Dr. Shah is the CEO of MyMeds (www.my-meds.com), a digital well being firm whose remedy adherence platform engages sufferers, physicians and pharmacists to work collectively.
Know-how is disrupting client industries throughout the globe. In healthcare, know-how is getting used to enhance programs, however the brand new disruption will likely be pushed by individuals – sufferers and pharmacists. Like by no means earlier than, sufferers are demanding client applied sciences to assist them develop into extra engaged on their altering well being care staff. The brand new staff brings pharmacists off the bench and places them in a starring function to assist resolve certainly one of healthcare’s largest points – the $300 billion downside of remedy non-adherence (not taking medicines correctly).
Dr. Shah is the CEO of MyMeds and a Board-certified nephrologist who practices in Minneapolis. Combining his front-line expertise of understanding the a number of roles (affected person, supplier, entrepreneur) in a rapidly-changing well being surroundings, and his dedication to implementing digital well being IT to enhance well being outcomes, Dr. Shah offers a novel perspective on innovation in healthcare at this time. He obtained his M.D. from the College of Minnesota Medical College, and attended Boston College, from the place he graduated with a B.A. in Cognitive Psychology with a deal with reminiscence creation. This offered the inspiration on which the MyMeds adherence platform was created to enhance medication-taking behaviors. He has been acknowledged for his work in enterprise, drugs and philanthropy with the Virginia McKnight Binger Award in Human Service, 40 Underneath 40, Ten Excellent Younger Minnesotans, and Actual Energy.
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