60 episodes

In 15 Minutes With The Doctor, Vinay Shankar shares the stories of healthcare entrepreneurs and innovators who are growing their unique ideas. Learn from their journeys, including successes and mistakes, so you can make your change to healthcare and grow your OWN idea. Each show covers key strategies, interesting concepts, and has actionable tips and tricks for listeners.

15 Minutes With The Doctor: Learn from Healthcare Entrepreneurs and Innovators Dr Vinay Shankar

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In 15 Minutes With The Doctor, Vinay Shankar shares the stories of healthcare entrepreneurs and innovators who are growing their unique ideas. Learn from their journeys, including successes and mistakes, so you can make your change to healthcare and grow your OWN idea. Each show covers key strategies, interesting concepts, and has actionable tips and tricks for listeners.

    60: Better than paper? A digital surgical consent platform with Dr Patrick Hart from Concentric Health

    60: Better than paper? A digital surgical consent platform with Dr Patrick Hart from Concentric Health

    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

    • 22 min
    59: Neutrocheck, an at-home test for neutropenic sepsis with Umaima Ahmad from 52North

    59: Neutrocheck, an at-home test for neutropenic sepsis with Umaima Ahmad from 52North

    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

    • 20 min
    58: Can you optimise your health before surgery with an app? With Adam Robinson from Surgery Hero

    58: Can you optimise your health before surgery with an app? With Adam Robinson from Surgery Hero

    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

    • 21 min
    57: Do we really need precision medicine for our drug prescriptions? With Athena Doshi, founder of Celeste

    57: Do we really need precision medicine for our drug prescriptions? With Athena Doshi, founder of Celeste

    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

    • 22 min
    56: How to use a digital health platform to effectively prescribe exercise? With Louise O’Mahony from EXi

    56: How to use a digital health platform to effectively prescribe exercise? With Louise O’Mahony from EXi

    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

    • 23 min
    55: From Echo to Phlo: How to build a new digital pharmacy world? with Alistair Murray from Phlo

    55: From Echo to Phlo: How to build a new digital pharmacy world? with Alistair Murray from Phlo

    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

    • 21 min

Customer Reviews

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15 Ratings

mpnkw87 ,

Insightful and inspiring!

I love this podcast. I’ve learnt something new with every episode and it’s so interesting to hear about the innovation and developments taking place in health/wellness and tech. The content is always so varied and Dr Shankar is very good at building a rapport with his guests and asking the right questions.

AmitKarpe ,

A good podcast to understand healthcare and entrepenuership

Dr. Shankar, a healthcare entrepreneur and innovator does an excellent job. In each episode, Dr. Shankar interviews other healthcare entrepreneurs and innovators about their journeys, including their successes, failures, and lessons learned. The podcast is designed to inspire and educate listeners who are interested in making a change in the healthcare industry.

Highly recommend this! Keep up the good work.

Sermed Mezher ,

Inspiring and Insightful!

As a doctor with entrepreneurial ambitions, I finally have a podcast that hits the spot. Sometimes it’s difficult to know where to start with a venture, and this podcast helped me learn from other people’s experience so I’m better placed to hit the ground running. Highly recommended!

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