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Date(s): 7/8/19 - 7/10/19
Activities: First Company Visit, Team Interaction and Organization
Technical Information: Workspace Office Configuration, Email System Familiarization And Legal Admittance
Reflection: Optum is a Health Services Company, that serves as a subsidiary/division to UnitedHealthGroup which is the largest Health Insurance company in the United States as well as the world. Optum is primarily involved into care services and as a pharmacy benefit manager, that serves as third party mediator between many doctors and their patients when it comes to the services they can be offered. But it is also focused primarily on many of its technology inspired aspirations, with widespread operations in dealing with all the aspects of the healthcare system as we know it including pharmacy care, healthcare delivery as well the data analytics tracing the insurers all the way down to the hospitals and their patients. Their customers being both the patients using their insurance, as well as the hospitals, clinics, doctors and almost anyone who has got a foot in the door of the vast healthcare field that plays such a large part in our lives and most peoples lives today.
On our first day, after having a tour around the vast workplace that was setup in their office, we placed into random groups of 4, and tasked with ideating a specific United States healthcare system problem, and designing a solution that we see would best fit/solve this idea, through the creation of any sort of application whether it be software or hardware specific. Once we would be done with our application, we we would have to pitch our application as a service/product in a shark tank style presentation to a group of professional and industry related judges who would act as potential investors to our product/service. Our first presentation would be 3 weeks into the presentation in front of some more familiar judges where they would critique and advise on our applications and better prepare us for the endgame which was the presentation in the last week, which would be watched by industry related professional judges flown in from the headquarters alongside 100s of employees and other college interns who were there at the same time.
The group I was placed in, entirely featured students who came from another high school and as a result I didn't have the existing friendly relation that they had already established beforehand. But I was fortunate enough where I was welcomed with open arms into the group, and I was surprisingly able to make friends and get along with everyone really quick, and find out how I would fit in this group for the next 5 weeks that we had. My teammates were Udai, Kenna and Kathleen, and I was also able to meet my 3 managers Janet, Jenna and Victoria who were all newer employees and also extremely nice in the way they treated us.
Date(s): 7/8/19 - 7/10/19
Activities: First Company Visit, Team Interaction and Organization
Technical Information: Workspace Office Configuration, Email System Familiarization And Legal Admittance
Reflection: Optum is a Health Services Company, that serves as a subsidiary/division to UnitedHealthGroup which is the largest Health Insurance company in the United States as well as the world. Optum is primarily involved into care services and as a pharmacy benefit manager, that serves as third party mediator between many doctors and their patients when it comes to the services they can be offered. But it is also focused primarily on many of its technology inspired aspirations, with widespread operations in dealing with all the aspects of the healthcare system as we know it including pharmacy care, healthcare delivery as well the data analytics tracing the insurers all the way down to the hospitals and their patients. Their customers being both the patients using their insurance, as well as the hospitals, clinics, doctors and almost anyone who has got a foot in the door of the vast healthcare field that plays such a large part in our lives and most peoples lives today.
On our first day, after having a tour around the vast workplace that was setup in their office, we placed into random groups of 4, and tasked with ideating a specific United States healthcare system problem, and designing a solution that we see would best fit/solve this idea, through the creation of any sort of application whether it be software or hardware specific. Once we would be done with our application, we we would have to pitch our application as a service/product in a shark tank style presentation to a group of professional and industry related judges who would act as potential investors to our product/service. Our first presentation would be 3 weeks into the presentation in front of some more familiar judges where they would critique and advise on our applications and better prepare us for the endgame which was the presentation in the last week, which would be watched by industry related professional judges flown in from the headquarters alongside 100s of employees and other college interns who were there at the same time.
The group I was placed in, entirely featured students who came from another high school and as a result I didn't have the existing friendly relation that they had already established beforehand. But I was fortunate enough where I was welcomed with open arms into the group, and I was surprisingly able to make friends and get along with everyone really quick, and find out how I would fit in this group for the next 5 weeks that we had. My teammates were Udai, Kenna and Kathleen, and I was also able to meet my 3 managers Janet, Jenna and Victoria who were all newer employees and also extremely nice in the way they treated us.
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