Oracle hires former CMS administrator Seema Verma and extra digital well being hires

Oracle has introduced that Seema Verma, former administrator of the Facilities for Medicare and Medicaid Companies, will head up its life sciences division.

Verma will function senior vice chairman and basic supervisor for all times sciences, the place she’ll lead the division, in addition to the corporate’s information analytics and analysis arm Cerner Enviza. She most lately labored as a senior advisor to personal fairness companies Cressy & Co. and TPG, and labored as CMS administrator through the Trump administration. 

“Seema has a confirmed monitor document of success in each private and non-private sector healthcare,” Mike Sicilia, government vice chairman of Oracle International Industries, mentioned in an announcement. “Due to this, she has a novel understanding of carry collectively these on the slicing fringe of innovation and people in control of regulation to assist our prospects make crucial medical breakthroughs and convey new therapies to market.”

Butterfly Community introduced it had employed Joseph M. DeVivo as the hand-held ultrasound firm’s new president and CEO.

He’ll additionally be part of the corporate’s board of administrators as chairman. DeVivo beforehand labored as president of hospitals and well being programs at digital care big Teladoc Well being and as CEO and director at InTouch Well being, which focuses on excessive acuity telehealth. 

He lately served as government chairman on the board of administrators at Caption Well being, maker of AI-enabled ultrasound steering software program. Earlier this 12 months, GE HealthCare introduced plans to buy Caption. 

Butterfly started the seek for a brand new chief government late final 12 months after Dr. Todd Fruchterman stepped down from his roles. 

“Joseph DeVivo’s confirmed industrial success, deep understanding of the market and talent to suppose strategically to scale and run companies over a three-decade profession have been important standards in our seek for a brand new CEO,” Dr. Jonathan Rothberg, Butterfly founder, board member and outgoing interim CEO, mentioned in an announcement.

“His business and industrial experience, paired together with his dedication, make him the perfect candidate to guide Butterfly. We’re excited to have him be part of Butterfly as we proceed reworking healthcare via AI-enabled, semiconductor-based, transportable whole-body imaging, and I’m assured in his skill to make Butterfly extensively profitable.”

Brightline, which supplies digital behavioral healthcare for kids, employed Myra Altman as chief medical officer and Amy Chen as chief advertising officer.

Altman most lately led medical technique and analysis at digital psychological well being advantages firm Trendy Well being. Chen beforehand labored as vice chairman of promoting at hybrid care supplier Crossover Well being and head of promoting at CareMore Well being.

“As our healthcare system continues to fail our youngsters, Brightline is delivering crucial help to households in want,” Naomi Allen, Brightline cofounder and CEO, mentioned in an announcement.

“By including Dr. Altman and Amy Chen to our workforce, Brightline will proceed to raise the usual of care obtainable to households via its dedication to high quality, whereas increasing youth psychological well being literacy to cut back stigma and assist households perceive the help obtainable to them.”

Brightline raised $105 million after which one other $10 million in 2022. However, like numerous digital well being corporations over the previous 12 months, Brightline laid off 20% of its workforce on the finish of the 12 months. 

Maternal well being startup Mahmee final week introduced it had added two new members to its management workforce. 

Dr. Amanda Williams joins as the corporate’s first medical director, and Christie Pitts will function vice chairman of operations. Williams additionally works because the medical innovation advisor to the California Maternal High quality Care Collaborative and serves as an adjunct college member at Stanford College Faculty of Medication’s Division of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Pitts beforehand labored as a basic companion at Backstage Capital, which invested in Mahmee’s seed spherical in 2019, and represented Backstage on the startup’s board. 

The maternal care startup introduced three new members of its board of administrators: Caretha Coleman, who labored at Software program Publishing Company and served as chairman of the board for Dignity Well being; Rachel Springate, cofounder and founding basic companion of Muse Capital; and Marlon Nichols, cofounder and managing basic companion at MaC Enterprise Capital.

Based in 2016, Mahmee raised $9.2 million in Sequence A funding a couple of 12 months in the past.