Providing Relevant Health Information

Born from clinical practice

Dr. Samuel Ogunbiyi, CEO

Hi, I am Dr Samuel Ogunbiyi, (MB;BS, FRCSC) and I am a staff surgeon at Stevenson Memorial Hospital, Alliston, and also Credit Valley Hospital, Mississauga. The idea for Jesh Health came to me while I was on holiday. It was born out of a dissatisfaction with what pertained in my own clinical practice.

I had come to the realization of the growing need for more accurate, concise patient-centred information in my own clinical practice in South Simcoe, Canada. Office consultations and on-call ward rounds were full of questions about forthcoming surgical procedures, and what was apparent was that patients were obviously spending a considerable amount of time looking through the internet in the run up to their office appointment with me.

A few months earlier, I had spent a week looking through the internet, especially at YouTube videos, to figure out where their source of information was. I realised that there was a whole big industry out there on the internet, providing my patients with information, that was to a large extent, not accurate, but very appealing. Most of the information providers were not medical doctors, and some of the videos were frankly shocking.

It was amidst this that the idea for Jesh Health came to me. I decided that I needed to provide more education to my patients on what their forthcoming surgery entailed. With this in mind, I spoke to my brother, Tobi, a Software Engineer, with an extensive background in web technologies and start-up companies. From our conversations emerged a framework and shape of what would later form Jesh Health — a start-up tailored to patients receiving healthcare in Canada.