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24 Feb 2023 | Healthtech decks that raised big 🎤 | 00:23:58 | |
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 📚 WSJ article link: AI vs Crypto 🗞️ Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a guest by filling out this form 🚀 Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health 🖇 Connect with Riddhi on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Henry on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Jess on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Huw on LinkedIn | |||
16 Jun 2023 | Health, Out now on DVD 📀 | 00:55:12 | |
Join Jessica, James, Huw and THC Primary Care's Tara Humphrey for another week of healthtech news and views. This week: [04:05] - Majority of public happy to use health technology to avoid going into hospital, new research shows [25:30] -Achieving health equity in life sciences 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a guest using this form 🖇 Connect with Tara on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Jessica on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with James on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Huw on LinkedIn | |||
15 Sep 2024 | Have you read the Lord Darzi Report yet? | 00:53:02 | |
Huw and James from SomX breakdown the best stories from this week’s newsletter with help from Together Digital's Liam Cahil. [02:05] - Independent investigation of the NHS in England [29:40] - NHS warned on rollout of AI-powered genomic health prediction [45:15] - Scientists develop stunning AI to predict blood pressure from voice 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🖇 Connect with James on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Huw on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Liam on LinkedIn 📖 Learn more about the SomX team at https://somx.health | |||
04 Feb 2024 | When you need something done right...💪 | 00:34:54 | |
Jessica and Huw take a deep dive into the week’s healthtech news and views, with help from DocComs CEO Roseanna Jaggard This week: [02:55] - Edinburgh startup making 3D-printed tumours raises £4.2m [08:15] - Wearable device monitors tumour size and displays it in an app [16:35] - Virtual ward costs twice that of inpatient care, study finds [26:45] - What will happen if doctors can’t use WhatsApp? 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🖇 Connect with Roseanna on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Jessica on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Huw on LinkedIn 📖 Learn more about the SomX team at https://somx.health | |||
17 Feb 2023 | AI goes bio 🤖 | 00:37:48 | |
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.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a guest by filling out this form 🚀 Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health 🖇 Connect with James on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Henry on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Jess on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Catriona on LinkedIn | |||
25 Jun 2022 | Raise, Sell, Sleep. Repeat ♽ | 00:31:41 | |
The one-minute healthtech roundup. Now in podcast form. James, Jessica and Henry from SomX bring you the first episode of this brand new, weekly panel show covering the healthtech news. This week, Apple & Alphabet’s differing approaches, mental health raises, and EMIS picked up for $1.5bn. 🐦 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com 🙋🏻♂️ Connect with James on Linkedin | |||
27 Oct 2024 | What should the NHS's 10 year health plan include? | 00:55:12 | |
Jessica, Huw and Amy from SomX break down the best stories from this week’s newsletter. 01:20 - Government launches online platform to shape 10 year health plan 23:50 - DrDoctor study reveals why patients miss hospital appointments 37:40 - Amazon Says AI Tools Reduce Healthcare Administrative Tasks 40% 51:25 - Fundraising for women’s health start-up ‘painful as giving birth’ 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 📝 Complete the Women in VC survey here 🖇 Connect with Jessica on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Huw on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Amy on LinkedIn 📖 Learn more about the SomX team at https://somx.health | |||
26 May 2024 | The confessions of a digital health investor | 00:44:59 | |
Join Huw and Belle in breaking down the best stories from this week’s newsletter. This week: [01:35] - Five ways to unlock a digital health revolution in the NHS [21:55] - 4 Things Digital Health Investors Need To Get Off Their Chest 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🖇 Connect with Huw on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Belle on LinkedIn 📖 Learn more about the SomX team at https://somx.health | |||
14 Oct 2022 | Aussies, AI & A Worrying Trend 🇦🇺 | 00:46:32 | |
Join James & Henry and special guest Peter Birch, founder of Talking Healthtech, Australia's biggest and best healthtech community, for another week of healthtech news and views. This week: A well-being invasion, period apps continue to fail privacy tests, and definitely-not-a-metal-band Malware as a Service comes to the fore. [01:38] - WHO launches the world's most extensive freely accessible AI health worker [6:48] - September's hottest seeds [12:34] - Wellbeing startup banks $35 million [19:06] - Declining VC investment in digital health [24:47] - Malware as a Service emerging in healthcare 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a guest by filling in this form 🖇 Connect with James on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Peter on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Henry on LinkedIn | |||
22 Jan 2023 | Why investors love healthtech 💌 | 00:31:19 | |
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 [11:35] 💊HealthTech nets £7.5m to tackle drug overdoses [18:45] 🧬 Biotech start-up announces first patient enrolled in endometriosis clinical trial [22:40] 🫁 Organs on demand: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2023 [26:00] 🏇The jockey, not the horse 🗞️ Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a guest by filling out this form 🚀 Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health 🖇 Connect with Grant on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Jess on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Adama on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Henry on LinkedIn | |||
09 Mar 2025 | The complex road to tech adoption in health systems | 00:40:11 | |
Amy and Huw from SomX break down the best stories from this week’s newsletter, with the help of Firstword Healthtech’s Tina Tan. [04:30] - Rune Labs' AI coaching tool aims to offer care continuity to people with Parkinson's [19:05] - Unicorn Flo Health eyeing startup acquisitions following $200m fundraise [29:30] - Sofinnova has €1.2B to invest in up to 60 new life sciences firms 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🖇 Connect with Amy on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Huw on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Tina on LinkedIn 📖 Learn more about the SomX team at https://somx.health | |||
08 Oct 2023 | One flew over the Pigeon's HETT. | 00:39:32 | |
