Sramana Mitra: I experienced this with my grandmother about five years ago. This was in India. She was in a coma essentially and she was not responding. It was about 18 days. We would have been happy to let her go but no one would let us do that. She was 87 years old. Girish
Sramana Mitra: Is there anything else that you want to discuss? Girish Navani: I think we will see a different healthcare system where the payer is not necessarily the one clearing a bill without telling you someday what it costs. I’ll tell you something new that we’re doing next year. We just went live with it
Sramana Mitra: They have other roles to play in medical imaging. In the equipment sector, they’re big. Girish Navani: Yes, not in healthcare IT. This is the fun part and also the nerve-wracking part. As an entrepreneur, you have no fear because you have nothing to lose. Sramana Mitra: Given your structure, what are your thoughts about
Sramana Mitra: If you were to look at the physician market, what percentage of the physician market has made that shift to the second-generation system? Girish Navani: That’s actually an intriguing question. I think it’s still in the early phases, early in the sense that we are 18 months into that cycle. Sramana Mitra: So
Girish Navani has built a $300M+ private company in Healthcare IT that would be valued at over $3B if he were to take it public. We first covered the company in our Entrepreneur Journeys series [Built To Enjoy] in 2010. We continue the discussion here. Sramana Mitra: Let’s pick up from where we left off
In our review of various Big Data players working on vertical apps, this time, we bring you a Healthcare IT story. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with some introductions. Please talk a little bit about yourself as well as Explorys. Charlie Lougheed: Explorys is my third company. I was in my mid-teens when I started my
Sramana Mitra: What scale is the company at now? Rob Langdon: It’s approaching nine figures. Sramana Mitra: Sounds like it’s becoming an enterprise software and healthcare IT company at this point. Is there anything else that is interesting in the story that you would like to discuss? Paper played such an important role. That’s actually
Sramana Mitra: Do you have a sales channel that was selling the paper product into the hospitals and physician groups then switched over to selling this software product? Rob Langdon: We tried different configurations with the sales group. For a while, paper and electronics were separate. Then they were combined. Then we tried regions. Since