Arine
In this episode, pharmacoeconomist Yoona Kim, the founder and CEO of Arine, shares her mission to solve the problem of medication mismanagement in healthcare and building a fast-growth, 140-person company. Arine is an AI-driven SaaS platform company focused on medication intelligence that grew 100% last year, and has produced more than 33 million life-improving recommendations for over 15 million patients.
Yoona explains the primary and secondary stakeholders of Arine’s medication intelligence platform and how it helps optimize treatment and reduce complications. She also addresses the challenges in medication monitoring at pharmacies and the role of AI in the business. Yoona also shares Arine’s growth and key milestones, as well as their plans for expansion into different verticals.
We discuss:
The problem of medication mismanagement in healthcare, and the potential to cause harm and increase costs
How Arine’s medication intelligence platform helps optimize treatment and reduce errors by providing actionable recommendations based on patient data
Their target customer, versus who actually uses the platform (spoiler: they are different stakeholders)
How they’re using AI, carefully
Achieving 100% revenue growth last year, and growing to 140 employees
Meet the founder
Yoona Kim is the Founder & CEO of Arine. Prior to Arine, she was the Head of Clinical Modeling and Analytics at Proteus Digital Health. She was responsible for health economic and clinical implementation activities for Proteus Digital Health. Her team developed health economic value propositions from strategic conceptualization to business case development to actualization in the real-world.
Yoona has also built population and clinical analytic offerings, including predictive analytics and novel algorithms for clinical decision making and population stratification. Prior to Proteus, she led health economic activities and supported multiple blockbuster launches at Novartis and Gilead, and also implemented innovative healthcare design, such as value-based insurance programs, with large self-insured employers while working at Mercer.
Yoona holds a Bachelor's Degree from Stanford University, a PharmD with an emphasis in health policy and management from the University of California, San Francisco and a PhD in health economics and outcomes from the University of Texas at Austin.