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Huda is the Founder and CEO of Dot Health, a real-time personal health data platform. She joins Scott to discuss real-time personal health data and its implications for consumers and the health industry worldwide. Huda explains how real-time data can help individuals track and manage their health more effectively, and how healthcare professionals can also use it to provide more personalized and effective care. She also discusses the potential challenges and risks of health data, such as data privacy and security concerns, and how Dot Health is addressing these issues.
Huda Idrees is CEO and founder of Dot Health -- a simple and secure way to access your health records. Huda was in college (but, as you will hear, over a decade into her career) when she started her startup journey at a company that was later purchased for half a billion dollars. Shortly after, she become CPO at a company that has since blown up with over 1000 employees. While CPO, Huda left her position to start her own company: Dot Health. Listen to Huda's journey and find Huda on Twitter or email Huda at huda@hudaidrees.com. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/laylool/message
When compared to other countries, Canada has not been doing well when it comes to innovation. To provide insights as to why, we invite Graeme Moffat, chief scientist, System 2 Neurotechnology: Ty Shattuck, CEO, McMaster Innovation Park; Leah Lawrence, president and CEO, Sustainable Development Technology Canada; and Huda Idrees, founder and CEO, Dot Health. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Huda Idrees is the Founder and CEO of Dot Health - a real-time personal health data platform, that is building for the healthcare industry what Visa built for the financial transactions business. An engineer by training and a startup aficionado by choice, she got involved with startups in 2011 with Wattpad, then Wave, then Wealthsimple. She's also a Board Director for TechGirls Canada, Ontario MD, and the Sinai Health System's Business Innovation and Development and Operations Committees. ----more---- Music Credits Intro/Outro Music: Track: Nimesh Tandey - Floating Spell Music provided by Mr. Pantomath https://youtu.be/NzTMSlRVpvM Transition Music: Storybook & Cheese (Produced by Lukrembo) https://soundcloud.com/lukrembo
"What does your Ontario health card do for you? Does it REALLY have all your health data? Is Canada more ready for health data reform than its neighbor? Could Toronto become the next Silicon Valley? Will the pandemic change workspace culture forever? Are tech companies inclusive enough?" There are so many questions that we have and so we invited Huda Idrees, CEO, DotHealth, and she had some really interesting answers! Huda came to Toronto as a student from Saudi Arabia. She is now at the forefront of the Toronto Tech community. She was recently ranked as one of the MOST INSPIRATIONAL women of Toronto (2019- trnto.com). Her company is revolutionizing how Health care data works in Canada. Imagine if there was a way to have ALL your health information : from doctor's notes, to lab results, to medical imaging, to vaccine records -securely in ONE place? Huda Idrees' company is doing just that and transforming how things work. This young CEO has been covered by major news networks and has also advised the federal and provincial health ministries on strategy. Tune in to hear her talk about the gaps in the system and her immigrant roots. For more details check: @hidrees on Twitter | www.hudaidrees.com | www.dothealth.ca -For her book recommendation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Is_Beautiful Do send in your comments or feedback about this episode by tweeting them to @acrosshertable or e-mailing them at feedback@acrosshertable.com or send us a voice message at http://www.anchor.fm/acrosshertable/message Don't forget to follow Across Her Table on Instagram @acrosshertable (https://www.instagram.com/acrosshertable) Music credit: 'Storybook' by Scott Holmes & 'Once Upon a Time" by Audiobinger
In a special live studio recording, staff at HIROC had the opportunity to hear from Huda Idrees, founder and CEO of Dot Health. With host Philip De Souza, Huda talks about how the burgeoning startup is leveraging partnerships in tech, healthcare and government to change the way we view patient data. Huda offers advice for healthcare leaders on improving the sustainability and efficiency of healthcare organizations. Key Takeaways: [1:13] Dot Health is about helping all Canadians get access to their own medical information [2:04] Canada’s publically-funded healthcare system creates unique challenges for empowering patients; how Dot is working with government to address these challenges [5:46] Balancing risks associated with data collection with advantages, and communicating best practices in information security to Canadians [8:35] The Twitter feeds Huda looks to for hope about the future of innovative health tech [12:20] Engineering as an education is about teaching you how to think; what Huda took from her experience at the University of Toronto and how she fell into tech [14:50] Everyone is looking for a way to move health data around to improve patient outcomes; how Dot is building partnerships to move data globally [17:40] How building equitable workspaces, especially in the tech industry, relates to accessible health information [21:20] How the upcoming federal election in Canada will impact the future of healthcare accessibility [22:48] For hospital leadership, paying attention to what the patient experience looks like can drastically improve an institution’s sustainability and efficiency [25:40] How patient stories have influenced Huda and the work at Dot Health [27:49] What Dot Health did to move ahead with innovation while keeping privacy and security top of mind [30:33] Getting the first users of Dot to jump on board [33:29] Who Dot Health’s main clients are today Mentioned in this Episode: Dot Health Toomas Ilves (Past-President of Estonia) Maple Reacts Dialogue Verto Julie Drury Dr. Cathy Faulds Wattpad Wealthsimple Wave University of Toronto
Huda Idrees has been building companies since she was 12-years-old in Saudi Arabia. Now, she's tackling Canada’s arcane health-care system with Dot Health. The CEO talks about immigrating to Canada, jumping out of planes and being a woman in tech.
