The Healthtech Podcast

If you want to know what Prince Charles says to you as you're appointed Order of the British Empire (OBE), how a liver surgeon and a paediatrician put an ear on a mouse’s back with a 3D cell 'car park,' or what the future of precision medicine and genomics might be... then incredibly, you're in the right place. This week, James is joined by the inimitable Vivienna Parry OBE. Vivienne is a writer a...

This week's Sunday Session - a short, sharp selection of Sunday inspiration featuring some bonus content from previous guests, recent healthtech news, recommendations for events, books, articles and some Q&A from all the comments and feedback. Mentioned this week: Episode 34: The Story of BIOS and Hacking The Human Brain: https://apple.co/2RPllyj The Health Foundry : http://www.healthfoundry.o...

How do you go from building apps for refugees to avoid snipers to building a digital agency designing and commercialising healthtech products? This week, James is joined by Lee Omar, founder and CEO of Red Ninja Studios, a Liverpool-based, design-led technology company making products that impact people and patients. Before working in technology, Lee worked in Human Rights sector. He ran a diverse...

This week's Sunday Session - a short, sharp selection of Sunday inspiration featuring some bonus content from previous guests, recent healthtech news, recommendations for events, books, articles and some Q&A from all the comments and feedback. Mentioned this week: Episode 36: The Story of Dexcom and Diabetes-Tech: https://apple.co/2Gh4zld The Africa Prize For Engineering Innovation, 23rd Janua...

This week, James is joined by Neil Laycock, Managing Director of technology giant Servelec's healthcare division - one of the largest providers of healthcare systems in the UK. Typically this is its Rio electronic patient record (EPR), but it also extends to bed management solutions, designing interfaces for other healthcare systems and mobile solutions for clinicians - but by far at the top of th...

This week's Sunday Session - a short, sharp selection of Sunday inspiration featuring some bonus content from previous guests, recent healthtech news, recommendations for events, books, articles and some Q&A from all the comments and feedback. Mentioned this week: Episode 48: The Story of Skin Analytics and Dermatology AI: https://apple.co/2RoxSre Renovos Raise £140k From The Ronald Furlong Fu...

Why do humans ignore their limitations to climb Everest, run multiple ultramarathons to their death? Why do people bring food to funerals? What happens when you measure heart rate variability of French bankers during Brexit? This week, James is joined by David Plans, cofounder and CEO at BioBeats, an artificial intelligence company dedicated to understanding and promoting human wellbeing through p...

The second Sunday Session - a short, sharp selection of Sunday inspiration featuring some bonus content from previous guests, recent healthtech news, recommendations for events, books, articles and some Q&A from all the comments and feedback. This time, James brings you some bonus content from Episode 37 with Dr. Jud Brewer who holds the position of 4th most watched TED talk in 2016, with 12 m...

This week, James is joined by Professor Mike Trenell, one of the UK's leading lifestyle medicine researchers in digital health and diabetes having published over 100 peer-reviewed papers. Mike is also a Professor of Metabolism & Lifestyle Medicine at Newcastle University, founding director of the National Health Innovation Observatory and the expert behind the BBC documentary, 'How to Stay You...

The first Sunday Session episode - a short, sharp selection of Sunday inspiration featuring some bonus content from previous guests, recent healthtech news, recommendations for events, books, articles and some Q&A from all the comments and feedback. This time, James reflects on the podcast's growth to 84 countries through 2019 and previews some podcasts you might've missed over the Christmas p...

How do you go from investment banking and selling watches to becoming a healthtech entrepreneur? This week, James is joined by Shaun Azam who runs finance, operations and a whole lot more at Sweatcoin, a UK-based healthtech company on a mission to leave a mark on the world by helping every person on the planet be more active. Sweatcoin is a digital currency backed by physical movement - they verif...

How do you build an AI company in healthcare? What can AI in radiology actually do? What should it be doing? Are clinicians ever going to be replaced? What does the future look like in healthcare AI? This week, James is joined by Dr. Hugh Harvey , who was a consultant radiologist before entering academia and completing an MD research degree in computational analysis of prostate MR, and winning sci...

