Former VA Secretary Shulkin joins Potrero’s board and extra digital well being hires

San Francisco-based predictive well being firm Potrero Medical has added former U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Dr. David Shulkin, to its advisory board. 

Shulkin has had a decades-long profession in healthcare, from working on the larger echelons of the personal healthcare sector to an appointment by President Obama as Undersecretary for Well being on the U.S. Division of Veterans Affairs in 2015. Two years later, Shulkin was confirmed because the ninth Secretary of the Division of Veterans Affairs beneath President Donald Trump. 

The California-based firm’s choices embody its FDA-cleared Accuryn Monitoring System, which permits for early intervention of acute kidney harm by using information and algorithms to detect and deal with the illness. 

“I’m excited to hitch Potrero Medical’s advisory board and contribute to the corporate’s efforts to enhance affected person care,” Secretary Shulkin mentioned in a press release. “The Accuryn platform gives important care clinicians with real-time, actionable information on their sufferers that may inevitably disrupt the established order. I see this as a wanted innovation that may impression healthcare on many ranges.”

Woebot Health, the corporate behind a chatbot for psychological healthcare, introduced the appointment of Matt Borowiecki as its chief monetary officer. 

Borowiecki beforehand held the place of chief monetary officer at Biofourmis, a tech-enabled care supply and digital therapeutics firm. Earlier than that, he was the top of capital transactions and structuring at MassMutual Monetary Group and director of company growth and enterprise strategic planning at Aetna. 

“Matt’s deep understanding of the healthcare trade and funding acumen might be instrumental as we mature our operations and transfer to the subsequent stage of our firm’s progress,” Michael Evers, CEO of Woebot Well being, mentioned in a press release. “His strategic expertise is complemented by a deep compassion and dedication to serving to individuals entry the psychological well being care they want. We’re delighted he is joined at this very pivotal second.”

New York Metropolis-based Pager – a digital care platform supplied by well being plans that helps sufferers navigate, coordinate and entry care – introduced Dave Dookeeram is becoming a member of the corporate in its newly created place of chief working officer. 

Dookeeram beforehand served as president of diagnostics and chief of workers at Denver-based in-home care supplier DispatchHealth, becoming a member of the corporate at its seed stage and serving as an government by its progress.

He’ll oversee Pager’s strategic progress and day-to-day operations, working beneath the corporate’s CEO and chairman, Walter Jin. 

“Becoming a member of the Pager group is an amazing alternative to work for an organization that’s remodeling how customers work together with the healthcare system,” Dookeeram mentioned. “Walter shared with me his compelling story of Pager’s origin and its ongoing mission: offering a doctor-in-the-family expertise for everybody, one which delivers healthcare on a extra private and human scale.

“Having seen firsthand the impression high-quality care can have on somebody’s well being and well-being, Pager’s mission actually resonated with me on a private stage. I am excited to be a part of an organization that’s successfully addressing the best problem dealing with the American healthcare system – ship higher outcomes at a extra affordable value.”