Episode 5 - Mental Health Apps - Kumar Jacob
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This week Arden speaks with Kumar Jacob, Founder & CEO of Mindwave Ventures. Kumar has a career spent in technology and gaming, as well as a stint as a non-executive of South London and Maudsley NHS Trust. It was this experience which exposed Kumar to the lack of technology provision in the Mental Health world. Not one to sit still Kumar decided to address this shortage of innovation by creating Mindwave Ventures a company which focuses on creating tools for the NHS, Charities and private providers looking to cerate meaningful solutions in the space.
Alongside working with Thalamos, one of their key projects is their open source Personal Health Record which they are building collaboratively with a number of NHS Trusts across the UK.
Kumar and Arden discuss why he first got interested in technology in mental health, what he things the future holds, as well as some of the positives and negatives of bring innovation to the NHS.
We hope you enjoy listening.
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