Justin T. Smith is a board-certified, fellowship-trained orthopedic sports medicine and shoulder reconstruction surgeon and the founder and CEO of Journey Orthopaedic Institute (JOI), a direct-specialty orthopedic and physical therapy practice in Fort Mill, South Carolina. He is also the cofounder and CEO of TurnKey AI Practice, a HIPAA-compliant, AI agentic operating system built to help medical practices reduce administrative burden and reclaim time with patients.
Smith serves as technology editor for the Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery (JSES), where he is helping modernize and automate the journal's editorial operations. He is also a writer for Surgery Business Magazine, a platform dedicated to helping surgeons build successful surgical businesses and take better care of their patients. His focus is direct: use technology to absorb the documentation and administrative noise that pulls physicians away from the exam room, so clinicians can return to the conversation, relationship, and continuity of care that define medicine at its best.
Learn more at his website, and connect with him on Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, Facebook, and YouTube.
My colleague had a vision. Not the kind that comes from a business school classroom or a venture capital pitch competition, but the kind that comes from years of practicing medicine and watching colleagues slowly lose the thing that brought them into this field in the first place. Autonomy. Joy. The feeling that you are actually helping someone, not just generating documentation.
The three of us, my CEO colleague and two …
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