Dr. Bonnie Clipper, Chief Clinical Officer at Wambi, joined us to discuss her work at Wambi and her experiences in healthcare innovation.

In this episode, we discuss the importance of collecting positive feedback to encourage healthcare professionals and prevent burnout. We also talk about the importance of patients controlling their healthcare experiences, and giving nurses the resources to be innovators.

In this episode, Shakil Haroon, founder and CEO of MPIRICA, joins us to discuss why quality, affordable healthcare is hard to find (Hint: It was designed to be this way.)

Shakil explains that hospitals have no interest in making quality data available because specialties with poor quality scores would lose revenue. With this in mind, Shakil created the MPIRICA Quality Score system to help patients find the best places to receive care.

In episode three of the PointHealthTech Podcast, Jan Oldenburg joins us to discuss the misalignment of goals between key healthcare players, why it’s so difficult to make rational decisions in healthcare, and how we can understand the goals of the person, not just the goals of the system. When we asked Jan why it’s difficult to find quality, affordable healthcare, she told us:

“We keep pretending we've got an actual healthcare system rather than a collection of fragmentary parts.”

Listen as Jan explains why and gives advice on how we can start fixing it.

Here at PointHealthTech, we are focused on making healthcare easy to find, easy to understand, and easier to afford. To start season 1, we focus on “finding” care by speaking with David Balat, Director of the Right on Healthcare initiative at the Texas Public Policy Foundation.

He discusses how price transparency will change the face of healthcare and explains why Direct Primary Care is the ideal way to go for patients who want affordable, quality care that they can actually know the price of.

"What's the point?" That's what we asked Matt Dale, our CEO, to hear his story about how and why he started PointHealthTech. We also hear from team members of PointHealthTech about why they wanted to work for a company that is trying to make healthcare easy to find, easy to understand, and easier to afford.

The point of healthcare is to make people's lives better, not worse; but somewhere along the way, American medicine lost sight of its purpose. The PointHealthTech podcast brings experts together to share their takes on the current healthcare system and ways we can transform it for the better.