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69: How to go from extraordinary side hustles to an AI mental health startup? With Ross from Limbic
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On this episode, Vinay is joined by founder of Limbic, Ross Harper, who has a PhD in computational neuroscience. Limbic enhances mental health care by assisting providers to manage and support demand for mental health services through AI-driven tools. It can prioritise need, from more routine aspects to serious issues, by applying machine learning to user inputs like questionnaires. Ultimately, the platform improves access to services and the patient journey. In a Series A funding round, they raised $14 million for product development and U.S expansion. The platform has been adopted by 40% of NHS talking therapies.
Discover:
- How Ross started his career studying Natural Sciences at Cambridge
- How his PhD began his research in computational neuroscience
- How he started Limbic because of his fascination with finding out if machine learning can help understand how the brain works
- How his past connects him to a music career and advertising
- How he began and raised investment for Limbic.ai
- How he developed Limbic.ai to tackle a lack of clinicians in the mental health space
- How mental health support has become a global problem
- How they developed two main products – Limbic Access and Limbic Care
- How Limbic Access has been adopted by 40% of NHS Talking Therapies
- How Limbic is designed to save time without compromising the quality of care
- How they are first and only class two medical device for mental health
- How they are using the product to provide further research
- How they’re partners are helping them improve the mental health sector
Guest: Ross Harper
Website: https://www.limbic.ai/
Host: Dr Vinay Shankar
Website: https://www.oncedaily.co
Podcast: 15 Minutes With The Doctor
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69: How to go from extraordinary side hustles to an AI mental health startup? With Ross from Limbic
15 Minutes With The Doctor: Learn from Healthcare Entrepreneurs and Innovators
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On this episode, Vinay is joined by founder of Limbic, Ross Harper, who has a PhD in computational neuroscience. Limbic enhances mental health care by assisting providers to manage and support demand for mental health services through AI-driven tools. It can prioritise need, from more routine aspects to serious issues, by applying machine learning to user inputs like questionnaires. Ultimately, the platform improves access to services and the patient journey. In a Series A funding round, they raised $14 million for product development and U.S expansion. The platform has been adopted by 40% of NHS talking therapies.
Discover:
- How Ross started his career studying Natural Sciences at Cambridge
- How his PhD began his research in computational neuroscience
- How he started Limbic because of his fascination with finding out if machine learning can help understand how the brain works
- How his past connects him to a music career and advertising
- How he began and raised investment for Limbic.ai
- How he developed Limbic.ai to tackle a lack of clinicians in the mental health space
- How mental health support has become a global problem
- How they developed two main products – Limbic Access and Limbic Care
- How Limbic Access has been adopted by 40% of NHS Talking Therapies
- How Limbic is designed to save time without compromising the quality of care
- How they are first and only class two medical device for mental health
- How they are using the product to provide further research
- How they’re partners are helping them improve the mental health sector
Guest: Ross Harper
Website: https://www.limbic.ai/
Host: Dr Vinay Shankar
Website: https://www.oncedaily.co
Podcast: 15 Minutes With The Doctor
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1 75: Can your voice help diagnose diseases? Taking ambient voice tech to the next level with Henry O’Connell from Canary Speech 23:16
What if your voice could predict your future health? Today, we’re joined by Henry O’Connell, CEO of Canary Speech, whose ground-breaking AI is changing the way we can diagnose health conditions. With a simple 20-second voice clip, ambient voice technology analysis can detect early signs of Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and mental health conditions. But how does it work? What challenges did Henry face bringing this to life? And could your voice really be the key to a longer, healthier future? Discover: AI Meets Healthcare: Discover how Canary Speech uses voice biomarkers to detect neurological disorders like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. The Science Behind Voice Analysis: Learn how a 20-second speech sample can reveal cognitive and mental health conditions. From Bagel Shop to Breakthrough: Hear the unexpected story of how this revolutionary idea was born. Cracking the Code on Early Diagnosis: How Canary Speech is improving detection rates for neurodegenerative diseases. Industry Power Moves: The role of partnerships with Microsoft, Harvard, and top healthcare institutions. Tackling AI Challenges: Overcoming biases, regional accents, and privacy concerns in voice-based diagnostics. The Future of AI in Medicine: What’s next for speech-based biomarkers and healthcare innovation? Must-Listen Moments: Henry O’Connell shares real-world examples of how this tech is changing lives Guest: Henry O’Connell Website: Canary Speech Host: Dr Vinay Shankar Website: https://www.oncedaily.co Podcast: 15 Minutes With The Doctor…
On this episode, Ian McMullon a seasoned expert with over 20 years of experience, shares his fascinating journey from Rentokil to former founder of People Planner. It was a UK-based disruptor in the care rostering industry which has evolved into Access Care Rostering. The platform has grown further following it’s acquisition by the Access group, where Ian now serves as Divisional Director. Learn how the platform is transforming care with its touch-first design, streamlined user experiences, and the integration of automated pathways. Ian also explores the future of the care sector, his experiences of company acquisitions and their strategic importance. Discover: Trailblazer: At just 16, Ian launched his career in software, quickly carving out a niche in the health sector. Revolutionising Care Rostering: Ian developed People Planner, a lean rostering solution that simplifies complex scheduling across multiple sites and sectors. Bootstrapping to Breakthrough : Building a business from scratch in the early 2000s with his partner taught Ian the resilience needed for success. From Startup to Acquisition: Learn how People Planner caught the eye of Access Health and became part of their larger vision. Digital Transformation in Care: Ian is leading the charge in replacing outdated paper-based systems with modern, intuitive digital solutions. User-Centric Innovation: Access Care Rostering prioritises user-friendly interfaces that empower caregivers acrossrailblazer: At just 16, Ian launched his career in software, quickly carving out a niche in the health sector. Revolutionising Care Rostering: Ian developed People Planner, a lean rostering solution that simplifies com devices and streamline workflows. Smarter Workflows Through Automation: Discover how Ian’s team is tackling industry challenges by innovating and automating rostering practices. A Vision for Growth: As Divisional Director, Ian oversees Access Health’s 22 businesses, driving seamless operations and digital excellence. Guest: Ian McMullon Website: Access Care Rostering Host: Dr Vinay Shankar Website: https://www.oncedaily.co Podcast: 15 Minutes With The Doctor…
On this episode, Vinay welcomes Alison Gardiner who turned her passion for behaviour change into a life-changing solution for insomnia sufferers. As CEO and founder of Sleepstation, Alison has revolutionised sleep health through a program based on digital CBTi techniques. It leads to an improvement in sleep cycles for 94% of participants and is available worldwide. Listen to her inspiring journey of resilience while navigating challenges in healthtech entrepreneurship, strategies for scaling digital health solutions globally, and the importance of behaviour change in healthcare innovation. Discover: From Idea to Innovation: Alison transformed Sleepstation from a side project into a global medtech solution over 14 years. Psychology-Driven Solutions: Her passion for behavioural psychology inspired a platform that blends science and technology for real impact. Accessible Insomnia Care: Sleepstation democratises therapy with digital CBTi, offering non-clinic-based, personalised sleep solutions. Hybrid Healing: By combining human interaction with digital tools, Sleepstation maximises engagement and outcomes. Beyond Sleep Tracking: Discover why tracking metrics isn’t enough—and how understanding patterns leads to better results. Life-First Focus: Tackling the daily impacts of insomnia, from fatigue to productivity. Seamless User Journey: Advanced referral pathways and chat systems ensure users stay on track toward better sleep. Pioneering Digital Health: Alison shares her vision for medtech’s evolution and how Sleepstation leads the way. Guest: Alison Gardiner Website: www.sleepstation.org.uk/ Host: Dr Vinay Shankar Website: https://www.oncedaily.co Podcast: 15 Minutes With The Doctor…
1 72: How a smartwatch & iOS app is personalising care for Parkinson’s disease? With Amanda from Strive PD 21:48
On this episode, Vinay chats with Amanda Hare, a nurse practitioner specialising in neurology, and experienced in Parkinson’s disease management. Amanda explains the complexity of treating Parkinson’s patients. To help, she introduces Strive PD, an iOS app that integrates objective data and patient inputs. The solution was created by a patient. It tracks mobility, tremors, medication adherence, and enables symptom logging. The app enhances access to clinical trials, assists tailored treatment plans, and empowers patients through actionable data. Discover: How Amanda started her career in the neurological field How individuals with Parkinson’s often have unique symptoms How Strive PD was created by software engineer with Parkinson’s who entrusted the platform to Rune Labs in 2018 How Strive PD tracks symptoms between hospital visits to improve treatment plans How Strive PD has been able to track dyskinesia through an Apple watch How mobility metrics collect enough data to provide baseline comparisons How Strive PD can help to educate patients and optimise their treatment regimens How Strive PD has helped people self-record and track their symptoms to avoid reliance on memory How they’ve partnered with clinicians and medical professionals across the US to expand their patient knowledge How they partner with pharmaceutical companies to shorten the cycles necessary for patients to enter medical trials How their hope is to reduce the cost and improve quality of life for Parkinson’s patients Guest: Amanda Hare Website: https://www.strive.group/ Host: Dr Vinay Shankar Website: https://www.oncedaily.co Podcast: 15 Minutes With The Doctor…
1 71: From Star Trek to Reality: The quest for digital body twins and quantified imaging with Clarissa from Q Bio 25:13
On this episode Clarissa Shen joins the show, she is COO at Q Bio. She discusses how they are transforming healthcare with AI, machine learning, and big data. Discover how Q Bio’s advanced digital platform combines full-body MRI, biochemistry, and genomics to predict health risks, making diagnostics more accessible. Clarissa reveals how they are building their own MRI scanner from scratch to take advantage of new computational power available in a Star Trek like world of preventative healthcare. Tune in to learn how digital twins can transform diagnostics, the potential of AI-driven health insights, and the impact of democratising preventative medicine. Discover: How Q Bio is developing universally accessible full body scans How Clarissa, COO at Q Bio has built a career in entrepreneurship, maths and computer science How her own personal experience was instrumental in her interest in creating a better and more proactive definition of good health in the US How Q Bio’s medbay could bring out the “Trekkie’s” in us all! How the Q Bio system is offering measures for all vitals – from heart rate to the human genome How Q Bio is working to empower physicians with high-level summaries of your health How full body scans can help you make simple changes to your lifestyle or get second opinions How they have modified the raw data to provide realistic health data based on any existing demographic data How partnerships with Q Bio could lead to new discoveries in health across the world How their licensee program is offering their partners access to holistic risk information How Q Bio have created the Mark 1 prototype body MRI scan How Q Bio is training the Mark 1 and medical professionals to interpret results How the founders of QBio formed the vision of what the future could look like with the backgrounds in Physics and Geonomics Guest: Clarissa Shen Website: https://www.q.bio Host: Dr Vinay Shankar Website: https://www.oncedaily.co Podcast: 15 Minutes With The Doctor…
