62: Can you use an app to unleash the power of photos & games in dementia?
15 Minutes With The Doctor: Learn from Healthcare Entrepreneurs and Innovators
by Dr Vinay Shankar
1w ago
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 scal ..read more
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61: Reimagining the community nursing journey for patients & nurses using tech with Kelly Klifa from Ally Health
15 Minutes With The Doctor: Learn from Healthcare Entrepreneurs and Innovators
by Dr Vinay Shankar
1M ago
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 o ..read more
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59: Neutrocheck, an at-home test for neutropenic sepsis with Umaima Ahmad from 52North
15 Minutes With The Doctor: Learn from Healthcare Entrepreneurs and Innovators
by Dr Vinay Shankar
3M ago
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 Mas ..read more
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57: Do we really need precision medicine for our drug prescriptions? With Athena Doshi, founder of Celeste
15 Minutes With The Doctor: Learn from Healthcare Entrepreneurs and Innovators
by Dr Vinay Shankar
5M ago
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 f ..read more
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51: The CUE1 wearable, an effective non-drug treatment for Parkinson’s with Lucy from Charco Neurotech
15 Minutes With The Doctor: Learn from Healthcare Entrepreneurs and Innovators
by Dr Vinay Shankar
5M ago
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 d ..read more
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47: Can you use tech to empower our healthcare teams? with Dr Anas Nader from Patchwork
15 Minutes With The Doctor: Learn from Healthcare Entrepreneurs and Innovators
by Dr Vinay Shankar
5M ago
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 ..read more
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56: How to use a digital health platform to effectively prescribe exercise? With Louise O’Mahony from EXi
15 Minutes With The Doctor: Learn from Healthcare Entrepreneurs and Innovators
by Dr Vinay Shankar
5M ago
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 professio ..read more
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45: Brush DJ, the smartphone app helping to beat dental cavities with Ben Underwood
15 Minutes With The Doctor: Learn from Healthcare Entrepreneurs and Innovators
by Dr Vinay Shankar
5M ago
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 stre ..read more
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55: From Echo to Phlo: How to build a new digital pharmacy world? with Alistair Murray from Phlo
15 Minutes With The Doctor: Learn from Healthcare Entrepreneurs and Innovators
by Dr Vinay Shankar
5M ago
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 t ..read more
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54: Can you use AI to discover rare diseases? With Dr Peter Fish from Mendelian
15 Minutes With The Doctor: Learn from Healthcare Entrepreneurs and Innovators
by Dr Vinay Shankar
5M ago
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 s ..read more
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