Charlie Lougheed is the CEO and co-founder of Axuall. Built with leading healthcare systems, Axuall is a workforce intelligence company built on top of a national real-time practitioner data network that enables healthcare systems, staffing firms, telehealth, and health plans to dramatically reduce onboarding and enrollment time while also providing unique, powerful data insights for network planning, analytics, and reporting. He previously co-founded Explorys in partnership with the Cleveland Clinic that was acquired by IBM in 2015. Explorys became the leader in healthcare big data and value-based-care analytics, spanning hundreds of thousands of healthcare providers and over 60 million patients across the United States.
Since the pandemic began, health systems have faced severe medical supply shortages for everything from personal protective equipment and ventilators to testing kits. However, those issues pale in comparison to a growing workforce shortage that is touching nearly every aspect of the health ecosystem.