This week on my Sunday Session I'm joined by Mimi Billing Senior reporter at @siftedeu. Mimi writes about European health-tech and innovation in the Nordics. Previously at @didigital_se.

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This week I'm joined by Arturo Sanchez, founder and CEO of Sofia, a Mexican competitor to European digital health platforms, taking aim at the Mexican health insurance and primary care sectors. In the $65bn USD Mexican healthcare sector, 91% of private spending is paid out of pocket, with too many people forced to pay extraordinary costs for care and pressures on access to primary services.

Arturo Sanchez is hoping to change that with a new digital service bringing care to patients at a lower cost.

Get in touch with Arturo: https://www.sofiasalud.com/

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My Sunday Session this week is with Martin Blinder, CEO and founder of Tictrac (a leading health engagement company). In this podcast Martin gives us his top tips for entrepreneurs. You can listen to his full chat with me on episode #170.   

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Martîn Blinder is the CEO and founder of Tictrac. Tictrac is a personalized digital health and wellness platform designed to empower individuals to take greater control of their wellbeing. Martîn recently appeared on Sky News to discuss the increased demand in HealthTech tools and why now is a pivotal moment for health and wellbeing. He believes that the workplace of the future will not just be about ensuring a productive team, but supporting the health and wellbeing needs of staff.

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Rudy Benfredj is co-founder and CEO at Mendelian. Mendelian aim to help doctors diagnose rare diseases faster using their MendelScan software. Rudy is a Computer Scientist graduated from Imperial College London with a degree in Engineering during which he worked under the supervision of Dr. Aldo Faisal in the bioengineering faculty and Prof. Marek Sergot, Head of the Logic and Artificial Intelligence department. Passionate about health, he moved to Tel Aviv to work at the Israeli med tech diagnostics company Healthy.io focusing on image recognition and remote diagnosis as an early team member. As a Product Manager he helped the company grow to get its FDA clearance.

Get in touch with Rudy: https://www.mendelian.co

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Thomas Vande Casteele is the CEO of Awell Health. 

Casteele is a serial entrepreneur.  In 2016, Vande Casteele and Buydens made the decision to apply their expertise in optimizing customer journeys for organisations to optimise patient journeys and care pathways in healthcare and Awell Health was founded in 2018.

To date it works with approximately 25 hospitals across Europe.

Get in touch with Thomas: https://awellhealth.com/

On this weeks Sunday Session I chat to Aditya Nori, lead of the Health Intelligence theme at Microsoft Research Cambridge, where their mission is to transform the practice of medicine via trusted and human-centred AI.

In the past, Aditya has developed AI-based productivity tools for cancer treatment (The InnerEye Project), and also explored various synergies between programming languages and machine learning which inspired new perspectives in formal verification, probabilistic programming, and reliable machine learning. He has also built several programmer productivity tools, including the 2nd generation of the Static Driver Verifier toolkit for Microsoft Windows.

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Exo’s CEO and Co-Founder, Sandeep Akkaraju. Exo (pronounced “Echo”) is a health information and devices company with an initial aim to reinvent ultrasound. Currently, 75% of the world’s population doesn’t have access to any form of medical imaging. If made available, basic medical imaging could help solve many life-saving issues, including accurate diagnoses of COVID-19.

Akkaraju recently led Exo through a Series B+ fundraising round, bringing the total to nearly $100 million in funding to date. With an unwavering vision, a dedication to hiring the best technology and medical device talent in the world, and a steady hand guiding Exo forward every step of the way, Akkaraju is a powerful force for medical innovation.

Get in touch with Sandeep: Sandeep Akkaraju | LinkedIn or www.exo.inc/leadership/sandeep-akkaraju/

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