Join Huw and Jess for a special HETT Edition of the Healthtech Pigeon podcast, as Pigeon speaks to the movers and shakers at the 2023 edition of the Healthcare Excellence Through Technology show. This week: [01:25] - Catching up with Healthtech's busiest man: Sam Shah, Chief Medical Strategy Officer at Numan, Chair of the HETT steering committee [08:50] - Virtual wards, explained by an expert: Vivian Yiu, Clinical Lead for the Virtual Ward, NHS Suffolk and North East Essex ICB [19:05] - AI In health isn't just about the clinic: Ross O'Brien, CEO of Wysa and member of the HETT working group. [30:00] - From NGO to NHS: Tristi Tanaka, Head of the Chief Medical Portfolio - NHS Black Country ICB [38:15] - Are we done HETT? Celebrating healthtech with Steve Brine MP, Chair of UK Parliament's Health and Social Care Committee 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🖇 Connect with Huw on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Jess on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Sam on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Vivian on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Ross on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Tristi on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Steve on LinkedIn 📖 Learn more about the SomX team at https://somx.health | |||
03 Sep 2022 | The Biotech Bee Gees 🕺 | 00:27:14 | |
This week: Triage accuracy of symptoms checkers low, why the Bee Gees are popular with biotech investors, and llongyfarchiadau i Diurnal. 🐦 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com 🙋🏻♂️ Connect with James on Linkedin | |||
18 Nov 2022 | $7 short of an $8 blue tick | 00:36:32 | |
Join Henry, Indigo, and healthcare whirlwind Rachel Murphy for another week of healthtech news and views. Rachel is raising money to support families in Ukraine - you can help out here. This week: Men's health, the NHS' agency crisis, and biotech's ethical conundrum. [02:03] - The digital future of men's health [06:30] - NHS forking out £2,500 a shift to agency nurses to stop staffing crisis - The NHS spends [14:00] - Twitter changes cost big pharma $15bn [19:04] - Biotechnology is creating ethical worries—and we’ve been here before [24:32] - How Apple is empowering people with their health information 🗞️ Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a guest by filling out this form 🚀 Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health 🖇 Connect with Henry on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Indigo on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Rachel on LinkedIn | |||
01 Dec 2024 | Can AI tools predict future health conditions? | 01:02:38 | |
James, Jessica and Belle from SomX break down the best stories from this week’s newsletter. [14:20] - AI tool could predict type 2 diabetes 10 years in advance [40:50] - Many digital health startups are quietly raising down rounds and closing up shop. Here's why 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🖇 Connect with James on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Jessica on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Belle on LinkedIn 📖 Learn more about the SomX team at https://somx.health | |||
22 Jul 2023 | And Our Survey Says... 📣 | 00:30:34 | |
Join Huw, Belle and Hollie for another week of healthtech news and views. This week: [01:35] - This AI chatbot has helped doctors treat 3 million people–and may be coming to a hospital near you [11:45] - Bridging the communication divide and tackling health inequality [20:20] - Intel Capital, Khosla lead $27M investment into SiPhox Health’s at-home blood-testing tech 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a guest using this form 🖇 Connect with Belle on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Hollie on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Huw on LinkedIn 📖 Learn more about the SomX team at www.somx.co.uk | |||
06 Oct 2024 | Why did Huma acquire eConsult — and what's next? | 00:39:58 | |
James and Jessica from SomX breakdown the best stories from this week’s newsletter. 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🖇 Connect with James on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Jessica on LinkedIn 📖 Learn more about the SomX team at https://somx.health | |||
06 Apr 2025 | Why we must prioritise homegrown innovations | 00:39:43 | |
09:28 - HealthTech is the UK’s hidden gem – the government can’t ignore it 22:51 - Covera Health launches AI platform for women’s imaging 30:34 - Trust in AI-assisted health systems and AI’s trust in humans 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form
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28 Jan 2024 | Heart failure? Big deal(s) | 00:26:53 | |
Jessica and Huw take a deep dive into the week’s healthtech news and views. This week: [02:05] - Digital health startups are running out of cash — firesales are expected [13:40] - General Catalyst to acquire nonprofit system Summa Health [17:40] - New UK rules will drastically lower the number of women able to angel invest in startups 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🖇 Connect with Jessica on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Huw on LinkedIn 📖 Learn more about the SomX team at https://somx.health | |||
20 Aug 2022 | Soonicorn yoghurt 🍯 | 00:34:16 | |
This week: 10 caretech startups to watch, integration depression, and why women should be doing more acid*. 🐦 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com 🙋🏻♂️ Connect with James on Linkedin | |||
28 Jul 2023 | Catastrophe? What Catastrophe? 💣 | 00:29:59 | |
Join Jess, Huw, Jessica, and special guest Dr Muhunthan Thillai for another week of healthtech news and views. This week: [01:30] - Nothing artificial but plenty of intelligence as AstraZeneca and Qureight launch AI play [10:30] - Hippocratic AI raises $15M and more digital health fundings [18:20] - Health in 2040: projected patterns of illness in England 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a guest using this form 🖇 Connect with Jess F on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Jessica S on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Muhunthan on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Huw on LinkedIn 📖 Learn more about the SomX team at https://www.somx.health/ | |||
20 Oct 2024 | #114 How wearable neurotech coming to the mainstream | 00:53:15 | |
Jessica and Hollie from SomX break down the best stories from this week’s newsletter with help from Dr Junaid Hassan Founder of Man Confidence [01:35] - Headspace Introduces AI Companion To Support Patients Through ‘Ebbs and Flows’ of Life [34:50] -What is wearable neurotech and why might we need it? 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 📝 Complete the Women in VC survey here 🖇 Connect with Jessica on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Hollie on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Junaid on LinkedIn 📖 Learn more about the SomX team at https://somx.health | |||
07 Apr 2024 | Pigeon et al 📚 | 00:48:24 | |
Join James, Belle and Daisy as they delve into the week’s healthtech news and views. This week: [23:50] - Sylvia Kang Founds Mira To Fill Gap In Women’s Health Market 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🖇 Connect with James on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Belle on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Daisy on LinkedIn 📚 References from this episode:
