What does it take to build the future of healthcare?
Our mission
Connect the world’s healthcare information
When patients have insights into their health, they can make more informed decisions which leads to better health outcomes.
Our founding story
Huda Idrees, Founder & CEO of Dot Health, was facing a challenge.
“When I first stumbled onto this concept of Dot Health I was building it for one person. It was my friend’s dad.
He had been diagnosed with late-stage cancer and was having trouble trying to keep up with everything the doctors were throwing at him. He was going through chemotherapy, and had no way for him to track whether it was working or not.
And so, using a very bare-bones version of Dot Health, I showed him a trend line visualizing his cancer-marker progress week over week. He then wanted to share the graph we built for him with his doctor.
I imagined that healthcare systems would have this already – a way for patients and doctors to be able to see the same thing. Lo and behold, that’s not true at all. If patients are lucky they get a printout, or if the patient is super motivated to go to another doctor for a second opinion, then they need to go down to some basement and ask for their own health records, stand in line, fill out a form, and then they get it in the mail three weeks later. It’s a very paper-based process that’s quite manual and quite difficult to access.”
So Dot Health was born because we believe there’s a better way: one that empowers patients with the necessary information to make the best decisions they can about their health.
Meet the team
It takes a village to bring this vision to life
We're working towards
Connecting the world's health information
Our top priorities
- Empowering the patient
- Make health data easy to access and understand
- Build the company we always wanted to work for
We're working towards
Making health data useful and easy to understand
Our top priorities
- Make every patient feel smart
- Keep health data private and secure
- Allow patients to engage with their health
We're working towards
Delivering an exceptional user experience
Our top priorities
- Provide a seamless experience in obtaining medical records
- Provide the best real-time support to our users
- Dissecting records making them easier to understand
We're working towards
Connecting a complex healthcare system
Our top priorities
- Build direct connections with siloed healthcare providers
- Integrate value-added services within Dot
- Build first of its kind alliances in Canadian Healthcare
Our values
The things we believe in
- Make others successful
- Assume the person you’re talking to is as smart, or smarter than you
- Create value for communities
- Prioritize people, then product, then profits
Dot Health HQ
We’re proud to call Toronto home
We get to build the future of healthcare in a beautiful, plant-filled office in the Distillery District of Toronto.