Welcome to the GIANT Thinking podcast. A show that is passionately committed to bringing you conversations with the leading experts who are improving the health and wellbeing of people around the world by supporting innovation and accelerating the adoption of new healthcare technology.

In this episode we revisit some of the highlight conversations and seminal moment from the first ever, inaugural GIANT Thinking podcast series. 

In this highlight episode you will hear insights, viewpoints and expert knowledge from those who are on the very highest levels of the health tech innovation sector including:

* Professor Shafi Ahmed

* Peter Ward

* Sameer Kothari

* Ali Parsa

* Neil Daly 

Series 2 is already in production and will be released laster this year in conjunction with the GIANT Health event which is Europe’s largest health tech innovation summit with 300+ leaders of the industry.

As always, this is an important conversation on essential subjects with leading experts, this is GIANT thinking.

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Welcome to the GIANT Thinking podcast. A show that is passionately committed to bringing you conversations with the leading experts who are improving the health and wellbeing of people around the world by supporting innovation and accelerating the adoption of new healthcare technology.

In this episode GIANT Health (Global Innovation And New Technology) CEO Barry Shrier welcomes Dr Ben Maruthappu. Ben is a London-based doctor, Co-founder of multi-award winning technology company Cera. Advised the CEO of NHS England on £100 billion of health spending, for 3 years. First from British healthcare included in Forbes' 30under30; listed in WIRED's 10 Innovators revolutionizing Healthcare; Disruptive Leader of the Year. Received an MBE in the Queen's 2020 New Year Honours list for services to Health & Care technology.

Subjects covered in this episode:

* The importance of Ben’s background as a clinician to see real-world healthcare issues

* How Ben always wanted to combine business and healthcare

* What is happening in the European entrepreneurial scene

* How Cera was a startup that was created from a very immediate personal need

* How the brand is now delivering 12,000 care visits per day in just 4 years

* The challenges of fast growth for a startup

* The changes you need to make when going from startup to scale up

* The impact that Ben’s Mother’s mindset still has on he views perseverance

As always, this is an important conversation on essential subjects with leading experts, this is GIANT thinking.

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Visit Giant Health

https://www.giant.health/

Connect with Dr Ben Maruthappu

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mahibenmaruthappu/

Welcome to the GIANT Thinking podcast. A show that is passionately committed to bringing you conversations with the leading experts who are improving the health and wellbeing of people around the world by supporting innovation and accelerating the adoption of new healthcare technology.

In this episode GIANT Health (Global Innovation And New Technology) CEO Barry Shrier welcomes Neil Daly - CEO of Skin Analytics which is leading the charge to improve the health and wellbeing of patients through its technical advances in spotting skin cancers using AI technology.

Subjects covered in this episode:

* How Skin Analytics is using AI to diagnose skin cancer

* There is a stunning one billion assessments a year

* How the pandemic has accelerated the adoption of digital solutions

* The huge capacity issue with dermatology

* How venture capital investment affects the growth of a health tech brand

* Why AI is destined to help clinicians not replace them

* How AI within skin care is helping doctors to find a needle in a haystack

* Why adopting AI in skin care cancer treatments could save £40 million - £80 million per annum

As always, this is an important conversation on essential subjects with leading experts, this is GIANT thinking.

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Visit Giant Health
https://www.giant.health/

Connect with Neil Daly
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ndaly/

Contact Neil via [email protected]

Welcome to the GIANT Thinking podcast. A show that is passionately committed to bringing you conversations with the leading experts who are improving the health and wellbeing of people around the world by supporting innovation and accelerating the adoption of new healthcare technology.

In this episode GIANT Health (Global Innovation And New Technology) CEO Barry Shrier welcomes Dr Ali Parsa. Ali shares his heritage from coming to the UK as a refugee to scaling the heights of the health tech industry - an entrepreneurial journey that started simply as a way to pay his way through his studies. Ali is a warm, engaging and transparent guest who shares some wonder insights about the healthcare sector, entrepreneurship and where he says the next major areas of development for human wellness.    

Subjects covered in this episode:

* Why healthcare needs to be thinking like Google

* How entrepreneurs are conduits to great people

* How their needs to be a shift in mindset from ‘sick care’ to health care

* Why recent health advise is dictated by the rich and designed for the rich

* The perspective that we need to have when assessing COVID

As always, this is an important conversation on essential subjects with leading experts, this is GIANT thinking.

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Connect with Ali Parsa
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ali-parsa-7bb99873/

Welcome to the GIANT Thinking podcast. A show that is passionately committed to bringing you conversations with the leading experts who are improving the health and wellbeing of people around the world by supporting innovation and accelerating the adoption of new healthcare technology.

In this episode GIANT Health (Global Innovation And New Technology) CEO Barry Shrier welcomes Sameer Kothari; Chief Executive of Zilico which is a UK based company which specialises in the design and manufacture of real-time medical diagnostics to address specific clinical needs.

