Nature of Business
HireMed is an online marketplace that connects hospitals and team-based health teams across Canada with medical professionals to address their short-term staffing needs.
The HireMed platform offers free profiles for hospitals and community health teams, as well as a suite of tools to help them with shortlisting candidates, interviewing, onboarding, and payment processing. Casual medical professionals can also upload their credentials, licenses, and certificates to the platform to facilitate the onboarding process with potential employers.
In summary, HireMed leverages technology to create a flexible, data-driven marketplace that connects healthcare organizations with the medical professionals they need to support team-based care delivery models across Canada.
Problem
The Canadian healthcare system is facing shortages of doctors and nurses, which has led to the need for more innovative solutions. One recommended solution is team-based care, where various healthcare professionals work together to support a patient's needs. This requires a new way of working and managing agile teams across medical professions.
Problem
Shortages of doctors and nurses across Canada have challenged the Canadian medical system to employ more innovative solutions. As a solution, team-based care is a recommended health care delivery option where many health professionals work together to support a patient’s needs. It implies a new way of working and managing agile teams across medical professions. Consequently, the health care system requires a longitudinal, advanced technology infrastructure to support the assignments of medical teams catering to different patients across the country. The rigidity of current staffing hiring and management does not allow hospitals and health teams to hire temporary/casual professionals to fill immediate and short-term positions, especially for the deployment of team-based care delivery.
Market Size & Solution
HireMed operates in a sizeable market, serving over 1,300 hospitals and a growing number of family health teams (FHTs) across Canada. Their online marketplace connects these healthcare facilities with qualified medical personnel to fill vacant positions quickly and efficiently.
As the Canadian healthcare system shifts towards the team-based care model to address labor shortages, HireMed is well-positioned to address the need for filling various positions within these health teams. Their intelligent algorithm helps match the healthcare facilities with the appropriate medical professionals to support the team-based care delivery model.
Market Trend
Healthcare delivery is increasingly shifting towards cross-disciplinary, team-based care models. In Ontario, "Ontario Health Teams" bring together various healthcare providers, including hospitals, doctors, and home/community care providers, to work as a coordinated team to deliver care.
The growth in supply of family physicians has slowed over the past decade, while nurse practitioners have become one of the fastest-growing healthcare professions. This suggests an evolving healthcare workforce landscape as the system adapts to the team-based care delivery model.
In summary, the shift towards coordinated, team-based healthcare in Canada has increased demands on healthcare workers, necessitating more flexible and adaptable staffing solutions to meet evolving care delivery needs.
Market Trend
Health care deliveries are increasingly provided in cross-discipline teams, namely health teams to introduce a new way of organizing and delivering care that is more connected to patients in their local communities. Under Ontario Health Teams, health care providers (including hospitals, doctors and home and community care providers) work as one coordinated team - no matter where they provide care.
In 2021, average overtime hours among health care workers were the highest they have been in over a decade. More than 236,000 (21%) employees in health occupations worked overtime, with averages of 8.2 hours per week of paid overtime and 5.8 hours per week of unpaid overtime. Paramedics (45%), salaried general practitioners/family physicians (34%) and respiratory therapists (31%) had the highest proportions of workers working overtime. The pace of growth in the supply of family physicians slowed over the last 10 years, while nurse practitioners (NPs) became one of the fastest-growing professions in health care.
Our Teams
Kouroush Hashemi Asl
CEO
Chief Executive Officer. Dr. Asl contributes 28 years’ experience as a general practitioner. He has served as the Head of Family Medicine Department at Petroleum Industrial Health Organization (PIHO) since 2008. His extensive experience in delivering patient care within an organizational setting equips him with the knowledge of various medical professions necessary for administering medical care for specific health conditions. This will be valuable input for training the algorithm to make intelligent recommendations for team-based care for health teams and for the future development of data analytics reports for medical training institutions.
Zohreh Sokoti
CFO
Chief Financial Officer. Ms. Sokoti contributes 23 years’ experience in accounting and finance. She has served as the Financial Management Consultant at Tajhizat Gostar Noandish since March 2016. Her experience in accounting, payroll and financial reporting activities, financial reporting, accounts payable and receivable, asset coordination, and account management and budgets will be particularly valuable to the successful outcomes of these activities at HireMed.