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12 May 2024 | Virtual reality is revolutionising mental health | 00:46:21 | |
Join Jessica and James as they take a deep dive into the week’s healthtech news and views joined by HLTH Europe's Lina Behrens and Henry Stoneley. This week: [02:45] - Apple pushes into clinical trials with new FDA nod for Apple Watch [36:45] - Okko Health to test eye health app in space 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🖇 Connect with James on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Jessica on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Lina on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Henry on LinkedIn 📖 Learn more about the SomX team at https://somx.health | |||
30 Mar 2025 | Should you rush to delete your genetic data? | 00:46:13 | |
Huw and Jessica from SomX break down the best stories from this week’s newsletter 11:00 23andMe customers struggle to delete their data - BBC News 23:14 A California health tech company is letting AI run medical visits, from 38:31 - Experts enter fourth dimension to create better medical devices - 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🖇 Connect with Jessica on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Huw on LinkedIn 📖 Learn more about the SomX team at https://somx.health | |||
28 Oct 2022 | The Return Of Theranos? 🩸 | 00:42:16 | |
Join James & Henry and SomX's PR lead, Jess Farmery, for another week of healthtech news and views. This week: Daye raise €11.5 for vaginal microbiome testing, the problems with voice biomarkers, and is military metaphor appropriate for talking healthcare? [00:55] - Healthtech-specific risks for medical malpractice liability 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com 🖇 Connect with James on LinkedIn | |||
01 Sep 2024 | Who's using AI in health...and do they need to know? | 00:49:04 | |
James and Jessica from SomX breakdown the best stories from this week’s newsletter. [01:00] - Survey: AI most exciting emerging technology in healthcare [26:00] - How to make sure AI helps rather than hinders healthcare [33:15] - Decentralised trial reveals home-testing behaviours for respiratory infections 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🖇 Connect with James on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Jessica on LinkedIn 📖 Learn more about the SomX team at https://somx.health | |||
21 Jul 2024 | What does an AI in healthcare strategy look like? | 00:50:02 | |
Huw and Belle from SomX breakdown the best stories from this week’s newsletter with help from The Health Foundation’s Tim Horton. [02:15] - AI outperforms clinical tests at predicting Alzheimer’s progress [42:30] - Digital health needs women at the heart of it 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🖇 Connect with Huw on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Belle on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Tim on LinkedIn 📖 Learn more about the SomX team at https://somx.health | |||
02 Mar 2025 | How the NHS can use tech to truly save time | 00:32:19 | |
Huw from SomX breaks down the best stories from this week’s newsletter with help from The Health Foundation's Ben Shemesh. [01:25] - Tech to save time: how the NHS can realise the benefits [24:10] - France Bets on Medical AI, to Train 100,000 Doctors Yearly 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🖇 Connect with Ben on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Huw on LinkedIn 📖 Learn more about the SomX team at https://somx.health | |||
08 Jul 2023 | Come for the party, stay for the cake 🎂 | 00:35:19 | |
Join Jessica, James and Konrad for another week of healthtech news and views. This week: [14:40] - 7️⃣ NHS England sets out seven short-term digital priorities 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a guest using this form 🖇 Connect with James on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Jessica on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Konrad on LinkedIn 📖 Learn more about the SomX team at www.somx.co.uk | |||
21 Oct 2022 | Spicy Goggles = Less Drugs 🌶 | 00:42:46 | |
Join James & Henry and special guest Professor Andrew Farmery, who, amongst many other things, heads up the undergraduate programme at Wadham Colllege, Oxford. This week: A sensible article about the state of the market, healthtech amasses more unicorns than any other tech, and people in nerd goggles need less drugs. [06:05] - Mid and South Essex ICS create a single waiting list for all elective 🗞️ Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a guest by filling out this form 🖇 Connect with James on LinkedIn | |||
11 Aug 2024 | Funding and femtech: record breaking raises | 00:59:19 | |
Jessica and James from SomX breakdown the best stories from this week’s newsletter with help from Flo Health Inc's Anna Klepchukova. [15:40] -Femtech startups appear on track for record VC funding [25:05] - Mental health benefits company Spring Health hits $3.3B valuation, boosted by $100M series E round [35:05] - AI assistant eases NHS pressure in cataract care 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🖇 Connect with Jessica on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with James on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Anna on LinkedIn 📖 Learn more about the SomX team at https://somx.health | |||
15 Dec 2024 | A Year in Healthtech: Advocacy, Equity, and What’s Next for AI? | 00:48:09 | |
James and Jessica from SomX break down the best stories from this week’s newsletter. 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🖇 Connect with James on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Jessica on LinkedIn 📖 Learn more about the SomX team at https://somx.health | |||
20 Aug 2023 | (Clinical) Trials and Tribulations 🧪 | 00:32:18 | |
Join Jessica, James, Huw and Lindus Health Cofounder Michael Young (in a cameo appearance) as they take a deep dive into the week's healthtech news and views. This week: [00:45] - Lindus Health, a U.K. clinical trials startup backed by Peter Thiel, raises $18M [10:55] - Digital Health Company Babylon Shutters U.S. Business, Lays Off Employees [23:50] - 'NHS staff just want tech that works' 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a guest using this form 🖇 Connect with Jessica on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with James on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Huw on LinkedIn 📖 Learn more about the SomX team at www.somx.co.uk | |||
19 Jan 2025 | Everything healthtech companies need to know about the UK AI Action Plan | 00:45:14 | |
Huw, James and Amy from SomX break down the best stories from this week’s newsletter. [02:10] - Startups Welcome UK AI Action Plan, But With Caveats [26:10] - ‘The returns are awful’: why taxpayers are racking up losses on British start-ups 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🖇 Connect with Huw on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with James on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Amy on LinkedIn 📖 Learn more about the SomX team at https://somx.health | |||
