Healthredesigned

Imran Cronk is a co-founder and CEO of Ride Health, a platform that helps patients get rides to and from their medical appointments. There is a transportation barrier. It not only affects patients, it also affects health care providers. Imran has an amazing story of how human compassion and empathy turned into an idea. He was a volunteer in a hospital and a patient was discharged around midnight with no ride home. This man was also older and had compromised vision, yet he was planning to walk 8 or 9 miles home since he didn’t have any other options. Imran gave the man a ride home. This not only helped a fellow human in need. It also sparked the idea for Ride Health. Episode Highlights: How critical barriers to transportation include having lower incomes, being elderly or disabled, and living in rural areas. How there are great resources for emergencies, but non-emergency resources are what Ride Health focuses on. One of the problems with the existing NEMT system is that the payer system is very fragmented. I