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The Healthtech Podcast#7 How to Get Into Healthtech: Dr James Somauroo - CEO, Podcaster, Healthcare CommunicationsOn the final episode of the "How to Get Into Healthtech" mini-series, Dr James Somauroo and Dr Keith Grimes sit down to reflect on the series conversations and share where they would begin if starting their careers today. Connect with Keith: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drkeithgrimes/Connect with James: https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-somauroo/ Apply to be a guest: https://www.thehealthtechpodcast.com/ Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: https://www.healthtechpigeon.com/Learn more about SomX for yo...2025-07-2334 min
The Healthtech Podcast#385 Making Healthtech Regulation Agile with James Dewar from ScarletThis week James is joined by... another James, Scarlet CEO and co-founder James Dewar. He co-founded Scarlet with Jamie Cox in 2021 to hasten the transition to universally accessible and affordable healthcare. After graduating with a Masters in AI & Machine Learning from Imperial College, he worked as a Data Scientist before meeting Jamie and starting Scarlet. He has spent nearly four years developing Scarlet into Europe's only software & AI-specialised Notified Body, which certifies medical software under MDR more efficiently and frequently than ever before.Learn more: http://scarlet.ccApply to be a guest: www.thehealthtechpodcast...2025-02-061h 16The Healthtech Podcast#337 The Power of Purpose, Vision, and Identity in Challenging Times with Emil Hewage from BIOSWe take a look back at episode 307, when James welcomed Emil Hewage, CEO of BIOS Health. In this clip, Emil and James share their insights into leading a team through challenges, the importance of purpose and vision, and the need for entrepreneurs to find their focal point. Apply to be a guest: www.thehealthtechpodcast.comGrab a ticket for The Healthtech Podcast LIVE and use the code james50 for 50% off!https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-healthtech-podcast-live-with-dr-helen-oneill-and-dr-karan-rajan-tickets-775522176707Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦:www.healthtechpigeon.comGet in touch with...2024-02-0920 minThe Healthtech Podcast#335 Turning a parent's worst nightmare into impact and joy, with Dom Raban from XploroWe take a look back at episode 311, where James welcome Dom Raban, co-founder and CEO of Xploro. In this clip, Dom and James share their insights on gamification as a means to education, moving the adoption frontier forwards, and the importance of addressing fundamental needs before developing complex technology, with the simplest solutions sometimes being the most effective of all. Xploro is a digital therapeutics platform that uses augmented reality, artificial intelligence and games to reduce anxiety for young patients going to hospital.https://xploro.health/Grab a ticket for The H...2024-01-2925 min
The Healthtech Podcast#310 - Tackling an inactivity pandemic, with Anton Derlyatka, CEO of SweatcoinThis 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 t...2023-07-0551 min
The Healthtech Podcast#269 The Story of Concentric Health with CEO Dr Dafydd Loughran ⭕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!LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dafloughranApply to be a guest: www.thehealthtechpodcast.com/Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: www.healthtechpigeon.comGet in touch with James : www.jamessomauroo.comLearn more about SomX for your hea...2022-05-121h 10
The Healthtech Podcast#211 The Story of Samsung Electronics with Mark NottonThis 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 enthusia...2021-07-0439 minThe Healthtech Podcast#152: Artificial Intelligence (AI) in healthcare, with NHSX's Dr Indra Joshi 🤖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...2020-11-2938 minThe Healthtech Podcast#148: Focus on impact... it's an extremely hard journey 🚀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...
Get in touch with Peter: www.kheironmed.com | https://www.linkedin.com/in/kecsky/
Get in touch with Dr James Somauroo: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk 2020-11-1504 minThe Healthtech Podcast#146: The Story of Cooper University Health Care with Dr Anthony Mazzarelli 🏥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.
Get in touch with Dr. Anthony Mazzarelli: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthony-mazzarelli-ab983b6/
Get...2020-11-0949 minThe Healthtech Podcast#144: Wellness and healthtech, with Dr Dilraj Kalsi 🧘🏾♀️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...2020-11-011h 00The Healthtech Podcast#143: The Story of Ampersand Health with Nader Alaghband 🚑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...2020-10-2945 minThe Healthtech Podcast#132: Lean into what you enjoy 🎯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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www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk2020-09-2005 minThe Healthtech Podcast#131: The Story of Crista Galli Ventures, with Dr Fiona Pathiraja 🏥💰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.
To learn more about Crista Galli Ventures and Dr Fiona Pathiraja:
https://www.cristagalli.com | https://www.linkedin.com/in/fionapathiraja/
2020-09-1641 minThe Healthtech Podcast#125: The Story of emteq labs with Graeme Cox 🕶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.
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...2020-08-2751 minThe Healthtech Podcast#124: Identity, opportunity and an affinity to high risk scenarios 🚨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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www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk2020-08-2311 minThe Healthtech Podcast#120: Tips for new doctors & innovators (August 2020) 👩🏽⚕️👨🏼⚕️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...2020-08-0915 minThe Healthtech Podcast#110: VR in anaesthesiaThis 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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www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk2020-07-0539 minThe Healthtech Podcast#106: VR in healthcare 🕶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:
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www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk2020-06-2109 minThe Healthtech PodcastEpisode 100: What happened to HS.? 👀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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www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk2020-05-3137 minThe Healthtech PodcastEpisode 99: The Story of Zesty with Lloyd Price 🏥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 St...2020-05-281h 16The Healthtech PodcastEpisode 98: Early access to somX 🔳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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www.somx.co.uk | www.jamessomauroo.com | js@somx.co.uk2020-05-2407 minThe Healthtech PodcastEpisode 97: The Story of a Healthtech VC with Ash PatelJames' 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. Pr...2020-05-2149 minThe Healthtech PodcastEpisode 95: The Story of Pharmaphorum and Healthcare Communication 🗣👨🏻⚕️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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js@som.co.uk | www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.c...2020-05-1443 minThe Healthtech PodcastEpisode 94: How health and care organisations buy AI products 🤖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...2020-05-1118 minThe Healthtech PodcastEpisode 93: The Story of Tympahealth, ENT-tech & Mauritius 🦻🇲🇺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.
www.tympahealth.com | www.linkedin.com/in/krishan-ramdoo-10086979 | krishan@tympahealth.com
www.jamessomauroo.com | js@somx.co.uk | www.linkedin.com/in/james-somauroo2020-05-0757 minThe Healthtech PodcastEpisode 92: Thank you for 100 countries! 🎙🌍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/
Ha...2020-05-0305 minThe Healthtech PodcastEpisode 89: Entrepreneurship & Intrapreneurship with Dr. Harpreet SoodThis 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 N...2020-04-231h 02The Healthtech PodcastEpisode 87: The Story of iPlato 🩺📱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 M...2020-04-1653 minThe Healthtech PodcastEpisode 85: The Story of Playfair Capital 🟢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...2020-04-0943 minThe Healthtech PodcastEpisode 84: COVID-19: Ideas, Innovation and Optimism 💡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...2020-04-0509 minThe Healthtech PodcastEpisode 83: The Story of Arkeo and Mental FitnessThis 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...2020-04-0254 minThe Healthtech PodcastEpisode 82: COVID-19: NHSX Calls In Microsoft and GoogleThis 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...2020-03-2917 minThe Healthtech PodcastEpisode 81: COVID-19: The Story of Pando and The Flow of InformationThis 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...2020-03-2649 minThe Healthtech PodcastEpisode 80: COVID-19: The View of an ICU Doctor, with Dr Aman Gupta MBBS, BSc, FRCAFor 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...2020-03-2433 minThe Healthtech PodcastEpisode 78: COVID-19 Brings Q doctor & eConsult TogetherWe'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.
www.q...2020-03-1941 minThe Healthtech PodcastEpisode 77: Healthtech Responds to COVID-19 🤍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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Twitter @HSVenture
Instagram @hs.ven...2020-03-1509 minThe Healthtech PodcastEpisode 76: The Story of uMed and Innovating Clinical Trials 🚑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 p...2020-03-121h 05The Healthtech PodcastEpisode 75: Getting Things Right From Day One ☝🏼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
Send James an email for podcast advice: js@somx.co.uk
HS. Health-Tech Talks, March 2020: https://bit.ly/2PiNMDc
Episode 11: The Story of Healthtech Entrepreneurship to Ven...2020-03-0808 minThe Healthtech PodcastEpisode 74: The Story of Peter Birch and the Australian Healthtech Scene 🇦🇺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 sort...2020-03-051h 00The Healthtech PodcastEpisode 73: Selling Your Healthtech News Into The Media 🗞This week's Sunday Session is about communicating your messages as a healthtech startup. As a contributor for Forbes, James gives his tips on how to sell in a press release as a founder without a PR agency and offers advice to anyone thinking about levelling up their content in 2020.
