Dot Health

07/06/2020

Our CEO Huda Idrees is filming a fun Q&A with Scientists in School, a leading STEM education charity that inspires over 700,000 children in Canada each year. Got any questions for Huda? Send them to Scientists in School by leaving a comment on their post below, or by sending them a message! Your question might be featured in the video.

The Q&A will Premiere on Scientists in School’s page on July 10 at 1 p.m. EST. Don’t miss it!

Tune in to our page on July 10th at 1 p.m. EST for the live premiere of our "Ask an Engineer" Q&A with Huda Idrees, Founder and CEO of Dot Health! 📣

Got any questions for Huda about her career path and engineering inspirations? Now is your chance to ask! Leave a comment below 👇 or send us a message for a chance to have your question featured in the video.

About Huda Idrees:

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 including Wattpad, Wave, and Wealthsimple, her latest venture is transforming the way people access and control their own health information for good. Huda has won numerous awards including Excellence Canada's Board of Governors’ Special Recognition of Achievement Award in 2019, YWCA Toronto's Young Woman of Distinction in 2019, Bay Street Bull's 30x30 in 2018, University of Toronto Engineering Early Career Award in 2018, amongst others.

We're thrilled to kick-off this new interview series! Be a part of this exciting conversation by sending us your questions.

06/29/2020

Calling all frontend developers. We're looking to hire in the health data sphere and you're looking mighty qualified. Let’s connect! Deets are as follows: https://dothealth.ca/job-posting/frontend-developer

06/25/2020

Our CEO Huda Idrees has teamed up with MediaPlanet's Health Insight project to discuss how innovative technology is paving the way for patient-centred access to health data. 2020 will reshape Canada’s health care system moving forward and we’re excited for the changes to come ✨🏥

Three leading Canadian experts explore the opportunity to improve the Canadian health care system through innovative technologies.

01/08/2020

Contest Alert ⚡️New decade, new health goals - and those are timeless. We're kicking off the year with something to help you keep track of the things that matter to you, on your own watch 😉 Enter to win a Galaxy Watch Active2 today!

Wondering how to enter? It’s quick, simple and absolutely free Join Dot Health - download the app and sign up for an account using the promo code DHSAMSUNG from the Galaxy Store or App store Any time after the Contest start date, connect with us on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook for tidbits on h...

10/10/2019

Trending 📈 Your suite of personal health tools just got an upgrade.

Understand the evolution of your most important health indicators using powerful and interactive digital snapshots.

Available on the latest version of our iOS app. bit.ly/trackyourtrends

09/20/2019

Started from the scrambling and shuffling of physical records, and now we're here: a quick and powerful digital search away from any key health insight.

08/02/2019

In sickness but not in health: when do we actually need to understand how healthcare works? Chris Fraser shares his insights after many taxing confrontations with the system.

“You don’t understand healthcare because you are healthy,” Chris Fraser says. “You don’t understand the system until you’re forced into it.

08/01/2019

We’re looking for a highly motivated and positive individual with 1-2 years of customer service experience to join our Client Operations team. The Client Operations Assistant will perform day-to-day operational functions to meet our user’s needs, this will include liaising directly with health care providers and being the face of Dot Health in all user interactions. This role comes with a lot of ownership, and the successful candidate will have an opportunity to shape the growth and internal processes of our Client Operations team.

Our ideal candidate is highly dependable, an excellent communicator and has the ability to adapt to new situations while staying organized. Bonus points if you have experience in the healthcare or software industries, and/or speak French.

What's the day-to-day like?

- Provide technical and product support to Dot Health users via Intercom, email, and telephone

- Take initiative to identify and implement process improvements based on identified trends or gaps to maintain our best-in-class customer success score

- Curate feedback from users and translate it for our development team for product improvements

- Work between users and the product team when bugs arise, so as to troubleshoot and keep both parties informed

- Follow up with health care institutions about record requests, maintaining an organized log of the status of requests and next steps

- Manage invoices and incoming health records via fax, mail and our secure portal

- Execute on the Dot Health provider network strategy, including identifying prospective partners, coming up with ways to improve existing relationships, and developing a provider success package

- Contribute to the development and maintenance of policy/ procedure manuals and training guides

Work Environment:

We’re dedicated to building a supportive and healthy work environment, and we won’t demand long hours or unreasonable deadlines. However, this is a startup, so you’ll be working with loosely defined requirements and less oversight in a high-trust, high-expectations environment.

To apply, please send an email to work@dothealth.ca outlining what makes you a great Client Operations Assistant along with your resume.

08/01/2019

You’re not just a number in Ash Anwar’s world, one where medicine is preventative first and deeply personal. Health and healing, from the perspective of a data scientist:

If you’d asked Ash Anwar 10 years ago whether or not he’d one day contribute to one of the fastest growing health tech industries, he likely would have said, “I hope so.”

07/31/2019

Ev’s story: surviving Multiple Myeloma then making the journey a lot less lonely for patients and their caregivers

Ev McDowell went to her doctor for routine blood work. When test results showed low hemoglobin levels & something called ‘sticky cells,’ Ev got a bit worried, but thought: “At least it’s not cancer.”

07/30/2019

“I have to prove to the medical system that I deserve their time.” Empowering as it is to become your own health advocate, it typically happens in response to a disheartening experience navigating a reluctant healthcare system.

Managing two painful, chronic, and invisible conditions, bipolar disorder and fibromyalgia, has opened Sarah Lindsay's eyes to the importance of becoming her own #1 healthcare advocate .

07/29/2019

Make sense of the Rx and Dx without increasing your BP: demystifying doctor's notes with our very own Dr.M on the blog 📝

I have my health records, but I don’t understand a lot of my doctor’s clinical notes. What do all of these abbreviations mean?