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 13: The Story of Mentorship To Turn An Idea Into Reality

James is joined by Will Stoddart, a Medical and Tech CEO, with experience founding, growing and scaling Werlabs, a rapidly expanding healthcare internet business based out of Stockholm, Sweden. Prior to Werlabs, Will was a founder, along with his twin brother, at Haploflow; focusing on helping individuals make decisions based on data from wearables. Will has experience across software engineering, medicine and finance - plus a few war stories on founding, raising financing and managing very diff...

Mar 01, 2019•45 min

Episode 12: The Story of Medopad and Global Scale

James is joined by Alex Gilbert who currently manages large Life Sciences Partnerships at Medopad, one of the UK’s highest-growth digital health companies. Alex is an experienced “Jack of all trades” who has been working within the Digital Health industry alongside healthcare, pharmaceutical and tech organisations. Through his experience at Medopad, he has launched national projects, defined product proposition and helped grow the company from 8 to >100 people. His passion is the use of techn...

Jan 23, 2019•48 min

Episode 11: The Story of Healthtech Entrepreneurship to Venture Capital

This week, James is joined by Zoe Peden, an experienced healthtech entrepreneur-turned venture capitalist at Ananda Impact Ventures. They discuss Zoe’s journey as founder of social care startup, MyChoicePad; how being driven by impact led her to VC and what she looks for in companies as an investor. Zoe holds an undergraduate degree from LSE, an MBA from Henley Business School and is a visiting lecturer at Cass Business School. She has a particular interest in deep technology for impact and now ...

Jan 16, 2019•46 min

Episode 10: The Story of Styliff, User-Centric Design and Sports-Tech

This week James is joined by Charlie Regis the co-founder of Styliff Tech. Styliff is an award winning London & Slovenia based development company who pride themselves on perfecting technology in style. Charlie became European Doubles Champion in Tennis with co-founder Lucas in 2012. He worked at Bastion PR Agency in sports sponsorship and earned his BSc in International Business from Loughbrough University. For more information and content, check out our website www.hs.ventures . You can fo...

Jan 06, 2019•49 min

Episode 9: The Story of Healthcare Regulation and Innovation

This week James is joined by Eric M. Fish who is the Senior Vice President of Legal Services at the Federation of State Medical Boards and serves as the general counsel for the organization. Eric also assists in the FSMB's federal and state advocacy efforts, analyzing legislation and healthcare trends, and consulting on the development of model policies for state medical boards. His current work includes exploring how regulated industries and healthcare will respond to the integration of artific...

Dec 22, 2018•44 min

Episode 8: The Story of Perfect Ward and Quality Improvement

Alex and James are joined by Jonathan Knight co-founder of Perfect Ward, an app that makes health and quality inspections easy and effective, across hospitals, care homes and community services. Jonathan has a background in management consultancy, specifically healthcare consulting and founded Perfect Ward to solve key issues he identified with the inspections reporting chain. We talk about the service side of healthcare, quality improvement and staying focused in the face of emerging technology...

Dec 10, 2018•46 min

Episode 7: The Story of Q Doctor and Telehealth Safety

Alex, James and Nathan are joined by Dr Chris Whittle CEO and Founder of Q doctor an online video doctor service providing safe, secure, instant and easy to use video GP consultations from your PC or smartphone. Q doctor supports GP practices directly and has been declared safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) after a full inspection. The team discuss the journey of an early founder, selling into public health systems and ensuring that technology c...

Nov 25, 2018•49 min

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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