Where the NHS can improve & product innovation | Maja Kecman on Health Tech

The Balderton Podcast: Tech Investment | Venture Capital | Startup Funding

Maja Kecman joins Ben Goldsmith to talk about both product and app innovation in healthcare. Maja currently leads Helix, a team of designers embedded in St. Mary's Hospital, and is currently spending the summer on a secondment at Balderton. Listed below are a few key questions in the podcast: 2:10 How do you get a product to market in healthcare? 4:30 How does a product innovation in healthtech evolve? 7:15 Can MVP-style thinking and procedures be applied to healthtech? 9:00 Due to the specialist nature of healthcare innovations and high up-front cost in product, does the funding procedure look different. 1130 Do VCs in healthtech need to be doctors or medical experts? 1430 What is your piece of advice to an inventor/entrepreneur in healthtech 1615 Is the NHS a good or a bad thing for healthtech? 1850 Due to the recent proliferation in healthcare apps, Maja forwards the idea for a system by which the NHS (or another qualified third party) offers a mark of approval to healthcare apps.