Can you grow a beating heart in a lab? Could you test cardiac drugs on it? Could you transplant it into a human? This week, James is joined by Dr. Kevin Costa, Co-founder & Chief Scientific Officer at biotech firm  Novoheart , the first company in the world to have developed miniature beating human hearts from stem cells which are being used to change the way drugs are able to be screened for...

This week, James is joined by Arjun Panesar, founding CEO of Diabetes Digital Media (DDM). Arjun founded Diabetes.co.uk whilst still a student at university in 2003 after his grandfather’s quadruple heart bypass and diagnosis of type 2 diabetes. Since then, Arjun has led Diabetes.co.uk to become the world’s largest diabetes support community. He holds a first-class honours degree (MEng) in Computi...

This week, James is joined by Jacob Haddad, cofounder of AccuRx, a UK-based startup using clinician-to-patient messaging to bring patients and their healthcare teams together. They make patients healthier and the workforce happier. AccuRx raised £8.8 million in Series A funding in February 2019 and their vision is for anyone involved in a patient's care to easily communicate with everyone else inv...

How do you go from the post room at Virgin Records to becoming a healthtech entrepreneur? How does watching iTunes disrupting the music industry prepare you to disrupt healthcare? In healthtech, why is it so important to delight users with a great experience? All these answered and more on this week's episode where James is joined by Elliot Engers, founder and CEO of Infinity Health, a London-base...

What's the future of women's healthcare? Gloria Lau, cofounder and CEO of Alpha, believes that the future of health services and product delivery, whether prescription or OTC, insurance-covered or cash, will have a simple and personalised commerce experience supported by a team of AI-assisted doctors and pharmacies. Her current company, Alpha, is a health services brand that enables easy access to...

How does a night at the pub give you an idea for the first ever AI drug discovery company? Can you code how humans perceive beauty? Do you want the job title ‘Drug Hunter’ for your CV? Well, this week, James is joined by  Prof. Andrew Hopkins , a leader in using AI in the hunt for medicines who will answer all of those questions. A bold claim, but one that can be backed up: Andrew invented the Art...

Can AI diagnose skin cancer as well as a dermatologist? The answer is yes and it’s was proved this month by my guest this week, Neil Daly from Skin Analytics. It’s a UK based healthtech company whose DERM product featured in JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association for its ability to catch melanomas as sensitive and specific as a dermatology specialist. Skin Analytics’ ambition is to...

This week, James is joined by Darius Shahida, Head of Growth & Chief of Staff at the $1.25 billion valued ultrasound company, Butterfly Network . Darius helps lead fundraising, global health, commercial and strategic efforts. In 2018, and while a student at HBS, Darius raised $250 million dollars for Butterfly Network - the largest medical imaging raise in history. Butterfly is fundamentally c...

How bad is the blue light from your devices for your health? What technology is out there to combat it? How do you build a business tackling such an issue? This week, James is joined by Justin Barrett, CEO of Healthe, a company dedicated to improving eye health in a digital world, Healthe’s suite of products, technologies and Eyesafe brand are now being implemented by world leaders in consumer ele...

What would you do with a cloned version of your voice? What if it sounded so real, it could turn text into jokes and even sing? What if someone cloned Her Majesty The Queen's voice? This week, James is joined by Dr. Matthew Aylett, a recognized world authority in speech technology research and development and was working at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) at Berkeley, Californi...

This week, James is joined by  Bonnie Roupé , a Swedish-born international businesswoman and social entrepreneur, best known as the founder of  Bonzun , a health company providing pregnant women and parents with unbiased evidence based medical information. In 2004, Bonnie started a publishing house and founded the Swedish Golf Magazine for women, Red Tee, the first niched sports magazine for women...

Are you keen to learn the basics of AI and NLP? Are you looking to use NLP in your company? Could you? Should you? This week, James is joined by Valentin Tablan, SVP for Artificial Intelligence at Ieso Digital Health which delivers high-quality cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) online, for people experiencing common mental health issues. Valentin has spent nearly 20 years in the field of Natural...

This week, James is joined by Natalie Douglas, who has over 20 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry and healthcare services sector and is an award-winning business leader and entrepreneur. Following a sales and marketing career in the pharmaceutical industry, most notably at Johnson and Johnson, she led and secured an MBO, developed an executed an international growth strategy for th...