We are a group of medical practitioners and software builders who aim to improve the practice of medicine with technology.
Upcoming Meetings:
- Special JP Morgan 2020 Meetup in San Francsico - Join us for lunch and a Bay Area Health + Tech Showcase on Monday January 13th at noon. Get A Ticket.
- Palo Alto @ Stanford - In collaboration with Stanford Graduate School of Business's Healthcare Club, our next meetup in the bay area is happening on Wednesdat January 22nd on the Stanford Campus. Free Ticket.
- Boston - Our next meetup is happening on Tuesday January 28th at WeWork on Portland Street. Featuring a conversation with John Brownstein, Chief Innovation Officer at Boston Children's Hospital and Daniel Nigrin, Chief Information Officer at Boston Children's Hospital. Free Ticket.
A community of healthcare entrepreneurs, leaders, builders and dreamers
Docs and Hackers crossed 2000 members in January 2019. Here's a snapshot of our members.
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Doctor or Hacker?
Word on the street
Found My Co-Founder
I pitched my startup idea at the beginning of the meetup and my future co-founder ended up coming to me afterwards
Intellectually Curious and Cohesive Group
It is a wonderful place to meet warm-hearted and intellectually motivated individuals committed to the advancement of quality healthcare.
Featured Startups
While many entrepreneurs are members of Docs and Hackers, here's a curated list of high-potential startup members:
urCare - providing health coaching and social service support to senior with chronic conditions.
Looking For: Partnerships to pilot our program.
We reduce barriers to Healthcare everyone deserves and improve overall health outcomes.
Learn more: Email the CEO Jung Taek OH at jt.oh@ur.care
Doctorpreneurs is the global community for doctors, medical students and other individuals interested in healthcare innovation and entrepreneurship. We provide a range of resources on our website to help inspire and accelerate innovative ideas to transform healthcare - such as founder interviews, educational materials, job opportunities and events.
Bioverge - highly curated investment and engagement platform dedicated to healthcare.
Looking For: A part time full-stack developer that is motivated by the mission and healthcare innovation.
Bioverge is aiming to connect the world to startups transforming healthcare.
Learn more: Email the Co-founder Rick Gibb at rick@bioverge.com
Latent Sciences - personalized, precision solutions for neurodegenerative diseases.
Looking For: Hiring a SW Architect to build data/ML pipelines, Director of Commercialization, and Chief Medical Officer.
14M Americans are living with Alzheimer's, the 6th leading cause of death, with 0 effective treatments. Our patent-pending AI is a novel predictive engine to get ahead of AD.
Learn more: Email the CEO & Director of AI Alexander Lavin at lavin@latentsci.com
Shift Health - helping patients understand their out of pocket expenses prior to their appointment.
Looking For: Introductions to speak with physicians, practices and hospitals about our solution.
Healthcare is the only industry where pricing is not transparent. That needs to be changed.
Learn more: Email the President Lance Hydrick at Hydrick@shifthealth.io
HPEC - provides physicians with self sovereign identities and freedom from managed care.
Looking For: We're hiring software engineers and looking for clinical advisers in cardiology and dermatology.
We create a Decentralized Autonomous Organization of Medical Doctors- by giving physicians a digital identity that will streamline the credentialing process while creating a secure digital democracy.
Learn more: Email the Founder Leah Houston at support@hpec.io
Thea Health - an eConsult system that allows PCPs to securely ask a question of a specialist and include any relevant labs, images, or clinical data ahead of a treatment decision.
Looking For: We're hiring software engineers and looking for clinical advisers in cardiology and dermatology.
We are working to give PCPs the information that they need to improve their patients’ lives and thrive in a value-based care world.
Learn more: Email CEO & Co-founder Harry Cooke at harry@theahealth.com
Virgo - an automated cloud video recording platform for GI endoscopy
Looking For: Intros to GI's or healthcare admins, and we'll be fundraising again in early 2019.
Colonoscopy is a video-based procedure—but today, only still images get saved to the medical record. By capturing these videos, Virgo enables new research, training, and machine learning applications.
Learn more: Email CEO & Co-founder Matt Schwartz at matt@virgosvs.com
We exist because we care
Technology was supposed to improve healthcare. Unfortunately, it has increased physician work load, decreased doctor-patient time at a significant cost to the taxpayer.
Over the next decade, it is obvious that technology will have a significant impact on the practice of medicine. From providing diagnostic support, improving early detection, to creating new modalities of care.
We aim to accelerate our trajectory towards this future by regularly bringing doctors and hackers together. We meet about once a month, where participants share new ideas, get feedback from the group and potentially form teams. Whether it is for a side project, a new startup or a research paper.
Increasing connections between physicians and builders will help both groups understand each other better. And create solutions that helps doctors work better and stay happier, improve patient experience and decrease overall cost. Please sign up if you are interested.
How to find innovative physicians
Want to connect with physicians to get feedback on, collaborate with, or recruit? Here's a few places that can help.
- AMA Innovation Match: The American Medical Association (AMA) runs a network that connects innovative physicians with health tech companies. Put your company on the network, post an opportunity and let physicians reach out to you.
- DOC Jobs: DOC is the premier recruiting site for doctors and scientists pursuing innovative careers. The DOC community has 42,872 members in all 50 US states and 126 countries. Over 1,000 employers have used DOC to recruit top talent.