Forbes September 3, 2019
Technology entrepreneur David Plans knows first hand the risks of ignoring mental health. While going through security at Brussels Airport in 2003, he suddenly passed out, was rushed to hospital in an ambulance and flatlined in transit.
“I was shocked back into life and given some stern advice about overwork and stress, which I happily ignored,” he says. “Instead, as I was an artificial intelligence researcher with an interest in human physiology, I tried to build a system that would warn me if it were to ever happen again. I was convinced there had to be something wrong with me.”
In 2012, he founded London-based digital health company BioBeats to change the perception of mental health globally through the use...