Friday Nov 17, 2023

Delivering Personalized Clinical Excellence for Hurried Patients

Ever wondered what happens when cybersecurity meets functional medicine? In this engaging episode of The Catalyst podcast, host Dr. Lara Salyer welcomes Josh Zappacosta, founder of Function 365, an innovative electronic medical record (EMR) system tailored for functional and integrative medicine practices. Josh's journey is a captivating one, beginning in cybersecurity and leading to the co-founding of both a functional medicine practice and Function 365. His story is a perfect blend of tech-savvy expertise and healthcare innovation.

Josh delves into the reasons why some clinics in the functional and integrative medicine space struggle, highlighting the crucial need for systemization and effective team building. He emphasizes the importance of clinicians seeking support early on, sharing insights into the complexities of managing a successful practice. Josh explains how Function 365 aids clinicians in systematizing their practices, automating processes, and ensuring personalized patient care through efficient data collection and analysis.

A significant part of their discussion focuses on the challenges of implementing lifestyle recommendations and the importance of maintaining control over patient data. Josh underlines that Function 365 is designed with the clinician's needs in mind, allowing them to manage and utilize data effectively for informed healthcare decisions. He advocates for clinicians to harness data and technology to scale their services and improve patient outcomes, painting a picture of a more efficient and patient-focused healthcare system.

Quotes:

• "F365 was really built around delivering a functional medicine or integrative care model for patients, especially if it's multidisciplinary, and make sure that that is a business system that people can run and manage and maintain inside their practice and scale." (06:52 | Josh Zappacosta)

• “I think technology, once it meet our expectations of how we want to be one on one with the patient or one too many, this is gonna be the new dawn of a future.” (35:00 | Dr. Lara Salyer)

• "The ability to manage, maintain, and get insights out of your data in an environment where you own the data is really important." (38:04 | Josh Zappacosta)

• "I assume that most doctors don't want to learn how to code and certainly don't want to pay for market rate for someone in their practice to be able to do that on an ongoing basis and tie all these things together." (35:59 | Josh Zappacosta)

• “The subject has rights to be able to access and view their data with you as a practice at any time. The practice is the data controller. That means that you are the owner of the data, and you instruct your data processor, Function 365, what to do with your data as a business. You own the data. It's our role to do the things that you ask, that you instruct us to, as the owner of your information.” (39:09 | Josh Zappacosta)

Links

Connect with Josh Zappacosta:

Website: https://function365.co.uk

FIND module (to assemble your team and tech): https://rightbrainrescue.com/p/find

IMAGINE module (to identify your core values and ideal patient): https://rightbrainrescue.com/p/imagine

Connect with Lara:

Website: https://drlarasalyer.com

The Catalyst Way: https://drlarasalyer.com/catalyst

Instagram: @drlarasalyer

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/drlarasalyer

Linked-In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drlarasalyer/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/DrLaraSalyer