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.
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65: Surgical training beyond boundaries with Ad Gandhe from Amodisc
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.
Discover:
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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64: Can you improve mental health in six weeks? With Ravi Janapureddy from Resony
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.
Discover:
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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63: Fertility Mapper: How to help patients navigate the fertility treatment journey? With CEO Kaleigh Hartigan
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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62: Can you use an app to unleash the power of photos & games in dementia?
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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61: Reimagining the community nursing journey for patients & nurses using tech with Kelly Klifa from Ally Health
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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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
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