The Healthtech Podcast

As a practicing neurologist, Jonathan O' Keefe saw that his impact in clinical practice was linear — you see one patient, you impact one patient, patient number doubles, impact doubles, and you start again. Instead he wanted to combine his neurology and computer science background to impact deeper than he ever could using one discipline alone, by building a startup. Perfectly positioned to see the flaws in the system, and with the expertise to solve them, he set about building his company Machine Medicine, which has developed an AI platform for the objective measurement of disability from simple video clips. https://machinemedicine.com/ | https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanokeeffe1/ Get in touch: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk

This week's Sunday Session features bonus content from last week's guest, Dr. Peter Kecskemethy from Kheiron Medical. Peter joins us to tell us his top tips for entrepreneurs... Get in touch with Peter: www.kheironmed.com | https://www.linkedin.com/in/kecsky/ Get in touch with Dr James Somauroo: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk 

Dr. Peter Kecskemethy is a serial entrepreneur and the CEO/co-founder of Kheiron Medical, an AI cancer diagnostics company based in London. He is a computer scientist by background and prior to Kheiron, he founded two tech start-ups and was lead developer in two others. Peter did his PhD and post-doctoral research at the University of Oxford in high performance computing and computational statistics for population genetics. Kheiron’s mission is to give a better fighting chance against cancer and its current focus is breast screening. The company’s first product, Mia, has European regulatory approval, and won best new radiology solution for 2019. https://www.kheironmed.com/ | https://www.linkedin.com/in/kecsky/ Get in touch: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk

Dr. Anthony Mazzarelli is CEO of Cooper University Health Care, the leading provider of health services, medical education & clinical research in Southern New Jersey & Delaware Valley PA. He received his masters degree in bioethics from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and trained in emergency medicine at Cooper University Hospital, where he also served as chief resident and as well as his CEO role, he is actively practicing in the emergency department at Cooper in Camden. Get in touch with Dr. Anthony Mazzarelli: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthony-mazzarelli-ab983b6/ Get in touch with Dr James Somauroo: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk

This week's Sunday Session is all about the fact that you don't need to found a billion dollar company to make impact with healthtech. For example, Dr. Gerald Diaz is Cofounder and Chief Medical Officer at GrepMed. Gerald is a former software engineer and computer scientist and got his MD from SLU, completed his residency at UC Davis Medical Center, and is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and he currently works as an Academic Hospitalist. GrepMed is a community-sourced, searchable medical image repository for referencing clinically relevant medical images - bootstrapped by Gerald with the goal of making impact for fellow clinicians - ultimately to benefit patients. GrepMed has high yield diagnostic and management algorithms, guidelines, checklists, evidence summaries, clinical images (x-rays, rashes, ekgs, microscopy) easily accessible from any web browser. Clinically relevant images are upvoted by the community through “likes” and bookmarks and they benefit the whole clinical community. www.grepmed.com Get in touch with James: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk

Dilraj is a Doctor, Academic and Entrepreneur. He trained at the University of Oxford, where he continues to publish with colleagues about Patient Empowerment. He is a Lecturer in Digital Health at the University of Warwick and uses Lifestyle Medicine to help patients reverse disease in his online clinic - Hippocrates Lounge. Shocked that 80% of health outcomes are due to health behaviours, socioeconomic background and physical environment, Dilraj is focused on Health at Work. Time and again, he has found that wellbeing programs lack the outcome metrics expected in the medical and business worlds. Using lifestyle, behavioural and digital health, he is ushering in a new era of Preventative Health Care. Get in touch with Dilraj: https://www.hippocrateslounge.com/dilraj Read the latest Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: https://www.healthtechpigeon.com/ Get in touch with Dr James Somauroo: https://www.jamessomauroo.com | https://www.somx.co.uk/

This week, James is joined by Nader Alaghband, the founder and CEO of Ampersand Health, which creates clinically-validated, behavioural science-based digital therapeutics for complex long term conditions, including IMIDs and rare diseases. Ampersand Health is a social purpose company. Their primary objective is to improve the health and quality of life of patients with inflammatory conditions like Crohn's, Colitis, Rheumatoid Arthritis and Atopic Dermatitis. They work with other subject matter experts, including leading clinicians, patient groups and industry to develop unique therapeutic programmes focused on lifestyle and their apps use behavioural- and data-science to support improvements in sleep, mental health and adherence for people living with an inflammatory condition. They also work with the NHS, helping clinicians keep tabs on patients remotely, avoiding unnecessary hospital appointments and reducing the overall cost of care. Ampersand Health is recognised in the Digital Health Global 100, and has won an HSJ Award, the NHS Ideas Lab, the NHS Hackfest and competitive grants from government and industry. The company was selected for the 2018/19 PWC Scale Health programme, the NHS’s 2019/20 DigitalHealth.London accelerator and Techforce 19. https://www.ampersandhealth.co.uk/ | https://www.linkedin.com/in/nader0102/ Get in touch with Dr James Somauroo: www.jamessomauroo.com

For this week's Sunday Session, James discusses the state of AI in the UK healthcare, naming a few examples of the startups deploying and developing the technology right now The Institute for Ethical AI & Machine Learning: https://ethical.institute/ The Topol review: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamessomauroo/2019/02/11/nhs-announces-workforce-plan-for-genomics-ai-and-digital-medicine/ emteq labs: www.emteqlabs.com Feebris: www.feebris..com Tympahealth: www.tympahealth.com Ampersand: www.ampersandhealth.co.uk Mendelian: www.mendelian.co Get in touch: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk

Jason Foster is the CEO of OriBiotech and has held leading roles in consulting, healthcare and technology companies for nearly 20 years in the US, UK and Europe. He is also the Founder and Managing Director of Health Equity Consulting, a healthcare growth consultancy, a Venture Partner and/or mentor at a number of funds and accelerators in the healthtech space and a member of the Tech London Advocates healthtech working group. Ori Biotech is a London and New Jersey-based innovator changing the game in cell and gene therapy manufacturing. They've developed a proprietary, bespoke and flexible manufacturing platform, enabling patient access to a new generation of personalised, lifesaving treatments. Ori offers therapeutics developers the opportunity to seamlessly scale from pre-clinical process development to commercial scale manufacturing. Get in touch with Ori: https://oribiotech.com/ Get in touch with James: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk

On this week's Sunday Session, James has a chat with Dr Gyles Morrison about the value of good UX in healthtech. Dr Gyles Morrison is a Clinical User Experience (UX) Specialist and Digital Health Consultant, improving the usability, accessibility and fun people have with healthcare technology. He uses knowledge and experience of behaviour change to improve the way technology is successfully used in healthcare. He has worked with the NHS and a variety of healthcare companies in the UK, South Africa and America on digital healthcare products including Electronic Patient Record systems, remote monitoring tools and digital therapeutics. He speaks internationally on the topic of UX and design thinking in healthcare. He also has three years of experience working as a junior doctor in the NHS. Through his company Dr-Hyphen, he provides a variety of services in digital health, service design, training and event hosting. To learn more about Gyles' Clinical UX course, visit www.clinicalux.org Check out this week's Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: https://somx.substack.com/p/-009-nhs-pilots-lung-cancer-ai Get in touch: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk