SomX’s Jessica Somauroo and Amy Thomas are joined Sanome's Benedikt von Thüngen as they dive into this week's healthtech news. 00:00 - Intro 01:00 - MEMORI becomes first UK-built, certified software-as-a-medical device for real-time infection prediction 27:03 - ChatGPT adds mental health guardrails after reports of bot feeding people’s delusions 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🖇 Connect with Jessica on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Am...
Aug 10, 2025•48 min•Ep. 153
Daisy, Belle and Hollie from SomX break down the best stories from this week’s newsletter. 00:00 Intro 01:26 Let a breakthrough in measuring body clocks ease the ills of shiftwork 12:19 Why VC-Backed Longevity Startups Are Dying In A $5 Trillion Wellness Market 23:58 This DNA test can predict if a 5-year-old will be obese as an adult 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🖇 Connect with Belle on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Daisy on LinkedI...
Aug 03, 2025•34 min•Ep. 152
SomX’s Amy Thomas, Hollie Ruda and Taffy Kahari dive into this week's healthtech news. 00:00 - Intro 01:04 - Artificial Intelligence, real emotions — AI is more emotionally intelligent than humans, new study finds 14:55 - Medical chatbot firm OpenEvidence raises $210m 25:50 - Black women ‘denied pain relief’ on NHS maternity wards 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🖇 Connect with Hollie on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Amy on LinkedIn 🖇...
Jul 27, 2025•38 min•Ep. 151
SomX’s Amy Thomas and Daisy Makin dive into this week's healthtech news with Reset Health's Dr Laura Falvey 00:00 - Intro 04:55 - Tandem Health raises $50M Series A to scale its AI scribe across the NHS 19:12 - NHS staff unsettled by patients filming care and posting videos on social media 29:20 - Weight loss jabs 'may protect against dementia and stroke', study suggests 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🖇 Connect with Daisy on Lin...
Jul 20, 2025•56 min•Ep. 150
SomX’s Belle Taylor and Huw Penson dive into this week's healthtech news with PocDoc's Steve Roest 00:00 - Intro 02:25 - Tech-led NHS could boost UK economy by £40bn 29:00 - Samsung to buy US health tech firm Xealth in digital health push 42:50 - Comprehensive policies for scaling systemic and equitable integration of digital health technologies 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🖇 Connect with Belle on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Huw ...
Jul 13, 2025•52 min•Ep. 149
SomX’s Jessica Somauroo and Huw Penson dive into the NHS 10 Year Plan with Malte Gerhold and Liam Cahill. 00:00 - Intro 04:00 - 10 Year Health Plan for England: fit for the future 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🖇 Connect with Jessica on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Huw on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Malte on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Liam on LinkedIn 📖 Learn more about the SomX team at https://somx.health...
Jul 06, 2025•1 hr•Ep. 148
SomX’s Belle Taylor, Andrew Hair and Leed's Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Dr Fahmid Chowdhury dive into the weeks’ healthtech stories. 00:43 - New AI chest X-ray software to speed up diagnosis and improve patient care 21:35 - NHS plans to DNA test all babies to assess disease risk 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🖇 Connect with Belle on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Andrew on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Fahmid on LinkedIn 📖 Learn more abo...
Jun 29, 2025•39 min•Ep. 147
SomX’s Jessica Somauroo is joined by Dr Derrick Khor and Blanca Baez at HLTH Europe for the latest news and developments from across the healthtech ecosystem. 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🖇 Connect with Jessica on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Derrick on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Blanca on LinkedIn 📖 Learn more about the SomX team at https://somx.health...
Jun 22, 2025•43 min•Ep. 146
SomX’s Jessica Somauroo and Amy Thomas dive into the weeks’ healthtech stories. 00:00 - Intro 17:28 - Public health bodies urged to launch period tracking apps to protect data 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🖇 Connect with Jessica on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Amy on LinkedIn 📖 Learn more about the SomX team at https://somx.health...
Jun 15, 2025•45 min•Ep. 145
SomX’s Huw Penson, Andrew Hair and Hollie Ruda dive into the weeks’ healthtech stories. 00:00 - Intro 01:25 - Musk's Neuralink raises $650 million in latest funding as clinical trials begin + A Neuralink Rival Just Tested a Brain Implant in a Person 12:10 - atai Life Sciences and Beckley Psytech to Combine Creating a Global Leader in Psychedelic Mental Health Therapies 20:13 - NHS England pauses ‘ground-breaking’ AI project following GP data concerns 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeo...
