Episode 9: Digital Healthcare: Pioneers in the Future of Healthcare Technology

In this episode, Dr. Elisha Yaghmai tells the story of how he came up with the idea for using telehealth to solve some of the systemic issues he’d encountered in rural communities in theory remedying healthcare disparities for those communities.

In 2024 we’re all familiar with virtual doctor appointments and other online primary care services. Many of us have utilized these services and they’ve become standard since their widespread introduction in the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020.

Several years before that, in 2014, Elisha was facing physician burnout. Burdened by administrative loopholes and pitfalls, systemic neglect, and unethical practices (like hospitals concealing death rates), Elisha was angry every day.

Desperate for a change, he was seeking a new way to help in healthcare. He figured out a way for virtual medical care to work, got other doctors on board, figured out what technology would work together to do it at a very low price point, recruited rural hospitals that wanted to implement this new service, and began practicing AND IT WORKED.

They had effectively solved the access to healthcare, except for one thing — they couldn’t get paid. Insurance wouldn’t cover it. And thus ensued a years long battle with one of the largest, most problematic portions of our healthcare system: Health insurance. More on that next week…

Watch or listen in to get a peak behind the curtain of what really goes on in failing the American Healthcare System.

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Credits:

Dr. Elisha Yaghmai, M.D. - Host, Executive Producer

Jo O'Hanlon - Host, Set Design, Producer

Monica Salmeron - Director, Producer

Ben Laffen - Videographer

Austin Engler - Video Editor

Harmony Marketing - Marketing & Production

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Dear Healthcare, It’s You — A new podcast investigating the broken U.S. Healthcare system.

Why is it failing? How are you getting screwed over? Who is profiting? How can it change?

Season 1 follows internal medicine physician Dr. Elisha Yaghmai's story. As a medical student and beyond, Elisha begins to discover the systemic toxicity & failings of the US healthcare model and those discoveries have shaped his life's work and purpose: To find a better way.

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