The Future of Home Care w/ Dr. Ramin Rafie (Ep. #5)
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EPISODE 5
Dr. Rafie joins Nate to talk about his journey from growing up in Southern California to providing world class home health care in Michigan. Together, they dive into important topics such as: the disparity in Medicare need for a small population of Medicare users, the impact of AI on the workflow for physicians and nurses, and ways that families can prepare today financially for the future costs of long term care.
ABOUT Dr. RAMIN RAFIE
Dr. Ramin Rafie grew up in Los Angeles, CA. His family valued education and a strong work ethic and Ramin was fortunate to get into UCLA directly from high school. After graduating cum laude with his B.S. in Neuroscience from UCLA, Ramin was blessed enough to get into his #1 choice for medical school at the highly-coveted University of California, Irvine School of Medicine where amongst many leadership positions, Ramin was elected as class president. To date that remains one of his proudest accomplishments as he was voted by his class mates which exemplified their trust in him & his integrity.
When his family immigrated to the US, his father underwent the arduous process of getting his CA Dental license. His brother actually became a dentist first and helped their father successfully obtain his CA Dental License. Sadly after his more than decade long struggle to get his dental license, Moussa Rafie, DDS was diagnosed with Parkinsons only 2 years after obtaining it. This was during Ramin’s time in medical school which gave him the direction to go into Primary Care.
After residency, Ramin was employed by the nation’s largest house call company, which subsequently became the nation’s largest ACO, ranked in the top 1% nationally that proved to Medicare that it is more cost efficient to provide primary care in the home. Given his strong leadership abilities and interpersonal skills, he was also elected to be a hospice director for 2 offices in Southeast Michigan. In 2019, Medicare passed a law allowing all Medicare recipients to get a visiting physician, no longer limited to the homebound population. However, in 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic started and interrupted that progress.
Ramin has continued to persevere during the pandemic despite losing his own father-in-law to Covid and obtained his executive MBA and pursued consulting in the RPM (Remote Patient Monitoring) space, becoming certified in AI in healthcare and becoming an expert in the 'hospital-at-home model of primary care. Given Ramin’s love of medicine, technology, AI and the hospital-at-home model of care, he has pursued consulting for several med-tech companies in the RPM space as he strongly believes the future of healthcare is in the home, while hospitals will remain spaces for more acutely ill patients. His passion for improving the healthcare system has guided him to providing better tools and AI technology to ease the burden that EMRs have placed on physician burnout, while facilitating physicians to gain their independence back.
Learn more about Dr. Ramin Rafie's work at https://raminmd.com.
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