Making Responsible AI a Reality
Ensuring Access, Innovation, and Equity
In today’s evolving healthcare landscape, finding innovative and appropriate surgical care can present a considerable challenge. The path to securing an appointment with a qualified surgeon, let alone identifying if definitive care or novel procedures are viable options, can be a complex process that often extends over weeks to months.
With 24 years in medicine, 15 years as a practicing sinus surgeon, and over 10 years of experience working with medical device companies, I have witnessed 4 years of both drastic diminishment in access to care as well as dramatic innovation across the industry. I founded Nemedic 5 years ago to help patients find innovative surgical care. We believe every patient deserves access to innovative surgical procedures and that surgeons are happier when they do more surgeries and less medical management. Our technology uses the ethical application of digital intelligence to give all patients the opportunity to attain their highest level of health.
Revolutionizing Patient Matching With Streamlined Prequalification
The problem of accessing innovative surgical care has only grown worse over the last 4 years, and the solution has required a blend of decisive leadership and innovative thinking to tackle such a systemic issue. At Nemedic, we design and implement a streamlined prequalification process to enhance patient-surgeon matching. By ensuring that patients are suitably aligned with a surgeon capable of delivering optimal treatment options before scheduling, we significantly reduce the time-to-treat between scheduling and definitive treatment. This optimization frees surgical resources to deliver much-needed care to more patients.
Optimizing scarce resources in surgery is critical to the future well-being of patients, surgeons, and all other stakeholders in surgery. The most critical resource to reimagine is the invaluable time of surgeons.
We employ a strategic approach, reflective of our commitment to patient-centric innovation, designed with the explicit aim of optimizing scarce resources in surgery. The most critical among these is the invaluable time of our surgeons. By shifting the focus away from medical management and towards the delivery of innovative surgical care, we can best serve our patients while improving efficiency in the healthcare sector. We aim to facilitate a more immediate and effective utilization of our surgeons’ expertise and, consequently, elevate the standard of patient care.
Scheduling Optimized for Surgeon Well-being and Patient Outcomes
Optimized surgical care is only effective if there are actual surgeons available to work in the system. The escalating epidemic of healthcare provider burnout has risen to a critical level, with an alarming 65% of professionals considering a transition away from their field within the coming five years. Responding to this urgent issue, we’ve undertaken an exhaustive examination of the central factors precipitating burnout among surgeons.
With a comprehensive background in healthcare technology and surgery, Nemedic provides pioneering software solutions to tackle this issue head-on. Our innovative strategy is aimed at reversing the burnout trend through an improved practice life, providing our invaluable healthcare providers with the much-needed support to sustain their pivotal role in patient care. Our innovation lies in a patent-pending technology to prequalify surgical patients and optimize schedule placement immediately with a surgeon offering the most advanced treatment available targeted for the patient’s health needs.
Designing Ethical Digital Intelligence To Advance Health Equity
Our solution also directly addresses the primary obstacle to health equity—access. We’ve simplified the process of locating and scheduling appointments with proficient surgeons, thereby enhancing patient accessibility. By ethically deploying digital intelligence to mitigate avoidable inequalities, we foster an environment where all patients have an equal opportunity to achieve their optimal health.
Unfortunately, the next revolutionary cure may be under development but runs the risk of never reaching fruition due to the challenging startup phase facing many companies. We perceive this as a global disservice and are actively collaborating with industry partners to enhance their access to a growing national network of thousands of unaffiliated surgeons. This not only optimizes their release of groundbreaking technology but also accelerates the development, launch, and inertia into an FDA approval process. By doing so, we facilitate the introduction of innovative medical solutions to the market, ultimately benefiting the global community.
Embracing an Ethos: Delivering Patient-Centric Solutions at Every Level
The company I lead is dedicated to patient-centric solutions manifested in systems that enable timely and innovative care, ultimately leading to improved health outcomes. This ethos is ingrained in every facet of our operations, and I am committed to continually seeking out new healthcare partners and ways to uphold these core values. Please contact me if you would like to learn more.
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Brad Bichey MD