- WELLSTAR has made two key additions to its management team,
Sarah Xu has joined as Vice
President of Growth Operations and Frank
Seiferth has joined as Vice President of Product. Sarah and
Frank bring deep industry experience and leadership backgrounds
including Google, Ambience Healthcare, Blue-Dot and Amdocs.
- WELLSTAR also welcomes the operators and teams behind its
newest acquisitions and partnerships, Microquest and Bluebird iT.
Microquest is a leading EMR provider serving the Province of
Alberta with over 375 clinics and
1600 providers. Bluebird iT supports over 700 medical clinics and
hospitals across Canada, making it
the largest provider of IT solutions and services to outpatient
healthcare clinics in Canada, and
the leading deployment provider of technology solutions for
Canadian doctors.
- WELLSTAR delivers technology solutions to over 40% of all
physicians in Canada and is
committed to further expansion through organic and inorganic
growth, underpinned by continuing to deliver tangible, innovative
and valuable tools to healthcare providers nationwide.
VANCOUVER, BC, Feb. 19,
2025 /CNW/ - WELL Health Technologies Corp. (TSX:
WELL) (OTCQX: WHTCF) ("WELL" or "the Company"), a
digital healthcare company focused on positively impacting health
outcomes by leveraging technology to empower healthcare
practitioners and their patients globally, is pleased to announce
key updates regarding its subsidiary WELLSTAR Technologies Corp.
("WELLSTAR"), the leading provider of healthcare technology
solutions in Canada. WELLSTAR
announces key additions to its management team, Sarah Xu as Vice President of Growth Operations
and Frank Seiferth as Vice President
of Product. The Company also provides an update on its recent
acquisitions of Microquest and Bluebird iT.
Amir Javidan, CEO of WELLSTAR,
commented, "As WELLSTAR scales its operations and prepares to be
spun out of WELL, as a separate public company that will be
majority owned and controlled by WELL, we are delighted to announce
the recent addition of tremendously talented senior leaders to the
WELLSTAR team. Sarah and Frank have been appointed to new senior
roles within the company, while Brandon
Blanck, CEO of Microquest and John
Solomos, CEO of Bluebird iT, have joined us through the
acquisitions of those two companies. In previous roles, Sarah spent
significant time and effort at Google in global business strategy
and operations, using her knowledge of customer acquisition to help
scale some of the most important and valuable brands we see in the
HCIT marketplace. Frank, as Head of Product at BlueDot, leveraged
AI to anticipate, understand, and respond to threats by building a
best-in-breed infectious disease intelligence provider."
Mr. Javidan further adds, "We are also very pleased to welcome
Brandon Blanck and John Solomos, as well as their talented teams to
the WELLSTAR family. Brandon and John will stay in their current
operator roles and focus on growing their businesses while
delivering value to their customers and ecosystem partners.
Microquest and Bluebird iT are proving to be key assets that expand
WELLSTAR's footprint across Canada
and complement our existing solutions."
Microquest is a leading EMR solution serving 375 clinics and
1,600 providers in the province of Alberta. Bluebird iT is the largest provider
of IT services to outpatient healthcare clinics in Canada, making it the leading deployment
provider of technology for Canadian doctors.
Bluebird iT supports over 700 clinics and hospitals across
Canada and will be looking to
expand organically and inorganically as a trusted, vendor-agnostic
provider that delivers exceptional technology solutions and
services to its clinic customers. WELL has acquired a 51% stake
with founder ownership maintaining 49%.
With these acquisitions, WELLSTAR now has over 330 team members
and delivers technology solutions to over 40% of all physicians in
Canada, reinforcing its position
as an enabling force in digital health. The Company's experienced
leadership team is focused on driving innovation, expanding
technology offerings, and strengthening relationships with
healthcare providers. WELLSTAR's goal is to support providers in
overcoming the significant administrative burden they currently
face through the use of next-generation digital and AI-enabled
software solutions. WELLSTAR supports one of the largest ecosystems
of solutions for the digital enablement of healthcare in
Canada, including:
- Provincially integrated primary and specialty-care EMRs.
- Revenue optimization, including automated insured and uninsured
billing management.
- Patient engagement solutions, including online booking, secure
messaging, and E-referrals.
- AI-enabled automation solutions, including ambient scribe,
inbox management, and rare and chronic disease decision support
tools.
By delivering scalable, interoperable solutions, the Company is
committed to enhancing practice efficiency, improving patient care,
and creating long-term value for Canadian healthcare.
