The Healthtech Podcast: Recent Episodes
Dr. James Somauroo
The Healthtech Podcast covers the latest in health and technology through interviews with disruptive healthtech startups and leaders. Whether you’re a patient, founder, investor or simply interested in healthtech, The Healthtech Podcast has it covered.
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This week, James is joined by Yasir Sacranie, pharmacist, content creator and founder of MicroPharm, the education platform helping thousands of trainee pharmacists pass their registration exam. Yasir talks candidly about bootstrapping a healthcare education business alongside a demanding NHS role, the family moment that finally pushed him to leave the NHS for good, and why he's deliberately keeping AI at arm's length in his business. They also get into why he still works one day a week as a barista — and what that teaches him about craft.
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In this episode of The Healthtech Podcast, James is joined by Professor Reza Razavi, Professor of Paediatric Cardiovascular Science at King's College London and CEO of Fraiya, an AI ultrasound software company. Reza shares the deeply personal story behind Fraiya — including his own daughter's near-fatal undiagnosed heart condition as a newborn — and explains how AI applied to the routine 20-week anomaly scan could close the gap between the 50% of congenital heart defects currently missed and a detection rate approaching 97-98%. They get into what it actually takes to build AI that clinicians trust, why the NHS financial environment makes or breaks adoption, and how a team of 14 people is on the verge of launching across six European countries.
Connect with Reza: https://www.linkedin.com/in/reza-razavi-a50967265/
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In this episode of The Healthtech Podcast, James is joined by Steve Bulera, Chief Scientific Officer for Safety Assessment and Toxicology at Charles River Laboratories — one of the world's largest CROs, and a company that almost every new drug passes through on its way from lab to human trials. They dig into one of the most significant shifts in preclinical drug development: the move away from traditional animal testing towards virtual control groups, AI-assisted decision-making, and what Steve calls "new approach methodologies." It's a candid conversation about where the science is, why the regulators are cautious, and what it actually takes to change a decades-old industry from within.
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In this episode of The Healthtech Podcast, James is joined by Jamie Cox, Co-Founder and CTO of Scarlet — Europe's only notified body specialised in software and AI medical devices. Jamie shares how a frustrating experience building AI triage software at Babylon Health led him and co-founder James Dewar to a radical idea: build a notified body from the ground up, designed specifically for iterative software development. They explore why the current regulatory system creates artificial bottlenecks for health tech founders, what it actually means to regulate an LLM as a medical device, and why making certification faster and cheaper could fundamentally reshape who gets to bring products to market.
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This week, James is joined by Shravan Nageswaran, co-founder and CEO of Atman Labs, the London applied-AI research company building diagnostic AI that reasons like a doctor — without relying on large language models. They dig into why LLMs fall short on real clinical reasoning, what "safety" actually means when a system takes a patient history, and how reinforcement learning over a medical knowledge graph could reshape primary care. A genuinely different take on the "can AI be a doctor?" question.
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In this episode, James is joined by Cate Lawrence, Senior Journalist at Tech.eu, to explore what the European healthtech ecosystem actually looks like from the press box, how stories get chosen, what makes a startup worth covering, and why the data gap between innovation and clinical impact remains so wide. Cate brings a decade of cross-sector reporting to the conversation, from wearable tech and women's health data to Ukrainian healthtech and the growing push for European digital sovereignty.
Connect with Cate: https://www.linkedin.com/in/catelawrence1/
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This week, James is joined by Ben Finlay, Partner at Stratt and Advisor to Ranvier.ai, to dig into why mental health is still diagnosed by questionnaire - and what a taste test, a blood biomarker and a continuum view of neurological wellness could change. Ben shares the science behind Ranvier's objective mood measurement, the journey from early intervention in depression through to staving off Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, and a candid look at where pharma, policy and AI are heading next.
Connect with Ben: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benfinlay/
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This week, James is joined by Professor Shafi Ahmed — Consultant Surgeon at the Royal London Hospital, futurist, and author of Intelligent: The Evolution of AI Transforming Healthcare — for a candid look at what it actually takes to innovate inside a system designed to resist change. From streaming a live colectomy on Google Glass to 14,500 students in 118 countries, to walking away from 80% of his pay at the peak of his clinical career, Shafi shares the relationships, leadership and reflection that sit behind a decade of firsts in surgical innovation.
Connect with Shafi: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/professorshafiahmed
Learn more about Shafi's work and book Intelligent: https://www.profshafi.com
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This week, James is joined by Dr Tom Chambers, anaesthetist and Co-founder & Chief Medical Officer of Theta Sleep, to unpack why an estimated 9.2 million people in the UK are living with undiagnosed sleep apnoea. They get into why sleep medicine is so fragmented, why CPAP has an image problem, and how shifting diagnosis and treatment into the home could fix a supply-and-demand crisis the NHS isn't built for. A candid look at building a clinical business while still working as an NHS doctor.
Connect with Tom: https://www.linkedin.com/in/-tomchambers-/
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This week, James is joined by Dr Sujitha Selvarajah, co-founder of Hesta Health, who recently closed a £2M pre-seed round to rebuild postnatal care from the ground up. They get into why most of the women's health gap has nothing to do with reproductive health, why new mothers are abandoned at the moment their care needs spike, and what it actually takes to build healthcare that's both clinically excellent and humane.
Connect with Sujitha: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drsujitha/
Learn more: https://www.hestahealth.com/
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In this episode, James is joined by Ranjan Singh, who built HealthHero by acquiring six companies in nine months during lockdown. Now covering 35 million patients across four countries and delivering nearly five million consultations a year, it's Europe's largest digital clinic, with three consecutive outstanding CQC ratings to back up the scale. In this episode, he talks James through the acquisition-led playbook, a care coordination service that cut A&E admissions by 85%, and what an AI-first health system actually looks like when you're operating at this level.
Connect with Ranjan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ranjan-singh-6204a3/
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This week, James is joined by Dr Kishan Rees, Senior Director for Global Video & Digital Content Strategy at Bayer, to unpack why healthcare's communication problem is now its biggest patient-safety problem. They get into medical misinformation, why patients are turning to AI chatbots over clinicians, and what pharma can learn from broadcast journalism.
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This week, James is joined by Dr Tiril Elstad, medical doctor, yoga teacher, and founder and CEO of Endor Global, to explore why chronic stress may be our generation's biggest health risk - and why most wearables are making the problem worse. They get into the science of heart rate variability, the gap between data and actual behaviour change, and why the real opportunity in preventive health lies in reaching the middle 75%, not the biohacking elite.
Connect with Tiril: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tiril-elstad-1a547736/
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This week, James is joined by Dr Clare Palmer, Director of Evidence Generation at ieso, to explore what happens when AI is purpose-built for mental health care - and why that's worlds apart from people typing their problems into ChatGPT. They discuss ieso's safety-constrained AI architecture, the striking fact that only half of people with depression or anxiety recover, and how agentic AI systems could move us towards precision mental health care at scale.
Connect with Clare: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clare-palmer-phd-b752795a/
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This week, James is joined by Ahmed Binesmael, Senior Improvement Analyst at the Health Foundation, to dig into what the British public actually thinks about AI in healthcare - and why the people most likely to benefit from healthtech are often the most sceptical of it. They explore the Health Foundation's latest survey data on trust, the NHS app's "doctor in your pocket" function, and why meaningful public engagement is the missing piece in the UK's fragmented AI strategy.Connect with Ahmed: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ahmed-binesmael-025b07225
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In this episode, James is joined by Robert Bunn, Founder and President of Ultrasound AI, who shares an extraordinary story - from multiple failed startups and personal tragedy to building an AI that can predict actual delivery dates from standard ultrasound images. With a De Novo FDA clearance now in hand, Robert explains how the technology works, what the AI discovered that clinicians couldn't see, and why he's committed to making it available to every woman on earth regardless of ability to pay.
Connect with Robert: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertbunn/
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This week, James is joined by Dr Yath Prem, Medical Advisor at Flo Health and clinical product specialist, to talk about the growing wave of NHS doctors moving into healthtech - what's driving it, whether content creators are encouraging too many to leave, and what clinical product actually means in practice. They also dig into wearables, AI health assistants, and whether healthtech is genuinely solving problems or just adding to middle-class anxiety.
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This week, James is joined by Dr David Neal, Assistant Professor at Amsterdam UMC and co-lead of the eHealth Living & Learning Lab (ELLLA), for a wide-ranging chat about what happens when technology disrupts a healing ritual that hasn't fundamentally changed since the 16th century. They explore why medicine is roughly 150 years behind in understanding the role of humans in healthcare, what that means for AI-driven care, and why the most effective healthtech products still fail if nobody thinks about adoption from day one...
Connect with David: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-david-neal/
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James welcomes Declan Hadley, the healthcare lead at Cisco, who shares his extensive experience in the NHS and health informatics. The conversation explores the evolution of healthcare technology, the importance of digitisation, and the role of AI in improving patient outcomes. Declan emphasizes the need for collaboration between startups and healthcare organizations, the significance of local ownership of AI, and the challenges of ensuring safety in rapidly changing technologies. He also reflects on his personal journey and the lessons learned from raising a successful son in the world of Fantasy Premier League (seriously).
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This week, James is joined by Ian Wharton, the co-founder and CEO of Aide Health, a design-led chronic disease management platform with retention rates 20x the sector average. In this episode, Ian makes the case that design - not technology - is the missing ingredient in digital health, explaining why only 3–4% of patients stick with health apps after 30 days and what Aide does differently to hit 70% retention at three months. We get into the role of conversational AI in behaviour change, why medication adherence remains one of healthcare's billion-pound unsolved problems, and how Aide's new patient-facing scribe Mirror was born from Ian's personal experience of his father's Alzheimer's diagnosis. We also discuss Aide's white paper on building trust in AI, why pursuing Class II regulation as a startup of six people is a statement of intent, and what the Meta glasses saga tells us about the trap of adopting technology just because it's within reach.
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This week, James is joined by Dr. Elsa Zekeng, founder of SökerData who shares the story behind building a company tackling one of healthcare’s most persistent blind spots: biased and underrepresented clinical trial data. She discusses her journey from infectious disease research and frontline outbreak response during Ebola, to advising on COVID-19 vaccine uptake, and ultimately founding SökerData to aggregate more inclusive health datasets.
Connect with Elsa: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-elsa-zekeng-sokerdata/
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In this episode of The Healthtech Podcast, Dr James Somauroo speaks with T.N. Giridhar, Managing Director and CEO of SSG Capital, an investment banker and venture capital investor with nearly 30 years of experience spanning public markets, Goldman Sachs-level M&A and early-stage VC.
Giridhar draws on a career managing over $17 billion in transactions to argue that the quality of an investment outcome is determined almost entirely by the quality of the people behind the company, not the metrics, the market size or the business plan.
The conversation covers the real reason most companies fail at the VC stage, the one question every founder should ask an investor before accepting their money, and why the NHS is repeating, at scale, the talent retention mistakes that investment banks identified and addressed decades ago.
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Learn more about ssg capital: https://www.ssgcapital.uk/
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This week, James is joined by Dr Saira Ghafur, respiratory consultant, health tech leader, and Co-Founder of Prova Health. She shares her journey from medical training in Scotland to NHS consultancy, policy fellowships at NHS England and in New York, and co-founding two health tech ventures. Saira discusses the realities of scaling digital health, generating credible evidence for innovation, and the challenges of regulating AI in healthcare.
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In this episode of The Healthtech Podcast, we’re joined by Kang Hsu, MD, Chief Medical Officer at Canary Speech, to explore the emerging field of vocal biomarkers and what they could mean for earlier disease detection.
Speech is more than language. It is airflow, vocal cord vibration, neuromuscular control and cognitive processing in motion. Subtle acoustic features such as pitch variation, jitter, shimmer and timing patterns can reflect underlying physiological and neurological change.Can those signals help detect depression, anxiety, mild cognitive impairment or even early neurodegenerative disease?
Kang brings a rare perspective. As a practising physician and former Chief Medical Informatics Officer within a major US health system, he led large-scale EHR implementations and AI deployments across a 50+ hospital network. He understands both the science and the realities of adoption at system level.
This conversation covers:
• What vocal biomarkers are and how they are measured• How 40 seconds of natural speech can generate thousands of acoustic data points
• Clinical applications across behavioural health and neurology• Sensitivity, specificity and the limits of current evidence
• What makes clinicians trust and adopt new AI tools
• Why seamless workflow integration is critical for scale
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This week, James is joined by James Mishreki, founder of Skin + Me, who shares the story behind building one of the UK’s fastest-growing personalised healthcare brands. He discussed the challenges of scaling a regulated DTC business, and how Skin + Me is tackling the dermatology access gap with clinical-grade care delivered directly to consumers.Connect with James: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesmishreki/ Learn more about Skin + Me: https://www.skinandme.com/ Apply to be a guest: www.thehealthtechpodcast.comSubscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: www.healthtechpigeon.comGet in touch with James: www.jamessomauroo.comThis podcast was brought to you by SomX.
This week, James is joined by Lawrie Kidd, Consultant Anaesthetist at Gloucestershire Hospitals and Clinical Product Lead at DrDoctor, who shares a candid look at the pressures facing frontline clinicians and how healthtech can help.
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This week, James is joined by Hjalmar Nilsonne, CEO and Co-Founder of Neko Health. With Hjalmar yielding the power to shape the future of healthcare, James asks all the big questions. Can Neko pull off their ambition? What will it take? What lessons have they learned along the way? What challenges lie in their way?
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In this episode, we're joined by Tharni Vasavan, Horizon Scanning Senior Health Technology Lead at NICE, about how emerging health technologies are identified, evaluated, and prepared for the NHS. From her journey through women’s health research and startup life at Hertility to shaping national foresight on healthtech disruption, Tharni offers an inside glimpse of how innovation meets evidence.
If you're working with AI that you think will be applicable in healthcare within the next 10 years, you can partake in NICE's horizon scanning with this form: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=FNtA1T7OGE2t-3WmXoj3178lLN5iep1Aj4hJbvJXiDRUREs0Q1dVRFJTTTZHSU1HUllSSjYwVllRQS4u
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This week James is joined by Jacob West, Managing Director for Healthcare and Life Sciences at Microsoft UK, who shares insights on how Microsoft is leveraging AI to enhance healthcare in the UK.
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This week, James is joined on the podcast by Dr Madeleine Ballard, CEO of the Community Health Impact Coalition (CHIC). CHIC is a global movement making professional community health workers the norm worldwide by changing guidelines, funding, and policy.
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James is joined by Rafaël Michali, co-founder and co-CEO of SAVA. SAVA is redefining the way people interact with their health by developing the most advanced biosensing technology science has to offer, capable of accessing bodily information in a painless, real-time and affordable way.
Connect with Rafaël: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rafa%C3%ABl-michali-656136101/
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This week, James is joined on the podcast by Sam Winward, co-founder and CEO of Pastel Health. Pastel Health is an end-to-end outpatient clinic that supports Chronic pain sufferers referred from the NHS. The service aims to transform the experience for both patients and clinicians.
Connect with Sam: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samuelwinward/
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In the second episode of this two-part series, James is joined by Dr. Ross Harper, CEO and co-founder of Limbic. Limbic is developing clinical-grade AI tools for mental health care, designed to be deployed in clinical settings. Their goal is to enhance the capacity of trained professionals and help meet the overwhelming demand for mental health services.
Listen to Part 1: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7wTwZ1SjfFsjy4IKkcOIzE
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Chapters
00:00 Introduction to Limbic and AI in Healthcare
04:01 The Role of AI in Treatment
09:28 ChatGPT vs. Clinical AI: The Debate
16:49 Human + AI: A Better Care Model
19:43 Scaling Mental Health Services with AI
26:09 Adapting Healthcare Models for AI
36:57 Ensuring Clinical Rigor in AI Solutions
This week, James is joined by Daniel Nathrath, CEO and co-founder of Ada Health. Ada is a global health company founded by doctors, scientists, and industry pioneers to create new possibilities for personal health and transform knowledge into better outcomes. Daniel is a serial entrepreneur with 20+ years’ experience in high-growth markets and technological transformation. During his career, he has founded and led several internet startups based in Denmark, Germany, the US and the UK. Daniel was a consultant at the Boston Consulting Group and studied law as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Houston. He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago.
https://ada.com/
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Julian Nesbitt, Founder of Dr Julian Medical Group Ltd. Julian has a background as a doctor and still practices as a GP and founded the company to improve access to mental healthcare through using technology.
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Hamzah Selim is the Co-Founder & CEO of mindstep. Mindstep is creating a new care standard for cognitive health by providing AI-driven neurodiagnostics, screening for relevant risk factors, and comprehensive interventions.
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This week, James is joined by Dr Guido Baechler, CEO and Director at Mainz Biomed, a leading developer of market-ready molecular genetic diagnostic solutions for life-threatening conditions. The Company's flagship product is ColoAlert, an accurate, non-invasive, and easy-to-use early detection test for colorectal cancer.
Guido has 30 years of global experience leading public & private life science companies, having held senior executive roles at Singulex and SummerBio, and at Roche, where he led Roche Molecular’s global program management.
This week, James is joined by Ahmed Wobi, Co-founder of Tonus Tech, who is pioneering machine learning techniques to sensor fusion technology that improves human longevity through mobility augmentation. After graduating from Oxford University with honours in Neuroscience, Ahmed completed his medical training in Imperial College London and specialised in Radiology. Prior to Tonus, he founded a diabetes startup and has extensive startup experience in telemedicine.
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Piotr Orzechowski is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Infermedica, one of the leading AI health companies dedicated to improving the process of preliminary symptom analysis and digital triage. Infermedica’s goal is to increase healthcare accessibility, minimize the rate of misdiagnosis and streamline costs of providing quality care. Infermedica's platform has been used by over 13 million users worldwide and is offered to insurance, healthcare, and telemedicine companies. Piotr is an energetic IT entrepreneur with a strong technical background with key interests in digital health and machine learning. Before founding Infermedica, he was engaged in several startup ventures.
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This week, James is joined by Dr. Marc Taub, PhD, Divisional Vice President of Technical Operations for Abbott’s Diabetes Care business. Since joining the global healthcare company in 2004, Dr. Taub has been one of the driving forces behind the development of the FreeStyle Libre system, a sensor-based glucose monitoring solution that gives people the precise data and unique insights needed to better manage their condition. His team are now expanding the application of this biowearable technology to one day be able to translate a wide range of biometrics and offer unprecedented understanding of the impact of diet, exercise and lifestyle, among other factors, on our metabolic health and wellbeing.
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Join us for a fascinating bonus episode as we delve into the exciting and nerve-wracking world of newly graduated junior doctors as they step into the wards of UK hospitals in August, taking on the role of Foundation Year 1 (FY1) doctors. Host James, along with NHS cardiologist and computer scientist Rob Brisk, discuss the specific anxieties that come with being a junior doctor. Will, a current FY1, shares his experiences, while Tom, a medical student about to start his FY1, asks insightful questions. The discussion spans various scenarios, covering both routine medical tasks and high-stress emergencies, giving an authentic glimpse into the rollercoaster ride that awaits young doctors.
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This week James is joined by Dr. Mohammad Al-Ubaydli founder and CEO of Patients Know Best – a UK-based provider of patient-controlled medical records. Mohammad trained as a physician at the University of Cambridge and worked as a staff scientist at the National Institute of Health. He is also the author of seven books focusing on effective management of patient health records and is an honorary senior research associate at UCL medical school for his research on patient-controlled medical records.
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Dom Raban is the co-founder and CEO of Xploro, a digital therapeutics platform that uses augmented reality, artificial intelligence and games to reduce anxiety for young patients going to hospital. Dom established Xploro in 2016 after his daughter had recovered from cancer treatment and he realised the importance of providing patients with information about their treatment – something that was lacking in his daughter’s experience.
