The Healthtech Podcast

This week, James is Joined by Alex Menys, CEO and founder of Motilent. Motilent’s mission is to change the way we see the gut. We have spent the last 5 years developing new imaging technology that is helping researchers and clinicians understand how the digestive tract works. Our key clinical focus area is Crohn’s Disease, a debilitating inflammatory condition affecting people of all ages and our...

This week's Sunday Session is all about AI in radiology and the announcement that Qure.ai , a healthtech company specialising in artificial intelligence (AI) has deployed its COVID-19 progression monitoring software in a UK hospital. This is a big moment for AI in radiology in the UK and could be a pivotal moment for the adoption of AI in healthcare. Read the article in Forbes: https://www.forbes....

This week, James is joined by Dr. Harpreet Sood, an NHS GP with a lot of special interests! Harpreet has collaborated with organisations on healthcare projects internationally - in the US, France, Israel and Asia. Early in his career he has also founded two healthcare startups. Harpreet is currently a practicing primary care doctor in London at University College Hospital. He is also Co-Founder an...

This week, I heard that a previous colleague tragically lost his life to COVID-19. I saw all the tributes to him on social media and hope that his family and friends are doing as best they can. Beyond the statistics are real people with families who are having their lives turned upside down by this and frontline NHS workers are literally giving their lives to serve the public. Please stay at home...

This week, James is joined by Tobias Alpsten, an international health tech executive and entrepreneur focusing on transforming patient care globally. He founded iPLATO in 2000 and is now the company’s Chief Executive. As iPLATO’s CEO, Tobias is responsible for setting overall strategy and for leading marketing, support, product management and engineering. Committed to evidence based interventions...

Hiring is hard. In healthtech it's even harder. But right now, it's needed more than ever with so many people out of work. The expertise is pretty niche, it's tough finding people that 'get it' in healthtech with public/private sector and clinical/managerial/business nuances, there's specific sales and marketing knowledge, there's no one place to go to find jobs/hires and recruiters still face the...

We're obviously still in the midst of COVID-19 and if you're anything like us at HS., you'll be locked away, thinking, strategising, and coming up with new ideas, new innovations, even new businesses... When we all emerge, you may well be looking for investment and so this episode is a conversation I had a few weeks back with Chris Smith, Managing Partner at Playfair Capital. Chris focuses his inv...

This week's Sunday Session is about ideas, innovation and optimism in the face of lockdown and social distancing. Mentioned this week: If you want to join the HS. Office Hours with Ananda Ventures on Wednesday, apply here ASAP. Late applications will be taken forwards to the next office hours, so whenever you're listening, you can apply here: https://hs18.typeform.com/to/fDudbo For a free healthte...

This week, James is joined by Jana Dowling, founder and CEO of the preventative mental health-tech company, Arkeo. Previously a standup comic, Jana Downling found her way to entrepreneurship via a severe depressive episode. In her recovery, Jana started tracking her mental health and based on the data she was collecting on herself, she was back into work within 6 weeks. She then started social ent...

This week's Sunday Session is another update on the healthtech response to COVID-19. This week we heard from NHSX and how they're partnering with big technology companies on a centralised data store to provide decision makers with real-time dashboards of how the virus is spreading and what resources are available in healthcare to deal with it. Also featured this week: Tracking apps/websites - http...

This week, we're still getting our heads around coronavirus. We’re newly locked down in the UK, we're all getting used to remote working and as we heard on the last episode with Dr Aman Gupta, the front line is preparing in almost military style for what is going to be a war on coronavirus and a huge influx of patients. To talk more about the clinical and technology implications, I have Dr Lydia Y...

For this special episode, James is joined by Dr Aman Gupta: long time friend and fellow digital health guy, frontline anaesthetics and intensive care doctor and has worked at accelerators like DH.L and the NHS Innovation Accelerator, so he speaks our language on this podcast. In this 30 min chat, Aman talks about the coalface of healthcare during this crisis we’re in and for our listeners that mig...

It goes without saying that this week's Sunday Session is an update on the healthtech response to COVID-19. Featured this week: The Coronavirus Tech Handbook (an open source google doc) - https://coronavirustechhandbook.com/ OxVent has built a prototype for a rapid and mass manufactured ventilator for Covid-19 patients, for use when conventional ventilator capacity is exhausted - https://oxvent.or...