Subjects covered in this episode:

* Why slow adoption of tech is often a good thing

* The increasing focus on Universal healthcare

* Challenges of scaling technology into multiple NHS trusts

* Advances in tissue margin technology which help in differentiating healthy and diseased tissues during surgery

* How their ZedScan technology has a 50% increase in detecting disease

* How tech can assist with healthcare economics

As always, this is an important conversation on essential subjects with leading experts, this is GIANT thinking.

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Connect with Sameer
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sameer-kothari-b953a72/

Find out more information on Zilico via https://zilico.co.uk/

Welcome to the GIANT Thinking podcast. A show that is passionately committed to bringing you conversations with the leading experts who are improving the health and wellbeing of people around the world by supporting innovation and accelerating the adoption of new healthcare technology. 

In this episode GIANT Health (Global Innovation And New Technology) CEO Barry Shrier welcomes Doctor Abdullah Albeyatti, CEO and Co-Founder at Medicalchain, Interim Chair RCGP Yorkshire Faculty, NHS Digital and NHS Clinical Entrepreneur.

Abdullah and his Medicalchain team are proactively looking at the most impactful ways to empower patients via their various brands and offering, by allowing easier access to patient records. The recent launch of their ‘digital waiting room’ Saas business has already attracted global attention with the application now being used in 72 countries across the planet.  

Subjects covered in this episode: 

* Why the current healthcare system is fragmented

* Why we need to make the flow of patient information simpler 

* Why is it important to be thinking on a global scale not just locally 

* The incredible traction of MedicalChain’s ‘digital waiting room’ application which has now been used in 72 countries

* How COVID has expedited change 

* The power of focusing on what is getting traction as a startup

As always, this is an important conversation on essential subjects with leading experts, this is GIANT thinking. 

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Welcome to the GIANT Thinking podcast. A show that is passionately committed to bringing you conversations with the leading experts who are improving the health and wellbeing of people around the world by supporting innovation and accelerating the adoption of new healthcare technology.

In this episode GIANT Health (Global Innovation And New Technology) CEO Barry Shrier welcomes Peter Ward; successful CEO, investor, entrepreneur and advisor. Having successfully built and sold travel brand WAYN (which was acquired by lastminute.com Group) Peter has turned his attention and vast skillsets to the healthcare sector, co-founding Humanity which will be a subscription platform that allows you to monitor biomarkers that are closely connected to loss of function in different parts of the body over time (ageing). 

Subjects covered in this episode:

* The advancement of Biomarker technology

* The importance of measurement for ensuring longevity

* The essential role that wearable technology can have

* How low-cost tech can have a real impact on global wellbeing

* Why a concrete feedback loop is essential for preventative care

As always, this is an important conversation on essential subjects with leading experts, this is GIANT thinking.

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Welcome to the GIANT Thinking podcast. A show that is passionately committed to bringing you conversations with the leading experts who are improving the health and wellbeing of people around the world by supporting innovation and accelerating the adoption of new healthcare technology.

In this episode GIANT Health (Global Innovation And New Technology) CEO Barry Shrier welcomes Professor Shafi Ahmed; world renowned surgeon, innovator, entrepreneur and a leader who plays a significant role in transforming healthcare globally. 

Subjects covered in this episode:

* Why the focus needs to be on healthcare, not sick care

* The changes that Professor Shafi  is seeing in the sector

* Professor Shafi’s biggest motivation

* Why healthcare should always be about the greater good

* How tech innovation in the space is becoming more mainstream

* How COVID-19 has sped up a lot of healthcare processes

* Why there is unprecedented growing demand for healthcare worldwide

As always, this is an important conversation on essential subjects with leading experts, this is GIANT thinking.

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Welcome to the GIANT Thinking podcast. A show that is passionately committed to bringing you conversations with the leading experts who are improving the health and wellbeing of people around the world by supporting innovation and accelerating the adoption of new healthcare technology.

In this launch episode GIANT Health (Global Innovation And New Technology) CEO Barry Shrier introduces you to a podcast that is dedicated to bring you the “who's who” in the business of healthcare innovation. 

GIANT serves a passionate international community of over 177,000 people and this podcast series is the latest way of starting essential conversations, encouraging innovation and emphasising health tech wisdom.

Across the upcoming series we will bring you the senior-most successful leaders in the industry, and the most successful innovators who are the highest level strategic thinkers in the sector.

The subject matter of every episode focuses on successful innovation in healthcare; acknowledging the underlying premises including:

* Unprecedented growing demand for healthcare worldwide

* Current supply cannot cope

* Cost of supplying health care services is skyrocketing

* Tech innovation holds the key to delivering more and better healthcare services at a lower cost

But everyone knows this. So, what now? How do we accelerate innovation in healthcare? What, exactly, is holding us back?

Important conversations on essential subjects with leading experts, this is GIANT thinking.

SUBSCRIBE now to ensure you never miss an episode.

Welcome to the GIANT Thinking podcast. A show that is passionately committed to bringing you conversations with the leading experts who are improving the health and wellbeing of people around the world by supporting innovation and accelerating the adoption of new healthcare technology.

Important conversations on essential subjects with leading experts, this is GIANT thinking.