How Diagnostics + Payers Speed Treatment with Dr. Julie Schulz

About this episode

Dr. Julie Schulz discusses the importance of workflow in healthcare technology and how it impacts treatment speed and outcomes.

You can build brilliant healthcare technology and still lose. Why? Because healthcare does not reward the smartest tool.  It rewards what people can actually use. In this episode, I sat down with 𝐃𝐫. 𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐢𝐞 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐮𝐥𝐳 from Avalon Healthcare Solutions to unpack one of the biggest blind spots founders miss:  𝙒𝙤𝙧𝙠𝙛𝙡𝙤𝙬 𝙛𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 We talked about why clinicians ignore tools that add work Why payers care about speed and outcomes Why many “innovations” fail is because no one owns the problem across the system. One of the most powerful reminders? Fancy tools are not the hard part. Getting humans aligned is. If you're building in diagnostics, AI, employer health, payer tech, or care navigation, this conversation will save you years of unnecessary pain. In this episode, you’ll learn: ✅ Why great healthcare products fail when workflow is ignored ✅ How reducing treatment delays creates measurable ROI ✅ Why incentives drive healthcare behavior more than intentions ✅ Where fragmented systems create billion-dollar opportunities ✅ Why long-term prevention loses to short-term budgets ✅ How employers may become the next major growth channel in healthcare ✅ Why trust…

People in this episode

Host: Sabrina Runbeck

Guest: Dr. Julie Schulz

Topics covered

• healthcare technology
• workflow friction
• treatment speed
• healthcare behavior
• innovation challenges
• employer health

Keywords

• healthcare technology
• workflow
• treatment delays
• healthcare behavior
• employer health
• innovation
• payers

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Avalon Healthcare Solutions

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