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Building Relationships with Patients & the Loss of Physician Autonomy
with Leah Houston, MD and Doug Sumaraga
Date: October 11, 2022
Time: 11:30AM EST | 9:30AM MT | 8:30AM PST
Duration: 30 Minutes
For this session, Doug Sumaraga will be joined by emergency specialist and founder and CEO of HPEC and evercred, Leah Houston, MD for a discussion on how critical face-to-face time with patients is to good care. Doug and Dr. Houston will cover the challenges of providing good care when time with patients is limited, the evolving role of technology in physician autonomy, and the need for physicians to own their own credentials — part of the mission of Dr. Houston’s company, evercred.
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Leah Houston, MD
Leah Houston, MD, a graduate of Albany Medical College, practiced emergency medicine across the US for nearly 10 years. As a locum tenens physician, she worked in 11 different health systems and three different states. Over the years, Dr. Houston experienced [multiple times] first-hand what all physicians experience: the friction-filled, manual, expensive, and time consuming process of credentialing, which eventually led to her founding of her two organizations
That experience is what led to her founding of HPEC, a decentralized autonomous organization of practicing physicians - which is essentially a digital physicians guild, and evercred, the credential issuing system that is interoperable with HPEC, and any other decentralized identity wallet that follows decentralized identity standards by the Decentralized Identity Foundation and the World Wide Web Consortium.
In addition to leading HPEC and evercred, Dr. Houston is a nationally requested speaker and author on the topic of self-sovereign identity in healthcare.
Doug Sumaraga
Doug is a serial entrepreneur with over 30 years of experience managing and developing technology firms in the Silicon Valley as CTO, COO, & CEO. As a strategic advisor and technology consultant to several Fortune 50 companies (IBM, SAP, Apple, Adobe, Agilent, Microsoft, HP, Northrop Grumman, Boeing among them), Doug offers business acumen and technical expertise as a transformational leader, architect, and “let’s get it done” executor.
Doug holds Biology (pre-med) and Medical Technology degrees in the Adventist Educational Health System and found his passion in technology continuing his post grad studies in Informatics and programming at UC Berkeley.
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