BetterDoctor 2017 Highlights and Progress Toward More Accurate Provider Data

In 2017, BetterDoctor made great progress toward our mission of fixing the nation’s provider data. Our business grew in multiple areas. We closed $11M B-round funding and 14 new amazing people joined the BetterDoctor team. In this post, we recap some of the biggest milestones we hit as a company. In 2017 our provider data management and […]

Event Recap: How Machine Learning Can Be Used to Maintain Accurate Provider Directories

Last week, Virta Health, a health tech startup that helps patients reverse type 2 diabetes, hosted a meetup called, ‘Machine Learning in Healthcare.’ We joined to discuss the potential of these learning algorithms and heard five talks focused on how machine learning could improve healthcare. Lightning talks were given by: Abe Gong, Superconductive Health Catalin Voss, […]

Student Feature Case Study: Provider Data Powers Doctor Search with Speech Recognition

This Summer, Brandeis University students Eben, Claire, R, and Nila, joined the Justice Brandeis Semester Program for a course on Voice, Web, and Mobile Apps. Without knowing each other before and all coming from different fields of study, they created “DocFinder” to give everyone a chance to find a provider near them by using a simple voice command. Tell […]

June 2017 BetterDoctor Provider Directory Webinar Recap

This month Ryan Panchadsaram, Former Deputy Chief Technology Officer of the United States & Innovation Fellow at HHS, talked to us about CMS data regulations and how machine readable data formats were standardized to support healthcare.gov in helping consumers find doctors. From the BetterDoctor team, Andrew Kobylinski gave 6 key learnings from our work on […]

BetterDoctor Panel On Fixing Provider Directories at AHIP Institute 2017 in Austin, TX

AHIP’s Institute & Expo — an annual conference that brings together leaders from the health care and policy worlds — will spotlight the future of healthcare coverage. To kick off this conference, Anthem’s CEO Joseph Swedish will open up on the topic of reinventing healthcare for the future. Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin and CNN senior political […]

Student Feature Case Study: How to Build a Telemedicine App with Video Call – HealthCloud by Roshan Kadasani

Roshan recently finished a telemedicine application ‘HealthCloud‘ he built for his Master’s project. To do this, he used the BetterDoctor API to pull up doctor profiles. We invited him to talk about his development journey. BetterDoctor (BD): Roshan, tell us about yourself and your idea about HealthCloud. Roshan: I have just graduated in Computer Science from California State University, […]