The Healthtech Podcast

We're living through a significant moment in history and healthtech companies are looking at ways they can help with the COVID-19 outbreak. They are sharing learning, partnering and working around the clock to find solutions to the ever-growing list of problems on healthcare's front-line. Two companies that have come together are Q doctor and eConsult who are experts in telemedicine and triage res...

This week's Sunday Session is a somber nod to those healthtech companies working around the clock to help with the COVID-19 pandemic. One such company is Feebris, whose machine learning platform helps triage, diagnose and remotely monitor pneumonia patients in the community. Mentioned this week: WHO's advice for the public: https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/advice-for...

How do you go from arctic warfare in the military to becoming a healthtech entrepreneur? Should you bunk in the same office with your investors? How do you go from being a first to second-time founder? Can you close a healthtech investment after a guy selling inflatable hammocks? This week, James is joined by Matt Wilson, founder and CEO of uMed, which  enables healthcare providers to efficiently...

This week's Sunday Session has some bonus content from Jacob Haddad, cofounder of AccuRx who appeared in Episode 52. Jacob gives his tips on how healthtech startups can get things right from day one by building for the end user, having your own office to build the best culture, get the unsexy basics right and optimising for adoption. Mentioned this week: Episode 52: The Story of AccuRx and Clinici...

This week, James is joined by Peter Birch, host of the Talking Healthtech podcast based out of Australia. Peter has worked in management roles in healthcare organisations for over 15 years; big ones and small ones, innovative start ups and slow moving beasts, he’s seen all different kinds. Pete has experienced first hand the exciting developments and the frustrating stagnation's of all the ups and...

This week's Sunday Session is about communicating your messages as a healthtech startup. As a contributor for Forbes, James gives his tips on how to sell in a press release as a founder without a PR agency and offers advice to anyone thinking about levelling up their content in 2020. Agnieszka, CEO of Renovos: agnieszka.janeczek@renovos.co.uk Send James an email for comms, messaging and media advi...

This week, James is joined by Ross Harper, founder and CEO of Limbic, on a mission to model human psychology. In doing so, they're solving the biggest problems in psychological therapy today. Combining artificial intelligence with beautiful digital product design, they're making it easier than ever for patients to provide their clinicians with high quality data. Ross is a computational neuroscient...

This week's Sunday Session is about health economics and features a preview to next week's episode, where our guest is solving the $1 trillion mental health problem. Mentioned this week: London School of Economics Health: http://www.lse.ac.uk/lse-health HS. Health-Tech Talks, March 2020 : https://bit.ly/2PiNMDc Episode 11: The Story of Healthtech Entrepreneurship to Venture Capital: https://apple....

This week, James is joined by Bertrand Bodson, who has been Chief Digital Officer of Novartis since 2018 and is a member of the Executive Committee. From 2013 to 2017, Bertrand served as chief digital and marketing officer of Sainsbury's Argos, where he led Argos’ successful transformation from a traditional catalogue business to the third-largest online retailer in the United Kingdom. Prior to th...

Stay true to yourself, study something with a path to commercial value, make sure it could actually change the world, get out and meet some entrepreneurs... Plenty of advice coming to you this week from Jud Brewer, founder of MindSciences Inc developing digital therapeutics in the area of addiction, director of research and Innovation at the Mindfulness Center, associate professor in psychiatry at...

James' guest this week defines his career as covering sex, drugs and rock n' roll. It's definitely close! Mark Livingstone became Pharmacy2U’s CEO following a merger with ChemistDirect.co.uk in July 2016. He's an entrepreneurial business leader who has held many senior positions across retail and technology. Roles include co-founder and CEO of LOVEFiLM (bought by Amazon), worldwide Managing Direct...

Do what you love, don't apologise for ambition and definitely make progress before saying you're an AI company! Mentioned on this week's Sunday Session: Episode 43: The Story of Ieso Digital Health and NLP: https://apple.co/2SctrkX Kaggle: Your Machine Learning and Data Science Community : https://www.kaggle.com/ If you want to suggest a guest or appear on the podcast, email James a pitch at james...

