Rehumanizing Healthcare with Dr. Davin Lundquist

According to a recent study, 75% of clinicians say they spend over 10 hours per week on paperwork and medical notes.

Given this administrative burden and the high burnout rate amongst clinicians, it is more important than ever for our healthcare innovators to dedicate themselves to stemming these crises and building innovative, novel, and supportive technology to help our clinicians get back to the joy of practicing medicine.

During this episode, Dr. Davin Lundquist, the first Chief Medical Information Officer at CommonSpirit Health and the current Chief Medical Officer at Augmedix, joins us on the podcast.

While together, Dr. Davin shares his remarkable journey in the healthcare industry, when and where he was first introduced to Augmedix, why he joined the company, and the profound impact the technology is having on him, a physician who still practices medicine, and his peers across the nation.

Additionally, Dr. Davin discussed his organization’s industry-leading remote medical documentation platform that uses remote AI-assisted live scribes to observe, listen, and capture relevant details from natural conversation for over 35 specialties.

Join Dr. Davin and me for this inspiring conversation and hear why we’re more excited than ever that we can help reduce the administrative burden on clinicians and truly bring back the joy of practicing medicine! Let’s go!

Episode Highlights:

• Dr. Davin’s journey in becoming CommonSpirit Health’s first CMIO
• When and where Dr. Davin first met the Augmedix team
• The results Dr. Davin experienced when first using the Augmedix technology
• Why Dr. Davin became Augmedix’s Chief Medical Officer
• Why Dr. Davin believes it is important to continue to treat patients
• How you can get involved with Augmedix’s inspiring mission and company journey

About our Guest:

In December 2019, Dr. Davin Lundquist joined Augmedix as its Chief Medical Officer.

In this role, Dr. Lundquist drives rapid technological innovation across Augmedix’s product development teams while maintaining clinical excellence and tight alignment with the fast-changing US healthcare landscape.

Dr. Lundquist is working on introducing next-generation natural-language-processing automation modules into the Augmedix workflow. He is working with the Augmedix team to advance their real-time support systems to prompt doctors to close care gaps and tend to other critical quality initiatives. Dr. Lundquist supports the company’s commercial efforts as it expands its footprint among major US health care systems.

Dr. Lunquist is a graduate of the USC Keck School of Medicine. He completed his family medicine residency at Naval Hospital Bremerton in Bremerton, WA, and for eight years served as a Chief Medical Information Officer at CommonSpirit Health. While at CommonSpirit, he was responsible for, among other things, implementations, end-user competencies, IT optimization, and evaluation of new technologies to streamline clinical workflows.

While serving as Chief Medical Officer at Augmedix, Dr. Lundquist continues to practice medicine with CommonSpirit Health and contributes as a market CMIO for Ambulatory Services in Ventura County. In this role, he supports a select number of innovation projects with CommonSpirit.

Dr. Lundquist was a champion for CommonSpirit becoming the first enterprise adopter of Augmedix in 2013. He has personally been a user of Augmedix for more than 6 years, and the service has continued to evolve under his guidance. “What makes Augmedix so promising is that the service seamlessly combines remote scribe operations with scalable technology,” said Dr. Lundquist. “This unique human-in-the-loop model enables clinicians to have natural conversations with their patients while the system ambiently documents important information into the EHR, in real-time. There’s no pausing to dictate commands, manually input patient data, press buttons, or invoke wake works. I have been a big believer in Augmedix’s remote documentation service and, as an early adopter and a regular user of the service, I can attest to the value it can provide to clinicians and healthcare organizations.”

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Healthcare from the Trenches with Dr. Alejandro Badia

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Americans are facing serious problems with our healthcare system- skyrocketing costs, a lack of patient access, and inefficient delivery. Despite all the political debates and media coverage on healthcare policy and reform, there is typically one glaring omission: feedback from the people in the trenches- the doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals who provide care to the patients.

To shed light on these critically important issues, we are joined by Dr. Alejandro Badia, Chief Medical Officer of OrthoNow and author of the acclaimed book, Healthcare from the Trenches. Dr. Badia shares his personal journey of becoming a national-leading orthopedic surgeon and why he is so dedicated to scaling his healthcare delivery model.

Join us to hear Dr. Badia’s powerful message for every American to understand the root causes of our healthcare crisis and demand meaningful reform.

Episode Highlights:

• Dr. Badia’s dreams of being a surgeon as a child
• Dr. Badia’s journey in orthopedics
• The faults in the US Healthcare system
• The lack of innovation and healthy competition in healthcare
• Red tape holding back healthcare from patients
• Why Alejandro wrote his book, “Healthcare from the Trenches”

About our Guest:

Alejandro Badia, MD, FACS, FRCSI is a hand and upper extremity surgeon at Badia Hand to Shoulder Center in Doral, Florida. 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 international hand fellowship, served on the review board of a hand surgery techniques journal, and previously organized a yearly Miami meeting for surgeons /therapists devoted to upper limb arthroscopy and arthroplasty. This international meeting was held at the renowned Miami Anatomical Research Center( M.A.R.C. ) which Badia co-founded in 2005.

In 2008 he created the Badia Hand to Shoulder Center and Surgery Center at Doral while in 2010, he launched OrthoNOW®, the first immediate orthopedic care center in South Florida, later franchising the concept which can now be licensed to orthopedic colleagues and healthcare systems.

He is past president of the International Society for Sport Traumatology of the Hand (ISSPORTH) is a member of several orthopedic societies (AAOS, ASSH, AAHS, EWAS), 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. Having lectured in all seven continents he is currently focused on improving healthcare delivery in the orthopedics and sports medicine realm.

Dr. Badia has outlined his journey and delved into the major challenges and hurdles of delivering healthcare in the U.S. through his Amazon best-selling book, “Healthcare from the Trenches” published during the Covid19 pandemic.

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