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Breaking Into Healthcare as a Software Engineer: What Nobody Tells You

·Pablo Diaz·Founder & CEO, Blossend Inc

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Software engineers look at healthcare and see a $4.3 trillion industry ripe for disruption. They see 26-day wait times, fax machines still in use, and user experiences that would embarrass a 2005 website. They think: I can fix this. I was one of those engineers. Here is what nobody told me before I jumped in.

I came from Amazon AWS, where I built distributed systems that processed millions of requests. Healthcare should be simple by comparison, right? Wrong. Healthcare is not a technology problem. It is a trust problem, a regulatory problem, and a behavior change problem wrapped in technology.

The HIPAA Reality Check

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Pablo Diaz

Founder & CEO, Blossend Inc

Ex-Amazon AWS engineer turned 2x founder. Built OpenMyPro healthcare marketplace serving 150K+ users. CEO of Blossend Inc. Building the future of healthcare discovery.

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