The Healthcare QualityCast Jarvis Gray

Meet our guest in this episode, Dr. Sanjay Prasad, a Surgeon and the CEO SurgiQuality/SurgiConnect. His goal is to help patients connect with the best surgeons for their condition, within their network. Realizing that surgical quality varies from place to place without any tools for patients to navigate, inspired the creation of his company.
In this episode, Dr. Sanjay discusses the inability of patients to assess the quality of surgical care they can expect, and how his business tackles the different aspects of this problem.

Top Takeaways
[05:57] Some points of failure in your life give you such momentum that you never want to fail again. This perseverance through failure is greatly amplified by a passion for what you do. 
[09:21] Patients need quality transparency, in other words, the quality metrics for each procedure for every surgeon in a hospital. 
[12:30] Creating a platform where surgical cases can be reviewed by other surgeons has had a tremendous impact in lowering the rate of unnecessary surgeries, which also lowers premiums paid for malpractice. 
[16:04] Best 'Aha' moment: This was the realization of the wide price difference between different surgical centers while there was a coexisting lack of any means to navigate through the differences in quality between these centers, and how this confirmed an opportunity for business while helping patients.
[19:13] Ongoing changes in the healthcare industry: Following the pandemic, a lot of cases were put on hold and patients started to pay more attention to the health risk of going to a surgical facility. This is a great time to reset healthcare. Dr. Sanjay's book "Resetting Healthcare Post Covid-19 Pandemic" is written for the patients based on this. 
[22:15] Surgery centers and other institutions will have to consider other parameters before giving privileges to surgeons, particularly their past outcomes. 
[24:18] It is vital to keep up with the latest technologies and information in surgical practice. 
[25:16] Best career advice: "Follow your passion" 
[26:28] Statistically, Black patients tend to have a poorer surgical outcome than white patients. 
[29:26] It helps to always note ideas down whenever you get them, so you don't forget. 
[30:34] Website recommendation: Pubmed, American Journal of Medicine
[31:42] Countermeasures and awareness need to be created to address the issue of racial disparity with various procedures, hopefully, to cause behavior modification. 
[32:50] Book recommendation: “Resetting Healthcare Post Covid-19 Pandemic" by Dr. Sanjay Prasad. Find out more about the book on the Resetting Healthcare website.  
[35:16] Dr. Sanjay's message to himself 10 years in the past would be to identify ways to engage the masses to change the system for the better. To himself in the future, he would ask, "what did you leave behind?"

Key Quotes:
"Know before you go"
"I think you're so lucky if you can find what it is that you love to do, and passion to do, and have an opportunity to do it"
"Depending on specialty, 15-30% of procedures that are being performed today are unnecessary"
"You've got to seek happiness, and to seek happiness you have to follow your passion"

Connect: 
Find | Dr. Sanjay Prasad
LinkedIn – Dr. Sanjay Prasad
Email - info@surgiquality.com
Website – www.surgiquality.com

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Alejandro Badia, MD, FACS is a hand and upper extremity surgeon at Badia Hand to Shoulder Center in Doral, Florida. Dr. Badia studied physiology at Cornell University and obtained his medical degree at NYU, where he also trained in orthopedics. A hand fellowship at Alleghany General Hospital in Pittsburgh was followed by an AO trauma fellowship in Freiburg, Germany.
He runs an active international hand fellowship, serves on the editorial board of two hand journals, and previously organized a yearly Miami meeting for surgeons /therapists devoted to upper limb arthroscopy and arthroplasty. This international meeting was held at the world-renowned Miami Anatomical Research Center (M.A.R.C.), the world’s 2nd largest surgical cadaveric training lab which Dr. Badia co-founded in 2005. He is a founding member of the American Hand Institute, a think tank, and medical device start-up company focused on minimally invasive solutions to hand, wrist, and elbow pathology.
In 2008, Dr. Badia completed the Badia Hand to Shoulder Center, a fully integrated clinical facility for the upper limb also encompassing the Surgery Center at Doral, a rehabilitation center, and an MRI imaging facility. In 2010, Dr. Badia inaugurated OrthoNOW, the first immediate orthopedic care center in South Florida which is staffed by surgeons from the Doral Orthopedic Center (DOC), a group of surgeons from lower extremity, upper limb, and spine subspecialties who also treat elective orthopedic problems, frequently in international patients. OrthoNOW was officially franchised in early 2013 and is actively engaging healthcare entrepreneurs and surgeons, here and abroad to open orthopedic urgent care facilities nationally and abroad.
Dr. Badia is the past worldwide president of the International Society for Sport Traumatology of the Hand (ISSPORTH) , was named to 100 Latinos Miami, has been given legacy awards by several organizations, and was featured on the Hispanic Entrepreneur website. He is a member of multiple national subspecialty medical societies (AAOS, ASSH, AAHS), an honorary member of more than 10 international hand surgery and arthroscopy associations, and served as an honored professor at the prestigious Philadelphia Hand Course in 2012. He has lectured in all six continents and is currently focused on improving healthcare delivery in the orthopedics and sports medicine realm.
Here in episode #108 Dr. Badia starts our show with the mindset that quitters never win, and winners never quit; He shares how his passion for meeting his patients needs led to launching his own business franchise; Dr. Badia gives a number of insights and lessons learned gained through both is medical and entrepreneurial career paths; Dr. Badia shares a dark moment story connected with the importance of building the right team, and have a shared vision; He centers us on the messy middle of being a business owner; Dr. Badia highlights the power of establishing 1-on-1 connections, and calls out the need to hear more stories on the positive impacts of the frontline; He highlights the ways OrthoNow is adapting technology to support patients; He highlights the undeniable power of healthcare at the people level, and shares the benefits of being a small, innovative practice; Dr. Badia gives us a career Aha, encouraging us to minimize the middle man; Dr. Badia shares why the move to Outpatient setting is best for the industry, and why rejecting the best career advise that he ever received was a good decision.

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Here in Episode #33, Anthony teach us the value of doing what’s even when nobody’s looking, he introduces us to healthcare quality from a health plan point of view, he shares his passion and lessons learned in promoting health literacy, he promotes a mindset for quality people to always know your numbers, he shares his AHA moment with an introduction to his quality 4-square, and just heads up, be prepared to take notes on this one; both Anthony and I geek all of the way out in our conversation about natural language processing and its potential impact on the future of healthcare, and you’ll glean his great advice on how to align your career priorities in a true make or break fashion.

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The Healthcare QualityCast will be taking a temporary break in producing content. We will be back with an entirely new show and format soon! Be sure to stay connected. 
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Chika Odioemene MSN, NP, RN, MS-HQS, CPPS, CPHQ, LSSMBB, FISQua is the CEO and Founder of Utopian Healthcare.
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Welcome to the third and final installment of The Healthcare QualityCast, featuring Jarvis Gray. we truly hope that you've enjoyed each of these conversations reflecting on the journey with the podcast, as well as the journey that Jarvis has been on for the past few years. As Jarvis goes through a transition in launching his new show, we invite you all to stay connected and continue all of your incredible efforts to make healthcare a safer, more accessible, and more affordable industry serving the communities that we love and live in.
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