More to come18 Jun 2019 13:01
The turning point for this company was when David Smith joined and I think he has the vision and the talent to take it much further - a lot of work to do but so much progress made already. This was his statement on joining last year:
David Smith, Operating CEO. Strategic overview and introductory statement:
"I have worked in the medical device business for 30 years, and as an entrepreneur in the field for the last 15 years, seeking out opportunities to improve patient healthcare and create outstanding value for shareholders. Often this work has been focused on producing a better, more efficient tool for use in the operating room. The improvements in health care delivery have been important, but relatively small, yet the businesses have been financially successful.
When I was approached by Flying Brands to become their COO, and the CEO of their operating businesses, what immediately struck me was the opportunity to be the architect in the way that healthcare is delivered. This is an opportunity for a leap in healthcare, not the creeping change I have previously successfully delivered. A healthcare revolution, not the evolution I have previously managed.
Imagine a world where expensive and invasive medical treatments are only used on patients that truly need it. Currently, resource consuming and painful biopsies are sought to confirm the presence or absence of disease in the face of ambiguous results from medical imaging. In an average hospital, hundreds of scans are taken daily, searching for disease. Imagine a software that is capable of detecting diseased patients and differentiating them from healthy patients, allowing healthcare practitioners to focus their care on the patients that need it the most. Imagine a software that improves its diagnostic capability over time, becoming more intelligent with each successful diagnosis and providing this knowledge and 'Artificial Intelligence' to those responsible for our healthcare.