Company leader
Erica Jain
Co-Founder and CEO
Healthie
Erica Jain is co-founder and chief executive of Healthie. Healthie is software for the work around a visit: scheduling, the chart, and messages between a clinician and a patient over months. Clinics and digital health companies use it when care continues past a single appointment.
Early life
She earned a bachelor's degree at Duke University in a major she designed, international health disparities and infectious diseases. She then worked as an analyst at the Clinton Health Access Initiative and as a healthcare consultant at Boston Consulting Group. She started the health care management program at the Wharton School and left after the first year.
Business
At the end of that first semester she met Cavan Klinsky, then an undergraduate at Wharton. They first talked through a preventive-care service. They then talked with therapists, dietitians, and health coaches and found that the software those practices had was built for a single visit. On a 2022 episode of the Wharton Pulse podcast she said, "We realized from talking to prospective therapists, dietitians, and health coaches that technology for healthcare had been designed for one-time, episodic health care that just did not reflect 95% of health care experiences." Over winter break of her first year they built a first version of Healthie. Providers wanted to pay for it, and she left the MBA to work on the company full time. Healthie was founded in 2016.