WELLSTAR is pleased to announce that it has appointed two new
leaders to key posts in the company's senior leadership team:
Sarah Xu – Vice President
Growth Operations
Sarah Xu brings extensive
experience in growth strategy, business intelligence, and
healthcare technology. As VP of Growth Operations at WELL, she will
play a key role in scaling WELLSTAR's market presence and
optimizing growth initiatives across its portfolio.
Sarah is a healthcare go-to-market leader with a proven track
record of scaling growth-stage companies and startups across
Google, Ambience Healthcare, and Circle Medical. She has rejoined
WELL, having previously led Circle Medical as Head of Growth, where
she built the growth engine that profitably drove 10X revenue
growth over 18 months and scaled the company from 8 to 200+
clinicians. Sarah led companies through hypergrowth at Google,
partnering closely to identify and execute transformative
strategies that unlocked 2X-10X profitable growth. Her success in
consistently driving outsized revenue growth and identifying
opportunities to profitably leverage Google's machine learning
capabilities across its SEO and paid acquisition channels enabled
her to scale companies in the D2C and enterprise SaaS space
effectively.
Sarah most recently brought to market leading healthcare AI
technology at US-based Ambience Healthcare, where she established
the sales and marketing teams and successfully launched the
non-founder sales motions driving the first seven-figure sales of
ambient scribing tools with leading enterprise health systems in
the US. Sarah joined the company pre-revenue as its first business
hire and led its go-to-market function through its USD$70M Series B led by Kleiner Perkins and OpenAI.
At WELLSTAR, Sarah is focused on accelerating growth
initiatives, optimizing data-driven strategies, and expanding
market penetration through strategic partnerships and operational
efficiencies. Her expertise in scaling healthcare technology
businesses will be instrumental in driving WELLSTAR's next growth
phase.
Frank Seiferth – Vice
President of Product
Frank is a seasoned SaaS product leader with over 25 years of
experience driving innovation, growth, and market expansion across
health-tech, cybersecurity, e-commerce, and supply chain. He has
successfully led multiple companies through high-growth
transitions, IPOs, and successful exits, shaping product strategy
and execution. At health-tech Bluedot, he led the product strategy
for its AI-driven disease outbreak intelligence, enabling the
company to detect COVID-19 in China first—nine days ahead of global health
organizations.
Previously, Frank held senior product leadership roles at Tecsys
and Amdocs, where he spearheaded digital transformation
initiatives, expanded market presence, integrated acquisitions, and
drove product innovation. Known for building high-performance teams
and fostering innovation, he excels in scaling products, leading
AI-driven transformation, and driving product-led growth. Frank is
an inventor with multiple patents and holds a master's degree in
Communication Technology (Diplom-Ingenieur FH) from the University
of Zwickau, Germany.
At WELLSTAR, Frank will be responsible for leading product
strategy and execution across all the portfolio of products,
including EMR, digital apps, AI tools, medical billing and clinic
back-office solutions.
WELL HEALTH TECHNOLOGIES CORP.
Per: "Hamed Shahbazi"
Hamed Shahbazi
Chief Executive Officer, Chairman and Director
About WELL Health Technologies Corp.
WELL's mission is to tech-enable healthcare providers. We do
this by developing the best technologies, services, and support
available, which ensures healthcare providers are empowered to
positively impact patient outcomes. WELL's comprehensive healthcare
and digital platform includes extensive front and back-office
management software applications that help physicians run and
secure their practices. WELL's solutions enable more than 38,000
healthcare providers between the US and Canada and power the largest owned and
operated healthcare ecosystem in Canada with more than 200 clinics supporting
primary care, specialized care, and diagnostic services. In
the United States WELL's solutions
are focused on specialized markets such as the gastrointestinal
market, women's health, primary care, and mental health. WELL is
publicly traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol
"WELL" and on the OTC Exchange under the symbol "WHTCF". To learn
more about the Company, please visit: www.well.company
About WELLSTAR
WELLSTAR (WELLSTAR.health) empowers healthcare providers
with innovative technology and services to enhance patient care and
operational efficiency. WELLSTAR offers a comprehensive suite of
solutions tailored to meet the needs of healthcare providers,
including: (i) Electronic Medical Records (EMR) software for
primary care and specialist providers; (ii) Digital Health Apps
including OceanMD and a suite of AI automation solutions, as well
as the apps.health marketplace; and (iii) Medical billing and
back-office solutions including revenue cycle management (RCM) and
technology solutions. WELLSTAR's comprehensive range of products
and solutions are designed to streamline care delivery, integrate
fragmented healthcare systems, reduce provider burnout, and improve
patient healthcare experiences and outcomes.
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