Media
Where the conversation about how healthcare begins is already being had.
Podcasts, interviews and press features where Charu Raheja is saying one thing: healthcare begins before the clinician, and we keep trying to fix it from the wrong end.
Featured in Florida Trend's Florida 500, Jacksonville Business Journal, Baptist Health, and the American Heart Association.
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What these have in common
Healthcare keeps investing from the wrong end. These are the places it's being said out loud.
Every appearance below returns to the same idea: the beginning of healthcare is a clinical act, and until leaders treat it that way, no amount of clinical excellence downstream will matter.
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Better Tech, Better Care: Streamlining Healthcare Operations
Charu Raheja on what changes when the first question a patient is asked is designed with clinical logic, and why better technology at the beginning of care is what lets…
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A stroke erased Dr Charu Raheja's memory, then helped her find purpose
At 40, Charu Raheja had a stroke and woke up unable to speak English.
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REfresh with Charu Raheja
From finance PhD to co-founding a company built around what happens before the clinician.
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Season 2, Episode 10: Dr. Charu Raheja
Charu Raheja with Stacey McKibbin on communicating clearly under pressure, from a finance PhD to leading a company built around the first question a patient hears.
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Florida 500 - Florida Trend
Florida Trend's annual list of the people who shape the state's economy. Charu Raheja is on it for healthcare.
- Media desks confirming credentials
Women of Influence - Jacksonville Business Journal
Recognized as a Woman of Influence for building a company around the earliest moment of care.
Read on Jacksonville Business JournalWomen of Heart - Jacksonville Magazine
Cover feature on Charu Raheja's work and recovery story.
Read on IssuuFull Recovery - Florida Trend
How a hemorrhagic stroke at age 41 changed the way she leads, and the way she sees the patient side of the system.
Read on Florida TrendRemembering Who I Was - Baptist Health
Featured for stroke recovery and community impact.
Read on Baptist HealthTop 35 Women Igniting Success - Buzz Media Group
Named for leadership across healthcare and technology.
The Activists
Featured for advocacy that connects patient experience to systemic reform.
Jacksonville Daily Record on TriageLogic
Coverage of TriageLogic, the company Charu Raheja co-founded in 2007, and the work that has driven it since.
- Journalists writing on healthcare operations
I felt firsthand what it's like to be confused, scared, and unsure whether what you're feeling is serious. That gap between 'something feels wrong' and 'I know what to do about it' is exactly where people fall through the cracks.
What producers and program chairs book her to talk about
The Beginning of Healthcare
Why the first contact and the first clinical decision, not the exam room, decide the outcome.
The First Question Framework
Identify the first question the patient encounters. Design it with clinical logic, not customer service logic. Codify it into a repeatable decision tree.
Why healthcare workers burn out
Your people are not tired. They are doing, by hand and every day, work that should have been designed once. A talk about where that load comes from, and where it goes when the beginning is fixed.
Rural healthcare and the beginning problem
Where the beginning breaks first, and where fixing it saves the most.
Press kit
What you need to book or cover her
Bios for the room, headshots at print resolution, and a topic sheet keyed to your audience. Request the kit and it arrives by email the same day.
- Short bio (75 words) for programs and run-of-show
- Long bio (250 words) for keynote introductions and CE materials
- High-resolution headshots (portrait and landscape)
- Topic sheet with three keynote formats and abstracts
- Sample questions for podcast and broadcast interviews
- Disclosure statement: Charu Raheja will not pitch a product or company from the stage
For event planners and program chairs
A keynote, not a pitch
Charu Raheja is a founder. She does not use the stage to sell. Her talks name a specific, fixable failure point in how healthcare begins, and hand the audience a framework they can take back to their unit on Monday.
Every appearance is prepared for the room. A discovery call before the event. Examples chosen for the audience in front of her. A session built to hold clinicians and administrators without patronizing either.
If you're programming an association meeting, a health system leadership summit, or a global health convening, the topic sheet in the press kit is the fastest way to see if she fits your agenda.
Bring the conversation about how healthcare begins to your stage.
Tell us about the room. Charu Raheja's team follows up within two business days with availability, fee range, and a proposed angle for your audience.
Disclosure statement included in the press kit.