Optimising the Health of Your Business
Decode X partners with your healthcare business to navigate through complex legal, ethical and compliance issues in order to minimise risks and maximise opportunities.
There has never been a more important time for innovation in healthcare, with new life-saving technologies developed, yet increasing demand to deliver higher value at lower cost.
Management of healthcare companies must find ways to deliver growth through innovation to meet the needs of patients and customers, as well as avoid disruption or establish viability to investors.
Some of the significant challenges they face are complex regulatory landscapes, internal risk appetites and bureaucratic governance processes, which stifle the pace at which innovation delivers value. Today, the most commonly utilised options are to commit more resources to these issues internally or externally through generalist consultancies or law firms.
Adding internal resources takes time and reduces flexibility. Hiring generalists consultants or lawyers are expensive and result in non-specific advice to the business while not addressing the internal structural challenges to managing risk appropriately. With rapid evolution of technology in health, organic regulatory regimes being erected and demand for more innovation now, the problem will only get worse over time.
There is a third option for a health company to understand their risk portfolio and catalyse decision making to move forward, create value and help patients quicker. By leveraging an expert in this field, who can partner with your business to minimise risk and maximise opportunity, companies can confidently navigate risk and reputation issues, allowing them instead to meaningfully increase the value derived from innovation.
About Mina Frost
Mina is a global legal expert with 20 years experience advising healthcare organisations on legal issues and calculated risk-taking including: agile risk management, good governance and ethical design thinking.
Mina has dedicated her career to partnering with healthcare organisations to move forward, create value and ultimately, help patients. She is an accomplished problem solver who helps companies to move fast while avoiding the mistakes that hold others back.
Mina is a US qualified lawyer, based in London, working globally with healthcare companies on risk and compliance.
Working with start-ups through to large corporations, Mina has an innovative and practical approach, giving clients a broad understanding of their risk portfolio to catalyse decision making. Mina’s focus is to minimise downside risk and optimise opportunities, all while keeping her clients safe from the myriad of legal and reputational risk that surrounds the health industry.
Mina has led teams and corporate risk strategy at pharmaceutical companies, GSK and Abbott Laboratories, through the development and deployment of their comprehensive risk and compliance programmes – including being the first Global Privacy Officer at both companies, facilitating relationships and approvals from authorities around the world. Mina established the Global Risk Office at GSK, moving the company towards integrated compliance programmes (e.g. Anti-Bribery and Corruption, Privacy, Sanctions, Third Party Oversight) that were business-focused, effective and proportionate. Mina is currently a Vice President at GSK, focussed on promoting smart and compliant risk-taking as the company pivots to digital led drug discovery and healthcare.
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Following 20 years of being a global health lawyer, the last 15 of which has been spent as a legal, compliance and ethical expert for the pharmaceutical industry, I am excited to launch Decode X Consulting, a London-based advisory firm, meeting the growing need to...
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