The Healthtech Podcast

This week James is joined by Sam Shah to talk about being BAME in healthcare and technology. Sam is a clinical lead with an interest in healthcare technology, digital experience, translational research and supporting behaviour change. He is an NHS Consultant with experience in clinical commissioning, service redesign, public health, workforce planning and health economics. He is also a Digital Hea...

This week's Sunday session has some top tips for healthtech entrepreneurs from Philip Almelda, founder and CEO of Brainworks, who was a guest on the last episode. Get in touch: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk 

Phillip Alvelda is a scientist, an engineer, a serial entrepreneur, and an educator. Previously at DARPA, the central research and development organization for the U.S. Department of Defense that maintains the technological superiority of the U.S. military and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he developed sensors that have flown throughout the solar system. Phillip has founded new infrastru...

This week, James is joined by Dr Alex Young - founder of Virti and cofounder of HS. James and Alex look back at episode 1 and reflect on how they met, their journey cofounding HS., bootstrapping an accelerator, what they learned and what they're doing now. It features many tips for entrepreneurs on topics like starting a business, starting a podcast, finding a cofounder, focus, difficult decisions...

This week, James is joined by Lloyd Price: Tech Entrepreneur, Corporate Executive and Board Advisor with 20+ years experience building Digital Businesses in 6 industries - Healthcare, Retail, Travel, Finance, Advertising and Dating. He's performed Senior Management, C-Level & Co-Founder roles @ Zesty, Badoo, Kelkoo, Yahoo! UK and Yahoo! Europe. Lloyd co-founded Zesty from an idea in July 2012...

This week's Sunday session is a look into what James is building at somX. If you want to join the early access list, head over to www.somx.co.uk and be the first to hear the updates. Also mentioned this week - The London Business School Healthtech Challenge, a pitching competition with a £10,000 prize, which James is judging on Tuesday. Head to https://www.londonhealthtechchallenge.org/ to learn m...

James' guest this week is Dr. Ashish Patel, Principal at Optum Ventures, who, on their website describe him as the physician, technologist & financier triple threat! Ash is serious about revolutionizing health care, and has a wealth of experience building, commercializing and financing disruptive health care technology companies. Before Optum Ventures, Ash served as a lead life sciences invest...

This week's Sunday session is on the latest grants, accelerators and programmes to get funding! Mentioned this week: DigitalHealth. London Accelerator: https://digitalhealth.london/accelerator/apply/ NHSx Remote Monitoring call: https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/33d1e59d-83d9-4e86-b243-a9cb0baef548 UKRI Healthy Ageing: https://www.ukri.org/innovation/industrial-strategy-challenge-f...

This week James is joined by Paul Tunnah, founder of pharmaphorum, which combines industry leading publications with a specialist strategy and creative consultancy. Paul is an experienced pharmaceutical industry thought leader and adviser, with a specialist focus on cross-stakeholder communication, digital / social media engagement and collaborative innovation.  James and Paul cover all things hea...

For this week's session, I'm giving you my take on the brand new AI checklist which has been issued here in the UK for health and care organisations by NHSx. It's an incredibly succinct document outlining a bunch of simple questions for organisations to ask AI companies if they want to procure them. Loads to learn for startups, investors and healthcare organisations both in the UK and abroad. Ther...

Can you actually be a doctor and run successful, scaling medical device startup at the same time? This week I'm joined by Krishan Ramdoo, founder and CEO of TympaHealth Technologies - a team of doctors and technology experts united by a vision of helping the world to hear. They've built 'the world’s first all-in-one hearing health assessment system' and they're doing incredible partnerships all ov...

Hit this amazing milestone this week! Thanks to everyone that listens around the world 🌍🎙🙏🏼  Special thanks to those of you that have been in touch - love hearing from you if you're finding it valuable - especially with the tough things going on around COVID-19.  Do you want to be on the show? If you've got a good story to tell and you want to inspire people, make sure you email or DM me. Found...

This week, James is Joined by Alex Menys, CEO and founder of Motilent. Motilent’s mission is to change the way we see the gut. We have spent the last 5 years developing new imaging technology that is helping researchers and clinicians understand how the digestive tract works. Our key clinical focus area is Crohn’s Disease, a debilitating inflammatory condition affecting people of all ages and our...

