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IT's Role in Preparing for the Silver Tsunami
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The impact of COVID & post pandemic opportunities
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TechTO x TMX Presents: Three Comma Club ft. PointClickCare
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In their words
If you don't change the way you deliver health care, you're gonna bankrupt every modern healthcare system on the planet.
Culture's your number one job. Number two is making sure you get the right team. Number three is strategy and vision. Number four is general management of the business. If you get the right culture then you can attract the right people.
We've got about 70 percent of all the long-term care facilities across North America utilize our solutions to run their business.
we had no idea i mean this was 2000 and we never heard of salesforce .com sas nobody could even spell it then nobody was talking about the cloud we were just solving for a market problem
if I don't have a medical billing system for you by May, I will come and do your billing for you until I do
you commit to something big and then you go, holy shit. And everybody scrambles, you don't leave the office. And then you make those commitments. I mean, I think that's the story of a successful startups.
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Quick answers
What is Mike Wessinger known for?
Co-founding PointClickCare with his brother Dave in 1995 and running it as CEO until 2021, building it into Canada's largest privately held software company. Its cloud software runs long-term and post-acute care — nursing homes, assisted living and home health — across North America.
Is Mike Wessinger still CEO of PointClickCare?
No. He was CEO from 1995 to 2021, then moved to executive chair on September 1, 2021, when his brother and co-founder Dave Wessinger became CEO. Mike remains co-founder and executive chair of the board.
What has Mike Wessinger said about raising money as a Canadian founder?
On the TechTO stage in February 2018 he told founders that Canadian companies sometimes take money too early, and to bootstrap as long as you can so you still control the company over the long term. PointClickCare was bootstrapped for years — he described how hard it was to raise for putting healthcare records on the internet before anyone used the word cloud.
How many times has Mike Wessinger spoken at TechTO?
Twice — HealthTO in February 2018 on IT's role in preparing for the 'silver tsunami', and TechTO Health in 2020 on the impact of COVID and post-pandemic opportunities in health tech.