#Diagnopreneur
So, what exactly is a ‘Diagnopreneur’?
Ever since I started my career in the field of Medical Diagnostics in 1993 — I knew that eventually, I wanted to have my own Company, to have the autonomy of working with products & solutions, and on projects that I’m interested in and that excite me. However, I didn’t quite think through the stages of what it would mean to have your own business, or that I would have to go from using my right brain to my left brain harmoniously and in equal measures.
Eventually, I became an entrepreneur in 1998, a first-generation entrepreneur and now a serial entrepreneur or a diagnopreneur so to say.
So this is where I formed the phrase ‘diagnopreneur’ (though after some research I believe this term does not officially exist); however my take on it is such: a Diagnopreneur uses creativity (and design) to develop and innovate new and traditional ways to provide diagnostic product solutions and services for the medical diagnostic industry to address a medical need in the world.
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Diagnopreneur in simple terms can be defined as an entrepreneur who builds business with medical diagnostic tools, product solutions, and services. Diagnopreneurs are in almost all allied sectors like Clinical Diagnostics, Imaging Diagnostics, Medical Diagnosis, and hundreds of innovative and associated activities. Diagnopreneurs help improve patient care, contribute to protecting consumers’ health and help to limit healthcare spending.
Along with therapeutics and vaccines, diagnostics make up the critical and often overlooked ‘third imperative’ for reducing disease burden. With better diagnostics come more accurate disease identification, more appropriate treatments, and lower cost. They also have a positive impact on society by way of promoting accelerated economic growth; innovation; social & behavioural changes; research and industrial development, and it also develops and improves existing enterprises.
Diagnopreneur can be an active person both physically and digitally who studies the developments in the global medical diagnostic industry and focusses on scientific and non-science communication about the same among the industry stakeholders and the non-industry stakeholders.
Successful Diagnopreneurs are not only self-employed, but they also create jobs for others in their workplace and they also play an important role in professionalizing diagnostic extension. Many also help employees build their dream to become entrepreneurs. Some are philanthropists too.
Creating a new enterprise can be one of the most exciting management challenges. Numerous Diagnopreneurs have built successful medical diagnostics industries and Companies by discovering and meeting unmet needs. There are many motives for starting a new Medical Diagnostics business. Some Diagnopreneurs learn from successful family role models. A few stumble on to an entrepreneurial career path by inventing a new product and services and building a business around it. There is also a lot of scope for the Diagnopreneurs in the digitized era.
In my following posts, I intend to record my 24 years as a Diagnopreneur, to sift through and make sense of all the ‘wow’ moments, bumps & humps, and all that I’m still learning.
