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Healthtech Pigeon
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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Episodes
The Buzzword Generator 02.06.2023 51:15
Join James, Huw and FITFILE's Philip Russmeyer for another week of healthtech news and views. This week: [02:25] - NHS data breach: trusts shared patient details with Facebook without consent [26:35] - NHS and Government back AHSNs to continue to lead innovation, under new name [41:20] - The AI revolution can put patients at the centre of NHS 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ A...
Pigeon for PM 28.05.2023 50:50
Join Jessica, James, and Katherine Church for another week of healthtech news and views. This week: [02:30] - Technology can help transform the NHS says Starmer [24:40] - How to close the gender health gap 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a guest using this form 🖇 Connect with Katherine on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Jessica on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with James on LinkedIn
St(h)ealth mode 🤿 19.05.2023 58:49
Join Jessica, James, Indi and Dr Michelle Griffin, for another week of healthtech news and views. This week: [02:00] - The new science of the menopause: Could delaying it be better for your health? [22:15] - Longevity Startup InsideTracker Launches Women’s Healthspan Extension With New Female Biomarker Analysis [39:10] - WHO calls for safe and ethical AI for healt h 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.h...
Healthcare's big guano problem 🐷 13.05.2023 53:06
Join Jessica, Jess, Huw and Dr Grace Hatton, for another week of healthtech news and views. This week: [01:25] - Shares in Babylon fall sharply on news of moves to take private [11:15] - The ‘innovative practice’ should not be the basis of a recovery plan [21:10] - Coming To Terms With The Healthcare Industry’s Inauthenticity Epidemic [39:40] - Outperforming doctors and dealing with hallucination...
A Pigeon-sized pile-on 🐦 07.05.2023 1:05:37
Join James, Jessica, Huw and Derrick Khor, cancer doctor and founder of Adopt-A-Doc for another week of healthtech news and views. This week: 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a guest at this form 🖇 Connect with Derrick on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with James on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Jessica on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Huw on LinkedIn 📖 Learn more about the SomX team at...
E.T.'s chronic condition 👽 28.04.2023 46:16
Join James, Jessica, Huw and Digital Health advisor Junaid Hussain for another week of healthtech news and views. This week: (02:43) - - NHS staff in Scotland say technology key to future healthcare (16:35) - - Amazon & 3M Will Use Generative AI To Ease Documentation For Healthcare Providers (33:26) - - BT launches ‘virtual ward’ tech to take pressure off NHS frontline
Big-tech Battle Royale 👑 22.04.2023 34:47
Join James, Jessica, Indi and Huw for another week of healthtech news and views. (00:35) - - Digital health revolution: Almost half of people in Wales using technology to manage health (09:35) - - 🥷 Google, Microsoft and startups test out generative AI in healthcare 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a guest at this form 🖇 Connect with James on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect wit...
Doom, Gloom & Yoon-icorns 🦄 15.04.2023 31:27
Join James, Jess and Huw for another week of healthtech news and views. [01:10] - 📃 OpenAI-powered app from Microsoft will instantly transcribe patient notes during doctor visits [08:05] - 🍐 Pear Therapeutics files for bankruptcy [19:00] - 🧑🏫 4 Lessons Health Tech Companies Should Know to Reach $100M ARR 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a guest at this form 🖇 C...
A 60 second diagnosis? ⏱️ 01.04.2023 1:00:18
Join James, Jessica, Liam Cahill for another week of healthtech news and views. [03:20] - 📃 11 things I'd like to see national bodies tackle to make UK healthtech more viable [22:15] - 🩹 ‘ Smart bandage’ with biosensors could help chronic wounds heal [31:40] - 📲 Babylon Health virtual GP app faces cash crunch (£) [41:50] - 🤬 Bayer plans to scale back women’s health R&D 🗞 Grab the newslette...
The hero we deserve 26.03.2023 1:00:06
Join James, Jessica, Huw and Numan's Chief Medical Strategy Officer, Sam Shah, for another week of healthtech news and views. [01:50] - The other funding gap: it’s not just unicorns that are leaving Europe [16:50] - The next challenge for ChatGPT? To save the NHS [36:10] - Woolworths-owned HealthyLife launches telehealth service [46:30] - Maven Clinic buys fellow virtual women's health company Nay...
SV almost goes B(ust) 📉 17.03.2023 44:46
This week: Jessica Smith is joined by James, Belle and Albion VC's Molly Gilmartin. [01:50] SVB fuelled high-risk, high-reward tech firms. Now health start-ups feel bereft [10:00] Why do so many biotechs face being kicked off the Nasdaq? [15:15] How UK healthtechs can get a head start on their US expansion [28:05] Why investors should pay close attention to the UK’s healthtech sector in 2023 ✍️ Ap...
Responsible AI investing 💸 11.03.2023 45:20
Henry is joined by Jessica Smith, Huw Penson, and Gus Kennedy, CEO at Hero Health. [02:30] What is changing in the GP contract for 2023/24? - What’s not changing? Will we see a GP strike? Will special guest Hero Health’s Gus Kennedy have any opinions on it in this week’s Pigeon Podcast? [17:20] Moving from exclusion to inclusion in digital health and care - This is how reports should be written. C...
Special K at your desk? 🥣 04.03.2023 41:17
This week: Jess Farmery is joined by Jessica Smith, Huw Penson, and Dr Johnny Andrews, Chief Medical Officer at Certific. [01:20] Ketamine-Assisted Therapy Coming Soon To An HR Department Near You [11:10] After 8 years of losses, digital health scaleup Kry is heading for profitability in 2023 [18:25] Five healthtech ideas VCs want you to pitch in 2023 [24:40] Northumberland hospitals test drone fl...
