Founder · Physician

About Puja

Puja Uppal, DO, MA
Hi!

I'm Puja Uppal.

I'm a family medicine doctor. Board certified, DO, MA. The letters may say I went to school for a long time! But the part of the work I actually think about every day is what happens after you leave the exam room.

The moment

Patients kept losing the thread.

I'd write the plan. We'd walk through it together. They'd nod, ask good questions, leave. And by the following Tuesday, half of it would be gone. Gone because there's only so much that survives the drive home and the rest of your week, when other important issues of life and living take over as priorities and responsibilities. I started Think Healthy Doctor because the visit can't carry everything. Something has to carry the in-between.

How it takes shape

Two answers to the same question.

I'm building this two ways at once. One is software. We've built Think Healthy OS. It serves the quiet health layer that sits on top of the systems organizations already run. The other is care. A Direct Access Primary Care practice where patients are seen as members, without billing codes getting in the way.

The software · Autonomous · Asynchronous

Think Healthy OS.

It sits on top of the systems your organization already uses. No new software to maintain, no workflows to rebuild, no staff time to absorb. Autonomous and asynchronous. It's designed for the in-between moments where people remember, ignore, act, return, and change. Zero IT lift. Zero admin burden. Zero friction.

See the OS
No loginsNo EMRsZero Friction
The practice · Opening soon

Direct Access Primary Care.

A doctor you can text. Same-day visits. Real time when you need it. No insurance middleman, no surprise bills — a flat monthly membership that covers your primary care and the small acute stuff that derails ordinary weeks.

Read about Direct Access
The longer view: Segment of One

What we're actually building toward.

The portal era of digital health reaches the patient who shows up. The next era has to reach the one who doesn't. This is where outcomes and value-based care will actually be won or lost. Adherence between visits is a half-trillion-dollar problem no portal can fix from the inside. Health enrichment is the upstream primitive every downstream metric depends on. Personalization and distribution at a segment of one is the moat. Built and delivered by a clinician keeps it honest.

For the record

Credentials

  • DOMichigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine
  • MA, BiotechnologyWayne State University, Detroit
  • Board CertifiedFamily Medicine · Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment