How Can a Smaller Prefilled Syringe Transform Medical Logistics with Ian Speers & Robert Halvorsen
About this episode
This episode discusses the redesign of pre-filled syringes and its implications for medical logistics with Ian Speers and Robert Halvorsen from Pacto Medical.
What if one of healthcare’s overlooked costs is something we’ve been shipping, storing, and working around for decades? Pre-filled syringes make medication easier to administer But their traditional design can take up valuable space in medical kits, hospitals, and throughout the supply chain. In this episode, I sit down with 𝐈𝐚𝐧 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐞𝐫𝐬 , CEO and Co-Founder, and 𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐇𝐚𝐥𝐯𝐨𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐧 , CTO and Co-Founder of 𝐏𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐨 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 , and the 2026 HealthTech Impact Award recipients in the category of BioTech, to unpack how they’re redesigning the pre-filled syringe to fit the same medication into a more compact package. But this conversation goes beyond a syringe. If you’re a healthcare founder or executive asking, 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘥𝘰 𝘐 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦’𝘴 𝘢 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭 𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘦𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘺 𝘪𝘯𝘯𝘰𝘷𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯? 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘥𝘰 𝘐 𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘣𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘳𝘴? 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘥𝘰 𝘐 𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘯 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘵 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘢 𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘺? Their journey offers some practical lessons. 𝗜𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗲𝗽𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗱𝗲, 𝘆𝗼𝘂’𝗹𝗹 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻: ✅ How Ian’s experience in medical logistics exposed an overlooked supply-chain problem ✅ Why…
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