Agnieszka, CEO of Renovos: agnieszka.janeczek@renovos.co.uk
Send James an email for comms, messaging and media advice: js@somx.co.uk
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 Li...2020-03-0110 minThe Healthtech PodcastEpisode 72: The Story of Limbic and the Line Between Art and Science 👨🎨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!
ross@limbic.ai | www.limbic.ai | www.linkedin.com/in/refharper/
...2020-02-2747 minThe Healthtech PodcastEpisode 71: Health Economics and Solving a $1 Trillion Problem 💰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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Your can get our host, Dr. James Somauroo...2020-02-2308 minThe Healthtech PodcastEpisode 70: The Story of Novartis and Going BIG On Data and Digital 💥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 man...2020-02-2051 minThe Healthtech PodcastEpisode 69: Commercialising Academia 👩🏽🎓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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2020-02-1606 minThe Healthtech PodcastEpisode 68: The Story of Pharmacy2U and Sex, Drugs & Rock n' Roll 💊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, ho...2020-02-1343 minThe Healthtech PodcastEpisode 67: Getting Started in Healthtech and Artificial Intelligence 🤖Do what you love, don't apologise for ambition and definitely make progress before saying you're an AI company!
Mentioned on this week's Sunday Session:
Episode 43: The Story of Ieso Digital Health and NLP: https://apple.co/2SctrkX
Kaggle: Your Machine Learning and Data Science Community: https://www.kaggle.com/
If you want to suggest a guest or appear on the podcast, email James a pitch at james@hs.live or if you want a question answered on one of the Sunday Sessions, send it to that email too or message him on his...2020-02-0906 minThe Healthtech PodcastEpisode 66: The Story of Vivienne Parry OBE and Tomorrow's World 🌍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 le...2020-02-061h 07The Healthtech PodcastEpisode 65: Building Certainty & Trust As A Healthtech CEO ✅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/
If you want to suggest a guest or appear on the podcast, email James a pitch at james@hs.live or if you want a question answered on one of the Sunday Sessions...2020-02-0206 minThe Healthtech PodcastEpisode 64: The Story of Red Ninja and Impact Through Design 🤺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’...2020-01-301h 01The Healthtech PodcastEpisode 63: Focus 📌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/
If you want to suggest a guest or appear on the podcast, email James a pitch at james@hs.live or if you want...2020-01-2607 minThe Healthtech PodcastEpisode 62: The Story of Servelec and the Rio EPR 🇧🇷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 wi...2020-01-231h 06The Healthtech PodcastEpisode 61: AI, Africa and A £140k Investment 🌍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
If you want to suggest a g...2020-01-1909 minThe Healthtech PodcastEpisode 60: The Story of Biobeats and Coding Human Behaviour 🤖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, I...2020-01-161h 04The Healthtech PodcastEpisode 59: Understand Your Customer! 💥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...2020-01-1208 minThe Healthtech PodcastEpisode 58: The Story of 'Changing Health' and Behaviour Change At Scale 🚀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, p...2020-01-091h 01The Healthtech PodcastEpisode 57: The First Sunday Session 🤓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...2020-01-0512 minThe Healthtech PodcastEpisode 56: The Story of Sweatcoin and Public Health 🏃🏾♀️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....2020-01-0245 minThe Healthtech PodcastEpisode 55: The Story of Radiology AI with Dr. Hugh Harvey 🦾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 th...2019-12-2655 minThe Healthtech PodcastEpisode 54: The Story of Novoheart and Artificial Organs 💙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 m...2019-12-1954 minThe Healthtech PodcastEpisode 53: The Story of Diabetes Digital Media and Social Platforms 👩🏽💻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 pati...2019-12-1251 minThe Healthtech PodcastEpisode 52: The Story of AccuRx and Clinician-Patient Communication 📲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 th...2019-12-0553 minThe Healthtech PodcastEpisode 51: The Story of Infinity Health and Hospital Productivity 🏥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...2019-11-281h 00The Healthtech PodcastEpisode 50: The Story of Alpha, Women's Health and The Silicon Valley Formula 👩🏽💻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 pa...2019-11-2150 minThe Healthtech PodcastEpisode 49: The Story of Exscientia: The First AI Drug Discovery Company 💊🔍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...2019-11-1453 minThe Healthtech PodcastEpisode 48: The Story of Skin Analytics and Dermatology AI 🧴☀️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...2019-11-0754 minThe Healthtech PodcastEpisode 47: The Story of Butterfly, Imaging Technology & A $1.25 Billion Valuation 🦋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 Fun...2019-10-3155 minThe Healthtech PodcastEpisode 45: The Story of Cereproc and Speech Synthesis 🗯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...2019-10-1752 minThe Healthtech PodcastEpisode 44: The Story of Bonzun and Pregnancy-Tech 🤰🏽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 coun...2019-10-101h 00The Healthtech PodcastEpisode 