102 - Sustainable Clinical Trials (1): Christian Hieronimi on Convien & myoncare

The first episode of our Sustainable Clinical Trials mini-series, produced in partnership with the Sustainable Healthcare Coalition (SHC), following up on the Community of Practice conference in London on 4 November 2025. Each episode brings one of the CoP speakers back to share their story in long form.
 
GUEST
Christian Hieronimi, Founder & CEO of ONCARE (myoncare) and co-founder of Convien. A serial healthcare entrepreneur based in Munich, with previous exits to Elekta (Medical Intelligence) and Varian (humediq).
 
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

• How Convien's meeting-point optimiser can cut around 30 to 35% of travel cost and 40% of the CO2 footprint of investigator meetings, by jointly optimising ticket price, travel time and carbon per kilogram.
• Why roughly half of corporate travel spend in international organisations is driven by meetings, not customer visits, and why that makes meetings the biggest under-addressed decarbonisation lever in clinical operations.
• How myoncare uses wearable data, symptom questionnaires and guideline-based thresholds to "fill the void" between doctor visits, and how the same platform can decentralise a trial by routing blood work, imaging and eligibility checks to local providers.

 
TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Introduction by Nathalie Preiswerk (Sustainable Healthcare Coalition) and series framing
02:00 Meet Christian: serial founder, robotics and oncology background
03:30 Convien origin story: Beijing vs. Barcelona, 2010
06:00 The three-variable optimisation: cost, time, carbon
10:00 How big is the meetings prize inside corporate travel
11:00 Applying Convien to investigator meetings and site selection
13:00 Introducing myoncare: a care orchestration platform
16:00 A chronic kidney disease use case, end to end
20:00 Decentralised trials: bringing the site to the patient
22:00 Bring-your-own-device and the International Patient Summary
25:00 Care pathways that trigger the next step automatically
 
REFERENCES MENTIONED

• Sustainable Healthcare Coalition Community of Practice conference (London, 4 Nov 2025): https://shcoalition.org/cop-conference/
• SHC Sustainable Clinical Trials Knowledge Hub: https://shcoalition.org/sustainable-clinical-trials-knowledge-hub/
• Convien Smart Meeting Location Planner: https://www.convien.com/
• myoncare Virtual coordinated care: https://www.myoncare.com/
• Convien Meeting Point Optimiser (Siemens partnership, Microsoft AppSource): https://marketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/product/office/wa200001588
• EU MDR 2017/745 (myoncare is classified as MDR Class IIa)
• International Patient Summary (ISO 27269)

 
CONNECT WITH THE GUEST

• Christian Hieronimi on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christian-hieronimi-066a394/
• ONCARE / myoncare: https://www.myoncare.com/
• Convien GmbH: https://www.convien.com/

 
YOU MIGHT ALSO ENJOY

• 091 SHC: the Sustainable Healthcare Coalition (Fiona Adshead, Keith Moore, Nathalie Preiswerk), the backstory to this mini-series.
• 089 Koen Kas on transforming healthcare and clinical trials, another conversation on reimagining the trial operating model.
• 083 Sustainability requirements in public procurement, relevant if you are thinking about where the buy-side pressure lands.

 
HOSTS

• Joachim Almdal on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joachim-espeland-almdal-017a6973/
• Frederik van Deurs on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/frederikvandeurs/
• Care Pathway Consulting: https://carepathwayconsulting.com

 
PULL QUOTE
"In between two doctor's visits, nobody looks after the patient, because the patient's pretty much invisible. We are filling up that void." Christian Hieronimi
 
Produced in partnership with the Sustainable Healthcare Coalition.