1 70: Transforming Fertility: How Apricity’s virtual clinic is changing fertility care with Caroline Allen 20:32
1 69: How to go from extraordinary side hustles to an AI mental health startup? With Ross from Limbic 23:14
On this episode, Vinay is joined by founder of Limbic, Ross Harper, who has a PhD in computational neuroscience. Limbic enhances mental health care by assisting providers to manage and support demand for mental health services through AI-driven tools. It can prioritise need, from more routine aspects to serious issues, by applying machine learning to user inputs like questionnaires. Ultimately, the platform improves access to services and the patient journey. In a Series A funding round, they raised $14 million for product development and U.S expansion. The platform has been adopted by 40% of NHS talking therapies. Discover: How Ross started his career studying Natural Sciences at Cambridge How his PhD began his research in computational neuroscience How he started Limbic because of his fascination with finding out if machine learning can help understand how the brain works How his past connects him to a music career and advertising How he began and raised investment for Limbic.ai How he developed Limbic.ai to tackle a lack of clinicians in the mental health space How mental health support has become a global problem How they developed two main products – Limbic Access and Limbic Care How Limbic Access has been adopted by 40% of NHS Talking Therapies How Limbic is designed to save time without compromising the quality of care How they are first and only class two medical device for mental health How they are using the product to provide further research How they’re partners are helping them improve the mental health sector Guest: Ross Harper Website: https://www.limbic.ai/ Host: Dr Vinay Shankar Website: https://www.oncedaily.co Podcast: 15 Minutes With The Doctor…
On this episode, Caitlin Baltzer, CEO and Co-founder of MYndspan helps us imagine a world where access to information on how our brain works is at our fingertips. MYndspan is a platform which uses a unique brain scanning technology called magnetoencephalography or more easily known as the MEG scanner. This non-invasive, millimetre-accurate scanning can offer a new perspective on brain function. The data can provide early detection for neurodegenerative illnesses and also provide new intelligence for personalised day-to-day brain health interventions. We start the journey with Caitlin with her banking career in Toronto. Discover: How working on due diligence of a new technology led her to MEG How she began learning about magnetoencephalography or MEG How joining the manufacturer of the brain scanner after their acquisition led to MYndspan How the MEG scanner is more effective than an MRI at diagnosing ‘invisible injuries’ such as neural trauma How MYndspan is being expanded for general use in the UK and Canada How MYndspan appointments can give you a comprehensive view of your brain functioning How MYndspan can visualise information for effective lifestyle changes How 40% of dementias could be preventable using MEG How people can use the information to make effective interventions How their goal is to partner with research institutions How they’re currently setting up a London site for 100% accessibility Guest: Caitlin Baltzer Website: https://myndspan.com/ Host: Dr Vinay Shankar Website: https://www.oncedaily.co Podcast: 15 Minutes With The Doctor…
On this episode, Srinivas Arka joins the show. He is a philosopher, author and renowned speaker who focuses on achieving a state of well-being by addressing our mental, physical and spiritual health. Highly regarded for his talks, books, and workshops internationally, Srinivas Arka has also founded the Centre For Conscious Awareness charities worldwide. He has developed a unique form of intuitive meditation called Arka Dhyana, which helps us understand our true selves and reach our highest potential. In this special episode, Srinivas Arka shares his unique and holistic style to approaching health, he explains why a different system of meditation was developed and its benefits, we discuss his perspective on the role of technology in health, and how entrepreneurs can succeed while making a positive impact in the world. Discover: How he advocates a holistic approach to health and wellness How he emphasises the value of personal responsibility for good health How listening to the body and engaging the mind improves mental and physical health How he advocates for not only an engaged mind, but engagement in nature How technology should be balanced with human interaction His thoughts on the potential risks of an over-dependence on technology How focussing on the service and value that products offer is the key, which leads to profit and investment How enjoying the process and journey can lead to happiness for entrepreneurs How finding fulfilment can build lasting relationships in the working world How identifying gaps in the market and offering your unique insight can lead to impactful solutions How harnessing your potential and purpose are key to achieving happiness and success How his holistic techniques drawing on natural living, yoga and dhyana are integral to life and the business world Guest: Srinivas Arka Website: Centre For Conscious Awareness Host: Dr Vinay Shankar Website: https://www.oncedaily.co Podcast: 15 Minutes With The Doctor…
Imagine a platform where technology and compassionate care converge. This episode is a deep dive into that very space. We’re joined by Ani, the visionary founder of Vann, a cancer support app created from her own personal experience. Incubated at Oxford University Innovation, Vann combines support for patients during and after diagnosis. The platform provides not only support and information for patients, but for any individual or group looking to signpost anyone who wants to understand how to manage their relationship with someone who has cancer. The app gathers data that is also used to track the impact of treatments with the possibility of giving researchers what they need know to engineer new treatments. Discover: Ani’s background in forestry, international relations and business How she was diagnosed with late-stage breast cancer after been accepted to Said Business School, Oxford University How she started Vann after a second diagnosis of cancer in 2019 How she began Vann to contribute to cancer research and create a community for sufferers How much she has learnt about herself and her community with the advent of the illness How she established the Ani Haykuni Cancer Treatment Support Foundation in her home country of Armenia How Vann is designed to be a bridge between patients, previous sufferers, and stakeholders such as research organisations, biotech, pharma and hospitals How the app provides motivational material based on diagnosis and treatment How their user surveys provide insights for future cancer research How the platform encourages small acts of kindness for sufferers and supporters How the future of Vann is collaborations with research teams and organisations that involve their users How they plan to use the data to align users with similar experience to further their research How they’re working to increase visibility of cancer clinical trials How she applied and was successful with an incubator program at Oxford University Innovation How they have and continue to receive funding to expand Vann Guest: Ani Haykuni Website: www.thevann.com Host: Dr Vinay Shankar Website: https://www.oncedaily.co Podcast: 15 Minutes With The Doctor…
On this episode, practising orthopaedic surgeon and founder of Touch Surgery, Ad Gandhe joins the show to discuss Amodisc, his latest venture. This conversation cuts deep into healthcare transformation through technology, as we uncover the story behind a platform designed to educate various grades of surgeons on complex surgeries. Born out of necessity, the platform tackles the post-pandemic hurdles surgical trainees face and supports professionals in lower income countries. It leverages easy accessible tech, new frontiers like holographic images and AI, to progress learning. But ultimately, it seeks to improve surgical outcomes worldwide. Discover: How Ad Gandhe, an orthopaedic surgeon started his first app, Touch Surgery in 2010 How the difficulty in accessing education as a surgical trainee prompted the idea for Touch Surgery How as a consultant he found himself looking into technology like Photoshop and animation to help trainees learn anatomy How a prompt from his wife, showed him the potential in developing an app How the release of the iPhone 3 started his learning curve in app development How Touch Surgery gained 100K downloads after its release How he exited Touch Surgery, to discover new ways to innovate in the sector How democratising surgical knowledge is one of his main passions How a low-tech smartphone solution became the centre of Amodisc How Amodisc builds on products like HoloLens and MetaQuest to create realistic simulators How they’re putting together tissue simulators, that are so realistic, dogs can’t resist them! How these types of simulations can and will improve psychomotor skills How simulations are essential for mental rehearsal that builds neural networks for surgeons and trainees How even as a surgeon, creativity and innovation are preferable to sleep! Guest: Ad Gandhe Website: http://www.amodisc.com/ Host: Dr Vinay Shankar Website: https://www.oncedaily.co Podcast: 15 Minutes With The Doctor…
On this episode, Ravi Janapureddy joins the show to discuss his latest venture, Resony Health. It’s a response to his own experience of burnout working as a financial consultant. Vinay navigates through the creation of Resony, a software as medical device platform that promises to improve accessibility to mental health services. The app, backed by some of the best elements of cognitive behavioural therapy, offers users a 6-week programme to manage anxiety, reduce stress and build resilience. Ravi is no stranger to entrepreneurship, with his disruptive mindset, he has begun several ventures including a farm to fork agribusiness and a perinatal mental health company. Discover: How Ravi began Resony Health after a career in financial consulting How his own burnout led to his committing his career to tackling mental health How Resony Health provides a simple evidence-based 6-week mental health programme to reduce anxiety Why out of around 25K mental health apps, Resony is one of the few undergone regulatory scrutiny as a medical device How his passion for accessibility drives his work How the core of accessibility is to support a digital approach so clinicians can more easily priortise moderate to severe cases How CBT and body-based work have become its core How users can measure and monitor their program using validated clinical questionnaires How Ravi chose clinical outcomes over business models that encouraged long-term subscriptions How Resony Health is the first digital therapeutic company to be issued with a research recommendation from the NHS How Resony Health has secured clinical outcomes at a tenth of the cost of mainstream therapy Guest: Ravi Janapureddy Website: https://www.resony.health/ Host: Dr Vinay Shankar Website: https://www.oncedaily.co Podcast: 15 Minutes With The Doctor…
1 63: Fertility Mapper: How to help patients navigate the fertility treatment journey? With CEO Kaleigh Hartigan 24:13