13 May 2023 | Healthcare's big guano problem 🐷 | 00:53:06 | |
Join Jessica, Jess, Huw and Dr Grace Hatton, for another week of healthtech news and views. This week:
[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 hallucinations — how GenAI will transform healthtech 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a guest by filling out this form 🖇 Connect with Grace on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Jessica on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Jessica on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Huw on LinkedIn 📖 Learn more about the SomX team at www.somx.co.uk | |||
14 Apr 2024 | What's going on with digital health funding? | 00:55:00 | |
Join James and Huw as they take a deep-dive into the week’s healthtech news and views. This week: [22:30] - Virtual reality eases pain in cancer trial — even the next day 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🖇 Connect with James on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Huw on LinkedIn 📖 Learn more about the SomX team at https://somx.health | |||
28 May 2023 | Pigeon for PM | 00:50:50 | |
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 | |||
30 Sep 2022 | Sailing The High(Er) SEIS 🌊 | 00:27:16 | |
This week: A Peachy raise, techbio/biotech ones to watch, and more interoperability than you can shake a stick at. [1:31] - 11 VC investors behind the hottest healthtech deals 🐦 Grab the newsletter at healthtechpigeon.com 🤳Connect with Jessica on LinkedIn | |||
25 Feb 2024 | It's not bad, you're just reading it wrong. | 00:56:15 | |
Join James and Huw as they take a deep-dive into the week’s healthtech news and views, joined by Director of Data Strategy and Partnerships at Arcturis Data., Christie Brooks. This week: [01:45] - 23andMe considers splitting up company to revive stock price [10:20] - Artificial intelligence is making critical health care decisions. The sheriff is MIA. [35:50] -Tools for Better Data Interoperability Are Here — But Providers Aren’t Adopting Them 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🖇 Connect with Huw on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Jessica on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Christie on LinkedIn 📖 Learn more about the SomX team at https://somx.health | |||
23 Feb 2025 | How to ensure AI enables equitable healthcare | 00:42:48 | |
Huw and Amy from SomX break down the best stories from this week’s newsletter with help from CTel's Christa Natoli. [02:55] - Most patients do not trust health systems to use AI responsibly [25:00] - Congress Extends Certain Telehealth Flexibilities Through March 31, 2025 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🖇 Connect with Amy on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Huw on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Christa on LinkedIn 📖 Learn more about the SomX team at https://somx.health | |||
02 Feb 2025 | Let's talk about AI...again | 00:38:42 | |
Huw, James and Daisy from SomX breaks down the best stories from this week’s newsletter. [01:25] - UK healthcare sector falling behind on AI adoption, study shows [17:15] - Project launched to improve regulation of AI healthcare devices [26:05] - UK health AI firm criticises NHSE procurement as it goes bust 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🖇 Connect with Daisy on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with James on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Huw on LinkedIn 📖 Learn more about the SomX team at https://somx.health | |||
30 Jun 2023 | Failure is a type of exit, right? | 00:47:28 | |
Join Jessica, James and Abeyna for another week of healthtech news and views. This week: [01:30] - NHS digital health check-ups launched 'to ease pressure on GPs' [40:50] -Digital health company Babylon Health to go private in merger with brain tech company MindMaze 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a guest using this form 🖇 Connect with James on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Jessica on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Abeyna on LinkedIn 📖 Learn more about the SomX team at www.somx.co.uk | |||
15 Jul 2022 | Two sides to every correction. | 00:33:46 | |
This week: Flesh penetrating waves, The Rut’s 1979 single Babylon’s Burning becomes prescient 43 years too late, and NHS staff given a pay rise. No. Sorry. Pigeon’s misread that. NHS staff given a share of a £312 medal. 🐦 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com 🙋🏻♂️ Connect with James on Linkedin | |||
05 Nov 2023 | GOSH, isn't it hard to adopt Generative AI In healthcare? | 00:47:02 | |
Join James, Huw and TORTUS's Dr Dom Pimenta as they take a deep dive into the week's healthtech stories and examine the challenges of adoption of generative AI in healthcare through the lens of TORTUS's work with Great Ormond Street Hospital. This week: [17:05] - Generative AI can be applied to nearly every healthcare use case you can think of [22:55] - New £100 million fund to capitalise on AI’s game-changing potential in life sciences and healthcare [29:30] - A group behind Stable Diffusion wants to open source emotion-detecting AI [39:55] - FDA clearance for Neurovalens’ Modius device 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🖇 Connect with Dom on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with James on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Huw on LinkedIn 📖 Learn more about the SomX team at https://somx.health | |||
21 Jan 2024 | The Warm Embrace of Health AI | 00:46:24 | |
James, Jessica and nen's Francesca Wuttke take a deep dive into the week’s healthtech news and views. 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🖇 Connect with James on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Jessica on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Francesca on LinkedIn 📖 Learn more about the SomX team at https://somx.health | |||
16 Mar 2025 | Why we should all be invested in longevity | 00:59:24 | |
James from SomX breaks down the best stories from this week’s newsletter with help from LongVC's Artem Trotsyuk and Sergey Jakimov. [37:32] - Antiaging pill for dogs clears key FDA hurdle [44:47] - History beckons as Healx doses first rare cancer patient with AI-created drug 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🖇 Connect with James on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Artem on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Sergey on LinkedIn 📖 Learn more about the SomX team at https://somx.health | |||
26 Nov 2022 | The Inappropriate Joke Robot | 00:26:58 | |
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 nurses to experience prison healthcare settings [23:06] - Long Covid may affect 100m people — meet one of the first startups looking to help them 🗞️ Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a guest by filling out this form 🚀 Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health 🖇 Connect with Henry on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Jessica on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Huw on LinkedIn | |||
14 Jan 2023 | Of eternal mice and men 🐭 | 00:38:20 | |