If you want to know what Prince Charles says to you as you're appointed Order of the British Empire (OBE), how a liver surgeon and a paediatrician put an ear on a mouse’s back with a 3D cell 'car park,' or what the future of precision medicine and genomics might be... then incredibly, you're in the right place. This week, James is joined by the inimitable Vivienna Parry OBE. Vivienne is a writer a...

This week's Sunday Session - a short, sharp selection of Sunday inspiration featuring some bonus content from previous guests, recent healthtech news, recommendations for events, books, articles and some Q&A from all the comments and feedback. Mentioned this week: Episode 34: The Story of BIOS and Hacking The Human Brain: https://apple.co/2RPllyj The Health Foundry : http://www.healthfoundry.o...

How do you go from building apps for refugees to avoid snipers to building a digital agency designing and commercialising healthtech products? This week, James is joined by Lee Omar, founder and CEO of Red Ninja Studios, a Liverpool-based, design-led technology company making products that impact people and patients. Before working in technology, Lee worked in Human Rights sector. He ran a diverse...

This week's Sunday Session - a short, sharp selection of Sunday inspiration featuring some bonus content from previous guests, recent healthtech news, recommendations for events, books, articles and some Q&A from all the comments and feedback. Mentioned this week: Episode 36: The Story of Dexcom and Diabetes-Tech: https://apple.co/2Gh4zld The Africa Prize For Engineering Innovation, 23rd Janua...

This week, James is joined by Neil Laycock, Managing Director of technology giant Servelec's healthcare division - one of the largest providers of healthcare systems in the UK. Typically this is its Rio electronic patient record (EPR), but it also extends to bed management solutions, designing interfaces for other healthcare systems and mobile solutions for clinicians - but by far at the top of th...

This week's Sunday Session - a short, sharp selection of Sunday inspiration featuring some bonus content from previous guests, recent healthtech news, recommendations for events, books, articles and some Q&A from all the comments and feedback. Mentioned this week: Episode 48: The Story of Skin Analytics and Dermatology AI: https://apple.co/2RoxSre Renovos Raise £140k From The Ronald Furlong Fu...

Why do humans ignore their limitations to climb Everest, run multiple ultramarathons to their death? Why do people bring food to funerals? What happens when you measure heart rate variability of French bankers during Brexit? This week, James is joined by David Plans, cofounder and CEO at BioBeats, an artificial intelligence company dedicated to understanding and promoting human wellbeing through p...

The second Sunday Session - a short, sharp selection of Sunday inspiration featuring some bonus content from previous guests, recent healthtech news, recommendations for events, books, articles and some Q&A from all the comments and feedback. This time, James brings you some bonus content from Episode 37 with Dr. Jud Brewer who holds the position of 4th most watched TED talk in 2016, with 12 m...

This week, James is joined by Professor Mike Trenell, one of the UK's leading lifestyle medicine researchers in digital health and diabetes having published over 100 peer-reviewed papers. Mike is also a Professor of Metabolism & Lifestyle Medicine at Newcastle University, founding director of the National Health Innovation Observatory and the expert behind the BBC documentary, 'How to Stay You...

The first Sunday Session episode - a short, sharp selection of Sunday inspiration featuring some bonus content from previous guests, recent healthtech news, recommendations for events, books, articles and some Q&A from all the comments and feedback. This time, James reflects on the podcast's growth to 84 countries through 2019 and previews some podcasts you might've missed over the Christmas p...

How do you go from investment banking and selling watches to becoming a healthtech entrepreneur? This week, James is joined by Shaun Azam who runs finance, operations and a whole lot more at Sweatcoin, a UK-based healthtech company on a mission to leave a mark on the world by helping every person on the planet be more active. Sweatcoin is a digital currency backed by physical movement - they verif...

How do you build an AI company in healthcare? What can AI in radiology actually do? What should it be doing? Are clinicians ever going to be replaced? What does the future look like in healthcare AI? This week, James is joined by Dr. Hugh Harvey , who was a consultant radiologist before entering academia and completing an MD research degree in computational analysis of prostate MR, and winning sci...

Can you grow a beating heart in a lab? Could you test cardiac drugs on it? Could you transplant it into a human? This week, James is joined by Dr. Kevin Costa, Co-founder & Chief Scientific Officer at biotech firm  Novoheart , the first company in the world to have developed miniature beating human hearts from stem cells which are being used to change the way drugs are able to be screened for...