On this episode, Kaleigh Hartigan, CEO and founder who has created fertility mapper joins the show. It’s powered by user reviews and provides clarity to those seeking fertility treatments. Kaleigh also reveals their newest tool to help those pursuing NHS support for fertility. The NHS IVF tool, breaks down complex criteria, to offer any person who needs it a comprehensive understanding of their eligibility for NHS treatment. Having worked extensively in the NHS and also the WHO before developing Fertility Mapper, she advised private equity firms on health investments. Going on to adult social care, her experience, seeing those struggling to find support, prompted her entrepreneurial streak. Hear about her previous roles and learnings, how their platform empowers people looking for fertility support, how they built and plan to grow in the future. Discover: How Kayleigh began a 20-year stint in health, including roles at WHO and with NHS England How she began Fertility Mapper to empower people on their fertility journey Why she developed an NHS IVF eligibility calculator & the fertility clinic review system How her work in private equity revealed the different players in the delivery of healthcare Why she decided not to move into chronic conditions despite her experience in digital health What the process of finding and receiving fertility treatment looks like for most patients How the Fertility Mapper website provides people with a cadre of support and information How Fertility Mapper seeks personalised feedback from patients on their fertility journey How they structure their patient feedback through a review and metric system How Fertility Mapper reviews are raising standards at Fertility Clinics How they’re creating a system of financial transparency in clinics How they’re deciphering policy documents for universal access to fertility treatment Her thoughts on digital and the women’s health arena What the future of her product and its uses in other areas of health Guest: Kaleigh Hartigan Website: www.fertilitymapper.com Host: Dr Vinay Shankar Website: https://www.oncedaily.co Podcast: 15 Minutes With The Doctor…
On this episode, we have CEO Bruce Elliot from Memory Lane games. It all started as a chat in a humble pub with his co-founder, where they began to discuss their own mothers and how much joy they gained from reminiscing over old photos. Recognising the value of conversation for those with dementia and cognitive decline, they have utilised a gamification model with photos and images in an app. Learn about the journey to over 50k downloads and users in 100 countries, how they can utilise digital biomarkers in neurological conditions, how working with the Mayo clinic in the USA is helping to scale the platform and the story behind their popular game about the iconic London underground. Discover: How Bruce’s wisdom was developed during the dot.com boom How visual, cognitive, and emotional stimuli is connected to fine motor skills How stimulating memories on Vancouver and Sheffield, led to over 3000 games for those with dementia How users can search for recognisable cities from across the world to use the app How their premium service uses family photos and data How collaborating with the Alzheimer Association helped them test and modify the app How the games are designed to encourage conversation, not high scores How an elderly patient was able to overcome a traumatic experience using the app How the app can maintain or reduce the severity of symptoms in patients How collaborations with Mayo Clinic and Arizona State University is scaling their product How the app can track deteriorations in users with 7 clinical data points How their game play data has the potential to serve as healthcare data for early interventions How hyper-personalisation is what keeps the app competitive Guest: Bruce Elliot LinkedIn: Memory Lane Games Website: https://memorylanegamesdirect.com/ Host: Dr Vinay Shankar Website: https://www.oncedaily.co Podcast: 15 Minutes With The Doctor…
1 61: Reimagining the community nursing journey for patients & nurses using tech with Kelly Klifa from Ally Health 21:54
On this episode, CEO and co-founder Kelly Klifa joins the show to discuss Ally Health. It’s a company that uses digital scheduling with a track and trace type system to bring clinical care to the home. No stranger to entrepreneurship, she is the founder of Testing for All, a company with an annual turnover of £29 million, which became the leading Covid-19 platform for connecting laboratories and home testing. They started with just one partner, and ended with eight labs processing between 8K and 10K tests a day. Ally Health utilises a similar tech to ensure that community nursing workflow is optimised replacing traditional systems that meet demand with less efficiently. It also brings the ability for patients to have real-time updates about their nursing visits. Discover: How Kelly developed her first successful venture, Testing for All through the pandemic How her mission to make Testing for All accessible and affordable succeeded How they built real-time integrations across the logistical journey for transparency How the development of Testing for All and the experience of Covid-19 led to the creation of Ally Health How the limits of remote healthcare and the importance of nursing led them to Ally Health How Ally Health can replace an inefficient paper-based system for mobile and community nursing How they created a platform to aggregate nurses and create an on-demand scheduling system How their solution can help support nurses with their workload by helping to get nurses in the right places which suit their competences How homebound patients are now able to track their nurse visits with up-to-date visibility How for agency nurses the platform creates a ‘gig economy’ to improve their access to work How the platform is reducing admin work in the NHS How their current pathways include preventative medicine and preoperative care How they’re moving towards offering a supply-based resource search for nursing Guest: Kelly Klifa LinkedIn: Ally Health Website: Ally Health Host: Dr Vinay Shankar Website: https://www.oncedaily.co Podcast: 15 Minutes With The Doctor…
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1 60: Better than paper? A digital surgical consent platform with Dr Patrick Hart from Concentric Health 22:52
On this episode Dr Patrick Hart joins the show, he is the clinical operations lead at Concentric Health. We delve into how Concentric is pioneering change in surgical operations and procedures. It streamlines how patients and clinicians navigate the consent process, reducing errors and delays in operations, integrating with electronic health record systems, and ultimately leading to better informed patients. The company is the market leader for digital consent in the UK, offering standardised consent forms for over 2000 operations across various NHS hospitals. Discover: How Patrick pivoted from medical training to health technology How he became a ‘founder associate’ at Concentric and what responsibilities and opportunities it has offered How Concentric Health was developed by surgeons frustrated with archaic paper-based patient forms How this digital solution prevents basic errors in information that can cause delays and cancellations How increased medical-legal cases over the last 15 years have prompted a discussion on the field of consent in medicine How the current organisational structure of colour coding consent forms often leaves clinicians stressed and overworked How junior doctors and staff have praised the platform for providing standardised information at their fingertips How a medical professional uses the platform and the customisable options they have available How enhancing patient conversations not replacing them is the focus of digitalisation How their internal monitoring continues to make the product more efficient for users How their biggest competitor became the status quo, not a competing product How Concentric are using several access touchpoints to make integration as seamless as possible Guest: Dr Patrick Hart Website: https://concentric.health/ Host: Dr Vinay Shankar Website: https://www.oncedaily.co Podcast: 15 Minutes With The Doctor…
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On this episode, Vinay is joined by co-founder Umaima Ahmad, to discuss their startup 52North and their ambitious tech that powers a life-saving product. Neutrocheck is device for those undergoing chemotherapy and who are at risk of neutropenic sepsis. With a background in financial law, Umaima and her team of co-founders were inspired to solve a problem that is a serious side-effect for those needing crucial treatment for cancer. Hear all about their journey to creating the product and how it all took off after a small grant of only ten thousand pounds. Discover: How Umaima’s mid-career Masters led to the development of 52North How her background as a financial lawyer gave her the transferable skills to become an entrepreneur How a Cambridge University mentorship programme offered them their first investment How they developed a product to diagnose neutropenic sepsis, a common side effect of chemotherapy without unnecessary A&E visits How Neutrocheck, their product and app, can save time, money, and lives in cancer care How using COVID-19 lateral flow kits as a stimulus helped them brainstorm a solution for diagnosing Neutropenic Sepsis How branching out into digital and AI is being tempered by targets for accessibility and health equity How patient feedback and input from medical professionals has been essential in building the solution How they became the first product to be fully endorsed by the MacMillan Cancer Trust in 100 years How Neutrocheck could reduce costs to the NHS by around £70 million How they are beginning to explore new avenues for detecting disease using their portable low-cost device Guest: Umaima Ahmad Website: https://52north.health/ Host: Dr Vinay Shankar Website: https://www.oncedaily.co Podcast: 15 Minutes With The Doctor…
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15 Minutes With The Doctor: Learn from Healthcare Entrepreneurs and Innovators
1 58: Can you optimise your health before surgery with an app? With Adam Robinson from Surgery Hero 21:55
On this episode, Adam Robinson joins the show to share how his diverse background including working with Tesco and Spotify, led him to found Surgery Hero. The company was developed to tackle mental and physical issues that can reduce the effectiveness of surgery due to various aspects such as anxiety, weight management, alcohol use and more. They provide their patients with education, coaching and digital tools that can reduce cancellations, hospital stays, and rehabilitation times. With the evidence showing that good perioperative care can improve patient outcomes by more than 50%, their goal is to have 100 million people have successful surgeries. Adam takes us through the targets for the business, their vision for the expansion of the product, and how his own experience impacted the development of the product. Discover:: How working with Tesco became one of the most creative times of his career His thoughts on what companies understand about the necessity of UX/UI His impressions on digital transformation in healthcare & the NHS How they noticed a gap in the market for supporting surgical procedures How they connected perioperative care and lifestyle changes with patient outcomes How Surgery Hero is delivered as a ‘B to B to C’ model through their app What you’d expect to find on the Surgery Hero app if you were facing a surgical procedure How Wayne Rooney and Brad Pitt fit into their user design! How they’re using behavioural change methods to foster lifestyle changes in the app How they’ve built a market in the UK across 12 NHS sites Guest: Adam Robinson Website: https://www.surgeryhero.com/ Host: Dr Vinay Shankar Website: https://www.oncedaily.co Podcast: 15 Minutes With The Doctor…
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1 57: Do we really need precision medicine for our drug prescriptions? With Athena Doshi, founder of Celeste 22:58
