E87: Making Healthcare One Language - Dr Rachael Grimaldi (CardMedic Co-Founder)

In this week’s episode we meet Dr Rachael, a senior anaesthetic registrar who shares her story and why she wanted to be a doctor since the age of 3! Tune in to discover her journey to discovering anaesthesia and how she now juggles medicine, family life and entrepreneurship. Delve into the life of an anaesthetic registrar and learn how to gain exposure and advice on securing competitive posts. 

We learn the amazing story behind CardMedic and why it is so crucial for the future of healthcare to overcoming communication barriers in an ever increasingly diverse world. Rachael shares the obstacles and challenges she has faced taking it from concept to market and the lessons she learned as an ‘accidental entrepreneur’. This episode really describes a journey of accidental
entrepreneurship and innovation set against the backdrop of a global pandemic.   

Dr Rachael Grimaldi is a senior anaesthetic registrar at Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust, UK. She is the Co-Founder and CEO of CardMedic. Rachael has a long-held interest in human factors, patient safety and communication, winning several prizes for previous work on developing a “Safer ICU Handover”; most notably the international Sashidharan prize at The College of Anaesthesiologists Annual Scientific Sessions Conference in Sri Lanka. 

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www.cardmedic.com

CardMedic is a multi-award winning innovative digital patient communication tool, designed in rapid response to the global communication crisis in healthcare at the start of the pandemic. CardMedic has quickly evolved into a flexible tool to overcome any communication barrier in healthcare - language, visual, hearing or cognitive impairment, or PPE – at the point of care. 

 

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