Creative Health Labs

Why I Built Deckdrop: Reducing Cognitive Load for VCs and Upholding Ethical Investing As someone deeply immersed in the venture capital (VC) world, I’ve witnessed firsthand the relentless pace and overwhelming influx of information that VCs grapple with daily. The sheer volume of pitch decks, market analyses, and founder profiles can be mentally taxing, often leading to decision fatigue and overlooked opportunities. This cognitive load not only hampers efficiency but also detracts from the core mission of investing: fostering innovation and positive societal impact. The Genesis of Deckdrop Motivated by these challenges, I set out to create Deckdrop.io , an AI-powered tool designed to streamline the investment process for VCs. My goal was simple yet ambitious: leverage artificial intelligence to alleviate the mental strain on investors, allowing them to focus on strategic decision-making rather than administrative tasks. Reducing Cognitive Load with AI The venture capital landscape is f...

Reza Alavi, MD, MBA, is a great friend of mine and former Chief Clinical Officer of Dispatch Health and National Medical Director for Optum. He's an expert in value-based care, VBC contracting, healthcare-focused startups, risk-bearing medical groups, population health especially vis-a-vis medicare and medicare advantage, and development of programs to reduce unnecessary utilization.  If you are a company or startup looking to add a superb fractional chief medical officer to your team with expertise in value-based care and risk-based contracting, consider Reza. You can find more information on his website: Fractional Chief Medical Officer

 Please see my website for my friendly PC owner services that I provide as a 50-state licensed physician: Friendly PC Owner Corporate Practice of Medicine (CPOM) is a complex set of laws that govern the delivery of healthcare services by businesses. These laws vary from state to state, but generally, they prevent non-licensed individuals or businesses from owning or controlling healthcare providers. In order to comply with these laws, companies entering the healthcare industry need to have a licensed healthcare provider to oversee their operations, and that’s where the friendly PC owner comes in. A friendly PC owner is a physician who provides medical oversight and consultation to businesses that wish to enter the healthcare industry. The PC stands for Professional Corporation, which is a type of business entity that allows physicians to provide their services as a group while limiting personal liability. Essentially, a friendly PC owner acts as a consultant for businesses, providi...

 I created an SMS interface to openAI's gpt3 API so that I can send an SMS prompt to openai and get an SMS response. Result looks like this: There may be better/easier ways of doing this, but this is how I figured it out. I'm assuming some degree of familiarity w/ Zapier here: 1. Buy a phone number in Twilio to use for this. This only costs $1/mo 2. In Zapier, create a new zap where the trigger is "Webhooks by Zapier" (Premium option). Choose your event as "Catch Hook". This will generate a webhook URL that is custom for this workflow. We are doing this because when you send the SMS to the Twilio phone number, you want it to **instantly** trigger the zapier workflow and not wait the 5-15 min it takes for Twilio to trigger on its own, so for that you need the webhook: 3. Copy the webhook URL from zapier and paste it into Twilio in the "A Messages Comes In" webhook section for that phone number 4. You will then need to send a test message so that Zap...

For fun, I've used GPT3 from openai.com to create a personal statement writer that makes it easy for people to generate a first draft of a personal statement using a simple prompt of their topic. The application takes in two parts for the prompt: first, the topic (e.g., "running a law mowing business"), and second the type of school or programming to which the applicant is applying (e.g., "business school"). It then uses the openai GPT-3 api to generate a multi-paragraph personal statement.  PersonalStatementBot.com includes a page with personal statement examples that have been generated by itself in the past, to make it easier for folks to see and learn from each other. 

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We are excited to announce the soft launch of AgingHere the new online community we are building for senior-serving professionals , like case managers, social workers, ALF owners, Medicare brokers, care managers, group home operators, elderlaw attorneys, healthcare providers, nurses, physicians, managed care providers, home health companies, PT/OT staff, and private duty providers, to all congregate, connect, share resources, and network.  We've built this community on Slack, the most popular community discussion platform. Please visit AgingHere by going to https://www.aginghere.com. Please email info@aginghere.com with any questions. 

In this amazing interview with Robert Bullock , a DC-based Elder Law attorney, from   The Elder & Disability Law Center , Dr. Amy Schiffman and Dr. Alex Mohseni discuss Medicaid Long Term Care coverage. We cover these topics: What is Medicaid Medica long term care eligibility What does Medicaid waiver mean? How does one qualify for Medicaid Medical eligibility for Medicaid long term care Financial eligibility for Medicaid long term care Most people are in crisis mode when trying to qualify for Medicaid long term care How are patients assigned to rehab Medicaid 5 year lookback Put your assets into an irrevocable trust at least 5 years before you think you made need Medicaid Why doesn't Medicaid cover ALF Medicaid long term care payments are like a loan Medicaid estate recovery Atlantic article on Medicaid estate recovery Life care Planning and Management At what age should everybody talk to an elder law attorney Video version of this episode:  https://youtu.be/EIwz0kv_O1o R...

 I'm excited to share the newest version, for 2021, of our MasteringMedicare Medicare Cheat Sheet. Feel free to share and provide feedback with suggestions and corrections.  Link to download the Medicare Cheet Sheet:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Nu45djmYDln7mSNG0v2Q57pkiACFvRv4/view?usp=sharing

  Dr. Mohseni presented on the topic of how Emergency Medicine groups could expand their scope of practice to the virtual space to and how to do so in a financially viable way.

In this Mastering Medicare episode we do a deep dive into Hospice with our guest, Cathy Gurson.  She teaches us everything we ever wanted to know about Hospice. Here are some of the topics we cover: How do people get referred to hospice Hospice is covered 100% by Medicare part A What does hospice cover How to get Part B medical care covered while under hospice Hospice reimbursement model Hospice per diem Three levels of hospice care Pier diem changes at the higher levels of care For profit vs non-profit hospice Hospice certificate of need requirements What questions you should ask about when interviewing a hospice CHAP certification for hospice Transitioning - what does transitioning mean in the context of hospice? How to know when a hospice patient is dying Does hospice pay for food and nutrition Tube feeding hospice patients Measuring mean arm circumference (MAC) as a measure of nutritional decline Who is making the hospice recertification? Hospice patient’s relationships with t...