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Healthtech Pigeon

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Like normal healthtech news but, you know, not boring. The team at SomX bring you the audio version of the weekly Healthtech Pigeon newsletter - a panel show with journalists, VCs, podcasters, entrepreneurs, execs and those with a strong opinion to make things interesting. Regular hosts and guests are Dr James Somauroo, Jessica Smith, Belle Taylor, Huw Penson, Jess Farmery from the SomX team.🐦 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com🚀 Learn how SomX can help your healthtech company at www.somx.health

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Jul 5, 2026

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Episodes

Does Gen AI have a place in therapy? 16.06.2024

Join Jessica, James and Huw from SomX breakdown the best stories from this week’s newsletter. [02:30] - Lying To Your Therapist Is Being Superseded By Telling The Truth To Generative AI [23:45] - Urinary incontinence neuromod newcomer Amber Therapeutics nets $100M [32:15] - AI in Healthcare Report: Healthcare AI investment growing faster than non-health AI 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpi...

Tackling inequity in healthcare 09.06.2024

Join Aahuti and Huw from SomX breakdown the best stories from this week’s newsletter, with help from HealthKey’s David Joerring This week:  19:40 - ifeel cements $20M to address rising mental health costs for businesses and insurers 31:30 - Ciba Health uses wearables and analytics to get to the root cause of type 2 diabetes 41:15 - Black and ethnic minority people underrepresented in virtual wards...

Femtech's evolution and bridging the women's health funding gap 02.06.2024

Join Huw and Aahuti in breaking down the best stories from this week’s newsletter, with help from FemTech Lab’s Karina Vazirova and Kate Nikityuk. This week:  [17:00] - Seek Launches First At-Home Test for Alcohol’s Effects on Women’s Health [32:00] - How Women’s Health Conversations With Investors Have Evolved 'Decoding the Future of Women' - Femtech Lab's Flagship Women's Healthtech Conference t...

The confessions of a digital health investor 26.05.2024

Join Huw and Belle in breaking down the best stories from this week’s newsletter.  This week: [01:35] - Five ways to unlock a digital health revolution in the NHS [21:55] - 4 Things Digital Health Investors Need To Get Off Their Chest 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🖇 Connect with Huw on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Belle on LinkedIn 📖 L...

At-home blood test transforming cancer care 19.05.2024

Join Aahuti and Jess breakdown the best stories from this week’s newsletter, with the help of Toby Basey-Fisher, CEO of Entia.  This week:  [04:45] - Test-at-home kit for cancer patients approved for use [18:50] - UK partnership to address challenges regulating mental health tech [31:30] - How telemedicine can cut down NHS gynaecology waiting times 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com...

Virtual reality is revolutionising mental health 12.05.2024

Join Jessica and James as they take a deep dive into the week’s healthtech news and views joined by HLTH Europe's Lina Behrens and Henry Stoneley.  This week:  [02:45] - Apple pushes into clinical trials with new FDA nod for Apple Watch [22:45] - Virtual reality could revolutionize mental-health treatments, including ketamine therapy, for conditions like depression and anxiety [36:45] - Okko Healt...

How can we make healthcare more accessible? 05.05.2024

Join Jessica and Huw as they take a deep dive into the week’s healthtech news and views. This week:   [01:25] - ‘ Daniel Ek’s body scanning healthtech Neko Health is expanding to the UK [20:10] - Walmart Health Is Closing [29:10] - Hertility’s ReProductive Report aims to close the gaps in women’s health research 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using...

How important is the breastmilk microbiome? 28.04.2024

Join Jessica and James as they take a deep dive into the week’s healthtech news and views joined by Dr Sioned Fôn Jones, co-founder of BoobyBiome.  This week:  [01:26] - How UK-based BoobyBiome Is Advancing Infant Feeding Harnessing the Power of the Breast Milk Microbiome [24:20] - Maven Clinic expands fertility support for males alongside health coaching program [46:10] - GE HealthCare launches v...

Happiness is a state of mind 21.04.2024

Join Aahuti and Huw as they take a deep dive into the week’s healthtech news and views. This week:  [14:10] - ‘What we’re seeing is not telehealth’: alarm over doctors using AI and prescribing without seeing patients [34:55] - A Wearable Tech Gives Pharmas & Therapists Better Feel for Changes in Mental Health [46:20] - Healthtech Zoe announces 20% cost cutting, detailing redundancy packages 🗞...

What's going on with digital health funding? 14.04.2024

Join James and Huw as they take a deep-dive into the week’s healthtech news and views. This week:  [00:50] - More deal volume, lower check sizes for digital health in Q1, with AI investment leading the pack: Rock Health [22:30] - Virtual reality eases pain in cancer trial — even the next day [37:00] - I lead one of the startups accusing Apple of patent infringement. Here’s why Congress should side...

Pigeon et al 📚 07.04.2024

Join James, Belle and Daisy as they delve into the week’s healthtech news and views. This week:  [00:25] - Increasingly sophisticated AI systems can perform empathy, but their use in mental health care raises ethical questions [23:50] -  Sylvia Kang Founds Mira To Fill Gap In Women’s Health Market 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🖇 Co...

Foresight is a Wonderful Thing 31.03.2024

Join Jessica and James as they examine the week’s healthtech news and views, with help from Hassan Chaudhury and Victoria Betton, the team behind the Digital Health Equity Charter. This week:  [01:10] - Sign the Equity Charter: Standing up to discrimination in Digital Health [21:40] - What ‘Digital Transformation’ Means to 3 Health System Execs 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️...

