#31 Issa Dasu Patel - Making medicines management digital with CONNECT Care

CONNECT Care is a UK-based startup that uses tech to track prescriptions for elderly patients and their carers. Supported by Innovate UK, their founding team brings together a combined 20 years of deep industry expertise at the intersection of digital health, pharmacy, and the oft-neglected social care. Through working with NHS partners across the country to roll out trials of its prescription tracking tech, they have a mission to make medicines management and access easier for patients and the people who care for them.

Issa is a graduate of Oxford and Harvard universities, and founded CONNECT Care in 2021 with business partner Mehfuz, having since raised £1.4m in funding to date, including a £614,000 grant from Innovate UK and capital from angel investors.

In this episode, we talk “adherence” as a dirty word, how chaos and turmoil can create opportunity, and why - to paraphrase the former Zuckerberg motto - moving fast and breaking things doesn’t always work for healthcare.

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Website: weconnect.care/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/connectedhealthsystems/

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