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Mitesh Rao
Founder + CEO
OMNY Health
Dr. Mitesh B. Rao, MD, MHS is the Founder and CEO of OMNY, a venture-backed company revolutionizing how healthcare data is shared and valued. A Board-Certified Emergency Medicine Physician, Dr. Rao practices clinically as an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Stanford. Most recently, he served as the Chief Patient Safety Officer for Stanford Healthcare where he led Patient Safety, Quality, and System Redesign for the Enterprise. Dr. Rao also served as Director of the Center for Advancing Patient Safety (CAPS), which focused on advancing the science and implementing new innovations in the fields of Patient Safety and Quality Improvement.
Q: What motivates you to continue working towards change each day?
A: As healthcare research becomes increasingly complex due to funding cuts and regulatory changes, I wake up energized by the fact that OMNY’s work enables researchers to make groundbreaking discoveries that change drug development and patient care.