As the new chair of the health and social care council at techUK, Shane Tickell talked to Highland Marketing about his determination to support small and innovative companies, by having some frank conversations with the NHS and the health tech industry about strategy and commercials.
Shane Tickell has been working in the health tech industry since the late 1990s.
He is probably best known for his long career at IMS MAXIMS, where he worked for 13-years, predominantly as group chief executive officer.
However, he left IMS MAXIMS four-years ago “to pursue a wider agenda.”
“I wanted to work on data,” he says.
“I want to be able to bring data together from conception to end-of-life, in real-time, with good governance, safely, so people can use it to provide great care and then, anonymised, use it for population health management and research.”
A thrilling future for data
To this end, Shane is now chief executive of three companies including Temple Black, “a strategic company that is bringing together data to take advantage of quantum computing,” and Voror Health Technologies, which is developing an open healthcare data platform on the AWS cloud and Endeavour Predict that provides risk scores for major diseases such as Cardio Vascular, Cancer, Diabetes.
“When I started in the industry, we knew about 80 per cent of healthcare decisions involved pathology testing of some kind and that about 73% involved radiology,” he says.
“We also knew that about 90 per cent of those results would be safe and in-line, so the majority of patients were seeing their consultants and GPs for reassurance.
“We started introducing algorithms to let clinicians focus on the other 10 per cent. And we’ve had some significant success with that. But now we’ve codified a lot more information.
“We’ve started work on uncoded information, and we have large language models coming along to help us make sense of it.
