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Like normal healthtech news but, you know, not boring.
The team at SomX bring you the audio version of the weekly Healthtech Pigeon newsletter - a panel show with journalists, VCs, podcasters, entrepreneurs, execs and those with a strong opinion to make things interesting. Regular hosts and guests are Dr James Somauroo, Jessica Smith, Belle Taylor, Huw Penson, Jess Farmery from the SomX team.
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Join Jessica, James, Huw and BlackandBrownSkin Founder Malone Mukwende as they take a deep dive into the week's healthtech news and views.
This week:
[00:30] - Black and Brown Skin launches chrome extension to show users health-related images from various skin tones on any health website globally
[12:00] - Thereβs a disconnect between health tech and the people itβs supposed to help
[23:00] - Doccla acquires OTH in bid to become Europeβs leading virtual hospital
[32:15] - Epic taps Microsoft to accelerate generative AI-powered 'copilot' tools to help clinicians save time
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Join Jessica, James, Huw and Lindus Health Cofounder Michael Young (in a cameo appearance) as they take a deep dive into the week's healthtech news and views.
This week:
[00:45] - Lindus Health, a U.K. clinical trials startup backed by Peter Thiel, raises $18M
[10:55] - Digital Health Company Babylon Shutters U.S. Business, Lays Off Employees
[23:50] - 'NHS staff just want tech that works'
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Join James, Belle and new SomX recruit, Chaz, as they take a deep-dive into the weekβs healthtech news and views.
This week:
[01:40] -Seeking sleep without popping pills? Ozlo emerges from stealth?
[07:20] - Getting personal: a wearable for precision antibiotic dosing
[18:40] - Amazon partners with Maven to offer reproductive care to employees
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Join James, Huw and Healthily CEO Matteo Berlucchi as they take a deep-dive into the weekβs healthtech news and views.
This week:Β
[01:45] - PIGEON EX-COO-SIVE: AI self-care platform Healthily lifts the lid on its new health information chatbot, βDOTβ
[25:30] - Patient data: more than half of UK public donβt trust AI
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Join Jess, Huw, Jessica, and special guest Dr Muhunthan Thillai for another week of healthtech news and views.
This week:
[01:30] -Nothing artificial but plenty of intelligence as AstraZeneca and Qureight launch AI play
[10:30] - Hippocratic AI raises $15M and more digital health fundings
[18:20] - Health in 2040: projected patterns of illness in England
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Join Huw, Belle and Hollie for another week of healthtech news and views.
This week:
[01:35] -This AI chatbot has helped doctors treat 3 million peopleβand may be coming to a hospital near you
[11:45] - Bridging the communication divide and tackling health inequality
[20:20] - Intel Capital, Khosla lead $27M investment into SiPhox Healthβs at-home blood-testing tech
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Join Huw, Jess Farmery and Aoife Fordham for another week of healthtech news and views.
This week:
[01:55] -Majority of public want digital health apps to be used in NHS
[12:10] - Telehealth should not be considered a one-size-fits-all-diseases solution: study
[19:40] - Slow roll out and a lack of direction hindering digital health services
[29:10] - Eureka Health Raises $7M in Funding
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Join Jessica, James and Konrad for another week of healthtech news and views.
This week:Β
[00:12] -The Case for Change - 75 Years On, An NHS Focused On Adoption And Scale of Tech For Greater Patient Benefit
[14:40] - 7οΈβ£ NHS England sets out seven short-term digital priorities
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Join Jessica, James and Abeyna for another week of healthtech news and views.
This week:
[01:30] - NHS digital health check-ups launched 'to ease pressure on GPs'
[24:10] - The telehealth services we all relied on during COVID are fading away β but telemedicine may be entering a new era as providers look to bring the clinic home
[40:50] -Digital health company Babylon Health to go private in merger with brain tech company MindMaze
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Join James, Jess Farmery and Huw for another week of healthtech news and views.
This week:Β
[00:50] -the implications of the metaverse for future healthcare, treatment and medical education
[07:15] - AI can make healthcare more accurate, accessible, and sustainable
[14:40] -The Viability Of The Digital Healthcare Sector In 2023
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Join Jessica, James, Huw and THC Primary Care's Tara Humphrey for another week of healthtech news and views.
