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Our CEO and founder, Dr. Bora Chang was pleased to speak as a featured guest on the Passionate Pioneers podcast hosted by Mike Biselli, sponsored by Dignity Health Global Education. The podcast series harnesses and highlights brilliant and innovative minds in the healthcare industry who are deeply committed to reimagining the future of medicine.
In the podcast, Bora and Mike discuss how the healthcare industry has only just begun to tap into the powerful world of big data and artificial intelligence. Bora shares her vision for KelaHealth which is to harness the power of machine learning in healthcare today, and in the future. The episode particularly highlights how the healthcare industry is notoriously slow to adopt change, and how KelaHealth is seeking industry champions to spearhead growth and innovation as it shifts from fee for service to a more value based focus.
KelaHealth’s History
About Bora’s research and big data interests as well as her unique background and medical training which drove her to found KelaHealth in the grassroots of innovation at Duke University.
The Challenges of Being a CEO
Bora explains the dichotomy between having rigorous clinical training, yet facing many different challenges of the startup world.
The Clinical Workflow
How KelaHealth embeds within the EHR to integrate into the clinician’s existing workflow.
“Our predictions and insights are right there (in the EHR), just as you would use your GPS to get to work. You've done it a thousand times, and you know how to get there. Today the traffic may look a little different, or maybe there's a cop waiting around the corner. There's just a little more information that will guide your route, maybe a little bit different today than you would yesterday.” - Dr. Bora Chang
Cost Savings
How the KelaHealth platform leads to cost savings, as well as operational efficiencies.
The Shift from Fee from Service to Value Based Proposition
The healthcare industry is undergoing a major paradigm change to focus on patient outcomes and quality of care, and how KelaHealth can service not only a value based proposition but fee from service care.
KelaHealth’s Customers
Bora touches on how we serve inpatient hospitals with large surgical volumes to ambulatory surgical centers in the outpatient space.
Early Adopters of Innovation & Challenging the Status Quo
Listeners can support KelaHealth by being early innovators in the healthcare industry, spearheading change within their own system.
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