Jun 08, 2025•27 min•Ep. 144
SomX’s Huw Penson, Amy Thomas and Hollie Ruda dive into the weeks’ healthtech stories. [00:00] - Intro [01:34] - Amazon-style’ prescription tracking goes live on NHS App [13:14] - Hinge Health goes public, raises $437.3M in IPO [21:45] - UK health tech startups worth £32bn, report finds 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🖇 Connect with Hollie on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Amy on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Huw on LinkedIn 📖 Learn more a...
Jun 01, 2025•33 min•Ep. 143
SomX’s Belle Taylor and Amy Thomas dive into the weeks’ healthtech stories with the help of The Health Foundations’ Tom Hardie. 00:00 - Intro 00:40 - Digitizing the NHS and adult social care 16:10 - Can AI therapists really be an alternative to human help? 30:40 - Digital Inclusion Under the Microscope as Digital Poverty Alliance launches NHS Sector Inquiry 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🖇 Connect with Belle on LinkedIn 🖇 Conne...
May 25, 2025•44 min•Ep. 142
Huw and Amy from SomX breaks down the best stories from this week’s newsletter with help from HLTH's Henry Stoneley. 06:18 - The new Finland: How Portugal has become a hub for health tech innovation 17:00 - Mark Zuckerberg wants you to have more friends … but AI 28:10 - Only 30% of Health and Social providers Using AI, New Survey Reveals 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🖇 Connect with Huw on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Amy on LinkedI...
May 18, 2025•44 min•Ep. 141
James SomX breaks down the best stories from this week’s newsletter with help from Sanome's, Benedikt von Thüngen , 01:31 - Belfast Digital Twin Centre to fast track industrial adoption of deep tech 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🖇 Connect with James on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Benedikt on LinkedIn 📖 Learn more about the SomX team at https://somx.health...
May 11, 2025•53 min•Ep. 140
Huw and Amy from SomX break down the best stories from this week’s newsletter with help from Tandem Health’s, Dr Katie Baker. 02:45 - Accurx and Tandem Health roll out AI scribing tool across the NHS 18:48 - Ambient voice technology guidance launched by NHSE to support adoption 32:40 - Few digital health technologies can address multimorbidity 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🖇 Connect with Amy on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Huw on L...
May 04, 2025•45 min•Ep. 139
Belle and Amy from SomX break down the best stories from this week’s newsletter with help from Faces of Digital Health podcast host, Tjasa Zajc. 02:55 - Europe’s healthtech and AI startups raise $13.9B in Q1 as global investors return 16:00 - Driving Fertility And Perimenopause Innovations For Women’s Health 30:24 - Single-dose psychedelic boosts ‘brain flexibility’ for weeks, study finds 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🖇 Connect...
Apr 27, 2025•45 min•Ep. 138
Amy and Taffy from SomX break down the best stories from this week’s newsletter. - Fierce Healthcare Fundraising Tracker—Hellocare.ai banks $47M; SignalFire raises $1B to invest in AI startups . - Lab-grown chicken ‘nuggets’ hailed as ‘transformative step’ for cultured meat . - Innovative Blood Testing Tech Could Spell the End of Needle Phobia - Digital Health Technology News 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🖇 Connect with Amy on ...
Apr 20, 2025•40 min•Ep. 137
Huw, Adama and Taffy from SomX break down the best stories from this week’s newsletter. 01:34 - A startup space where women’s representation is growing: digital health Cavenagh Health's survey: https://xrgpfimzcdu.typeform.com/to/lplPfikk?typeform-source=www.linkedin.com 19:51 - Wes Streeting pledges to retain digital workforce amid NHS reforms 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🖇 Connect with Huw on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Adama o...
Apr 13, 2025•35 min•Ep. 136
Huw and Daisy from SomX break down the best stories from this week’s newsletter with help from Definition Health’s Dr Rosie Scott 09:28 - H ealthTech is the UK’s hidden gem – the government can’t ignore it 22:51 - Covera Health launches AI platform for women’s imaging 30:34 - T rust in AI-assisted health systems and AI’s trust in humans 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🖇 Connect with Huw on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Daisy on Linked...
Apr 06, 2025•40 min•Ep. 135
Huw and Jessica from SomX break down the best stories from this week’s newsletter 11:00 23andMe customers struggle to delete their data - BBC News 23:14 A California health tech company is letting AI run medical visits, from intake to diagnosis 38:31 - Experts enter fourth dimension to create better medical devices - University of Birmingham 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🖇 Connect with Jessica on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Huw on ...
