Innovations in Medicine to be Highlighted at Empowering Physicians Conference

September 12, 2024

Attendees at this year’s Empowering Physicians Conference will get a chance to see the future of healthcare and how innovations are changing the way medicine is practiced in Minnesota.  

In this session, attendees will hear from Mike Pitt, MD, the CEO and founder of Q-rounds – a virtual queue that sends real-time notifications of when to arrive for rounds – an innovation that is “taking the waiting around, out of rounds.”  

The session will also include: 

Josh Dégallier, MD, a hospitalist in Minneapolis and creator of Roundr, a mobile app that provides physicians with intuitive note-taking and charting features, designed to enhance their efficiency and improve patient care. With the app, physicians can easily access and display patient information, write notes directly into the chart, and stay organized on the go. 

Yingling Fan, PhD, has built a research career looking at numerous aspects of how the built environment affects health, happiness, utility, and wellbeing. She is co-founder of the technology start-up Daynamica, which has developed smartphone apps to collect human behavior and well-being data for academic institutions and government agencies.  Fan will be joined by some additional partners, including Anne Blaes, MD, MS, Julian Wolfson, PhD, and Guang Yang, PhD. 

L. Pearce McCarty, III MD, MBA, is an orthopedic surgeon, entrepreneur and healthcare leader driven by the desire to make healthcare more efficient, affordable and accessible. In 2020, he co-founded DOCSI, which is devoted to developing digital tools that lower cost and improve operations in surgical procedural environments at scale.   

The conference takes place Friday, September 27, at the American Swedish Institute, 2600 South Park Avenue in Minneapolis.  For more information and to register, click here.