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] 🚀 One in five UK HealthTech SMEs head to US for product launch - [28:25]
✍️ Apply to be a guest by filling out this form 🚀 Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health 🖇 Connect with Nick on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Belle on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Indi on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Henry on LinkedIn | |||
09 Jul 2022 | Healthtech 1 - 0 Fintech 🌱 | 00:32:38 | |
This week: Fintech plays second fiddle (poorly probably), blood test startups are back, and how switching thinking from biotech to techbio could unblock the sector. 🐦 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com 🙋🏻♂️ Connect with James on Linkedin | |||
13 Aug 2023 | Funding, Fertility & Phenoxymethylpenicillin 🧫 | 00:29:11 | |
Join James, Belle and new SomX recruit, Chaz, as they take a deep-dive into the week’s healthtech news and views. This week: [01:40] - Seeking sleep without popping pills? Ozlo emerges from stealth? [07:20] - Getting personal: a wearable for precision antibiotic dosing [18:40] - Amazon partners with Maven to offer reproductive care to employees 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a guest using this form 🖇 Connect with James on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Chaz on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Belle on LinkedIn 📖 Learn more about the SomX team at https://www.somx.health/ | |||
28 Apr 2023 | E.T.'s chronic condition 👽 | 00:46:16 | |
Join James, Jessica, Huw and Digital Health advisor Junaid Hussain for another week of healthtech news and views. This week:
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01 Apr 2023 | A 60 second diagnosis? ⏱️ | 01:00:18 | |
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 newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a guest at this form 🖇 Connect with Liam on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with James on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Jessica on LinkedIn 📖 Learn more about the SomX team at www.somx.co.uk | |||
09 Feb 2025 | How to make the most of digital mental health tech | 00:37:21 | |
Amy and Daisy from SomX breaks down the best stories from this week’s newsletter. [13:30] - The role of AI in the future of women's health [22:00] - Guidance launched to ensure safety of digital mental health tech 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🖇 Connect with Daisy on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Amy on LinkedIn 📖 Learn more about the SomX team at https://somx.health | |||
29 Jul 2022 | The end of Googling symptoms?🚦 | 00:21:23 | |
This week: What’s gone on at NHS AI lab, analysing Apple’s approach, and Australian startup wants you to stop Googling your symptoms. 🐦 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com 🙋🏻♂️ Connect with James on Linkedin | |||
16 Sep 2022 | Arms Race 💪🏻 | 00:32:06 | |
This week: Google’s health-conscious sibling Verily secures pocket money from the parents, health apps are giving us a stonking headache and a modern day “David vs Goliath” story or shall we say Hippocrates vs Dr Google. 1:35 - Google’s Verily secures $1B to bolster armoury 🐦 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com 👩🏻 Connect with Belle on Linkedin | |||
16 Jun 2024 | Does Gen AI have a place in therapy? | 00:43:10 | |
Join Jessica, James and Huw from SomX breakdown the best stories from this week’s newsletter. [02:30] - Lying To Your Therapist Is Being Superseded By Telling The Truth To Generative AI [23:45] - Urinary incontinence neuromod newcomer Amber Therapeutics nets $100M [32:15] - AI in Healthcare Report: Healthcare AI investment growing faster than non-health AI 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🖇 Connect with Jessica on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Huw on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with James on LinkedIn 📖 Learn more about the SomX team at https://somx.health | |||
03 Jul 2022 | Centaurs & Unicorns 🦄 | 00:35:10 | |
This week: Birdie confirms avian supremacy with $30m series B and cofounder and CPO Rajiv Tanna joins James, Jess and Henry to discuss the raise and the rest of the week's news in healthtech. 🐦 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com 🙋🏻♂️ Connect with James on Linkedin | |||
14 Jul 2024 | A full-body MRI scan or the ultimate selfie? | 00:40:18 | |
James, Jessica and Daisy from SomX breakdown the best stories from this week’s newsletter. This week: What should the next AI healthcare strategy cover? [18:25] -NHS urged to prioritise cancer care basics over tech and AI ‘magic bullets’ 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🖇 Connect with Jessica on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with James on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Daisy on LinkedIn 📖 Learn more about the SomX team at https://somx.health | |||
28 Apr 2024 | How important is the breastmilk microbiome? | 01:09:19 | |
Join Jessica and James as they take a deep dive into the week’s healthtech news and views joined by Dr Sioned Fôn Jones, co-founder of BoobyBiome. This week: [24:20] - Maven Clinic expands fertility support for males alongside health coaching program [46:10] - GE HealthCare launches voice-activated, AI-powered ultrasound machines for women’s health [59:55] - UK healthtech Elvie raises £9.6m in fresh funding 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🖇 Connect with Jessica on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with James on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Sioned on LinkedIn 📖 Learn more about the SomX team at https://somx.health | |||
27 Jan 2023 | Anyone for Oregon? 🇺🇸 | 00:43:38 | |
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 [24:25] 🌱December's biggest seeds [28:45] ☕️ Connecting clinicians over coffee [38:20] 💸 Microsoft is aggressively investing in healthcare AI 🗞️ Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a guest by filling out this form 🚀 Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health 🖇 Connect with James on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Jessica on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Belle on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Henry on LinkedIn | |||
05 Aug 2022 | Rise of the chatbots 💬 | 00:25:27 | |
This week: Cera raise big, unicorn stock sinks, and if we lose a funding battle to Proptech, Pigeon will turn this car newsletter around and go back home. 🐦 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com 🙋🏻♂️ Connect with James on Linkedin | |||
23 Jul 2022 | Part-man, part-building 🏢 | 00:46:00 | |
This week: Overstuffed olive slims down, uplifting ALS breakthrough, and meet Fred Hutchinson, part-man, part-building. Joining as a guest this week is Lauren Bevan, currently head of health and social care at BJSS and has worked in the industry for almost 20 years. She comes bringing strong views but a weak wi-fi signal. 🐦 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com 🙋🏻♂️ Connect with James on Linkedin | |||
09 Dec 2022 | Is healthtech recession-proof? 📉 | 00:29:49 | |
Join Henry, Jess, and Huw for another week of healthtech news and views. This week: AI, IVF, and a robotic NHS.
