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CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER AND CO-FOUNDER OF EQL

At this year ’ s HLTH Europe event in Amsterdam , I sat down with Peter Grinbergs , Chief Medical Officer and Co-founder of EQL , to discuss how digital healthcare is transforming physiotherapy , the importance of timely assessments and the role of technology in improving patient outcomes .

I ’ m a physio by background . I started my career in elite sport , working in premiership football for three years . I then set up a nationwide physiotherapy business , which I ran for about 10 years before selling it to a digital health business . That ’ s when I became more interested in consumer-facing digital solutions . We were building virtual GP offerings , and I was always interested in tech . In football , the impact you can have is vastly different from the public sector . For example , in sport , you can control all the variables and guarantee a quick recovery . In the public sector , delays in treatment lead to longer recovery times and higher costs . By assessing and treating people quickly , as we do in sport , we could achieve similar recovery times . This disparity fascinated me , and I wanted to address it with tech . At EQL , we built a system to replicate the initial assessment quickly , putting people on the right treatment pathway and augmenting care delivery .

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