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Key Takeaways Incredible Health flips the hiring model so employers apply to nurses, helping 1.5 million U.S. healthcare workers find permanent roles more efficiently.
Dr. Iman Abuzeid co-founded Incredible Health in 2017 and currently serves as its CEO.
Since 2017, the company has raised about $100 million at a $1.65 billion valuation.
The spark for Incredible Health, a $1.65 billion platform to tackle staffing shortages in healthcare, came from cofounder and CEO Dr. Iman Abuzeid’s own family.
“A lot of my family members are doctors, surgeons who practice, and they were often complaining about understaffing,” she says in a new interview with Entrepreneur. “They just don’t have enough nurses in the operating room; they can’t do as many surgeries as they would like.”
At the same time, her cofounder, MIT software engineer Rome Portlock, kept hearing the opposite frustration from nurses in his family. They were experienced and qualified nurses who applied at 10 places and usually didn’t even hear back.
When Abuzeid and Portlock dug into healthcare hiring around 2017, they found a system stuck in time. “We just realized that the processes, the tools, the technology — nothing’s changed in healthcare hiring in particular for over 20 years. We just figured there just has to be an easier way,” Abuzeid says.
Incredible Health uses AI to tackle one of healthcare’s biggest crises: chronic workforce shortages. Today, more than 1.5 million nurses (about one in two nurses in the U.S.) use the platform to manage their careers.
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