Dr. Michael Gao

Or another way to say it would be if you were responsible for maintaining, you know, low food wastage from shipping beef at McDonald's, but the receipts for how many quarter pounders were ordered at each McDonald's were all jumbled and inaccurate, it'd be impossible to do that job.

So I think the data that we create actually gives hospitals a more accurate measurement of lots of different components of the care that they deliver from cost to efficiency to, you know, kind of secondary effects on mortality.

Yeah, I appreciate the question.

You know, when I was in medical school, I helped found a student run free clinic.

And, you know, it was incredible to see the amount of

Physicians that volunteered, the number of students who put their heart into Seoul, and we set up the care, labs, radiology, and all of that.

And this was 2010, 2011.

Um, and, um, I remember at the end of the first year, you know, we were like, okay, so how many patients did we treat, um, this year?

And we treated, I don't know, a few hundred patients.

And a lot of people were like, oh my God, this is.

amazing, incredible work.

And I remember at the time, the ACA had passed, but I think it wasn't implemented.

And I remember doing the math of like, all right, what's 300 divided by the 40 million people without health insurance?

And it was like, turns out that's a relatively small fraction.

And I think one of the

You know, amazing things about being a physician is that ability to make a direct impact.

And I think one of the hard things about health care and maybe related to why it's so expensive is the difficulty of scaling sort of past that.

I work five hours.

I can see, you know, 15 patients, you know, kind of relationship.

And so, you know, I think really, I think since that experience, my North Star has always been, how do we use technology to help healthcare scale in a way that just