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SEAMLESSMD:
MAKING MENTAL
HEALTH INFORMATION
ACCESSIBLE AND
PERSONALIZED TO ALL
TAKING THE
WORRY OUT OF
PREOPERATIVE CARE
AND RECOVERY
Marise Bonenfant, François Menet, Marc-Olivier Schüle
(NextAI – Montreal, 2019), Co-founders of Myelin
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his co-founder trifecta is passionate
about providing equal access to mental
health information. With combined experience from studies in information
science and psychoeducation at the
Université de Montréal, working in information
security and conducting research at Polytechnique,
these co-founders bring a diverse skill set perfect
for creating a solution to the lack of real-time,
personalized mental health information. Each cofounder has a different reason for being passionate
about finding a solution: Marise realized the need for more accessible health information after
struggling to find it for herself. François became
an Information Security Consultant at 22 to
protect non-technical people against misuse
of information. Marc-Olivier found his passion
while doing his doctorate in psychoeducation at
Université de Montréal. Combine their collective
experience and passion for mental health information accessibility, entrepreneurial drive and a
sprinkling of Next AI - Montreal education and
Myelin is born. LEARN MORE ABOUT MYELIN
Joshua Liu, Philip Chen and Willie Kwok (Next 36, 2013),
Co-founders of SeamlessMD
PROBLEM
Lack of real time and personalized
mental health care
SOLUTION
Myelin: An AI-powered application curating mental health information from
health professionals. Their first prototype
helps those on the autism spectrum,
providing resources and information
necessary for quality care. In addition,
they are currently developing an app to
assist mental health therapy professionals
during COVID-19 confinement.
IMPACT
Won first place in Entreprism - HEC,
Invention of the Year from Adriq’s GALA
DES PRIX INNOVATION 2019 and third
place in InnovInc RBC.
COVID SUPPORT
To help those on the front lines, Myelin
has made their app FREE for healthcare
workers, for a limited time. Learn more
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hey say there is power in three, and this team’s combined skill set proves just that. Josh found his
interest in solving problems within the healthcare system right in the middle of medical school
at U of T, which led him to his research at UHN on hospital readmissions. During this time, there
was an emergence of mobile technology in the consumer market. He became fascinated by the
opportunity to combine technology and healthcare, and embarked on entrepreneurship for the first
time by starting a healthcare software venture with a couple of medical school friends. Although that venture
didn’t pan out, Josh sought out the Next 36 program and met his co-founders, Philip Chen and Willie Kwok,
who added important complementary skills that were necessary to launch SeamlessMD. Philip, a graduate of
U of T’s engineering program, also majoring in stats and finance, became SeamlessMD’s COO while Willie, with
a Master of Science from UBC, became the company’s CTO. Today, their blended skillset has made up a strong
founding team , and allowed them to build a product that has made a major impact on patient outcomes in
the Canadian healthcare system. LEARN MORE ABOUT SEAMLESSMD
PROBLEM
Lack of clarity and personalization of preoperative
care and recovery
SOLUTION
SeamlessMD enables hospitals to implement and
optimize Enhanced Recovery After Surgery pathways
faster and more effectively. They provide the leading
technology solution to optimize patient health preoperatively, accelerate post-operative recovery and
monitor at-risk patients post-discharge.
IMPACT
1,000s of patients helped.
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MYELIN:
COVID SUPPORT
SeamlessMD launched Remote Monitoring
For Healthcare Employee Health, quickly
pivoting their model to help those on the
front lines AND the patients looking for
at-home medical advice. Learn more
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