KaiSkallerudMD

Summary

• Kai Skallerud is a dual-degree MD/MBA student who is on a mission to become a physician-innovator. He is committed to providing high-quality patient care and advancing the healthcare industry for the benefit of patients and providers alike. Here’s how Kai got to where he is today.
  
  After completing his undergraduate studies in Biology and Psychology at Washington University in St. Louis, Kai moved to Rush Medical College in Chicago to pursue a career in clinical medicine. During his training, he began to comprehend the vast complexities and challenges in the US healthcare system. Rising healthcare costs, labor shortages, inadequate medical insurance coverage, data security and sharing restrictions, excessive charting and administrative burden on providers, the COVID-19 pandemic, and so on. Unfortunately, this list barely scratches the surface of the challenges in our $4 trillion-a-year healthcare industry, and the effects of these challenges are not benign.
  
  This newfound perspective inspired Kai to pursue a dual degree MBA so he could develop skills to act on meaningful opportunities for innovation. Today, Kai specifically focuses his entrepreneurial efforts on improving the #1 contributor to healthcare provider burnout – clinical documentation tasks in the EHR.
  
  The demands of modern-day medical charting place an excessive burden on providers and ultimately detract from, rather than benefit the provider-patient relationship. Further, administrative and billing tasks, which are intimately related to the medical charting process, account for $1 trillion of the total $4 trillion in US healthcare spending each year. Thus, in advancing the efficiency and ease of medical charting, Kai believes we can reduce administrative expenses, improve the root cause of provider burnout, and most importantly, improve a provider’s ability to deliver high-quality patient care.