43: The Story of Ieso Digital Health and NLP 🗣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, Ies...2019-10-0353 minThe Healthtech PodcastEpisode 42: The Story of Natalie Douglas and Being A Healthtech CEO 🤷🏼♀️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 i...2019-09-261h 01The Healthtech PodcastEpisode 41: The Story of Draper & Dash and Hospital Analytics 🏥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 impr...2019-09-191h 03The Healthtech PodcastEpisode 40: The Story of Mojo and Fertility Technology 🤰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...2019-09-1254 minThe Healthtech PodcastEpisode 39: The Story of Philips and Healthtech Corporates 💡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...2019-09-0557 minThe Healthtech PodcastEpisode 38: The Story of Scalpel and Tech in Surgery 😷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...2019-08-2951 minThe Healthtech PodcastEpisode 37: The Story of Jud Brewer, Digital Therapeutics and Mindful Tech 📱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 deve...2019-08-2251 minThe Healthtech PodcastEpisode 36: The Story of Dexcom and Diabetes-Tech 🍰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, f...2019-08-1555 minThe Healthtech PodcastEpisode 35: The Story of Flagship Pioneering and The Future of Medicines 🧪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...2019-08-0859 minThe Healthtech PodcastEpisode 33: The Story of Teckro and Innovating Clinical Trials 💊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. Thei...2019-07-2558 minThe Healthtech PodcastEpisode 32: The Story of GlaxoSmithKline and the Importance of Design In Healthtech 🧬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 cu...2019-07-1853 minThe Healthtech PodcastEpisode 20: The Story Of Sleepio and Scaling Into The USA 💤 🇺🇸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 ca...2019-04-2655 minThe Healthtech PodcastEpisode 19: The Story of Nurokor and Bioelectric Medicine ⚡️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...2019-04-2046 minThe Healthtech PodcastEpisode 18: The Story of Thriva and Consumer Health 💉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.
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For more information and content, check out our website www.hs.ventures. You can follow us...2019-04-1249 minThe Healthtech PodcastEpisode 17: The Story of 'Smoke Free' and Behavioural Psychology in Healthtech 🚬🧠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
For more information and co...2019-04-0552 minThe Healthtech PodcastEpisode 16: The Story of Health Tech Investing and Octopus Ventures 🐙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...2019-03-3147 minThe Healthtech PodcastEpisode 15: The Story of Public Health and Lifestyle MedicineOn 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 opti...2019-03-231h 07The Healthtech PodcastEpisode 14: The Story of A Patient Who Made A Medicines App SexyStephen 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 co...2019-03-1546 minThe Healthtech PodcastEpisode 13: The Story of Mentorship To Turn An Idea Into RealityJames 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...2019-03-0145 minThe Healthtech PodcastEpisode 12: The Story of Medopad and Global ScaleJames 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 digita...2019-01-2348 minThe Healthtech PodcastEpisode 11: The Story of Healthtech Entrepreneurship to Venture CapitalThis 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, co...2019-01-1645 minThe Healthtech PodcastEpisode 10: The Story of Styliff, User-Centric Design and Sports-TechThis 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.
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@h...2019-01-0649 minThe Healthtech PodcastEpisode 9: The Story of Healthcare Regulation and InnovationThis 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.
For...2018-12-2244 minThe Healthtech PodcastEpisode 8: The Story of Perfect Ward and Quality ImprovementAlex 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/
For more information and content, check out our website www.hs.ventures. You can follow us on Twitter @HSVenture...2018-12-1045 minThe Healthtech PodcastEpisode 7: The Story of Q Doctor and Telehealth SafetyAlex, 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.
For more information and content, check out our website...2018-11-2548 minThe Healthtech PodcastEpisode 6: The Story of Babylon and Healthcare SustainabilityAlex 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...2018-11-1844 minThe Healthtech PodcastEpisode 5: The Story of Respond and Dementia-TechCallum 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
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...2018-11-1142 minThe Healthtech PodcastEpisode 4: The Story of Feebris and AI in HealthcareAlex, 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...2018-11-0349 minThe Healthtech PodcastEpisode 3: The Story of Health-Tech Angel Investing and Startup FinancesIn 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.
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...2018-10-2644 minThe Healthtech PodcastEpisode 2: The Story of Vesalian, GPDQ, Primary Care-Tech and Behavioural ScienceAlex, 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
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 2018-10-2346 minThe Healthtech PodcastEpisode 1: The Story of Health-Tech and HS.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.
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...2018-10-1345 min