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Workit Health wants recovery to fit your life
Two founders in recovery put addiction care on a phone. Workit Health’s harder task is making every step after the video visit work, too.
Counsel Health wants to make the waiting room optional
Free medical AI. A real doctor for $29. Counsel Health is rearranging the work behind a consultation - and betting that the appointment is often the least useful part.
Ognomy Sleep wants your diagnosis off the waiting list
A Buffalo sleep doctor built a virtual care network around a simple frustration: exhausted people should not have to spend months arranging a diagnosis. Ognomy brings the specialist, the test and the next steps closer to the bedroom.
Talkiatry built a psychiatry practice around the insurance card
A $400 appointment helped inspire a different kind of psychiatric practice. Talkiatry’s wager: make the paperwork easier for doctors, and getting care becomes easier for patients.
Healthie’s million-dollar lesson: build for the second visit
A costly rebuild taught Healthie to put the product before the sales pitch. Today, its software helps clinicians and digital health companies look after the patient who keeps coming back.
FONEMED brings the clinic to you
A nurse advice line grew into software, remote monitoring, and a black bag of connected diagnostic tools. FONEMED’s story turns on a deceptively ordinary question: who answers when the patient is somewhere else?
OncoHealth and the hours cancer care forgets
Cancer care has two clocks: the appointment schedule and the patient’s life. OncoHealth connects treatment review with round-the-clock support for the hours in between.
AvaSure and the art of being in twelve places at once
A hospital camera is only as useful as the person who answers it. AvaSure has built a business around that small, expensive truth - and is now trying to connect the whole room.
QHR’s Unusual Prescription: Take Your Time
QHR built its Canadian EMR business by buying older systems and giving clinics time to move. Now operating as Accuro, it is applying the same patient logic to the daily grind of digital healthcare.
The Waiting Room Menopause Left Behind
A scientist went looking for a fertility company and found a neglected half of women's healthcare. Evernow turned that discovery into a menopause clinic you can carry in your pocket.
Pomelo Care and the Quiet Work Between Appointments
The New York company began with pregnancy, then followed the gaps in care from the nursery to midlife. Its wager: a five-minute reply can matter more than another beautiful health app.
The Most Important Appointment Happens After the Appointment
Nudj Health built a business around the hours when the doctor is absent. Its care teams work through the ordinary choices that make chronic disease so stubborn - and a Michigan health system has put numbers to the results.
The Doctor in Your Pocket Had to Learn Your Name
Doctor On Demand began with a $40 video house call. The lasting business emerged when a quick answer became a continuing relationship with a clinician, a health plan, and the care that happens after the screen goes dark.
The House Call Has a Routing Problem
Sprinter Health discovered the limit of telehealth: a screen cannot draw blood. Its answer is a house call built like a delivery network - human at the doorstep, software behind the wheel.
Ronald Gaboury and the Thirty-Year Bet on the Hospital Room
He arrived at Yorktel with a calculator, stayed for three decades, and helped turn video conferencing into hospital infrastructure. Ronald Gaboury’s career is a study in patient reinvention - and in knowing when a useful side project deserves a company of its own.
Sarah Tilton Spent Fifteen Years Learning to Make Access Real
Before she took the top job at Brave Health, Tilton learned the company function by function. Her career is a study in the unglamorous machinery that turns an open door into a path people can actually use.
Joel Barthelemy and the 13-Hour Problem
A monthly bus ride across Minnesota gave Joel Barthelemy a problem worth keeping. Two decades later, the company he built around it is still trying to make distance matter less.
Aqil Chishty Is Building for the Days Between the Appointments
The TimeDoc Health chief executive has spent his career turning complicated care models into repeatable operations. His current thesis is disarmingly simple: the consequential work often happens after the appointment ends.
The Doctor Wasn't Missing. The Team Was.
Allara's wager is disarmingly simple: the problem with hormonal care is not always a missing specialist. It is that the specialists rarely behave like a team.
The Referral That Learned to Follow Up
FamilyWell's wager is that maternal mental health does not need another destination. It needs a better handoff - inside the clinic patients already trust, paid for through codes that already exist.
The Hospital With No Hallways
Amwell Medical Group’s cleverest product is not an app. It is a nationwide medical practice designed to appear exactly where a health system runs out of doctors, hours or state lines.
The Startup That Learned the Doctor Was the Door
Salvo Health began by asking patients to walk around the healthcare system. Then it discovered the more useful trick: walk through the front door, beside their own doctor.
Kelly McDermott Markets to 300 Accounts - and Listens for the 60 That Are Ready
At Caregility, Kelly McDermott turned a finite market and a long sales cycle into a lesson in patience: watch closely, bring the whole team together, and speak when the customer is ready. Her other useful instrument is a sense of humor.
Maven Clinic Spent a Decade Selling Women’s Health to Bosses. Now It’s Coming Back for Everyone
Maven’s first consumer clinic arrived before patients were ready. Employers funded the long detour - and 28 million covered lives later, the company is reopening the front door with a broader bet on women’s health.
Caregility Put a Second Nurse in the Room - Without Adding Another Pair of Shoes
Hospitals bought telehealth cameras during the pandemic. Caregility is trying to turn that hardware into a new labor model - one virtual nurse, many rooms, and fewer clerical miles for the people at the bedside.
Aniket Rajput Is Building for the Months Between Appointments
A robotics researcher left the lab to redesign the quiet stretch between clinic visits. His operating idea is simple: care should continue after everyone goes home.
Jeff Beck Put the Clinician in the Room - Even When the Room Is Miles Away
A social worker, a school clinician and a string of 7 a.m. Panera meetings became AnswersNow. Jeff Beck's useful obsession is turning scarce expertise into support families can actually reach.
John Erwin Built a 20-Person Bet Into a Healthcare Switchboard
He spent 15 years learning how conversations move people. Then he carried that lesson into healthcare, where the next useful action can matter more than the cleverest software.
Jon Bloom Learned to Build Care Before the Crisis
A physician left the operating room, found a team at an MIT hackathon, and spent the next decade turning a 20-second daily ritual into an argument for earlier, calmer care.
Daniel Shearer Bet His Career on Creativity - Then Took It Beyond Advertising
After two decades inside Canadian advertising, Daniel Shearer crossed to the client side with a stubborn idea intact: creativity is an operating system, not a department.