Ting Shih
CEO & Founder
ClickMedix
Education
Carnegie Mellon University
B.S., Computer Science
2001Carnegie Mellon University
M.S., Software Design & Management
2006MIT Sloan School of Management
M.B.A., Entrepreneurship, Business Strategy, and Operational Improvements
2009Massachusetts Institute of Technology
M.S., Systems Engineering
2009Podcasts
45:45629: What It’s Like to Start an mHealth Social Enterprise With Ting Shih, ClickMedix [Main T4C Episode]
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..
Career Path
Interview Highlights
“It’s really about an initiative. If you’re interested, people in health care are generally genuinely nice people that just want to help.”
Best Career Advice
“Cycle towards what you want, what your mission is, the sooner you figure that out the better the rest of your life is.”
Career Challenge
“I think one of the main failures that I learned so much from is actually failing in my first company, Click Diagnostics. I didn’t have a robust technology platform that could actually withstand the scaling portion of it as we were growing. What was so painful was that as the supports and requests were coming, the team was completely overwhelmed and we weren’t able to provide the best service to our customers, and we had to shut down the company.”
Skills
Entrepreneurship, Business Strategy, Leadership, Start-ups, IT Strategy, Healthcare, Mobile Applications, Social Media Marketing, Project Management, Management Consulting, Analytics, Market Research, Venture Capital, Public Speaking, Mobile Health, Social Impact
Professional Interests
MIT Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon University, The ASEAN Network,
Focus Group on Artificial Intelligence for Health, Intelligent Health AI: The world’s largest emerging tech in medicine community.
