Episode 248: Healthcare Solutions

Episode 248 originally broadcast on March 06, 2010

Russ visits with serial entrepreneur Robert Fabbio, founder and CEO of WhiteGlove House Call Health, an affordable health care company that makes house calls! Then flash back to our interview with Bruce Blausen, a talented illustrator who founded and built a global medical services operation.

School of Business 03/06/10

Russ and John present the show about the people who start with nothing, take all the risk, and either make it or don’t… this is the show for the entrepreneurs who work to make all our lives better. Includes: the BusinessMakers Quote of the Day—an inspirational comment from psychotherapist Dr. Nathaniel Branden; This Week in Business History includes the New York Stock Exchange, the Marx Brothers, PC DOS 2.0 and NASDAQ; and the Jargon Challenge Round—acronyms, technospeak and trendy new stuff you should probably know (or maybe not).

Changing the Face of Healthcare with Every House Call

Russ visits with serial entrepreneur Robert Fabbio, most recently founder and CEO of an affordable health care company that makes house calls! WhiteGlove, a routine care provider, delivers to its subscribers medication, treatment, even soup, presenting a less expensive alternative to emergency room or urgent care service. Fabbio has tweaked the healthcare model to create a completely new kind of operation.

Explaining Medical Terminology with the Help of Animations

Bruce Blausen was studying to be an architect when a friend told him about medical illustration and changed the course of his career. Russ visits with the founder of The Blausen Group, owner of the largest medical library in the world with more than 7,000 animations and 12,000 illustrations. In this segment, Blausen describes how, as Internet technology grew, he maneuvered his company into a global medical services firm.

PKF Texas: The Entrepreneur’s Playbook® - Document Retention

How long should you keep supporting documents? State statutes vary and some documents should be kept indefinitely. Greg Price gives tips for establishing your document retention strategy.