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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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Nov 8, 2026

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Episodes

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...

If at first you don't succeed... 03.12.2023

Jessica, James and Huw (accompanied by the dog chorus) take a deep dive into the week’s healthtech news and views, discussing Amazon's latest healthcare play and the value of biomarkers in consumer healthtech. This week:  [10:20] - Why Consumers Should Care About Biomarkers — And How Technology Developers and Manufacturers Can Bridge the Gap [27:05] - Amazon (AMZN) Bets on One Medical After Past H...

All's Phare in Health and Tech 26.11.2023

Join Jessica, James and Huw as they take a deep dive into the week's healthtech news and views. This week:  [10:05] - How the shakeup at OpenAI underscores the need for AI standards in health care [23:50] - EPR target for 90% of NHS trusts to go live is met early [28:10] - Toku’s AI platform predicts heart conditions by scanning inside your eye 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️...

Building Blocks and Bevvies🍺 19.11.2023

Join James & Jessica as they take a deep dive into the week's healthtech news and views. This week:  [00:05] - 📲 Smartphones and speakers may be able to detect alcohol intoxication by analysing voice patterns [16:40] - 📠 OECD health report defines digital health as emerging health determinant 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🖇 C...

Too late, Major Tom 12.11.2023

Join James, Jessica, Huw and Motics' Dr Harvinder Power as they take a deep dive into the week's healthtech news and views. This week:  [04:05] - Parkinson's implant restores man's ability to walk [14:50] - HealthTech's Role In Self-Care In The Era Of Google And AI [33:20] - HTC is Sending a VR Headset to the ISS to Support Astronaut Mental Health 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com...

GOSH, isn't it hard to adopt Generative AI In healthcare? 05.11.2023

Join James, Huw and TORTUS's Dr Dom Pimenta as they take a deep dive into the week's healthtech stories and examine the challenges of adoption of generative AI in healthcare through the lens of TORTUS's work with Great Ormond Street Hospital. This week:  [17:05] - Generative AI can be applied to nearly every healthcare use case you can think of [22:55] - New £100 million fund to capitalise on AI’s...

The NHS Federated Data Platform, for Dummies.... 29.10.2023

Join Jessica, Huw and Health Service Journal's Joe Talora as they take an in-depth look at the NHS's Federated Data Platform (FDP), examining its origins, purposes, and the various controversies that have arisen in the lead up to the imminent contract award later this year.  🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🖇 Connect with Joe on Linke...

A Pain in the Proverbial.... 22.10.2023

Join Jess, Adama and Huw as they take a deep-dive into the week's top healthtech news and views. This week:  [01:15] - New AI can screen for diabetes in seconds by listening to your voice [06:35] - Close AI ‘confidence gap’ to make it a powerful force for good, say experts [12:00] - Digital therapeutics software developer for Parkinson's disease gets £2.1m investment 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.h...

A Time-travelling Healthtech Extravaganza 15.10.2023

Join Jessica, James and Huw as they take a deep-dive into the week's top healthtech news and views — featuring drug-dispensing robots, a race to regulate AI, and £171m for futuristic diagnostic tech.  This week:  [04:40] - Pharmacierge to build 30ft medication-dispensing robot in London [11:15] - H ealth AI: Geneva Initiative Launches Global Agency to Support Artificial Intelligence Regulation [22...

One flew over the Pigeon's HETT. 08.10.2023

Join Huw and Jess for a special HETT Edition of the Healthtech Pigeon podcast, as Pigeon speaks to the movers and shakers at the 2023 edition of the Healthcare Excellence Through Technology show.  This week:  [01:25] - Catching up with Healthtech's busiest man: Sam Shah, Chief Medical Strategy Officer at Numan, Chair of the HETT steering committee [08:50] - Virtual wards, explained by an expert: V...

Can we stop stating the obvious about AI in health? 01.10.2023

Join Jessica and James as they take a deep dive into the week's healthtech news and views.  This week:  [11:30] - Decoding Women’s Health: Artificial Intelligence Revolutionizes PCOS Diagnosis [27:30] - Just 7% of startups actually use AI 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🖇 Connect with Jessica on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with James on Linke...

Planes, trains and automated workflows ✈️ 24.09.2023

Join Huw, Belle and Together Digital's Liam Cahill as they take a deep dive into the week's healthtech news and views. This week:  [03:40] - The NHS blocking case studies of healthtech is a critical issue - guidance is needed, and what to do about it [19:00] - ICS digital leaders prioritising Shared Health and Care Records [36:00] - Copenhagen healthtech startup Corti raises $60M in Series B fundi...

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