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Patchwork Health wants the NHS to rethink the empty shift
Two NHS doctors built a business around the gap in the rota. Patchwork now connects staffing, scheduling and job planning - with a sales pitch that has to satisfy both exhausted clinicians and the people paying the bills.
Workforce Optimizer - AI Enabled WFM
Workforce Optimizer is a Singapore-based B2B software company that builds an AI-enabled workforce management (WFM) platform. It uses machine learning and mathematical optimization to predict labour demand, automatically generate optimized staff schedules from millions of complex rules, track time and attendance, and dynamically redeploy people in real time when unplanned events occur. Originally founded as FriarTuck, the company serves healthcare, retail, and public-sector customers - including Singapore General Hospital and National University Hospital - and optimizes more than 20 million assignments each year for tens of thousands of daily users.
Clasp
Clasp is a Boston-based workforce and fintech company that ties student-loan repayment to employment, helping healthcare systems recruit and retain clinicians. Using a model it likens to military ROTC, employers commit to students before graduation and repay their loans over time in exchange for a multi-year work commitment. Founded in 2018 as Stride Funding and rebranded as Clasp in 2024, the company links education and employment to attack two problems at once: crushing student debt and chronic clinical staffing shortages.
Greater Good Health
Greater Good Health is a Los Angeles-based healthcare company rethinking primary care for seniors. It runs value-based primary care clinics and clinical programs built around a nurse practitioner-centric care model, designed to manage complex Medicare populations through proactive, preventive, whole-person care. The company partners with health plans and risk-bearing organizations to expand access where physician shortages have left aging patients underserved.
M7 Health
M7 Health is an AI-powered workforce operations platform built for the realities of hospital nurse staffing and scheduling. Founded in 2022 by a former bedside nurse and her Harvard Business School classmate, M7 forecasts staffing demand, auto-balances schedules, fills open shifts before hospitals reach for expensive premium labor, and gives nurses a real voice in when they work. It now runs as the workforce operating system for 15,000+ healthcare professionals across 60+ hospitals.