Over the course of this season, one thing has kept coming up across all the episodes - the power of big data in health tech. From its uses in the current AI revolution, to universal health records and even in new sustainable practices, the way in which huge data sets are allowing health practitioners to create new products and services is as fascinating as it is exciting. So in this season’s final episode, we take a look at the kind of utopian world that could exist when data is harnessed proper...
May 17, 2023•36 min•Season 2Ep. 8
Speed is not normally something you would associate with the highly regulated world of health tech. “Rapid” time frames tend to be in the space of 3-5 years. But the Covid panic changed this - the war footing it caused brought times down enormously. It’s something that TTP played a hand in as well with Covent, TTP’s rapid manufacture ventilator for COVID-19 patients. So what can we learn from this period to bring to normal times? How can health tech practitioners work with regulators and the NHS...
Apr 19, 2023•35 min•Season 2Ep. 7
There’s a multitude of ways to treat Cardiac issues, and it’s about more than just health tech. While technologies that intervene after a cardiac event has taken place are coming on leaps and bounds - from ablation catheters to pacemakers - preventative measures are seen by many as the way forward. Whether it is improved sensing technologies, the rise of telehealth, or even promoting good lifestyle factors, stopping cardiac issues even happening in the first place is a first port of call for man...
Apr 05, 2023•33 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Trust in healthcare is one of the highest for any industry, but it’s a different story for the technology sector. People will inherently trust their doctor, but social media, or medical advice from the internet? Much less so. But as healthcare and technology become ever more entwined, how do those designing healthcare’s digital products ensure those using them will trust them? What will the consequences of falling trust in technology mean for health tech? And what does it take to make you trust ...
Mar 22, 2023•35 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Medical imaging technologies have long been dominated by big, expensive machines that take up their own room within hospitals. The level of detail they can give is extensive and vital, and they are now even developing new fusion technologies that can combine nuclear, ultrasound, and MRI technologies together. But there is a new range of technologies coming into the market which are changing the way we think about imaging. These devices are more portable, and cheaper, allowing true point of care ...
Mar 08, 2023•31 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Sustainability is a word now ubiquitous in healthcare. But too often it is thought about with a short-sighted lens, promoting potentially superficial changes in micro areas over innovations that would reduce healthcare’s carbon footprint on a macro level. So how can we solve this? What could a new paradigm for discussing sustainability in healthcare look like? In this episode of Invent Health, we meet the people seeking to create one, by focusing on the wider impact of medical devices to keep pe...
Feb 22, 2023•31 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Neurological disorders have a really significant patient burden, with some estimates suggesting the impact as many as 1 billion people across the globe. But simultaneously, these are diseases which are both challenging to treat and still remain relatively poorly understood. Snapshots of the brain have been available through imaging technologies for a while, but coming up with devices that are able to monitor the brain in real time has proved a huge challenge. Today we ask, what will improvements...
Feb 08, 2023•36 min•Season 2Ep. 2
In this first episode of Invent:Health Season 2, Matt Parker speaks to Chris Dawson, Head of Biosensing at TTP, and Dr. Andrew Chapman, CEO, and Co-Founder of Carbometrics, to explore how patients can be taken out of this monitoring-delivery loop and what technologies are out there that can automate the process entirely. This Week's Guests Chris Dawson - Dr. Chris Dawson is a mechanical engineer who leads the biosensing team at TTP. The team works with clients to leverage advances in biosensing ...
Jan 25, 2023•35 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Today we launching the trailer for the Invent Health podcast. Each week we're going to be joined by the top scientists, engineers, and academics working to give you a behind-the-scenes look at the world of health tech.
Jan 18, 2023•2 min
Doing what’s good for you should seem like second nature, so why is it that we as humans so often don’t do things which we know will be effective when it comes to our own health and wellbeing? From difficulties in quitting smoking to the 25% of prescriptions in the UK that are left unfilled, medical non-adherence has profound effects on the health of a population, and it’s also one of the trickiest realms for health practitioners to deal with. How do you literally change someone’s behaviour if t...
