How I Built Resilience: Dr. Iman Abuzeid of Incredible Health
Nov 25, 2020
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Dr. Iman Abuzeid, Co-founder and CEO of Incredible Health, discusses how her platform is revolutionizing nurse recruitment by streamlining the hiring process from 90 days to just 15. She highlights the alarming nursing shortage and shares innovative strategies to attract new talent, including free continuing education. Iman dives into the challenges faced during the pandemic, emphasizing the role of technology and telemedicine. Her inspiring anecdotes underline the resilience needed in entrepreneurship, especially in the ever-evolving healthcare landscape.
Incredible Health's digital platform expedites the nurse hiring process to 15 days or less, compared to the industry standard of 90 days.
Incredible Health addresses the nursing shortage crisis by having hospitals apply to nurses, providing cost-effective hiring solutions.
Deep dives
Incredible Health: Revolutionizing the Nursing Hiring Process
In this podcast episode, Dr. Eman Abboud discusses Incredible Health, a digital career platform that matches nurses with hospitals for faster and more efficient hiring. With a nursing shortage crisis in the US, Incredible Health's unique approach of having hospitals apply to nurses has proven successful. Nurses create profiles, sit back, and choose which interviews to accept or decline. The platform uses sophisticated screening and custom matching techniques to connect nurses with the right employers. Incredible Health's subscription-based business model provides hospitals with cost-effective hiring solutions. They have also streamlined the hiring process during the pandemic, reducing the average hiring period to just 12 days through remote interviewing and automated interview scheduling. Additionally, the episode touches on the need to address bias in nursing hiring and the growing importance of telemedicine in the healthcare industry.
Addressing the Nursing Shortage
The podcast dives into the nursing shortage crisis in the US and explores how Incredible Health aims to attract and retain nurses in the profession. Dr. Abboud emphasizes the need to create programs that make nursing education and training more accessible and affordable. She suggests subsidizing nursing education and providing free continuing education to nurses, emphasizing that nursing is a high-paying and rewarding profession. The episode discusses the challenges faced by older nurses and the importance of combating age discrimination in hiring practices.
Innovation in the Healthcare Industry
The podcast highlights the innovative changes in the healthcare industry during the pandemic. Dr. Abboud shares her observations about the industry's rapid decision-making and adoption of new solutions, such as telemedicine. She believes telemedicine is here to stay and that the healthcare industry needs to focus on customer satisfaction and patient experience. The episode discusses how Incredible Health has adapted its strategy to meet the increased demand for healthcare services and has implemented changes to support hospitals, reduce costs, and improve the hiring process.
Entrepreneurship and Resilience
Dr. Abboud's entrepreneurial journey and her perspective on starting a business are highlighted in this episode. As an MD and MBA, she talks about the benefits and excitement of entrepreneurship, emphasizing that starting a company provides immense learning opportunities and skill development. Despite the uncertainties, lay-offs, and challenges faced during the pandemic, Dr. Abboud encourages individuals to evaluate the risks and consider entrepreneurship as a rewarding career path.
Dr. Iman Abuzeid is the co-founder and CEO of Incredible Health, a digital platform that helps streamline the hiring process for nurses and recruiting hospitals. After seeing an increased demand for nurses in April, and a shift to hiring digitally, the platform has now been able to expedite the hiring process to 15 days or less, compared to an industry standard of 90 days. These conversations are excerpts from our How I Built Resilience series, where Guy talks online with founders and entrepreneurs about how they're navigating turbulent times.
