The Healthtech Podcast

On this week's Sunday Session, we're asking the question: why has remote monitoring failed? The technology has been around for years, so why isn't remote monitoring ubiquitous across healthcare right now? Are poor quality signals and lack of good-enough AI the answer? My guest is Elina Naydenova. Elina is a biomedical & AI engineer, with a PhD in Machine Learning for Healthcare Innovation from Oxford University. She is the CEO & co-founder of Feebris – a company whose AI-powered platform enables carers & community health workers to detect health conditions early. Get in Touch with Elina: www.feebris.com | https://www.linkedin.com/in/elinanaydenova/ Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: www.healthtechpigeon.com Get in touch: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk

This week, James is joined by Geoff von Maltzahn, CEO and co-founder at Tessera Therapeutics. Tessera is an early-stage biotech start-up that launched this summer with $50M in financing to pioneer a new category in ‘gene writing.’ Going even further than CRISPR, Tessera’s gene writing technology presents the potential to cure genetic disorders, cancers, and even infectious diseases like COVID-19. Geoffrey was awarded a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering and medical physics from MIT. Get in touch with Geoff: @GVMaltzahn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/geoffrey-von-maltzahn-7a6b755a/ Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦www.healthtechpigeon.com Get in touch: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk

This week on my Sunday Session I'm joined by Mimi Billing Senior reporter at @siftedeu. Mimi writes about European health-tech and innovation in the Nordics. Previously at @didigital_se. Get in Touch with Mimi: @MimiBilling on Twitter Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: www.healthtechpigeon.com Get in touch: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk

This week I'm joined by Arturo Sanchez, founder and CEO of Sofia, a Mexican competitor to European digital health platforms, taking aim at the Mexican health insurance and primary care sectors. In the $65bn USD Mexican healthcare sector, 91% of private spending is paid out of pocket, with too many people forced to pay extraordinary costs for care and pressures on access to primary services. Arturo Sanchez is hoping to change that with a new digital service bringing care to patients at a lower cost. Get in touch with Arturo: https://www.sofiasalud.com/ Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: www.healthtechpigeon.com Get in touch: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk

My Sunday Session this week is with Martin Blinder, CEO and founder of Tictrac (a leading health engagement company). In this podcast Martin gives us his top tips for entrepreneurs. You can listen to his full chat with me on episode #170.    Get in touch with Martin: https://tictrac.com/ Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: www.healthtechpigeon.com Get in touch: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk

Martîn Blinder is the CEO and founder of Tictrac. Tictrac is a personalized digital health and wellness platform designed to empower individuals to take greater control of their wellbeing. Martîn recently appeared on Sky News to discuss the increased demand in HealthTech tools and why now is a pivotal moment for health and wellbeing. He believes that the workplace of the future will not just be about ensuring a productive team, but supporting the health and wellbeing needs of staff. Get in touch with Martin: https://tictrac.com/ Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: www.healthtechpigeon.com Get in touch: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk

On this weeks Sunday Session I'm joined by Mala Mawkin, Head of Market Development at pain management start-up Cellen. Cellen launched the UK's first online chronic pain clinic.  Mala was featured on Forbes 30 Under 30, Vogue UK 10 Rising Female Stars 2018 and Women of the Future UK Awards Finalist 2019. Get in touch with Mala: www.malamawkin.com Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: www.healthtechpigeon.com Get in touch: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk

Rudy Benfredj is co-founder and CEO at Mendelian. Mendelian aim to help doctors diagnose rare diseases faster using their MendelScan software. Rudy is a Computer Scientist graduated from Imperial College London with a degree in Engineering during which he worked under the supervision of Dr. Aldo Faisal in the bioengineering faculty and Prof. Marek Sergot, Head of the Logic and Artificial Intelligence department. Passionate about health, he moved to Tel Aviv to work at the Israeli med tech diagnostics company Healthy.io focusing on image recognition and remote diagnosis as an early team member. As a Product Manager he helped the company grow to get its FDA clearance. Get in touch with Rudy: https://www.mendelian.co Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: www.healthtechpigeon.com Get in touch: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk

On this week’s Sunday Session I'm joined by Nader Alaghband, co-founder & CEO of Ampersand Health.  Ampersand have just launched a brand new digital therapeutic into the NHS for people suffering with inflammatory arthritis and on this episode, Nader explains all... Get in touch with Nader: https://ampersandhealth.co.uk Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: www.healthtechpigeon.com Get in touch: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk

On this weeks Sunday Session I chat to Aditya Nori, lead of the Health Intelligence theme at Microsoft Research Cambridge, where their mission is to transform the practice of medicine via trusted and human-centred AI. In the past, Aditya has developed AI-based productivity tools for cancer treatment (The InnerEye Project), and also explored various synergies between programming languages and machine learning which inspired new perspectives in formal verification, probabilistic programming, and reliable machine learning. He has also built several programmer productivity tools, including the 2nd generation of the Static Driver Verifier toolkit for Microsoft Windows. Get in touch with Aditya: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/adityan/ Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: www.healthtechpigeon.com Get in touch with James : www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk