Health Tech for Businesses

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'Health Tech For Businesses' by DocHQ delves into different topics affecting healthcare and businesses like AI, Data Privacy, Digital Health and more. DocHQ is a health-tech business that offers a range of digital health solutions for companies with the aim of improving employee health and productivity and also caters to individual health needs. Our mission is to provide patient-centred healthcare with scalable and secure technologies to enable better health outcomes for everyone.

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Understanding how stress impacts our physical health with Dr Rebecca Williams

Understanding how stress impacts our physical health with Dr Rebecca Williams

Thank you to Dr Rebecca Williams for chatting with us about stresses impact on our physical and mental health.Stress is more than just a feeling; it's a physical and psychological reaction to demands that exceed our coping abilities. When faced with prolonged stress, our body releases hormones like cortisol and adrenaline, which prepare us for emergency action. This constant state of high alert can lead to muscle tension and inflammation, common contributors to physical pain and discomfort.Today, we are lucky to be speaking with Dr Rebecca Williams, a Stress Management Specialist working with individuals struggling with stress. She also works with businesses and organisations to help them reduce presenteeism, absenteeism and high staff turnover. Following her medical training in Cambridge and Oxford, she completed her GP training in the Scottish Borders and has worked as a GP there for nearly 25 years, witnessing first-hand the impact of stress on mental, physical and emotional health.As a Stress Management Specialist, she supports individuals in understanding and managing their stress. She also works with businesses to educate and support their staff through webinars, workshops and confidential 1-2-1 sessions.Find Rebecca here:https://williamsstressmanagement.co.uk/@williamsstressmanagement on Linkedin

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Understanding how stress impacts our physical health with Dr Rebecca Williams

Understanding how stress impacts our physical health with Dr Rebecca Williams

Thank you to Dr Rebecca Williams for chatting with us about stresses impact on our physical and mental health.Stress is more than just a feeling; it's a physical and psychological reaction to demands that exceed our coping abilities. When faced with prolonged stress, our body releases hormones like cortisol and adrenaline, which prepare us for emergency action. This constant state of high alert can lead to muscle tension and inflammation, common contributors to physical pain and discomfort.Today, we are lucky to be speaking with Dr Rebecca Williams, a Stress Management Specialist working with individuals struggling with stress. She also works with businesses and organisations to help them reduce presenteeism, absenteeism and high staff turnover. Following her medical training in Cambridge and Oxford, she completed her GP training in the Scottish Borders and has worked as a GP there for nearly 25 years, witnessing first-hand the impact of stress on mental, physical and emotional health.As a Stress Management Specialist, she supports individuals in understanding and managing their stress. She also works with businesses to educate and support their staff through webinars, workshops and confidential 1-2-1 sessions.Find Rebecca here:https://williamsstressmanagement.co.uk/@williamsstressmanagement on Linkedin

Menopause and Physical Therapy: In conversation with Jackie Grant

Menopause and Physical Therapy: In conversation with Jackie Grant

Thank you to Jackie Grant for sitting down with us to talk about all things menopause, from fitness and physiotherapy to health testing and community outreach. It was delightful to hear about the incredible work Jackie is doing to empower women to understand their bodies and navigate through difficult transitions. Here, she tells us about the Menopause and Women's Health cafe she opened to create a safe and open space for women to share their experiences. At DocHQ, we aim to improve health choices for women in your workplace. With over 13 million women in the UK workforce potentially experiencing menopause or perimenopause, it's crucial. In the UK, only 27% of women disclose their menopause symptoms to their employers.Our Menopause Health Check range is an invaluable tool you can offer your employees. It helps them learn more about their menopausal status, receive GP-verified results, and get the support they deserve.You find Jackie here:wegrantfitnessandhealth.co.uk@weightlosswithjackieg

Our Health Journey: Conversations with women on their health in the workplace

Our Health Journey: Conversations with women on their health in the workplace

Welcome to a new series all about women’s health in the workplace hosted by DocHQ. Every month, I will be speaking with different women about their personal health experiences in and out of the workplace. We’ll be covering health conditions such as menopause, fertility, endometriosis, sexual health and mental health. The aim of this series is to shine a much needed spotlight on the issue of women’s health in the workplace.We want to give women a place to share their personal stories and encourage employers to make changes in their workplaces to make the discussion on health more open and accessible.In this episode, we hear from members of the DocHQ team on their personal health journeys. A huge thank you to Lina, Mel and Debby for sharing their stories and their time. Particularly to Lina who told us about her difficult experience getting a diagnosis for endometriosis and how it's impacted her personal and work lives.If you have a story you’d like to share about your experience as an employee with a health issue in the workplace, or if you’re an employer who has made changes to the conversation on women’s health within your team, we’d love to hear from you. Find us @dochq on LinkedIn and Instagram.