This week's Sunday Session is all about AI in radiology and the announcement that Qure.ai , a healthtech company specialising in artificial intelligence (AI) has deployed its COVID-19 progression monitoring software in a UK hospital. This is a big moment for AI in radiology in the UK and could be a pivotal moment for the adoption of AI in healthcare. Read the article in Forbes: https://www.forbes....

This week, James is joined by Dr. Harpreet Sood, an NHS GP with a lot of special interests! Harpreet has collaborated with organisations on healthcare projects internationally - in the US, France, Israel and Asia. Early in his career he has also founded two healthcare startups. Harpreet is currently a practicing primary care doctor in London at University College Hospital. He is also Co-Founder an...

This week, I heard that a previous colleague tragically lost his life to COVID-19. I saw all the tributes to him on social media and hope that his family and friends are doing as best they can. Beyond the statistics are real people with families who are having their lives turned upside down by this and frontline NHS workers are literally giving their lives to serve the public. Please stay at home...

This week, James is joined by Tobias Alpsten, an international health tech executive and entrepreneur focusing on transforming patient care globally. He founded iPLATO in 2000 and is now the company’s Chief Executive. As iPLATO’s CEO, Tobias is responsible for setting overall strategy and for leading marketing, support, product management and engineering. Committed to evidence based interventions...

Hiring is hard. In healthtech it's even harder. But right now, it's needed more than ever with so many people out of work. The expertise is pretty niche, it's tough finding people that 'get it' in healthtech with public/private sector and clinical/managerial/business nuances, there's specific sales and marketing knowledge, there's no one place to go to find jobs/hires and recruiters still face the...

We're obviously still in the midst of COVID-19 and if you're anything like us at HS., you'll be locked away, thinking, strategising, and coming up with new ideas, new innovations, even new businesses... When we all emerge, you may well be looking for investment and so this episode is a conversation I had a few weeks back with Chris Smith, Managing Partner at Playfair Capital. Chris focuses his inv...

This week's Sunday Session is about ideas, innovation and optimism in the face of lockdown and social distancing. Mentioned this week: If you want to join the HS. Office Hours with Ananda Ventures on Wednesday, apply here ASAP. Late applications will be taken forwards to the next office hours, so whenever you're listening, you can apply here: https://hs18.typeform.com/to/fDudbo For a free healthte...

This week, James is joined by Jana Dowling, founder and CEO of the preventative mental health-tech company, Arkeo. Previously a standup comic, Jana Downling found her way to entrepreneurship via a severe depressive episode. In her recovery, Jana started tracking her mental health and based on the data she was collecting on herself, she was back into work within 6 weeks. She then started social ent...

This week's Sunday Session is another update on the healthtech response to COVID-19. This week we heard from NHSX and how they're partnering with big technology companies on a centralised data store to provide decision makers with real-time dashboards of how the virus is spreading and what resources are available in healthcare to deal with it. Also featured this week: Tracking apps/websites - http...

This week, we're still getting our heads around coronavirus. We’re newly locked down in the UK, we're all getting used to remote working and as we heard on the last episode with Dr Aman Gupta, the front line is preparing in almost military style for what is going to be a war on coronavirus and a huge influx of patients. To talk more about the clinical and technology implications, I have Dr Lydia Y...

For this special episode, James is joined by Dr Aman Gupta: long time friend and fellow digital health guy, frontline anaesthetics and intensive care doctor and has worked at accelerators like DH.L and the NHS Innovation Accelerator, so he speaks our language on this podcast. In this 30 min chat, Aman talks about the coalface of healthcare during this crisis we’re in and for our listeners that mig...

It goes without saying that this week's Sunday Session is an update on the healthtech response to COVID-19. Featured this week: The Coronavirus Tech Handbook (an open source google doc) - https://coronavirustechhandbook.com/ OxVent has built a prototype for a rapid and mass manufactured ventilator for Covid-19 patients, for use when conventional ventilator capacity is exhausted - https://oxvent.or...