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George and Louise dive into a roundup from the Australian Digital Health Festival, key government presentations and reports from the Commonwealth, Victoria and New South Wales We cover some of the big stories coming out of Silicon Valley – there’s a lot to talk about! Plus we chat with the Queen herself, Mother of FemTech, Ida Tin on “women’s health as societal infrastructure” Connect with Ida on...

On the show today is part 2 of George and Louise’s talk with Bernard Salt AM, Founder of The Demographics Group. They have a conversation on shifting populations, shifting priorities and what that means for the health sector.  Australia’s election delivers a result no pundits foresaw. The FDA is mandating the use of AI for their scientific reviews. What could this mean for stakeholders? Friend of...

Listen for your chance to go the Digital Health Festival on us – with thanks to the DHF team. #Muchlove💗 On the show today George and Louise talk with Bernard Salt AM, Founder of The Demographics Group. We have a conversation on shifting populations, shifting priorities and what that means for the health sector. Part 1 drops today and part 2 will be in our next episode. A virtual first telehealth...

On the show today George and Louise talk with AMA Victoria President Dr Jillian Tomlinson on the GROSS initiative to get rid of stupid stuff like waste and duplication in healthcare. Can AI help researchers advance our understanding of dementia and potentially prevention, delay and treatment? The worlds of consumer tech and medical grade tech are merging. George and Louise discuss the opportunitie...

Guest of Pulse is Janette Hughes, Director of Planning and Performance at Scotland’s Digital Health & Care Innovation Centre (DHI). Janette joins our hosts to discuss personal data stores – giving patients not just access but putting them in control over their own data. Bill Gates is predicting AI will replace doctors. Do George and Louise agree with him? The liquidators have moved into 23andM...

Bringing you Part 2 of our chat with Dr Karen DeSalvo, Chief Health Officer at Google. We cover designing systems that align with the needs of clinicians and patients; the sustainable development goals and preventative health, use cases for AI in public health, resources for healthcare start-ups and others. Follow Karen on LinkedIn Link George has just wrapped up the ECH Alliance conference in Bar...

Google's Impact on Health Report 2025 reveals the company's extensive influence on global digital health, including their Nobel Prize-winning AlphaFold 2 AI system.  The value of watches that detect falls and raises the alarm just got a significant upgrade with Google receiving FDA clearance for "loss of pulse detection" technology for wearables that can identify sudden cardiac arrest signs remote...

Disinformation and misinformation is the topic of the moment – join George and Louise as they discuss these issues with Dr Tina Punat, consultant in global health and digital public health (ex-WHO). Find Tina at her website on LinkedIn and say hello when she visits Australia in June for the Communicable Diseases & Immunisation Conference We also celebrate Australia’s Share by Default Legislati...

So it turns out that 2 weeks is a long time in the world of AI. Louise and George break down a heap of key stories and developments. AI is quickly becoming a commodity, but it will still be some time before it becomes old news.  The European Health Data Space legislation is coming into force. What does that mean for the health sector, clinicians and citizens throughout Europe? And we bring you par...

In this episode, hosts Louise Schaper and George Margelis dive into the latest advancements in health and biomedical sciences, exploring how artificial intelligence is transforming our understanding of viruses, proteins, and more. Key stories include AI-driven viral evolution predictions, groundbreaking research on the human proteome-phenome atlas, and the role of AI in designing life-saving antiv...

Join Louise and George as they run through some of the hot stories in the Australian and New Zealand health sector this year. 01:31 Virtual Care and Telehealth 15:08 The biggest topic of the year - AI 24:40 New Zealand Year in Review References for Pulse+IT 2024 Year in Review: Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four New Zealand Year in Review Visit Pulse+IT.news to subscribe to breaking digital ne...

Join Louise and George as they run through some of the hot stories in the Australian and New Zealand health sector this year. 04:16 2024 Pulse+IT Year in Review 07:02 Digital Front Doors & EMRs 18:50 Business Deals & Telstra Health 23:32 Government in Action 44:36 Cybersecurity Stuff Ups 49:00 Aged Care Innovation References for Pulse+IT 2024 Year in Review: Part One Part Two Part Three Pa...

