TheHill Digital Innovation Podcast

Welcome to the final episode of this latest season of TheHill's Digital Innovation Podcast. For this season-closer, Megan is joined by Azize Naji, Founder and CEO at virtual reality clinical training platform Goggleminds! Azize takes us through why Goggleminds was formed, where the business is currently and what they're doing going forwards both here in the UK and around the world. It's a fabulous...

Welcome back to season three of TheHill's Digital Innovation Podcast! After hearing the entrepreneurial journey of Concentric Health's CEO Daf Loughran last week, we're following this up by hearing from two of the team at Oxford University Hospitals' Ophthalmology department, who conducted the pilot study of Concentric for OUH. It's an insight into the triumphs and challenges of bringing innovativ...

Welcome back to season 3 of TheHill's Digital Innovation Podcast! This time round, Megan's chatting to Dafydd Loughran, co-founder and CEO of the leading digital consent solution, Concentric Health. They chat about what leads a clinician to transition towards entrepreneurship and how to become a leader, along with the history of Concentric itself and where the company finds itself at current. It's...

Welcome back to another episode of TheHill's Digital Innovation Podcast. This week we're joined by Natalie Cooke, co-founder and CEO of SurgeryAI! She'll be taking us through her journey, from nursing to entrepreneurship and some of the difficulties and triumphs encountered along the way. It's a wonderful look into an exciting company, right from the mouth of the amazing entrepreneur who's leading...

Another week, another entrepreneurial journey for you! This week it's Andreas Halner, president and co-founder of Oxford Cancer Analytics (OXcan), who chats to our director, Megan Morys-Carter, about the company's inception, what makes the technology so revolutionary and the ever increasing success OXcan have been met with recently. Since we recorded this episode, OXcan have secured $11 million in...

Welcome back to TheHill's Digital Innovation Podcast! This week we are joined by Henry Majed, co-founder and CEO of digital mental health platform MyMynd. Our director Megan Morys-Carter chats to Henry about his journey to entrepreneurial success, from why he founded MyMynd to how he's currently making such a success of his innovation and everything in between. Follow TheHill here: https://www.lin...

Welcome to the new series of TheHill's Digital Innovation Podcast! We're kicking off this series with a special episode all about our flagship programme, the NHS Market Access Accelerator (MAA). Join our director, Megan Morys-Carter, startup programme manager, Rowan Mould and guests Natalie Cooke, CEO and co-founder of MAA alumnus SurgeryAI, and Tim Bubb, technical director at iMed Consultancy. Th...

In this latest episode of TheHill’s Digital Innovation podcast, Megan is joined by Sudhir Singh, consultant in geriatric medicine and general medicine, and clinical director for acute medicine and rehabilitation at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Their discussions range from the difficulties of bringing innovation into the NHS, to Sudhir’s professional development and leadership...

This week on TheHill’s Digital Innovation podcast, Megan is joined by Emily Lord, consultant and clinical lead of the Oxfordshire Sexual Health Service (OSHS). Together, they discuss the role of digital innovation in the NHS, and how Emily has been able to bring it into use at OSHS despite the challenges there can be in implementing new innovations. Follow TheHill here: https://www.linkedin.com/co...

Welcome back to TheHill’s Digital Innovation podcast. In this series we’re focusing on the clinical needs of hospital staff, and this third episode of the series sees our director, Megan Morys-Carter, talking to Dr James Gamble, consultant cardiologist specialising in treatment of heart failure and implantation of pacemakers and related devices. James discusses how digital innovation has impacted...

Welcome back to TheHill's Digital Innovation Podcast! On this second episode of our series about clinical needs, our director Megan Morys-Carter talks to Charlie Winward, consultant allied health professional in neurorehabilitation and Katie Butler, highly specialist physiotherapist and clinical lead physiotherapist for stroke at Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust. They discuss how their jobs have...

Welcome to the new series of TheHill’s Digital Innovation podcast. This series is focused on the clinical needs of hospital staff, and how they have been able to meet some of these with digital innovation. In this first episode, Megan Morys-Carter, director of TheHill, sits down with Sneha Sunny, Trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioner in Acute General Medicine, to discuss her journey through ten y...

In the final episode of season 1, Megan speaks to Lisa Rickers, Bariatric Nurse Specialist and nurse innovator. Lisa is co-founder of the start-up Pretomise.

In this episode, radiologists Amy Davis and Farzana Rahman, talk to Megan about the development of Hexarad, the company they cofounded with two other radiologists. With the company now employing 15 core staff and 50 radiologists, they discuss bootstrapping, raising their first investment, company culture and values, their charitable activites and diversity and inclusion. This episode was recorded...

Myra Malik is a Substantive Consultant Anaesthetist at The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. She discusses the importance of needs led innovation, and how to benefit from diversity of perspectives in making a startup team stronger, and how solutions impact more than just a doctor's way of working, but every person that will need to use it for adoption to be successful. This episode was re...

Dr Zeeshan Akhtar is specialist registrar at Oxford University Hospitals. He set up led and has successfully exited from his start-up Scout Health. In this, the third in our autumn season of discussions, he speaks to Megan Morys-Carter, director of TheHill. This episode was originally recorded in October 2021.

In our autumn season of discussions, Megan Morys-Carter, director of TheHill speaks to health and care workers about their digital innovations and the journey they have been on as they champion digital innovation in the NHS. In the second in this series, she speaks to Dr George Hadjipavlou about HealthCare Dynamics, the start-up he founded with Richard Siviter. This episode was originally recorded...

Dr Rachael Grimaldi, was inspired to create CardMedic® after reading a news article about a critically ill Covid-19 survivor, terrified when unable to understand healthcare staff through the PPE barrier. She is co-founder and CEO of this multi award-winning unique digital communication tool - endorsed by NICE and ORCHA, and part of the Department for International Trade's Digital Health Export Off...