Blogs
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Curai Health is on Amazon Clinic — A Message From the CEO
From its founding, Curai Health has had a clear mission: scale access to best in class medical expertise and care to every single person on planet Earth. This is predicated on our belief that access to high-quality medical care is something that every person deserves.
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Part II: What does “product” mean in a virtual healthcare service environment?
And we are back! I was grateful for the fantastic feedback on Part I of “What does “product” mean in a virtual healthcare service environment.” It was encouraging and frustratingly validating to hear from others who have felt the pain and inconsistency of navigating product in healthcare.
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Cloud storage migration with zero downtime
Curai’s mission is to “provide the world’s best healthcare to everyone”. Our platform allows patients to chat with providers about both urgent care and primary care concerns.
Read MoreMaking Bets at Curai
When we started Curai in 2017, I was just a kid at 24 years old, recently having finished my Master’s program at Stanford, and never having held a job outside of internships. I was overconfident in what I knew, what I brought to the table, and in my ability to build a successful company.
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How What Happens in Vegas Impacts What Happens After Vegas: Our Curai Health Offsite
Suppose you were to imagine a new tech startup pre-2020. In that case, you might think of a group of people wearing jeans and a hoodie, in a non-traditional office, sipping coffee from a Nespresso machine and arriving early for yoga.
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2021 Engineering Internships — Part II
Curai has been hosting a very successful internship program since its inception, covering both engineering and research positions. We pride ourselves in giving our interns challenging projects leveraging state-of-the-art technology, and with real impact on our product.
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Sometimes The Grass Really Is Greener — The Story of Our (Second) Cloud Migration
ce upon a time, we migrated a significant inherited portion of Curai Health’s infrastructure from an international cloud provider to Google Cloud Platform (GCP). You can read all about that journey here.
Read MoreWhat does “product” mean in a virtual healthcare service environment?
I have worn a product hat in healthcare for the last ten years, working at a large health insurer and then as an early employee for a health insurance start-up. As I started out in a role as a junior Product Manager (PM), I had read all highly recommended books on product management and was motivated by what I thought was absolutely undeniable common sense.
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2021 Engineering Internships — Part I
At Curai we accept interns on all our different teams all year round. For obvious reasons, we have gone to a full-remote model the past two years, and we expect it to continue like this at least for now.
Read MoreA chat with Ally Ranier, our HR leader, to learn what she looks for to support Curai employees and families
Curai is now available to businesses looking to provide fast access to high-quality and low-cost medical care for employees and their families. All startups try to “eat their own dogfood,” and Curai employees are indeed some of our power users. As we approach other businesses, we thought the best place to start learning would be our HR leader, Ally Ranier.
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A retrospective on primary care models and learnings from a variety of industry vantage points — Part One
We all have heard that healthcare transformation is difficult; I’ve written this blog to convey what I’ve learned about primary care reinvention from a variety of roles over the years. I’ve been afforded perspectives through the lens of health plan, investor, provider, and patient. This blog is presented in two parts, and after reading both, you’ll have some insight into how Curai is applying these learnings to create a terrific primary care experience for our patients.
Read MoreWelcome, Nicole and Peter
Today, I’m thrilled to announce the additions of Nicole Bell and Peter Bridges to our team at Curai. Nicole will be joining as our Chief Business Officer and Peter will be joining as our President. The two of them bring a depth of transformative experiences in the healthcare industry that will accelerate our growth.
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