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Disruption / Interruption

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When did you say ”THAT’S IT! I’VE HAD IT!”? Time to Disrupt and Interrupt with host Karla Jo. Every week KJ interviews professionals who are disrupting their industries and altering economic networks that have been antiquated with bull-headed predecessors holding up the progress. KJ delves into uncovering more from industry rebels and innovators that you didn’t know you needed in your life.

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Disrupting Healthcare - Maria Hernandez - Episode #007

Thursday Sep 30, 2021

Thursday Sep 30, 2021

There are 100 years worth of studies showing the inequality of healthcare when it comes to minorities. This sounds like something is in desperate need of disruption!

 

KJ is joined by Maria Hernandez, the President and COO of Impact4Health and a fighter for inclusion and dismantling the biases facing minorities and under-represented populations. Maria is also a fellow podcast host and big fan of the San Jose Sharks! She’s here to shine a light on the inequalities in the healthcare industry.

 

Takeaways:

 

  • The most important ingredient of disruption is understanding the unintended consequences. Look at the long term effects of what you plan on bringing to the table.
  • The breakthroughs in healthcare come from those who are incredibly tenacious, focused and able to navigate all the structures of healthcare. 
  • Healthcare has only recently begun to really look at one hundred years of inequities for minorities. 
  • People are not all the same, but in healthcare everyone is treated as if they are. This doesn’t help but rather hinders people as everyone has different experiences and everyone’s bodies react to medicine differently. 
  • Serena Williams wasn’t listened to when she was complaining about having a possible blood clot until her c-section stitches burst. If someone as powerful as her struggled to get people to listen to a woman of color, how bad is the struggle for the average person?
  • Last year, a law was passed in California that anyone working in the OB-GYN field has to take an unconscious bias course. This will prevent decisions that could influence the birth in a negative way. 
  • Hospitals need to be absolutely certain that people’s data is absolutely secure. Ransomware attacks can happen at any time so they need to be prepared. 



Quote of the show:

 

12:50 “If you can fathom this, the United States has a maternal mortality rate for black women delivering a baby, that is similar to third world countries. They die at two and half times the rate of others. I’m going to give you an example and you’ll be surprised who it is. A black female giving birth to a child, who has a history of pulmonary embolisms. 

 

She complains about feeling sick, and she thinks she’s got another blood clot because she’s had it before. She’s telling the nurses and staff look I think I’ve got this please do something. She coughs and coughs and coughs and coughs to the degree that she breaks the stitches from her C-section and then they finally do what they need to do, which is check all this stuff. 

 

She did have a blood clot. That woman was Serena Williams. If you could fathom a person as powerful as Serena Williams can’t get heard when she’s concerned about her health, her status, what’s going on in her body, what happens to the average person?”



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