Talking Wisely: The Wisedocs Podcast Wisedocs

Welcome to Wisedocs' podcast Talking Wisely and our very first season and episode! Our hosts, Connor Atchison, Wisedocs' Founder and CEO, and Jenna Earnshaw, Wisedocs' Head of Revenue, have engaging conversations every other Monday to hear from great leaders who encounter medical records across the insurance, legal, medical, medicolegal, and insurtech sectors.

About Nancy Germond:
Nancy Germond is a second-generation insurance professional and the Executive Director, Risk Management and Education, for the Independent Agents & Brokers of America Nancy has written scores of risk-management related articles and is a frequent conference presenter on topics ranging from surviving the claims audit to managing emerging talent risks. She is the author of Workers’ Compensation in Two Hours: The Business Owner’s Guide to an Exceptional Workers’ Compensation Program.
 Nancy was the first risk manager for the City of Prescott, Arizona, the claims manager for The Alliance of Schools for Cooperative Insurance Programs and the Risk and Claims Manager for the Missouri Auto Dealers’ Association.
 Nancy holds a B.A. in communication and a master’s degree in sociology. She earned the Associate in Risk Management designation, the Associate in Claims designation, the Insurance Training Professional certification, and holds two Senior Human Resource Professional designations.

Welcome to Wisedocs' podcast Talking Wisely and our very first season and episode! Our hosts, Connor Atchison, Wisedocs' Founder and CEO, and Jenna Earnshaw, Wisedocs' Head of Revenue, have engaging conversations every other Monday to hear from great leaders who encounter medical records across the insurance, legal, medical, medicolegal, and insurtech sectors.

About Artemis Emslie
With 25 years of experience in both the workers’ compensation and group
health industries, Artemis Emslie brings a multi-dimensional perspective to the complex issues facing pharmacy benefit management (PBM) clients.
As the former CEO of myMatrixx, Artemis led the strategic growth of the company from a regional PBM focused on small to medium-sized clients to an industry leader with a national client base. Artemis was also the founder ProspeRx Solutions, an auditing firm for workers’ compensation insurance providers where she provided pharmacy program review, RFP management, vendor management and negotiation, and consulting services to several blue-chip clients.

Artemis founded and currently serves on the executive board of the Alliance of Women in Workers’ Compensation, a think tank committed to sharing ideas and mentoring tomorrow’s industry leaders. She is also serving on the board of directors for Paradigm Outcomes and Ametros as well as on the advisory boards for the Committee for Economic Development (Washington, D.C.), Business Insurance magazine, Kids’ Chance, WorkCompCentral’s Comp Laude Awards, and the American Heart Association Circle of Red.

Welcome to Wisedocs' podcast Talking Wisely and our very first season and episode! Our hosts, Connor Atchison, Wisedocs' Founder and CEO, and Jenna Earnshaw, Wisedocs' Head of Revenue, have engaging conversations every other Monday to hear from great leaders who encounter medical records across the insurance, legal, medical, medicolegal, and insurtech sectors.

About Kristi Baird:
Kristi has over 15 years of experience in the IME and Medicolegal Industries. Before launching Axis Administrative Services, she worked for a large national IME vendor, started and ran a business providing services to medical consultants and was a Co-founder and President of Northwest Medical Experts, Inc., a first in kind vendor providing specialized IME services exclusively to the medicolegal community. She has a passion for the industry and strives to use her knowledge and experience to improve processes and make changes that will ultimately bring the cost down and the service level up for all parties involved.

Welcome to Wisedocs' podcast Talking Wisely and our very first season and episode! Our hosts, Connor Atchison, Wisedocs' Founder and CEO, and Jenna Earnshaw, Wisedocs' Head of Revenue, have engaging conversations every other Monday to hear from great leaders who encounter medical records across the insurance, legal, medical, medicolegal, and insurtech sectors.

About Rick Taketa:
Rick Taketa is an established voice in Insurtech and Health Care, he serves on the board for Palomar Specialty Insurance Company (NASDAQ: PLMR), Veritone (NASDAQ: VERI), AEON Biopharma, and Obsidian Insurance Company. Prior to that he was at York Risk Services Group. York was a premier provider of risk management, claims administration, managed care and absence management solutions. It was acquired by Sedgwick in 2019. His career started in private equity. He did his undergrad at Colgate and his JD at Stanford.

Our Guest Today is JJ Schmidt, he is a consultant with three decades of experience in the Property and Casualty insurance industry; he has gained extensive expertise in operations, managed care, analytics, information technology, project management, offshoring and outsourcing, and strategic marketing.
He has numerous senior leadership positions at insurance carriers, third-party administrators as well as managed care organizations.  In addition, he has presented at numerous industry and academic conferences on healthcare, workers' compensation, telemedicine, analytics, technology, and innovation.
JJ earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from The Catholic University of America and a Master of Business Administration from St. Thomas University.  Recently he completed his Ph.D.in Information Systems and Business Analytics from Florida International University, with research focusing on technology-enabled decision-making tools and how they can influence choices in healthcare and insurance decisions.

Our guest today is Joe Paduda, president of CompPharma, a consortium of workers' comp Pharmacy Benefit Management companies. It's a great chat talking through a lot of the issues in the industry today.