Guest Co-Host: Dr Michael Bainbridge George is on holiday so joining Louise at the mic this episode is Michael Bainbridge, Clinical Architect for Leidos Australia. Follow Michael Bainbridge on LinkedIn Special Guest: Mark Brommeyer Mark Brommeyer shares insights from his research on overcoming organisational barriers to digital transformation, focusing on practical strategies for health service ma...

Prof Blackford Middleton joins us in the PulsePod studio to discuss his philosophising on the intersection of AI and healthcare, and his new publication The Ouroboros Effect: How AI Threatens Human Intellect . Link In this episode of Pulse , Louise and George explore the hottest topics in digital health, from groundbreaking AI diagnosis studies to the collapse of a high-profile health startup, and...

Elon Musk’s Grok and Crowdsourcing Medical Data – Elon Musk invites the public to submit medical images to his AI, Grok, raising serious privacy concerns and questions about AI’s role in medical diagnostics. Australia’s Workforce Report on Healthcare Professionals – Louise and George discuss whether the Australian government’s workforce report is reductive in its vision for the role of tech. Healt...

Contrary to the campaign slogan ‘what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas’, George asks Louise to spill on how she found the HLTH Conference in Las Vegas. Samsung Health’s New Features : From medication tracking to meal logging, Samsung’s health app upgrades are enhancing preventive care and consumer engagement. What does this mean for the future of health apps? Virtual Health Disconnect : Deloitte's...

Joining us in the Pulse Pod studio this week is Rachel Dunscombe, CEO of OpenEHR International and Director at the ECHA Alliance. Rachel is a key figure in advancing digital health systems globally, working with governments all over the world to advance their digital health agendas. She recently addressed the United Nations General Assembly in New York, on the topic of "Leveraging AI for Global He...

Our special guest of Pulse is known online as e-Patient Dave. Dave Debronkart is a leading light of determined patient advocacy for individual access to their own health information. Dave joins us in the PulsePod studio to explore a new movement he is championing - #PatientsUseAI OpenAI's Transformation and AI Transparency OpenAI's shift from a non-profit to a for-profit corporation raises concern...

Matthew Holt, Founder of The Health Care Blog and resident Silicon Valley digital health expert, joins us in the PulsePod studio to talk about the US election, what’s happening in health start-ups and venture capital; and what other countries can learn from the US’s experiments in the retailisation of healthcare. George and Louise discuss Apple’s big health updates - not only is Apple listening, t...

We are living in the future! AI generated drug development is here. George and Louise discuss the significance of this development. There’s lots of stuff happening in the aged care sector – from clinical information system standards to virtual nurses. Would you form an intimate relationship with a chatbot? We introduce the topic of sextech on the pod. The British Medical Journal Open has published...

Today’s episode features part 2 of our extended interview with Daniel McCabe , First Assistant Secretary for the Medicare Benefits and Digital Health Division at the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care. We dissect the government’s ambitious agenda and their determination to put patients/consumers in the centre of healthcare innovation.  Visit Pulse+IT.news to learn more, engag...

Today’s episode features part 1 of our extended interview with Daniel McCabe , First Assistant Secretary for the Medicare Benefits and Digital Health Division at the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care. We dissect the government’s ambitious agenda and their determination to put patients/consumers in the centre of healthcare innovation.  Louise tries to convince George they sho...

The PulsePod team are in Brisbane Australia for the annual HIC conference, where there are a number of announcements from large software companies, plus the future of interoperability seems to be FHIR all the way baby! What does Rock Health’s latest report tell us about US investor sentiment in digital health startups? Investing in women founders is so rare, should we refer to that as the real uni...

Oh the irony – a software tool designed to offer cyber protection against systems going down, causes the biggest cyber outage the world has ever seen.  Healthcare was not except.  The conspiracy theorists think it could be the start of SkyNet.  Good grief! Australia and the US making moves to improve cybersecurity in health. Will Tony Blair convince Labor it can save the NHS by creating a new nati...

Unless EMRs have become sentient and we missed the memo, humans are ultimately the cause of an ‘EMR error’ South Australia Health is currently investigating. What’s required to save the NHS? There’s a new sheriff in the town that is the United Kingdom and he’s a big fan of tech. Can he course correct the NHS? Should we be worried about life expectancy numbers going in the wrong direction? George a...