Salutare CEO Chris Dial and Ton Dobbe explore what’s broken in the process of joining up healthcare – and why doing nothing is not an option. Chris shares his approach to making the impossible possible – and the lessons he learned to overcome the hurdles to gain traction.

The referral system for cancer and other chronic diseases is fundamentally flawed. Reliant on email, riddled with unnecessary complexity and vulnerable to human error, the system is routinely failing patients. It’s time for transformative automation.

Many new and potentially life-saving medicines require safety monitoring in the form of blood tests. But from audits, we know that such monitoring occurs less than 40% of the time. This could be so much higher with the right software.

Monitoring patients with chronic diseases should never be a manual process, especially in an overburdened healthcare system. Audits show that less than 50% of cancer patients are monitored safely. Tomorrow’s outcomes could be so much better with software.

Nine in 10 diagnostic pathways rely on blood tests. Today, this system is slow, wasteful of hospital resources, error prone and often inconvenient for patients. It’s time to switch from a manual process to a digital solution.