Dr. Sameer Berry is the Chief Medical Officer of Oshi Health, and he shines a light on the challenges patients face from gastrointestinal conditions and the lack of effective treatments available from doctors for GI-related symptoms. While the reimbursement and payment model discourages a team approach to treating these patients, Oshi Health is taking a multidisciplinary integrated healthcare approach with a focus on the enteric nervous system.
Sameer explains, “Where this comes from is the understanding that anatomically, there’s actually an entirely separate nervous system that exists in the GI tract, and it’s called the enteric nervous system.