This week: Jess Farmery is joined by Henry, Huw, and Insider's Riddhi Kanetkar. [01:10] Investors take to the next shiny toy — AI [06:30] DrDoctor Raises £10M [09:25] 16 of the hottest pitch decks founders used to raise millions from investors [14:05] Skin + Me secures over £10 million for prescription-based approach to skincare [17:50] New AI and digital health resource published for the NHS 📚 WSJ article link: AI vs Crypto 🗞️ Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a g...
Feb 24, 2023•24 min•Ep. 33
This week: Is the NHS app the answer to everything? [03:25] Does size really matter? $80bn sextech market still too taboo for VCs [14:00] Asabys Partners announces €100m first close for health and biotech fund [20:22] Is the NHS app the answer to everything? [37:55] A new wave of startups are tackling financial issues within the healthcare space 🗞️ Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a guest by filling out this form 🚀 Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company...
Feb 19, 2023•46 min•Ep. 32
This week: The Future of Digital Health, medical technology strategy launched, and why the growth of gut-tech could transform female health outcomes. [00:50] Medical technology strategy launched [08:25] Why user needs should be at the heart of healthtech [14:00] The Future of Digital Health [24:20] Why the growth of gut-tech could transform female health outcomes 🗞️ Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a guest by filling out this form 🚀 Learn more about SomX for your ...
Feb 17, 2023•38 min•Ep. 31
This week: Can Apple and Google continue as health app gatekeepers as well as distributors and developers? [1:55] 📱Can Apple and Google continue as health app gatekeepers as well as distributors and developers? [24:35] 🏥 Smart hospitals are the key to unlocking the next era of healthcare [35:50] 🎧 Spotify founder Daniel Ek takes on healthcare 🗞️ Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a guest by filling out this form 🚀 Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company...
Feb 05, 2023•54 min•Ep. 30
This week: December's biggest seeds, Microsoft is aggressively investing in healthcare AI, and psychedelic therapy is now legal in Oregon. Are investors and startups ready? [04:05] 📹 YouTube Health Showcases U.K. Strategy: 5 Things We Learned [16:50] 🍄Psychedelic therapy is now legal in Oregon. Are investors and startups ready? [24:25] 🌱December's biggest seeds [28:45] ☕️ Connecting clinicians over coffee [38:20] 💸 Microsoft is aggressively investing in healthcare AI 🗞️ Grab the newsletter ...
Jan 27, 2023•44 min•Ep. 29
This week: Researchers develop AI tool Sybil to predict lung cancer risk, how technology will shape healthcare in 2023, and biotech start-up announces first patient enrolled in endometriosis clinical trial. [01:35] 💁 Researchers develop AI tool Sybil to predict lung cancer risk [04:30] 𑗊 How technology will shape healthcare in 2023 [11:35] 💊HealthTech nets £7.5m to tackle drug overdoses [18:45] 🧬 Biotech start-up announces first patient enrolled in endometriosis clinical trial [22:40] 🫁 Org...
Jan 22, 2023•31 min•Ep. 28
This week: Eternal mice, the expansion of US expansion, and top tips for getting into healthtech. 📝 7 tips for breaking into Healthtech - [02:50] ❓ 5 questions facing emerging biotech in 2023 - [11:50] 📬 NHS ‘must speed up move to digital communication’ after patients miss letters due to Royal Mail strike - [17:15] 🐭 Biotech startup says mice live longer after genetic reprogramming - [22:20] 🚀 One in five UK HealthTech SMEs head to US for product launch - [28:25] 🗞️ Grab the newsletter at w...
Jan 14, 2023•38 min•Ep. 27
Join Jessica, James and Dr Joel Brown for another week of healthtech news and views. Joel is an NHS GP and Chief Clinical Officer and Medical Director of Bionabu, a virtual “Knowledge-Marketplace." This week: 2023 AI predictions and is ‘smart toilet’ the worst combination of words ever? [04:05] Global collaboration is the answer to Medtech and Biotech’s biggest challenges [13:30] 6 healthcare AI predictions for 2023 [31:50] We need to stop junior doctors leaving the NHS [49:25] Withings unveils ...
