A confident, tenacious and influential entrepreneur, with in-depth expert skill set in Health Tech,  Information Technology, digital transformation, Cloud computing etc, Sherif Mohallal is a well-known name in the industry. His excellent track record in leading market strategy, brand positioning to drive sales, growth and profits in fast-moving and competitive sector with a diverse technology background including start-ups and large companies has helped accelerate business outcomes in all market segments, SMB, Enterprise and Service Provider across multiple verticals. He is the CEO of LifeBot®, a telemedicine solutions company that provides exclusive patented and military developed technologies for healthcare. In an interview, he speaks on an array of topics. Excerpts:

Conception of LifeBot®

LifeBot® provides exclusive patented EMS and Military developed telemedicine and resuscitation solutions. It is the only mobile telemedicine system to include resuscitation capabilities and provides exclusive patented and military developed technologies for healthcare.

LifeBot® is the first and only to provide fully interactive simultaneous “live” transmissions of video and critical patient data. the system in essence brings hospital specialists to the scene giving doctors and nurses a virtual telepresence to collaborate in saving lives and managing disasters in real time, on the “battlefield,” at home or abroad and is to protect first responders by documenting what they did and under exactly what kind of circumstances.

LifeBot® Dreams was originally developed as a military research project using $36 million in funding through U. S. Army Materiel Command and the Telemedicine and Technology Research Center (TATRC), in conjunction with Texas A&M University and the University of Texas Science Health Center.

Healthcare industry – challenges galore 

Healthcare costs will surely be reduced by the billions of dollars invested in home remote monitoring by most extremely large telemedicine companies, opines Sherif. He is quick to however add that they appear to have ‘skipped over’ or forgotten entirely that many of these individuals will have an emergency. “This is unavoidable, and lifebot® has the distinct patented technology to make it feasible to save more lives through emergency management.”

LifeBot’s flagship products

LifeBot® promises to revolutionize the way remote care is delivered utilizing the latest augmented and virtual telemedicine technologies to reduce both the risks and costs of deploying telemedicine systems in both hospital-to-hospital and hospital-to-ambulance  communications by integrating capabilities not inherent in today’s telemedicine communications. “LifeBot® go beyond simple video teleconferencing by acquiring critical patient inside information make it the most powerful and advanced prehospital EMS communications systems. Considered by many to be the most highly developed ambulance to hospital EMS telemedicine communications system ever deployed.”

Leadership traits

Optimistic, confident, adaptable and motivated, Sherif believes in focusing on the development of others and encouraging his team’s strategic thinking, innovation, and actions, problem-solving through an indirect and creative approach, using reasoning that is not immediately obvious and involving ideas that may not be attainable by using only traditional step-by-step logic.

A word of Advice

“The secret to company success is overcoming your fear of failure. Being an entrepreneur is a journey filled with challenges and tribulations. These situations can be terrifying as well as difficult. However, to avoid being knocked down for too long, leaders must be able to get back up after falling.”

The Success Mantra

“Within big businesses, I learned how to create new teams. I always appreciated the challenge of forming new teams and watching them develop into productive ones. The satisfaction felt when an idea becomes a form, which is followed by discussions with investors to make a dream come true.” He urges entrepreneurs to watch out for Big Data Analytics, Internet of Medical Thing, Robotic Automation Solutions in Healthcare and Virtual Reality (VR) Based Medical Treatment.