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This week, James is joined by Anton Derlyatka, CEO and Co-Founder of Sweatcoin. Anton and his co-founders recognised how the modern world was conspiring to make us less physically active, with factors like increased delivery services and remote work contributing to a ‘pandemic of inactivity - resulting in the rapidly increasing prevalence of poor health conditions such as diabetes and cardio-vascular disease’. That is how Sweatcoin, effectively 'Airmiles for steps', was born. The free app harnesses behavioural science to incentivise people to become more physically active, rewarding users for their daily steps with in-app loyalty points, redeemable for goods in the Sweatcoin marketplace. In this episode, James and Anton will discuss how Sweatcoin recently partnered with the NHS to tackle the pandemic of inactivity and what this could mean for the future of healthcare. Sweatcoin has been downloaded by over 150M users worldwide and last year, was the most downloaded health and fitness app in the world.
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In this powerful episode, James is joined by Ghalib Khan, an NHS Innovation Fellow and founder of Written Medicine. They aim to revolutionise medication information accessibility by translating healthcare information into languages patients can understand, positively impacting the lives of many. Join them as they explore Ghalib's journey, patient experience, and the urgent need for effective communication in healthcare.
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This week, James is joined by Gemma Bloemen, Principal at Creandum. Gemma was previously COO at home care marketplace, Elder and before that a Senior Manager at Uber. Gemma is a prominent angel investor and at Creandum focuses on healthtech, climate and consumer. Creandum is a leading European Venture Capital firm, investing in category-defining businesses including Spotify, Kry and Depop since 2003.
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Uncover the groundbreaking realm of the "neurome" and its potential to transform healthcare. Emil Hewage, CEO & Co-Founder, BIOS Health, reveals how their neural interfaces and AI technology read and rewrite the neural "code" to correct faulty signals in real-time, paving the way for targeted digital therapies. Listen as Emil explores his journey into healthtech, BIOS Health's pivotal role in new drug discovery, and the immense impact their technology is poised to make.
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This week, James is joined by Rob Brisk. Rob is an NHS cardiologist with a PhD in computer science. Alongside his clinical work, he has been a scientific advisor on to the Department of Health during COVID, overseen the life sciences research programme for the UK's most powerful supercomputer, and is now bringing large language models to the point of care in his role as Chief Scientific Officer of Eolas Medical. Rob is a passionate believer in the power of machine learning-based technologies to revolutionise healthcare. He is a strong advocate for medics upskilling in this space to help shape the future of healthtech.
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This week, James welcomed Amit Patel, founder of Peachy, back onto the podcast to hear how he has been growing the UK's first truly digital health insurance. Peachy's are on a mission to provide simple, digital access to healthcare for everyone to stay on top of their body and mind. Listen for Amit's story to healthtech entrepreneur, and how Peachy are doing things differently.
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This week, James is joined by Dr. Tarlochlan Toor, Director of Innovation at Holland & Barrett, to discuss building confidence as a founder. Navigating the path to entrepreneurship is no easy feat - often feelings of Imposter Syndrome and a lack of experience can hold innovators back from starting their own venture. In this episode, we hear how Dr Tarlochlan Toor used key lessons in emotional intelligence and determination to harbour confidence and become a healthtech leader.
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This week, James is joined by Dr. Tarlochlan Toor, Director of Innovation at Holland & Barrett, to discuss building confidence as a founder. Navigating the path to entrepreneurship is no easy feat - often feelings of Imposter Syndrome and a lack of experience can hold innovators back from starting their own venture. In this episode, we hear how Dr Tarlochlan Toor used key lessons in emotional intelligence and determination to harbour confidence and become a healthtech leader.
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This week, James is joined by Dr Alison Darcy, Founder and Partner at Woebot Health. Alison is a Psychologist by research and a healthcare designer with over 20 years experience building health tech. With a passion to make mental healthcare solutions smart, scaleable and accessible, she founded Woebot Health - the world’s first mental health ally for people and businesses, with meaningfully engaging AI.
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This week, James is joined by Dr Alison Darcy, Founder and Partner at Woebot Health. Alison is a Psychologist by research and a healthcare designer with over 20 years experience building health tech. With a passion to make mental healthcare solutions smart, scaleable and accessible, she founded Woebot Health - the world’s first mental health ally for people and businesses, with meaningfully engaging AI.
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This week, James is joined by SomX's very own Associate Director, Henry Stoneley. With many years of experience in selling primary care technologies to the NHS, Henry shares his top tips and greatest insights for breaking down the barriers to entry. How should founders approach selling to the NHS? Who do healthtech innovators need be talking to? All is to be revealed...
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This week, James is joined by SomX's very own Associate Director, Henry Stoneley. With many years of experience in selling primary care technologies to the NHS, Henry shares his top tips and greatest insights for breaking down the barriers to entry. How should founders approach selling to the NHS? Who do healthtech innovators need be talking to? All is to be revealed...
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In this week’s episode of the Healthtech Podcast, we talk to expert cofounders Dr. Kate Cordell and Ken Knecht from Opeeka. They share the initial steps for turning a business idea into reality and outline the value of having a cofounder in a company.
Dr. Cordell is a nationwide thought leader for behavioral health technology, integrating data systems to support a whole-person approach to care. She has built models for federal, state, county, healthcare providers and community-based agencies to convert behavioral health and social program data into decisions and decisions into positive outcomes.
Ken is a veteran in software design and digital marketing with over 30 years of experience working with hundreds of businesses from brand conception to multi-channel marketing.
Together they founded Opeeka, a company that enables success-focused care to promote well-being for all. Improving well-being by identifying what works.
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This week James is joined by Dr. Abeyna Bubbers-Jones to dive into some top tips for clinicians moving into the world of healthtech. Abeyna is the co-founder and CEO of Medic Footprints, who are on a mission to connect a global community of talented doctors with the best in diverse career opportunities. Whether you're a healthtech guru or just getting started, prepare for some great take-away knowledge and advice.
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This week we hear from healthtech VC, Will Gibbs at Octopus Ventures, on the key things investors are looking for in founders, and how they actually support them. Will coordinate's the Health team at Octopus, who back founders that are transforming the health industry - from digital therapeutics to biotechnology. Think healthtech unicorns like Elvie and Big Health. If there's anyone that can give the best insider tips for founders looking for their next raise, it's him.
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This week we hear from healthtech VC, Will Gibbs at Octopus Ventures, on the key things investors are looking for in founders, and how they actually support them. Will coordinate's the Health team at Octopus, who back founders that are transforming the health industry - from digital therapeutics to biotechnology. Think healthtech unicorns like Elvie and Big Health. If there's anyone that can give the best insider tips for founders looking for their next raise, it's him.
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This week, James is joined by Adam Hunter, Chief Commercial Officer at Phlo Pharmacy, a digital pharmacy using cutting edge software to deliver same-day NHS prescriptions. As a qualified Scots law solicitor specialising in corporate law, Adam bridged his legal background and ambition to work in business through The Saltire Foundation Fellowship Programme. Equipped with an insider perspective on the challenges and opportunities facing a broad range of companies, Adam joined Phlo Pharmacy as Chief Commercial Officer in 2019. This is his story.
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This week, James is joined by Dr Anas Nader. Anas is an A&E doctor and co-founder and CEO of Patchwork Health, which is helping healthcare organisations deliver sustainable workforce planning and giving all healthcare staff access to flexible work. They are currently working with over 70 NHS sites and have saved the NHS an estimated £40 million to date, while enabling almost 3 million hours to be staffed sustainably each year.
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In this week's episode, James is joined by Christoph Ruedig, veteran healthtech investor and Partner at AlbionVC. A trained medical doctor and ex-strategy consultant with Bain & Company, Christoph has been investing in digital health and life sciences companies since 2006. We hear how to navigate the journey from physician, to successful VC - the challenges, the key learnings and why consultants make great investors.
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This week James talks to serial digital entrepreneur CEO Matteo Berlucchi. Matteo has 27 years of experience launching and growing consumer platforms. Healthily is the last venture by Matteo, the first AI platform to help consumers find the health information and advice they need to make better choices free of charge. Prepare his exclusive predictions for healthtech in the future, a fascinating journey to become a successful founder, and much more...
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To kick off the first episode of season 3, James is joined by Chris Naoumidis, the co-founder of Mindset Health, who is building a portfolio of digital therapeutic apps using hypnosis-based techniques to tackle underserved health conditions. After going through Startmate, Y Combinator and raising over $8m, he now leads a team of 30 people on the mission to help a billion people manage their health by unlocking the power of their minds.
Mindset Health’s first product Nerva, focused on irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), was launched in mid-2019 and has now surpassed helping over 80,000 people improve their health.
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This week, James is joined by Vishal Doshi, the Founder of AUM Biosciences, an Award-winning oncology focused biotech company. The company aims to reshape the drug development landscape in oncology to deliver pioneering and affordable targeted drugs across a broad spectrum of cancers. Through its robust strategic collaborations with leading academic institutions, pharmaceutical and biotech companies globally, AUM is now leading an ecosystem of multi-modality line up of small molecule targeted therapies, including in-house research programs.
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This week James is joined by Dr Dafydd Loughran, a surgeon by training and now CEO of Concentric Health - the market leading digital consent to treatment application seeing rapid adoption to support the record surgical backlogs being seen internationally. Trivia: James and Daf previously worked together clinically in operating theaters in Wales!
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This week, James is joined by Dr. Taha Kass-Hout, Chief Medical Officer and Director of Machine Learning at Amazon Web Services. Dr. Kass-Hout leads the Health AI strategy and efforts, including Amazon Comprehend Medical and Amazon Health Lake. He works with teams at Amazon responsible for developing the science, technology, and scale for COVID-19 lab testing, including Amazon’s first FDA authorization for testing our associates—now offered to the public for at-home testing. A physician and bioinformatic, Taha served two terms under President Obama, including the first Chief Health Informatics officer at the FDA. During this time as a public servant, he pioneered the use of emerging technologies and the cloud (the CDC’s electronic disease surveillance), and established widely accessible global data sharing platforms: the open FDA, which enabled researchers and the public to search and analyze adverse event data, and precision FDA (part of the Presidential Precision Medicine initiative).
Taha holds doctor of medicine and master of science in bio-statistics degrees from the University of Texas and completed clinical training at Harvard Medical School’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
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This week I'm joined by Dr. Kate Cordell, CEO, Chief Scientific Officer and Co-Founder at Opeeka and CMO and fellow co-founder Ken Knecht.
Dr. Cordell is a nationwide thought leader for behavioral health technology, integrating data systems to support a whole-person approach to care. She has built models for federal, state, county, healthcare providers and community-based agencies to convert behavioral health and social program data into decisions and decisions into positive outcomes.
Ken is a veteran in software design and digital marketing with over 30 years of experience working with hundreds of businesses from brand conception to multi-channel marketing.
Together they founded Oppeka , a company that enables success-focused care to promote well-being for all. Improving well-being by identifying what works.
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Dr Tom Oakley CEO of Feedback PLC gives James his quick tips for entrepreneurs.
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This week James is joined by Dr Tom Oakley, CEO of Feedback PLC. Tom joined Feedback PLC in 2019 and quickly recognised that the technology that drove its current services Texrad and Cadran had the potential to revolutionise the ways clinicians engage and communicate with each other. At which point Bleepa was born. Bleepa is a medical imaging communications app, that allows clinicians to view and share patient specific data (images, notes, reports) using any internet-connected device, enabling control of patient cases when clinicians are on the go.
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This week James is joined by Nikhil Malhotra, Chief Innovation Officer and creator of Makers Lab, a unique Thin-q-bator space within Tech Mahindra. With 20+ years of experience Nikhil has been a researcher all his life and is now leading the growth of AI, machine learning, robotics and quantum research within Tech Mahindra.
Nikhil’s area of personal research helps explain how quantum computing and neuroscience has inspired the growth of AI and how the two fields can merge in the future.
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This week James is joined by Dr. Abeyna Bubbers-Jones an Occupational Health Physician and Founder of Medic Footprints.
Medic Footprints is a doctor-led organisation on a mission to dramatically elevate health outcomes in the world by connecting ambitious high growth companies with the best in medical talent. This week we discuss the growing demand for doctors as leaders in health tech companies and effective ways to find the best ones that will help scale your company.
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This week James is joined by Dr Claudia Pastides a General Practitioner by background and now a full-time Medical Advisor at Flo Health. She spent 12 years working as a doctor and has always had an interest in writing and marketing. Flo is the world’s leading women’s health app with over 220 M users. Flo aims to build a better future for female health and supports women during their entire reproductive life cycle: from first periods to perimenopause, from pregnancy to young moms.
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This week James is joined by Dr. Keith Tsui, CEO and Co-founder of Medwise.ai. Medwise.ai is an innovation that supports clinicians to answer questions faster than ever before. They recently tailored the platform for Covid 19. Keith is a medical doctor and his mission is to empower every healthcare professional to do their best work and provide better care for their patients.
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This week James speaks to Yesh Pulijala, Founder and CEO of Scalpel. Scalpel is a healthcare services company that automates surgical protocols using sensor-driven event detection technology. Yesh is passionate about building tools that improve surgery. He has six years of interdisciplinary experience in healthcare and technology.
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This week James is joined by CEO Abhishek Shah from Wellthy Therapeutics. Abhishek is changing the way people with chronic conditions experience care. A second-generation healthcare entrepreneur, he previously co-led an early stage fund as a venture capitalist. He holds a B.S. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from Georgia Tech and an MBA from the Indian School of Business (ISB)
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This week our Quick Tips for entrepreneurs come from Dr Tarlochan Toor, Director of New Wellness Partnerships and Propositions at Holland and Barrett.
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This week James is joined by Dr Tarlochan Toor, Director of New Wellness Partnerships and Propositions at Holland & Barrett.
Dr Toor is a board certified primary care physician, spending 10+ years working across medicine, surgery & primary care. He is passionate about wellness, innovation and entrepreneurship. As Director of Partnerships & Propositions at H&B he loves to connect with potential partners, entrepreneurs and individuals in the wellness space.
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This week James is joined by Dr. Trishan Panch, co-founder and chief innovation officer at Wellframe. Wellframe fixes the two biggest problems with American health insurance: The patient experience, and the rising cost of care
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This week James is joined by Martin Gouldstone, CBO at Sensyne Health with his Quick Tips for health tech entrepreneurs.
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This week I'm joined by Martin Gouldstone, CBO at Sensyne Health. Martin is a 30-year life-sciences veteran in business development and corporate finance with deep experience in sourcing and closing major strategic collaborations in both the digital health and pharmaceutical industries.
He joined Sensyne from Syneos where he was Global SVP Capital Solutions at Syneos One and has held senior positions at BenevolentAI, as Chief Business Officer, BDO as Head of Life Sciences in the UK, Results Healthcare, as a partner and co-lead of its healthcare practice and Quintiles where Martin led M&A in Europe.
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This week I'm joined by Jenny Thomas, Programme Director of DigitalHealth.London. Jenny has been pivotal in driving the growth of DigitalHealth.London from a start-up itself to an organisation that today has supported hundreds of health tech entrepreneurs to refine and scale their solutions, and which now supports NHS staff to deliver important digital transformation projects and works with academics and industry to improve evidence generation in digital health.
Jenny has a background in healthcare delivery, joining the NHS via their Graduate Management Training Scheme and working afterwards in a number of operational and strategic roles in the UK and overseas. She was the General Manager for Women’s at Guy’s and St Thomas’ hospital for a number of years and has in-depth experience of maternity, gynecology and fertility NHS and private service delivery and NHS commissioning.
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This week I'm joined by Ravi Janapureddy, CEO and Co-Founder of RCube Health. RCube Health is on a mission to provide affordable effective solutions to promote good mental health and well-being.
Ravi is a healthcare entrepreneur, product leader and ex-management consultant with significant corporate experience in telecommunications and financial services. He is passionate about social enterprise, personal development and mental health. Ravi is a computer science engineer with M.S from the University of Bremen and an MBA from the SAID Business School, University of Oxford.
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This week Max Antson a machine learning engineer from Feebris gives us his quick tips.
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This week James is joined by Max Antson a machine learning engineer from Feebris. Feebris are a company transforming community care using AI-guided tools to support carers to give more effective care to vulnerable patients. Max is on an AI-powered mission to achieve this goal!
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This week, James is joined by Julian Everett, CTO of Data Language, to discuss the digital transformation Data Language has delivered for Cochrane, the global not-for-profit whose mission is to put evidence at the heart of health decision-making and how other healthcare organisations could benefit from emerging technologies and in particular AI.
Julian Everett is a technical architect with 15 years experience of designing and building distributed data platforms. Prior to co-founding Data Language, he consulted at the BBC as Chief Architect of bbc.com.
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This week Katie Weimer from 3D Systems gives us her quick tips for health-tech entrepreneurs.
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This week, James is joined by Katie Weimer, Vice President of Regenerative Medicine at 3D Systems. For the past 15 years, Katie has been committed to advancing 3D printing in healthcare by developing bespoke additive manufacturing solutions that enhance healthcare delivery and patient care. She is currently focused on developing novel 3D bioprinting solutions for a broad range of human applications from tissue implants to organs, as well as laboratory applications that offer the potential to accelerate the development of new drug therapies.
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This week CEO Grace Gimson of Holly Health shares her quick tips for health tech entrepreneurs.
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This week in this special bonus episode James is joined by the CEO of Holly Health Grace Gimson.
Grace is a business leader with 10+ years experience in operations, strategy and expansion. She has led teams, projects and operations in some of the highest growth companies in Europe inc Microsoft, Facebook, Aldi, Deliveroo, and Scape Technologies.
Grace then went on to co-found Holly Health with her partner Claire whichsupports millions of individuals to give their bodies and brains the best chance of disease prevention. It aims to increase the quality of life for millions around the world.
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This week James is joined by Haribabu Arthanari, a faculty at the Harvard Medical School and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. His scientific training has been in the field of chemistry, physics, and biophysics. His expertise is in NMR spectroscopy and structural biology methods to understand the molecular architecture of micro-machines, proteins, and nucleic acids that orchestrate life.
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This week the Quick Tips come from Will Gibbs, Principal at Octopus Ventures - one of Europe's largest and most active Venture Capital firms investing in start-ups in the areas of health and digital therapeutics.
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This week, James is joined by Will Gibbs, Principal at Octopus Ventures - one of Europe's largest and most active Venture Capital firms investing in startups in the areas of health and digital therapeutics.
Prior to Octopus Will set up multiple small-scale enterprises including a rare-breed pig farm and an organic spirits company. Will holds a degree in Ancient History and Classical Archaeology from Oxford University. When not investing in new health companies or working with Portfolio Companies, Will is most likely to be found messing around on boats, climbing mountains, reading books on random topics or at home with his fiancé, growing a collection of 50+ house plants. Previously, his passion for sailing has led him to sail twice around the UK as part of the Round Britain and Ireland race.
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This week our Quick Tips come from Jean-Charles Samuelian-Werve, the co-founder & CEO of Alan, the healthcare super-app offering personalized access to a health insurance coverage bundled with innovative healthcare services.
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This week James is joined by Jean-Charles Samuelian-Werve, the co-founder & CEO of Alan, the healthcare super-app offering personalized access to a health insurance coverage bundled with innovative healthcare services.
Alan covers more than 200,000 insured members in France, Spain & Belgium. The company has raised €300m from investors such as Index Venturesnsince its creation in 2016.
Jean-Charles is the author of Healthy Business, a book about company culture.
Prior to Alan, Jean-Charles co-founded Expliseat, which has revolutionized aircraft seating for economy class. He holds a MSc in Engineering from Ecole des Ponts Paristech, a MBA from Collège des Ingénieurs and is a member of the French Institute of Actuaries.
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This week Jo Filshie Browning a communications coach dedicated to helping people understand the benefits of science gives us her quick tips for entrepreneurs.
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This week James is joined by Jo Filshie Browning, a communications coach dedicated to helping people understand the benefits of science and medicine. Over more than 25 years she has helped scientists and physicians to speak with impact and authority about their work.