Jan 07, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 26
Join Henry, Jess, Huw, Belle & Dr Steve for the inaugural Healthtech Pigeon Christmas Quiz. A slightly different format this week - we'll be taking a look back at the last 12 months in healthtech. With three of our regular panellists joined by Dr Steve Cross & special guest Business Insider's Riddhi Kanetkar. 🗞️ Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com ✍️ Apply to be a guest by filling out this form 🚀 Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health 🖇 Connect wi...
Dec 18, 2022•55 min•Ep. 25
Join Henry, Jess, and Huw for another week of healthtech news and views. This week: AI, IVF, and a robotic NHS. [01:08] - 🦯 WeWalk raises for smart cane for visually impaired people - GPS enabled walking sticks could be the future for visually impaired people. [02:44] - 🚨 Healthcare may be a recession-proof field, but healthtech is not [08:32] - 🏙 First four regional secure data environments confirmed - Beneath the dull title, this is a real step forward for the data saves lives policy being ...
Dec 09, 2022•30 min•Ep. 24
Join James, Jessica, and Henry for another week of healthtech news and views. This week: McKinsey Biotech reports, Anne Hathaway turns LP, and NHS data guardian says suppliers must share core values. [01:17] - 🧪 WHOOP identifies a novel pregnancy digital biomarker for premature birth [11:15] - Switzerland to accept medical devices with FDA approval [27:44] - Switzerland to accept medical devices with FDA approval [34:10] - 🎬 Anne Hathaway backs Pact, an all-women-led VC for mission-driven star...
Dec 03, 2022•38 min•Ep. 23
Join Henry, Jessica, and Huw for another week of healthtech news and views. This week: Theranos sentencing, nurses go to prison in VR, and long COVID startups. [01:33] - Joke-telling vacuum robot under-fire at Darent Valley Hospital [06:53] - New device measures haemoglobin more accurately in dark skin [10:42] - Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes jailed for fraud [17:15] - HEE launches VR app for nurses to experience prison healthcare settings [23:06] - Long Covid may affect 100m people — meet on...
Nov 26, 2022•27 min•Ep. 22
Join Henry, Indigo, and healthcare whirlwind Rachel Murphy for another week of healthtech news and views. Rachel is raising money to support families in Ukraine - you can help out here . This week: Men's health, the NHS' agency crisis, and biotech's ethical conundrum. [02:03] - The digital future of men's health [06:30] - NHS forking out £2,500 a shift to agency nurses to stop staffing crisis - The NHS spends [14:00] - Twitter changes cost big pharma $15bn [19:04] - Biotechnology is creating eth...
Nov 18, 2022•37 min•Ep. 21
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 £3m for UK’s first digital chronic pain platform [20:45] - The 50 most active early-stage healthtech investors [28:03] - October's hottest seeds 🗞️ Gr...
Nov 11, 2022•47 min•Ep. 20
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 organi...
Nov 06, 2022•36 min•Ep. 19
Join James & Henry and SomX's PR lead, Jess Farmery, for another week of healthtech news and views. This week: Daye raise €11.5 for vaginal microbiome testing, the problems with voice biomarkers, and is military metaphor appropriate for talking healthcare? [00:55] - Healthtech-specific risks for medical malpractice liability [07:56] - "Voice biomarker" tech analyses your voice for signs of depression [12:16] - UK-based gynae health startup Daye raises €11.5 million to launch at-home screenin...
Oct 28, 2022•42 min•Ep. 18
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] ...
Oct 21, 2022•43 min•Ep. 17
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 [...
Oct 14, 2022•47 min•Ep. 16
This week: Why users stop using health apps, Rock Health’s 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 isn’t 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? 🐦 Grab the newsle...
Oct 07, 2022•29 min•Ep. 15
This week: A Peachy raise, techbio/biotech ones to watch, and more interoperability than you can shake a stick at. [1:31] - 11 VC investors behind the hottest healthtech deals [3:21] - HEE CEO discusses digital workforce issues [7:14] - Health insurtech startup Peachy raises £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 🐦 Grab the newsletter at healthtechpigeon.com 🥸 Appl...
Sep 30, 2022•27 min•Ep. 14
This week: Google’s health-conscious sibling Verily secures pocket money from the parents, health apps are giving us a stonking headache, and a modern day “David vs Goliath” story or shall we say Hippocrates vs Dr Google. 🐦 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com 🥸 Apply to be a guest by filling in this form 🚀 Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health 👨🏻🦱 Connect with James on LinkedIn 👩🏼Connect with Jessica on LinkedIn 🤦🏼♀️ Connect with Jess on Linkedi...
