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Check it out! Episode 25 on The Shift Report Podcast!

Til Jolly and Kim discussed their professional backgrounds and shared interests in telemedicine, rural healthcare, and community building. Kim, an emergency medicine doctor, founded the Healthcare Alliance for an Equitable World (HAEW) to connect doctors with underserved populations. She described the success of HAEW’s telehealth program in the Philippines, which treated over 1,000 patients in a year, and its upcoming expansion to Uganda and Kenya in February. Partnering with Global Telehealth Network and I Triple E, HAEW is able to support rural hospitals, clinics, and schools. They discussed the challenges in rural healthcare, such as the lack of specialists, infrastructure, and emergency transport, emphasizing the importance of public-private partnerships to navigate regulatory and connectivity barriers. Kim outlined her goal of recruiting 1% of the world’s doctors to provide 700 daily telehealth hours and integrating telehealth into medical education, starting with a project in South Africa.

Moving forward, Kim is continuing to recruit doctors and launch telehealth initiatives.  Their conversation underscores the need for increased visibility, addressing burnout, and strengthening healthcare communities worldwide.

From over 3,000 applicants, 44 finalists from around the world participated in the TiE Women Global Pitch Competition in Bangalore. 

Dr. T competed alongside many amazing women entreprenuers. Congratulations to all of the winners, Adithi Aji, Teri Sirset, and Irena King, and all of the other finalists.

HAEW had an extremely successful exhibit at the 2024 ACEP Annual Conference in Las Vegas. We met hundreds of doctors expressing interest in telehealth as well as placed 2nd in the HackED Emergency Medicine Hackathon!

Our very own CEO, Dr. Kim Tranquada, competed in the TiE Women Colorado Chapter Annual Startup Pitch Competition on September 10th, 2024 in Denver, CO! 

TiE Women is an organization set to engage and empower women entreprenuers all across the globe. Finalists in the pitch competition are set to receive benefits such as cash prizes, investor access, and mentoring. 

We are thrilled to have had the opportunity to share the HAEW mission and vision, and to compete with several incredible and inspiring female entrepreneurs!

Last weekend, April 26th - April 28th, Dr. Tranquada joined fellow women entrepreneurs at the EBS Business Mastermind Event in Atlanta, Georgia. It was an inspiring evening with a panel full of amazing professionals, filled with an exciting and fulfilling exchange of ideas. We are absolutely thrilled that Dr. T was able to be a part of it and bring a plethora of new and exciting ideas to HAEW!

February 9th, 2024, Dr. T had the pleasure of speaking with the 9th-12th grade students of The Nurses Pub Club After School Program. As a panel speaker, she shared her educational journey; from student, to emergency physician, personal coaching specialist, and last but not least, founder and CEO of Healthcare Alliance for an Equitable World. It was an inspiring evening with a panel full of amazing professionals, and we are so happy that she was able to be a part of it!

Our very own, Dr. Kim Tranquada, was featured on the entrepreneurial and small business inspiration podcast, Twist of Fate. Listen now on Spotify and watch the full episode on YouTube. Be sure to check out the #shorts on YouTube from the episode as well!

HAEW has completed it's second mission with VSEE to provide free telehealth in the Philippines. Dr. Tranquada is seen above consulting with a translator and providing care to a patient.

The first two episodes of our podcast, Voices of Healthcare Equity are now live! Head to Spotify and Apple Music to listen now.

This past November 6th-7th 2022, Dr. Tranquada attended the International Society for Telemedicine and eHealth (ISfTeH) Global Connections for Sustainable Health Conference in San Jose, California. Here, Dr. Tranquada was able to connect with a variety of CEO's, healthcare executives, and global stakeholders from all across the globe, and who share a vision involving the growth of telehealth and global health equity.

(Pictured (center, Dr. Kim Tranquada, HAEW, left, Mignonne Karugu, ABGHQ, right, Milton Chen, VSEE))

In August 2022, our team at HAEW partnered with VSEE to provide free telehealth in the Philippines with a local nonprofit group, Soup Kitchen Cainta, in Cainta Rizal in the eastern Metro Manila. The people who came to the event were Soup Kitchen Cainta regulars–many of them seniors and children from families that struggle to earn enough for their day-to-day necessities. Children who collect papers and bottles to sell to the local junk shop for added income, their family members, and the elderly who survive by driving jeepneys (colorful mini-bus-like shared taxis) or by taking sewing jobs were among the people served by this mission.  

It was a successful first mission for HAEW, with 153 patients served in two days, both with an onsite team from VSEE and an offsite pool of virtual physicians, which included our HAEW team, as well as Konsulta MD, and Ateneo School of Medicine and Public Health. With this team, the children and their families received medical care and medications as needed.  

See link below for more information, and stay tuned for our next telehealth and in-person hybrid mission with VSEE coming January 2023! We will again be part of a group of professions with the intention to see more than 1,000 patients.