Jo began her career as a journalist before moving into communications, training and consultancy. She studied English at Oxford University and holds a diploma in Public Relations and a Post-Graduate Diploma in science and society. She’s trained more than 10,000 people across 43 countries and four continents.
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This week Mat Rule, CEO and Founder of no-code automation platform, Toca.io gives us his quick tips for entrepreneurs.
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This week James is joined by Mat Rule, CEO and Founder of no-code automation platform, Toca.io. A Chartered Engineer and technical innovator, Mat has a passion for bringing simplicity to complicated technology landscapes.
With the rate of digital transformation picking up pace, Toca.io is partnering with healthcare providers to automate admin-heavy repetitive processes, connect legacy systems, and improve patient data.
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This week CEO of Kinnevik Georgi Ganev gives us his quick tips for health-tech entrepreneurs.
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This week, James is joined by Georgi Ganev, who has been CEO of Kinnevik since 2018. Kinnevik is one of Europe’s leading listed investors in tech-enabled businesses, and backs some of the most exciting healthtech companies in the world, including Babylon Health, Village MD, Cityblock and Teladoc Health. Georgi is a technology expert with deep industry experience and a passion for growth-stage businesses that are disrupting incumbents and making life better for people everywhere. He recently led Kinnevik through it’s latest successful strategic pivot, and is now focused on backing the business models that will underpin shifting consumer trends as the world emerges from the worst of the pandemic.
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This week, James is joined by Moshe Safran, CEO of RSIP Vision U.S. Moshe has been with RSIP Vision for more than 11 years. In 2016, he was the Head of Research and Development, which allowed him to provide new ways for the company to solve complex, AI technological challenges. He also oversees customer communication, project management and provides professional guidance in algorithm development, planning, and execution of new projects. As CEO, Moshe is also Head of Business Development for the United States. He currently resides in Silicon Valley, and primarily reaches out to medical device companies, which represents the company's largest market.
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This week, our quick tips come from Avi Mehra, a medical doctor by background and Associate Partner for Healthcare at IBM. He is also the Co-Founder of Doctorpreneurs, a non-profit organisation and global community for medical innovators and entrepreneurs.
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This week, James is joined by Avi Mehra, a medical doctor by background and Associate Partner for Healthcare at IBM. He is also the Co-Founder of Doctorpreneurs, a non-profit organisation and global community for medical innovators and entrepreneurs.
Avi began his career as a doctor in the NHS before transitioning from clinical practice to industry roles. In 2014, he joined Bupa as a Clinical Fellow to the NHS National Medical Director, as part of a year-long NHS leadership and management fellowship programme, after which he was appointed as Bupa’s Clinical Lead for Digital Health. In 2016, Avi joined IBM’s newly formed healthcare technology and AI business unit, IBM Watson Health, where he held multiple global leadership roles.
Avi is also a Fellow at the Faculty of Clinical Informatics, and advisor/mentor to digital health start-ups through the NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme among other programmes and initiatives.
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Ranjan Singh is a digital executive, entrepreneur and private equity investor. He has been innovating and investing in sectors on the cusp of transformation for over 20 years. Prior to forming HealthHero, Ranjan held leadership positions in high growth digital companies and private equity firms. Ranjan was with a European PE firm, Penta Investments, leading their investments in digital health and also digital transformation of portfolio companies. Before that, Ranjan was an entrepreneur and founded isango.com, an online tours & activities platform which was acquired by TUI. His entrepreneurial venture followed leadership roles in Exepdia and Ebookers.
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This week our quick tips for entrepreneurs come from Better Therapeutics' Co-founder & Chairman, David Perry.
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This week, James is joined by Better Therapeutics' Co-founder & CEO, Kevin Appelbaum, and Co-founder & Chairman, David Perry. They started Better Therapeutics to change the way diabetes, heart disease and other metabolic conditions are treated by using prescription software instead of drugs to address the behaviour's that are root causes of disease. Better's prescription digital therapeutics deliver nutritional cognitive behavioural therapy that targets the cognitive structures and emotional patterns that drive disease-causing behaviours.
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This week our Quick Tips come from Jason Shuman, a Partner at Primary Venture Partners, the largest seed fund exclusively focused on New York City based companies.
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This week, James is joined by Jason Shuman, a Partner at Primary Venture Partners, the largest seed fund exclusively focused on New York City based companies. Jason leads new consumer and marketplace investments for Primary including consumer healthcare. Primary's previous healthcare investments include K Health, Alma, Dandy and most recently Perry Health. Jason was named Forbes 30 under 30 in venture capital and was listed by the venture capital journal as one of Venture Capital's 40 rising stars. Outside of work Jason serves on the Board of the Jeffrey Modell Foundation that supports research for Primary Immunodeficiencies as he was diagnosed with the disease at 6 months of age and he's a big supporter of mental health awareness.
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This week CEO Chaitenya Razdan of Care+Wear gives us his quick tips for entrepreneurs.
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This week, James is joined by... Chaitenya “Chat” Razdan, the CEO and Founder of Care+Wear. Chat left his career as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs to launch Care+Wear and improve the experiences of those receiving critical treatment by changing the way the world looks and feels about healthcare. Care+Wear is a healthwear company bridging fashion and function so those receiving critical care can feel more like people and less like patients. Working alongside clinicians, designers, and patients themselves, Care+Wear creates functional and fashionable healthwear that promotes dignity, style, and comfort for people everywhere.
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This week Dr Alex Young - an NHS trauma and orthopaedic surgeon by training and CEO/founder of mixed reality training platform Virti gives us his quick tips for entrepreneurs.
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This week James is joined by Dr Alex Young. An NHS trauma and orthopaedic surgeon by training - Alex is the CEO and founder of mixed reality training platform Virti. Virti develops immersive training tools to improve human performance in organisations and institutions around the globe. Passionate about improving human performance, Alex built and sold an events company during medical school at Bristol, before boot-strapping and scaling an award-winning medical education company while still training in the NHS.
Virti - Alex's most ambitious venture to date - has won a wealth of awards and grants, including being voted one of Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies of 2021.
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This week James is joined by Sam Tukra, Founder & CEO of Third Eye Intelligence. He gives us his quick tips for entrepeneurs.
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This week James is joined by Sam Tukra, Founder & CEO of Third Eye Intelligence.
Every year, 85 million patients are admitted to intensive care with organ failure globally. Despite constantly monitoring patients and providing the highest echelon of care, intensive care units have the poorest patient outcomes in any given hospital unit. To give these patients a fighting chance, Third Eye has developed a self-designing AI-driven early warning system. Our AI utilises data routinely collected in intensive care to predict the risk of organ failure, mortality, and length of stay, in view of guiding doctors in evidence-based decision making.
Sam is a final year PhD student in AI & Computer Vision at Imperial College London.
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This week James is joined by Michael Niddam a Managing Director and Co-Founder of Kamet Ventures, a venture builder and investor focused on disrupting the HealthTech and InsurTech sectors.
Prior to Kamet, Michael was a Partner in the Insurance and TMT practices of Boston Consulting Group (BCG). During his time at BCG, Michael was instrumental in developing BCG’s offering in the digital space and was also involved in the opening of the firm’s offices in Israel.
Michael has also launched three successful technology start-ups focused on media and Big Data.
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This week, James is joined by Dr. Jennifer Hall, the Chief of Data Science and the co-director of the Institute for Precision Cardiovascular Medicine at the American Heart Association. Dr. Hall leads the Association’s initiatives at the intersection of health, technology and science by leveraging data analysis and new technologies to fulfil the promise of precision medicine and to accelerate the development of innovative solutions to prevent or mitigate the impact of chronic diseases.
The American Heart Association is a relentless force for a world of longer, healthier lives, dedicated to ensuring equitable health in all communities. Through collaboration with numerous organizations, and powered by millions of volunteers, the Association funds innovative research, advocates for the public’s health, and shares lifesaving resources. The Dallas-based organization has been a leading source of health information for nearly a century.
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This week Dr. Shubs Upadhyay, Director of Medical Quality at global health company Ada shares his quick tips for entrepreneurs with James.
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This week, James is joined by Casper Wilstrup from the Danish artificial intelligence startup, Abzu. He gives us his quick tips for entrepreneurs.
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This week, James is joined by Casper Wilstrup. Casper founded the Danish artificial intelligence startup, Abzu, along with 7 brilliant, friendly, and quirky humans. Their goal was to challenge the fundamental assumptions of contemporary, black box AI. Today, Abzu is 17-employees strong, and its transparent and explainable AI is solving problems in big pharma, exposing previously hidden relationships in drug discovery, clinical trials, and biopharmaceutics.
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This week James is joined again by Professor Daan Dohmen, CEO at Luscii to give us his quick tips for entrepreneurs.
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This week James is joined by Professor Daan Dohmen, CEO at Luscii which is a leader in remote healthcare monitoring solutions for hospitals. With the Luscii app, patients measure their own vitals and educate themselves at home, safely guided by caregivers when needed.
Recently appointed Professor of Digital Transformation in Healthcare at the Nijmegen School of Management, Daan is also active on the Dutch Council for Health and Safety, an independent body advising the Government on trends in health and society.
Holder of a Master’s Degree in the Management of Medicine and a PhD in Behavioural Sciences, Daan is both a scientist and a serial entrepreneur and has appeared on the list of the ‘99 most influential decision-makers in the healthcare sector’ every year since 2016.
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This week, James is joined again by Mark Notton, from Samsung Electronics. Mark is Senior Director at Samsung Europe. He gives us his invaluable quick tips for entrepreneurs.
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This week, James is joined again by the Co-Founder and CEO of healthtech company Memory Lane Games, Bruce Elliott who gives us his quick tips for entrepreneurs.
The Memory Lane Games app is designed for use by carers and the dementia and Alzheimer's patients in their care - especially for use in geriatric care, or delivered as part of a care home activities plan.
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This week, James is joined by the co-founder and CEO of healthtech company Memory Lane Games, Bruce Elliott. Bruce has a fascinating background in finance and gaming, and after an evening at the pub with his cofounder discussing their mums, his entrepreneurship journey with Memory Lane Games began. Memory Lane Games has created an ORCHA approved app that turns memories into games for people living with dementia, Alzheimer's and age-related cognitive decline, with simple-to-play, fun quiz games, featuring popular topics and local nostalgia based on towns and cities. They have hundreds of games based on: Music, Animals, Geography, History, Sports, TV & Film, Plants and Flowers, Food, Literature, Science and more.
The Memory Lane Games app is designed for use by carers and the dementia and Alzheimer's patients in their care - especially for use in geriatric care, or delivered as part of a care home activities plan. The in-app games are also used as a form of distraction and reminiscence therapies and the company is about to launch clinical trials to examine how the intervention improves quality of life for those affected by the condition and their carers.
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This week, James is joined by Mark Notton, from Samsung Electronics. As one of the global technology leaders, Samsung’s vision is to build a “Better Normal” through technology and innovation, creating experiences that improve our daily lives and the world we live in. Mark leads Samsung’s mobile product and commercial operations in Europe, and will be exploring with James how both mobile devices and wearables are becoming an important part of personal health monitoring. In his private life, Mark is studying for an Advanced Diploma in Medical Science and Nutrition and is an avid health and fitness enthusiast.
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This week, James is joined by Dr. Shubs Upadhyay, Director of Medical Quality at global health company Ada. An NHS GP and a digital health enthusiast, Shubs is a strong advocate for the potential of technology to support clinicians with patient care and to empower individuals to be more proactive about their health. He is the Clinical Evaluation WG Co-chair of the ITU/WHO Focus Group AI for Health, focused on global benchmarking for AI solutions in healthcare, and the co-creator of Docolabs.io, which focuses on getting clinical insights early into digital health product development.
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Inflow was born when founders Seb Issacs, Levi Epstein and Dr. Sachs came together on a mission to help every person with ADHD reach their full potential.
ADHD is a neurological difference that usually persists for life. Conservative estimates suggest that it affects 5% of the US population and costs nearly $15,000 per person per year. Inflow was created to offer another way; a sustainable, accessible and cost-effective solution for those who need support. We want to help as many people as possible experience the benefits of CBT, and learn to overcome their day-to-day challenges in a safe and stigma-free environment.
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This week, James is joined by Joel Gujral, founder of mental health startup MYNDUP. Joel founded MYNDUP after experiencing his own mental health struggles, brought on by spending months in and out of hospital with an undiagnosed physical illness. MYNDUP aims to end the "one-size-fits-all" approach to mental health, by ensuring that people have access to support from professionals across the entire mental health spectrum.
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This week Dr. Shaka Bahadu, a Healthcare operations expert, clinical informatics, and COO and co-founder of Cipher Skin gives James his quick tips for entrepreneurs.
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This week, James is joined by Dr. Shaka Bahadu, a Healthcare operations expert, clinical informatics, and COO and co-founder of Cipher Skin. Shaka holds a doctorate in Medicine from the Joan & Sanford Weill Medical College of Cornell, and an MBA from Stanford Business School. Using his expertise, he helps lead Cipher Skin, a technology startup that is on a mission to predict and analyze structural failures in the body and give data in real time to help prevent your next injury.
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This week Dr Mark Kotter, a stem cell biologist and neurosurgeon at the University of Cambridge gives us his quick tips for entrepeneurs.
He is the founder and CEO of bit.bio, who have developed opti-ox, a benchmark technology for the efficient and consistent production of human cells for use in research, drug development, and cell therapy. He also founded cultured meat startup Meatable.
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This week James is joined by Dr Mark Kotter, a stem cell biologist and neurosurgeon at the University of Cambridge. He is the founder and CEO of bit.bio, who have developed opti-ox, a benchmark technology for the efficient and consistent production of human cells for use in research, drug development, and cell therapy. He also founded cultured meat startup Meatable.
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This week, James is joined by Kyle Gatier, a ‘simple salesman’ who has been fortunate enough to be inspired by some great people, and to have nurtured a passion for healthcare that has turned into a stubborn belief that we can all be empowered to do more to care for our health.
Over the past decade he has helped healthcare organisations through innovations in: digital healthcare;population health management;technology;and data & analytics, and been on a journey that has seen him move from corporate to scale-up businesses focusing on digital healthcare that achieves tangible patient impact.
Kyle is Commercial Director for Joint Academy, where he is leading its UK launch. Joint Academy is a digital clinic for chronic joint pain that has treated over 35,000 patients in its native Sweden and is backed by an impressive science and evidence base, including a recent first of its kind RCT study comparing digital care with traditional face to face care for osteoarthritis for patient in the UK.
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Dr Edmund Farrar, co-founder of digital health startup Oto gives us his quick tips for entrepreneurs.
Get in touch with Edmund: ed@joinoto.com I LinkedIn @edmundfarrar
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This week, James is joined by Dr Edmund Farrar, co-founder of digital health startup Oto. Ed spent 6 years as an RAF doctor. During this time he realised the scale of the problem of tinnitus, a debilitating condition affecting 1 in 8 people. This led him to found Oto, a digital therapeutics company that allows anyone to instantly access affordable tinnitus treatment.
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This week, James is joined by Sara E. Berger, Research Staff Member and Cognitive & Behavioral Neuroscientist at IBM Research. She holds a PhD in Neuroscience from Northwestern University, and a Bachelor's degree in Neuroscience from Macalester College. Sara's background lies in systems and cognitive neuroscience, with an emphasis on chronic pain conditions and psychology. In the past, she has focused on identifying, quantifying and predicting changes in acute and chronic pain in both animals and humans - with a decade of experience in the field of pain. At IBM, she is applying her knowledge of neuroimaging, psychology and clinical research to address a wide variety of questions and applications. IBM Research is the research and development division for IBM, an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, with operations in over 170 countries.
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This week Kavi Misri, Founder and CEO of Rose gives us his quick tips for entrepreneurs.
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This week I'm joined by Kavi Misri, Founder and CEO of Rose. After accessing mental health services for the first time, and the inefficiencies that became apparent Kavi decided to transform the way mental health care is delivered.
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This week Dan Vahdat, the CEO and Founder of global digital health company Huma gives us his quick tips for entrepreneurs.
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This week, James is joined by one of the UK's leading robotic surgeons, Mr Prasanna Sooriakumaran. He is known by his initials PS for short, and is a world leader in robotic surgery and prostate cancer care. He has published over 150 papers in medical journals on his robotic surgical techniques and research studies, and is frequently invited all over the world to teach other surgeons and doctors on his innovations. As well as his NHS consultant robotic surgeon appointment in London, PS also works for Santis Clinic London, the only private clinic in the UK in which all its surgeons were named among the best prostate cancer surgeons in the UK. PS was also named as London's most influential doctor in 2019 and is the UK's most followed urologist on Twitter (@PSUrol) and LinkedIn.
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This week, James is joined by Dan Vahdat, the CEO and Founder of global digital health company Huma which, not-for-profit, is helping double Covid-19 clinical capacity for hospitals across the UK, Germany and the UAE using digital wards.
The company uses people's phones, digital biomarkers and connected sensors, to collect and share patient data with their clinicians and researchers. They already help with Covid and are now tackling the patient waiting list backlog by helping care for patients before and after surgery, helping hospitals prioritise those most in need.
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Ms Harjit Gill is the CEO of APACMed. Founded in 2014, the Asia Pacific Medical Technology Association (APACMed) is the only regional association to provide a unified voice for the medical technology industry in Asia Pacific. The association represents manufacturers and suppliers of medical equipment, devices and in-vitro diagnostics, industry associations and other key stakeholders associated with the medical technology industry in Asia Pacific. Their mission is to improve the standards of care for patients through innovative collaborations among stakeholders to jointly shape the future of healthcare in Asia Pacific.
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This week, James is joined by Patrick Howie, Founder and CEO of MediFind. MediFind was founded one-year ago on Rare Disease Day to help patients struggling with a complex health problem. Their simple mission is to give these patients the one thing they need most - time. MediFind does this by helping patients identify and access experts, new treatments, and available clinical trials for their specific health condition.
Simon Rowland, Global Medical Director at GSK Consumer Healthcare gives James his Quick Tips for entrepreneurs.
GSK is a science-led global healthcare company with a special purpose: to help people do more, feel better, live longer.
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Jonathan Bingham is CEO of Janeiro Digital, a business transformation and technology consultancy that helps enterprises dream bigger and transform faster. Throughout his career, Jonathan has been at the forefront of every major technology shift, helping businesses solve big problems, innovate and compete. Today, Jonathan leads Janeiro Digital’s mission to help business seize the transformative power of the decentralized web. Working closely with Sir Tim Berners-Lee and his Solid platform, Janeiro Digital is architecting the evolution of Solid and the growth of its ecosystem with enterprises around the globe.
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This week James is joined by Simon Rowland, Global Medical Director at GSK Consumer Healthcare. GSK is a science-led global healthcare company with a special purpose: to help people do more, feel better, live longer.
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This week, James is joined by Matt Edgar from NHS Digital. As the national partner to the health and social care system, NHS Digital is all about improving lives through data and technology. Matt's role there is Associate Director of Design and User Research, He works with more than 100 user-centred design specialists who uncover user needs to fully understand complex problems, and craft products and services that deliver better outcomes.
Get in touch with Matt: matthew.edgar1@nhs.net
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James is once again joined by Dr David Albert, MD and founder of AliveCor, the global leader in FDA-cleared personal ECG.
On this episode David gives us his quick tips for entrepreneurs and start ups but I'd thoroughly recommend going back and listening to his full episode Ep #188 The Story of AliveCor.
Get in contact with David:alivecor@highwirepr.com
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David E. Albert, MD, is the founder and Chief Medical Officer of AliveCor, the global leader in FDA-cleared personal ECG. Dr. Albert is an Oklahoma native and a physician, inventor and serial entrepreneur who has developed life-saving technologies and products over the last 30 years, turning a number of those innovations into tech startups. Today, he is a founder of three technology companies, InnovAlarm, Lifetone Technology, and AliveCor. His previous startups include Corazonix Corp (sold to Arrhythmia Research Technology) and Data Critical (sold to GE). Dr. Albert left GE in 2004 as Chief Scientist of GE Cardiology to disrupt several new markets.
