The Healthtech Podcast

On this week's Sunday Session, James has a chat with Dr Gyles Morrison about the value of good UX in healthtech. Dr Gyles Morrison is a Clinical User Experience (UX) Specialist and Digital Health Consultant, improving the usability, accessibility and fun people have with healthcare technology. He uses knowledge and experience of behaviour change to improve the way technology is successfully used i...

Thomas Vande Casteele is CEO and co-founder at Awell Health. He is a serial entrepreneur and made the decision to apply his expertise to optimise patient journeys and care pathways in healthcare in 2018 to found the company. To date, Awell works with approximately 25 hospitals across Europe and allows users to create digital care pathways help ease the burden on clinical staff and improve patient...

Erin McEachren is Regional Vice President for Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, EMEA, leading the team to address the unmet needs of patients and eye care professionals around the world. Erin was previously a top level skier and after suffering injury, has a deep connection to medical devices, in which, she now excels. She is an exceptional leader with a  track record and breadth of experienc...

This week, James is joined again by Graeme from emteq labs who told us his story a few weeks ago. emteq labs have just released a whitepaper: "Measuring what Matters in Immersive Environments," which explains how the technology behind emteq labs’ VR headset builds on over 40 years of research into the relationship between facial expression and emotions to unveil a new paradigm in understanding of...

Alex is Head of Corporate Finance at OSI and a former physician. Alex was a medical student and junior doctor in the Oxford training deanery before transitioning to investment banking. He has over 12 years’ experience in the healthcare and other investment banking sectors, including equity and debt capital raisings, mergers and acquisitions as well as licensing transactions gained at UBS and Lazar...

For this week's Sunday Session, we have a clip of James on the Virti Human Performance Podcast talking about what he and the team at somX do to build brand for healthtech companies, get their messaging on-point and how they think about content generation to specific audiences in healthcare. Whether you're building your personal brand or your healthtech company's brand, this one is worth a listen!...

Neelam is MedCity’s CEO, responsible for leading the team and operations, driving the strategy and relationships with key stakeholders and funders. She is also the lead for clinical trials, supporting companies seeking clinical and research expertise and collaborations. Neelam has extensive experience in Pharma, R&D, NIHR service improvement & strategy. MedCity is the cluster organisation...

In this week's Sunday Session, James gives you a couple of tips for getting a job in healthtech, outlines a few jobs available at some of the best healthtech organisations and ends with some bonus content from last week's discussion with Lissy Hu, who gives us her top tip for healthtech entrepreneurs. Read this week's Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: https://somx.substack.com/p/-007-death-tech-and-awell-heal...

Lissy Hu is the founder and CEO of Careport and came up with the concept while she was getting her MD and MBA at Harvard. She entered and won a Harvard business plan competition in 2012. That same year, she got additional funding, $3.8 million, through the Techstars Boston accelerator program, allowing her to launch CarePort in 2013. The company built out its software, which patients use to find a...

On this week's Sunday session, James drops a clip from the Scrubbed In podcast. He was on that podcast last week discussing personal branding, healthtech and giving his advice to young medics and entrepreneurs. You can catch the full episode at the link below! Scrubbed In with Dr James Somauroo: https://open.spotify.com/episode/24l3QO7zZj6g8pHNnvQcG3?si=7q7fppxbQZSF9xr0AjXIag Read the latest Healt...

This week, James is joined by Dr Fiona Pathiraja, a consultant radiologist by background and now Managing Partner at Crista Galli Ventures, a brand-new healthtech-specific VC fund investing pan-Europe into companies building the future. James and Fiona discuss her background through clinical medicine, management consulting, and MBA and now founding her own fund. They also discuss the vision for Cr...

This week's Sunday Session is all about AI in healthcare. James talks about NHSX's AI Lab and its projects, particularly the The Artificial Intelligence in Health and Care Award, which, excitingly, just issued £50M to 42 AI projects... Get all the updates you need from the Healthtech Pigeon newsletter 🐦 https://somx.substack.com/p/-005-nhsx-awards-50m-and-theres-a Get in touch: www.jamessomauroo....

Nicholas Kelly is the chairman of Axela group, which was set up to deliver on the vision of changing the way people view healthcare by supporting the care lifecycle and making care accessible to all. He has over 12 years experience in social care having set up his first domiciliary care agency in 2006, which has grown to be a corner stone of the Axela group. Nicholas has over 10 years leadership e...

