The Great Work of Your Life Interview with John Hsu, MD
John Hsu, MD
Dr. John Hsu uses his medical training and business savvy to support healthy living through better pain and medication management.
A practicing anesthesiologist, chronic pain manager, and addiction medicine physician, John Hsu MD, is a serial entrepreneur. In addition to his medical practice, Dr. Hsu has started several companies, including Quivive Pharma, which is using a two-year, $1.9 million grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (one of the National Institutes on Health), to run a clinical trial in partnership with the Cleveland Clinic; Fentavive, which sells a Fentanyl patch that’s an oral drug abuse deterrent; a real estate investment trust founded in the name of his father-in-law, who helped him get through medical school; and NAOMI systems, a digital software platform integrating digital X-ray devices, practice management, EMR and RCM billing systems.
iPill Dispenser is Hsu’s most recent undertaking. The dispenser brings care to patients with opioid use disorder who have difficulty accessing care. It enables remote medication adherence monitoring, secure biometric home storage that gives access only to the person with the prescription, and destruction of unused pills.
iPill Dispenser is Hsu’s calling, his way to leave a legacy in the better treatment of opioid use disorder.
Transcript of the interview
A practicing anesthesiologist, chronic pain manager, and addiction medicine physician, John Hsu MD, is a serial entrepreneur. In addition to his medical practice, Dr. Hsu has started several companies, including Quivive Pharma, which is using a two-year, $1.9 million grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (one of the National Institutes on Health), to run a clinical trial in partnership with the Cleveland Clinic; Fentavive, which sells a Fentanyl patch that’s an oral drug abuse deterrent; a real estate investment trust founded in the name of his father-in-law, who helped him get through medical school; and NAOMI systems, a digital software platform integrating digital X-ray devices, practice management, EMR and RCM billing systems.
iPill Dispenser is Hsu’s most recent undertaking. The dispenser brings care to patients with opioid use disorder who have difficulty accessing care. It enables remote medication adherence monitoring, secure biometric home storage that gives access only to the person with the prescription, and destruction of unused pills.
iPill Dispenser is Hsu’s calling, his way to leave a legacy in the better treatment of opioid use disorder.
Transcript of the interview
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