Get in Touch with David: www.alivecor.com
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Dr. Monte Hunter, M.D. is an orthopedic sports medicine surgery specialist at Augusta University Medical Center. He holds multiple titles, including the Henry Distinguished Chair of Orthopedics and the Satcher Distinguished Chair in Sports Medicine, both in Orthopedic Surgery. He is also the Department Chair Professor for Orthopedic Surgery at Augusta University. Before joining Augusta University, he worked as a team physician for Wake Forest University and for UCLA intercollegiate teams. Hunter also served as the physician for the Italian team training for the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, GA.
Augusta University is a world-class healthcare network offering the most comprehensive care in its region. Patients receive the compassionate care they deserve along with leading-edge research and technologies not found anywhere else in the area.
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Thomas Vande Casteele is CEO and co-founder at Awell Health and was a guest a couple of months ago. He's back on this bonus episode commenting on the news that the WHO has launched its first SMART Guideline, a landmark effort to accelerate the availability and impact of WHO health and data recommendations within digital systems at the country level, starting with antenatal care. Thomas is perfectly positioned to tell us all about the significance of this news based on his work with Awell.
Get in Touch with Thomas Vande Castelle: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomasvdc
Read about the new WHO pathways: https://www.who.int/news/item/18-02-2021-from-paper-to-digital-pathway-who-launches-first-smart-guidelines
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This week, James is joined by Connor Landgraf, CEO and co-founder of Eko, a cardiopulmonary digital health company. Eko is elevating the way clinicians detect and monitor cardiac and respiratory disease by bringing together advanced sensors, patient and provider software, and AI-powered analysis. Connor shares his quick tips with us for entrepreneurs entering the health tech space.
Get in touch with Connor at: connor@ekohealth.com
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This week, James is joined by Adam Odessky, an engineer who founded Sensely after his first-hand experiences of helping to coordinate the healthcare of his grandmother. A virtual health assistant platform, Sensely today collaborates with insurers all over the world to help deliver superior experiences to their member bases, while simultaneously increasing enterprise efficiencies.
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This week I am joined by Ellington West, Founder and CEO of Sonavi Labs Inc, the creator of Feelix a noise-cancelling, audio-enhancing, smart Stethoscope. Ellington was tipped as one of the 25 Women to Watch in Healthcare in 2020 by the Baltimore Sun. Ellington is also the daughter of Dr James West, a researcher and inventor in microphone and audio science and technology.
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Andy Magill qualified as a Physiotherapist, working professionally in the public and private sector in Scotland, Australia and New Zealand before leaving clinical practice to join Vitality where he currently holds the position as Head Vitality Coach.
Andy and his team are responsible for engaging in innovative ways with Vitality members to educate, equip and inspire them to make positive changes in their health behaviours. Vitality is a financial services company who offer health, life, investment and most recently car insurance products to its members, all underpinned by a world leading healthy living programme which aims to get members healthier and enhance and protect their lives.
Get in touch with Andy: https://www.linkedin.com/in/magillandrew/ or andy.magill@vitality.co.uk
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Arvind Tewari is the Chief Operating Officer of Oxford VR. After studying a BSc and MSc in Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry at Oxford, Arvind worked in M&A at Rothschild focussing on global Consumer and Healthcare businesses. He then worked in private equity during which time he invested over $500m of capital and held numerous Board positions to accelerate the growth of businesses through strategic clarity and operational excellence. At Oxford VR he leads on go to market and product strategy, internal and external operations and business development. Oxford VR is a leading digital therapeutics businesses focussed on treating individuals with severe mental illnesses using clinically-validated virtual reality technology. The business is focussed on the US, UK and Greater China markets where it is working with partners to validate and deploy its VR solutions.
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This week, James is joined by Connor Landgraf, CEO and co-founder of Eko, a cardiopulmonary digital health company. Eko is elevating the way clinicians detect and monitor cardiac and respiratory disease by bringing together advanced sensors, patient and provider software, and AI-powered analysis. Connor shares his quick tips with us for entrepreneurs entering the health tech space.
Get in touch with Connor at: connor@ekohealth.com
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Dr Abdullah Albeyatti is the CEO and Co-Founder of Medicalchain. Medicalchain is a company that uses blockchain technology to store health records securely. By digitizing health records, Medicalchain aims to empower patients and create a more comprehensive healthcare experience. And, myclinic.com uses Medicalchain technology to allow patients to communicate directly with doctors and share their health records for online consultations.
Dr Albeyatti graduated from Imperial College London as a doctor in 2011 and started his medical career as a surgical trainee in London before moving onto GP Specialty Training. He continues to practice as a GP and is a familiar face in the medical community, speaking at various events. Prior to co-founding Medicalchain, Dr Albeyatti founded Discharge Summary, an application used in hospitals to produce accurate and reliable discharge summaries.
Get in touch with Abdullah: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-abdullah-albeyatti-mbbs-bsc-mrcs-ent-mrcgp-49916973/
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This week, James is joined by Vishaal Virani, a doctor by background now working in digital health. After spending a couple of years in the NHS Vishaal spent some time in healthcare strategy consulting. He then moved into digital health, working at Ada Health, an AI-powered symptom assessment technology. He is now developing digital health innovations for RB, which owns brands such as Nurofen, Gaviscon and Durex. He is also a co-founder of Doctorpreneurs, the global community of healthcare innovators.
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Mymee Dyhrenberg, is CEO of Mymee. Mymee is changing lives with a patient- and data-centric approach to tackling autoimmune disease, based on helping people identify their unique individualized triggers. The results of their new clinical study in lupus patients was just published in JMIR - showing clinically significant and meaningful improvements in Quality of Life among patients. Get in touch with Mette: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mettedyhrberg https://www.mymee.com/ Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦www.healthtechpigeon.com Get in touch: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk
This week I'm joined again by Sina Habibi, co-founder and CEO of Cognetivity Neurosciences. He holds a PhD in Engineering from University of Cambridge and has experience in Ultra-precision Engineering, Nano-technology, product management, and high-tech consultancy. Sina was on the podcast a couple of years ago and has made awesome progress, pivoting through challenges and he explains all on the episode today. Get in touch with Sina: info@cognetivity.com Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: www.healthtechpigeon.com Get in touch: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk
Dr Harro Stokman is CEO & Founder of Kepler Vision Technologies, an Amsterdam-based health-tech start-up which uses artificial intelligence to look after the well-being of humans at night through vision-based body language recognition software.
Kepler Vision's mission is to make the job of nurses operating in elderly care homes less stressful and more enjoyable by freeing them to focus on providing care through real-time body language recognition. A spin-off company from the University of Amsterdam, Kepler Vision comprises a team of experts across machine learning, computer vision and healthcare - as well as multiple PhDs. Harro is a fascinating guy, and I think an interview with him would be of particular interest to your audience as we enter the second wave of the global health crisis and with many hundreds of thousands of at-risk elderly people still stuck in overstretched care homes facing a Christmas without seeing their families and in danger of contracting the virus.
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On this week's Sunday Session, we're asking the question: why has remote monitoring failed? The technology has been around for years, so why isn't remote monitoring ubiquitous across healthcare right now? Are poor quality signals and lack of good-enough AI the answer? My guest is Elina Naydenova. Elina is a biomedical & AI engineer, with a PhD in Machine Learning for Healthcare Innovation from Oxford University. She is the CEO & co-founder of Feebris – a company whose AI-powered platform enables carers & community health workers to detect health conditions early.
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This week, James is joined by Geoff von Maltzahn, CEO and co-founder at Tessera Therapeutics. Tessera is an early-stage biotech start-up that launched this summer with $50M in financing to pioneer a new category in ‘gene writing.’ Going even further than CRISPR, Tessera’s gene writing technology presents the potential to cure genetic disorders, cancers, and even infectious diseases like COVID-19. Geoffrey was awarded a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering and medical physics from MIT.
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This week on my Sunday Session I'm joined by Mimi Billing Senior reporter at @siftedeu. Mimi writes about European health-tech and innovation in the Nordics. Previously at @didigital_se.
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This week I'm joined by Arturo Sanchez, founder and CEO of Sofia, a Mexican competitor to European digital health platforms, taking aim at the Mexican health insurance and primary care sectors. In the $65bn USD Mexican healthcare sector, 91% of private spending is paid out of pocket, with too many people forced to pay extraordinary costs for care and pressures on access to primary services.
Arturo Sanchez is hoping to change that with a new digital service bringing care to patients at a lower cost.
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My Sunday Session this week is with Martin Blinder, CEO and founder of Tictrac (a leading health engagement company). In this podcast Martin gives us his top tips for entrepreneurs. You can listen to his full chat with me on episode #170.
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Martîn Blinder is the CEO and founder of Tictrac. Tictrac is a personalized digital health and wellness platform designed to empower individuals to take greater control of their wellbeing. Martîn recently appeared on Sky News to discuss the increased demand in HealthTech tools and why now is a pivotal moment for health and wellbeing. He believes that the workplace of the future will not just be about ensuring a productive team, but supporting the health and wellbeing needs of staff.
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On this weeks Sunday Session I'm joined by Mala Mawkin, Head of Market Development at pain management start-up Cellen. Cellen launched the UK's first online chronic pain clinic. Mala was featured on Forbes 30 Under 30, Vogue UK 10 Rising Female Stars 2018 and Women of the Future UK Awards Finalist 2019. Get in touch with Mala: www.malamawkin.com Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: www.healthtechpigeon.com Get in touch: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk
Rudy Benfredj is co-founder and CEO at Mendelian. Mendelian aim to help doctors diagnose rare diseases faster using their MendelScan software. Rudy is a Computer Scientist graduated from Imperial College London with a degree in Engineering during which he worked under the supervision of Dr. Aldo Faisal in the bioengineering faculty and Prof. Marek Sergot, Head of the Logic and Artificial Intelligence department. Passionate about health, he moved to Tel Aviv to work at the Israeli med tech diagnostics company Healthy.io focusing on image recognition and remote diagnosis as an early team member. As a Product Manager he helped the company grow to get its FDA clearance.
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On this week’s Sunday Session I'm joined by Nader Alaghband, co-founder & CEO of Ampersand Health. Ampersand have just launched a brand new digital therapeutic into the NHS for people suffering with inflammatory arthritis and on this episode, Nader explains all...
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On this weeks Sunday Session I chat to Aditya Nori, lead of the Health Intelligence theme at Microsoft Research Cambridge, where their mission is to transform the practice of medicine via trusted and human-centred AI.
In the past, Aditya has developed AI-based productivity tools for cancer treatment (The InnerEye Project), and also explored various synergies between programming languages and machine learning which inspired new perspectives in formal verification, probabilistic programming, and reliable machine learning. He has also built several programmer productivity tools, including the 2nd generation of the Static Driver Verifier toolkit for Microsoft Windows.
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Exo’s CEO and Co-Founder, Sandeep Akkaraju. Exo (pronounced “Echo”) is a health information and devices company with an initial aim to reinvent ultrasound. Currently, 75% of the world’s population doesn’t have access to any form of medical imaging. If made available, basic medical imaging could help solve many life-saving issues, including accurate diagnoses of COVID-19.
Akkaraju recently led Exo through a Series B+ fundraising round, bringing the total to nearly $100 million in funding to date. With an unwavering vision, a dedication to hiring the best technology and medical device talent in the world, and a steady hand guiding Exo forward every step of the way, Akkaraju is a powerful force for medical innovation.
Get in touch with Sandeep: Sandeep Akkaraju | LinkedIn or www.exo.inc/leadership/sandeep-akkaraju/
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This weeks Sunday Session is a preview of an upcoming episode with CEO of Mymee, Mette Dyhrberg.
Mette is changing lives with a patient- and data-centric approach to tackling autoimmune disease, based on helping people identify their unique individualized triggers.
She shares with us some tips for health tech entrepreneurs.
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Tom Whicher is founder of DrDoctor & an NHS Innovation Accelerator Fellow . Tom is a biomedical engineer by background and worked for a management consulting firm before identifying an opportunity to improve hospital outpatient appointment bookings. In 2012, he launched his own company, DrDoctor, which aims to improve communication around scheduling outpatient appointments between patients and hospitals.
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On this week's Sunday Session, I chat again to Elliott Engers, CEO and Co-Founder of Infinity Health.
In 2015 following a conversation with an NHS doctor who was battling with paper based task lists Elliott saw a technical challenge a start-up he could really contribute to. He set out to make task management safer and more efficient whilst improving clinicians’ experience of their crucial, high-pressure roles; Infinity Health was born.
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Per Edlund is the Head of Radiology Commercial Operations Asia Pacific in the Bayer Pharmaceuticals Division. Per has about 20 years of experience leading multi-cultural teams to drive innovation, growth and patient-centricity, to meet unmet needs in the field of diagnostic radiology.
He currently heads a diverse business featuring a portfolio that includes Contrast Agents, Medical Devices, Services, and Informatics.
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This week's guest on the Sunday session is Dr Arthur Roach, Director of Research at Parkinson's UK. Arthur has spent 25 years in research, discovery and development for drug companies and universities, working on projects developing new treatments for Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and MS.
"My big preoccupation is with finding the best means to convert the genetic and biochemical discoveries of the past decade into new treatments that will make a difference to people with Parkinson's. I know that this will mean finding the best way to work with university researchers, biotech and pharma companies, and people living with Parkinson's. At Parkinson's UK we have built the teams and programmes to do this, and with the resources provided by our supporters, we are determined to make a difference."
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This week, James is joined by Dr Chris Lovejoy, a Data scientist with a background as a medical doctor. He studied Medicine at University of Cambridge, he has a big YouTube following and makes videos about machine learning, healthcare, career transitions, productivity and anything else on his mind.
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In this weeks Sunday Session I speak to Dr Mala Mawkin. Mala works at Cellen, a healthcare technology company innovating in chronic pain. She also is the Digital Medicine Innovation Lead at Imperial College London, and the host of the Digital Health Podcast for the Royal Society of Medicine.
Prior to this, Mala was a doctor in the NHS and has worked at institutions such as European Space Agency, Malawi’s e-health programme and several healthtech companies in London. She has also held roles at Unilever and Uber and has worked at Harvard & Boston Children’s Hospital’s Innovation and Digital Health Accelerator.
Mala is a keen science communicator and has written for Microsoft Health, was The Times student ambassador and has written feature articles for The Guardian. She also wrote an official blog for Imperial College London for 6 years.
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For this week's Sunday Session, James is joined by Sarah Ticho, founder & CEO of Hatsumi and Ross O'Brien, Associate Director of Innovation and Technology at CNWL to talk about adopting healthtech innovation - in this case, with VR...
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Dr Nadine Hachach-Haram is a Consultant Plastic Surgeon and Head of Clinical Innovation at Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust. In 2015, the NHS clinical entrepreneur drew on her surgical experiences and her passion for innovation and education, to create Proximie; a technology platform on a mission to save lives by sharing the world’s best clinical practice.
Nadine received the British Empire Medal in the 2018 Queen’s Birthday Honours for her innovative work within the fields of surgery and medicine. She also undertakes a number of roles to help advance surgery, including council member of the Royal College of Surgeons Future of Surgery Commission, council member of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS), Innovation UK and council member of the Royal Society of Medicine plastic surgery section.
Proximie: https://www.proximie.com
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In this week's Sunday Session, Dilraj Kalsi is back to talk about some of the practical steps to take and hurdles to overcome to become an entrepreneur in the wellness space.
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Dag Larsson is founder and CEO of Doccla, a virtual ward company. Dag graduated from the Stockholm School of Economics and formerly held executive positions at MTG, Viaplay and Turnpikegroup.
Doccla uses the latest wearable devices to allow medical staff to monitor the vital signs of a patient remotely, through a secure web browser, while the patient is at home. Its virtual wards allow NHS trusts to reduce the number of vulnerable patients required to remain in hospital, increasing capacity to look after patients.
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This week's Sunday Session features Dr Indra Joshi, once an emergency medicine physician and now the Director of AI at NHSX. James and Indra discuss her background and how she came to lead the AI efforts for NHSX, along with some of the specific projects that NHSX are undertaking to increase the adoption of AI into the UK healthcare system. Once of these projects is the AI in Healthcare Award, which is encouraging applications from companies across triage, imaging, screening, and intelligent operational automation. The second round is now open for applications until 8 December 2020 and winners can grab a share of the £140M split between all the rounds.
Indra's Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/indra-joshi-87b74911a/
NHSX's AI in healthcare award: https://www.england.nhs.uk/aac/what-we-do/how-can-the-aac-help-me/ai-award/round-2-ai-in-health-and-care-awards/=
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Christopher McCann is the CEO and co-founder of Current Health. Christopher conceived Current as a medical student, eventually dropping out to focus on the company full time. Chris holds a master's degree in engineering and computer science from the University of Dundee, Scotland.
Current Health (formerly snap40) has a goal of preventing illness for one million patients around the world by 2021. The Edinburgh-based firm provides a patient management product that predicts diseases and recommends specific interventions to physicians and nurses, using a combination of machine learning, clinical indicators, symptoms, and vital signs monitoring.
https://currenthealth.com/
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For this week's Sunday Session, we have some bonus content from last week's guest, Jonathan, the founder and CEO of Machine Medicine. He gives his top tips for healthtech entrepreneurs, including eating humble pie to act in the best interests of your company!
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As a practicing neurologist, Jonathan O' Keefe saw that his impact in clinical practice was linear — you see one patient, you impact one patient, patient number doubles, impact doubles, and you start again. Instead he wanted to combine his neurology and computer science background to impact deeper than he ever could using one discipline alone, by building a startup. Perfectly positioned to see the flaws in the system, and with the expertise to solve them, he set about building his company Machine Medicine, which has developed an AI platform for the objective measurement of disability from simple video clips.
https://machinemedicine.com/ | https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanokeeffe1/
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This week's Sunday Session features bonus content from last week's guest, Dr. Peter Kecskemethy from Kheiron Medical. Peter joins us to tell us his top tips for entrepreneurs...
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Dr. Peter Kecskemethy is a serial entrepreneur and the CEO/co-founder of Kheiron Medical, an AI cancer diagnostics company based in London. He is a computer scientist by background and prior to Kheiron, he founded two tech start-ups and was lead developer in two others. Peter did his PhD and post-doctoral research at the University of Oxford in high performance computing and computational statistics for population genetics. Kheiron’s mission is to give a better fighting chance against cancer and its current focus is breast screening. The company’s first product, Mia, has European regulatory approval, and won best new radiology solution for 2019.
https://www.kheironmed.com/ | https://www.linkedin.com/in/kecsky/
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Dr. Anthony Mazzarelli is CEO of Cooper University Health Care, the leading provider of health services, medical education & clinical research in Southern New Jersey & Delaware Valley PA. He received his masters degree in bioethics from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and trained in emergency medicine at Cooper University Hospital, where he also served as chief resident and as well as his CEO role, he is actively practicing in the emergency department at Cooper in Camden.
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This week's Sunday Session is all about the fact that you don't need to found a billion dollar company to make impact with healthtech. For example, Dr. Gerald Diaz is Cofounder and Chief Medical Officer at GrepMed. Gerald is a former software engineer and computer scientist and got his MD from SLU, completed his residency at UC Davis Medical Center, and is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and he currently works as an Academic Hospitalist. GrepMed is a community-sourced, searchable medical image repository for referencing clinically relevant medical images - bootstrapped by Gerald with the goal of making impact for fellow clinicians - ultimately to benefit patients. GrepMed has high yield diagnostic and management algorithms, guidelines, checklists, evidence summaries, clinical images (x-rays, rashes, ekgs, microscopy) easily accessible from any web browser. Clinically relevant images are upvoted by the community through “likes” and bookmarks and they benefit the whole clinical community.
www.grepmed.com
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Dilraj is a Doctor, Academic and Entrepreneur. He trained at the University of Oxford, where he continues to publish with colleagues about Patient Empowerment. He is a Lecturer in Digital Health at the University of Warwick and uses Lifestyle Medicine to help patients reverse disease in his online clinic - Hippocrates Lounge. Shocked that 80% of health outcomes are due to health behaviours, socioeconomic background and physical environment, Dilraj is focused on Health at Work. Time and again, he has found that wellbeing programs lack the outcome metrics expected in the medical and business worlds. Using lifestyle, behavioural and digital health, he is ushering in a new era of Preventative Health Care.