This week's Sunday session features some tips for entrepreneurs from Joseph Mossel, CEO of Ibex Medial Analytics, info on an upcoming digital health event and info on Healthtech Pigeon 🐦 a newsletter you can sign up to which summarises what James has been reading and listening to in the healthtech world. It's all you need in a 1 minute read! Get discounted tickets for Digital Primary Care 2020: h...

Joseph Mossel is CEO and Co-Founder of Ibex Medical Analytics, a next generation cancer diagnostics startup aiming to reduce diagnostic error and improve patient care. Over his career he served as a software engineer, product manager and in leadership roles in startups, corporates and non-profits, and has taken products from inception to multi-million dollar businesses. He holds a MSc in computer...

For this week's Sunday Session, James chats to Prof Sultan Mahmud, Director of Innovation, Integration and Research at Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust in the UK. From the humblest of beginnings, 'Sul' as he likes to be known rose the ranks through the NHS via jobs in big pharma and is now involved at the coalface of healthtech, helping his Trust bring in technologies like Zesty (you can he...

This week, James is joined by Graeme Cox, cofounder and CEO of emteq labs. Graeme has led multiple startup companies from initiation to exit, acting both as CEO and CTO with a 25-year track record in AI, software development, client engagement, problem solving and organisational development. His latest company, emteq labs, uses VR, multiple biometrics and machine learning to quantify human emotion...

This week's Sunday Session features some bonus content from a conversation between James and Amer Fasihi, cofounder and CEO of healthtech company, Kraydel. The full episode will be out in a couple of weeks, but you'll hear a chat between James and Amer from before they officially started recording the episode. They chat about identity and how it changes as you move careers and companies, the oppor...

Lord Victor Adebowale is an influential and high profile healthtech leader who combines commercial acumen with a commitment to social responsibility and personal values. He is the founder and chair of healthtech company Visionable and was previously Chief Executive of the social care enterprise Turning Point. Lord Adebowale was one of the first to become a People's Peer and was appointed a Command...

For this week's Sunday Session, James is joined by Dr Mala Mawkin, award winning doctor, speaker and writer. Mala is featured on Forbes 30 Under 30, Vogue 10 Rising Female Stars and UK Women of the Future Awards Finalist. She is the Host of the Digital Health Podcast for The Royal Society of Medicine Digital Health Council and is an advocate for women in science & medicine. She is now working...

Dr Mark Jenkins is Co-Founder and Medical Director at Oviva UK Ltd , a company digitising behaviour change therapy for lifestyle conditions such as Type 2 diabetes and obesity. Mark trained as a doctor at Guy’s & St Thomas Hospitals in London, where he also completed an academic foundation programme specialising in nephrology and then worked at the Boston Consulting Group. Mark is Oviva's UK M...

For this week's Sunday Session, James looks back on his first year as a doctor and gives a few tips and anecdotes for those looking to innovate, be that through QI projects, as an interpreneur or as an entrepreneur. Whether you're fixing a printer or overhaul an entire system, there is no project too big or too small to either learn from or make impact with. Empathy and understanding of how everyo...

Robyn Symon is a two-time Emmy award-winning former PBS producer  specializing in documentaries and television series. A former TV news reporter, Robyn has written and produced hundreds of hours of television programming for various networks including PBS, NBC, Discovery, CNBC, HGTV Reelz Channel including the PBS series "Voices of Vision," hosted by NPR's Scott Simon focusing on the work of non-p...

It's a 241 on GE healthcare this week - Rob Walton, President and CEO across 13 markets is back to give us his top tips for healthtech entrepreneurs. James also talks about perfection being the enemy of progress and how he's had to combat it in the last week!  https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-walton-511555/ | https://www.gehealthcare.co.uk/ Get in touch: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk

This week, James is joined by Rob Walton, the president and CEO of GE Healthcare's businesses in 13 markets across Southeast Asia, Korea, Australia and New Zealand. He took on the role in June 2019 and is responsible for leading all the business activities for GE healthcare in the region. https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-walton-511555/ | https://www.gehealthcare.co.uk/ Get in touch:  www.jamessomau...