Jordan Michaels is an American

digital healthcare Digital health is a discipline that includes digital care programs, technologies with health, healthcare, living, and society to enhance the efficiency of healthcare delivery and to make medicine more personalized and precise. It uses informat ...

entrepreneur, vice president of operations at

GoodRx GoodRx Holdings, Inc. is an American healthcare company that operates a telemedicine platform and a free-to-use website and mobile app that track prescription drug prices in the United States and provide free drug coupons for discounts on medic ...

and a stand-up comedian. Michaels is the co-founder of Ringadoc. Raised in Southern California, Michaels is a graduate of Westlake High School and the

University of Southern California The University of Southern California (USC, SC, or Southern Cal) is a Private university, private research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Founded in 1880 by Robert M. Widney, it is the oldest private research university in C ...

, where he studied

pre-medicine Pre-medical (often referred to as pre-med) is an educational track that undergraduate students in the United States pursue prior to becoming medical students. It involves activities that prepare a student for medical school, such as pre-med course ...

and

neuroscience Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system (the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nervous system), its functions and disorders. It is a multidisciplinary science that combines physiology, anatomy, molecular biology, development ...

. Michaels has been recognized as an entrepreneur. In 2010, he co-founded Ringadoc, a telemedicine service company that allows doctors to interact with patients via a web browser or mobile application. In 2014,

Practice Fusion Practice Fusion is a web-based electronic health record (EHR) company based in San Francisco, CA. The company was founded in 2005 by Ryan Howard and acquired by Allscripts in 2018. In 2013 the company was said to be valued at $700M and in 2014, ...

acquired Ringadoc. Michaels provides commentary on health technology,

prescription drug prices in the United States Prescription drug list prices in the United States continually rank among the highest in the world. The high cost of prescription drugs became a major topic of discussion in the 21st century, leading up to the American health care reform debat ...

, and the general state of

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. Michaels performs stand-up comedy. He has performed at

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and

The Comedy Store The Comedy Store is an American comedy club opened in April 1972. It is located in West Hollywood, California, at 8433 Sunset Boulevard on the Sunset Strip. An associated club is located in La Jolla, San Diego, California. History The Comedy ...

Education

Michaels attended Westlake High School, where he participated in the Advanced Anatomy program. He graduated in 2005 as the

salutatorian Salutatorian is an academic title given in the United States, Armenia, and the Philippines to the second-highest-ranked graduate of the entire graduating class of a specific discipline. Only the valedictorian is ranked higher. This honor is tradi ...

. Michaels attended the

where he studied pre-medicine. As a premed student, Michaels was interested in the intersections between technology, media and medicine. In 2009, Michaels graduated

Phi Beta Kappa The Phi Beta Kappa Society () is the oldest academic honor society in the United States, and the most prestigious, due in part to its long history and academic selectivity. Phi Beta Kappa aims to promote and advocate excellence in the liberal a ...

with a bachelor of arts in

Neuroscience Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system (the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nervous system), its functions and disorders. It is a multidisciplinary science that combines physiology, anatomy, molecular biology, development ...

and Biological Sciences. By 2010, Michaels had gained admission to several medical schools in the United States, and received a deferral to pursue Ringadoc. In 2012, Michaels officially decided to forgo medical school to focus on Ringadoc full-time.

Career

Ringadoc

In 2010, Michaels co-founded the telemedicine company Ringadoc. Ringadoc connects patients to doctors by phone to a doctor anywhere, as long as the doctor is anywhere in the state in which the patient is physically present. Users of Ringadoc initially could record an audio summary of their medical history and a video describing their medical concern, which the doctor consults before speaking with the patient. According to Michaels, Ringadoc is for short-term health issues that might need quick prescriptions when patients are not able to get to a doctor, or if an appointment is unnecessary. Michaels did not envision telemedicine replacing primary care. Ringadoc launched in October 2010. By 2012, Ringadoc was only up and running in California, but the company expected to be up and running in twenty American states in 2013.

Entrepreneur (magazine) ''Entrepreneur'' is an American magazine and website that carries news stories about entrepreneurship, small business management, and business. The magazine was first published in 1977. It is published by ''Entrepreneur Media Inc''., headquarter ...

named Ringadoc one of the 100 brilliant companies of 2012. Into 2013, Ringadoc had handled over one hundred thousand calls from patients. Michaels said Ringadoc dropped the video-enabled app to focus on phone consultations. Michaels explained that, after patients call a doctor who use Ringadoc, the responding doctor will either respond via text message or phone call. The company began to target physicians with an after hours service, rather than anytime service. The company raised 1.2 million dollars in

seed funding Seed money, sometimes known as seed funding or seed capital, is a form of securities offering in which an investor invests capital in a startup company in exchange for an equity stake or convertible note stake in the company. The term ''seed'' su ...

. Ringadoc received financing from

Founders Fund Founders Fund is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm. Formed in 2005, Founders Fund had more than $11 billion in aggregate capital under management as of 2022. The firm invests across all stages and sectors, including aerospace, artificia ...

, other venture capital firms,

Founder and CEO Ryan Howard, and former president of One Medical Group Sharon Knight, among others. In 2014,

acquired Ringadoc. After leaving Ringadoc, Michaels briefly worked in the space of electronic health records.

GoodRx

After leaving Ringadoc, Michaels took over as director of operations at

. GoodRx is a website and mobile app that tracks prescription drug prices and offers drug coupons in the United States. Michaels serves as Vice President at GoodRx, and continues to provide commentary on the evolution of digital healthcare.

References

External links

Jordan Michaels interview
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