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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
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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
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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
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On this episode, Caroline Allen joins the show, they discuss how Apricity is forging a new future for those seeking fertility treatments in the UK. She introduces her career in midwifery and how she made the move to Head of Growth at Apricity.
Apricity is the UK’s first virtual fertility clinic using tech to improve fertility outcomes. They blend some of the valued aspects of remote care and technology to improve outcomes, collect valuable additional data, provide expert support with clinical advisors through the app and have improved transparency on pricing. With their patient-centric approach, they have improved success rates to 50%. The conversation bridges personal stories and professional insights in fertility innovation.
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How Caroline began working for the UK’s first virtual fertility clinic
How her experience in birth reflections for the NHS led her to Apricity
How her passion for making impact led her to the start-up world
What kinds of challenges she dealt with working in the NHS
How Apricity helps democratise the best fertility care
How reducing life disruptions with online care can increase success rates
How the Apricity app provides a comprehensive care plan with on-hand advisors
How they offer unlimited counselling whether online or face-to-face
How they partner with clinics to offer on and offline care
How their virtual clinics give them the ability to offer 12-hour care from advisors across the world
How their patented app was developed in-house to track treatment from start to finish
Guest: Caroline Allen
Website: www.apricityfertility.com
Host: Dr Vinay Shankar
Website: https://www.oncedaily.co
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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 -
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
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