629: What It’s Like to Start an mHealth Social Enterprise With Ting Shih, ClickMedix [Main T4C Episode]

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Ting Shih is the CEO and founder of ClickMedix, an award-winning mHealth social enterprise that she conceived of while a grad student at MIT. ClickMedix works to help health organizations, in 20+ countries around the world, provide over 1 million patients with expedited tele-health services at a lower cost. Before founding ClickMedix, and co-founding Click Diagnostics, Ting helped to design and launch technology services working for a variety of organizations including: the U.S. Department of Defense, IBM and GlaxoSmithKline. Ting graduated from Carnegie Mellon with a BS in computer science.  She secured an MBA and MS in systems engineering from MIT.  While still in undergrad, Ting had the opportunity to work as a supercomputing research intern at NASA.

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN ABOUT IN THIS EPISODE: 

• How ClickMedix was born while Ting was a graduate student at MIT (4:48)
• What a social enterprise is (11:26)
• Who ClickMedix serves in the U.S. and globally (18:17)
• How COVID-19 helped the tele-health industry to rapidly accelerate (20:04)
• How students and recent grads can dip their toes into the healthcare-technology field (26:44)
• What classes students should take to help build a foundation for a career in healthcare-technology (32:11)