Sep 24, 2022•26 min•Ep. 13
This week: Google’s health-conscious sibling Verily secures pocket money from the parents, health apps are giving us a stonking headache and a modern day “David vs Goliath” story or shall we say Hippocrates vs Dr Google. 1:35 - Google’s Verily secures $1B to bolster armoury 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 - ⏩ Digital health trends coming in 2023 19:35 - 🤖 Dotplot wins UK Dyson award ...
Sep 16, 2022•32 min•Ep. 12
This week: Triage accuracy of symptoms checkers low, why the Bee Gees are popular with biotech investors, and llongyfarchiadau i Diurnal. 🐦 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com 🥸 Apply to be a guest by filling in this form 🚀 Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health 🙋🏻♂️ Connect with James on Linkedin 🕺🏻 Connect with Henry on Linkedin 🤦🏼♀️ Connect with Jessica on Linkedin 👩🏻 Connect with Belle on Linkedin...
Sep 03, 2022•27 min•Ep. 11
This week: Organ harvesting, animal testing, death to gorillas, and other uplifting stories. 🐦 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com 🥸 Apply to be a guest by filling in this form 🚀 Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health 🙋🏻♂️ Connect with James on Linkedin 🕺🏻 Connect with Henry on Linkedin 🤦🏼♀️ Connect with Jessica on Linkedin...
Aug 27, 2022•28 min•Ep. 10
This week: 10 caretech startups to watch, integration depression, and why women should be doing more acid*. 🐦 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com 🥸 Apply to be a guest by filling in this form 🚀 Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health 🙋🏻♂️ Connect with James on Linkedin 🕺🏻 Connect with Henry on Linkedin 🤦🏼♀️ Connect with Jessica on Linkedin...
Aug 20, 2022•34 min•Ep. 9
This week: Patchwork raise, Space force gets physical, and Bessemer Venture Partners teach us our COGS from our ARPU. 🐦 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com 🥸 Apply to be a guest by filling in this form 🚀 Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health 🙋🏻♂️ Connect with James on Linkedin 🕺🏻 Connect with Henry on Linkedin 🤦🏼♀️ Connect with Jessica on Linkedin...
Aug 12, 2022•42 min•Ep. 8
This week: Cera raise big, unicorn stock sinks, and if we lose a funding battle to Proptech, Pigeon will turn this car newsletter around and go back home. 🐦 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com 🥸 Apply to be a guest by filling in this form 🚀 Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health 🙋🏻♂️ Connect with James on Linkedin 🕺🏻 Connect with Henry on Linkedin 🤦🏼♀️ Connect with Jessica on Linkedin...
Aug 05, 2022•25 min•Ep. 7
This week: What’s gone on at NHS AI lab, analysing Apple’s approach, and Australian startup wants you to stop Googling your symptoms. 🐦 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com 🥸 Apply to be a guest by filling in this form 🚀 Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health 🙋🏻♂️ Connect with James on Linkedin 🕺🏻 Connect with Henry on Linkedin 🤦🏼♀️ Connect with Jessica on Linkedin...
Jul 29, 2022•21 min•Ep. 6
This week: Overstuffed olive slims down, uplifting ALS breakthrough, and meet Fred Hutchinson, part-man, part-building. Joining as a guest this week is Lauren Bevan, currently head of health and social care at BJSS and has worked in the industry for almost 20 years. She comes bringing strong views but a weak wi-fi signal. 🐦 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com 🥸 Apply to be a guest by filling in this form 🚀 Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health 🙋🏻♂️ Co...
Jul 23, 2022•46 min•Ep. 5
This week: Flesh penetrating waves, The Rut’s 1979 single Babylon’s Burning becomes prescient 43 years too late, and NHS staff given a pay rise. No. Sorry. Pigeon’s misread that. NHS staff given a share of a £312 medal. 🐦 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com 🥸 Apply to be a guest by filling in this form 🚀 Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health 🙋🏻♂️ Connect with James on Linkedin 🕺🏻 Connect with Henry on Linkedin 🤦🏼♀️ Connect with Jessica on Linkedi...
Jul 15, 2022•34 min•Ep. 4
