Interview by Pascale Caron
At the intersection of medicine, technological innovation and societal engagement, Dr Solène Vo Quang embodies a new generation of physician entrepreneurs. Trained as a stomatology surgeon, expert in artificial intelligence applied to healthcare and founder of the startup Hack Your Care, she challenges the conventional paradigms of care by integrating the promises of digital technology. Between operating room, innovation labs and international conferences, this healthtech pioneer advocates for a more preventive, personalized and human-centered medicine, where AI becomes a tool for empowering both healthcare professionals and patients.
One foot in the operating room, the other in innovation
“I’m a stomatology surgeon in Paris, in private practice. I’ve always had an appetite for novelty, innovation, and very early on, artificial intelligence fascinated me,” she explains. This taste for technology is not new. While still a resident, she was already training in AI through MOOCs from the Canadian CHUM, attending international conferences such as AI Med in London, and developing a critical and curious perspective on emerging medical applications.
Her first immersion in the startup world came through Dental Monitoring, then a young French company, now a healthtech unicorn. She annotated thousands of images to train algorithms, discovered industrial logics, the importance of data quality and experienced first-hand the early days of AI applied to clinical practice. “I was aware of the impact of my annotations. An error could generate a false alert. It was extremely formative,” she confides.
For Dr Vo Quang, technology is never an end in itself. It fits within a systemic approach to care. Thus, she cleverly repurposes Allison.ai software—designed for dental imaging analysis—to make it an educational tool for her patients. “I show the X-rays, I explain them. It’s not to convince, but to educate. I want my patients to understand their oral health as a whole.” She defines herself as a “general practitioner of the mouth,” a bridge between medicine, prevention and informed support.
Very quickly, her hybrid background led her to consulting. “I started working with Dentego, a large dental center group. I co-built AI projects with them, presented roadmaps, organized demonstrations with startups.” This positioning, both as a practitioner and innovation facilitator, established itself as natural. The need for companies to have competent and pragmatic field perspectives is immense.
From Yale to founding Hack Your Care: entrepreneurship as commitment
After participating in a selective program for physician entrepreneurs at Yale in the United States, she founded Hack Your Care, a company now in its industrialization phase. Its core business: connecting healthcare professionals and companies through a structured platform centered on the mission “Medical Expertise on Demand.”
“We accelerate innovation by facilitating access to the professional expertise of healthcare workers. Doctors, midwives, nurses, physiotherapists… They are the ones who hold the keys to real-world usage.”
Hack Your Care now boasts a community of over 6,000 healthcare professionals, mainly in France, and a portfolio of 60 client companies, including major names such as Dassault Systèmes, Vidal and Pierre Fabre.
The right expert, for the right project—at the right time
Unlike other non-healthcare market players, the company has not developed algorithmic matching. “Healthcare professionals are too specific. It’s not just a matter of CVs. You need to understand motivations, affinities, each person’s constraints. It’s almost like recruitment.” These are the subtleties that the team strives to account for in each connection.
Generative AI in service of medical reliability
On a second front, Hack Your Care also develops medical content enhanced by AI. “We’ve integrated generative AI into content production for healthcare companies, but always with human validation by a professional expert.” Here again, medical rigor prevails: all publications pass through the hands of a qualified healthcare professional, ensuring the scientific quality of deliverables.
Beyond service, Hack Your Care has established itself as an implicit training structure. “Many healthcare professionals get trained by working with us. They discover the corporate world, R&D logics, tech language. And it empowers them.” Because this is also part of the founder’s DNA: transforming healthcare professionals into actors of digital transformation, while maintaining ethical rigor.
The project’s credibility also rests on its founder’s personal commitment. “I made the choice to continue practicing. I missed surgery. And it nourishes my discourse: I speak about a daily reality I live.” This dual anchoring, between clinical practice and business strategy, creates a rare positioning that appeals to both industry players and hospital institutions.
The success of Hack Your Care also depends on its community. Internal ambassadors, word-of-mouth, presence on specialized networks… The ecosystem grows organically. “University hospital professors, young practitioners, independent professionals: everyone finds their place. We offer them a secure framework to collaborate with industrial partners, without denying their ethics or primary vocation.”
The future? Structure, transmit, transform.
When asked about what’s next, Dr Vo Quang remains clear-eyed but determined. “The challenge is to scale without losing our DNA. That means strengthening automation while keeping a human element in our relationships.”
Through Hack Your Care, she sketches a new path: that of an ecosystem where healthcare professionals become co-builders of medical innovation, in mutual respect between science, technology and the field.
