The Modern MD

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/

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

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

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

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

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.

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