With roots in Kırşehir, Türkiye, and a focus on international healthcare collaboration, Duru Zaman is working to address a practical challenge: helping patients, clinicians and institutions turn information and clinical intent into a completed care journey. Zaman, founder of Durumed Care, was recently featured in a “20 Health Tech Founders Worth Following” roundup shared by Godsent Ndoma. The list brings together entrepreneurs working across diagnostics, artificial intelligence, virtual care, precision medicine and healthcare infrastructure. Durumed Care was highlighted for its focus on coordinated, connected care journeys. For Zaman, healthcare innovation depends on what happens after a technology is introduced. Her work centers on connecting hospital operations, clinical workflows, institutional relationships and patient needs so that promising solutions can be implemented effectively.

According to Pesha Magid of Quartz Media, walk through Taksim Square, the center of modern Istanbul, and you’ll see them: groups of men wandering around with their heads swaddled in bandages or bright-red marks shaped like boomerangs stretching from temple to temple at the crowns of their heads.