An ER doctor who worked in 36 hospitals saw Obamacare's 2012 mandate for electronic medical records upend hospital workflows. He started a consulting business teaching physicians how to use EMR systems and worked with six major health-software companies to redesign digital charts for doctors and nurses.
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And so over a decade, I spent many, many hours in the emergency rooms of 36 different hospitals, because in 2012, we had this amazing thing come out called the American Affordable Care Act. How many people know what that is? Obamacare. Right. So Obamacare forced every medical facility that wanted Medicare, Medicaid money to chart into computers. It's called electronic medical records. And so, legally, the only way you could get paid as a medical provider was if you did this. Electronic medical records. Well, guess what? I had the experience of being a paper charter and a computer charter. And so I decided to start my own consulting business, teaching doctors in the hospital how to chart in a computer. And I helped six of the top the country's leading software companies designed charts inside the computer for the doctors to be able to fill out and the nurses to be able to fill out.