The enormous pressure faced by healthcare – Christoph Lippuner, Semble
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5 • 6 Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Christoph Lippuner, co-founder and chief executive of Semble, discusses why healthcare professionals are far too often victims of extreme burnout, why that is a problem for everyone and the challenges he faced raising money for his business.
Semble provides management software for healthcare providers. The platform helps clinicians and clinics manage everything from scheduling, billing, and prescribing to patient data and administrative workflows, aiming to reduce manual work and amplify time spent on patient care.
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| 0:00.0 | We see that healthcare professionals tend to spend up to 50% of their time on systems. |
| 0:13.0 | For eight hours of seeing a patient, they spend eight hours on their system, which makes no sense. |
| 0:18.0 | There's a study that came out that said that healthcare professionals who show symptoms of burnout |
| 0:25.6 | are twice or more than twice as likely to make a medical error. |
| 0:29.6 | And so that's a global issue. |
| 0:32.6 | In my view, I think sometimes we don't give enough value to the value of what we do, right? |
| 0:40.6 | Waking up in the morning and working on something that really gets you going where you feel |
| 0:46.3 | that there's a real, there's a purpose in what you do has so much value. |
| 0:58.8 | From the first time founders to the funds that back them, innovation needs different. |
| 1:05.4 | Our episode partner, HSBC Innovation Banking, is proud to accelerate growth for tech and life science businesses, creating meaningful connections and opening up a world of opportunity |
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| 1:24.1 | Hello and welcome to the UKTM podcast, a weekly chat with the movers and shakers of the UK tech industry and the destination for all things UK tech related. |
| 1:34.1 | I'm your host, Jane Wakefield, and today I am joined by Christoph Lipner, founder of Semble. |
| 1:40.1 | Welcome, Christoph. Thank you very much. It's great to be on. Thanks for having me. |
| 1:44.8 | Now, first of all, do you want to give me a bit of a snapshot of what it is that semblance does? |
| 1:50.8 | So the problem is trying to solve and then how it goes about doing so. |
| 1:55.1 | Yes, so maybe telling you how Semble came about is probably going to inform the audience about what we do. |
| 2:03.9 | And so Semble came about a few years ago and essentially came out of empathy for healthcare professionals. |
| 2:10.1 | My co-founder and I went through a personal situation unrelated, related to close relatives to us and who were going through |
| 2:20.1 | a healthcare journey and basically made us realize how healthcare professionals were operating |
| 2:26.3 | and how systems were working against them. And so essentially the mission and the vision |
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