This week:
[04:05] -Majority of public happy to use health technology to avoid going into hospital, new research shows
[14:55] - βBuilding and maintaining trust is crucial to realising the benefits of AIβ β CDEI publishes portfolio of AI assurance techniques
[25:30] -Achieving health equity in life sciences
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Join Jessica, James and Dama Health's Elena Rueda for another week of healthtech news and views.
This week:Β
[04:50] -Pharma giant Bayer moves deeper into digital health with new business unit
[23:40] - Re:Cognition Health opens concussion clinic featuring brain-scanning tech
[32:30] - Davina McCall's Pill Revolution
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Join James, Huw and FITFILE's Philip Russmeyer for another week of healthtech news and views.
This week:
[02:25] -NHS data breach: trusts shared patient details with Facebook without consent
[26:35] - NHS and Government back AHSNs to continue to lead innovation, under new name
[41:20] - The AI revolution can put patients at the centre of NHS
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Join Henry, Jessica, and Huw for another week of healthtech news and views.
This week: Theranos sentencing, nurses go to prison in VR, and long COVID startups.
[01:33] - Joke-telling vacuum robot under-fire at Darent Valley Hospital
[06:53] - New device measures haemoglobin more accurately in dark skin
[10:42] - Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes jailed for fraud
[17:15] - HEE launches VR app for nurses to experience prison healthcare settings
[23:06] - Long Covid may affect 100m people β meet one of the first startups looking to help them
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Join Henry, Indigo, and healthcare whirlwind Rachel Murphy for another week of healthtech news and views. Rachel is raising money to support families in Ukraine - you can help out here.
This week: Men's health, the NHS' agency crisis, and biotech's ethical conundrum.
[02:03] - The digital future of men's health
[06:30] - NHS forking out Β£2,500 a shift to agency nurses to stop staffing crisis - The NHS spends
[14:00] - Twitter changes cost big pharma $15bn
[19:04] - Biotechnology is creating ethical worriesβand weβve been here before
[24:32] - How Apple is empowering people with their health information
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Join James, Jessica, Jess, Henry and Credentially's Dr Kit Latham, for another week of healthtech news and views. This week: Murder, M&A, and October's hottest seeds.
[02:51] - Biotech co-founder, facing murder-for-hire charges, accused of fabricating data
[06:40] - Exploring 2022 digital health M&A trends
[12:42] - Leva Clinic fundraises Β£3m for UKβs first digital chronic pain platform
[20:45] - The 50 most active early-stage healthtech investors
[28:03] - October's hottest seeds
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Join James, Jessica, Henry and special guest Dr Maslah Amin, for another week of healthtech news and views.
This week: The metaverse and patient care, AI training for NHS staff, and investors not yet willing to splash the cash.
[01:08] - NHS report calls for artificial intelligence training for all staff
[05:27] - Biotech IPOs are strange, even in a down market
[09:25] - YouTube will let doctors and nurses apply to be labelled as reliable
[22:50] - The top 3 cyberthreats facing healthcare organisations today
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Join James & Henry and SomX's PR lead, Jess Farmery, for another week of healthtech news and views.
This week: Daye raise β¬11.5 for vaginal microbiome testing, the problems with voice biomarkers, and is military metaphor appropriate for talking healthcare?
[00:55] - Healthtech-specific risks for medical malpractice liability
[07:56] - "Voice biomarker" tech analyses your voice for signs of depression
[12:16] - UK-based gynae health startup Daye raises β¬11.5 million to launch at-home screening kit and bridge the gender health gap
[16:27] - From βwar roomsβ to βcancer battlesβ: history shows military metaphors are detrimental to the NHS
[23:30] - xWave partners with Royal College of Radiologists to tackle backlog
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Join James & Henry and special guest Professor Andrew Farmery, who, amongst many other things, heads up the undergraduate programme at Wadham Colllege, Oxford.
This week: A sensible article about the state of the market, healthtech amasses more unicorns than any other tech, and people in nerd goggles need less drugs.