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This week, James is joined by Nader Alaghband, the founder and CEO of Ampersand Health, which creates clinically-validated, behavioural science-based digital therapeutics for complex long term conditions, including IMIDs and rare diseases.
Ampersand Health is a social purpose company. Their primary objective is to improve the health and quality of life of patients with inflammatory conditions like Crohn's, Colitis, Rheumatoid Arthritis and Atopic Dermatitis. They work with other subject matter experts, including leading clinicians, patient groups and industry to develop unique therapeutic programmes focused on lifestyle and their apps use behavioural- and data-science to support improvements in sleep, mental health and adherence for people living with an inflammatory condition. They also work with the NHS, helping clinicians keep tabs on patients remotely, avoiding unnecessary hospital appointments and reducing the overall cost of care.
Ampersand Health is recognised in the Digital Health Global 100, and has won an HSJ Award, the NHS Ideas Lab, the NHS Hackfest and competitive grants from government and industry. The company was selected for the 2018/19 PWC Scale Health programme, the NHS’s 2019/20 DigitalHealth.London accelerator and Techforce 19.
https://www.ampersandhealth.co.uk/ | https://www.linkedin.com/in/nader0102/
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For this week's Sunday Session, James discusses the state of AI in the UK healthcare, naming a few examples of the startups deploying and developing the technology right now
The Institute for Ethical AI & Machine Learning: https://ethical.institute/
The Topol review: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamessomauroo/2019/02/11/nhs-announces-workforce-plan-for-genomics-ai-and-digital-medicine/
emteq labs: www.emteqlabs.com
Feebris: www.feebris..com
Tympahealth: www.tympahealth.com
Ampersand: www.ampersandhealth.co.uk
Mendelian: www.mendelian.co
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Jason Foster is the CEO of OriBiotech and has held leading roles in consulting, healthcare and technology companies for nearly 20 years in the US, UK and Europe. He is also the Founder and Managing Director of Health Equity Consulting, a healthcare growth consultancy, a Venture Partner and/or mentor at a number of funds and accelerators in the healthtech space and a member of the Tech London Advocates healthtech working group.
Ori Biotech is a London and New Jersey-based innovator changing the game in cell and gene therapy manufacturing. They've developed a proprietary, bespoke and flexible manufacturing platform, enabling patient access to a new generation of personalised, lifesaving treatments. Ori offers therapeutics developers the opportunity to seamlessly scale from pre-clinical process development to commercial scale manufacturing.
Get in touch with Ori: https://oribiotech.com/
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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 in healthcare. He has worked with the NHS and a variety of healthcare companies in the UK, South Africa and America on digital healthcare products including Electronic Patient Record systems, remote monitoring tools and digital therapeutics.
He speaks internationally on the topic of UX and design thinking in healthcare. He also has three years of experience working as a junior doctor in the NHS. Through his company Dr-Hyphen, he provides a variety of services in digital health, service design, training and event hosting.
To learn more about Gyles' Clinical UX course, visit www.clinicalux.org
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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 outcomes. https://awellhealth.com/ Get in touch: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk
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 experience in commercial leadership, franchise development and sales execution across Medical Devices and in growth areas, such as robotics.
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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 mental health and behavioural science.
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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 Lazard. Alex holds a BA in Physiological Sciences and a BM BCh from Oxford University.
Oxford Sciences Innovation is the world’s largest university-partnered venture firm. We work with the University of Oxford to build companies that create fundamental technologies: science-based businesses capable of tackling the planet’s toughest problems.
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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!
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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 for the world-leading health and life sciences sector in London and the Greater South East of England. We were set up in 2014 by the Mayor of London and the region’s Academic Health Science Centres to drive growth and investment in the sector for the health and wealth of the population. They act as a convener, connector and catalyst – identifying opportunities and pathways for businesses and researchers to work together to develop and commercialise the best innovations. MedCity is a not-for-profit organisation funded by the Greater London Authority and Research England.
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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.
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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 post-acute provider and hospitals use to track patient outcomes. In 2016, national healthcare IT company Allscripts (NASDAQ: MDRX) acquired CarePort. CarePort’s software is now available both as a standalone product and integrated into Allscript’s platform, which is used by 1,000 hospitals and 20,000 post-acute care facilities. Lissy runs both the CarePort business unit and the larger Allscripts care coordination unit, which were rolled under the CarePort name this year.
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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
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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 Crista Galli Ventures and Fiona's passion for diversity in both the healthtech and investing spaces.
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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...
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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 experience working in a tech and health environment having previously had senior involvement with Apple and LinkedIn application developments teams. Axela Innovations, launched in 2017, designs systems and products for the health and social care sector. The business has a simple focus of improving the current model of healthcare through the innovative use of technology, particularly employing artificial intelligence (AI), to support, develop, & change how health & social care is delivered.
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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!
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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 science from Tel Aviv University, and a MSc in environmental science from VU Amsterdam.
Ibex Medical Analytics are a multidisciplinary team of entrepreneurs, data scientists, software engineers and medical experts, working together to realise their vision: Transforming cancer diagnostics with AI and improving patient care. Pathologists are challenged to provide accurate and timely analysis as the number of tests increases every year - Ibex uses artificial intelligence (AI) to develop clinical-grade solutions that help detect cancer as accurately as a human pathologist. Their Galen Platform uses algorithms to analyse images, detect and grade cancer in biopsies and point to other findings with high clinical importance, helping pathologists reduce diagnostic error rates. and enable a more efficient workflow.
https://ibex-ai.com/ | https://www.linkedin.com/in/yossimossel/
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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 hear Lloyd Price, cofounder of Zesty a few episodes ago).
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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. Their integrated system is the most ecologically valid and user-friendly solution on the market and by allowing researchers to harness more accurate data, they enable better research into how humans experience emotions.
Listen to the Emotion Lab podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/emotion-lab/id1527627404
Get in touch with Graeme or emteq: https://emteqlabs.com/ | https://www.linkedin.com/in/graemercox/
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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 opportunity that comes with first-mover-advantage and entrepreneurs' self confessed affinity to high-risk scenarios.
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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 Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2000 New Year Honours for services to the New Deal, the unemployed, and homeless young people. In 2009 he was listed as one of the 25 most influential people in housing policy over the past 25 years by the housing professionals magazine Inside Housing and was reckoned by the Health Service Journal to be the 97th most influential person in the English NHS in 2015.
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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 at UK healthtech startup, Cellen.
https://www.malamawkin.com/ | https://www.linkedin.com/in/malamawkin/
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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 Managing Director and leads Oviva’s research strategy and partnerships with the NHS.
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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 everyone in the hospital works is crucial and James talks about the value of spending time shadowing and learning from the management side of the hospital to help you make impact.
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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-profit organizations around the world and “Florida!" for The Travel Channel. Recently Robyn produced and directed five television specials for the Reelz Channel on Michael Jackson, Robin Williams and the opioid epedimic in Hollywood (“Fatal Addiction”). In addition to two Suncoast Emmys, Robyn has been honored with three national Telly awards among others.
Her latest film, Do No Harm premiered at the Cleveland International Film Festival:
Jumping off hospital rooftops, hanging themselves in janitorial closets, overdosing on drugs—they’re A students and their suicides are often like well-planned school projects. Doctors are our healers, yet they have the highest rate of suicide among any profession. Medical students and families of physicians touched by suicide come out of the shadows to expose this silent epidemic and the truth about a sick healthcare system that not only drives our brilliant young doctors to take their own lives but puts patients lives at risk too.
https://www.donoharmfilm.com/
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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:
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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:
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Tomer is a Partner & CFO at aMoon, where he leads mid-late stage investments in healthtech companies. Tomer joined aMoon in early 2018 and led several investments including $30M Series C round in Zebra Medical Vision and $55M Series D round in Seer. He is also a board member in PharmaTwoB and Mapi. With 15 years of US capital markets experience, Tomer spearheads aMoon’s Bridge to Wall Street, where he manages the fund’s relationships with major investment banks, equity research analysts and investment funds.
Prior to joining aMoon, Tomer was the CFO & COO of Alcobra, a NASDAQ-listed development-stage biotech company, where he led successful public equity offerings from leading US healthcare funds. Prior to joining Alcobra, he was an Executive Director in J.P. Morgan’s Investment Banking Division in New York, where he played a leading role in numerous capital market and mergers and acquisitions transactions. In this capacity, he advised senior management and boards of directors of J.P. Morgan's key U.S. clients, including several S&P 500 healthcare firms. Prior to joining J.P. Morgan, Tomer worked in Citigroup's Investment Bank in New York. From 2000 to 2003, he served as an economist in the Financial Advisory Unit to the Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces.
Tomer holds a Ph.D. in Finance and Economics (with Distinction) from Columbia Business School and has published a number of corporate finance articles in leading academic and practitioner journals. He also holds an M.Sc. in Finance and Accounting (Magna Cum Laude) and a B.A. in Economics and Management (Magna Cum Laude), both from Tel-Aviv University.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomerberkovitz/ | https://www.amoon.fund/
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Amit Patel is the founder of a brand new digital health insuretech startup, called hlthie. Previously, he was an intrapreneur responsible for incubating, testing and scaling innovative and compelling customer propositions as director of vew ventures at bupa. He is a start-up advisor and a tech enthusiast with keen interest in exponential technologies (e.g. Blockchain / DLT, ML / AI etc) and their application in healthcare and insurance.
Previously, Amit has held several Senior Roles at Bupa including Strategy & M&A Director for Bupa UK. Prior to Bupa, he worked as a Strategy Consultant at LEK – a top tier Strategy Consulting firm - advising Fortune 500 companies and private equity investors on growth strategy and M&A. Amit started his career in Medicine and trained as a General Surgeon working in the NHS.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/amitpatel911/
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This week's Sunday Session is on grant funding and James explains Innovate UK and SBRI funding for the UK and Europe. He talks about a couple of different grants out currently, how to apply and what they're looking for. Check the grants out here:
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Innovate UK: Biomedical Catalyst 2020 - https://apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk/competition/623/overview#summary
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SBRI: Competition 17: Urgent and Emergency Care - https://sbrihealthcare.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/SBRI-Healthcare-Competition-17-Challenge-Brief.pdf
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Dr Owain Rhys Hughes is the founder and CEO of Cinapsis. He has over 13 years of experience working as a doctor and he is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. He has been awarded a personal Fellowship from the Medical Research Council and has twice received the British Journal of Surgery Prize.
Cinapsis SmartReferrals reduces A&E attendances by 83% and face-to-face appointments by 70% through advice & guidance. GPs can contact specialists for advice quickly and securely. Cinapsis SmartReferrals makes it very easy for primary care physicians, nurses, paramedics and pharmacists to talk directly and securely with local specialists. Specialists direct patient flow and improve efficiency by controlling when and where they see patients. Cinapsis SmartReferrals has been designed with consultants to help them work efficiently and without disruption.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/owainrhyshughes/ | https://www.cinapsis.org/
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James has read the reports from the McKinsey Global Institute and Octopus Ventures so you don't have to... but they're also linked below. McKinsey's "Prioritizing health: A prescription for prosperity" concludes that by improving health globally, we can save lives and inject trillions into the global economy and they lay out some key findings in the exec summary which gives you the best overview. And Octopus Ventures have pinpointed huge innovation opportunities in fertility treatment, with global investment over the last five-year period topping $2.2bn (rising to $750m last year).
Check out the reports here:
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https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/healthcare-systems-and-services/our-insights/prioritizing-health-a-prescription-for-prosperity
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https://octopusgroup.com/newsroom/latest-news/octopus-ventures-pinpoints-innovation-opportunities-in-fertility/
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Charles is a scientist with interests at the intersection of physics, machine learning, and computational biology and is the founder of Unlearn.ai . Previously, Charles worked as a machine learning engineer at Leap Motion and a computational biologist at Pfizer. He was a Philippe Meyer Fellow in theoretical physics at École Normale Supérieure in Paris, France, and a postdoctoral scientist in biophysics at Boston University. Charles holds a Ph.D. in biophysics from Harvard University and a B.S. in biophysics from the University of Michigan.
Unlearn creates Digital Twins to populate Intelligent Control Arms in clinical studies. While others leverage existing data, Unlearn generates a new type of data, for any type of patient. A Digital Twin is a longitudinal, computationally generated clinical record that describes what would have happened if a specific patient received a placebo.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/drckf/ | www.unlearn.ai
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This week, James is joined by an old friend and colleague, Dr. Kevin Rafferty. James and Kevin did anaesthetics together and Kevin still practices today. He uses his own VR headset design when anaesthetising his paediatric patients and tells us all about that and his vision for VR right across the patient-journey when it comes to anaesthetics and surgery.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-rafferty-7a1082138/ | https://www.raffertydistractionheadset.com/
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This week, James is joined by Jeremy (Jerry) Biggs, the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at NCL, a specialist investment management firm focusing on high growth technology companies, predominantly in the medical and energy sectors. Jerry has over 15 years of investment and corporate finance experience and sits on the board of a number of high growth businesses. Previously, Jeremy worked for Northern Trust Global Investments, HSBC Investment Bank and BoS Investments and has been the Investment Director for a UK based family office.
NCL invest in Seed and Series A rounds where they can deploy their expertise and capital to help companies achieve an early inflection point in valuation. They consciously choose investments that create an impact on the lives of patients as well as financial return for their investors.
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This week James is again joined by Sam Shah to talk about being BAME in healthcare and technology. Sam is a clinical lead with an interest in healthcare technology, digital experience, translational research and supporting behaviour change. He is an NHS Consultant with experience in clinical commissioning, service redesign, public health, workforce planning and health economics. He is also a Digital Health Tech Advisor, the FT's 4th most influential BAME tech leader 2019, a Finalist 2019 Digital Leaders 100 and BIMA 100 #BLM
Ideas form: https://js470961.typeform.com/to/OYbQY2lR
Sam's Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sam-shah-nhs/ | https://twitter.com/healthyopinion
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This week, James is joined by Prashant, an expert in the field of Artificial Intelligence and Deep learning. He has architected and commercialized several data science solutions in his 15 year career. He is also a prolific researcher, author, and speaker on topics related to data science and machine learning. He is passionate about using deep learning to make healthcare affordable and accessible.
Qure.ai uses deep learning to diagnose disease from CT Scans, X-Rays and MRIs and create automated diagnostic reports. This will help radiologists make faster and more accurate decisions in the developed countries and provide automated radiology support to physicians in rural areas, where radiologists are typically not available.
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In this week's Sunday session, James talks about the latest in VR in healthcare and you can read the Forbes article below.
Forbes article on VR in healthcare:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamessomauroo/2020/06/19/virtual-reality-helps-medics-beat-coronavirus/
James' upcoming podcast talk:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lunch-learn-how-can-podcasting-benefit-your-healthtech-startup-tickets-109608102786
HSC Ventures:
https://hscventures.co.uk/
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This week, James is joined by Chris Caulfield, a registered nurse and cofounder / chief nursing officer at Intelycare. After witnessing short staffing as a floor nurse and union leader, Chris built a solution to reduce nurse staffing shortages by joining forces with a full-stack engineer and developed an on-demand, app-based scheduling solution for nurses and nursing facilities.
Chris filled IntelyCare's first shift four years ago, and since then, he's been helping the organisation grow across the US. Today, IntelyCare has over 11,000 active Nursing professionals who've filled over two and a half million hours of skilled nursing care, making IntelyCare the fastest growing healthcare staffing company in the US.
Forbes article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamessomauroo/2020/03/02/healthtech-startup-receives-45million-in-biggest-ever-nursing-investment/
https://www.intelycare.com/ | https://www.linkedin.com/in/christophercaulfield/
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This week's Sunday Session is a summary of James' latest Forbes article covering the recent $16M acquisition of Zesty by Induction Healthcare Group. There's also the final thoughts from Sam Shah from the last episode on BAME, healthcare and technology to help all those who want to be part of the solution when it comes to eliminating discrimination in healthtech.
Read the Forbes article here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamessomauroo/2020/06/12/16m-healthtech-acquisition-signals-shift-in-clinician-patient-communication/
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This week James is joined by Sam Shah to talk about being BAME in healthcare and technology. Sam is a clinical lead with an interest in healthcare technology, digital experience, translational research and supporting behaviour change. He is an NHS Consultant with experience in clinical commissioning, service redesign, public health, workforce planning and health economics. He is also a Digital Health Tech Advisor, the FT's 4th most influential BAME techleader 2019, a Finalist 2019 Digital Leaders100 and BIMA 100 #BLM
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sam-shah-nhs/ | https://twitter.com/healthyopinion
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This week's Sunday session has some top tips for healthtech entrepreneurs from Philip Almelda, founder and CEO of Brainworks, who was a guest on the last episode.
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Phillip Alvelda is a scientist, an engineer, a serial entrepreneur, and an educator. Previously at DARPA, the central research and development organization for the U.S. Department of Defense that maintains the technological superiority of the U.S. military and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he developed sensors that have flown throughout the solar system. Phillip has founded new infrastructure, telecommunications, and media companies, including the DARPA-funded MicroDisplay; MobiTV; TaDa Innovations; and the non-profit Westminster Institute for K-12 Science Education Reform.
He is now the founder of Brainworks, which builds trustworthy intelligent machines, and applies them to solve complex global challenges. The company leverages the latest pioneering discoveries in neuroscience to build more complete, whole-brain AI systems that society can trust with life-or-death decisions.
Alvelda holds a bachelor’s degree in physics from Cornell University, and Masters and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in computer science and electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has authored or contributed to more than 50 technical publications and holds numerous patents and a Technical Emmy award from the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.
www.brainworks.ai | https://www.linkedin.com/in/phillipalvelda/
This week, James is joined by Dr Alex Young - founder of Virti and cofounder of HS. James and Alex look back at episode 1 and reflect on how they met, their journey cofounding HS., bootstrapping an accelerator, what they learned and what they're doing now. It features many tips for entrepreneurs on topics like starting a business, starting a podcast, finding a cofounder, focus, difficult decisions... and so much more.
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This week, James is joined by Lloyd Price: Tech Entrepreneur, Corporate Executive and Board Advisor with 20+ years experience building Digital Businesses in 6 industries - Healthcare, Retail, Travel, Finance, Advertising and Dating. He's performed Senior Management, C-Level & Co-Founder roles @ Zesty, Badoo, Kelkoo, Yahoo! UK and Yahoo! Europe.
Lloyd co-founded Zesty from an idea in July 2012 into an award winning UK Digital Health company backed by a group of international VC funds including Mangrove Capital, LBO France, TA Ventures and Qualcomm Ventures.
Lloyd’s operational experience covers all stages of the Business Growth Cycle from Early Stage StartUps (Zesty) and High Growth ScaleUps (Badoo/Kelkoo) to Nasdaq listed companies (Yahoo!) and Private Equity owned Corporate Divestitures (Kelkoo).
His 7+ years Board Member and Board Advisor experience includes Zesty Ltd, the Deepbridge Capital Life Sciences investment fund, TenX Health Venture Capital fund, UK Digital Healthcare Council and Coadec, the Coalition for a Digital Economy.
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/lloydgprice/ | https://twitter.com/lloydgprice
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This week's Sunday session is a look into what James is building at somX. If you want to join the early access list, head over to www.somx.co.uk and be the first to hear the updates. Also mentioned this week - The London Business School Healthtech Challenge, a pitching competition with a £10,000 prize, which James is judging on Tuesday. Head to https://www.londonhealthtechchallenge.org/ to learn more and sign up to watch 👍🏼
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James' guest this week is Dr. Ashish Patel, Principal at Optum Ventures, who, on their website describe him as the physician, technologist & financier triple threat!
