Sramana Mitra: You expect people to be trained at a certain level to be part of your pool that you staff with. What is that qualification that you’re looking for? David Coppins: We employ Registered Nurses (RN), Licensed Vocational Nurses (LVN), and nurse aids. Each one of them has their own objective certifications. Beyond that, we require that
Sramana Mitra: What do you think is going to happen? We are, on the one hand, over 30 million people in America that are unemployed. This could go up. At some point, it will come down. For the foreseeable future, there’s going to be tremendous unemployment in the system. Then there are certain segments and
This is a very important conversation about how unemployed retail workers can find their way to retraining and re-employment in the healthcare sector with the aid of technology. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to IntelyCare.
Sramana Mitra: Is there anything else that I should have asked you? Bronwyn Spira: One topic is the value of data and how it can spur healthcare on to the next iteration. One of the the things we’ve seen is, because we collect so much data and we’ve treated hundreds of thousands of patients on
Sramana Mitra: Has there been new business for you in the last two months? Bronwyn Spira: Yes, we’ve been very busy. We actually came out of the market with a complementary offer because we could see that a lot of patients were lingering in no mans’ land. Patients that were scheduled to have surgery were
Sramana Mitra: Is there any other component besides post-op instruction and digital physiotherapy? Bronwyn Spira: We also optimize the patient preoperatively. We engage with our patients about 30 days pre-surgery and help them get ready. We educate them on what to expect for surgery. This is an important piece.
Bronwyn discusses a critical aspect of telehealth that is seeing significant adoption in the Covid era. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to FORCE Therapeutics.
Sramana Mitra: Is there any other category that we should discuss in a bit more detail? Brandon Colby: The third use case deals with bioinformatics companies. Even though there is test data that is being generated by 23andme and Ancestry, the format of the data is unique per company. It gets very complex in terms