[02:44] -🚨 Healthcare may be a recession-proof field, but healthtech is not [13:11] - 🧑💼How an ageing population will change health care 🗞️ Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a guest by filling out this form 🚀 Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health 🖇 Connect with Huw on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Jessica on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Henry on LinkedIn | |||
30 Jun 2024 | The ultimate HLTH Europe roundup | 00:46:44 | |
James and Jessica from SomX do a post-HLTH download of all of the most exciting announcements from last week’s event in Amsterdam. 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🖇 Connect with Jessica on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with James on LinkedIn 📖 Learn more about the SomX team at https://somx.health | |||
22 Sep 2024 | Dragon's Den: Healthtech Special | 00:49:20 | |
James and Jess from SomX breakdown the best stories from this week’s newsletter, with help from digital health investors David Buller and Laurent Van Lerberghe [03:55] - Analysis finds Thermology Health imaging tech capable of saving NHS £1 billion [13:20] - Finger wrap uses sweat to provide health monitoring at your fingertips [28:35] - Scientists develop stunning AI to predict blood pressure from voice 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🖇 Connect with James on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Jess on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with David on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Laurent on LinkedIn 📖 Learn more about the SomX team at https://somx.health | |||
15 Apr 2023 | Doom, Gloom & Yoon-icorns 🦄 | 00:31:27 | |
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 🖇 Connect with James on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Jess F on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Huw on LinkedIn | |||
03 Nov 2024 | The Ultimate Autumn Budget breakdown | 00:55:57 | |
Jessica and James from SomX break down the best stories from this week’s newsletter. 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🖇 Connect with Jessica on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with James on LinkedIn 📖 Learn more about the SomX team at https://somx.health | |||
28 Jul 2024 | AI's role in mental health care | 00:51:15 | |
Jessica and James from SomX breakdown the best stories from this week’s newsletter with help from ieso Digital Health's Director of Evidence Generation, Clare Palmer. [29:20] - Diagnosing STIs with a ‘selfie’? AI could make it possible [37:00] - Are AI-chatbots suitable for hospitals? Diagnostic capabilities of large language models tested 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🖇 Connect with Jessica on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with James on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Clare on LinkedIn 📖 Learn more about the SomX team at https://somx.health | |||
23 Mar 2025 | AI Implementation: Friend or Foe? | 00:45:03 | |
Belle and Hollie from SomX break down the best stories from this week’s newsletter with help from Sword Health’s Robbie Huddleston [01:56] - NHS innovation centre floated as UKRI backs Labour’s missions [12:43] - As AI nurses reshape hospital care, human nurses are pushing back [38:54] - Can AI help detect cognitive impairment? 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🖇 Connect with Robbie on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Hollie on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Belle on LinkedIn 📖 Learn more about the SomX team at https://somx.health | |||
05 May 2024 | How can we make healthcare more accessible? | 00:46:02 | |
Join Jessica and Huw as they take a deep dive into the week’s healthtech news and views. This week: [01:25] - ‘Daniel Ek’s body scanning healthtech Neko Health is expanding to the UK [20:10] - Walmart Health Is Closing [29:10] - Hertility’s ReProductive Report aims to close the gaps in women’s health research 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🖇 Connect with Jessica on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Huw on LinkedIn 📖 Learn more about the SomX team at https://somx.health | |||
24 Nov 2024 | What is holding the NHS back from innovation? | 00:50:48 | |
Amy and Huw from SomX break down the best stories from this week’s newsletter with help from Doccla's Sukrti Nagpal [02:35] - Smart ring maker Oura hits a $5bn valuation after raising $75m [34:20] - Alan unveils AI health assistant for its 680K health insurance members 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🖇 Connect with Amy on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Huw on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Sukrti on LinkedIn 📖 Learn more about the SomX team at https://somx.health | |||
03 Mar 2024 | Casper...is that you?👻 | 00:33:03 | |
Join Jessica and Belle as they take a deep-dive into the week’s healthtech news and views. [16:25] - Health-care AI: The potential and pitfalls of diagnosis by app 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🖇 Connect with Belle on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Jessica on LinkedIn 📖 Learn more about the SomX team at https://somx.health | |||
10 Jun 2023 | Deal or No Deal 🤑 | 00:46:04 | |
Join Jessica, James and Dama Health's Elena Rueda for another week of healthtech news and views. This week: [04:50] - Pharma giant Bayer moves deeper into digital health with new business unit [23:40] - Re:Cognition Health opens concussion clinic featuring brain-scanning tech [32:30] - Davina McCall's Pill Revolution 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a guest using this form 🖇 Connect with Jessica on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with James on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Elena on LinkedIn | |||
19 Feb 2023 | Mick Jagger's Toothpaste 🕺 | 00:46:19 | |
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 [37:55] A new wave of startups are tackling financial issues within the healthcare space 🗞️ Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a guest by filling out this form 🚀 Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health 🖇 Connect with James on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Jessica on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Jess on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Kai on LinkedIn | |||
17 Mar 2024 | Healthtech's biggest cheerleader 📣 | 00:24:12 | |
Join Jess and Huw and James as they take a deep-dive into the week’s healthtech news and views. This week: [07:15] -Sooma gets €5M boost to expand its tDCS at-home depression treatment [10:50] -UK report reveals bias within medical tools and devices [19:00] - Everything you need to know to prepare for the EU’s AI Act 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🖇 Connect with Jess on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Huw on LinkedIn 📖 Learn more about the SomX team at https://somx.health | |||