Mar 30, 2025•46 min•Ep. 134
Belle and Hollie from SomX break down the best stories from this week’s newsletter with help from Sword Health’ s Robbie Huddleston [01:56] - NHS innovation centre floated as UKRI backs Labour’s missions [12:43] - As AI nurses reshape hospital care, human nurses are pushing back [38:54] - Can AI help detect cognitive impairment? 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🖇 Connect with Robbie on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Hollie on LinkedIn �...
Mar 23, 2025•45 min•Ep. 133
James from SomX breaks down the best stories from this week’s newsletter with help from LongVC's Artem Trotsyuk and Sergey Jakimov. [28:50] - 'Shark Tank' investor Kevin O'Leary likely made over 20 times his money on a startup selling genetic-testing kits for cats [37:32] - Antiaging pill for dogs clears key FDA hurdle [44:47] - History beckons as Healx doses first rare cancer patient with AI-created drug 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using thi...
Mar 16, 2025•59 min•Ep. 132
Amy and Huw from SomX break down the best stories from this week’s newsletter, with the help of Firstword Healthtech’s Tina Tan. [04:30] - Rune Labs' AI coaching tool aims to offer care continuity to people with Parkinson's [19:05] - Unicorn Flo Health eyeing startup acquisitions following $200m fundraise [29:30] - Sofinnova has €1.2B to invest in up to 60 new life sciences firms 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🖇 Connect with Amy...
Mar 09, 2025•40 min•Ep. 131
Huw from SomX breaks down the best stories from this week’s newsletter with help from The Health Foundation's Ben Shemesh. [01:25] - Tech to save time: how the NHS can realise the benefits [24:10] - France Bets on Medical AI, to Train 100,000 Doctors Yearly 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🖇 Connect with Ben on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Huw on LinkedIn 📖 Learn more about the SomX team at https://somx.health...
Mar 02, 2025•32 min•Ep. 130
Huw and Amy from SomX break down the best stories from this week’s newsletter with help from CTel's Christa Natoli. [02:55] - Most patients do not trust health systems to use AI responsibly [25:00] - Congress Extends Certain Telehealth Flexibilities Through March 31, 2025 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🖇 Connect with Amy on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Huw on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Christa on LinkedIn 📖 Learn more about the SomX ...
Feb 23, 2025•43 min•Ep. 129
Huw, James and Taffy from SomX breaks down the best stories from this week’s newsletter. [02:30] - Nina Capital's new €50M fund sets sights on early-stage healthtechs [15:05] - NICE consults on changes to its HealthTech programme [25:30] - Should AI be used in end-of-life medical decisions? 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🖇 Connect with Taffy on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Huw on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with James on LinkedIn 📖 Learn m...
Feb 16, 2025•50 min•Ep. 128
Amy and Daisy from SomX breaks down the best stories from this week’s newsletter. [01:10] - L&G Group Protection reports 79% year on year increase in digital health service usage - IFA Magazine [13:30] - The role of AI in the future of women's health [22:00] - Guidance launched to ensure safety of digital mental health tech 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🖇 Connect with Daisy on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Amy on LinkedIn 📖 Lea...
Feb 09, 2025•37 min•Ep. 127
Huw, James and Daisy from SomX breaks down the best stories from this week’s newsletter. [01:25] - UK healthcare sector falling behind on AI adoption, study shows [17:15] - Project launched to improve regulation of AI healthcare devices [26:05] - UK health AI firm criticises NHSE procurement as it goes bust 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🖇 Connect with Daisy on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with James on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Huw on Li...
Feb 02, 2025•39 min•Ep. 126
James from SomX breaks down the best stories from this week’s newsletter with Whereby’s Howard Wu and Accurx’s Jacob Haddad. [40:15] - Patient portals top digital health tech use in older adults, survey finds [49:00] - AI Threatens To Further Erode Physician Autonomy 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🖇 Connect with Howard on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with James on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Jacob on LinkedIn 📖 Learn more about the SomX te...
Jan 26, 2025•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 125
Huw, James and Amy from SomX break down the best stories from this week’s newsletter. [02:10] - Startups Welcome UK AI Action Plan, But With Caveats [26:10] - ‘The returns are awful’: why taxpayers are racking up losses on British start-ups 🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a podcast guest using this form 🖇 Connect with Huw on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with James on LinkedIn 🖇 Connect with Amy on LinkedIn 📖 Learn more about the SomX team at https://somx.health...
Jan 19, 2025•45 min•Ep. 124
