NantHealth Reviews

In the US ranks those ideas and visions that the main offices promote on closer inspection just seem to be a sales pitch in order to create interest for investors and get employees on board. Projects that go nowhere and perennial lay off's seem to be the actual rule. Management fitness for purpose is so hit and miss that nothing actually can get accomplished, favouritism and office politics runs the show at the higher levels. Lower level staff are ignored, skills and experience count less than job titles and it is debatable that there is any real product to sell, with most products and projects being advertised to potential clients seeming to be vaporware or proof of concept designs that aren't fully developed. Layoffs are constant, random and in most cases completely counter-productive to any project that is being worked on. There is no respect from the US office about legal issues involving data and security outside US borders that in the end will cause some serious fines to be levied, possibly forcing the closure of offices in the countries affected. Dr Soon spends an inordinate amount of time lobbying US Congressional law makers and EU Commissioners to loosen patient data protection laws. This is a very worrying pattern that implies that access to and reselling of patient data is the real goal and money making target here with the high rhetoric of cancer eradication being just a front to gather genetic and other protected data for resale. Company ethical standards are seriously lacking.

Having spent several years working for NaviNet there was an open and transparent culture, with a clear direction and strong leadership. Since a takeover in Jan 2016 things have moved south significantly. Inheriting a company with a great feel-good culture, full of enjoyment, innovation, respect and togetherness and turning it into almost the opposite inside 12 months is an achievement, though not a wanted one. Whilst there is clearly a willingness in some sites/people (in particular Belfast) to retain these values, there is a lack of strong direction and decision making to make it a reality. A new COO may help that, but doubts remain. A lack of NaviNet folks at the upper management level who where behind the success is not a step in right direction either. The takeover from NantHealth promised growth, a clear direction and a strong ambitious purpose. This has not thus far been delivered, and in fact their has been downsizing (particularly in Belfast where a lot of good engineers have seen enough and left), confusion and disorganisation in communication as well as concerning stories and reports on where the company lies and what it's true purpose is. A lot of the 'soft benefits' have been completely removed, which whilst has saved some slight funds, the true cost has been an unsettlement of a number of experiences and loyal engineers which has hit productivity, output, morale and need to seek recruitment/replacement.