We're living through a significant moment in history and healthtech companies are looking at ways they can help with the COVID-19 outbreak. They are sharing learning, partnering and working around the clock to find solutions to the ever-growing list of problems on healthcare's front-line. Two companies that have come together are Q doctor and eConsult who are experts in telemedicine and triage res...

This week's Sunday Session is a somber nod to those healthtech companies working around the clock to help with the COVID-19 pandemic. One such company is Feebris, whose machine learning platform helps triage, diagnose and remotely monitor pneumonia patients in the community. Mentioned this week: WHO's advice for the public: https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/advice-for...

How do you go from arctic warfare in the military to becoming a healthtech entrepreneur? Should you bunk in the same office with your investors? How do you go from being a first to second-time founder? Can you close a healthtech investment after a guy selling inflatable hammocks? This week, James is joined by Matt Wilson, founder and CEO of uMed, which  enables healthcare providers to efficiently...

This week's Sunday Session has some bonus content from Jacob Haddad, cofounder of AccuRx who appeared in Episode 52. Jacob gives his tips on how healthtech startups can get things right from day one by building for the end user, having your own office to build the best culture, get the unsexy basics right and optimising for adoption. Mentioned this week: Episode 52: The Story of AccuRx and Clinici...

This week, James is joined by Peter Birch, host of the Talking Healthtech podcast based out of Australia. Peter has worked in management roles in healthcare organisations for over 15 years; big ones and small ones, innovative start ups and slow moving beasts, he’s seen all different kinds. Pete has experienced first hand the exciting developments and the frustrating stagnation's of all the ups and...

This week's Sunday Session is about communicating your messages as a healthtech startup. As a contributor for Forbes, James gives his tips on how to sell in a press release as a founder without a PR agency and offers advice to anyone thinking about levelling up their content in 2020. Agnieszka, CEO of Renovos: agnieszka.janeczek@renovos.co.uk Send James an email for comms, messaging and media advi...

This week, James is joined by Ross Harper, founder and CEO of Limbic, on a mission to model human psychology. In doing so, they're solving the biggest problems in psychological therapy today. Combining artificial intelligence with beautiful digital product design, they're making it easier than ever for patients to provide their clinicians with high quality data. Ross is a computational neuroscient...

This week's Sunday Session is about health economics and features a preview to next week's episode, where our guest is solving the $1 trillion mental health problem. Mentioned this week: London School of Economics Health: http://www.lse.ac.uk/lse-health HS. Health-Tech Talks, March 2020 : https://bit.ly/2PiNMDc Episode 11: The Story of Healthtech Entrepreneurship to Venture Capital: https://apple....

This week, James is joined by Bertrand Bodson, who has been Chief Digital Officer of Novartis since 2018 and is a member of the Executive Committee. From 2013 to 2017, Bertrand served as chief digital and marketing officer of Sainsbury's Argos, where he led Argos’ successful transformation from a traditional catalogue business to the third-largest online retailer in the United Kingdom. Prior to th...

Stay true to yourself, study something with a path to commercial value, make sure it could actually change the world, get out and meet some entrepreneurs... Plenty of advice coming to you this week from Jud Brewer, founder of MindSciences Inc developing digital therapeutics in the area of addiction, director of research and Innovation at the Mindfulness Center, associate professor in psychiatry at...

James' guest this week defines his career as covering sex, drugs and rock n' roll. It's definitely close! Mark Livingstone became Pharmacy2U’s CEO following a merger with ChemistDirect.co.uk in July 2016. He's an entrepreneurial business leader who has held many senior positions across retail and technology. Roles include co-founder and CEO of LOVEFiLM (bought by Amazon), worldwide Managing Direct...

Do what you love, don't apologise for ambition and definitely make progress before saying you're an AI company! Mentioned on this week's Sunday Session: Episode 43: The Story of Ieso Digital Health and NLP: https://apple.co/2SctrkX Kaggle: Your Machine Learning and Data Science Community : https://www.kaggle.com/ If you want to suggest a guest or appear on the podcast, email James a pitch at james...