Empowering Clinician-Led Innovation to Solve Core NHS Challenges

By Chris Dial

Healthcare innovation works best when it is engineered by the people who understand the patient journey intimately.

To truly transform services and improve patient outcomes, the NHS must create fertile ground for clinician-founders to develop, scale, and embed homegrown technologies directly into our care pathways.

About the Author

Chris Dial is a former senior executive at Microsoft who led the development of software companies across Europe and the US.

Prior to co-founding Salutare®, Chris was Microsoft's Senior Director of Cloud and Startups. Here, he led the process to find, and make successful, software companies building and running apps using Microsoft Azure and Dynamics. He managed this innovation team across 12 European countries.

Chris studied a BA in Chemistry and International Relations at Carleton College before becoming an IT Director, followed by joining an early NLP startup, and then taking on the role as an Analyst for Forrester Research in Cambridge, MA.

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