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E197 | AI Won’t Replace Your Doctor’s Front Desk — It’ll Save It | Oakkar Oakkar, Keona Health
He was bleeding through his shirt, called six doctors' offices, and not one of them picked up. That single moment — not a whiteboard session, not a pitch deck — is why Oakkar Oakkar built Keona Health.
Oakkar is the CEO of Keona Health, an AI engineer, a surfer, and a jiu-jitsu dad who's spent over a decade trying to fix the most overlooked part of healthcare: what happens before you ever see a doctor. In this conversation, we get into why patient access is a 23-million-pathway problem, why most "AI wrapper" tools fail patients at the exact moment it matters most, and what surfing and…
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