Patient-centric health care is a priority for JoAnn and her team at Powerfirm. With a background at the International Organization for Migration in the Philippines under the United Nations, she worked her
way through supplies, and onto sales, eventually knowing that what she needed to do was specialize in humanitarian service. At one point, she worked three jobs and slept in her car, until this single mother turned “doctrepreneur” found her calling.
Today, JoAnn and her network of developers, health care providers, and IT experts design solutions for locally-based partners in places like the Philippines, Malaysia, Myanmar, Cambodia, and other Southeast Asian countries, as well as Nigeria. Using FDA and CE approved medical devices equipped with AI software, they provide high quality medical management to rural communities. Where she goes from here is where the need is greatest and where there’s an NGO (non-governmental organization) to partner with her to oversee the project and manage the government systems…basically, a partner willing to innovate their health care accessibility. It’s a partnership with the best kind of return.