04 Mar 2023 | Special K at your desk? 🥣 | 00:41:17 | |
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 flights for medical supplies [31:15] Medical body NICE backs online mental health treatments ✍️ Apply to be a guest at this form 📖 Learn more about the SomX team at somx.health ⚕️ Learn more about Certific at certific.co/gb 🖇 Connect with Johnny on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Jessica S on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Jess F on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Huw on LinkedIn | |||
07 Jul 2024 | What should the next AI healthcare strategy cover? | 00:42:40 | |
Huw and Jess from SomX breakdown the best stories from this week’s newsletter, with help from University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire Trusts, Dr Julia Dawson 08:35 - Priorities for an AI in health care strategy 24:05 - Pain-free home test kit for cervical cancer is unveiled 33:15 - AI prosthetic limbs and advanced sensors: how one startup is building tech for next gen wearables 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🖇 Connect with Jess on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Huw on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Julia on LinkedIn 📚Reading list: Dissecting racial bias in an algorithm used to manage the health of populations | Science 📖 Learn more about the SomX team at https://somx.health | |||
03 Dec 2022 | WHOOP, there it is! | 00:38:12 | |
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 with FDA approval [34:10] - 🎬 Anne Hathaway backs Pact, an all-women-led VC for mission-driven startups 🗞️ Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a guest by filling out this form 🚀 Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health 🖇 Connect with James on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Jessica on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Henry on LinkedIn | |||
06 Nov 2022 | Pumpkin-Spiced Pathways 🧋 | 00:35:31 | |
Join James, Jessica, Henry and special guest Dr Maslah Amin, for another week of healthtech news and views. This week: The metaverse and patient care, AI training for NHS staff, and investors not yet willing to splash the cash. [01:08] - NHS report calls for artificial intelligence training for all staff 🗞️ Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a guest by filling out this form 🖇 Connect with James on LinkedIn | |||
16 Feb 2025 | Should AI be used in end-of-life medical decisions? | 00:49:30 | |
Huw, James and Taffy from SomX breaks down the best stories from this week’s newsletter. [02:30] - Nina Capital's new €50M fund sets sights on early-stage healthtechs [15:05] - NICE consults on changes to its HealthTech programme [25:30] - Should AI be used in end-of-life medical decisions? 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🖇 Connect with Taffy on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Huw on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with James on LinkedIn 📖 Learn more about the SomX team at https://somx.health | |||
08 Dec 2024 | Is healthtech helping or hurting health equity? | 00:39:55 | |
James, Amy and Belle from SomX break down the best stories from this week’s newsletter. [02:05] - Why are doctors wary of wearables? [18:30] - How does the public feel about health technologies and data? 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🖇 Connect with James on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Amy on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Belle on LinkedIn 📖 Learn more about the SomX team at https://somx.health | |||
24 Sep 2022 | Stuck in limbo | 00:26:15 | |
This week: Google’s health-conscious sibling Verily secures pocket money from the parents, health apps are giving us a stonking headache, and a modern day “David vs Goliath” story or shall we say Hippocrates vs Dr Google. 🐦 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com 👨🏻🦱 Connect with James on LinkedIn | |||
24 Sep 2023 | Planes, trains and automated workflows ✈️ | 00:45:11 | |
Join Huw, Belle and Together Digital's Liam Cahill as they take a deep dive into the week's healthtech news and views. This week: [19:00] - ICS digital leaders prioritising Shared Health and Care Records [36:00] - Copenhagen healthtech startup Corti raises $60M in Series B funding 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a guest using this form 🖇 Connect with Liam on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Huw on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Belle on LinkedIn 📖 Learn more about the SomX team at www.somx.co.uk | |||
06 Aug 2023 | We need to talk about Chatbots ✋ | 00:38:21 | |
Join James, Huw and Healthily CEO Matteo Berlucchi as they take a deep-dive into the week’s healthtech news and views. This week: [01:45] - PIGEON EX-COO-SIVE: AI self-care platform Healthily lifts the lid on its new health information chatbot, ‘DOT’ [25:30] - Patient data: more than half of UK public don’t trust AI 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a guest using this form 🖇 Connect with Matteo on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with James on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Huw on LinkedIn 📖 Learn more about the SomX team at https://www.somx.health/ | |||
17 Mar 2023 | SV almost goes B(ust) 📉 | 00:44:46 | |
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 ✍️ Apply to be a guest at this form 📖 Learn more about the SomX team at somx.health 🖇 Connect with Jessica on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with James on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Belle on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Molly on LinkedIn | |||
19 May 2024 | At-home blood test transforming cancer care | 00:43:13 | |
Join Aahuti and Jess breakdown the best stories from this week’s newsletter, with the help of Toby Basey-Fisher, CEO of Entia. This week: [04:45] -Test-at-home kit for cancer patients approved for use [18:50] - UK partnership to address challenges regulating mental health tech [31:30] - How telemedicine can cut down NHS gynaecology waiting times 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🖇 Connect with Jess on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Aahuti on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Toby on LinkedIn 📖 Learn more about the SomX team at https://somx.health | |||
26 Nov 2023 | All's Phare in Health and Tech | 00:40:00 | |
