Thought Leaders in Healthcare IT: Simplifeye CEO Ryan Hungate (Part 2)

Ryan Hungate: Doctors will tell you that 2020 was one of the best years financially for most practices. That’s because they weren’t just looking at new patients; they were calling the patients back up that they had planned treatment for and they were completing that. We wanted to automate that. We took our direct scheduling.

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Thought Leaders in Healthcare IT: Simplifeye CEO Ryan Hungate (Part 1)

Ryan talks about the retail healthcare space in this interview. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as Simplifeye. Ryan Hungate: I’m the Founder and CEO of Simplifeye. I’m actually an orthodontist. Prior to that, I was at Apple in Cupertino. I was there from 2007 to 2008. I designed

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Thought Leaders in Healthcare IT: Bret Larsen, CEO of eVisit (Part 4)

Bret Larsen: To your second question, it was Gartner that estimated that the penetration of a platform like eVisit was between 5% and 20%. In the pandemic, everyone had something. Enterprise virtual care platforms would still have that similar penetration rate. What’s accelerated is the use of video. We were inundated with opportunities to speak

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Thought Leaders in Healthcare IT: Bret Larsen, CEO of eVisit (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Where are we now in the telemedicine industry? Bret Larsen: Today, we call it telemedicine, virtual care, and telehealth. The reality is it needs to become medicine, care, and health. There is no virtual component. The care received remotely should still be the same quality when receiving it in person.

Thought Leaders in Healthcare IT: Bret Larsen, CEO of eVisit (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Interesting. You prefaced the comparison with the existing EMRs versus yourself by saying that the old school EMRs were primarily billing systems whereas you are focusing more on the experience. One of the things that is viable in an electronic setting that is not viable in an in-person setting is recording of the

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Thought Leaders in Healthcare IT: Bret Larsen, CEO of eVisit (Part 1)

Terrific conversation on the future of Telemedicine. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing yourself as well as eVisit to our audience. Bret Larsen: I’m one of the founders and CEO of eVisit, a market-leading virtual care platform built for enterprise health systems. At this point in the pandemic, we’ve all experienced a telemedicine visit. We

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Thought Leaders in Healthcare IT: Jeff Richards, COO of SnapNurse (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: If you look around at the ecosystem, what are the open problems from where you sit? Is this nurse shortage problem something that is escalating or is it getting better because people are getting into nursing? One of the conversations that we have had with some of our previous guests is that there

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Thought Leaders in Healthcare IT: Jeff Richards, COO of SnapNurse (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Is the primary use case for your offering like the Uber of nursing? Jeff Richards: We heard that many times when we first started our company. We had heard those comparisons that it is a type of Uber for nurses. There is something missing in that description though. When you order an Uber,

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