FIVE MINS WITH ...
Lynette
Ousby
Lynette Ousby is the UK managing director for Alcidion , a global smart health tech company aiming to modernise and accelerate digital strategies with systems that proactively help healthcare professionals and that embrace automation and functionality such as AI
Q . WHAT DOES YOUR POSITION ENTAIL ?
» I get to work alongside a great team in the UK as we collaborate with the NHS to deliver technology that can improve the lives of busy clinicians and their patients . I also get to work with some inspiring colleagues internationally , including some great minds who have developed amazing technology that is disrupting older approaches in the health tech space .
As a leader in the sector , it ’ s also important to put forward new ideas , to be disruptive to the market and to stand by those ideas when they provoke debate . We are seeing the benefits of that now , as emerging market requirements and policy resonate with the provocative ideas that we championed 12 months ago .
Q . HOW HAVE YOU REACTED TO THE IMPACT OF THE LAST 18 MONTHS ?
» We have continued to grow rapidly as a business in the UK – and as some companies have moved away from sites , we have opened a new regional presence in the North West in addition to our existing UK offices . This has allowed us to continue to recruit new expertise that is boosting our ability to support customers and colleagues .
We have acquired new expertise in other ways too – with Alcidion ’ s
18 October 2021