Dec 14, 2022•37 min•Season 1Ep. 1
There is now a widespread awareness of the gravity of mental health issues in the general public, and equally in the world of healthcare. But in tandem with its rise we've seen the growth of the so-called "wellness industry", which too often promotes pseudo scientific solutions to the most complex of problems. So how is the health tech industry responding? What are the new frontiers for digital therapeutic care today, especially in the post-pandemic landscape? Find out on this week's episode of ...
Dec 14, 2022•45 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Neurotech: what is it? Elon Musk’s brain implants that herald a dystopian sci fi future? Or life saving technology which will be able to cure a multitude of injuries: back pain, epilepsy, even paralysis. In this episode of Invent: Health, we take a look at the hype vs the reality in the thrilling field of neurotech, speaking to experts from TTP and beyond to break it down and find out about its history, its current applications and the incredible places it’s going in the future. Find out more on...
Dec 14, 2022•32 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Of all the senses, sight is perhaps our most important. The eye is one of the most incredible organs in nature: it enables us to perceive the world around us, understanding our world through images. And yet we only see a small aspect of reality. But the eye is important beyond just sight. It can also provide a window into our overall health, showing indicators for other things like alzeihmers and blood pressure. In this episode of Invent Health we breakdown the world of modern eyecare to find th...
Dec 14, 2022•42 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Humans are designed to make decisions in the now, not ones in the abstract long term. That’s why ‘cathedral thinking’ comes so hard to us - so it's understandable that making healthcare more sustainable is hard when its primary function is first and foremost to save lives today, not the planet tomorrow. It's easy to say you want to be more sustainable but when you're dealing with people's lives, does sustainability go out of the window? So what can we actually do? This episode of Invent: Health ...
Dec 14, 2022•39 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Surgical robotics are all the rage right now. Attracting huge investment from the biggest names in healthcare devices, the use of robots in surgery has the potential to change the industry in some really profound and exciting ways. However, some have criticised their implementation as an unnecessary expense when humans can perform these tasks just as well. This episode of Invent: Health will see our guests debate the efficacy and effectiveness of surgical robotics, seeing whether it’s the future...
Dec 14, 2022•41 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Healthcare’s coming home, it’s coming home… Or is it? Recent years - and increasingly since COVID 19 - have seen healthcare moving into the home, with patients using more digital products to track their health from the comfort of their sofas. But why? What was the initial trigger for this? What are the risks and benefits? Will this see a dystopian world where only the rich see doctors in person or a complete democratisation of convenient healthcare? In this episode of Invent Health we break down...
Dec 14, 2022•49 min•Season 1Ep. 7
What is pain? Where does it start and end? In the mind, nerve endings, or somewhere else? In this final episode of the first season of Invent: Health from TTP, we’ll be exploring the many and varied facets of this most essential of human experiences. Speaking with specialists in the fields of psychology and neuroscience, we’ll find out what is being done to measure pain, to mitigate its severity and what the future of pain relief looks like, to see if people involved in healthcare and drug deliv...
Dec 14, 2022•53 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Hello and welcome to Invent: Health, a podcast from technology and product development company TTP. Invent: Health is a podcast about the future of health and technology, hosted by TTP Design and Strategy consultant, Matt Millington. Each week, we’ll be joined by the top scientists, designers, business leaders and academics working at the vanguard of this vital industry, to give you a behind-the-scenes look at the world of health tech. See you soon!
Dec 14, 2022•3 min
We’re currently taking a short hiatus after our first season, where we covered everything from curing blindness to controlling pain; from making hospitals more sustainable to putting a hospital in your home. Before we come back with season two, our friends over at the Life Sciences team here at TTP are going to be dropping their very own series in the new year. Invent: Life Sciences will be a series looking at all things biology - the efficacy of animal testing, the benefits of synthetic biology...
Dec 14, 2022•44 min•Season 1Ep. 9