On this episode, Vinay Shankar is joined by Athena Doshi, founder of Celeste, a medication diagnostic tool. The company aims to tackle the gender gap in health, to provide prescriptions that fit physiology to improve outcomes in women’s health. Celeste aims not only to bridge the gap, but decrease wastage and eliminate the time it takes to treat a patient with the optimal drug. The platform works seamlessly with healthcare systems to provide a holistic approach to diagnostics and prescriptions. Learn all about it, and why Athena believes the ExactRx platform is a crucial infrastructure piece for healthcare systems. Learn about: How she began her first company at college as a response to a medical mission trip in Tanzania How she is using the principle of co-design to develop Celeste as a holistic standard of care How Celeste is addressing the gender data health gap and its disproportionate impact on women How Celeste’s diagnostic tool called ExactRx, is addressing the experiences patients have with medication to produce better health outcomes How the tool automates existing guidelines How the underpinning research for Celeste is pharmacometabolomics, an area the co-founder specialises in How Celeste can be used by clinicians to better inform their prescriptions How Athena is focussed on pitching Celeste as an infrastructure system for healthcare systems Guest: Athena Doshi Website: Celeste Host: Dr Vinay Shankar Website: https://www.oncedaily.co Podcast: 15 Minutes With The Doctor…
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15 Minutes With The Doctor: Learn from Healthcare Entrepreneurs and Innovators
1 56: How to use a digital health platform to effectively prescribe exercise? With Louise O’Mahony from EXi 23:04
On this episode we have Louise O'Mahony, who is the head of customer success at EXI. She shares her transformative journey from managing exercise referral services to working with the National Diabetes Prevention Program and now working on the EXI platform. EXI has been built to integrate with existing technologies to create a seamless pathway to prescribing exercise and holistic fitness. The app simplifies the task of prescribing exercise for people, including those with long-term conditions, acknowledging all achievements. The data leveraged from the app is designed to help medical professionals review exercise regimes easily while continually refining the AI in the platform for better outcomes. On the show, you will discover:: Louise’s background in exercise and nutrition How the EXI platform works and its approach to prescription-based fitness How the word ‘prescription’ is influencing the role that exercise plays in health How market research plays a crucial role in patient engagement Louise discusses EXI’s decision to become a Class 1 medical device How rewards on the EXI platform are used to promote healthy behaviours How employers using the platform are exploring new opportunities for their employees Louise touches on the benefits of human connection to improve health outcomes How setting achievable goals is an essential part of healthy lifestyle changes Guest: Louise O'Mahony Website: https://www.exi.life/ Host: Dr Vinay Shankar Website: https://www.oncedaily.co…
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1 55: From Echo to Phlo: How to build a new digital pharmacy world? with Alistair Murray from Phlo 21:49
On this episode, we welcome Alastair Murray who is the chief pharmacist at Phlo. He was started his healthtech journey at Echo, the digital pharmacy that was later acquired by Lloyds Pharmacy. Phlo aims to provide a safer, error-free prescriptions-based system. Its API creates seamless connections with existing client’s software and the distinctive Phlo Connect system uses AI to track availability, stock, and price. Learn all about Alistair’s journey, the experiences he gained scaling Echo, how Phlo works and their unique tech, and their ambitious plans to transform medication dispensing. On the show, you will discover:: How Alastair began working in the pharmacy world His insights on Phlo, a digital prescribing platform How utilising modern technology is an essential part of modernising healthcare The key differences between Phlo’s proprietary Phlo Connect data system and paper-based methods How the API system and safety protocols they’ve developed ensure consumer safety How finding a team of like-minded has been a challenge for Phlo How Phlo has developed various points of contact for patients And much more… Guest: Alastair Murray Website: https://wearephlo.com/ Host: Dr Vinay Shankar Website: https://www.oncedaily.co…
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On this episode, Dr Peter Fish, the CEO of Mendelian joins the show. Their mission is to make it easier for clinicians to diagnose rare diseases. Their AI based platform can sift through medical records to discover more than 100 rare conditions. As a serial entrepreneur, he has built and invested in various tech companies, combining his medical background with his passion for the tech industry. Learn about his investment experience starting at the age of 18, why they created the product, how it works, their journey to development, and their ambitious plans for addressing rare diseases, which seem to be not as rare as we think. On the show, you’ll find out: Peter’s background and experience in molecular genetics How he became a serial entrepreneur in South Africa at just 18 What Peter learnt from failures and success in entrepreneurship How optimism and a can-do attitude are essential attributes for entrepreneurs How Mendelian began life in California with a few software engineers and a clinician How they decided to tackle the ‘diagnostic odyssey’ affecting those with rare diseases How research into disease and genetics mean that rare diseases may become more prevalent in the future How MendelScan is identifying patients with patterns of symptoms to provide better diagnosis and/or treatment How all their algorithms use deep clinical data in their iterations How their NHS pilots have allowed them to scan 700 000 patient files records so far How their work earned them the NHS AI Award 2023 Guest: Dr Peter Fish Website: https://www.mendelian.co/ Host: Dr Vinay Shankar Website: https://www.oncedaily.co…
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15 Minutes With The Doctor: Learn from Healthcare Entrepreneurs and Innovators
On this episode we have Dom Raban, the CEO of Xploro, a digital therapeutics platform. As a result of his daughter developing and then beating cancer as a child, he was inspired to create the company to help young people better understand their health condition. The platform uses augmented reality, games, chatbots, and AI to deliver health content to children and young adults in a more meaningful way. This improves satisfaction and health outcomes. Learn about his design background, developing the product, the key features and research, expanding into world markets, and how they plan to bring the product to adults. On the show, you’ll find out: How Dom began his career in design and UX in the 80s How his daughter's cancer diagnosis inspired the development of Xploro How noticing his daughter’s resistance to treatment was a consequence of little to no age-appropriate information How Xploro's uses 3D avatars to improve a child's care & understanding How games, gamification and AR can help a children’s familiarity with their diagnosis and treatment How Xploro’s content is based on research into improved prognosis based on informed patients How content is created in partnership with children and medical professionals How their subscription fee is based on content configuration and not number of users The differences between the US and the UK market in patient care The future of the product for both children and young adults into 2024 Guest: Dom Raban Website: https://www.xploro.health/ Host: Dr Vinay Shankar Website: https://www.oncedaily.co…
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15 Minutes With The Doctor: Learn from Healthcare Entrepreneurs and Innovators
In this episode, Vinay talks to Brian Plackis Cheng, CEO of OpenRad, a teleradiology service. The company brings radiology reporting services to the cloud. It enables all medical imaging interpretation to happen remotely, allows easier collaboration with clinical colleagues and patients can access their scans through the patient portal. Brian is a specialist in scaling tech companies, with a deep passion for defining the future of radiology. As a serial entrepreneur, he has brought his expertise in AI, the cloud and online media to OpenRad. On the show you’ll find out: What is OpenRad? How OpenRad was designed to tackle the growing shortage of radiologists The need to improve access to radiologists remotely and across the world How traditional reporting is moving to the cloud to aid collaboration How patient portals can lead to empowerment How automation and AI can help the healthcare workforce How solutions like OpenRad can decrease burnout and increase workload distribution Brian’s experience in developing cloud-based apps and elderly care How AI is becoming an important tool in diagnostics How OpenRad has the capacity to create huge savings for hospitals Brian Plackis Cheng: Brian Plackis Cheng: Website: https://www.openrad.com/ Host: Dr Vinay Shankar Website: https://www.oncedaily.co iTunes: 15 Minutes With The Doctor Spotify: 15 Minutes With The Doctor…
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1 51: The CUE1 wearable, an effective non-drug treatment for Parkinson’s with Lucy from Charco Neurotech 22:53
Lucy Jung is the CEO of Charco Neurotech, a start-up that has created a non-invasive device for improving symptoms of Parkinson’s disease. The CUE1 device uses vibrotactile stimulation through a small electronic device placed on the chest. It’s a unique device inspired by the famous neurologist Dr Charcot and already has 16 000 patients on the waiting list. Learn about her story starting from developing the product while doing her Masters at Imperial College London, her focus on using tech to help with long-term conditions, and all the detail about developing the product. On the show, you’ll discover: How Lucy believes in the power of tech to improve quality of life How meeting a man with Parkinson’s changed her research focus How she developed Charco Neurotech’s mission statement How keeping patients at the centre of their work drives innovation How the CUE1 works and its development from interview-based research How the device uses vibrotactile stimulation How users have reported better balance, posture, decreased tremors and better sleep What challenges Charco Neurotech faced and overcame Lucy’s advice for other healthtech entrepreneurs Guest: Lucy Jung Website: https://charconeurotech.com Host: Dr Vinay Shankar Website: https://www.oncedaily.co iTunes: 15 Minutes With The Doctor Spotify: 15 Minutes With The Doctor…
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On this episode, we have Lisa Patel, who is the CEO and co-founder of the drug discovery & development company Istesso. They work in the emerging field of immunometabolism, harnessing the connection between immunology & metabolism to help a patient return to their natural rhythm. Lisa wanted to further her passion to eliminate conditions like rheumatoid arthritis by creating a ‘first in class’ medication that could change the way we treat autoimmune conditions. Hear about her experiences from working at a world-class pharma company, her views on being mentioned in a leading financial column, the role of big tech in drug discovery and her advice for entrepreneurs in the STEM field. On the show, you’ll find out: How Lisa’s experience at GlaxoSmithKline helped her start Istesso How Istesso has successfully gained support from Innovate UK How Lisa’s motivation to create efficient and effective medical solutions is powering Istesso’s work How patient care became a driving force of drug development at Istesso How she developed an arsenal of new skills as an entrepreneur How restoring the body’s ‘natural rhythm’ is a core part of immunometabolism research How Istesso is developing a new drug that could replace a common drug with many side effects used to treat rheumatoid arthritis Her passion for solving the ongoing symptoms of patients suffering from autoimmune diseases How deep tech and AI are helping in clinical trials and drug research Her advice for women wanting to enter STEM careers or become entrepreneurs in the field LinkedIn: Lisa Patel Website: https://istesso.co.uk/ Host: Dr Vinay Shankar Website: https://www.oncedaily.co iTunes: 15 Minutes With The Doctor Spotify: 15 Minutes With The Doctor…
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1 49: How did a digital health blockchain startup lead to a telemedicine platform? With Dr Abdullah Albeyatti 23:59
