From NHS doctor to scaleup founder – Farzana Rahman, CEO, Hexarad
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5.0 • 6 Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Dr Farzana Rahman, chief executive officer of Hexarad, discusses her journey from medical doctor to startup founder, how companies like hers are tackling the high demand for medical treatments not being met by the NHS and how AI is being used in the health tech ecosystem.
Hexarad is an end-to-end radiology platform wherein users can get diagnoses from scans such as CTEs and MRIs.
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| 0:00.0 | So the problem that we'd solve is there are too many scans and not enough radiologists to interpret those scans and give those results. |
| 0:13.0 | And that's the bit of the pathway that we're aiming to try and improve. |
| 0:26.8 | We had worked in the NHS where there are values, but I would say that most people in the NHS aren't entirely sure what those values are. |
| 0:32.0 | We've already found AI has helped us quite considerably, and I think thinking about the |
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| 1:57.6 | Hello and welcome to the UKTM podcast. |
| 2:05.8 | Your weekly chat with some of the movers and shakers of the UK tech industry. |
| 2:13.9 | And this is a very exciting episode because we are going video. VODs, video podcasting. We're giving it to go. |
| 2:19.0 | And this is our first attempt. It's the spotlight episode. And I'm delighted to say that for that very first episode, I am joined by Dr. Fisana Rahman. Welcome Fisana. |
| 2:25.4 | Thank you for having me. And Fisana, you're the head, the CEO and the co-founder of Hexerad. |
| 2:31.9 | And I would normally explain what Hexerad does, but as you're here, it would |
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