Interviews

Remote patient monitoring can cut chronic disease care costs by 40% — an interview with Lasse Rousi, Medixine 

Over the coming years and decades an increasing amount of care will be delivered to patients in their homes. New devices and wearables that can collect health data from people whilst they’re at home and healthcare’s digitalisation trend are opening up new possibilities, both for prevention and for providing better and more efficient care to those with chronic conditions. 

Interview: Dom Longford, Cog ADHD

Cog ADHD is a digital platform for people with ADHD. The company officially launched its new app on iOS and Android earlier this month. Dom Longford, the company’s founder, explained to HBI how the platform's holistic approach to supporting people with ADHD can help fill the gaps left by failing public mental health systems.

Interview: Dr. Guillermo Moreno-Sanz, Zerenia Clinic

Zerenia Clinic is a UK-based private healthcare provider specialising in treatments with cannabis-based medicinal products (CBMP). Last year it attained the UK’s first ever NHS reimbursement for cannabis flowers. In an interview with HBI, Dr. Guillermo Moreno-Sanz, Scientific Director at Zerenia’s parent company, Khiron Europe (a pharma company producing CBMPs), spoke about the growing opportunity in Europe’s medicinal cannabis space.

Addressing healthcare workforce inefficiency through AI and 3d indoor mapping – a conversation with Connie Moser of Navenio

Modern hospitals are incredibly complex, regularly chaotic, and often inefficient environments, despite efficiency and proper task sequencing being vital to delivering high-quality medical care and positive patient experiences. Workforce issues are beginning to bite harder across both public and private provider systems, driven by a growing deficit in medical professionals serving an expanding patient population. […]

Investors eye wellness testing in veterinary medicine — Interview with Eve Hanks, CEO of MI:RNA Diagnostics

  The UK, Germany, and France lead in veterinary diagnostics, while southern Europe lags According to UK’s online pet marketplace Pets4Homes, demand for puppies for sale rose by 104% at the peak of the lockdown in May 2020. S&P Global notes animal diagnostics is now a growing area.  MI:RNA Diagnostics, a Scottish veterinary diagnostics company, […]

Interview: Duncan Leggat, Cymphony

Cymphony is a UK company that provides customer communications solutions such as telephone answering and appointment booking to private healthcare providers. In an interview with HBI, Duncan Leggat, Cymphony’s Finance Director, argued that high quality, personalised customer service is an essential part of a good healthcare service, and that, for providers focused on the premium/private-pay part of the market, the good old fashioned telephone is generally the most effective tool for achieving this.

How software can help hospitals improve their knowledge management and save them millions — an interview with Galia Schwarz, CEO of C8 Health

C8 Health is a software company founded two years ago to solve healthcare’s pervasive knowledge management problem. In an interview with HBI, Galia Rosen Schwarz, C8 Health’s CEO, explained why inefficient knowledge management is such a big issue in hospitals and how C8’s software addresses it.

Transform’s journey from cosmetic surgery to weight loss services company — an interview with CEO Dr. Sayani Sainudeen

UK cosmetic surgery company Transform Healthcare has gone through quite a journey in the past 15 years. In an interview with HBI, Dr. Sayani Sainudeen, Transform's new CEO, explained how the company is moving increasingly into holistic weight loss services, covering a broad range of treatments, from new injectable weight loss drugs, to surgery, to talking therapy.

Use of AI and robots in cancer diagnosis and surgeries — an interview with Dr. T. Manohar of Apollo Institute of Urology, India

The healthcare sector is increasingly relying on AI and robots, from diagnosis to surgeries. HBI spoke with Dr. T. Manohar, Director & Chief of Urology Services at Apollo Institute of Urology, Uro Oncology, and Kidney Transplantation, about the use of AI in cancer diagnosis.

Four new growth avenues for healthcare providers — an interview with McKinsey

We sat down with Michael Morley, Partner at consulting firm McKinsey, at our annual conference last month, to discuss four new sources of revenue growth that healthcare providers are exploring.

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