Join Jessica, James and Huw as they take a deep dive into the week's healthtech news and views. This week: [10:05] - How the shakeup at OpenAI underscores the need for AI standards in health care [23:50] - EPR target for 90% of NHS trusts to go live is met early [28:10] - Toku’s AI platform predicts heart conditions by scanning inside your eye 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🖇 Connect with James on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Jessica on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Huw on LinkedIn 📖 Learn more about the SomX team at https://somx.health | |||
09 Jun 2024 | Tackling inequity in healthcare | 01:03:29 | |
Join Aahuti and Huw from SomX breakdown the best stories from this week’s newsletter, with help from HealthKey’s David Joerring This week: 19:40 - ifeel cements $20M to address rising mental health costs for businesses and insurers 31:30 - Ciba Health uses wearables and analytics to get to the root cause of type 2 diabetes 41:15 - Black and ethnic minority people underrepresented in virtual wards 54:45 - 5 steps towards health equity in low- and middle-income countries through tailored innovation 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🖇 Connect with David on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Huw on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Aahuti on LinkedIn 📖 Learn more about the SomX team at https://somx.health | |||
18 Aug 2024 | Could tongue colour identify diseases? | 00:49:43 | |
Belle and Jessica from SomX breakdown the best stories from this week’s newsletter. [02:40] - Hims & Hers CEO: Women's health business "will likely" eclipse men's [18:20] - Innovative AI system uses tongue color to identify multiple health conditions [26:30] - 23andMe to launch GLP-1 telehealth offering, trims internal drug development team 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🖇 Connect with Jessica on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Belle on LinkedIn 📖 Learn more about the SomX team at https://somx.health | |||
27 Aug 2022 | You are not a gorilla 🦍 | 00:28:10 | |
This week: Organ harvesting, animal testing, death to gorillas, and other uplifting stories. 🐦 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com 🙋🏻♂️ Connect with James on Linkedin | |||
10 Nov 2024 | Why we need system-level change for better population health | 01:57:33 | |
Amy and James from SomX break down the best stories from this week’s newsletter with help from Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust's Dr Gareth Thompson, with segments from Jason C. Foster and Vijay Luthra exploring the future of US healthcare. [19:45] - 3 Types of Startups that Healthcare Leaders Want to See More Of [37:35] - Swedish startup Yazen Health raises €19.5M to combat obesity across Europe 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🎟️ Purchase your ticket for the BMJ Futrue Health event at https://futurehealth.bmj.com/ use code 'SOMXFH50' for £££ off 🖇 Connect with Amy on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with James on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Gareth on LinkedIn 📖 Learn more about the SomX team at https://somx.health | |||
29 Oct 2023 | The NHS Federated Data Platform, for Dummies.... | 00:48:55 | |
Join Jessica, Huw and Health Service Journal's Joe Talora as they take an in-depth look at the NHS's Federated Data Platform (FDP), examining its origins, purposes, and the various controversies that have arisen in the lead up to the imminent contract award later this year. 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🖇 Connect with Joe on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Jessica on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Huw on LinkedIn 📖 Learn more about the SomX team at https://somx.health | |||
05 Feb 2023 | The Jargon Carousel 🎠 | 00:54:04 | |
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 ✍️ Apply to be a guest by filling out this form 🚀 Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health 🖇 Connect with James on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Jessica on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Hollie on LinkedIn | |||
31 Mar 2024 | Foresight is a Wonderful Thing | 00:52:56 | |
Join Jessica and James as they examine the week’s healthtech news and views, with help from Hassan Chaudhury and Victoria Betton, the team behind the Digital Health Equity Charter. This week: [01:10] - Sign the Equity Charter: Standing up to discrimination in Digital Health [21:40] -What ‘Digital Transformation’ Means to 3 Health System Execs 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🖇 Connect with Jessica on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with James on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Hassan on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Victoria on LinkedIn 📖 Learn more about the SomX team at https://somx.health | |||
19 Nov 2023 | Building Blocks and Bevvies🍺 | 00:30:46 | |
Join James & Jessica as they take a deep dive into the week's healthtech news and views. This week: [00:05] - 📲 Smartphones and speakers may be able to detect alcohol intoxication by analysing voice patterns [16:40] - 📠 OECD health report defines digital health as emerging health determinant 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🖇 Connect with James on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Jessica on LinkedIn 📖 Learn more about the SomX team at https://somx.health | |||
15 Jul 2023 | EUREKA! 🤯 | 00:36:13 | |
Join Huw, Jess Farmery and Aoife Fordham for another week of healthtech news and views. This week:
[12:10] - Telehealth should not be considered a one-size-fits-all-diseases solution: study [19:40] - Slow roll out and a lack of direction hindering digital health services [29:10] - Eureka Health Raises $7M in Funding 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a guest using this form 🖇 Connect with Aoife on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Jess on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Huw on LinkedIn 📖 Learn more about the SomX team at www.somx.co.uk | |||
07 May 2023 | A Pigeon-sized pile-on 🐦 | 01:05:37 | |
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 www.somx.co.uk | |||
12 Aug 2022 | Benchmarks, biotech & big bangs | 00:42:22 | |
This week: Patchwork raise, Space force gets physical, and Bessemer Venture Partners teach us our COGS from our ARPU. 🐦 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com 🙋🏻♂️ Connect with James on Linkedin | |||
26 Mar 2023 | The hero we deserve | 01:00:06 | |
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 Naytal 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a guest at this form 🖇 Connect with Sam on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with James on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Jessica on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Huw on LinkedIn 📖 Learn more about the SomX team at www.somx.co.uk |