Dr Abdullah Albeyatti is a GP and founder of two healthtech companies. Medicalchain harnesses blockchain technology to provide patients with access to their medical records on multiple levels of healthcare, removing barriers and enabling patients to be at the centre of their health. MyClinic is a telemedical solution created within three weeks of the Covid pandemic starting. It is now used in 78 countries and has unique clinician-inspired features. Discover the lessons learned through his entrepreneur journey, his insights on the intersection of medicine and tech, and the importance of empowering patients. On the show, you’ll discover: How Dr Albeyatti found his calling as a GP in 2018 How challenging systems were essential to becoming an entrepreneur His experience in a Leeds Cardiology department where he built his website to standardise discharge summaries How standardising discharge forms led to the development of Medicalchain How Medicalchain helped create patient partnerships with doctors How patient-held health records empower patients How using Blockchain ensures the authenticity of medical records How they developed MyClinic into a virtual waiting room for patients and practitioners What Dr Abdullah has learned in over five years in Healthtech and as a digital health entrepreneur How networks, whether employees or mentors are essential parts of your success Get to grips with how Dr Abdullah Albeyetti became a two-time founder – putting his logical brain to the task of creating more effective and efficient processes for medical systems worldwide. LinkedIn:Dr Abdullah Ableyatti Website: https://medicalchain.com Website: https://www.myclinic.com Connect with Vinay: Vinay Shankar Website: https://www.oncedaily.co iTunes: 15 Minutes With The Doctor Spotify: 15 Minutes With The Doctor…
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1 48: How to go deeper with AI to reduce missed healthcare appointments in the NHS? With Dr Benyamin Deldar from Deep Medical 17:47
On this episode, we have Benyamin, a Doctor and co-founder of Deep Medical. He developed the idea for the company in 2020 alongside his co-founder, David Hanbury, who is an AI engineer. They wanted to help utilise appointments in healthcare more efficiently while being focused on finding solutions that were people-centred. Using AI, Deep Medical is designed to better understand human behaviour and predict who might be at risk of missing their appointments with 90% accuracy. We talk about Benyamin’s journey to developing the product, how the product works, their current rollout and their ongoing ambition to reduce health inequalities. On the show, you’ll find out: Benyamin’s experience as a junior doctor How he started his own business in standardising care How he’s used AI and a patient-centric approach to find out how to prevent missed appointments How Benyamin found medicine despite a love of Maths & Economics How he found radiology through his passion for digital innovation How moving to the US allowed him to assess a tech-based approach to medicine How looking at demographic data helped him understand the barriers to appointment attendance How inequality, class and local environments are key to AI-based appointment allocation How he and his co-founder David combined their knowledge of machine learning and clinical care to develop Deep Medical and much much more! Website: http://www.deep-medical.ai/ LinkedIn: Dr Benyamin Deldar LinkedIn: David Hanbury Connect with Vinay: Vinay Shankar Website: https://www.oncedaily.co/ Podcast: 15 Minutes With The Doctor…
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Dr Anas Nader is the Co-Founder of Patchwork Health, a digital solution that connects NHS organisations to an increasing number of healthcare workers, reducing dependency on locum agencies and improving the experience of flexible working in the NHS. Learn about Anas's career journey, which he currently describes as three acts in a theatre show, why he left medicine, how they built and tested their tech at a large hospital and some key learning points on their digital health start-up journey so far. Patchwork Health is a healthcare cloud-based workforce management application. Patchwork Health offers digital tools for rota creation, e-rostering, employee engagement, management of temporary staffing banks, collaborative staff banks, and vendor management. In addition, the clinical community is a source of extra capacity. "People are to be treated with the level of value and respect that they deserve, including giving them the choice and empowerment to make a choice for themselves of how to work and where to work." Patchwork Health works with over 60 NHS partners across the UK to solve workforce issues since the medical career flexibility for clinicians who want to develop their multi-potentiality. They put flexibility and humanism at the centre of staffing systems through their end-to-end workforce management. Doctors in collaboration with the NHS created it to save millions in recruiting agency fees and enhancing interaction with healthcare professionals. Patchwork Health https://www.patchwork.health/ Book a chat with Vinay at https://www.oncedaily.co/about/ Once Daily: How do you build culture and grow your digital health team? Once Daily: Can tech help with staffing issues in the NHS?…
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1 46: Cinapsis, a healthtech platform supercharging how clinicians connect with Dr Owain Rhys Hughes 18:35
Owain is a former NHS surgeon and founder at Cinapsis. It’s communications platform that enables GPs and clinicians to access support from specialists easily. Doctors can access the service through an app or directly through their primary care electronic health record system like EMIS or Systmone. It saves time, improves the patient journey and can save money. What you will learn in this episode: What is Cinapsis? Cinapsis is a clinical communication platform that makes it easy for clinicians to communicate and securely share information. Typically, those are clinicians who work in different organisations. The most common example is a GP or a nurse in the community who wants to get advice from a consultant who works in their local hospital. So it's used within and between hospitals. What distinguishes it from other platforms? The focus is on user experience. The platform is where you get advice without thinking about how to get it. It is quick and easy, and everything is automatically recorded into the patient record. So, for example, it's effortless to take a picture on your mobile and send it to a consultant to have a conversation. Tech Integration in the NHS Integration took time. The platform wasn't integrated during its first launch. It only works if it integrates on the primary care side and secondary care side and with all NHS systems. How to Build Good Tech in Primary Care Listening to the people who use the technology is crucial, and it is an ongoing process. Clinicians tend to make the worst mistakes. But, they just make and find workarounds. Ask your users about their problems, and keep checking and improving. Some clinicians are really good at giving feedback, but many are too busy. So it's about listening and having empathy. The Future of Cinapsis The problem that Cinapsis is solving is enabling clinicians to get advice for patients quickly. Over the next five years, getting that right will transform how patients receive care. Making communication between clinicians in all parts of the health system as easy and as smooth as possible is a big challenge for the next five years. Get to know more about Cinapsis better by visiting their website at www.cinapsis.org Book a chat with Vinay at https://www.oncedaily.co/about/ Once Daily: https://www.oncedaily.co/can-tech-help-solve-burnout-in-healthcare-professionals/…
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Ben is a family dentist, and the founder of the Brush DJ app. Inspired in his early career, he created an app bringing together music and the simplicity of brushing teeth for two minutes into an app downloaded almost half a million times. He shares how he created it from mockups using a ruler and compass, how he has hundreds of 5-star reviews with almost no marketing spend, and his ongoing passion for improving oral health. What you will learn in this episode: What is Brush DJ? Brush DJ is a free smartphone app developed by dentist Ben Underwood that plays two-minute music from the user’s streaming device to make brushing teeth fun. It also has features wherein you can set reminders for brushing twice a day, flossing, and even a reminder on when to see a dentist, hygienist, and many more. Where did the idea of Brush DJ come from? The idea started in the 90s when Ben was a dental student. He had a patient who wasn’t cleaning their teeth very well, so they tried different methods for motivation. Finally, they came up with the idea of listening to a song while brushing their teeth. What’s the scale of the problem? There is a huge problem for children who require general anaesthetic due to the removal of teeth due to decay. It’s a global problem affecting adults too. What was the design process for Brush DJ? When it comes to its user interface, he wanted to make it accessible. Ben drew the design personally using a ruler and a compass, creating a variety of mockups. The app was built for both Android and iOS devices. How is Brush DJ funded? Ben personally invested money into building the application, and he also had the opportunity to get a grant from NHS Innovation Accelerator Program and SBRI. In addition, they recently did some work with Health Innovation Manchester, where they built an e-learning package for non-dental health care professionals. What is Brush DJ’s current performance? Brush DJ has reached approx. half a million downloads. The app also had the opportunity to reach about 270 countries and is extremely popular, with users leaving very positive reviews. Are there any plans to incorporate other features? Ben mentioned that he wants to add more about behaviour change techniques. They want the app to have behavioural techniques. He also wants to improve the design and improve the app for the better. Get to know more about Brush DJ Platform better by visiting their website at https://www.brushdj.com/ Book a chat with Vinay at https://www.oncedaily.co/about/ Once Daily: https://www.oncedaily.co/is-the-digital-health-startup-journey-just-like-a-game-of-snakes-ladders/…
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Grace Gimson is the co-founder of Holly Health, a coaching app to support wellbeing. Grace came from a family of engineers and is naturally drawn to solving problems through creating products or services. The unsolved issues surrounding the health industry attracted her to build Holly Health. Learn about her story, how it all works, their challenges and their vision. What you will learn in this episode: What is Holly Health? Holly Health is a digital app that aims to help people by being their personal lifestyle coach. It provides support in everyday life and guides people to proactive health. Holly bird will be your friend and a personal coach. At first, it will be asking a few questions to build a profile. Next, this will lead to Holly bird providing suggestions based on previous research and evidence. Finally, it will provide coaching, reflection exercises, meditations, and articles to help you have proactive health. How does Holly bird work? Holly Bird will ask about sleep, mental health, diet, one's connection with food, and physical activity. It then aims to develop a prioritisation system depending on your motives and where you are right now. Lastly, it will help to encourage the person based on that information. Are there any expected pilot or research outcomes? There have been studies. They've seen excellent outcomes in reducing problematic eating habits, stress eating, and sustainable weight management. They are also focusing on sleep behaviours. They've begun a series of trial projects with GP surgeries across the country, and they want to collect more clinical outcomes from patients. What are the ambitions for 2-3 years? They'd like to make these treatments available to patients across the country, whether through weight management programs with a more psychological approach or mental health and eating disorder services. They developed it digitally yet welcoming and individualised to reach as many people as possible. What are the struggles? Challenges are inevitable. One of them is the process of education for clinicians and NHS commissioners. Nevertheless, they have been establishing some approaches to new evidence and applying mindfulness-based techniques to lifestyle behaviours. Get to know more about Holly Health better by visiting their website at https://hollyhealth.io/. Connect with Grace Gimson on LinkedIn or email her at grace@hollyhealth.io Book a chat with Vinay Once Daily: https://www.oncedaily.co/how-to-design-a-digital-health-chatbot-with-a-human-touch/…