Ash is serious about revolutionizing health care, and has a wealth of experience building, commercializing and financing disruptive health care technology companies. Before Optum Ventures, Ash served as a lead life sciences investor and head of research for Mercia Technologies, one of the most active investors in the UK. He led transactions into a variety of health care businesses, sat on multiple boards, and also led Mercia’s internal corporate strategy team. Prior to this, he served as Clinical Technology Director as part of the team that launched Babylon Health, a leading European AI-enabled healthcare business. He started his career as an anaesthetics and intensive care doctor in the UK where he was involved in academic research work and clinical practice. He holds a M.A. and medical degree from the University of Oxford, and is a member of the CFA Institute, London.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-ashish-patel-md-2952a644/ | https://www.optumventures.com/
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This week's Sunday session is on the latest grants, accelerators and programmes to get funding! Mentioned this week:
DigitalHealth.London Accelerator: https://digitalhealth.london/accelerator/apply/
NHSx Remote Monitoring call: https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/33d1e59d-83d9-4e86-b243-a9cb0baef548
UKRI Healthy Ageing: https://www.ukri.org/innovation/industrial-strategy-challenge-fund/healthy-ageing/
EUREKA Healthy Ageing call: https://apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk/competition/597/overview
js@somx.co.uk | www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk
This week James is joined by Paul Tunnah, founder of pharmaphorum, which combines industry leading publications with a specialist strategy and creative consultancy. Paul is an experienced pharmaceutical industry thought leader and adviser, with a specialist focus on cross-stakeholder communication, digital / social media engagement and collaborative innovation. James and Paul cover all things healthcare and communication and there's a lot of lessons for entrepreneurs looking to communicate what they do in this space!
https://www.linkedin.com/in/paultunnah/ | https://pharmaphorum.com/
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For this week's session, I'm giving you my take on the brand new AI checklist which has been issued here in the UK for health and care organisations by NHSx. It's an incredibly succinct document outlining a bunch of simple questions for organisations to ask AI companies if they want to procure them. Loads to learn for startups, investors and healthcare organisations both in the UK and abroad.
There's also some info on somX... www.somx.co.uk
Grab the AI guidance here: https://www.nhsx.nhs.uk/media/documents/A_Buyers_Checklist_for_AI_in_Health_and_Care.pdf
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Can you actually be a doctor and run successful, scaling medical device startup at the same time? This week I'm joined by Krishan Ramdoo, founder and CEO of TympaHealth Technologies - a team of doctors and technology experts united by a vision of helping the world to hear. They've built 'the world’s first all-in-one hearing health assessment system' and they're doing incredible partnerships all over the healthtech space.
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Hit this amazing milestone this week! Thanks to everyone that listens around the world 🌍🎙🙏🏼 Special thanks to those of you that have been in touch - love hearing from you if you're finding it valuable - especially with the tough things going on around COVID-19. Do you want to be on the show? If you've got a good story to tell and you want to inspire people, make sure you email or DM me. Founders are ideal, no matter what stage you're at 👍🏼
Also mentioned this week - Sleepio and Daylight are now free! - https://www.bighealth.com/
Have a listen to Peter Hames, founder of Big Health on Episode 20: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-20-the-story-of-sleepio-and-scaling-into-the-usa/id1438968893?i=1000436563711
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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 first product GIQuant aims to help clinicians to identify earlier when patients stop responding to immunotherapy.
Alex founded Motilent in 2013 to expedite collaborative research in his field of medical image analysis for gastrointestinal (GI) disorders. Since then, Motilent has grown to working across a range of GI specialties in research and has produced it's first clinically available product for Crohn's disease monitoring - GIQuant. Alex holds master degrees in Biochemistry and Medical Physics, a PhD in MRI imaging and spent 2 years on the board of an AIM listed UK medical device company.
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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.com/sites/jamessomauroo/2020/04/27/qureai-deploys-ai-radiology-software-in-the-fight-against-covid-19/
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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 and strategic advisor to the NHS Digital Academy, a £6m programme to develop a cadre of digital leaders in the NHS.
He served as the first national Associate Chief Clinical Information Officer at NHS England and prior to this was Senior Fellow to the CEO of NHS England where he advised and led on health innovation and technology policy including advising the Secretary State for Health on NHS digitisation.
Harpreet is a board member of Health Education England and Digital Health.London. Harpreet sits on the editorial board of the British Medical Journal Health and Care Informatics and has written on health policy for the BMJ, The Lancet and Guardian. Harpreet is an advisor, speaker and consultant on digital health, clinical application of AI and the future of work in healthcare.
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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 and stop the spread 🙏🏼💙
NHSx have released extremely helpful guidance for healthtech companies, talking about how they are assessing healthtech relevant to COVID-19 right now. So wherever you are in the world and you want to get your COVID-19 solution into the UK system to help, what you need to know is in 8 simple points in this episode. In summary:
If you have a product or service that you would like the NHS to consider as part of our COVID response, or your app is ready for review against the standards, please email dnhsx@nhsx.nhs.uk where the team will review your submission. You can read the full blog from NHSx here: https://www.nhsx.nhs.uk/blogs/how-we-are-assessing-covid-19-apps/
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 in healthcare, Tobias works with leading institutions including UCL, Imperial College, the Department of Health and Public Health England on increasing the evidence base for Health Tech through research.
After studies in Stockholm and Paris, Tobias earned an MSc in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology in 1996. He joined Accenture’s Paris office before founding iPLATO in London in 2000. Tobias has worked in Sweden, France, Ireland, Singapore, Japan, the US, and now the UK.
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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 same issues. At HS., we've already solved the problem more times than we can count through the podcast and our events and now we've built something very exciting...
We've officially launched our HS. Recruit Area 🚀 to help those out of work!
Head to www.hs.ventures and click on HS.Recruit to sign up, whether you're a company or a candidate!
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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 investing activities on seed (and pre-seed) deals in the UK and Israel and has a particular interest in HealthTech having gone in for uMed, who you might recognise from a very episode of this podcast and Vine health who recently did a £1M seed round. Chris loves finding companies operating in unloved/overlooked sectors that are ripe for disruption and you can hear all about him, his background and his investing right here.
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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 healthtech design workshop, contact charlie.regis@styliff.com | www.styliff.com
- Contact James for feedback on an idea: https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-somauroo/
- The Story of Arkeo and Mental Fitness: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-83-the-story-of-arkeo-and-mental-fitness/id1438968893?i=1000470318986
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 enterprise hiring and training other sufferers of mental health issues and eventually wanted to build a mental fitness brand - a Fitbit for the brain. Jana started Arkeo Sept 2018 - initially raised 100k and has now closed £1M in VC funding.
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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 - https://covid.joinzoe.com/ (UK), www.tracktogether.co.uk (UK), www.covidnearyou.org (USA)
- NHSX is calling on all innovators who can support the elderly, vulnerable and self-isolating during COVID-19 to apply for government funding of up to £25,000to test their solution - https://techforce19.uk/
- Car manufacturers are making ventilators - https://apple.news/ALoKnJ2I8Q0yYlVoBbQ3Ppg
- Elon Musk said he sourced 1,255 ventilators from China and shipped them to Los Angeles as US worries about a shortage in the face of coronavirus - https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-says-he-shipped-1255-ventilators-to-la-coronavirus-2020-3?r=US&IR=T
- Rock health's portfolio companies making impact - https://rockhealth.com/10-ways-rock-health-portfolio-companies-are-responding-to-covid-19/
- The Coronavirus Tech Handbook (an open source google doc) - https://coronavirustechhandbook.com/
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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 Yarlott with me. Lydia is a community paediatrician and founder of the communication app Pando - a communication tool for health and social care that essentially gives clinicians a replacement for Whatsapp with some extra functionality making it ideal for primary, secondary and tertiary care.
We chat about how the exchange and flow of information is so important right now and how Pando are helping; we talk identity as a doctor and the privilege and responsibility coming with that right now, Lydia talks about what it’s like in paediatrics and we talk about innovation at a time like this and how things are changing and might change in the future.
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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 might not have ever had that view, it’s important to see and hear why we do what we do in healthtech, which is often to help people like Aman do their jobs when they’re looking after patients.
You’re going to hear a really candid and honest view of what’s going on with COVID-19, the preparation of hospitals and their workforce, the fear HCPs are going through, the anguish of their families when they see them go to work everyday. Aman is even buying a caravan to live on his own driveway to protect his wife and young child from the virus.
Some really poignant moments in the podcast, so please listen to what Aman has to say…. particularly as he closes out the podcast at the end with his asks of the public…
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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.org | anair.beverly@new.ox.ac.uk
- Birdie are providing their platform for free to care providers - https://www.birdie.care/blog/how-birdie-is-mobilizing-all-resources-to-support-care-providers-and-the-wider-community
- drdoctor have said this: "Hospitals have told us one of their biggest challenges right now is getting information to patients. To help, we've built a broadcast message tool which is available for free to any Trust that needs it. To learn more: https://drdoctor.co.uk/covid-19"
- Ash Kalraiya from Medishout, one of the latest NHS Innovation Accelerator companies - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ash-kalraiya-0383b7128/ | www.medishout.co.uk | info@medishout.co.uk
- Open Medical - https://openmedical.co.uk/ | info@openmedical.co.uk
- Iplato - https://www.iplato.com/ | info@iplato.com
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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 respectively Both companies have been on the podcast previously (you can hear them on episodes 7 and 21), so in this episode, James dives straight in to hear how their partnership is helping clinicians and patients.
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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-public
- WHO Director General's COVID -19, March 11 speech in full: https://www.who.int/dg/speeches/detail/who-director-general-s-opening-remarks-at-the-media-briefing-on-covid-19---11-march-2020
- Feebris: www.feebris.com | partnerships@feebris.com | elina@feebris.com
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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 deliver cutting edge research to their patients, whilst radically reducing the barriers for scientists to conduct the studies that underpin our fight against disease. Through a process that combines the power of electronic health records with targeted patient engagement, uMed securely connects researchers with patients whilst removing the burden on clinicians and site staff.
James and Matt talk bunking with your investors, being a military medic, picking the best idea if you have many, the power of reflection - realising your business isn’t working and how to come back stronger as a second time founder, building networks based on giving value, how uMed is making life better for clinicians and organisations - efficiency savings, enabling academic interests and increasing revenue, innovative business models with pharma companies and healthcare providers, how to optimise for scale, finding the right investors, health data and privacy....
Loads of learning points for everyone in this one
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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 Clinician-Patient Communication 📲: https://apple.co/2vIGaDo
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- HS. Health-Tech Talks, March 2020: https://bit.ly/2PiNMDc
- Episode 11: The Story of Healthtech Entrepreneurship to Venture Capital: https://apple.co/2w0FfxH
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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 downs in health, as well as the impact to businesses, investors, doctors, and patients.
Peter and James talk getting into and building a career in healthtech, Peter's career through operations, sales, all sorts of technologies and business models in healthtech, AI and machine learning, algorithms, gaining doctors' trust and a whole lot about the Australian healthtech scene - particularly for those looking to scale over into Australia.
Peter gives some great insights and some great practical advice to the entrepreneurs listening.
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Talking Healthtech: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/talking-healthtech/id1451558982
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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
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- HS. Health-Tech Talks, March 2020: https://bit.ly/2PiNMDc
- Episode 11: The Story of Healthtech Entrepreneurship to Venture Capital: https://apple.co/2w0FfxH
- Episode 72: The Story of Limbic and the Line Between Art and Science 👨🎨: https://apple.co/3cjJNQs
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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 neuroscientist that uses probabilistic models to understand the brain. He describes himself as an experimentalist, theoretician, entrepreneur, communicator, and loverer of suffixes!
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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.co/2w0FfxH
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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 that, he was executive vice president of the global digital business at EMI Music from 2010 to 2013. He co-founded Bragster.com, a social networking and content sharing website, and served as CEO from 2006 to 2010. Additionally, he was senior group product manager at Amazon Inc. from 2003 to 2006.
Bertrand earned a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School in the United States, where he was a Baker Scholar, and a master’s degree in commercial engineering from the Solvay Business School (Belgium)/McGill University (Canada). He is a member of the board of directors of Electrocomponents PLC and a member of the supervisory board of Wolters Kluwer NV.
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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 the School of Medicine at Brown University and research affiliate at MIT. He also holds the position of 4th most watched TED talk in 2016, with 12 million views.
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- Episode 37: The Story of Jud Brewer, Digital Therapeutics and Mindful Tech 📱: https://apple.co/2HpokaN
- HS. Health-Tech Talks, March 2020: https://apple.co/2HpokaN
- ML6: www.ml6.eu
- Acibadem: www.acibadem.com/en/
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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 Director of Lego Interactive and one of the people behind the startup, Graze.com.
James and Mark discuss Mark's epic career, how to grow businesses as a CEO, why you should double down on your strengths, how and why Mark moved into healthtech, the future of the pharmacy sector and loads more.
www.pharmacy2u.co.uk | https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-livingstone-3b60848
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Do what you love, don't apologise for ambition and definitely make progress before saying you're an AI company!
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- 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/
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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 and broadcaster. A scientist by training, Vivienne hosts medical programmes for BBC Radio 4, writes widely on health, presents films, facilitates many high level conferences and trains young researchers. She has a part time role as Head of Engagement at Genomics England which delivered the 100,000 Genomes Project. She also sits on the board of UK Research & Innovation which is responsible for the strategic spend of the UK’s £7 billion research budget. Many will remember Vivienne from her role as presenter of the BBC TV science programme Tomorrow's World between 1994 and 1997 when she was part of iconic technology breakthroughs that were displayed all around the world.
Not short of an anecdote or two, James and Vivienne discuss Vivienne's career, from breaking thousands of pounds worth of equipment at UCL, through learning her trade women's health organisations, changing tack to broadcasting (blagging an interview with zero experience) and now into precision medicine and genetics. This episode is a must-listen!
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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.org/
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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 range of businesses ranging from a Sony Award winning radio show, importing vegetables, exporting cream and organising over a thousand concerts, nightclub events and festivals.
Lee has been involved in smart city design and he’s particularly interested in the intersection where our online world meets the 'real’ world. He works with the Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK Government as part of Government Office for Science Future Cities Foresight Project advising government on what cities will look like in 2065 and 2040 to enable policy change now to achieve growth for UK Economy. He's been a member of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Smart Cities since 2014 and is a founding member of The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Artificial Intelligence (APPG AI) which was set up in January 2017 with the aim to explore the impact and implications of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.
James and Lee talk through Lee’s background from helping refugees to entrepreneur, how the desire to scale himself led him to technology, how Red Ninja approach design-thinking to build products, how to generate ideas, testing assumptions in new ideas and much more.
www.redninja.co.uk | @leeomar | lomar@redninja.co.uk | safesteps.tech
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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 January 2020: https://bit.ly/38hifIR
- PapsAI: http://digitalhealth.globalautosystems.co.ug/
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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 the agenda for Servelec is interoperability. The ability for healthcare systems to be able to share data, information and be able to 'talk' to each other, is one of the primary concerns for NHSX, and will greatly improve patient care and experience, yet it still hasn't been widely adopted - data protection makes it extremely difficult.
Servelec are working hard to tackle this and it has an interoperability platform, but there is still much work to do for them and for the sector as a whole, in order for easy sharing of patient data across more than one system.
James and Neil talk about Neil’s 15 years as a leader in technology, the origins of their Rio EPR, moving up in corporates, how startups can engage with big tech companies, plenty of insights about careers, scaling tech products in healthcare and as a CEO, how still being passionate about spending time with customers to find out how to solve their problems in the best way to keep a business on top.
https://www.servelec.co.uk/ | https://www.linkedin.com/in/neillaycock/
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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 Fund: https://bit.ly/2FZMRCs
- The Africa Prize For Engineering Innovation, 23rd January 2020: https://bit.ly/38hifIR
- Big Brain Revolution, by Dr. Michelle Tempest: https://amzn.to/3ajlqS9
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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 preventative mental health. David describes himself as a psychology researcher and entrepreneur - his initial doctoral used AI to create adaptive media systems that imitated and queried the nature of human creativity. He’s given papers and performances at SXSW, International Computer Music Conference, the European Conference on Artificial Life, IRCAM, the Darwin Symposium, and the Computer Arts Society in London. David is also currently pursuing a DPhil in cognitive neuroscience at the Social Cognition Lab, University of Oxford, with Geoff Bird.
Interestingly, David's early research focused on computational intelligence approaches to understand and classify emotion in music making, which forced him to examine the psychophysiology of play, flow and stress. Having built technology (apps+sensors) that attempts to measure stress and interoception in neurotypical adults, he is now investigating the influence of interoceptive awareness on stress, as well as aspects of organisational behaviour surrounding empathy and vulnerability. David actually suffered a heart attack in Brussels airport due to a combination of high-stress, malnutrition and lack of physical awareness of his health declining, so is now most interested in whether training interoceptive awareness through digital forms of biofeedback could contribute to better stress resilience and foster empathy.
david@biobeats.com | biobeats.com/ | https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidplans/
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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 million views. Jud is founder of MindSciences Inc developing digital therapeutics in the area of addiction, he is Director of Research and Innovation at the Mindfulness Center and associate professor in psychiatry at the School of Medicine at Brown University and research affiliate at MIT. He’s also held research and teaching positions at Yale University and the University of Massachusetts’ Center for Mindfulness.
As an addiction psychiatrist and internationally known expert in mindfulness training for treating addictions, Dr. Jud has developed and tested novel mindfulness programs for habit change, including both in-person and app-based treatments for smoking, emotional eating, and anxiety (Eat Right Now, Unwinding Anxiety and Craving to Quit).
James' Forbes Article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamessomauroo/2020/01/10/kry-expands-further-with-155-million-investment-into-digital-health-platform/
Jud's TED Talk (>12 million views): https://www.ted.com/talks/judson_brewer_a_simple_way_to_break_a_bad_habit?language=en
Episode 37: The Story of Jud Brewer, Mindsciences Inc and Mindful Tech 📱: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-37-story-jud-brewer-digital-therapeutics-mindful/id1438968893?i=1000447525669
HS Health-Tech Talks Event, 28 January: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hs-health-tech-talks-growing-a-startup-registration-86471437397
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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 Young', where he used his background in weight management, diabetes and nutrition to inform the documentary's studies.
Mike is currently imparting his expertise and background as co-founder and chairman of health-tech company Changing Health, a behavioural change platform for Type 2 diabetes management, prevention and weight loss.
A load of lessons for entrepreneurs and those interested in health and technology this week, James and Mike discuss elite sport and tech, the value of good mentors shaping you, how we’re all standing on the shoulders of giants in healthtech right now and the changing heath tech landscape through Mike’s time in the sector.
mike@changinghealth.com | @miketrenell | https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaeltrenell/
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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 period. James also mentions the next HS. Health-Tech Talks Event and tells you about his contributing writing to Forbes and how to get in touch with him to potentially write an article on your startup.
5 things I learned from healthtech podcasting in 2019: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/5-things-i-learned-from-healthtech-podcasting-2019-dr-james-somauroo/
HS Health-Tech Talks Event, 28 January: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hs-health-tech-talks-growing-a-startup-registration-86471437397
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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 verify and convert movement into currency. Users can then donate to charity, transfer to other users or spend on products, services, and experiences provided by Sweatcoin vendors and user community.
Sweatcoin tackles Present Bias by moving the future benefits of exercise into the here and now - immediately converting movement into a digital currency and changing the perception of physical movement. In Janary 2018 they raised $5.7 million in a seed round led by Goodwater Capital with participation from Greylock Partners, Rubylight, Seedcamp, and SmartHub.
Previously, Shaun built a consumer brand in his spare time to a six-figure business, worked in a global investment bank trading government bonds and advised some of the largest companies in the world on corporate strategy. James and Shaun discuss Shaun's hourney and what led him to Sweatcoin, how to escape the city, how to approach networking events to get opportunities in healthtech, how to build a business in public health, (there are B2B models that can work!) and a whole lot more.
www.sweatco.in | shaun@sweatco.in | https://www.linkedin.com/in/shaunazam/
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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 science writer of the year twice in a row.
