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

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.



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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

Website: https://www.oncedaily.co

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

Website: https://www.oncedaily.co

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

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

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