Menopause in the workplace: DocHQ joined by Positive Pause and Menopause Movement's co-founder Jo McEwan

Menopause in the workplace: DocHQ joined by Positive Pause and Menopause Movement's co-founder Jo McEwan

Following on in our menopause awareness series, we at DocHQ are speaking with Jo McEwan. One of the founders of Positive Pause and their sister company, Menopause Movement. I’m joined by my colleague, Melanie Rutherford as representatives for DocHQ - a health tech company striving to improve your health choices. ;pWith October being Menopause awareness month, we at DocHQ want to shine a spotlight on the voices of women and women’s health. Positive Pause is an organisation that has been dismantling the negative stigma surrounding menopause and women’s health since 2016. From comprehensive guides and resources for women and employers, Positive Pause is changing the way menopause is treated in and out of the workplace.

Managing Menopause with Physiotherapy: DocHQ joined by Menopause Movement's Christien Bird.

Managing Menopause with Physiotherapy: DocHQ joined by Menopause Movement's Christien Bird.

During October, Menopause Awareness Month, we at DocHQ sat down with Christien Bird, a Chartered Physiotherapist, Co-founder and Clinical Lead of the Menopause Movement and the practise owner of The White Hart clinic.At DocHQ, we want to shine a spotlight on the voices of women and women’s health. The Menopause Movement is a fantastic organisation that works to extend and improve the awareness of menopause for health professionals, fitness professionals, gyms, leisure centres, clinics, public sector and NHS providers through their certified 8-module course covering all areas of menopause information and support resources.Christien enlightens us on the powerful impact physiotherapy can have to the management of menopause symptoms. Our own, Melanie Rutherford tells us about DocHQ Physio, a remote, AI-driven physiotherapy tool that combines online consultations with our physiotherapist lead and personalised treatment plans to suit your needs.

DocHQ Physio: Revolutionising the physiotherapy world through AI

DocHQ Physio: Revolutionising the physiotherapy world through AI

Today, we join DocHQ's CEO, Madhur Srivastava and our lead physiotherapist, Tiggy Corben in a discussion on how AI driven technology like DocHQ Physio is reshaping the world of physiotherapy.The latest statistics show that 7.3m working days were lost last year to musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) with 477,000 cases being reported in 2022, 139,000 of which were new cases. With our product, DocHQ Physio, you can ensure that your employees maintain their physical health with the help from our Chartered Physiotherapists and our specialised AI technology. From easy access to physiotherapists, to remote consultations, to guided AI powered exercises to aid the rehabilitation process, DocHQ Physio has got your team's health needs covered.

Company culture pre and post COVID

Company culture pre and post COVID

The sixth episode of Health Tech for Businesses is a conversation between Bretton Putter, Founder and CEO of CultureGene and Gopika Sampat, DocHQ Marketing and Operations Lead, about the importance of company culture and how company leaders can develop it effectively.

Employee health and wellbeing - what does it mean?

Employee health and wellbeing - what does it mean?

In the fifth episode of Health Tech for Businesses, Geoffrey Kuhn (Chief Actuary and Analytics leader, Aon’s EMEA health practice) speaks with Prof Mike Rosenberg (member of DocHQ’s Advisory Council, Strategic Management Professor at IESE Business School ,Barcelona) about employee health and wellbeing and decision making driven by data science and modelling.

Evolving representation of health in businesses today

Evolving representation of health in businesses today

In the fourth episode of Health Tech For Businesses, we share a conversation with with Dr Avneet Kaur, Wellbeing Solutions Leader of the EMEA Health Solutions Division at AON and with Prof Magda Rosenmöller, Senior Lecturer of Production, Technology and Operations Management at IESE Business School where they share their thoughts on the COVID crisis, the evolving role of the Chief Medical Officer, testing strategies, the relation between science and policy making and the importance of digital health today.

How can businesses cope with the new normal?

How can businesses cope with the new normal?

In the third episode of Health Tech For Businesses, we share a conversation with Prof Tolga Tezcan, Professor of Management Science and Operations at London Business School to discuss flexibility in business operations today and how companies need to adopt proactive measures to protect their workforce instead of relying solely on national healthcare systems/governmental support.

Crisis management strategies during COVID and leadership essentials

Crisis management strategies during COVID and leadership essentials

In continuation with our COVID series, we share a conversation with Prof Magda Rosenmöller, Senior Lecturer of Production Technology and Operations Management at IESE Business School, who holds extensive experience in health policy. She explains how different companies responded to episodes of the outbreak in their workspaces differently, the benefits of certain testing strategies and crucial leadership essentials for companies.

Impact of COVID-19 on industries: a strategist's perspective

Impact of COVID-19 on industries: a strategist's perspective

This is the first episode of 'Health Tech for Business' brought to you by DocHQ and the first of our mini series on the COVID-19 pandemic. In this episode, our conversation is with Prof Mike Rosenberg who is the Strategy Management Professor at IESE Business School in Barcelona, Spain and who has done 23 webinars on this crisis alone. Here we discuss his opinions on the crisis management strategies adopted by different companies he interacted with like Schneider Electric and Hapag Lloyd and his thoughts on the crisis overall.