Ganesh: Technology at every layer improves margins by thinning healthcare management
Meena Ganesh · She Sold Her Companies To ICICI & Pearson, Then Built Portea - Serving 1 Mil Patients In 40+ Cities · Jun 14, 2024 · at 31:02
Meena Ganesh, founder of Portea, discusses how automating management and monitoring in distributed healthcare delivery structurally improves gross margins compared to traditional facilities.
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“Your gross margin start to look better because you've built in thin layers of management and you're not trying to see what happens otherwise in a healthcare in a facility, you see, there's so many people who are, it's just filled with people who are managing peach pills or managing people. If you want to avoid doing that, then you have to bring in technology At every layer.”
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