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Lowering Healthcare Costs and Improving Outcomes through Doctor House Calls
September 20, 2018 @ 11:30 am - 1:30 pm
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Heal CEO Nick Desai will discuss how his company has driven over $41 million in healthcare cost savings across 60,000 house calls. Specifically, how re-establishing unhurried primary care house calls is the gateway for better healthcare and cost controls throughout the healthcare continuum, including reducing length stay, ER use and managing the staggering costs chronic disease.
Meet Our Speaker:
Nick Desai
CEO and Co-Founder
Heal
Nick Desai is an accomplished entrepreneur who has started and led four successful start-ups over the last 18 years. Currently, Nick is the CEO of Heal – a company he founded to re-boot the US healthcare system leveraging the transformative power of technology enabled doctor house calls. In just over 3 years, Heal has raised over $65 million in investment capital, delivered over 60,000 house calls an driven over $41 million in healthcare cost savings.
Nick’s previous start-ups have been award-winning and innovative leaders in technology-enabled fitness and weight loss, social media and mobile applications, and the web’s first self-updating address book.
Nick earned his BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UC Irvine, where he was recently awarded the 2018 Lauds and Laurels Distinguished Alumni Award, and an MS in Electrical Engineering from UCLA. Nick is a recognized speaker and author having spoken at venues including, Consumer Electronics Show, CTeL Spring Executive Telehealth Summit, The US Chamber of Commerce, DigiMed 17 and the Harvard Business School and having written for the Huffington Post and numerous other publications.
Nick has received numerous industry accolades, most recently being presented with a flag that flew over the US Capitol when he was honored as a National Child Health & Safety Award winner and declared a national child advocate declaration. He has also been awarded a Top 40 Healthcare Transformer of 2018.
Nick is a proud father of two young boys and lives with his wife (and Heal Co-Founder) Dr. Renee Dua in the Pacific Palisades.