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 Providers, will head up its life sciences division.

Verma will function senior vp and normal supervisor for all times sciences, the place she’ll lead the division, in addition to the corporate’s knowledge analytics and analysis arm Cerner Enviza. She most just lately labored as a senior advisor to personal fairness corporations Cressy & Co. and TPG, and labored as CMS administrator in the course of the Trump administration. 

“Seema has a confirmed observe report of success in each private and non-private sector healthcare,” Mike Sicilia, government vp of Oracle International Industries, mentioned in a press release. “Due to this, she has a novel understanding of easy methods to carry collectively these on the reducing fringe of innovation and people answerable for regulation to assist our clients make vital medical breakthroughs and produce 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 a part of the corporate’s board of administrators as chairman. DeVivo beforehand labored as president of hospitals and well being techniques at digital care big Teladoc Well being and as CEO and director at InTouch Well being, which focuses on excessive acuity telehealth. 

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

Butterfly started the seek for a brand new chief government late final yr 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 a press release.

“His trade and industrial experience, paired along with his dedication, make him the best candidate to steer Butterfly. We’re excited to have him be a part of Butterfly as we proceed remodeling healthcare by way of AI-enabled, semiconductor-based, transportable whole-body imaging, and I’m assured in his capability to make Butterfly broadly profitable.”

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

Altman most just lately led scientific technique and analysis at digital psychological well being advantages firm Fashionable Well being. Chen beforehand labored as vp of selling at hybrid care supplier Crossover Well being and head of selling at CareMore Well being.

“As our healthcare system continues to fail our youngsters, Brightline is delivering vital assist to households in want,” Naomi Allen, Brightline cofounder and CEO, mentioned in a press release.

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

Brightline raised $105 million after which one other $10 million in 2022. However, like a lot of digital well being firms over the previous yr, Brightline laid off 20% of its workforce on the finish of the yr. 

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 vp of operations. Williams additionally works because the scientific innovation advisor to the California Maternal High quality Care Collaborative and serves as an adjunct school member at Stanford College Faculty of Drugs’s Division of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Pitts beforehand labored as a normal associate 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 normal associate of Muse Capital; and Marlon Nichols, cofounder and managing normal associate at MaC Enterprise Capital.

Based in 2016, Mahmee raised $9.2 million in Collection A funding a few yr in the past.