Healthtech decks that raised big 🎤 24.02.2023 23:58
This week: Jess Farmery is joined by Henry, Huw, and Insider's Riddhi Kanetkar. [01:10] Investors take to the next shiny toy — AI [06:30] DrDoctor Raises £10M [09:25] 16 of the hottest pitch decks founders used to raise millions from investors [14:05] Skin + Me secures over £10 million for prescription-based approach to skincare [17:50] New AI and digital health resource published for the NHS 📚 W...
Mick Jagger's Toothpaste 🕺 19.02.2023 46:19
This week: Is the NHS app the answer to everything? [03:25] Does size really matter? $80bn sextech market still too taboo for VCs [14:00] Asabys Partners announces €100m first close for health and biotech fund [20:22] Is the NHS app the answer to everything? [37:55] A new wave of startups are tackling financial issues within the healthcare space 🗞️ Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍...
AI goes bio 🤖 17.02.2023 37:48
This week: The Future of Digital Health, medical technology strategy launched, and why the growth of gut-tech could transform female health outcomes. [00:50] Medical technology strategy launched [08:25] Why user needs should be at the heart of healthtech [14:00] The Future of Digital Health [24:20] Why the growth of gut-tech could transform female health outcomes 🗞️ Grab the newsletter at www.heal...
The Jargon Carousel 🎠 05.02.2023 54:04
This week: Can Apple and Google continue as health app gatekeepers as well as distributors and developers? [1:55] 📱Can Apple and Google continue as health app gatekeepers as well as distributors and developers? [24:35] 🏥 Smart hospitals are the key to unlocking the next era of healthcare [35:50] 🎧 Spotify founder Daniel Ek takes on healthcare 🗞️ Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍...
Anyone for Oregon? 🇺🇸 27.01.2023 43:38
This week: December's biggest seeds, Microsoft is aggressively investing in healthcare AI, and psychedelic therapy is now legal in Oregon. Are investors and startups ready? [04:05] 📹 YouTube Health Showcases U.K. Strategy: 5 Things We Learned [16:50] 🍄Psychedelic therapy is now legal in Oregon. Are investors and startups ready? [24:25] 🌱December's biggest seeds [28:45] ☕️ Connecting clinicians...
Why investors love healthtech 💌 22.01.2023 31:19
This week: Researchers develop AI tool Sybil to predict lung cancer risk, how technology will shape healthcare in 2023, and biotech start-up announces first patient enrolled in endometriosis clinical trial. [01:35] 💁 Researchers develop AI tool Sybil to predict lung cancer risk [04:30] 𑗊 How technology will shape healthcare in 2023 [11:35] 💊HealthTech nets £7.5m to tackle drug overdoses [18:45]...
Of eternal mice and men 🐭 14.01.2023 38:20
This week: Eternal mice, the expansion of US expansion, and top tips for getting into healthtech. 📝 7 tips for breaking into Healthtech - [02:50] ❓ 5 questions facing emerging biotech in 2023 - [11:50] 📬 NHS ‘must speed up move to digital communication’ after patients miss letters due to Royal Mail strike - [17:15] 🐭 Biotech startup says mice live longer after genetic reprogramming - [22:20]...
New year, same ol' Pigeon. 🐣 07.01.2023 1:05:20
Join Jessica, James and Dr Joel Brown for another week of healthtech news and views. Joel is an NHS GP and Chief Clinical Officer and Medical Director of Bionabu, a virtual “Knowledge-Marketplace." This week: 2023 AI predictions and is ‘smart toilet’ the worst combination of words ever? [04:05] Global collaboration is the answer to Medtech and Biotech’s biggest challenges [13:30] 6 healthcare AI p...
A Healthtech Pigeon Christmas Bonanza 18.12.2022 54:32
Join Henry, Jess, Huw, Belle & Dr Steve for the inaugural Healthtech Pigeon Christmas Quiz. A slightly different format this week - we'll be taking a look back at the last 12 months in healthtech. With three of our regular panellists joined by Dr Steve Cross & special guest Business Insider's Riddhi Kanetkar. 🗞️ Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a guest by fill...
Is healthtech recession-proof? 📉 09.12.2022 29:49
Join Henry, Jess, and Huw for another week of healthtech news and views. This week: AI, IVF, and a robotic NHS. [01:08] - 🦯 WeWalk raises for smart cane for visually impaired people - GPS enabled walking sticks could be the future for visually impaired people. [02:44] - 🚨 Healthcare may be a recession-proof field, but healthtech is not [08:32] - 🏙 First four regional secure data environments co...
WHOOP, there it is! 03.12.2022 38:12
Join James, Jessica, and Henry for another week of healthtech news and views. This week: McKinsey Biotech reports, Anne Hathaway turns LP, and NHS data guardian says suppliers must share core values. [01:17] - 🧪 WHOOP identifies a novel pregnancy digital biomarker for premature birth [11:15] - Switzerland to accept medical devices with FDA approval [27:44] - Switzerland to accept medical devices...
The Inappropriate Joke Robot 26.11.2022 26:58
Join Henry, Jessica, and Huw for another week of healthtech news and views. This week: Theranos sentencing, nurses go to prison in VR, and long COVID startups. [01:33] - Joke-telling vacuum robot under-fire at Darent Valley Hospital [06:53] - New device measures haemoglobin more accurately in dark skin [10:42] - Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes jailed for fraud [17:15] - HEE launches VR app for...
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