Healthtech firm raises £350,000 investment
Summary
Co-founded by Carmarthen-born surgeon Dafydd Loughran and operating out of Tramshed Tech in Cardiff, the firm has developed a platform that supports patients faced with the possibility of surgery to make shared decisions with their clinicians. As well as helping patients to make more informed decisions, Concentric also digitises paper-based processes so that health organisations can save money and avoid unnecessary operations. Daffyd said his firm will use the funds to scale up from a pilot at Imperial Healthcare NHS Trust across interested Welsh health boards and internationally. The open competition is very competitive, so this funding is a great endorsement for Concentric and its innovative approach to data-driven surgical decision-making.” Kelvin Gomez, consultant Surgeon at Aneurin Bevan University Health Board, added: “As a surgical community, we recognise the need to improve our consent process, and here is an opportunity to make the process more patient-centred. I look forward to health boards in Wales being some of the first to trial this 21st century way of obtaining informed consent from our patients, and hope that we remain an active part of the ongoing feedback and development process.”