UpHill Health - Company

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We are the pathway to the best care

The core of our company is an amazing team of curious and creative people, who believe in the power of digital solutions to empower healthcare teams.

We're UpHill.

We're changing the way people think about healthcare.

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Healthcare today is chaotic. Unpredictable. Wasteful. Fragmented.

Our mission is about empowering people - healthcare professionals and patients - to always provide and receive the best care. We believe that technology should enhance healthcare capacity and rely on automation as an enabler to strengthen healthcare professionals focus on what matter the most: patients.

UpHill develops best practice clinical pathways and pathway-based decision support system that automates care. We work with leading healthcare providers and life sciences companies throughout Europe to reduce waste related to care variability and fragmentation, while increasing patient outcomes and revenue.

We are building the tools needed to improve healthcare quality worldwide, positioning UpHill to be the leading platform that centralizes the best care and enables its adoption, touching every patient globally.

Awards & Achievements

Top Startups 2022

Born from Knowledge

ANI

Techcare

Novartis & beta-i

Young Entrepreneur Of The Year

ANJE

Our values

Working at UpHill

Join our team

Share your best and worst

Everyone's opinion matters! Sharing your thoughts, uncertainties, and difficulties it's the best way to grow as a team.

Learn by doing

Expand your horizons and try new things. Learn from your team and become an expert in what you do better.

Cut to the chase

We focus on what matters: our products. Delivering fast high-quality solutions is our way to work. Nothing can slow us down.

Be thrilled by change

Designing, building, and delivering innovation is a rollercoaster. Embrace iteration. Do not settle. Challenge yourself to change every day.

Join forces with your best allies - our team and users

We were built on the power of collaboration. Working with our users, listening to their specific problems and expectations is the key to develop amazing products. We were built on the power of collaboration.

Our leadership

Eduardo Freire Rodrigues, MD

CEO & Co-founder

Eduardo is a Public Health specialist, CEO and co-founder of UpHill. He has a master's degree in medicine from NOVA University of Lisbon and a postgraduate degree in clinical research from Harvard University. He is also a visiting assistant in Digital Health at ISCTE and NOVA Medical School. Early on, he learned how to code at the age of 14 and became passionate about it since then.

Duarte Sequeira, MD

COO & Co-founder

Duarte has an integrated Master's Degree in Medicine, whose thesis dissertation covered the area of medical informatics and management, giving rise to the first pilot version of UpHill Simulate software. In his academic background he also has a postgraduate degree in Information Management and Business Intelligence in Healthcare. His professional career focused on Digital Health, with the management of several projects in the area of Health IT, and on components of interoperability and business intelligence, with his multi-year collaboration with the Shared Services of the Ministry of Health, EPE. He is also an invited assistant at University of Beira Interior and is currently a PhD student in Information Science and Technology.

David Rodrigues, MD

VP of Medical Content

Medical Doctor, Lecturer Assistant and Ph.D. student at NOVA Medical School. MSc in Clinical Research by Nova Medical School and Regulation Affairs for Drugs, Biologics and Medical Devices by Northeastern University. Post-graduate in Clinical Scholars Research Program - Harvard Medical School; David’s current research activities related to rational decision making and multimorbidity. He coordinates a critical appraisal one week course at NMS and has been a science communicator in the past ten years. Family and music lover, believes that proud and joy leads to innovation.

Miguel Duque

Head of Engineering

Computer Science Engineer at NOVA School of Science and Technology. Motivated to make an impact that matters, Miguel joined Uphill after an international career as a developer in a Belgium unicorn startup and as a consultant in Portugal and Angola. Started as a backend engineer, where he gained experience in service-oriented architecture and data-intensive applications.

Sebastião Barros

Head of Product

Biomedical Engineer, with a master’s in clinical engineering, with a dissertation on the formulation of a model to assess the compliance between clinical practice and a care pathway. Driven by impact, product value and business success, always eager to learn more about technology and innovation. Strives to improve processes to accomplish better results. Passionate about delivering value to people’s life using products, thrilled to be disruptive in the healthcare world. Sports addicted, federated in Padel since 2016.