Robin Farmanfarmaian – Hacking Healthcare

Finding Genius Podcast

Richard Jacobs

Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

As a teenager, Robin Farmanfarmaian was mis-diagnosed with an auto-immune disease. All told, she ended up having forty-three hospitalizations, six surgeries, and three organs removed. For a mis-diagnosis. Seriously.
Having gone through this, Farmanfarmaian decided to take her healthcare into her own hands. She fired her entire medical team, and took herself off the high-dose opiate she was on, leading to an experience equivalent to heroin withdrawal.
"Because of that, I ended up getting diagnosed correctly… And literally after 13 years of massive surgeries, constant hospitalizations, I suddenly went into remission overnight."
"Wow," I say.
"I hacked my healthcare back together," says Farmanfarmaian. And now, Farmanfarmaian has learned how to hack the healthcare system even more extensively. "I've hacked my healthcare to the point where I now receive the vast majority of my healthcare within a two-block radius of my apartment, or inside of my home."
Hacking the healthcare system is what Farmanfarmaian's new book is about: The Patient As CEO gets into the technologies that are empowering patients to be key decision-makers.
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0:00.0	Welcome to Almost Here, Round the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs.
0:07.9	Future Technologies always to transform our lives for better or worse are the focus of this podcast.
0:13.6	Almost here means these technologies are now here and starting to be used.
0:17.7	We're just around the corner.
0:19.7	From Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, 3D around the corner, from Bitcoin to artificial intelligence,
0:21.6	3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more.
0:25.6	Hi, this is Richard Jacobs with Future Tech Podcast.
0:29.6	Today I'm talking with Robin Farman Farmyan.
0:33.6	Her name, she says, is even so difficult that even she mispronounces it sometimes.
0:40.2	I thought it was pretty funny.
0:41.6	But Robin, how are you doing?
0:42.9	I'm awesome.
0:43.7	How are you today?
0:44.9	Doing good.
0:46.3	Yeah, we're going to talk about healthcare technology and being the CEO of your own health.
0:51.6	So, if you would, can you just introduce yourself and a little bit of
0:56.1	your background for listeners? Sure. So yes, I am Robin Farman Farmyan and you said my last name
1:02.2	perfectly, which was awesome. I am a serial entrepreneur. I've worked on about 15 early stage
1:08.8	startup companies. What I do is I work now on companies that
1:12.4	are poised to impact at least 100 million patients worldwide directly. Right. So I sit inside,
1:19.4	I've created a career. I've kind of hacked my entire life and I've created a career that doesn't
1:23.8	exist. And I sit inside multiple companies at once, usually as vice president
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