Huda Idrees is the Founder and CEO of Dot Health, a real-time personal health data platform. With a background in engineering from the University of Toronto and a prolific career at some of Toronto's best known startups, her latest venture is transforming the way people access and control their own health information for good. In this episode we talk about discovery, scaling, and the challenges of healthtech.
Lindsey Gray, senior director of the NYU Entrepreneurial Institute, leads a discussion with successful startup founders—Christina Stembel, founder of Farmgirl Flowers and Huda Idrees, founder of healthcare startup Dot Health.
Huda Idrees describes herself as a writer, entrepreneur, engineer and product designer. In this episode, Huda describes how path to entrepreneurship started when she was twelve years old. In the story she shares, she describes how this early experience taught her that something she loved doing, programming. She learned that her skills as a programmer can create value and she happened to enjoy building things on the internet. Today, Huda is a taking a bold step to redefine healthcare in Canada. She is the founder of Dot Health and she is making a big bet that Toronto has the best preexisting conditions to demonstrate to the world a radically new approach to integrative healthcare. You will need to listen to the episode to learn more about her big bet by listening to the episode. This is a wonderfully insightful disruptive conversation with an entrepreneur who is daring to radically improve Canada’s healthcare system. She is daring to build the tools that contribute to ensuring that people get better care in a short time period. She is working to help citizens can be in control of managing their own health and the own data. In this conversation, we touch on many things like from informal care to data hording. Hope you enjoy this disruptive conversation with Huda Idrees as she shares her thinking on how she plans to unleashes the latent potential within the healthcare. You can find Huda at the link below: http://www.hudaidrees.com/Links mentioned in the podcast: Cheryl Rose - http://www.sigeneration.ca/disruptive-conversations/ Elon Musk: https://www.ted.com/talks/elon_musk_the_future_we_re_building_and_boring
Huda Idrees describes herself as a writer, entrepreneur, engineer and product designer. In this episode, Huda describes how path to entrepreneurship started when she was twelve years old. In the story she shares, she describes how this early experience taught her that something she loved doing, programming. She learned that her skills as a programmer can create value and she happened to enjoy building things on the internet. Today, Huda is a taking a bold step to redefine healthcare in Canada. She is the founder of Dot Health and she is making a big bet that Toronto has the best preexisting conditions to demonstrate to the world a radically new approach to integrative healthcare. You will need to listen to the episode to learn more about her big bet by listening to the episode. This is a wonderfully insightful disruptive conversation with an entrepreneur who is daring to radically improve Canada’s healthcare system. She is daring to build the tools that contribute to ensuring that people get better care in a short time period. She is working to help citizens can be in control of managing their own health and the own data. In this conversation, we touch on many things like from informal care to data hording. Hope you enjoy this disruptive conversation with Huda Idrees as she shares her thinking on how she plans to unleashes the latent potential within the healthcare. You can find Huda at the link below: http://www.hudaidrees.com/Links mentioned in the podcast: Cheryl Rose - http://www.sigeneration.ca/disruptive-conversations/ Elon Musk: https://www.ted.com/talks/elon_musk_the_future_we_re_building_and_boring
The team reminisces about 10 years of iPhone, before discussing new offerings from Apple (iOS 11), Google (Google Home), and Amazon (Whole Foods). Dot Health CEO and founder Huda Idrees joins to remind us that the Valley's problems with diversity and sexual harassment exist in Canada. Canadian Content music clip (under fair dealing): "She Says What She Means" by Sloan
Huda Idrees is the founder and CEO of Dot Health, a platform that enables secure and easy access to your personal health data. Huda began her career as a developer and designer by building websites as a teenager. She then attended the University of Toronto and studied Industrial Engineering before diving into startups. Huda has been a part of several successful Canadian consumer tech startups, including Wattpad where she joined as one of the first employees and really dove into product design. She also helped develop and grow several products at Wave. She then joined Wealthsimple as one of the earliest team members and served as the Chief Product Officer - scaling the company though a major brand shift and launching its mobile presence on both Android and iOS. Today, Huda is the founder of Dot Health, an innovative healthcare platform that makes personal health data accessible and actionable. Huda joins us to share her story, how she started her career in tech, some of the biggest lessons she’s learnt building consumer technology startups, what it’s been like building Dot Health, and much more!
Huda Idrees, Product and Design Lead at Wealthsimple joined the SteadfastCast to chat about why engineers make great designers, her first startup job, and how Wealthsimple is changing the world of investing.