E144 Solving the Most Unsexy but Urgent Problem in Healthcare with Justin Quall, CEO of Oler Health

In this episode of The Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show, host Michael Stamatinos welcomes Justin Quall, founder and CEO of Oler Health, for a candid conversation about one of healthcare’s most overlooked yet mission-critical challenges: documentation overload in post-acute and long-term care.

Oler Health isn’t building flashy tech for headlines. It’s building infrastructure that works. In a fragmented, high-stakes system where clinicians are buried in PDFs and forced to choose between paperwork and patient care, Justin and his team are creating tools that restore sanity, precision, and time to the clinical workflow.

Drawing from his own experience as an EMT, Justin shares how firsthand exposure to the chaos of discharge paperwork sparked a deeper commitment to solve the real problem, not by removing humans from the loop, but by empowering them with tools that actually make their work easier and more impactful.

Throughout the conversation, Michael and Justin explore:

* Why post-acute care is quietly collapsing under the weight of unstructured data

* How Oler Health helps skilled nursing teams uncover critical insights buried in 200+ page referral packets

* The decision to bootstrap rather than raise early venture capital and what that afforded the company in terms of depth, discipline, and design

* What it really means to partner with customers instead of selling to them

* The systems-thinking mindset is required to fix deeply entrenched problems in care coordination

* Why Oler isn’t chasing AI hype but instead embracing a human-in-the-loop model that respects the clinical judgment of frontline staff

Justin also opens up about the emotional and practical realities of building a healthcare startup from scratch...the long nights, the 45,000+ pages of medical records he read himself, and the importance of actually walking through the workflows you're trying to fix.

This is not just a story about technology. It’s a story about focus, stewardship, and building infrastructure that works in the real world.

If you’re a clinician buried in paperwork, a founder looking for product-market fit, or a health system executive trying to improve outcomes while preserving margins, this conversation will resonate.

Oler Health isn’t trying to be loud. It’s trying to be useful. And in a system that rewards volume over clarity, that might be the most disruptive move of all.

Follow Justin Quall on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/justin-quall-cfa/

www.olerhealth.com

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