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On this episode, Manuel Opitz, a serial healthtech entrepreneur returns to the show. After continued growth at Mercuris, a 3D prosthetics startup, he has now started work on a Deepeye. An AI platform that supports ophthalmologists make important therapeutic decisions in blindness causing health conditions such as age-related macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy. Learn how he got involved, the specifics of the platform, gaining investment and contracts and his personal story. What you will learn in this episode: What is Deepeye? Deepeye empowers ophthalmologists by using an AI model trained on thousands of images. It helps doctors understand the optimal time and frequency to give injections that can help prevent blindness. While ophthalmologists are already exceptional in this aspect, 15% of therapeutic decisions can have errors which has a cost of 1.7 billion. Is this precision medicine? Exactly, it’s a second opinion on a very individualised basis. In the end, the decision must be made by the ophthalmologist, the retina specialist. Deepeye is using OCT (optical coherence tomography) data, a live 3D retinal scan of the patient, and it's painless, fast, and accurate compared to many other diagnostic support tools or imaging modalities. Is this precision medicine? Exactly, it’s a second opinion on a very individualised basis. In the end, the decision must be made by the ophthalmologist, the retina specialist. Deepeye is using OCT (optical coherence tomography) data, a live 3D retinal scan of the patient, and it's painless, fast, and accurate compared to many other diagnostic support tools or imaging modalities. What drew Manuel to this startup? Manuel has family affected by age-related macular degeneration, this personal aspect and the fact that 12% of the population in Europe and US are affected by eye conditions that can cause blindness attracted him to the project. He was approached by the group of ophthalmologists who had pioneered the research. Any potential cost savings of using the tool? One aspect is saving cost on injections, as anti-VEGF therapy costs around 2000 euros. If you save some injections, 1 or 2%, that's already very good given the numbers of people affected. But the bigger lever is under therapy. That's the major issue, according to studies. It's less about cost-saving by saving drug use. It's more about cost-saving by improving quality of life by reducing under treatment. “We do the therapy to prevent much higher costs for the entire healthcare system. But of course, also to safeguard the vision for the patient. If you ask around the most fearful loss of the sense that you could have in your entire life, more than 70% of all people would answer it's their vision, and most people are really afraid of losing" their vision.” How did Manuel get the first contract and the first investment? They are fortunate that they have close contact with several industry participants. Thanks to the ophthalmologists who have been working on the project for the past three to four years. They closed a recent deal with a pharma company. Recently, they also started their fundraising round, and they are now reaching out to a lot of potential investors who have a track record in scaling, either in ophthalmology or precision medicine. Links: Deepeye's Website: https://deepeye.ai/ Connect with Manuel Opitz on LinkedIn Connect with Vinay Shankar on Once Daily Once Daily: https://www.oncedaily.co/ai-in-healthcare-how-to-use-retinal-images-to-prevent-vision-loss/…
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1 42: A smart cane created for & by the visually impaired community with Jean Marc from WeWALK 21:46
John Marc is the Head of R&D at WeWALK, a startup with the ultimate vision to be a platform that unites the visually impaired community and improves societal integration through mobility. It has created a smart cane and a companion app to bring tech advancements to the standard white cane. Learn about all the features, their design and development processes, their collaborations with companies such as Microsoft, the assistive tech market, and more. What you will learn in this episode: What is WeWALK? WeWALK is an intelligent cane that is intended to enhance and add value to a long white cane. WeWALK preserved everything that makes the white cane excellent but improved it by replacing the handle and adding value-added tech features like an ultrasonic sensor for upper body obstacle detection (ex. low hanging tree branches). WeWALK has also developed a smartphone application, which can be used to get comprehensive navigation and more. What were the difficulties John Marc faced with the standard white cane as a visually impaired individual? To move around with a conventional white cane, users need six or seven specific applications - one for public transportation, one for strolling, and so on, which can be disorienting. Sometimes, you find yourself colliding with boxes or accidentally being caught with things at the bottom that the cane fails to detect. WeWALK has taken the most significant parts of previous apps and jammed them into one interface to make it more accessible. As a result, high-contrast text, larger font sizes, specific instructions, and complete voiceover compatibility are all available options. How difficult was it to create the features, and what did the user research tell you? It’s challenging to find a one-size-fits-all solution. Instead, you must engage with the community. WeWALK has been engaging and interacting with users since the device’s conception. Every customer who purchases one goes through an induction process. The user team contacts these consumers to find out what’s working for them and what’s not. That feedback cycle continuously loops back to their developers and the entire team to make improvements. What is WeWALK looking to achieve in development & what is the market size for assistive tech? The global market for assistive technology is valued at more than $17.5 billion. It’s a market that keeps expanding. Visual impairment is often a result of an ageing population, a natural result of population expansion, so you get a 16 percent market growth every year. As a result, there is a definite demand. Vision impairment isn’t going to go away on its own. WeWALK aims to develop the appropriate tools for society, such as safety and mission-critical tools, to assist those with visual impairments in leading more satisfying lives. Day by day, WeWALK seeks to meet the needs of this industry, be it with their navigation system, multimodal system, exploration system, or even their health character. Links: Website: https://wewalk.io/ Connect with Vinay Shankar on LinkedIn Once Daily: https://www.oncedaily.co/ai-in-healthcare-how-to-use-retinal-images-to-prevent-vision-loss/…
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15 Minutes With The Doctor: Learn from Healthcare Entrepreneurs and Innovators
Dr Piya Sorcar is the founder of TeachAids. She leads a team of world experts developing public health education content used in 82 countries. In this episode, we discuss Crashcourse, an education tool that aims to reduce the effect of concussions through interactive and virtual reality digital content. Learn about her journey, funding, creating compelling digital content and how universities, athletes and more are engaged in the initiative. What you will learn from this episode: What made TeachAids focus on developing CrashCourse? After expanding HIV education, TeachAids looked to researchers to think about the problems of tomorrow. They studied history and learned that cybersecurity, sexual abuse and sexual assault, and concussions were three key areas. They focused on concussions, initially in athletes, because more than three million sports and recreation-related concussions occur annually. Unfortunately, most people don’t report them, and that leads to further injury. What are the products in the Crashcourse suite? The very first product is Crashcourse football. It has all the embedded messages about everything that you would need to know for concussions. It starts during an intense football game with a packed audience. The second product is the Brain Fly, which is in video as well as virtual reality. TeachAids partnered with Stanford University’s neurosurgical simulation and virtual reality centre to create an actual life through the human brain, showing the brain’s blood and nervous system. And the third product is the Concussion Story Wall Website, an interactive database with more than 4000 video narratives from those injured and impacted by concussions. How does TeachAids fund its projects? TeachAids is 100% a nonprofit. All of the products are made available for free, and most of the people they have are volunteers. All of the experts they had and all of the celebrities and athletes involved have all volunteered. What is the WHY of your volunteers? What almost everyone has pointed to is the quality of the products. People want to be engaged with something that feels like it’s going to have an impact. People get very excited to work on something that’s high quality, which then creates a broader reach. And also, motivation comes from within. Everyone who cares so much realises how much work the project is. So they only ask others that they know can truly invest in the work. “When it comes to giving, people can either give their money or give their time. - Vinay” What’s been one of the most influential and helpful resources for TeachAids? Human capital has been the most helpful. They give all of their products out for free, and they cost many millions of dollars to produce. And there’s no way that they could raise that many millions of dollars to make it. And so, it’s a lot of people donating different kinds of talent to make it happen. Links: Get to know more about TeachAids & CrashCourse by visiting their website at: https://teachaids.org/ Connect with Vinay Shankar on LinkedIn Once Daily: https://www.oncedaily.co/creating-engaging-digital-content-for-health-vr-in-healthcare/…
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15 Minutes With The Doctor: Learn from Healthcare Entrepreneurs and Innovators
Enric is the co-founder of LactApp, a mobile app that offers personalised answers to women struggling or needing breastfeeding support. The app is driven by a complex and well-designed “navigation system” populated with 76 000 questioning paths to provide more than 3000 unique answers using AI. Learn how an unforunate event led to the creation of the app, the features, how they create new content, their competitors, how they generate revenue and more. What you will learn from this episode: Why was the app developed? One of the Co-Founders, Maria, got into a car accident and found it challenging to breastfeed. Empowered by her unfortunate circumstance and realising that not every woman has a strong support system, the company was founded to bring that “support” to other women who have difficulties breastfeeding and with other pregnancy-related issues. Is the information about breastfeeding not already digitally accessible? There are three big keys to their success: information, support, and network. Information is about the verified sources, evidence, and data on breastfeeding, menstrual cycles, menopause and more. Support is all about the professional entities who can corroborate or verify the given information, like doctors and other health professionals. Network is the amalgamation of experience from other women who had been in the situation, it’s the community that helps personalise the system. What are its features? The app has a symptom checker or Q&A navigation system with different areas of consultation. The mother will tap on those areas. Depending on the mother and baby’s profile, the app can guide her, with the assistance of the symptom checker, it provides an answer that is unique and highly personalised. Through artificial intelligence, the app generates more content based on the questions asked by the user, and from there, builds it back to the system. How do you create all these paths, and how did you know these are the questions people are asking? The founding team and the rest of the team have more than 50 years of experience in one-on-one consultations and guiding women. Initially, they used notebooks and spreadsheets to populate questions. From there, they transitioned to using artificial intelligence that takes real-world implications into consideration. This way, they can create more content, more consultations, more paths, and eventually, more answers. Since the start, they surpassed 12 million consultations and currently handle over 100 000 consultations weekly. How do you generate revenue to make it sustainable? They have a brick-and-mortar clinic in Barcelona to do one-on-one activities, academic activities and bootstrapping to generate revenue. Added to that, corporates and health insurance companies are now starting to propose partnerships. They are also launching a premium version of the app that operates in a monthly subscription model. Links: Connect with Enric Pallarés on LinkedIn Connect with Vinay Shankar on LinkedIn Once Daily: https://www.oncedaily.co/lactapp-breastfeeding-app/…
