Mahiben Maruthappu MBE (born 1988) is a British physician, entrepreneur, academic researcher and health policy specialist.
[3][4] Maruthappu was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2020 New Year Honours for services to Health and Social Care technology.
[16] After his mother fell and fractured part of her back, Maruthappu faced difficulties in arranging required home care.
[17] He subsequently co-founded Cera,[18] a social care provider that uses an on-demand digital platform to match people seeking in-home assistance with professional carers, allowing families to keep updated on a patient's progress, while also using Artificial Intelligence to predict potential health deteriorations in patients.
He subsequently partook in the ‘landmark’ 2018 study demonstrating that health & social care funding constraints in England were linked to 120,000 excess deaths; a so called ‘mortality gap’.