26 min

Building healthcare services with Rachel Murphy, Chief Executive at Difrent The Tech Entrepreneur

    • Entrepreneurship

In this episode of the Tech Entreprenuer podcast, Phil Telfer chats to Rachel Murphy, Chief Executive at Difrent and shortlisted for Business Woman of the Year 2021.
Rachel led big changes when she joined four years ago and she’ll tell us about Difrent’s journey during that time.
As a business in the healthcare space, Coronavirus was particularly significant, and Rachel tells us about the challenges and opportunities from the pandemic… which resulted in a personal letter of thanks from the Prime Minister.
We also hear about recent developments at Difrent and what Rachel things the future has in store.
Find out more using the links below and enjoy the episode!


Quote:
“It was never and will never be about just shipping some code - we really want to understand what the business problem is and work back from that and make sure we're delivering to that business challenge and therefore delivering an outcome.”


Guest bio:
Rachel Murphy is Chief Executive of Difrent, having previously spent 22 years as a manager at various  public, private and consultancy organisations.
She spent a couple of years at the health regulator, the Nursing and Midwifery Council, and then a couple of years leading patient-facing transformation for the NHS.
Her motivation for building out Difrent was to create the company that she’d tried to find while she was working in healthcare.
Difrent design, deliver and often run services for Government and healthcare.


Timestamps:
0019 Podcast and guest introduction0050 Rachel’s background0215 The motivation behind Difrent0310 How Difrent deliver value rather than just software0507 How Rachel approaches the challenge of authority0905 What Difrent was like when she joined1213 How do you create a genuine culture?1558 Effect of Coronavirus on the business2300 Personal thanks from Boris Johnson2402 Things Rachel would do differently 2533 Future plans2604 Episode wrap-up

Links:
ClearSky Logic: https://www.clearskylogic.com/
Difrent: https://difrent.co.uk/


Check out Previous episodes:
Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5DFn4ZPaCDfxATpkmHwREa
ListenNotes:
https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/the-tech-entrepreneur-darren-auld-vKnFAbfa03E/
Google Podcasts:
https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5idXp6c3Byb3V0LmNvbS8xMzA0ODA5LnJzcw==

In this episode of the Tech Entreprenuer podcast, Phil Telfer chats to Rachel Murphy, Chief Executive at Difrent and shortlisted for Business Woman of the Year 2021.
Rachel led big changes when she joined four years ago and she’ll tell us about Difrent’s journey during that time.
As a business in the healthcare space, Coronavirus was particularly significant, and Rachel tells us about the challenges and opportunities from the pandemic… which resulted in a personal letter of thanks from the Prime Minister.
We also hear about recent developments at Difrent and what Rachel things the future has in store.
Find out more using the links below and enjoy the episode!


Quote:
“It was never and will never be about just shipping some code - we really want to understand what the business problem is and work back from that and make sure we're delivering to that business challenge and therefore delivering an outcome.”


Guest bio:
Rachel Murphy is Chief Executive of Difrent, having previously spent 22 years as a manager at various  public, private and consultancy organisations.
She spent a couple of years at the health regulator, the Nursing and Midwifery Council, and then a couple of years leading patient-facing transformation for the NHS.
Her motivation for building out Difrent was to create the company that she’d tried to find while she was working in healthcare.
Difrent design, deliver and often run services for Government and healthcare.


Timestamps:
0019 Podcast and guest introduction0050 Rachel’s background0215 The motivation behind Difrent0310 How Difrent deliver value rather than just software0507 How Rachel approaches the challenge of authority0905 What Difrent was like when she joined1213 How do you create a genuine culture?1558 Effect of Coronavirus on the business2300 Personal thanks from Boris Johnson2402 Things Rachel would do differently 2533 Future plans2604 Episode wrap-up

Links:
ClearSky Logic: https://www.clearskylogic.com/
Difrent: https://difrent.co.uk/


Check out Previous episodes:
Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5DFn4ZPaCDfxATpkmHwREa
ListenNotes:
https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/the-tech-entrepreneur-darren-auld-vKnFAbfa03E/
Google Podcasts:
https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5idXp6c3Byb3V0LmNvbS8xMzA0ODA5LnJzcw==

26 min