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Daren Wilson

Co-founder and Senior Partner

Daren Wilson, Co-founder and Senior Partner

Daren Wilson is a healthcare commercialisation executive, co-founder and Senior Partner of HealthSeed AG in Zurich, and a former General Manager at Roche.

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9 articles

VITAL SIGNS

HealthTech, September 2026: Sweden's €630m record-system write-off

Two Swedish regions abandoned the same hospital record system after €630m. What worked instead was a nurse with a list and a posted letter.

05 SEPT 2026 · 12 MIN
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VITAL SIGNS

AI Drug Discovery, September 2026: the bench became the bottleneck

AI drug discovery, September 2026: the AIntibody benchmark tested protein design methods blind, and ICH M15 now asks six questions of any model.

02 SEPT 2026 · 15 MIN
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VITAL SIGNS

HealthTech, August 2026: every AI scribe Ontario tested made an error

Oracle, Microsoft and Athenahealth folded the AI scribe into the health record. Ontario tested twenty approved AI scribes and every one produced an error.

AUG 26, 2026 · 17 MIN
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VITAL SIGNS

MedTech, August 2026: everything that mattered happened after approval

MedTech's opening cycle shows devices clearing approval, then losing on reimbursement, vigilance, and evidence standards: three tests approval cannot predict.

AUG 25, 2026 · 16 MIN
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PERSPECTIVE

Why European Health Companies Stall Before They Scale

Health biotech in the US raised EUR 219bn against Europe's EUR 25bn. The 532-day median wait from approval to reimbursement is a large part of why.

AUG 24, 2026 · 6 MIN
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PROGNOSIS

The Approval Is No Longer the Milestone

Healthcare's innovation machinery has outpaced its adoption machinery. RAPID, ACCESS and the EHDS show regulators and payers starting to close the gap.

AUG 20, 2026 · 18 MIN
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REFERENCE

EU AI Act deadlines for healthcare AI

The EU AI Act deadlines that apply to healthcare AI and medical devices, what moved to 2028, and which obligations are in force right now.

REVIEWED 05 SEPT 2026 · 6 MIN
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The AI Act deadline moved a year. Three obligations did not

The EU moved the AI Act deadline for AI in medical devices to August 2028, but three obligation sets kept their original dates and are in force today.

AUG 12, 2026 · 14 MIN
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PERSPECTIVE

North Africa's Digital Health Moment, and the Gap That Decides It

HealthSeed AG joins Telehealth Connect 2026 in Tunis as a strategic partner. Why the region's growth story will be settled where products meet health systems.

JUN 30, 2026 · 5 MIN
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