Hugh worked as a consultant radiologist in the NHS (Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Trust), and sat on the Royal College of Radiologists committee for medical imaging informatics as well as the AI working group. He now acts as a consultant and advisory board member for AI start-ups in the UK, EU and America within the imaging and healthcare space, as well as sitting on several AI and academic committees including the KSS Academic Health Science Network AI Core Advisory Group. He has co-authored several white papers and reports on AI in healthcare, alongside bodies such as Reform, an independent think-tank, and Health Education England and is an associate editor at Nature: Digital Medicine.
He acted as co-chair of the Topol Review, a seminal independent report for the UK Secretary of State for Health into preparing the healthcare workforce to deliver the digital future - read my take on the Topol Review for Forbes here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamessomauroo/2019/02/11/nhs-announces-workforce-plan-for-genomics-ai-and-digital-medicine/
And Hugh has deep start-up experience both as the lead for regulatory affairs at Babylon (recently valued >$1B) and then the Clinical Director at Kheiron Medical ($22M series A raise), where they developed deep learning software to improve breast cancer screening, and were the first UK company to receive the CE mark for a deep learning application in radiology.
Hugh's unique career enables dynamic bridging between the medical, technical and business worlds, with academic, clinical and operational expertise in cognitive digital solutions. He’s a pragmatist, a realist and incredibly refreshing and entertaining on social media
@DrHughHarvey | hugh@hardianhealth.com
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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 cardiac effects. The company itself has worked on a multi-phase research partnership with Pfizer and has filed IP on its proprietary system which can create healthy as well as sick mini hearts and combines organoid data with AI to screen for drug toxicity and efficacy with an exceptionally high degree of accuracy. As well as his work with Novoheart, Dr. Costa is also the Associate Professor of Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York.
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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 Computing and Artificial Intelligence from Imperial College, London, with his award-winning Masters research demonstrating the benefit of intelligent systems in improving user experience through collaborative machine learning and data mining. Arjun's focus lies in empowering patients with innovative digital health services that augment traditional healthcare.
Today, Arjun leads the development of DDM’s evidence-based digital health solutions which harness the power of big data, machine learning and behaviour change to provide precise and personalised patient care to patients. This is delivered through insurance companies, health agencies, and governments worldwide – including the NHS. This scalable, effective and engaging approach is redefining chronic disease and wellness, with over 1.2 million members across all platforms.
Arjun has written a book titled Machine Learning and AI for Healthcare which explores how artificial Intelligence and machine learning can be used to improve patient and population health. Arjun’s book is due for release on 2nd February via Amazon https://amzn.to/2EAHCtv
ddm.health | arjun@ddm.health | https://www.linkedin.com/in/arjunpanesar/
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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 involved in that patient's care, including the patient. Their flagship product, Chain SMS, is used by GP practices to communicate with their patients. Chain SMS is completely free; the focus is on learning and developing ideas for powering communication across the healthcare workforce. It's now used in over 1 in 3 GP practices, all by word of mouth.
On this week’s episode, James and Jacob talk around a huge range of useful topics for entrepreneurs: bottom-up field sales in healthtech, pivoting and the importance of testing your assumptions with humility (AccuRx was originally built to solve a problem in antibiotic prescribing), business models in primary care (and tips for selling), innovative ways to get a customer’s attention and Jacob tells us of his key tips in healthtech: minimising time to value with every interaction and building a great experience for end-users.
www.accurxcom | jacob@accurx.com | https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacobnhaddad/
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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-based start-up that has developed a suite of digital tools to improve workflow and task management in healthcare.
Infinity Health was founded at the end of 2013 by Elliott and his cofounder, Dr Adam Benton. Elliot has an awesome background, coming from the music industry and watching iTunes disrupt the sector and he's now taken that learning into healthtech and is an expert in managing software products and services. In 2014 the company won a proof of concept grant from Innovate UK to develop digital tools for handover and task management. Over the years this has developed into Infinity Health, a digital platform that provides collaboration and task management for teams at the point-of-care. This takes the form of a suite of digital tools that collect and integrate data, for example patient lists and medical data, alongside tools to communicate this information such as notifications, instant messaging and activity feeds.
www.infinity.health | hello@infinity.health | https://www.linkedin.com/in/elliottengers/
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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 online diagnosis and prescription treatment, and focuses on healthcare’s primary decision makers - women. Alpha believes that the healthcare journey starts with basic medical needs - offering hormonal contraceptives, acne & anti-aging treatment, and elective cosmetic therapy. Alpha patients have access to a team of doctors and nurse practitioners, support for both insurance-covered and outside-of-insurance conditions, along with free shipping right to the patients home.
Previously, Gloria headed up data products at Linkedin and was VP of Data at Timeful which was acquired by Google. She is also a consulting faculty at Stanford, holds a Ph.D. and MSc from Stanford Engineering & Computer Science, a BSc from UCLA Engineering, is the inventor on 11 patents in the area of recommendation systems and data science and is author of over 40 academic papers on information retrieval systems.
gloria@helloalpha.com | www.helloalpha.com | www.av8.vc
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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 Artificial Intelligence approach to fix the very expensive, very slow, and very risky process of drug discovery, design and development.
Andrew's company, Exscientia, works with data scientists, chemists and machine learning engineers that mine huge amounts of data to bring new insights into what diseases are and how they can be treated. Their approach is currently shortening medicine discoveryfrom 5 to 1 year and cutting the cost of drug development by more than 30%.Prior to Exscientia, Prof. Hopkins spent 14 years at Pfizer, where he was frustrated with the slow pace of innovation - so he went back to Academia to found Exscientia as a spin out from his lab in 2012. Since then, Exscientia has discovered4 pre-clinical drug candidates, with the first drug design by algorithm to enter human clinical trials imminently - and signed over 8 major pharma collaborations with companies such as Celgene, Sanofi, GSK and Evotec, estimated to be worth over $1 billion in milestones and royalties.
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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 help more people survive skin cancer by using their proprietary AI technology to improve access to high quality skin cancer screening.
Neil started the company in 2012, having worked extensively in mobile innovation and strategy consulting for a number of years. He holds a BSc in Physics from the University of Western Australia and an Executive MBA from London Business School.
Skin Analytics are working with a number of healthcare organisations in the UK and Australia and the recent study in JAMA was conducted across 7 NHS sites in the UK, led by the Royal Free London NHS Trust.
neil@skinanalytics.co.uk | www.skinanalytics.co.uk
JAMA Study: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2752995
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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 changing the way ultrasound is undertaken and you can read all about their brand new device in one of James’ latest Forbes articles (link below)
Darius was previously Head of Trading at a Birch Grove Capital, a Global Cross-Asset Hedge Fund which manages over $1BN. In this capacity he was responsible for all trading across Credit, Equities, Convertibles, Bank Debt and Commodities as well as helping the CIO in risk and portfolio management.
Prior to Birch Grove, Darius built the Cross Asset Special Situations Desk at Morgan Stanley, where he was amongst the firm’s youngest hires. In this role, he was responsible for sourcing and structuring over $1BN in banking transactions and acted as the Firm’s specialist on Argentina during the default proceedings.
Darius holds a MBA from Harvard Business School and a B.S from Duke University, where he studied Neuroscience and Psychology, and worked for Dan Ariely, one of the world’s foremost Behavioral Economists. He speaks five languages, holds three passports and has lived and worked in New York, London, Buenos Aires and Sao Paulo.
www.butterflynetwork.com | https://www.linkedin.com/in/darius-shahida-aa05a777/ | https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamessomauroo/2019/09/27/butterfly-a-125-billion-heathtech-company-launches-new-ultrasound-technology-in-the-uk
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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 electronics.
In partnership with the eye and healthcare community, electronic manufacturers and standards organizations, Healthe develops health-first technologies, standards and products. Justin was a recognized semi-finalist for Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year with Healthe being ranked #5 on the Observer list of Hottest 20 Health Start-ups in 2019. He is a co-inventor on Healthe’s wide-reaching patent portfolio of light filtration technology for digital devices including accessory products, integrated display technology, augmented reality and VR. Previously, Justin was Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Fortune 100’s Amtrust.
Based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, he and the Healthe team develop technologies and standards in conjunction with the Eyesafe Vision Health Advisory Board including leading ophthalmologists and optometrists.
justin@health-e.com | www.health-e.com
HS. Health-Tech Talks Event, 31st October: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hs-health-tech-talks-digital-health-tickets-76273475017
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, California, before returning to Scotland in late-2005 to co-found CereProc. Matthew helps patients with conditions like throat cancers and neurological disorders to clone their voices and is exploring many other value propositions in health and healthtech.
Prior to ICSI he was the senior development engineer at speech synthesis leader Rhetorical Systems (later acquired by Scansoft), which he joined at its formation. At Rhetorical, Matthew was responsible for the design, implementation, and testing of the company's core speech technology. Before Rhetorical, he spent five years at the University of Edinburgh researching speech and dialogue technologies.
Dr. Matthew Aylett holds a BA in Computing and Artificial Intelligence from the University of Sussex, and an MSc with Distinction and PhD in Speech and Language Technology from the University Of Edinburgh.
info@cereproc.com | www.cereproc.com
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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. In 2005 she was named the most promising entrepreneur of the Year in Sweden and in 2012 she was listed as one of Sweden's super talents. She was rewarded Innovation Against Poverty by SIDA 2012 for Bonzun's work spreading medical information in the countryside in China. In 2001 and 2003 Bonnie sailed on around Svalbard and from Greenland to the United States, making her one of few people to cross the Arctic Sea, Greenland Sea, Labrador Sea and North Atlantic Ocean on a 47.7 feet sailboat!
bonnie@bonzun.com | www.linkedin.com/in/bonnieroupe
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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 Language Processing, Knowledge Representation, and Artificial Intelligence. His team apply advanced AI techniques to Ieso’s vast dataset to determine which evidence-based therapy interventions are most effective.
Under his leadership, Ieso has created the industry’s first (real-time) AI-enabled tools that augment therapists’ which in turn increases quality and improves clinical outcomes.
Prior to joining Ieso Valentin was the lead scientist on the question-answering service that powers Amazon’s Alexa smart assistant; he is now using that expertise to help computers familiarise with the way patients express themselves during therapy.
Valentin holds a PhD from the University of Sheffield and is a multi-lingual language specialist. He is a frequent speaker on deep learning tools and techniques which can revolutionise healthcare applications, medicine and diagnostics.
www.iesohealth.com
www.twitter.com/vtablan
https://www.linkedin.com/in/vtablan/
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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 the company, building a highly successful business and brand, establishing operations in North America, Europe and India.
Natalie was the CEO of Healthcare at Home Limited from May 2014. She is also the founder of Lucidity LLC which is based out of New York.
natalie@lucidity.com
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How did a company go from selling luxury ties 👔 to scaling predictive hospital analytics software? This week, James is joined by Orlando Agrippa, CEO and founder of Draper and Dash, a London-based, Venture Capitalist (VC) backed healthcare AI and machine learning predictive data and analytics company. D&D leverages data from the public sector and private healthcare companies both nationally and globally and provides organisations with solutions that improve quality, safety, outcomes, efficiencies, and opportunities.
Over the years D&D has worked with over 70 healthcare providers in Australia, the UK and US, helping them to drive cost improvements, form new strategic partnerships, improve health outcomes and more. Orlando has over 10 years of executive and CIO experience in the UK NHS system with relentless focus on the delivery of Clinical Systems, Business Intelligence and Analytics. Orlando spent time understanding the US healthcare system and also worked in Australia as an analytics transformation director. He has a proven track record of turnaround senior management success in both private and public sector organisations of varying scale and complexity. He has championed turnaround strategies within multimillion-pound organisations to drive up performance and visibility.
Orlando is the only healthcare chartered luminary representative for Europe, with only 10 chartered luminaries globally. Orlando has Entrepreneurial experience of five acquisition, previous advisor and investor in Photodaze, M3, Bright North, Afrotherapy and Market Place City Swish.
https://www.draperanddash.com
orlando.agrippa@draperanddash.com
https://twitter.com/OrlandoAgrippa
https://www.linkedin.com/in/orlando-agrippa-39610587/
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This week, James is joined by Mohamed Taha, founder and CEO of Mojo Diagnostics. Mohamed has been a medical student, an engineer, an investor and is now an entrepreneur. His journey to entrepreneurship started with a misdiagnosis during his PhD in Lyon, meaning he underwent fertility testing thwart with problems and inaccuracies. This led Mohamed to explore the issue and eventually build a company to solve the worldwide problems.
Mojo applies artificial intelligence to semen analysis, which is used to determine a man’s fertility. Today, diagnostic semen analysis is a very time consuming manual process requiring a highly trained professional. Using AI, Mojo is able to make the analysis easier, increasing the number of sperm that are counted and assessed. Mojo therefore assists in improving accuracy and producing reliable results, in a fraction of the time. On the podcast, James and Mohamed talk about his journey, perceptions of fertility issues, the technology needed both now and in the future and how to get investment when you’re trying to create a new market.
https://www.mojo-diagnostics.com/
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Ever wondered how a technology giant like Philips thinks about healthcare and healthtech? This week, James is joined by Jan Kimpen, Chief Medical Officer at Philips. As the leader for clinical strategy, Jan works in close collaboration with health system customers to deliver health technology solutions that support better health outcomes and experiences at lower-cost. A former hospital CEO and Professor of Paediatrics, Jan is an expert on digital innovation in healthcare with deep expertise on data management and artificial intelligence, precision medicine, telehealth and advanced homecare.
Jan is also the lead spokesperson for Philips’ Future Health Index (FHI), a yearly study surveying healthcare professionals and the general populations in 15 countries to determine the readiness of nations to address global health challenges and build sustainable health systems. Jan and James talk about Jan's career, how Philips think about healthtech startups, how they're acquiring companies and the implications of the FHI report.
https://www.healthworks.philips.com/ is the Philips start-up engagement team’s webpage which includes a submission form for enabling startups to contact them.
https://www.philips.com/a-w/about/news/future-health-index is the Future Health Index landing page for those keen to read up on the report.
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This week, James is joined by Dr. Yeshwanth Pulijala, artist, dentist and entrepreneur. He describes himself as a generalist who builds technologies that improve healthcare. During his PhD in VR and AR applications in healthcare, he designed and evaluated one of the first immersive virtual reality training tools for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery.
After training as a dentist, he gained over five years of interdisciplinary experience in healthcare and technology (Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Computer Vision). He previously built a startup (Open Simulation) to provide low-cost surgical simulation using Augmented Reality, using his understanding of healthcare challenges from a clinical point of view and building tools to address those needs. Currently, he is focused on making surgery safer through Scalpel Ltd., building a non-invasive sensing platform for hospitals to improve patient safety, prevent serious incidents and reduce costs. Their proprietary system detects and prevents errors in real-time during an operation using a combination of deep learning and sensor fusion techniques.
http://scalpel.ai/
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James is joined by Dr. Jud Brewer who holds the position of 4th most watched TED talk in 2016, with 12 million views. Jud is founder of MindSciences Inc developing digital therapeutics in the area of addiction, he is Director of Research and Innovation at the Mindfulness Center and associate professor in psychiatry at the School of Medicine at Brown University and research affiliate at MIT. He’s also held research and teaching positions at Yale University and the University of Massachusetts’ Center for Mindfulness. As an addiction psychiatrist and internationally known expert in mindfulness training for treating addictions, Dr. Jud has developed and tested novel mindfulness programs for habit change, including both in-person and app-based treatments for smoking, emotional eating, and anxiety (Eat Right Now, Unwinding Anxiety and Craving to Quit). Based on the success of these programs in the lab, he co-founded MindSciences, Inc. to create app-based digital therapeutic versions of these programs for a wider audience, working with individuals, corporations, and hospital systems to put effective, evidence-based behaviour change guidance in the hands of people struggling with unwanted behaviours and “everyday addictions.” James and Jud cover lots of topics - all of the above, plus commercialising academia, Buddhist psychology, the science of mindfulness and how to harness technology to exploit it and the do’s and don’ts of building a digital therapeutics company. https://www.drjud.com/ For more information and content, check out our website www.hs.ventures. You can follow us on Twitter @HSVenture, on Instagram @hs.ventures, on Linkedin at HS. and you can email us at info@hs.live You can get our host, Dr. James Somauroo, at www.jamessomauroo.com and you can follow him on Twitter @jamessomauroo, on Instagram @j_soms and on Linkedin at james-somauroo
James is joined by Jake Leach, Chief Technology Officer at Dexcom. Jake oversees the development of next generation products and his teams are responsible for delivering best in class glucose monitoring technology paired with an exceptional user experience. Jake joined Dexcom in March 2004 to lead development of sensor electronics which were part of the first generation Dexcom system.
Jake has served in various roles within Dexcom including Senior Vice President of R&D, Senior Director of R&D, and Manager of Engineering. From 1996 to 2004, Jake held positions in research and development at MiniMed and subsequently Medtronic Diabetes, focusing on the development of glucose sensing systems. Jake holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering with a minor in Biomedical Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles. James and Jake talk about how Jake’s background in engineering and his inquisitive mind set him up for a career in medical devices, how MiniMed and Dexcom scaled so fast and why the diabetes-tech space is so exiting right now.
www.dexcom.com
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James is joined by Dr. Paul-Peter Tak, Venture Partner at Flagship Pioneering and CEO of Kintai Therapeutics. Over a more than 25-year career in the life sciences, Paul-Peter has created and led multiple companies. From 2011 until 2017, Paul-Peter founded and served as senior vice president and head of the immuno-inflammation therapy area unit at GSK. Under Paul-Peter’s leadership, this unit brought more than 10 new mechanisms of action into the clinic. From 2016 until 2018, Paul-Peter was senior vice president of R&D pipeline, chief immunology officer, development leader, and co-chair of GSK’s scientific review board. He oversaw the creation of a new portfolio of medicines in oncology, with a focus on immuno-oncology, epigenetics, and cell and gene therapy.
Trained as a general internist, rheumatologist, and immunologist, Paul-Peter has held multiple professorships and has published extensively, with more than 550 papers in his name. He served as professor of medicine and chair of the department of clinical immunology and rheumatology at the Academic Medical Centre/University of Amsterdam for twelve years. He is a professor of medicine at the Amsterdam University Medical Center, honorary professor of rheumatology at Ghent University, and honorary senior visiting fellow at the University of Cambridge. He is a fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in the U.K.
Paul-Peter received his medical degree cum laude from the Free University in Amsterdam and his Ph.D. from Leiden University Medical Center.
https://www.flagshippioneering.com/
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Can we one day hack the human brain? That day might be sooner than you think... This week, James is joined by Emil Hewage, Co-Founder and CEO at BIOS. Emil undertook PhD research in computational neuroscience and machine learning at the University of Cambridge and has used this knowledge to pioneer the use of artificial intelligence for interpreting neural data. He began working in startups at age 17 and held engineering and leadership roles across a range of industries from clean energy to advanced medical technologies. He was recently named to Forbes 30 Under 30. BIOS is a leading neural engineering startup, creating the open standard hardware and software interface between the human nervous system and AI. Their team uses applied materials, machine learning, software engineering, neuroscience, and the experience of surgeons and clinicians to solve the complex problems of successfully integrating AI-based treatments into the human body. BIOS has the largest PNS neural data set in the world, performing cutting-edge machine learning research to apply this technology to chronic conditions throughout the body, enabling a new ecosystem in healthcare from delivery to recurrent care. The company was formerly known as Cambridge Bio-Augmentation Systems (CBAS) and they've recently raised $4.5 million in seed funding. https://www.bios.health/
James is joined by Gary Hughes, CEO and co-founder of Teckro. Gary founded Teckro with his brother, Nigel Hughes, and CTO Jacek Skrzypiec. Teckro uses machine learning to help get drugs and treatments to market quicker and more transparently by speeding up clinical trials - they're working with the top 10 pharmaceutical and biotech companies in the world and their platform takes pressure off doctors, nurses and drug developers and ensures treatments get to market quicker. Teckro raised $25million recently in a Series C to bring their total funding to $43 million from top VCs like Founder's Fund and Bill Maris. Their HQ is Limerick, Ireland with an engineering hub in Dublin and an office in Nashville. Teckro now has nearly 12,000 active sites worldwide and on the podcast, James and Gary talk about Teckro's growth, their funding rounds and how to innovate in clinical trials.
