Clinical Advisory

Clinical expertise for MedTech

Great technology still has to work in the real world.

Sycamore provides clinician-led advisory support to MedTech companies, digital health teams and spin-outs developing products for healthcare. We help teams understand the clinical problem, challenge assumptions, design around real workflows and develop the evidence needed to move towards meaningful clinical adoption.

Discuss a project What we cover

Areas of support

Where clinical input changes the outcome

Seven areas where a practising clinician in the room tends to change what gets built, or stops the wrong thing being built at all.

Clinical Strategy

Define the clinical problem, intended users, patient population, pathway and unmet need before expensive development decisions are locked in.

Problem definition and intended use
Target population and pathway mapping
Unmet need and comparator landscape
Clinical risk and adoption barriers

Product & Workflow Review

Put concepts, prototypes and interfaces in front of a practising clinician and find out how they behave in a real pathway.

Usability against clinical workflow
Outputs, alerts and reporting
Fit with existing care pathways
Prototype and interface critique

Evidence & Validation Strategy

Clinical input into what you need to prove, to whom, and in what order, so validation work supports adoption rather than sitting on a shelf.

Study populations and endpoints
Comparators and feasibility
Validation study design
Evidence required for adoption

Cardiovascular & Acute Care

Specialist clinical input across cardiovascular medicine and acute care, the areas where our own clinical practice sits.

ECG and echocardiography
Cardiovascular and coronary imaging
Coronary disease and coronary physiology
Acute cardiovascular care

Clinical AI & Digital Health

Clinical review of AI and decision-support concepts. We assess the clinical reasoning and the fit, not the model architecture.

Intended use and clinical framing
Dataset and label review from a clinical view
Model outputs and human-in-the-loop design
Clinical reporting and pathway integration

Independent Clinical Due Diligence

Independent clinical assessment for founders, investors, accelerators and healthcare organisations weighing a technology or partnership.

Clinical need and use case
Pathway realism and workflow fit
Evidence quality and gaps
Barriers to clinical adoption

Fractional Clinical Advisory

Continuing senior clinical input for companies that need a clinician in the room regularly without employing one full time.

Regular product and strategy sessions
Prototype and document review
Evidence planning
Ongoing access to specialist clinical input

Engagement models

Three ways to work together

Scope, timelines and fees are agreed per engagement. Tell us what you are building and we will come back with a proposal rather than a rate card.

Focused Clinical Review

A defined question, technology or prototype reviewed by an appropriate clinician, followed by an advisory session and written recommendations.

Clinical Strategy Project

A defined piece of work covering a clinical problem, pathway, product direction, evidence strategy or validation question.

Ongoing Clinical Advisory

Continuing clinical input for companies that need clinical expertise embedded alongside their product, engineering or leadership team.