During this year’s CONVENE conference, at the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management, Demi Radeva, one of Digital Health Today’s global ambassadors, had the chance to sit down one-on-one with Jon Pearce, CEO of Zipnosis. Zipnosis, Inc. operates a virtual health care platform that connects patients and clinicians through phone and video interviews. It also offers a ZipTicket, a healthcare boarding pass that provides patients with access to clinics for in-person assessments or lab tests. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, however, it has gained national recognition for its services. Read on to learn more about Jon’s perspectives on the future of digital health and re-humanizing technology in healthcare.
Q1: In your opinion, what is the next digital technology that will change the landscape of healthcare? Why?
Jon: I believe it will be clinical grade optical recognition. Whether it is, or isn’t embedded within a smartphone, it will be very powerful. There is so much that can be done through visual interpretation. Today, you have to go into a hospital, or into an imaging facility in order to get high quality imaging done and analyzed. However, once we can unlock the potential of this type of technology in a clinical setting, it will be industry changing