To better your understanding of non-clinical career options and/or facilitate your physician career change, today we introduce you to Blaine Warkentine, MD. Dr. Warkentine is an inventor, orthopedic surgeon, innovator, entrepreneur, and president and founder of InnovationThrives, RidRx, and OrthoThinkTank.
He received his BS in business from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and his MD from the medical college of Wisconsin. Dr. Warkentine is a successful serial inventor with over 35 patents. InnovationThrives acts as a partner-matching program between software developers and needed software solutions in healthcare. RidRx products include: mobile phone antimicrobial protector sleeves, iStethoscope adaptor, HaloShield (antimicrobial Lab Coats, redesigned hospital gowns, and breathable scrubs) as well as an infection control monitoring program via use of a contamination meter. OrthoThinkTank is offering remote physical therapy with TheraProfessional via iPod touch/iPhone platform and a sterile iPhone containment solution used to deliver OR documentation and accelerometer driven surgical guidance. Dr. Warkentine is a senior fellow at Jefferson School of Population Health allowing him to continue to accelerate the research and economic impact of the products and services in development.
