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Healthcare has long known patients need support between visits.Delivering it consistently at scale has been the challenge.

Our story

Different paths. The same conclusion.

A healthcare entrepreneur and a cardiologist spent decades seeing the same problem from opposite sides of healthcare.

Portrait of Stas Gutkin, Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer at Hygia

Stas Gutkin

Technology was everywhere. Continuity was nowhere.

After building healthcare companies from the ground up, Stas kept returning to the same contradiction. Healthcare had become extraordinarily sophisticated at collecting information, managing workflows, and processing transactions, yet patients still struggled to navigate their care between encounters.

He saw the problem as a builder.

Portrait of Dr. Alexander Shaknovich, Co-Founder & Chief Medical Officer at Hygia

Dr. Alexander Shaknovich

The issue was rarely clinical expertise. The issue was continuity.

Decades of clinical practice revealed a different version of the same gap. The physician could evaluate the patient, make the diagnosis, and establish the care plan. But once the patient left the office, the relationship became far harder to sustain.

He saw the problem as a physician.

One shared conclusion

Healthcare had invested enormously in technology, but it wasn't enough to sustain continuity between encounters.

The trusted relationship between patient and caregiver was still hardest to maintain when patients were living with their care plan outside the healthcare setting.

That realization became Hygia.

What we believe

These are not values. They are convictions.

Every decision at Hygia returns to one of these four beliefs.

Relationships drive outcomes.

Clinical quality matters. So does the relationship that helps determine whether patients understand, engage, and follow through.

Technology should strengthen human connection, not replace it.

Gia exists to extend the clinician relationship, not substitute for it. The goal is more connection, delivered more consistently.

Healthcare happens primarily outside the visit.

Patients live with medications, care plans, questions, decisions, and change every day. That is where continuity matters.

Staffing constraints should not determine whether patients receive continuity.

Human capacity is finite. That is not a reason to accept the gap. It is one of the reasons Hygia was built.

Those convictions became Hygia.

Gia makes that relationship accessible to the patient. The people behind Hygia are building the infrastructure that makes it possible at scale.

The expertise behind Hygia

Building this kind of healthcare infrastructure takes more than technology.

Hygia brings together experience across clinical care, corporate strategy, technology, finance, and healthcare partnerships. Together with a broader team of technologists, operators, business developers, and advisors, we are building Hygia for scale.

Portrait of Ayall Schanzer, JD MBA, President and Chief Counsel at Hygia

Ayall Schanzer, JD MBA

Corporate Strategy & Governance

Portrait of Randall Severy, Chief Technology Officer at Hygia

Randall Severy

Technology & Healthcare Infrastructure

Portrait of Boris Turchak, Chief Financial Officer at Hygia

Boris Turchak

Finance & Capital Strategy

Portrait of Dr. Gennady Gekht, Chief Clinical Officer at Hygia

Dr. Gennady Gekht

Clinical Strategy & Healthcare Partnerships

Careers

Help us build what healthcare has been missing.

We are building technology around a simple belief: healthcare can become more continuous without becoming less human. If that is the kind of problem you want to work on, we would like to hear from you.