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15 Minutes With The Doctor: Learn from Healthcare Entrepreneurs and Innovators
In this episode, Vinay is joined by Patricia, the founder of MYHIXEL. The company was founded in 2017 to improve male intimate wellness and to help men suffering from premature ejaculation. The product combines an app, a registered medical device and uses CBT concepts. Learn about the design and manufacture process, the research so far, and how the product uses gamification. What you will learn in this episode: What is MYHIXEL? MYHIXEL is a male sexual health brand that supports men suffering from premature ejaculation and difficulties with climax control. It combines science, tech and gamification. What’s the medical problem? Premature ejaculation is the most common male sexual dysfunction. 31% of men from 18 to 59 suffer from premature ejaculation at some point in their life. Also, climax control is one of the main concerns for men because they are worried about lasting longer in bed, and it is a common googled question. “We are also eliminating the barrier of those men that are feeling shame, or taboos when they have to face this condition because 80% of them don't want to go to a physical consultation because they feel shame. So we are creating something for them.” The product The solution combines a medical device, which is a male stimulation device combined with cognitive behavioural therapy for teaching men to control their body in the process of climaxing. The therapy has been translated into a mobile app that has been gamified and anonymised. During the research, how many trials have you done? The chief of research is Dr Rodriguez. He and his team started in 2014. They conducted a three case series and then a randomised control trial. In 2017, Patricia decided to bring to the table a group of engineers to the researchers who were working in the field. It was then they designed the specific device. Around 150 patients have participated in their study. But around 2000 men have tested their solution. What do you say to those critics who might say that this is just a toy? They realised that sexual health professionals were recommending the use of these kinds of products to their patients because they didn't have any specific tool for them. So from these conversations and research, Patricia decided to create and design something that met the needs of the health professionals and users. Links: Learn more and connect with Patricia: https://myhixel.com/ Connect with Vinay…
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15 Minutes With The Doctor: Learn from Healthcare Entrepreneurs and Innovators
George Batchelor is the Co-Founder and Director of Edge Health, a data-driven agency that helps healthcare providers be more efficient through better and more intelligent use of their data. The company has various data products that have supported various hospitals, charities and supported nationally with Covid-19 analytics. Learn about how they harness data to improve efficiency, how their journey started and why they value trust so much in their business. Key Messages: What is Edge Health? Edge Health started in 2017 to help the health service better use the data they routinely collect. Their work broadly covers a consultancy-type service and developing data products, which are tools that use the data collected to help with day-to-day decision-making. Why aren’t hospitals using their data effectively? It’s a combination of several things, and some of these areas are changing every day now. These data are often collected for different purposes almost routinely. For example, within an appointment booking system. The tools used often are not well suited for linking all of the data together. What are some of the data products that Edge Health uses? Edge Health saw an opportunity where they could use historical data that’s been collected to provide insight into booking processes. The company developed the data product Space Finder, a mini-software that runs routinely on the healthcare system, which sees outputs every time there’s new data. How accurate are the predictions that Edge Health makes about operating rooms? It’s very accurate because there’s so much data that’s being collected over the year. They look at factors such as the consultants, the operations, the patients, and basically anything they can get a hold of. They use machine learning algorithms, which allow them to take a massive amount of previously unmanageable data and make good sense of it and good predictions. How much does the Data Product cost? Edge Health has all of its data products on a framework called G-Cloud, which is publicly accessible. The space finder costs £ 36 000 to set up, which effectively continues indefinately. Hospitals can use that tool to enable their transformation program with one organisation saving £3 million. Advice for somebody setting up their own consultancy in healthcare Having solid relationships where you know what people want and giving them what they want is really helpful . Set up your infrastructure well at the start. What is the crucial factor for Edge Health? It’s Trust. Where is health tech in 5 years? There will be a degree of consolidation around the market offering. There will be more prominent organisations offering bigger suites of solutions. There’s a big question about how hospitals and new electronic patient records will evolve and how they will be accessible or not accessible to developers or organisations who can add a degree of intelligence to some of the databases they provide. Links: Connect with George Batchelor on LinkedIn Once Daily: https://www.oncedaily.co/healthcare-data-analysis/…
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15 Minutes With The Doctor: Learn from Healthcare Entrepreneurs and Innovators
In this episode, Vinay is joined by Manuel Opitz, the Co-Founder of Mecuris, a digital workshop to create orthotics & prosthesis to save cost and time, and be more patient-centred. He aims to link the gap between digital manufacturing and medical technology. Learn about their platform, how the platform is being used to help 3D printing, and their plans for growth. What you will learn in this episode: What is Mecuris? Mecuris is a provider of medical services to help medical practitioners and orthotists digitalise their manufacturing process. Through 3D tech, Mecuris can create an orthosis process, from posture correction of a user scan, to modelling and configuration. It translates the traditional process into digital workflows and tools. What are the digital processes involved with platform? With 3D scanners available on smartphones, Mecuris is a portal to upload the 3D scanned image. It offers digital manufacturing like 3D printing and CNC milling using orthopaedics technology. They have partnerships with high-quality printing centres to support their users. How much does it cost? The basic version of Mecuris costs 65 Euros per month. They also offer a free basic version of the platform. The free version comes with a limited number of allowable downloads per month. What is the market size of Mecuris platform? Current software platforms cost an average price of 15 000 Euros and are used in over 1500 to 1800 workshops in Germany alone. In a workshop, usually, there are at least 10 medical professionals. This equates to approx. 45 million euros as a minimum in Germany alone. What’s next for Mecuris? One of the next steps is to roll it out for upper limbs and other areas like the neck and head. In the future, Mecuris also wants to specialise in other joints or partner with other manufacturers to integrate solutions that will cover more orthotics-related issues. Where do you see healthtech 5 years time? “There will be new business models, there will be diagnostic business models, therapeutic business models, or in our case, manufacturing business models around it. There will be a lot of new companies addressing patient needs that couldn't be fulfilled before, especially on a much more economically level.” Links: Website: Mecuris Once Daily: A digital platform to create 3D printed orthoses and prosthetics…
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15 Minutes With The Doctor: Learn from Healthcare Entrepreneurs and Innovators
Nobi is a smart lamp with a mission to enable older adults to live at home comfortably for as long as possible, by using fall prevention and detection tech. It has other care and comfort functions to make independent living possible. We are joined by Roeland Pelgrims, co-founder of Nobi. Today, he shares his unique expertise in smart home technology for older people while providing insight into creating the product and plans to scale. Plus, we learn about all the features of the lamp. Topics Covered: Why Nobi was founded: With the rise of an ageing population, the current system of intramural care (i.e. nursing homes) will not be sustainable due to pressures on budgets and staff. One of the main reasons that elderly people seek out residential care is due to falling, or risk of falling. One out of four 65+ people falls at least once per year, and one out of three results in hospital admission. By providing technology that both prevents and detects falls, Nobi aims to make it easier for older adults to live at home, comfortably and independently. “I think falls are very common, but there’s so many reasons behind falls, and not all are medical. There’s social things, and often, we say falls are multifactorial, which means there’s so much going on and lots of reasons for them” - Dr Vinay Shankar How Nobi lamps work: It uses sensors and an AI model to analyse the behaviour in the room. If an older person suffers a fall, the lamp can place a call to trusted contacts, who can ask diagnostic questions, provide comfort, and call for further help if necessary. The Nobi lamp also connects with a smart lock on the front door, in order to be able to unlock the door when help arrives. The lamp also includes a burglary alarm that connects with the police and social functions that track how often an older adult receives visitors and can send alerts to trusted contacts to suggest they drop by for a visit. The design process, pricing, and launch plan The massive jumps in AI and processing power in the last decade have made the Nobi lamp function in a way that could not have been achieved 5-10 years ago. The technology that exists today has made the Nobi lamp very effective and reliable. But, there are hopes that a few years down the road, this tech will become more accessible, and the lamps will be able to be made at lower cost. Currently, Nobi is in the pilot phase and still fine-tuning the product with its first-generation customers, but there are 20+ units currently in use. Nobi will begin its rollout to residential care facilities this May and will undergo a large consumer rollout later this year. “If we see how fast the field of AI is evolving and how fast the computing power is evolving. I really have good hopes that the next big jump will not necessarily be one of even higher effectiveness and reliability, because there we are already very very well off, but of extreme low cost.” - Roeland Pelgrims Links: Once Daily: Smart lamps that provide fall detection & wellbeing monitoring Website: Nobi: https://nobi.life/…