How secure are femtech apps, really? 24.03.2024

Join Jessica, Belle and Medic Footprints’ Dr Abeyna Bubbers-Jones as they take a deep-dive into the week’s healthtech news and views. This week:  [07:45] - Virtual reality headsets calm NHS surgery patients [18:30] - New research exposes security, privacy, and safety issues in FemTech systems 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🖇 Connect...

Healthtech's biggest cheerleader 📣 17.03.2024

Join Jess and Huw and James as they take a deep-dive into the week’s healthtech news and views. This week:  [00:50] - This biotech startup wants to prevent unhappiness. Here's the pitch deck Matter Neuroscience used to raise $26 million [07:15] - Sooma gets €5M boost to expand its tDCS at-home depression treatment [10:50] - UK report reveals bias within medical tools and devices   [19:00] - Everyt...

The Pigeon's Guide to Productivity 10.03.2024

Join Jessica, Huw and James as they take a deep-dive into the week’s healthtech news and views joined by Luke Pratsides, Head of Medical at Numan. This week:  [02:25] - Let’s talk differently about obesity [23:00] - Kry profitable in all markets: “We wouldn’t have managed it as quickly without AI” [35:40] - Meet the AI chatbot therapists filling the gaps in Europe’s mental health care shortfall 🗞...

Casper...is that you?👻 03.03.2024

Join Jessica and Belle as they take a deep-dive into the week’s healthtech news and views. [04:25] - £6.2M grant share: Female-led health startup to build diverse biomarker database with Innovate UK support [16:25] - Health-care AI: The potential and pitfalls of diagnosis by app [27:35] - Driving Accessibility in HealthTech: 3 Things Founders should Consider for Thoughtful AI Implementation in 202...

It's not bad, you're just reading it wrong. 25.02.2024

Join James and Huw as they take a deep-dive into the week’s healthtech news and views, joined by Director of Data Strategy and Partnerships at Arcturis Data., Christie Brooks. This week:  [01:45] - 23andMe considers splitting up company to revive stock price [10:20] - Artificial intelligence is making critical health care decisions. The sheriff is MIA. [35:50] - Tools for Better Data Interoperabil...

A Nice Day in Dystopia 23.02.2024

Join Jessica and Huw as they take a deep-dive into the week’s healthtech news and views, joined by TORTUS CEO, Dr Dom Pimenta. This week:  [01:50] - TORTUS secures $4.2M Seed Funding for clinical documentation automation [29:00] - Healthcare executives are investing in digital health tech without seeing an ROI [37:50] - Majority of data informing NICE’s appraisals of ‘poor quality’ 🗞 Grab the news...

It’s not easy being green 🌱 11.02.2024

Join Jessica and Jess as they take a deep-dive into the week’s healthtech news and views, joined by IBIS Capital Vice President, Bracy Fertig. This week:  [02:45] - Double Take: This Singapore Healthtech Startup Develops ‘Digital Twins’ To Manage Chronic Diseases [13:05] - Amazon Unveils New Program To Tackle Chronic Disease. But Will It Help Cure A Sick Nation? - [24:25] - Elon Musk's Neuralink H...

When you need something done right...💪 04.02.2024

Jessica and Huw take a deep dive into the week’s healthtech news and views, with help from DocComs CEO Roseanna Jaggard This week:  [02:55] - Edinburgh startup making 3D-printed tumours raises £4.2m [08:15] - Wearable device monitors tumour size and displays it in an app [16:35] - Virtual ward costs twice that of inpatient care, study finds [26:45] - What will happen if doctors can’t use WhatsApp?...

Heart failure? Big deal(s) 28.01.2024

Jessica and Huw take a deep dive into the week’s healthtech news and views. This week:  [02:05] - Digital health startups are running out of cash — firesales are expected [13:40] - General Catalyst to acquire nonprofit system Summa Health [17:40] - New UK rules will drastically lower the number of women able to angel invest in startups 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to...

The Warm Embrace of Health AI 21.01.2024

James, Jessica and nen's Francesca Wuttke take a deep dive into the week’s healthtech news and views. 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🖇 Connect with James on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Jessica on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Francesca on LinkedIn 📖 Learn more about the SomX team at https://somx.health

Biomarkers, Regulation and Death 💀 14.01.2024

Jessica, James and Huw take a deep dive into the week’s healthtech news and views. This week:  [20:05] - This women's smart health ring uses AI to analyze menstrual and sleep data  [37:05] - Qvin’s Q-Pad Makes History with First FDA Approval for Menstrual Blood Health Testing 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🖇 Connect with James on Li...

When the beat drops...🎶 07.01.2024

Jessica, James and Huw take a deep dive into the week’s healthtech news and views. This week:  [00:20] - Goldman Sachs Asset Management raises $650 mln for life sciences fund [13:15] - Overhyped? Digital Health Executive Anti-Predictions For Healthcare In 2024 [25:40] - Warner & UK HealthTech trial ‘music as medicine’ [36:15] - What's the deal with ZOE? 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechp...

Quick! To the Robotarium! 10.12.2023

Join Jessica, James and Huw as they take a deep dive into the week's healthtech news and views. This week:  [14:35] - ☢️ The doctor will call you now: are remote GP appointments safe? [37:10] - 🔄 Generative AI could revolutionize health care — but not if control is ceded to big tech 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🖇 Connect with Jam...

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