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 www.hs.ventures Twitter @HSVenture Instagram @hs.ventures Linkedin at HS. email us at inf...
Feb 23, 2020•8 min
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. H...
Feb 20, 2020•51 min
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 positio...
Feb 16, 2020•6 min
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 M...
Feb 13, 2020•43 min
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 [email protected] or if you want a question answered on one of the Sunday Sessions, send it to that email too...
Feb 09, 2020•7 min
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 w...
Feb 06, 2020•1 hr 8 min
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 [email protected] or...
Feb 02, 2020•7 min
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 c...
Jan 30, 2020•1 hr 2 min
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 t...
Jan 26, 2020•8 min
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 da...
Jan 23, 2020•1 hr 6 min
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://...
Jan 19, 2020•9 min
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...
Jan 16, 2020•1 hr 5 min
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 addi...
Jan 12, 2020•9 min
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 documen...
Jan 09, 2020•1 hr 2 min
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...
Jan 05, 2020•13 min
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 s...
Jan 02, 2020•46 min
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 an...
Dec 26, 2019•56 min
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 ...
Dec 19, 2019•55 min
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 researc...
Dec 12, 2019•52 min
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 G...
Dec 05, 2019•53 min
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 he...
Nov 28, 2019•1 hr 1 min
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 - ...
Nov 21, 2019•50 min
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 di...
Nov 14, 2019•54 min
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 h...
Nov 07, 2019•55 min
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...
Oct 31, 2019•55 min
How bad is the blue light from your devices for your health? What technology is out there to combat it? How do you build a business tackling such an issue? This week, James is joined by Justin Barrett, CEO of Healthe, a company dedicated to improving eye health in a digital world, Healthe’s suite of products, technologies and Eyesafe brand are now being implemented by world leaders in consumer electronics. In partnership with the eye and healthcare community, electronic manufacturers and standar...
Oct 24, 2019•54 min
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 condi...
Oct 17, 2019•52 min
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 list...
Oct 10, 2019•1 hr
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...
Oct 03, 2019•53 min
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...
Sep 26, 2019•1 hr 2 min
