The Healthtech Podcast

Dr. James Somauroo•www.thehealthtechpodcast.com

The Healthtech Podcast covers the latest in health and technology through interviews with disruptive healthtech startups and leaders. Whether you’re a patient, founder, investor or simply interested in healthtech, The Healthtech Podcast has it covered. 🌍 Listeners in over 150 countries. 🎙 New episode every week. 🗣 Hosted by Dr James Somauroo. www.thehealthtechpodcast.com | www.somx.health | www.jamessomauroo.com

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Episodes

Episode 6: The Story of Babylon and Healthcare Sustainability

Alex 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 d...

Nov 18, 2018•44 min

Episode 5: The Story of Respond and Dementia-Tech

Callum 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 follo...

Nov 11, 2018•42 min

Episode 4: The Story of Feebris and AI in Healthcare

Alex, 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 he...

Nov 03, 2018•49 min

Episode 3: The Story of Health-Tech Angel Investing and Startup Finances

In 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 ...

Oct 26, 2018•44 min

Episode 2: The Story of Vesalian, GPDQ, Primary Care-Tech and Behavioural Science

Alex, 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 ...

Oct 22, 2018•46 min

Episode 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 Inst...

Oct 13, 2018•46 min

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