‘Innovation in Healthcare’ – A Tech Data Healthcare Ecosystem Meetup

Join us at 2pm on Thursday July 9th for a one hour round up of the latest health innovation from members of our Tech Data Healthcare Ecosystem.
In recent months much of the worlds medical resources have been focused on the Covid-19 pandemic and this fight continues, we must also now look to restart our mainstream healthcare systems.

Hear from the following speakers on the latest innovation from their companies;

• Karantis360 – Helen Dempster, Founder & Chief Visionary Officer at Karantis360

With over 25 years in Customer Management & the Care Sector Helen found herself with a dilemma. Witnessing first-hand her grandfather’s care and the issues surrounding the care industry she realised there had to be a better way to relieve the daily stress put on carers and oversee the management of care delivery. Helen set to work creating the foundation for Karantis360 Ltd, a new development in assisted living designed to transform the delivery of care for those who are older, vulnerable or living with Alzheimer’s or dementia.

• IBM’s Health innovation Covid-19 and Beyond – Andreas Haimböck-Tichy, Director, Healthcare and Life Sciences, IBM UKI

IBM have been at the forefront of the worlds fight against the Coronavirus. From Super Computers, Drug Discovery, Chatbots and beyond supporting agile adaption for businesses across the globe, Andreas will present how IBM have responded and what more they think needs to be done as we return to the ‘new normal’.

• Digitally Mentally – Emma Selby, Director

Emma is a Clinical Nurse Consultant specializing in children and young adult’s mental health and Women’s health. Emma is the director of Digital Mentality, a company she established to support tech and health industries connect with health professionals to create preventative wellbeing support that scales.

• Effective Cyber Security – Rick Gray, Director

Rick Gray has a tremendous track record in Cyber Security services spanning over 20 years and is respected globally by vendors and partners alike.
Effective Cyber Security (ECS) are an extremely trust worthy Cyber Security service provider, with experience in designing and implementing some of the UK & USA’ most Critical National Infrastructures Cyber Network Defence systems.
During this turbulent time of COVID 19 ECS were looking at ways they can give back to the community just like the volunteers for the NHS. We have the skills and capabilities to help organisations reduce their operational risk and help identify any mis-configurations or vulnerabilities which are being exploited by the hackers. It’s time to call in the White Hats team from ECS and take our completely FREE OF CHARGE scanning service. You may ask what’s the catch, purely to accept a debrief meeting at the end to run through all the findings.

• OrthOracle – Mark Herron Orthopaedic Surgeon and Managing Editor

Mark Herron is a practicing Orthopaedic Surgeon and managing editor of the OrthOracle Surgical education platform.
At its core the company is a collective of Surgeons collaborating across a shared platform to deliver quality assured, and highly detailed, visually driven instructional techniques and educational modules, in Orthopaedic surgery.
Borne out of professional need and a lack of innovation in the medical publishing sector OrthOracle launched 2017, and has been accredited by numerous professional bodies both in the UK & internationally for the new standards it is setting.
We have collaborated with IBM since 2018, using Watson Discovery to identify and deliver open access academic papers that provide Surgeons with the evidence they need about interventions. We are currently working on a Watson delivered translation solution for the South American market.