A batch of fiberglass boards became a business. A blue hand became its calling card. Santa Cruz now sells the past alongside hardware built to take another beating.
A working health app is only the beginning. DigitalHealth.London helps founders find the evidence, relationships and practical footing to turn a promising product into something the NHS can use.
From faster wound healing to diabetes classes that understand the dinner table, Health Innovation Network South London tackles the awkward distance between a promising idea and everyday care.
A working camera is only the beginning. Involve Visual Collaboration builds the rooms, waiting rooms and support services that let healthcare teams get on with the appointment.
A bedside software specialist is taking on the hospital-wide patient record. Its NHS contracts reveal the appeal of shared information - and the hard work of getting everyone to use it.
Two NHS doctors built a business around the gap in the rota. Patchwork now connects staffing, scheduling and job planning - with a sales pitch that has to satisfy both exhausted clinicians and the people paying the bills.
Sensyne offered hospitals a share of the proceeds from AI research. A cash crisis forced a rescue, a new name and a smaller business - while its pregnancy-diabetes app found a life of its own.
Its AI can release selected patients from an urgent cancer pathway without a dermatologist reviewing their images. The harder achievement is making that decision work inside a real health service.
The founders planned an app. Patients wanted a useful text. That small correction became a business built around a costly NHS problem: getting the right person into the right appointment.
The company behind SystmOne has built a business around a simple promise: one patient, one record. Its most revealing results come from fixing the small administrative failures that make healthcare feel so disjointed.
Fifteen years of clinical history can make software hard to replace. From Welsh rheumatology clinics to Guyana’s national EHR project, RioMed’s Cellma shows why the patient record is only the beginning.
Dr Matt Wilson spent 14-hour shifts in emergency medicine with no time to eat, let alone run a study. So he built a platform that makes the research happen without the clinician lifting a finger - and pharma is paying to plug in.
The British survey company that decided keeping your data on home soil was a feature, not a footnote - and built a 600,000-user business on it.