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Our guest today, Laurent Martinot, explains how Sunrise was founded to reduce the challenges associated with diagnosing sleep apnoea.. Inspired by their father, a physician with a special interest in sleep medicine, Laurent and his brother Pierre leveraged AI and other technologies to create a simple at-home test that generates a detailed clinical report without the need for expensive and onerous overnight observation. Topics Covered: Why Laurent and Pierre decided to focus on sleep apnoea: Up to 1 billion people worldwide are affected worldwide. 80% of sufferers go undiagnosed. AI and other tools were ripe for application. “I think many people complain about fatigue and there’s a very good chance that they are suffering from a silent disease that is hard to identify without clinical testing.” How the Sunrise process works: Patient completes a basic sleep questionnaire. Sensor is placed on the chin. Push start and let the sensor run for the night. The next morning a report is generated and available for diagnosis. “Making things as easy as possible was at the center of what we tried to develop.” Barriers that make patients resistant to sleep apnoea testing in a clinical setting: Fear of the hospital environment and overnight stay. Discomfort with all the sensors and equipment. Development challenges: Software’s evolution. Making the interface accessible even to those who aren’t digital natives. Scalability. “It looks simple from the outside, but inside there is a lot of science.” How sensor and AI combine to analyse sleep: Based on micro mandibular (jaw) movements. The number of micro-awakenings and breathing effort. The stages of sleep. The exact sleeping time. Pricing: Sunrise is a certified medical device. Reduces cost and inconvenience of clinical study. Device reusability. “We remain very busy validating the instruments in different environments.” Website:https://uk.sunrise-sleep.com/ Once Daily Article: https://oncedaily.co/an-at-home-sleep-apnoea-diagnostic-device/…
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15 Minutes With The Doctor: Learn from Healthcare Entrepreneurs and Innovators
Our guest on this episode is Jon, co-founder of Miiskin, an app that helps the user monitor their skin for signs of cancer. Dubbed a ‘mole-mapping’ app, Miiskin empowers users and helps them become proactive in their skin care. Learn about the app’s simple beginnings and story, their path to using augmented reality and AI for automatic skin imaging, and the importance of privacy. Topics Covered in this Episode: How Miiskin’s technology works The founders personal story. Basic and premium version. “The back is always difficult to keep an eye on.” The platform Initially a minimally viable product, Miiskin turned into something much more technologically advanced. “We have gone from a photolog...to very sophisticated imaging tech.” Machine learning and artificial intelligence The AI supports taking unstructured images of skin and making sense of them. AI can augment the patient’s own understanding of their skin. The data can develop a kind of “filter” to track skin developments. The goal is for patients to come into the doctor’s office with more information. “What you can use machine learning for is structuring the information.” The logic behind the pricing model. $24.95 for a yearly subscription. The cost needs to be low enough to avoid it being a barrier but able to sustain the app long-term. Privacy and security for users and patients All data on the phone and servers is encrypted. Photos are not part of the phone photo library. A premium feature allows users to login and access their photos—even with a different device or if they lose it. Challenges working in the healthcare space Hurdles to overcome in the healthcare space to establish ethos. Language barriers in app that is listed worldwide. Proving the app through hospital or patient-based research. “A lot of people trust the medical validity of a lot of apps on NHS app library.” More information: Mobile app tracks mole changes through photos www.miiskin.com…
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Our guest on this episode is Sigvards, co-founder of CastPrint, a company that uses 3D printing to make a more comfortable cast for fractures. Sigvards talks about how he came up with the idea and how CastPrint works. Learn about their process, their plans to tap into 10% of the European fracture cast market where there are 6 million fractures a year, and the future of 3D printing. Topics Covered in this Episode: birth of CastPrint. science of 3D printed casts. and drawbacks of CastPrint’s technology. future of CastPrint and 3D printing in medicine. The birth of CastPrint: Frustration with the problems of traditional casts. Plaster of Paris casts are uncomfortable. Mobility is limited. technology hasn’t really changed for almost two hundred years. “Fractures and casts are just the beginning of this 3D printing technology.” The science of 3D printed casts: Allows people to recover from a variety of injuries in a more comfortable way. They’re bio-degradable and hypo-allergenic. CastPrints are so simple, they can be created from scanning undertaken on an iPhone. “We’re looking to the research to say this is equally effective.” Benefits and drawbacks of CastPrint’s technology: It’s about three times as strong as a plaster cast. CastPrints are more expensive, but you can significantly reduce rehabilitation costs. Regular casts will always be cheaper because the material they require is cheap and readily available, but the applications for plastic casts are worth further research. “You need to remember this is a medical device, and quality is important.” Benefits and drawbacks of CastPrint’s technology: It’s about three times as strong as a plaster cast. CastPrints are more expensive, but you can significantly reduce rehabilitation costs. Regular casts will always be cheaper because the material they require is cheap and readily available, but the applications for plastic casts are worth further research. “You need to remember this is a medical device, and quality is important.” The future of CastPrint and 3D printing in medicine: CastPrint has printed about 600 casts so far. They would like to tackle 10% of the cast market for fracture injuries. Cast printing is just the beginning–long-term rehab is in the future. 3D printing biomaterial is very exciting. “If you’ve seen The Terminator 2 — man and machine are becoming more and more intertwined.” For more information: Website: https://castprint.co/…
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15 Minutes With The Doctor: Learn from Healthcare Entrepreneurs and Innovators
Our guest on this episode of 15 Minutes with the Doctor is Andreas Cleve, co-founder of Corti.ai. It’s a voice-based digital assistant that augments conversations that emergency call handlers have with patients, to provide them with additional support in real-time. Learn how Corti started, how it can provide second opinions using AI, and their focus on high-quality data. Topics Covered in this Episode: The premise of Corti The origins of Corti Corti’s data How Corti will help further healthcare The premise of Corti Medical expertise is hard to acquire, and Corti can help fill the gaps It is a voice-based digital system that curates data from millions of previous emergency calls It distributes the expertise of medical professionals beyond their reach “Corti will listen in when a patient and medical professional are conversing and try to help the medical professional come up with the most plausible course of action to triage the patient.” The origins of Corti Founded in 2016 Andreas recognised that medical professionals could feel overwhelmed by the limits of their medical knowledge There is a lot of pressure on medical professionals to detect, diagnose, and treat patients based on one conversation with them “Illness has always been a big part of my life and learning to cope with it. The importance of having access to support and advice and expertise is something that is possible.” Corti’s data Currently, 7 emergency organisations are using Corti’s service Data has been collected from over 7 million emergency calls Corti provides a multi-dimensional platform that will help medical professionals augment their opinions with previous similar patient conversations With follow-up data, Corti can offer probabilities for diagnosis and treatment “We can reduce the number of undetected cardiac arrests by up to 44%” How Corti will help further healthcare Healthcare must stand the test of time Start from high-acuity conversations in emergency care then move into broader aspects such as triage Corti’s employees truly believe in the mission of making second opinions accessible to everyone “Corti can pattern-track what is said and correlate it to clean data.” For more information: https://www.corti.ai/Corti AI supports emergency service dispatchers by providing diagnostic advice…
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1 31: How AccuRx Chain Rapidly Mobilised To Support Family Doctors During The Coronavirus Pandemic With Jacob Haddad 23:04
In this episode, Vinay speaks with Jacob from AccuRx. Jacob is one of the creators of Chain SMS, a program designed for primary care to be able to easily and quickly communicate with their patients, video consult, and send documents. The text-based service has proved a hit with many doctors in a huge shift to virtual and remote consultations in response to Covid-19. Topics Covered in this Episode: Chain SMS and its key features The why Vinay’s experience with Chain SMS How AccuRx mobilised quickly Chain SMS statistics The interesting ways Chain SMS has been used during COVID Will there be continued use or growth after the pandemic? Chain SMS and its key features Originally designed for GP practices to communicate information with patients Over the past few weeks, have added the ability to collect data from patients, send documents, video consult, etc. The problem and the solution “As a company, we believe that healthcare is a communication industry.” The why Initially worked on antibiotic prescribing and how to send information to patients They wanted to build something easy-to-adopt and a useful way for doctors to contact patients. This led to them launching Chain SMS two years ago Jacob has a personal interest in healthcare systems and improving workflow Vinay’s experience with Chain SMS Chain SMS formed part of a model supporting a switch to a total triage system where patients avoid coming into the surgery “We do a new release of our software every couple of days, and are constantly making really small improvements.” How AccuRx mobilised quickly Dedicated time to building good infrastructure (updating software, user accounts, support team, etc.) The team is committed to helping users and improving constantly Over a weekend in March, they enabled features to help doctors respond more effectively to Covid-19 They wanted something that worked without an app or required new hardware and have also developed a hospital version “The need to communicate has only just become a lot more acute during Covid, because things cannot be solved face-to-face.” Chain SMS statistics 6 400 GP practices in England using the service out of a possible 7000 150 000 patient messages sent each day 15 000 documents and patient responses The interesting ways Chain SMS has been used during COVID Practices can speak to patients on the phone, create a summary of the record or referral, and send it directly to the patient for them to take it to hospital if needed Adding multiple people to video calls (other family members or interpreters) Patients wait in the car park, and doctors send an SMS when they’re ready to see the patient Will there be continued use or growth after the pandemic? Some facets aren’t specific to coronavirus Plans and hopes to bring new features and growth beyond primary care New features like facilitating patient initiation of sending a message For more information: Website: https://www.accurx.com/…
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