[06:05] - Mid and South Essex ICS create a single waiting list for all elective
[12:26] - Study finds patients immersed in VR could need less anaesthetic during surgery
[22:28] - The future of augmented reality in four charts
[31:20] - After two exuberant years, health innovation funding recalibrates to pre-pandemic levels
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Join James & Henry and special guest Peter Birch, founder of Talking Healthtech, Australia's biggest and best healthtech community, for another week of healthtech news and views.
This week: A well-being invasion, period apps continue to fail privacy tests, and definitely-not-a-metal-band Malware as a Service comes to the fore.
[01:38] - WHO launches the world's most extensive freely accessible AI health worker
[6:48] - September's hottest seeds
[12:34] - Wellbeing startup banks $35 million
[19:06] - Declining VC investment in digital health
[24:47] - Malware as a Service emerging in healthcare
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This week: Why users stop using health apps, Rock Healthβs Q3 funding review and VR renders Plymouth more palatable.
[1:50] - Why healthcare organisations should adopt modern data platforms
[4:16] - Q3 2022 digital health funding: The market isnβt the same as it was
[7:54] - Virtual wards are failing patients and clinicians
[15:05] - University Hospitals Plymouth introduces virtual reality for new emergency centre
[18:18] - What makes users stop using their mobile health apps?
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This week: A Peachy raise, techbio/biotech ones to watch, and more interoperability than you can shake a stick at.
[1:31] -Β 11 VC investors behind the hottest healthtech deals
[3:21] - HEE CEO discusses digital workforce issues
[7:14] - Health insurtech startup Peachy raises Β£1.5m
[17:45] - 18 European techbio startups to watch - according to investors
[21:43] - Interoperable digital care can only be achieved with an open technology approach
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This week: Googleβs health-conscious sibling Verily secures pocket money from the parents, health apps are giving us a stonking headache, and a modern day βDavid vs Goliathβ story or shall we say Hippocrates vs Dr Google.
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This week: Googleβs health-conscious sibling Verily secures pocket money from the parents, health apps are giving us a stonking headache and a modern day βDavid vs Goliathβ story or shall we say Hippocrates vs Dr Google.
1:35 - Googleβs Verily secures $1B to bolster armoury
3:30 - Health apps are a headache and how to fix them
8:30 - Redesign Health bags $65M to incubate more tech-enabled healthcare businesses
13:00 - β© Digital health trends coming in 2023
19:35 - π€ Dotplot wins UK Dyson award
25:45 - Creating a digital Hippocratic Oath for the 21st century
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This week: Triage accuracy of symptoms checkers low, why the Bee Gees are popular with biotech investors, and llongyfarchiadau i Diurnal.
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This week: Organ harvesting, animal testing, death to gorillas, and other uplifting stories.
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This week: 10 caretech startups to watch, integration depression, and why women should be doing more acid*.
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This week: Patchwork raise, Space force gets physical, and Bessemer Venture Partners teach us our COGS from our ARPU.
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This week: Cera raise big, unicorn stock sinks, and if we lose a funding battle to Proptech, Pigeon will turn this car newsletter around and go back home.
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This week: Whatβs gone on at NHS AI lab, analysing Appleβs approach, and Australian startup wants you to stop Googling your symptoms.
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This week: Overstuffed olive slims down, uplifting ALS breakthrough, and meet Fred Hutchinson, part-man, part-building.
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This week: Flesh penetrating waves, The Rutβs 1979 single Babylonβs Burning becomes prescient 43 years too late, and NHS staff given a pay rise. No. Sorry. Pigeonβs misread that. NHS staff given a share of a Β£312 medal.
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This week: Fintech plays second fiddle (poorly probably), blood test startups are back, and how switching thinking from biotech to techbio could unblock the sector.Β Podcast version below!
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This week: Birdie confirms avian supremacy with $30m series B and cofounder and CPO Rajiv Tanna joins James, Jess and Henry to discuss the raise and the rest of the week's news in healthtech.
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The one-minute healthtech roundup. Now in podcast form. James, Jessica and Henry from SomX bring you the first episode of this brand new, weekly panel show covering the healthtech news. This week, Apple & Alphabetβs differing approaches, mental health raises, and EMIS picked up for $1.5bn.
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