James is joined by Andrew Barraclough, VP of design and innovation at GlaxoSmithKline. With thirty years’ experience, Andrew Barraclough is a leading voice at the heart of design and innovation in the healthcare and FMCG sectors. Andrew joined GlaxoSmithKline in 2011, having previously worked Design Business Association, Novartis Consumer Health, Reckitt Benckiser and Pure Realisation, which he founded. As Vice President of design and innovation at GSK, Andrew has continued to push the boundaries of perception of design across 146+ markets for 25+ global brands, including Panadol, Sensodyne, Theraflu and Flonase. Andrew’s mission at GSK is to embed world class design-thinking and culture across all customer touchpoints. Andrew and James talk about the importance of design in healthtech, how to apply design thinking, the value of designers to healthtech startups and all startups need to apply design thinking from day one. https://www.gsk.com/
James is joined by Zoe Blake, CEO of Xenzone. Zoe is on a mission to provide improved access to clinically excellent mental health services across England and beyond via digitised counselling - powered by humans and backed by AI and analytics. Her rich background in technology and leadership, and the personal tragedy of losing her mother - a mental health nurse - to suicide are what drive her to use technology for clinical good. She has built XenZone into the largest digital mental health platform in England, available in its 100th NHS Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) area - making its services free for children and young people across more than half of England and making substantial impact to the current NHS landscape. James and Zoe talk about Zoe’s background and her 25 years in tech businesses, her personal experience of mental ill health in her family, why you shouldn’t judge a company by what they raise, how she has scaled Xenzone and how digital could be the answer to the huge demand for mental health services. https://xenzone.com/
This week, James is joined by Vincent Grasso, a surgeon, software architect and medical informaticist. He’s currently Global Practice Lead for IPSoft where he designs Cognitive Health Agents and their integration by leveraging the ‘Amelia' virtual agent. Vincent completed his surgical residency at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine Manhattan Program and whilst at Yale University on a fellowship programme, he worked with NASA on Extreme Telemedicine, effectively putting an ER at basecamp of Everest in the 1990s and pioneering the field of telemedicine. Vincent has previously built his own EMR, he’s built startups, he's been mentored by a Wall Street Legend and he's passionate about solving the opioid crisis with technology. James and Vincent talk about all of this and more on this week's episode.
James is joined by Eric Mayes, serial nanotechnology entrepreneur and CEO of Endomag. Eric has 20 years of experience in technology. He was named the Royal Society of Chemistry’s ‘Entrepreneur of the Year 2003’ for his founding role in NanoMagnetics. He is also an advisor to the University of Texas at Austin’s ‘Texas Health Catalyst’ and the European Healthtech Translation Advisory Board (HealthtechTAB). Eric believes that everyone deserves a better standard of cancer care and so joined Cambridge-based healthtech start-up Endomag as CEO. They manufacture a metallic seed, smaller than a grain of rice, which uses magnetism to help doctors locate breast cancer tumours to be removed. James and Eric chat about Eric's previous companies, his journey to healthtech and discuss some lessons learned in adoption of new innovation across healthtech.
http://www.endomagnetics.com/
James is joined by Max Parmentier, founder and CEO of Agetech startup, Birdie. Max has previously scooped $15M from investors including Bill Gates to work on start-up Wambo, an Amazon-esque marketplace that pools medicine procurement so developing countries can get cheaper drugs. He’s pitched at the White House, and worked at the UN; he’s done five years at McKinsey and even helped the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to plan against deforestation — all before he was 30. Birdie recently raised a $7M Series A and digitalises notes taken by care workers during visits which can be more easily shared between professional carers, other health practitioners and family members, helping to coordinate care and keep an older generation out of care homes or hospital beds. But the vision goes much wider and on the podcast, Max talks about tackling the stigma of ageing and normalising support in peoples' homes and James and Max chat about social purpose and meaning in healthtech, how Birdie plans to capture the agetech sector and how to build a truly socially conscious company.
This week James is joined by Andrew Elder, Deputy Managing Partner at Albion VC. Andrew initially practised as a surgeon for six years, specialising in neurosurgery, before joining the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) as a consultant in 2001. Whilst at BCG he specialised in healthcare strategy, gaining experience with many large, global clients across the full spectrum of healthcare including biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, service and care providers, software and telecommunications. Andrew now focuses on medical technologies, digital health and technology-enabled services to the life-science sector, and has served on the boards of companies ranging from diagnostics, imaging and software to pharmaceuticals and biomarkers. He joined Albion Capital in 2005 and became a partner in 2009. He has an MA plus Bachelors of Medicine and Surgery from Cambridge University and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (England). Andrew also oversees the management of the UCL Technology Fund in collaboration with UCLB.
https://www.albion.vc/
James is joined by Tania Boler, the cofounder and CEO of Elvie, a health and lifestyle brand developing smarter technology for women. Elvie takes the best of medical technology and turns it into premium consumer products that women love to use. Together with her co-founder, Alex Asseily (co-founder, Jawbone), she has raised > $50M in investment, most recently their $42M Series B round led by IPGL and supported by Octopus Ventures and Impact Ventures UK. Their first product, Elvie Trainer, is a category-defining Kegel trainer and is sold in major retailers, including Nordstrom and John Lewis and their latest product is the Elvie Pump, a breast pump that made its debut on the catwalk at London Fashion week. James and Tania talk about her background, coming from UN policy into entrepreneurship, the importance of design in healthtech, how to launch a B2C medical device and the ever growing femtech space in health.
James is joined by Sina Habibi, founder and CEO of AI dementia-tech startup, Cognetivity. Sina simplifies complex challenges and develops compelling and collaborative ways to solve them and in addition to business executive roles he has experience in research (nano-technology and synthetic biology), product management, and high-tech consultancy (big data and fin-tech). Sina has been an active member of Cambridge University Entrepreneurs (CUE) since 2010 and chaired the society in 2013-2014. Cognetivity has patented and pilot-tested a software-based platform technology for assessing mental health. Early diagnosis and management of cognitive disorders, including dementia, holds the promise of transforming peoples’ lives and bringing clarity to international healthcare management provision. The early diagnostic sector is starting to gain significant commercial interest as it offers metrics to the pharmaceutical industry in the development of new therapeutics. Additionally the markets for early screening and home monitoring offers significant health economic benefit to payors.
https://www.cognetivity.com/
James is joined by Mir Imran, an Indian healthtech inventor, entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He has had over 20 medical device companies that he has sold to the likes of Ely Lily, Medtronic and Abbott. His first medical device was a world first - the implantable cardiac defibrillator (ICD), which, after being spun out, was acquired by Boston Scientific for $27bn. Mir invented the BIS monitor, used to measure depth of anaesthesia, the Dorsal Root Ganglion (DRG) Stimulator and many other devices. He now has an applied research institute and a venture fund for medical devices and you can hear his fascinating story right here.
https://www.incubevc.com/team/mir/
It's Mental Health Awareness Week and James is joined by Dr. Tim Rogers, who is a medical doctor, consultant and sport psychiatrist. He regularly consults with elite athletes in the UK across a wide variety of sports, including athletes involved in Olympic and Paralympic competition. Tim is a leading advocate for the promotion of athlete wellbeing and mental health and recently joined mental-health-tech company, Big White Wall, as Clinical Director. James and Tim discuss his journey into technology and how new mental-health-tech is reshaping the way that athletes and others are accessing mental health services.
https://www.bigwhitewall.com
James is joined by Robin Farmanfarmaian - healthtech expert, global speaker and author of Amazon No.1 bestseller The Patient as CEO: How Technology Empowers the Healthcare Consumer. Robin is an angel investor in healthtech, backing companies like Dance Biopharm who are doing clinical trials for an inhaled insulin vaporised from a liquid and unicorn MindMaze VR who have raised >$100M (in part from Leonardo di Caprio) and are valued at $1B. Robin talks about her younger years dealing with an autoimmune disease and how she became motivated to positively impact 100M patients through healthtech innovation, how she built an ecosystem round herself through giving and adding value to others and how through her new book, The Thought Leader Formula, she's teaching others in health to become exactly that.
https://www.robinff.com/
This week, James is joined by Mark Harmon, who originally studied pharmacology before becoming a buyer for M&S - he was there for 7 years travelling the world. He then worked for Arcadia Group, which includes the likes of Miss Selfridge and TopShop, opening up flagship shops in places like Rio, and because loves sport, he moved to speedo to set up Speedo Beach, which was a business within a business that grew to about $20M in 3 years - he had a team in Australia and some other incredible beach locations around the world, before getting headhunted by Nike to run their $100M sports apparel business globally and worked with the likes of Wayne Rooney, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal. Mark then had a very moving personal experience when his son born unwell and his priorities in life change pretty much overnight so he went on to become the oldest medical student through Kings College Medical School, graduated as a doctor and went on this great journey to combine his business and medical acumen to now work for eConsult - a healthtech company that streamlines primary and urgent care through an online consultation platform.
www.econsult.net
This week, James is joined by Peter Hames, cofounder and CEO of Big Health, a healthtech company that creates digital programmes to help those with mental health conditions. Not wanting to enter into the potentially vicious cycle of taking medications to help him sleep, Peter, a psychologist by background, was inspired and motivated to start the company when he saw the market lacked any evidence-based, non-drug solutions for his insomnia. Big Health’s first product is, therefore, Sleepio, which is a digital sleep improvement program delivered online or via their app. It gives users techniques from a treatment method called Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), which means that patients like Peter, who don't want to take sedative medications, can receive an alternative, proven, evidence-based therapy. James and Peter talk about Peter's background as an insomnia sufferer, his awesome founder story and how an innovative business model has led to Sleepio being available to 12 million people globally.
Read Peter's Forbes interview - https://bit.ly/2Zxgnbv
www.sleepio.com
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This week, James is joined by Rick Rowan, the patient-founder of Nurokor, a company that creates pain-relieving products that use a technology called microcurrent. Their first product is a device that looks pretty similar to a smartphone, with small electrodes attached that are put onto the skin. It's a Class IIa medical device, FDA approved, CE marked and is selling into 5 different countries, with sufferers of many forms of chronic pain, including Olympic athletes, shouting about positive results. James and Rick talk about Rick’s background as a chronic back-pain sufferer, his motivations from seeing family members in pain to combatting the opioid epidemic and how initially selling B2C has helped the business across healthcare. https://www.nurokor.com/
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This week, James is joined by Hamish Grierson, founder and CEO of Thriva, who has raised over £6M to provide a home-blood-testing service to UK consumers (and now some NHS patients). Hamish is a serial entrepreneur and moved into healthtech from fintech and talks about his journey and some of the similarities and differences between the two sectors. Hamish will also be appearing in the Forbes Healthtech Stories series in May, so look out for that shortly.
www.thriva.co
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This week, James is joined by David Crane, founder and CEO of Smoke Free to talk about how becoming a psychologist led to the creation of the Smoke Free app and gives a lesson to all entrepreneurs in how implementing the theory of behavioural psychology has led to it being downloaded over 4 million times. David is a long-time entrepreneur and has previously founded a development agency, making over 400 apps and websites, a debating association, a company that created insights out of online community forums/blogs and even a cannabis cafe. www.smokefree.ai
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This week Alex and James are joined by Gian Seehra an investor at Octopus Ventures to talk about transitioning from entrepreneur to venture capital, health tech investments and how both founders and investors should approach setting early valuations.
Gian focuses on health investments at Octopus and splits his time on deal origination and assessment of investment opportunities. Prior to joining Octopus, Gian spent two years in Canada building a biotechnology company called Pebble Labs tackling vector-borne, animal and plant diseases, and Trait Biosciences within the cannabis industry.
Gian holds a degree in Industrial Economics from the University of Nottingham. He spent two months training in Muay Thai Boxing in Thailand and plans to spend two weeks a year training there.
Octopus Ventures are one of Europe’s largest Venture Capital teams with £1bn under management. Octopus is a generalist fund but with specialist investments in health-tech. Based in London and New York, they have Venture Partners in San Francisco, Singapore and China. Their typical initial investment is from £1m for Seed to around £5m for Series A.
https://octopusventures.com
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On today's episode Alex and James are joined by Dr Sohaib Imtiaz M.D., MPH, VP of Innovation at Owaves, a company that aims to optimize your circadian rhythm through calendar-tracked lifestyle modification.
Sohaib is a board-certified physician in lifestyle medicine from the United Kingdom who ranked among the top 10 students nationally in statistics, business studies, and information technology. He focuses on lifestyle medicine while exploring technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Sohaib chose to study in his hometown of Manchester in order to prioritize his well-being and relationships. He believes in prevention and in ‘Supra-Health,’ the ability to optimize our health.
The team discuss the journey of transitioning from clinician to entrepreneur, public health and lifestyle medicine.
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https://owaves.com
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Stephen Bourke is cofounder of the UK medicines-management and digital pharmacy app, Echo. Not wanting to be defined by his own medical condition, Stephen, a lifelong patient, embarked on a journey to build a solution that empowers patients and puts them in control of their medications, improving adherence rates and making life with a chronic condition much easier.
Since its creation in 2016, Echo has gone on to scale nationally and has helped tens of thousands of people to stay well. With Stephen’s firm belief in patient centred-design, along with his background in branding and a team comprised of alumni from Apple, Lyst, Hello Fresh and Badoo, they might have proved that you can, in fact, make a medicines app sexy.
We chat design, disruption and digitising the UK health service.
Notes: Stephen mentions The Spine, which, for those that don't know, supports the IT infrastructure for health and social care in England, joining together over 23,000 healthcare IT systems in 20,500 organisations.
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James is joined by Will Stoddart, a Medical and Tech CEO, with experience founding, growing and scaling Werlabs, a rapidly expanding healthcare internet business based out of Stockholm, Sweden. Prior to Werlabs, Will was a founder, along with his twin brother, at Haploflow; focusing on helping individuals make decisions based on data from wearables. Will has experience across software engineering, medicine and finance - plus a few war stories on founding, raising financing and managing very different cultures: think medicine vs product vs marketing. Currently, Will is founding a new consumer healthcare company that is focusing on monitoring, educating and treating age-related decline in functionality.
They cover Will's background, overcoming tragedy, his companies, motivations and passion to solve problems in health. Will gives a practical guide to starting a company, setting up a board, how to streamline the process, mentoring and being mentored and also explains why the tech ecosystem in Stockholm is so powerful.
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Daniel Eck, CEO of Spotify
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Jonas Norlander, Founder of Avito
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Bridgewater's Ray Dalio On The Value Of Embracing Your Weaknesses
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James is joined by Alex Gilbert who currently manages large Life Sciences Partnerships at Medopad, one of the UK’s highest-growth digital health companies. Alex is an experienced “Jack of all trades” who has been working within the Digital Health industry alongside healthcare, pharmaceutical and tech organisations. Through his experience at Medopad, he has launched national projects, defined product proposition and helped grow the company from 8 to >100 people. His passion is the use of technology to empower and engage the patient to take control of their care.
The team talk about Alex's background, how he got into digital health, the value of partnerships with the likes of Apple, Medopad's $28M raise, how Alex has helped Medopad scale internationally and Alex's view on the future of the healthtech sector. www.medopad.com
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This week, James is joined by Zoe Peden, an experienced healthtech entrepreneur-turned venture capitalist at Ananda Impact Ventures. They discuss Zoe’s journey as founder of social care startup, MyChoicePad; how being driven by impact led her to VC and what she looks for in companies as an investor. Zoe holds an undergraduate degree from LSE, an MBA from Henley Business School and is a visiting lecturer at Cass Business School. She has a particular interest in deep technology for impact and now looks to invest in companies that address social challenges in vital areas such as education, health, consumption and the ageing population. www.ananda.vc
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This week James is joined by Charlie Regis the co-founder of Styliff Tech. Styliff is an award winning London & Slovenia based development company who pride themselves on perfecting technology in style.
Charlie became European Doubles Champion in Tennis with co-founder Lucas in 2012. He worked at Bastion PR Agency in sports sponsorship and earned his BSc in International Business from Loughbrough University.
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This week James is joined by Eric M. Fish who is the Senior Vice President of Legal Services at the Federation of State Medical Boards and serves as the general counsel for the organization. Eric also assists in the FSMB's federal and state advocacy efforts, analyzing legislation and healthcare trends, and consulting on the development of model policies for state medical boards. His current work includes exploring how regulated industries and healthcare will respond to the integration of artificial intelligence, as well as pioneering the use of new technologies to improve the licensure and credentialing process.
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Alex and James are joined by Jonathan Knight co-founder of Perfect Ward, an app that makes health and quality inspections easy and effective, across hospitals, care homes and community services. Jonathan has a background in management consultancy, specifically healthcare consulting and founded Perfect Ward to solve key issues he identified with the inspections reporting chain. We talk about the service side of healthcare, quality improvement and staying focused in the face of emerging technology. https://www.perfectward.com/
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Alex, James and Nathan are joined by Dr Chris Whittle CEO and Founder of Q doctor an online video doctor service providing safe, secure, instant and easy to use video GP consultations from your PC or smartphone. Q doctor supports GP practices directly and has been declared safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) after a full inspection. The team discuss the journey of an early founder, selling into public health systems and ensuring that technology companies put policy and patient safety first.
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Alex and James are joined by Dr Umang Patel, partnerships and clinical director at Babylon Healthcare who's mission is to put an accessible and affordable health service in the hands of every person on earth. At Babylon, Umang spends his time making sure that safe, effective and personalised healthcare is available to everyone, everywhere. Umang is also an NHS Paediatrician, he can be found treating children at Frimley Park Hospital on Fridays. The team talk about saving money and the costs of delivering healthcare, what makes a good healthcare company and the importance of culture when companies scale. www.babylonhealth.com
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Callum Bramley Founder and CEO of Respond joins Alex, James and Nathan on the podcast. Callum studied robotics and AI at the University of Reading and founded Respond to help patients with early-stage dementia; helping to identify subtle signs a person may exhibit to help improve detection. The team discuss dementia, computer vision and parallels between health-tech and the fashion industry. www.respondapp.co
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Alex, James and Nathan are joined by Dr Elina Naydenova and Adam Bacon the founders of Feebris an AI-powered system that democratises access to high quality diagnostic and monitoring services beginning with respiratory disease. Elina is a biomedical engineer and data scientist PhD at Oxford University and has also spent time at the World Health Organisation while Adam comes from a strong product background having worked in large corporate supply chains. The team discuss everything about AI in healthcare from regulation and the latest advances to how to ensure high accuracy of data sets together with the role of submarines and samosas. http://feebris.com
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In this episode Alex and James are joined by health-tech angel investor Robert Van Der Zalm. Robert is a globally experienced executive with a strong financial and M&A background and ex-CFO of Noble group a $90bn turnover commodity trader. The team discuss angel investing from both the angel and entrepreneur's viewpoint, startup finances and offer helpful tips around raising angel investment rounds in health-tech.
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Alex, James and Nathan are joined by Dr David Neale CEO & Founder of Vesalian and Paul Roberts CEO of GPDQ. The team and guests discuss integrating tech into primary care and discuss David's background in behavioural science and why it is vital for digital health adoption by both patients and physicians. www.hs.live www.vesalian.com www.gpdq.co.uk
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In this episode Alex, James and Nathan talk a little about their own back-stories and how HS. came to be created. The team discuss the current key technologies in healthcare, the importance of having a technical co-founder in your early stage health-tech company, the latest digital health investments and how to create a product that patients love that providers will pay for.
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