Todd Johnson

And his first question is, why the hell didn't she call me?

If she wasn't getting better and if this medicine wasn't working, she should have reached out.

And then his second really obvious observation was, shame on me, why didn't I call her?

As her doctor, I should have been touching base and checking in to see how she was doing.

And that was really the genesis of Health Loop.

And when I met Jordan Schlain in late 2012... He's the guy who originally had the idea.

Yeah, he's just the physician founder, and he's still active and a board member and a wonderful friend.

You know, this basic concept that we can do more with patients and check in to make sure they get better health, I think, is a universally good thing.

Nobody disagrees with that.

But secondly, the market timing and our transition of the economy, the health care economy from a transactional system to a value-based system.

We can talk a little bit more about that if you'd like.

makes for good timing for innovations that can help achieve better quality healthcare at lower cost.

Yeah, so it's been an interesting evolution at HealthLoop.

Just to back up on the technology, what it is is HealthLoop is a platform that automatically sends push notifications to patients after a new diagnosis or before and after a surgery to continuously sort of check in and give you a daily dose of here's what you need to know, do, and expect today.

And then HealthLoop assesses, hey, how are you doing today, and asks you a series of questions to identify, do you have an issue?

And, you know, if you have an issue, we notify your doctor, that doctor follows up, we get you better health care.

I think if you roll back the clock five years ago, there's really not a great business model around improving the quality of care.

Right.

And so, you know, in that world, in fact, failure was rewarded.

Like if you were admitted to the emergency room and they passed you up and then you come back a week later, that's just more revenue.