Jan 18, 2016
Dr. Richard Munassi is the Chief Operating Officer of DocResponse, and is an accomplished healthcare executive with leadership expertise in for-profit and non-profit organizations, business development, and start-up acceleration. He holds both an MD and an MBA degree, and has an extensive background working with people from a multitude of cultures in project and program management, business development, operations, executive leadership, growth consulting, and investor strategies.
As an emerging leader in the healthcare technology field, Dr. Munassi has worked with journalism, biotechnology, medical education, and medical diagnostics startups. With a strong background in both clinical science as well as business, he brings a unique skillset to the table which allows organizations to hone in on clinical excellence while creating sound strategies for financial growth and business development.
In his limited downtime Dr. Munassi enjoys freelance writing
for various publications and websites, volunteering with
Habitat for Humanity, and consulting with one of his previous
employers, the non-profit organization ROWAN: The Rural Orphan and
Widows AIDS Network, whose mission is to empower individuals
and communities impacted by AIDS in rural third world settings
by providing healthcare, education, micro-enterprise solutions
to indigent populations in rural third world settings.
Dr. Munassi has spent a considerable amount of time both living in
and volunteering abroad. Countries that he has lived in
include India, Malaysia, the Cayman Islands, and more.
00:00 DocResponse is the most accurate symptom checker
available.
02:00 How DocResponse got its title as the most accurate symptom
checker.
03:45 What a symptom checker is.
04:50 The use of a symptom checker as a way for a patient to
increase their engagement and decide their next step, not diagnose
themselves.
06:00 The problem that DocResponse aims to solve.
10:00 100,000,000 people are using symptom checkers each year.
10:30 The problem with this significant amount of patient
engagment.
12:00 Why telling people to go see their doctors instead isn’t
always the better solution.
13:20 Who is paying for DocResponse.
14:45 The shift in value-based healthcare and patient outcomes.
16:00 The problem of misdiagnosis.
16:50 How PCPs can find DocResponse useful as well.
19:30 Variation and consistency in healthcare, and how DocResponse
is working to improve these.
21:00 How DocResponse can be incorporated into patient portals.
25:00 The permanence of symptom checkers and the best way to go
forward as a PCP.
28:30 How working to make patient care more efficient starts by
weeding out patients who don’t necessarily need to be seen.
30:30 Dr. Richard’s advice on making more time to improve PCP
practices.
34:00 You can find out more at DocResponse.com, at
Facebook.com/DocResponse, and on Twitter @DocResponse.