Dr Rachael Grimaldi is an NHS anaesthetic doctor, Co-Founder & CEO of CardMedic, Fellow on the NHS Innovation Accelerator & NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme.
CardMedic is the healthcare language services portal, positioned to connect frontline caregivers with communication support services immediately, at the point of care.
CardMedic is a multi-award-winning app designed to reduce health inequities that arise from communication barriers affecting approximately 50% of the population; namely foreign language, sensory impairment (such as deafness and blindness), cognitive problems (such as stroke, dementia, autism), learning disabilities and literacy issues.
Written by clinical experts, CardMedic hosts an ever-growing A-Z library of pre-written scripts replicating common clinical interactions to support history-taking, explanation of procedures, investigations, diagnoses and treatment pathways, patient education and much more, that can be changed to 50 languages, easy read, sign language videos and read-aloud. With an integrated speech-to-text translation tool and link to live interpreters, CardMedic overcomes any communication barrier, at the touch of a button.
Dr Rachael Grimaldi is a senior anaesthetic registrar at Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Co-Founder and CEO of CardMedic, Fellow on the NHS Innovation Accelerator and NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme, and until recently, was the Associate Medical Director of the Brighton Marathon. Rachael has a long-held interest in human factors, patient safety and communication; winning several prizes for previous work on developing a Safer Intensive Care Unit Handover, before going on to win multiple prizes for her social impact start-up, CardMedic.
This session presents some entrepreneurial solutions that can also be used by outpatient care companies to meet increasing sustainable and digital demands.