The best and most important part of a startup

There is no question that the most important part of a startup is your team. Your team determines your company culture, the market you tackle, and the product you build. Your team affects why customers choose to work with you, why investors fund you and why future employees will join you. Put together the right […]

The real competition

People often ask who our competition is for SeamlessMD. Usually I rattle off a few companies and explain how we are different. And I do that because people are genuinely asking about other companies operating in the same space. The truth is that our competition isn’t the other patient engagement and remote monitoring companies.

The answer to the doctor shortage isn’t more doctors

Yesterday, the New York Time’s Editorial Board published a piece on the shortage of physicians in the United States and what’s needed for healthcare workforce redesign. It’s a good, concise piece about the common thinking around the gap between the needs of our growing patient population and the number of doctors available to deliver the […]

The seemingly irrational startup

Working at Google, Facebook or Amazon today is a dream job for many. But that certainly was not the case their first year or two in existence when a startup’s future is very uncertain. If you trace a startup’s employees in reverse timeline back to its founders, I suspect the closer you get to the […]

The role of startups in healthcare transformation

Last summer, I reached a fork in the road, where I had to decide between two paths. I had graduated from medical school and was accepted to a residency program. However, 6 months before that, I had co-founded a healthcare startup. I had a few options. I could pick the startup or the residency. I […]

The future of digital health will be determined today

At SeamlessMD, we think a lot about the future and the role technology will play in making healthcare better. To stay relevant in healthcare, we need to think about the future a bit differently. Whereas you have technology giants like Facebook already trying to bet on what come’s next after mobile, in healthcare it’s more important to […]

The digital health dilemma in Canadian healthcare

Most people who have work in the Canadian healthcare system have undoubtedly shared the same ‘eureka’ moments on the impact digital health could have on improving patient care while reducing costs. The transition from paper documents to Electronic Medical Records and Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) were seen as significant milestones for many health care […]