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TEDx: Did Disney Just Save Healthcare? Imagine This...
In her TEDx talk, Dr. Erkeda DeRouen confronts the fractures within today’s healthcare system and challenges leaders to rethink how care is designed. Inspired by the philosophy of Disney’s Imagineers, she outlines a bold path where medicine and technology move together with intention, creating experiences that strengthen trust, improve outcomes, and reshape the future of healthcare.
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My work helps organizations rethink how care is designed, delivered, and experienced so that innovation strengthens access, improves outcomes, and fosters long term trust between patients and the systems that serve them.
HUMAN-CENTERED CARE
Healthcare transformation starts with rethinking how care is designed, experienced, and accessed. I explore how thoughtful design and responsible innovation can help organizations remove barriers to care, strengthen patient trust, and deliver outcomes that are both measurable and sustainable.
Why Hire Erkeda?
Innovation Is Moving Forward.
Is Your Team Keeping Pace?
Technology is transforming healthcare faster than most organizations, teams, and communities are prepared to manage. Everyone is building. Very few are asking what those decisions mean in practice.
The consequences are already visible, misaligned teams, regulatory exposure, fragile workflows, and patient trust eroded by fragmented ownership.
I help leaders make sense of that complexity before it becomes a liability.
As a physician executive and digital health risk strategist, I have advised health systems, startups, and national organizations on how to implement digital health and AI with stronger clinical alignment, governance, and accountability.
My keynotes and workshops sit at the intersection of clinical care, operations, and oversight. I translate digital health and AI into the decisions leaders are responsible for, how systems function, how risk shows up, and how to move forward with clarity.
Innovation will continue to accelerate. Leadership requires understanding what comes with it.
Your audience leaves with stronger alignment, a practical framework they can apply immediately, and a clearer path forward without creating unnecessary risk.
This is the conversation organizations need to have before the next product launch, policy shift, or board-level decision.

