Cloud-Native Enterprise Imaging Platform With Change Healthcare VP Archie Mayani

This week on How I Launched This: A SaaS story, Carter (@carterthecomic) and Stephanie (@stephr_wong) are talking all about their journey in creating a cloud-native medical imaging management platform and clinical applications, and how Change Healthcare is improving the space for both providers and patients.With a passion for helping people, Archie Mayani, VP of product management at Change Healthcare, tells us how working in healthcare has driven the pursuit of purpose for her. Her mother's cancer plight led Archie to realize the need providers had for a better way to share large images to secure more accurate diagnoses. The goal for Archie at Change Healthcare was to create a platform to provide access to the right images to the right physician at the right time to save lives. Archie describes Change Healthcare's journey to becoming a powerhouse medical services platform for everything from image storage, analytics to revenue cycle management. The focus has always been on making life easier for providers so they can focus on patients, she says. Change Healthcare has continued to expand their offerings, building new solutions as customer needs develop. Archie describes challenges the company has had along the way, including the struggle to find right talent with health care knowledge. The partnership between Change Healthcare and Google Cloud has been important in the growth of the company, Archie tells us. We talk about the effects of Covid-19 on the industry and on Change Healthcare, and Archie offers advice to other SaaS companies, stressing the importance of making good technology choices early. We wrap up the show with a discussion of the future of Change Healthcare and how AI can benefit the health care space.Episode Links:Change HealthcareGoogle DocsGoogle Hangouts