Welcome to Episode 4 of the Ardexia Podcast where we speak to leaders, clinicians and advocates for better healthcare. This week, we talk to Dr. Raihan Faroqui, an internal medicine physician and repeat early-stage startup operator who has closed $30M+ in enterprise deals and helped build four startups from zero to one.

Health tech is filled with companies that died with impressive pilot numbers but zero revenue. Beautiful case studies. Glowing feedback from physicians. No actual contracts.

Dr. Raihan Faroqui has been in the first 2-10 hires at four early-stage startups and now advises companies through Connectify Health. If anyone knows why pilots fail to convert to revenue, it's him.

Primary care in America has an invisible problem: physicians burn out delivering continuous care in a system that only reimburses 15-minute appointments.

In Episode 3 of the Ardexia Podcast, we explore a radically different model with Dr. Paulius Mui—founder of X Primary Care and a virtual direct primary care practice where patients pay what they can afford.

This episode explores:

- The invisible work crushing primary care

- Virtual care models that prioritize equity

- Why clinicians must lead, not just advise

- Physician Market Fit vs. Product Market Fit

- Innovation as translation between clinical and technical domains Watch the full conversation and tell us what you think.

Learn more about Dr. Mui:

XPC and their mission to advance Primary Care: www.xprimarycare.com

His work at XPC that automates chart reviews: https://platform.xprimarycare.com/

Episode 2: Healthcare organizations spend millions on digital health innovations that never get adopted. Not because the technology doesn't work—because nobody asks the physicians who'll actually use it what they need. In this episode, I sat down with Dr. John R. Dayton to explore the critical gap between pilot success and real-world adoption, and what separates healthcare innovations that scale from those that fail at 20%.

In our first episode of the Ardexia podcast, I sat down with Dr. Sarah Gebauer, founder of Validara Health and a physician who uniquely combines clinical practice as an anesthesiologist with AI governance expertise honed at RAND Corporation. We speak about AI governance, clinician trust and what we need to know about accountability for AI and ML.

Clinical adoption of technology continues to be a barrier to successful health tech implementation. We share the four reasons this still happens.

The numbers are staggering, yet they tell a story every healthcare leader knows intimately. Despite healthcare organizations investing $4.2 billion annually in digital health technologies, an alarming 95% of implementations fail to meet their intended goals. What is the solution?

Welcome to Ardexia, where we believe that healthcare technology should enhance care, not complicate it. If you've found your way here, chances are you're grappling with one of healthcare's most persistent challenges: implementing technology solutions that actually work for the people who use them every day.